Image is sourced from this People’s Dispatch article, depicting communists attending the 2023 funeral of Communist Party President Guillermo Teillier, who was tortured for years under Pinochet’s regime and helped rebuild the Communist Party while under a fascist dictatorship.
We had the Six Day War in 1967, we had the Nineteen Day War (Yom Kippur) in 1973, and now we’ve had the Twelve Day War. I wonder how many more very short wars will plague the region until Palestine is freed?
However, moving on from Western Asia from a little while, we have some interesting news from Chile - the former labor minister and communist, Jeannette Jara, has won the primary election for the left-wing bloc in a landslide (~60% of the vote), as the current President, Gabriel Boric, is term-limited. Her achievements include a minimum wage increase and a reduction of the work week to 40 hours.
In November, Jara will face down the contenders from other parties, including José Antonio Kast, who is analogous to Brazil’s Bolsonaro. Unfortunately, Jara is now the lead figure of a party that has been taking quite a few Ls under Boric’s leadership. Ostensibly a Democratic Socialist, he ruled as - you guessed it - a neoliberal, bending the knee to the US and EU. He not only failed to overthrow the Pinochet-era constitution, he actually allowed the right-wing to turn the proposed new constitution into something worse, and had to settle for campaigning against the new one and keeping the old one. And he had very little solidarity with other left-leaning leaders on the continent, like Maduro, Lula, Petro, or Castillo.
With this in mind, I cannot help but look at Argentina’s very recent history and feel a little dread - but if anybody can save Chile at this point, it can only be a communist.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Russian forces have fully liberated the Lugansk People’s Republic:
This is real. Official stink.
Yesterday a fog “Tsunami” washed over the portuguese coast, shit looked so crazy my first thought was that it was AI
Anyway, the weather has been quite fucky lately, last year we had an very long summer, lasting nearly into october, then this year a very long winter, barely any spring, right now an already extremely hot summer (part of a southern european heat wave that ends tomorrow) and to top it all off this Silent Hill ass weather event.
Hexbear, is this true?
if this hasn’t been posted to elon on twitter, it should be
L M A O what a joke the Syrian “revolution” was
“Sec. 8. Counterterrorism Designations. (a) The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General, shall take all appropriate action with respect to the designation of al-Nusrah Front, also known as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and other aliases, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under 8 U.S.C. 1189 and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under 50 U.S.C. 1702 and Executive Order 13224, as well as the designation of Abu Muhammad al Jawlani, commonly known as Ahmed al-Sharaa, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
(b) The Secretary of State shall take all appropriate action to review the designation of Syria as a State Sponsor of Terrorism consistent with section 1754© of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115-232; 50 U.S.C. 4813©), section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act (Public Law 90-629, as amended; 22 U.S.C. 2780), and section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (Public Law 87-195, as amended; 22 U.S.C. 2371).“
I saw a claim circulating around that a few Syrian diplomats got sent to the zionist entity and that they’ve agreed on giving away the Jolan to Israel, I couldn’t find articles or sources like this so far so I am not sure yet
The Jolan Heights is so goddamn funny.
Not sure on specifics; this is the best I’ve got
https://en.al-akhbar.com/news/syria-navigates-us-mediated-peace-proposal
What’s funny about Jolan heights?
It’s Golan heights but the Al Qaeda guy who lead the coup in Syria was named Jolani so it’s like a play on words
See what Jabril said, it reads like a pun in english
Isn’t this convenient
official sources (tm) acknowledgement
Some of the attackers responding to the March uprising carried lists of names of men to target, including former members of Assad militias who had been temporarily amnestied by the new government. Entire families with those surnames would later appear on lists of the dead handwritten by village elders. Multiple survivors described how the bodies of their loved ones were mutilated. The fighters, many of them masked, mustered in the new government’s heartland of Idlib, Homs, Aleppo and Damascus. And when armored convoys rolled out to western Syria, the militias’ cries of “Sunnis, Sunnis” rose in the night along with rhyming slogans calling for people to “slaughter the Alawites,” according to videos verified by Reuters.
Idaho murderer speculation going wild rn with who the speculated murderer is.
Right wing cranks doing their usual knee-jerk reaction to shield themselves from the truth.
Everyone else is pointing out the speculative shooter’s dad was a former army scout turned neo-nazi biker gangster and step-dad having ties to the u.s Diplomatic Security Service and possibly Mossad as well due to his education in fucking Israel.
I’ll continue to say this is all speculation but oh boy is it some fun speculation.
It’s not but imagine if it was retaliation by Israel for the US not letting them keep their war with Iran going. This is now my head cannon until the real facts come out even though I know it’s ridiculous
A week and a half ago I pointed out how monopoly capital is making money hand over fist from the ongoing genocides in Palestine Lebanon Yemen and Syria.
This is the “tel aviv” stock market over the last month. Keep in mind it was the deadliest month for babykilling iof and their economic centers were devastated by Iranian precision strikes.
Genocide is a money-making machine and the only way it will be stopped is with force.
Jesus.
Ive had the hypothesis that the big bourgeoisie must be making out handsomely from this genocide, but i never actually dug into it.
I liked this quote from a article i saw on The Cradle “War is profit by other means” except replace war with genocide
gd it trades like a meme stock. their market is up 300% since 2023
JTA Reports West Bank Settlers burn IDF security facility, rioting against IDF attempt to control vigilante settler violence.
when the IDF is too liberal for you
It would be cool if this was auto-sorted by new? Anyway;
Senate votes 53-47 to adopt “current policy baseline” to treat $3.8 trillion in Trump tax cut extensions as costing $0. Every Republican votes YES. This hasn’t been used before in filibuster-proof process to meet targets, and will change how future Senate majorities use it.
My understanding is that the budget passed through reconciliation CAN’T be filibustered as long as it is budget neutral. If parts of it aren’t budget neutral, they can be filibustered. The GOP Senate voted to declare that the $3.8 trillion that isn’t budget neutral actually is budget neutral. So instead of dealing with CBO scores and the Parliamentarian (and voting down their opinion pieces, something that the COULD do), they are just declaring that their bill meets the imaginary target and moving on. Like I always say, if you actually have 51 votes in the Senate, you can do anything you want.
Can’t wait for dems to continue wringing their hands over the filibuster the next time they take the senate
THIS JUST SHOWS THAT WE HAVE TO STRENGHTEN THE FILIBUSTER!
Wake up babe, new WW1 era weapon just dropped (returned).
You see the Russo-Ukrainian War saw the glorious(?) return of WW1 STYLE TRENCH WARFARE. Now, Armoured Trains are back as well! Apparently it’s called “Yenisei” and has been in service for a while now.
What’s next, siege mortars and walls?
For my Train Gang Comrades out there.
The more things change the more they stay the same
I’ve heard rumors/reports of Russia using an armoured train for logistics but these are the best pics of one I’ve seen
is that not just a tank on a train?
It’s an IFV not a tank, first image is a turet though
New enemy type just dropped recently too
Straight outta Wolfenstein
Wouldn’t his large ass be #1 target for a FPV drone? Not too sure if looking like a COD character is a good idea irl.
Oh nice a larger walking target
I always though nobody would voluntarily become faceless henchmen in real life since their purpose in movies is to elicit minimal sympathy when they die, but it turns out they all think they are Batman, hoping their spoopy masks will keep their secret identities and strike terror into communists real and imagined (who are a superstitious and cowardly lot unlike themselves)
People have been drawing scary faces on their helmets for as long as they’ve been able to
I know there’s been a lot of “orc” discourse the past 3 years, but that bottom picture looks like he’s trying to evoke a Peter Jackson Uruk
Wow a Nazi Juggernaut
I wonder how they conducted the survey.
Ring ring:
Hello?
Hello, this is Gallup with an anonymous poll about US patriotism. Are you proud to be an American?
Uhhh yes of course I am
actually read through the poll and should have known before hand but it’s just dems upset over the dang cheeto in the white house lmao
Democrats are mostly responsible for the drop in U.S. pride this year, with 36% saying they are extremely or very proud, down from 62% a year ago. This is only the second time Democrats’ pride has fallen below the majority level, along with a 42% reading in 2020, the last year of the first Trump administration
Should be 0%
Still getting that down by almost half of America in just a little over a decade is pretty ducking wicked though. Weeks in decades gang stay losing
Anybody who didn’t answer with a resounding no to that needs to be put in a re-education camp or face the wall.
Those people are probably not all raging chuds. Depending on their perspective and how well-informed they are, I think different people mean different things when they say they’re proud to be American. It’s not an encouraging number, but it might not be as bad as it seems.
58% of Americans – 197 million people – need to be liquidated before we can even begin to make this country into less of a hellscape
Half of the 42% who are not proud feel that way because the US is not right wing enough
bloomer take is that pollsters sometimes have no clue what they’re doing (see nyc dem primary race lol) so there’s always a chance this is way underestimating america hate among young people or something like that.
58% of Americans – 197 million people – need to be liquidated
Imagine if this was taken out of context
I think a more plausible strategy is to keep bringing that number down
a few weeks late, but an Algerian NGO gets sanctioned by the U.S. for “using charity as a cover to help Hamas”
Moroccan propaganda reporting on it: https://northafricapost.com/87826-u-s-imposes-sanctions-on-algerian-entity-for-its-ties-with-terrorist-labelled-organization-hamas.html
Algerian propaganda reporting on it: https://www.dzair-tube.dz/en/u-s-sanctions-algerian-charity-el-baraka-amid-gaza-bloodshed-a-shameful-attempt-to-criminalize-solidarity-and-shield-the-zionist-entity/algerian entity
very coolzone language happening on the Mediterranean
surely he could just go, right? if you don’t care about intl law what else is there to care about?
this oaf clearly doesn’t understand the concept of a job, where you have to spend time doing your job. Ack! You’re making me miss my precious beach days by requiring that I do the thing I signed up for!
Unless I’m misremembering, he’s never had a real job in his entire life. He worked for his rich dad’s company until he got elected mayor of a little town that paid peanuts so his dad kept him on a stipend while he was mayor. I think it’s literally true that he doesn’t understand the concept of a real job that limits you from doing everything you want to do.
I kept saying “well, at least he’s not Dr. Oz.” And at this point I don’t see how Dr Oz could have been worse.