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.
Another win for the “nothing ever happens”, kinda
Something is happening with the Dollar index, that’s the measure to watch, never local currency sovereign bond yields.
Trump says he will ‘have a lot of fun’ with Zohran Mamdani if he’s elected New York mayor USA TODAY (CONTENT WARNING!!!: Zohran posting)
So to my earlier comment about Khamenei being half Azeri, just a few days ago the Azerbaijani government put out a hit piece called “The Root of a Hatred” saying that Khamenei is secretly half Armenian and THAT is why he would DARE to accuse Azerbaijan of letting Israel use its territory to attack Iran like happened. https://oc-media.org/baku-again-hits-back-at-iranian-accusations-israel-used-azerbaijani-territory-to-attack-iran/
Just your casual reminder of fuck the Baku government. Iran also put out a statement this week breaking from other Muslim nations on the Organization for Islamic Collaboration’s statement on Armenia and Azerbaijan’s ceasefire.
A spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Monday that his country did not approve of a statement issued last week by the Organization for Islamic Cooperation that supported Baku’s claims of a “Western Azerbaijan” state in present-day Armenia.
OIC Member states may raise issues in collective documents that do not reflect the position of each member state, Esmail Bagaei, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson said, according to the Mehr news agency.
“We have always advocated for peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Peace and security in the South Caucasus are important to us, we have good relations with these two countries,” the spokesperson said.
“At the same time, we do not approve of the use of concepts and words in that specific statement. We believe that the use of those words is not appropriate at all,” Bagaei, said most likely referring to the “Western Azerbaijan” issue embedded in the statement that was drafted and presented by Baku, during the OIC summit in Istanbul last week.
Iran’s Ambassador to Armenia Mehdi Sobhani on Friday said that Iran categorically rejects any claim to the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Armenia, when asked about a statement adopted last week by OIC in Istanbul, which largely parroted Baku’s claims that portions of Armenia are “Western Azerbaijan.”
“Any false and untrue wording that may reflect the territorial claims of one country to another are unacceptable to us,” Sobhani told reporters. “The use of this fabricated and false wording contradicts peaceful coexistence and good neighborliness in the region.Therefore, the use of such wording should be avoided.”
“‘Western Azerbaijan’ is the name of one of the provinces of the Republic of Iran. It cannot be used to name any other geographical area, especially if it implies any form of territorial claims,” Sobhani emphasized.
He said Iran promotes dialogue between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
“We call on the [two] parties to sign a peace agreement, the provisions of which have already been agreed upon by the parties,” Sobhani said.
“We recommend that such self-proclaimed historical claims not be used to hinder the establishment of peace in the region,” Sobhani added.
The Iranian diplomat also reiterated his country’s strong opposition to the scheme initiated by Baku to create a so-called land “corridor” through Armenia that would connect Azerbaijan to Nakhichevan.
“The corridor, which is called ‘Zangezur,’ does not stem from the interests of Armenia and Iran. For us this is a ‘red line.’ We have repeatedly stated this and continue to adhere to this position,” Sobhani stressed, adding that Iran does not intend to deviate from its red lines.
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Aykhan Hajizada hit back at Sobhani on Saturday, calling his remarks “false” and an effort to appease Armenia.
“The ambassador’s statements are especially dangerous because they contradict the position of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was expressed at the meeting of foreign ministers in Istanbul,” Hajizadah claimed.
“The aim of Ambassador Sobhani’s regular and systematic provocative anti-Azerbaijani statements is to undermine relations between Azerbaijan and Iran,” the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman insisted.
https://asbarez.com/iran-does-not-approve-oic-statements-points-against-armenia/
we need that “Azerbaijan cool” emote please.
Azerbaijan is also still hitting Russia with demands for apologies for that airplane that got shot down during drone warfare. They’ve been feeling very confident lately,pretty troubling if you ask me.
As much yap as there is about Israel playing nice with Syria, it doesn’t seem like they’re going anywhere any time soon
https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-army-expands-syria-occupation-with-new-base-in-quneitra
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If you have actual news about Mamdani feel free to post that. A long form video essay is only tangentially related to news and belongs somewhere else. Videos, probably.
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Yes, meta posting is also not allowed. Literally go post the video anywhere else, it’s fine content as far as I know it just doesn’t belong in the news mega. I didn’t remove the original post but I will continue to now remove any other meta posts about it that you make. Just take a break
If you have actual news about Mamdani feel free to post that
Make up your mind, are you banning posts about Zohran or not?
Reads pretty clear to me, if it’s something that’s an actual update, you’ll probably be good, you just posted something that wasn’t. You can probably post about his 12-point primary blowout after ranked-choice if someone else hasn’t gotten to it yet, if you’re hankerin.
Can you DM me the link, I’m still curious
Stop Using the Term “Islamism”: A Call to Social Justice Movements
spoiler
The term Islamist didn’t emerge organically from Muslim communities. It was coined and popularized by U.S. intelligence agencies, especially the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as part of a counterterrorism lexicon that divided Muslims into binary categories: the “secular” Muslims, deemed safe and cooperative, versus the “Islamists,” portrayed as irrational, violent, radical and incompatible with modern governance.
This framework was never about understanding Muslim political life—it was about controlling and manipulating it. A 1985 CIA intelligence report, for instance, outlines how to distinguish between “traditional” Muslims and those considered “Islamist fundamentalists,” clearly implying that any political expression of Islam is inherently subversive.
This racialized framework rests on the liberal-secular assumption that religion belongs strictly in the private sphere. But that assumption is deeply ideological. It comes from a Euro-American political tradition in which governance is supposedly “neutral” while in reality being saturated with Judeo-Christian norms. As Edward Said highlights in his seminal Orientalism, the West has long constructed the “Muslim Other” as irrational and threatening, defining itself in contrast as modern, enlightened, and rational. The idea that Islamic governance is uniquely oppressive or backward erases the reality that many states—including the United States—are governed through religious values and ethno-nationalist principles. The West’s real objection is not to religion in politics, but to Islam in politics.
Labeling a movement Islamist is not an objective descriptor- it’s a form of political warfare. It delegitimizes Muslim political agency and brands any Islamic alternative to Western liberalism as inherently dangerous. In Palestine, the label “Islamist” has been central not only to justifying Israel’s refusal to recognize Hamas, but also to framing all resistance as extremist, thereby rationalizing the collective punishment and targeting of Palestinian civilians. In Sudan, the genocidal Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia justify their campaign of terror by claiming to fight “Islamist terrorists”– a narrative eagerly picked up by the UAE and spread through Zionist news outlets like the Jerusalem Post, where a recent op-ed openly calls for Israeli intervention in Sudan under the guise of counterterrorism.
This framing is also dangerously misleading within Sudanese political discourse itself. Among the Sudanese diaspora and segments of the opposition, there’s a growing tendency to call corrupt military figures or opportunistic politicians Islamists, simply because they use Islamic rhetoric. But this is a misdiagnosis. The people of Sudan are not rising up against sharia or Islamic values—they are rising up against authoritarianism, corruption, and the betrayal of Islamic principles. The issue is not Islamic governance; it’s hypocrisy and corruption.
Much of this confusion stems from decades of distorted portrayals of sharia. In dominant Western media, sharia is often misrepresented as a draconian legal system that aims to subjugate non-Muslims. In reality, sharia is a diverse ethical framework grounded in principles like justice, equity, and communal welfare. Islamic political expression is not a monolith. It is deeply varied, shaped by local histories, cultures, and aspirations. Historically, non-Muslims living under Islamic governance were protected, allowed to practice their faith, and governed by their own religious laws. The idea that Islamic law is inherently oppressive or incompatible with pluralism is a colonial myth.
The term has no consistent meaning other than to mark certain Muslims—and their politics—as suspect. It functions as an Islamaphobic dog whistle and a green-light for occupation, drone strikes, blacklists, and propaganda wars. And liberalism, deeply internalized in many of us, makes it easy to reproduce this framing, even in progressive spaces. This internalization is the product of decades of media narratives and school curricula that present Western liberal democracy as the default model for modernity and progress. In his lesser-known work, Covering Islam, Edward Said explains how the legacy of colonialism still shapes what kinds of voices and beliefs are seen as legitimate, especially when it comes to Muslim communities. Western media, in particular, has played a powerful role in painting Islam as irrational, violent, or stuck in the past. Over time, these ideas creep into how we think, shaping what kinds of political expressions are seen as legitimate and which are dismissed as backward, irrational, or extremist.
Because when you call a group Islamist, you’re not just describing- you are indicting.
You’re invoking a counterterrorism framework designed to crush Muslim self-determination. You’re aligning with a system that destabilizes entire regions, topples democracies, and replaces them with puppet regimes who serve Western interests. And worst of all, you’re alienating the very communities whose liberation you claim to support.
Excellent post. I knew that Sharia means something completely different from how the west has presented it but this has piqued my interest. Its about time for me to learn more about Islam.
And if people bring up a country or group as being “islamist” to me, well, what country has a boner for the ten commandments in every public space and wants to use “judeo-christian” values to strip away your rights?
Good post, thank you, I was unaware of the history of the term. Propaganda like this is easy to spread in the west when there is so little crossover between the media of the mainstream Anglophone world and predominantly Muslim nations. One major dogwhistle I heard in the US through the ‘War on Terror’ was “radical islamists”, to further cement the connotation.
…a Euro-American political tradition in which governance is supposedly “neutral” while in reality being saturated with Judeo-Christian norms.
Nearly all children in the US recite a pledge including “one nation, under God” each day throughout all years of public school education. Imagine how the American liberal would feel seeing a group of children required to say something like “praise Allah, bless the nation”. They would shit themselves at the thought of the horrifying “authoritarian religious indoctrination”.
“Radical islamists” but we are proud of our country being founded by “radical puritans”
Imagine how the American liberal would feel seeing a group of children required to say something like “praise Allah, bless the nation”. They would shit themselves at the thought of the horrifying “authoritarian religious indoctrination”.
Liberalnazi logic: All Muslims are al Qaeda except for al Qaeda which is the legitimate Syrian government.
The CIA has “Islamists”, what’s a phrase for the comprador west asian governments?
The nature of these entities has nothing to do with Islam really. Its just a mask they wear.
I call them the gulf cartels (Persian Gulf petro states specifically) or the normalizing regimes generally.
PFLP officially refers to them as reactionary Arab regimes in their founding party documentation. Free pdf at link
Yeah PFLP leader Khanafani lays it out in an interview like this
We consider the Arab governments of two kinds. Something we call the reactionaries, who are completely connected with the imperialists, like king Hussain, like Saudi Arabian government, Moroccan government and Tunisian government. And then we have some other Arab governments which we called the military petty bourgeois governments like, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Algeria and so on.
This seems to have flown under the radar, but I think it’s pretty significant. Iran’s government has switched to using China’s BeiDou satellite navigation system. Firm details are in short supply, but my own (possibly wildly incorrect) reading from the various articles is that Iran’s government now has access to the more precise military version of BeiDou, and is possibly directing its agencies to disable the use of the American-run GPS in government-issued devices. I doubt that GPS is being actively jammed.
Iran had state institutions using American GPS systems?
Probably. Pretty much everyone does, at least the civilian receiving-signals-only version.
The price of sugar in Gaza is extremely high, and the Americans involved in the American aid know this very well. What happened today is one of the worst crimes ever committed.
Read carefully what I’m about to say: as soon as the first wave of American aid arrives, people rush to get sugar first. Today, the Americans deliberately placed the sugar in a separate area. Then, they dug a deep pit just before the sugar zone, covered it with nylon, and lightly sprinkled it with dirt so that no one would see it or notice.
The starving reached the sugar first, and seven people fell into the pit. Then a bulldozer came and buried them alive.
Meanwhile, a man in his fifties was returning from the aid area, nearly collapsing. I held him, and he said to me: “I’d rather die of hunger than go back to that aid—it’s aid of death.” - Omar Hamad | عُـمَـرْ 𓂆
cartoon villain levels of evil
Yet still in line with how these genocidaires behave. Unimaginable acts of cruelty are their marching orders. They cripple people as a game, they use drones broadcasting crying children to lure people into killzones, they repeatedly instruct people to gather in “safe zones” so they’re more easily bombed.
Looks fake tbh unless there is proof.
Who is going to collect evidence when the journalists have been getting murdered by IDF for the past couple of years? Are you dense?
i can understand that, but tbh if you told me americans were kidnapping random citizens and putting stacking them as a human pyramid to demean them - i'd call it'd fake too (cw nudity, abu ghraib)
this kind of stuff isn’t completely out of the realms of possible
At this point I have come to expect any level of depravity imaginable, almost the more unbelievably evil it is seems to me to mean it’s even more likely to be true. Anyone who isn’t a Zionist already knows the mountains of evidence of atrocities, so I don’t see what the purpose of fabricating a story like this would be. Except maybe to inflict even more psychological damage.
Fake because you read the nazi bots in the comments or fake because we’ve seen 630+ days of far more heinous and evil contrived behavior than this?
Brief research reveals the author is literally living in Gaza right now.
If, after hearing about the zionazis running gangremoved concentration camps, and turning hospitals into torture dungeons before burying the victims under bulldozers, your first reply to a journalist in Gaza talking about a heinous crime against humanity is “looks fake tbh” then you need to do some serious soul searching.
We can and should ask for more sources, to document these crimes. But this cavalier callous response? Shame.
A journalist in Gaza writes
One of the crimes you may not have heard about before, and which we haven’t talked about much due to the flood of bloody news: israel is stealing rubble from the Gaza Strip, collecting it and transporting it by trucks to the occupied territories, in order to recycle it and sell it to Israeli contracting companies for profit. At the same time, this delays any future reconstruction process in Gaza by fully controlling what enters the sector and preventing any internal recycling process.
It happened in Rafah and the north, and now in eastern Khan Younis.
It is also a form of concealing the crime before Gaza is opened to the world… just as Israel hid many Palestinian villages that were destroyed and whose people were displaced in the occupied interior.
Someone commented that this aligns with the policy of mass stealing of dead bodies by the occupation.
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Vague headline, no description, 2.5 hour video. Is this part of the power hiding?
The twitch streamer is a settler and card carrying member of the Democrats.
I disliked Bernie in 2016 and dumped AOC in January of 2019, I outrank you in leftist cynicism, now watch the stream
who tf has 3 spare hours to watch some no-name cracker talk about politics? who is this for?
People who watch streams, this is a weekday, half of you are at work daydreaming anyway, this isn’t rocket science
I outrank you in leftist cynicism now watch the stream
You know nothing about me. Please block me.
I know calling the largest Marxist Leninist streamer on the internet a “settler and democrat” is pretty dumb
Please name a concrete point the streamer is making.
Literally the most Hexbear coded streamer on the internet after Badempanada, are you motherfuckers messing with me or something?
Settler as in a West Bank settler?
I’m gonna beat the doomerism out of this thread, now watch the stream
No more please.
I thought there was a notice about too much electoralism in the news mega? Is that only for the old one? Because I’m tired of seeing it here too ngl, especially if we’re just grabbing random YouTubers to back up the claim that he’s secretly the second coming of Lenin.
Oh no, there will be so much more, it’s now apparent Hexbear has no idea how game-changing and radicalizing Zohran’s win is, as if the deranged reactions from liberal media didn’t clue you all in
We’re not stanning liberal maggots like Sanders or AOC, this is Lenin’s point about taking advantage of reformism manifesting before our eyes, in New York City of all places
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Washington approves $510m weapons deal for Israel
The US government has approved a $510 million arms deal for Israel on 30 June, further expanding the scale of Washington’s military support as the Israeli campaign in Gaza enters its 21st month.
The sale includes over 7,000 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) guidance kits – 3,845 KMU-558B/B kits for the BLU-109 bomb body, and 3,280 KMU-572 F/B kits for the MK-82 bomb body. The deal also provides US government and contractor technical, engineering, and logistics services.
According to the US State Department, the transfer aims to “assist Israel to develop and maintain a strong and ready self-defence capability,” describing the move as “vital to US national security interests.”
When I think about defensive capability, the first thing that comes to mind is big bombs.
How many other countries have hundreds of armored bulldozers in their “defensive military”? This is rhetorical but also tbh I don’t know if that’s actually uncommon.
Israel reportedly sending food mixed with deadly narcotic to hungry Palestinians
Oxycodone, typically used for chronic pain relief, can be fatal if misused, especially in a community already devastated by war, hunger, and displacement. Gaza officials warned that some pills may have been ground or dissolved directly into the flour, raising fears of a deliberate act to poison the population and trigger mass addiction.
I was curious if cooking opiates would reduce their potency, when I searched earlier there was a study about the effects of baking on poppy seeds that showed little reduction in opioid levels. It might be different in pill form though.
~10% of it survives digestion and is still viable in urine so it’s a surprisingly stable molecule, I guess.
Even if the goal isn’t to get somebody to overdose or become addicted I’m sure we’ll hear new propaganda about how everyone in Gaza is an addict so it’s okay to kill them all. Once they can sell Gaza as an illegal homeless encampment the libs will be tripping over themselves to nuke it
Some military news.
Army experimenting with utilization of E-bikes for light infantry recon elements, based off of observations on Ukraine war and mass proliferation of e-bikes in civil society.
Army possibly to cancel General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems contracts over management of 3 government-owned production lines for 155mm artillery shells.
Army has also requisitioned changes to armor coating schemes for armored vehicles to include a fairly new feature of IR profile dampening, laser warning systems, and top-attack armor kits.
US Army seeing Palestine Action Chads sabotaging RAF planes using E-bikes ✍️✍️✍️
Anyone remember trumps silly military “parade” sponsored by coinbase and palantir?
No one cares now ig.The squeaky tank sound has become pretty popular on tiktok, filling the same comedy purpose as the traditional cricket sound.
At least it was money spent on some terrible looking marching instead of bombing families. The sponsors are just too on the nose, this would all come off as the worst writing if it wasn’t real.
it was really cool. for every 10 awful things Trump does he does 1 funny thing
The Gaza Ministry of Health published an infographic on the victims of the US-Israeli “aid distribution centers” in Gaza.
Almost 600 starving people killed at HUMANITARIAN AID DISTRIBUTION SITES in five weeks of operations.
