Image is of a Colombian campaign rally in support of Iván Cepeda of the left-wing Historic Pact.
As always, my weekly preamble is in spoiler tags below.
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The unstable stare-down in the Middle East continues. Yet again, there’s been little region-level change, but there have been some big escalations. Namely, the entity has decided to go further into Lebanon, with all the casualties and destruction that will bring them, while simultaneously abandoning bases elsewhere in the theater due to constant pressure by Hezbollah. Seeking to pressure Hezbollah away from their successful strategy of attrition on IOF forces that attempt to advance only to receive rapid onset symptoms of FPVdroneitis, they have also decided to resume airstrikes on Beirut, which is an obvious violation of the region-wide ceasefire that Iran may or may not militarily respond to, but they do seem very diplomatically displeased as of me writing this sentence. Meanwhile, Iran has responded to US drone incursions with strikes on Kuwait military bases. Trump has escalated his demands lately, so a return to war seems more likely than ever.
In Bolivia, Paz appears to be escalating in response to undiminished general strikes, with Congress allowing him to declare states of emergency at will, and therefore get the military more easily involved. In Colombia’s runoff elections, far-right candidate Espriella won the first round of the runoff election with 43.7% of the vote ahead of left-winger Cepeda’s 40.9%. Every poll had Cepeda beating Espriella by varying margins, so this appears to be a fairly standard case of the US putting their thumb on the scale; as the saying goes, they do not trust the population of Colombia to do democracy correctly and they couldn’t risk them accidentally electing the wrong person.
Over in Sudan, the conflict appears like it is moving in a pro-SAF direction, with some significant military gains against the UAE-backed RSF, although the military situation is still fairly complicated. A potentially notable news item that I missed a couple weeks ago is that the US seems to have ended their strategic ambiguity over who they consider the true government in Sudan, as they now firmly recognize the SAF over the RSF. Why exactly this has occurred is a little beyond me. Could be because they see how the winds are blowing militarily; could be because they want to fuck over the UAE for some perceived slight (to be America’s ally is fatal etc etc). The humanitarian situation appears no better though, with millions of people remaining in incredible hardship and near-starvation, and RSF-backed genocidal atrocities of the kind that Zionists would nod approvingly at.
Thankfully, China is looking at all these manifold crises and has dramatically escalated the speed at which they are writing strongly worded letters and are calling for a revitalized UN.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on the Zionists’ 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.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
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.
The Screwworm has officially returned to the United States.
It was a nice 60 years without a horrific flesh eating parasite loose in the country. The economic damage these things will cause in a single year will outweigh a century of payments to keep them eradicated, and yet this was allowed to happen regardless.
Republicans are so fucking miserably incompetent it’s honestly enough to make me crazy.
More Zionist censorship in higher education
🎨A tenured art therapy professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago was suspended and placed under investigation in April after a student complained about a case study that mentioned “violence against Palestinian civilians,” the Guardian reports.
Savneet Talwar assigned the two-page case study to a class on cultural dimensions of therapy. It asked students to develop an ethical treatment plan for a hypothetical queer Muslim woman whose connection to Palestine was a minor element of her broader profile. The school told Talwar that the assignment may constitute “discrimination, harassment and/or retaliation.”
Her attorney asked: “Are SAIC faculty expected to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their course materials?
(not sure if this is exactly news, but it’s a “holy shit what the fuck are economists even doing” anecdote brought about by the current situation, at least) https://xcancel.com/surplustakes/status/2061422676002918836
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK AN ECONOMY EVEN IS, PAUL?
genuinely, if you’ve played 1 (one) match of a real-time strategy video game, you apparently have a better understanding of economics, because you at least can grasp that there’s resources in specific locations of the map that you have to gather before you can build units
A U.S. Army soldier and a British soldier died in a non-combat military training accident at Erbil Air Base in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region on May 31, according to official to military statements. They said the cause of death was unrelated to combat operations.
Iran’s IRGC launched ballistic missile strikes against Iranian Kurdish opposition group bases in Erbil Province on the same day:
They are activating the f-word, just like when Biden was really really very much oh so mad at Netanyahu.
News about news: Breakthrough News and People’s Dispatch have merged! It looks like all of the stories from peoplesdispatch.org can now be found on breakthroughnews.org and the editorial teams have merged. This is pretty cool imo. BT News has a lot of connections with
and PD has on-the-ground journalists on every continent covering people’s struggles and anti-imperialism all over the world. BT’s traditionally been more US focused while PD was international, although there was always plenty of overlap.It’s monopoliztion of the media, but for anti-imperialist proles.
BREAKING: Iran says it has now decided to execute the full blockade of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait as the next operational step following the announcement of ending all negotiations and communication with the US, per Tasnim.
Oil is surging over 8%, now at $94.
Iran celebrating pride month by blockading another straight
Blocking strai(gh)t is ok, actually.
(Inspired by the headline of a recent nyt article)
If this plan is accurate, it doesn’t even matter how effective it would be, the marine insurance industry would end up being very exciting.
Colombia’s evangelical churches all campaigned for far-right candidate Espriella, who is openly atheist. Evangelical Chrisitianity is not a religion, it’s a psychological operation (funded by US) to turn Latin Americans into slaves. Why are churches allowed foreign funding?
Allow total freedom of religion, but ban foreign funding. Let’s see which ones stay and which ones disappear.
WATCH: Israeli Knesset hosted an event where Christian delegations publicly repented on behalf of their nations for “insufficient support” of Israel.
One German cried:
Lord, please forgive us for all the things we did that did not support Israel!
Extremely normal!
What interests me is how this freakish bullshit is received in Germany itself
Are average Germans like, “oh yeah that’s totally normal; we do that everyday”
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lmao
CNN live updates on Iran:
- Trump insists Iran talks continue at ‘rapid pace’ after Iranian state media said they were suspended
- Netanyahu says Israel will keep striking southern Lebanon “as planned”
- Lebanon says Hezbollah has agreed to US ceasefire proposal with Israel
No one knows wtf is happening
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The U.S. is proposing new tariffs of at least 10% on imports from 60 trading partners after a forced-labor-related trade investigation.
Canada, Mexico, the EU, Taiwan, and the UK would face a 10% tariff.
China, India, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Switzerland, and other major economies would face a 12.5% tariff.
The tariffs are not immediate. Written comments are due July 6, with public hearings starting July 7, so the final rules could still change before implementation.
https://xcancel.com/wallstengine/status/2062107322177261799
The country with the biggest forced labor prison industrial complex is projecting again.
This is speculation but I believe there is a new fed anti-china campaign occurring on reddit, or run by some other org. For a while there was literally nothing negative about China on the platform but in the last few days there’s been multiple anti-china posts on /r/all every day.
I don’t know if this constitutes news but the pattern is weirding me out and my intuition is screaming that it’s being manipulated.
