Not shocked that the media is now trying to push the narrative that Hamas is abandoning Gazans because they are no longer providing government services and are now focusing on insurgency. Where exactly would the political wing of Hamas provide services? Schools? Bombed out. Hospitals? Bombed out. Government buildings? Bombed out. They said that Hamas is willing to keep up the insurgency at any cost. Well yeah no shit, Israel is fucking carrying out a genocide against its people and shows no signs of slowing down.

Death to America. Death to Israel.

Der Spiegel's got a banger cover for Germany's 75th anniversary: "Nothing Learned?"

Chaser: apparently this is because they aren't supporting Israel enough

The stuff coming out of the Trump trial is hilarious

Western dipshits give money to the Ukrainian government to finance the war effort -> The Ukrainian government decides to build fortifications similar to the Surovikin line -> They give money and contracts to random private companies that are supposed to build those fortifications -> Capitalism + Ukrainian corruption in action:

These concrete blocks were supposed to form lines of dragon teeth fortifications to stop Russian tanks. But some shitty corrupt company took the money, picked up these blocks, and just dropped them next to the street.

China intensifies push to delete America

Comrade Trump at it again

came to check hexbear after seeing the news about the iranian president and...

Multiple outlets reporting (I’m reading the Al-Jazeera live feed) and a spokesperson for the UN secretary-general has confirmed that Israel attacked a UN-marked vehicle on the way to the European Hospital in Gaza as a part of their duties. One UN staffer was killed and another injured.

I am 1,000% sure this is was intentional and retaliation for the UN vote last week. Death to “israel”.

A few days late but the meme had me cackling

The Hague is hiring Hebrew translators

Another bank capitulates to the demands of Palestine Action:
https://twitter.com/Pal_action/status/1791244062332240064

BREAKING: After sustained global action, Scotiabank slashes it's former $500million investment in Elbit Systems, Israel's largest weapons firm. Actions will continue until Elbit is bankrupt

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🇸🇰 Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico was put into an artificial coma. His condition is critical, the country's interior minister said.

What pushing against the status quo in Nazi Europe does to a mf

Biden appears to be dealing with his poll numbers by simply not believing them

We're back hexbear

Gigachad	Chad	Neutral	Beta (Fe)Male	Virgin Cuck
Putin (slowly but surely heading for the W)	Shoigu (this will be his last appearence, our Tuvan boy turned it around and now heading for soft retirement)	Prigozhin (we miss you king)	Zelensky (actor president still surviving, although the grift is dying)	Ukrainian private companies (so corrupt that they can't even build a line of dragon teeth 30km from the second biggest city)
Hamas, PIJ, Qassam, PFLP and all resistance groups in Gaza (Allah's bravest soliders)	Hezbollah, Iran, Iraqis, and Houthis (still making the Zionists shake)	Haredis (mostly horrible people, but their weird religion stuff is making Israel collapse from the inside)	Egypt (cucked country on all possible levels)	dead IDF soliders (so much semen lost)
The people of Gaza (bravest people ever)	College protestors (so brave to stand up to the cucked zionist status quo in the west)	Azerbaijan (ethnic cleansing = bad, trolling France by accidentally supporting anti-colonialism = objectively funny)	Ethiopian "Israelis" (so funny that they think that the racist Zionists respect them if they cuck hard enough)	Iranian diaspora (forever the worst diaspora, slowly reaching worse levels than Cuban gusanos)
Yahya Sinwar (making the Zionists seeth since day 1, this man might have set in motion the chain of events that leads to the destruction of the Zionist state)	Gustavo Petro (had my reservations about this man, but the way he has handled Israel is amazing)	Robert Fico (he's a weirdo, but he earned my respect for getting shot because of going against the status quo)	Emmanuel Macron (fumbled so hard in Africa, and now even his colonies are rising up)	Republican Party (rushing quickly into sucking every Israeli cock)

Source

It's darkly funny that Biden has decided to frame Chinese government support of its industries as "cheating." I guess the logic here is that because venal and arrogant American politicians decided to pursue stupid and short-sighted economic policies, it's against the rules for Chinese politicians to make good decisions for their country.

The US removed Cuba the list of countries not fully cooperating against terrorism, also known as the Not Fully Cooperating Countries (NFCC) list, State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel confirmed on Wednesday. Patel said that the circumstances leading to Cuba’s designation as an NFCC have changed since 2022.

The NFCC list is part of the State Department’s annual assessment of international cooperation in counterterrorism efforts, and countries on this list may face restrictions on certain types of aid and exports of defense-related goods and services.

Cuba was initially placed on the NFCC list in 2020 due to its refusal to collaborate with Colombia on extradition requests related to members of the National Liberation Army (Spanish: Ejército de Liberación Nacional, ELN), a designated terrorist organization. The Cuban government did not formally respond to the extradition requests for ELN leaders filed by Colombia after the group claimed responsibility for the 2019 bombing of a Bogotá police academy that killed 22 people and injured 87 others.

https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/05/us-r

I just wanna take this moment to reiterate how fucking stupid the way the DSA delegation behaved towards Cuba was given that they're still helping leftist groups like this. Incredibly unserious people.

Please be real

Every time we destroy an American plane, I feel sad for the American citizen
Because I know that America will spend the money that was supposed to provide healthcare to build another plane

https://twitter.com/Ahmed_hassan_za/status/1791230963998933286

President Lula of Brazil said, in a recent public event, that he is becoming more modern and that he will kiss everyone regardless of gender.

Even fuckin' Bill Burr dunks on by telling him (in the context of Maher shitting out nothing but Hasbara and State Dept nonsense):

[politics] isn't your thing. It's isn't. You're like that guy that has a fantasy football team and thinks he's a fucking GM. That's exactly what it is. Like, why am I fucking listening to you like you've done something? What have you done in Washington? Nothing.

YouTube link (commentary on it with a clip, not original video) if anyone cares.

Blinken performing Rocking to the Free World in Kiev
This is gonna be banging in Blowback season 10

I'm genuinely surprised by how there is no public outrage over the cops breaking into university campuses and beating students over protests, let alone when the National Guard participates. It's just so weird to me.

Why am I saying this? Because normally, universities have some sort of immunity against certain actions of the state. For example, in Argentina it is outright illegal for cops to be inside university grounds and university authorities cannot call on the cops to enter their building unless it's for some extreme situation like someone taking hostages, bomb threat, etc. There's a funny story that happened once where I study, a cop (off duty, but still in uniform) entered our university to take her girlfriend out as she left classes (I hope she found someone better, cops don't deserve love), immediately as he walked in students began to yell at the guy, telling him to fuck off and leave. He was forced out, students reacted like when your body reacts to a disease or something. Years ago, several schools and universities rebelled against the government's attempt to "centralize education" (cover up for some privatization) by taking their own universities and self-managing them. Despite the clear conflict, the cops were not able to set foot in the campuses, and when they did there was quite the outrage over it.

Back in Medieval times, when universities first appeared in E*rope, there was a big debate among the state and the scholars (members of the church all of them, basically) wether the university could be intervened or not. In Paris, the authorities tried to intervene on their university but the students and their teachers carried out what is known as literally the first student strike, they simply left the city and went to study and debate elsewhere, leaving Paris without it's prestigious institution for about 4 years. When they returned, the state pledged to respect the university's integrity, it's programs and whatever happens inside it's a matter of the students and the teachers. They gained an immunity, so important in medieval times.

Yet in the US it appears this traditional immunity doesn't exist, cuz the pigs can force their way into the campuses, destroy encampments and arrest everyone, and the public is absolutely content with this. The US is literally worse than medieval Paris ffs.

With this said, keep in mind that universities are definitely intervened by the state. Then, we can conclude that these education bodies are forced to become a grotesque servant of the state. It must be freed.

KEEP PROTESTING / RESISTING THROUGH THE SUMMER.

https://t.me/PalestineResist/40208?single

a result of an ongoing, sustained campaign of action targeting investors of Elbit Systems, investors have slashed their holdings in the zionist entity's largest weapon's company.

Scotiabank has cut its investment in Elbit from $402 million to $237 million, which previously represented 4.2% of Elbit's outstanding shares. Meanwhile, JP Morgan Chase has cut its investment in Elbit Systems by 70%, from $54 million to $16 million.

Since January, Elbit's stock has fallen by about 6%, while activists in Canada, Britain, and the US relentlessly targeted Scotiabank and JP Morgan Chase due to their investment in Elbit, affirming that their action will not stop until they #ShutElbitDown.

Another bank capitulates to Palestine Action:
https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1791533890026303845

JP Morgan Chase has cut its investments in Israel's largest arms company, Elbit Systems, by 70%.

France has deployed army personnel at ports and the airport in New Caledonia, after banning TikTok and declaring a state of emergency, amid widespread riots.

Who are these entitled students to stomp all over the dream that school administrators of every level have been fighting toward for decades? Hold strong administration, your vision of a campus with no students, no teachers, only administrators. The perfect educational institution is just over the horizon!

Very interesting that Hamas has re-activated the fighting in northern Gaza after Israel committed to Rafah. Obviously it makes Israeli propaganda about "dismantling Hamas" very silly in retrospect but that's not the main reason to do it, I imagine. I suppose it's about forcing Israel to re-commit troops to the north and spread them thinner? Definitely shows that Hamas has retained its organizational and fighting capacity even as we're over eight months since October 7th, which is encouraging.

Reported acts of resistance by the communist Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades in Gaza today:

1- The engineering unit of the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades was able to detonate an explosive device with a military vehicle of the occupation forces in a precise ambush on “Abu Al-Aish” Street in Jabalia Camp.

2- The sniper in the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades was able to snipe and neutralize a Zionist soldier in the vicinity of “Abu Zaytoun” in Jabalia Camp in response to the occupation’s crimes against our people..

3- Our missile unit bombed the occupation forces at the Kerem Shalom site

Tensions mount amid Berkeley middle schoolers’ pro-Palestinian walkout

The Friday walkout included more than 100 students, ages 11 to 14, from the district’s three middle schools, with marches to UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza to join Gaza protesters at their pro-Palestinian encampment. The walkout was not sanctioned by the schools or district, but students had support from parents and activists who accompanied them. While walkouts and protests have been common at high schools and colleges, they’ve been rarer at middle schools.

On their way to the university, some of the students encountered a resident on Rose Street who “held up her middle fingers at the kids,” Berkeley police said. An “unknown suspect” struck the woman with a cardboard sign and someone else threw water on her.

The incident was first reported by the Berkeley Scanner and the Jewish News of Northern California, which highlighted a video reportedly documenting the incident, showing the woman as she tells the students, “You don’t know history.”

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I do kind of appreciate that Ryan Grim, when asking questions of the White House/State Dept. ghouls, has been using the phrase "Israeli Occupations Forces". And even while the replies are using their usual "But muh We'LL LooK iNTo iT" and "But muh IsRaEL aSSuReS uS" they seem to be neglecting to correct that and thus implicitly accepting the use of the phrase. That's some pretty good trolling, even if it's in the context of pretty weak "challenges" to the imperial propaganda machine from pretty liberal sources.

5 Israeli soldiers killed by tank shell. Friendly fire deaths estimated at 10%

Got ready for the shock of your lives, folks....

Antony Blinken Dines at Nazi Restaurant in Ukraine

AT LEAST TWO FRENCH PIGGES SMOKED, ACCORDING TO BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-69009025

THE INMATE WAS 'MOHAMED AMRA', PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE ANTI-ARAB RACISM BECAUSE IT'S COMING

Biden administration is sending $1 billion more in weapons, ammo to Israel, congressional aides say

cool cool cool cool cool

Blinken visited a pizzeria in Kiev and met with Kuleba there.

There's a framed photo of the Odessa Trade Union Hall Fire as well as Azov, Right Sector, Tornado Battalion (!), 14th Waffen SS Galacia, etc. symbols and badges on the walls.

Western Ukraine supporters when you don't think that every Ukrainian aged 14 - 75 should be sent to die

Comrades I need to talk Ukraine War with you otherwise I'm going to explode from the pure energy. My pregnant wife doesn't understand what's going on, my Dad thought that Russia already won and I even called my communist uncle to talk about Kharkov but his favorite news channel on Youtube hasn't talked about Ukraine since the fall of Avdeevka so he didn't have a clue about the situation.

So what's our analysis of this Kharkov offensive by Russia? Am I right when I say that this is the biggest overall development of the war since the Russian withdrawal from Kherson in November 2022? For people who have checked out of Russia-Ukraine news, here's a little breakdown:

Russia has crossed the Russia-Ukraine border north of Kharkov again after withdrawing from this region in September 2022. It has been successful so far, with numerous villages captured and some serious progress close to Volchansk and Lyptsi. Those two towns are pretty much the only places where Ukraine has built any serious fortifications, so if those towns fall soon, Russia can pretty much drive down to the outskirts of Kharkov, and more importantly, to Velykyi Burluk and Chuhuiv, which could collapse the entire Oskil river region for Ukraine. Ukraine has also panicked now and started sending units from other parts of the frontline, which has already caused small collapses east of Chasiv Yar, in the southern parts of Krasnogorovka and in central Klishchiivka.

Honestly this has been so exciting to follow, we're finally learning names of new places and the line moving is actually visible on a zoomed out map. The good part is that this move could make other stagnant parts of the line finally move. Will Russia move into Sumy? Or will they cross the border north of Kupiansk? Or do a daring cross-Dnieper assault on Kherson again? Or could they finally move in Zaporozhye? Thank you mr Putin for making things move again

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/despite-polls-biden-aides-insist-gaza-campus-protests-will-not-hurt-reelection-2024-05-18/

Several top White House aides say they are confident protests across U.S. college campuses against Israel's offensive in Gaza will not translate into significantly fewer votes for Joe Biden in November's election, despite polls showing many Democrats are deeply unhappy about the U.S. president's policy on the war.

DESPITE POLLS

HAHAHAHA

DO IT YOU OLD FUCK! DOUBLE DOWN AND LOSE THE ELECTION! LET THE DEMENTED OLD MAN DIE IN IRRELEVANCE!

In a powerful scene, a Jabalia resident bakes bread amidst clashes between the Resistance and the occupation forces, defying death and siege near tanks.

"Inshallah I will remain steadfast until I serve and feed all the people"

https://nitter.poast.org/BIG__Brother7/status/1791241486127829055

fuck I'm going to cry

Strike against the University of California is on! 79% voted yes, with 19,780 voting!

This is structured as a "Stand Up Strike", in the vein as what was done with the recent auto strikes. Basically that means segments of the worker base are going to be called up to strike, with not everyone starting at once. In practical terms, that means one campuses are like, strike-ready, in terms of mobilizng people, they're getting activated. Likely UCLA and UCSD are going to be first, and rather fast to start. They experienced the big violence, and have the most momentum in strike organizing at the moment. But others are pretty ready too! Just doing some planning on the more like mundane part of planning, like local day to day stuff. Hopefully I'll get a chance to strike very soon.

There's around 50k workers in total, so a decent chunk didn't vote. To a degree that's expected though, as this was a fast turnaround event, and you're going to miss people either by not getting a chance to reach them, or them lacking interest. This was actually a very high turnout union election. And the bright side, the 'No' votes are probably all the dedicated Zionists and anti-labor types with enough energy to actually participate, with the larger population more like, open to being reached as things progress and it becomes more obvious that something is happening.

Israel's response at the ICJ was an interesting watch. The body language was like a kid who comes home after a fight at school, knowing the school is going to call your parents, jumping everytime the phone rings.

I TOLD you dawg. I told you about helicopters

DPRK built a new Cadre Training School with Marx and Lenin on the building and it's gorgeous.

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/dba82750f688f6ad2c84417457b0bec6.kcmsf

spoiler

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects Completed Central Cadres Training School of WPK

Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- In the historic period, when a new heyday of strengthening the whole Party is being ushered in under the five-point Party building line in the new era clarified by the great Comrade Kim Jong Un, the Central Cadres Training School of the Workers' Party of Korea, the highest institute of training Party cadres, has been successfully built as a model of Juche-oriented architecture and the education sector.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, gave field guidance at the school on May 15.

Accompanying him were secretaries of the WPK Central Committee.

He was greeted on the spot by officials of the design and construction units involved in the construction project.

Enjoying a panoramic view of the school, wonderfully built to mirror the valiant spirit and nature of the ever-victorious WPK and show its eternal rosy future, he said with great pleasure that the school looked majestic, and that the genuine model educational institution was built by our own efforts.

Going round the educational section, administration building, the general lecture room and multi-purpose lecture hall at the school building, conference hall, library, gymnasium, dormitory, dining hall and other parts of the school, he learned in detail about the fulfillment of the tasks he had given when inspecting it under construction on March 30.

He expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the officials and builders of the design and construction units properly rectified the problems, pointed out by him at that time, and carried out the final stage of construction in a qualitative way and at the highest level and thus made all the components of educational environment and conditions of the school flawless.

Noting that the structural characteristics of buildings were improved more rationally in keeping with the trend of modern education development and the pedagogical principles and the landscaping has been realized on a high level in conformity with the world standard, he said with pride that the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK is a perfect educational facility firmly ensuring the political principles, modernity and practicality and it created the highest standard for other educational institutions across the country.

Expressing expectation and belief that the school, wonderfully built as a political institution of the WPK representing the new era, would always remain faithful to its important and sacred mission of training the genuine backbone, the core Kimilsungists-Kimjongilists, and thus make a tangible contribution to strengthening and developing the WPK and its eternal prosperity, he gave instructions on making full preparations for its operation ahead of its opening ceremony and on organizing its inaugural ceremony in a great politically significant way. -0-

"The peace activists are war activists," Palantir's CEO told a room of government officials, military contractors, and tech bros. "We are the peace activists."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/ai-weapons-palantir-war-technology

https://archive.is/Nydgu

https://nitter.poast.org/mideastXmidwest/status/1791506327413420412#m

Burkina Faso President survives the 9th Assassination attempt:
https://sycamoretimes.com.ng/2024/05/19/burkina-faso-president-survives-the-9th-assassination-attempt/

Police dog prevents genocide

California Highway Patrol officers charged a man with multiple felonies after a drug-sniffing dog detected over 511 grams of fentanyl in his car during a traffic stop on Interstate 80 earlier this week. The quantity is enough to potentially kill 250,000 people, the agency said in a Facebook post Thursday.

Maybe this is why Israel has been bombing hospitals - those hospitals might have stocked painkillers that could have killed everyone in the entire region!

Not a headline you see everyday:
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/spain-denies-port-call-for-ship-transporting-explosives-from-india-to-israel-101715956458543.html

Spain turns away ship with explosives from India to Israel, says it’s a first

Russia reportedly discovered and destroyed an ammunition warehouse by paying a Ukrainian refugee in Poland to set up a security camera to watch for Western supply shipments

Our strike vote is starting today for UAW 4811, the grad student/student researcher union for the University of California system. For those unaware, this push started back after the raids on the UCLA encampment. It apparently gave the union enough cause to start this proceeding. Which is good! Likely the vote will go through, and then things will get spicy. The vote closes Wednesday afternoon.

On the downside, the highest level of the union leadership still has a bunch of collaborationist fuckers, so they undercut the total power of the strike before it started by declaring it a 'limited' strike, with a maximum deadline of June 30th. Obviously, presetting a deadline for your labor action isn't great. It also undercuts the threat of long term withholding of student grades, which would result in the academic machinery grinding to a halt. That said, it is at the very least past the deadline of the quarter's instruction.

The UC system is weird in that instead of semesters, we use quarters of the year, with a Fall, Winter, and Spring quarter of primary instruction, and then a summer quarter. That means that school goes way farther into May/June than pretty much everywhere else, so the campus won't be empty by any means, and there will be disrupted classes. There will be some form of material impact, and every bit helps I hope.

I was talking with someone, and they think that the University might just play nice and try to wait it out, but I'm really not sure about that. They were pretty chill, in terms of direct force at least, during on more "normal" strike about a year ago, but the harsh crackdowns of students literally just sitting around makes me think it might be different this time. I think it's possible that if our strike materializes, and it has actual material consequences, however mild, they might windmill slam that police brutality button. I feel kind of paranoid typing and talking about this lol. But regardless, I started stocking up on first aid supplies and some protective stuff. I don't know how far away we are from Kent State 2.0.

IOF goons getting owned because they post their warcrimes on Tiktok for the Resistance to see:
https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1791261195258810863

The US seems to be trying to more aggressively get China and other Russian Allies to stop helping Russia evade sanctions by threatening them with sanctions. The frustrating thing is that it seems to be working with more Chinese banks refusing Russian payments.

https://archive.ph/nvJ6I

Harvard’s Gaza encampment ends after administration agrees to meet

This is the Brown thing all over again isn't it? Disbanding an encampment over a vague promise to discuss the demands instead of actually fulfilling them? The organizers say that they are aware that this isn't a win for divestment but that it is a win for organizing and that they're going to continue the struggle "through other means"? I'm sure they mean what they say but this is just proving to colleges that vaguely promising "discussions" of divestment works to shut down encampments and I feel like other schools are going to start employing this tactic too now that Brown and Harvard have set an example.

Georgia just passed foreign agents bill

Thousands march in Dublin calling for end to violence in Gaza

Thousands of people took part in a rally in Dublin city centre on Saturday calling for an end to the violence in Gaza.

The event was organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), and was supported by more than 100 Irish civil society groups.

The group said the event was staged to call “for an end to Israel’s genocidal assault on the people of Gaza, and for the Irish Government to take action to hold Israel accountable”.

Protesters assembled at 1pm at the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square, before marching from there to Leinster House for a rally outside the Dáil. A number of speakers criticised the Government’s “empty words” on Israel following its actions in response to the October 7th attack by Hamas, and called for concrete sanctions against the state.

Those taking part in the rally carried flags, wore Palestinian attire, and chanted slogans including “free, free, Palestine” and “ceasefire now”.

Speakers include IPSC chairwoman Zoë Lawlor and Irish Palestinian Zak Hania, who was trapped in Gaza until recently.

It's 1944 2024, and a Nazi takes a video of his German tank bogged down and stuck in the mud in Ukraine.

Video on Reddit

France declared a state of emergency in its colony of New Caledonia after an anti-colonial uprising broke out there, killing and wounding. New Caledonia has long sought independence, hoping to support itself through mining.

France does not want to lose control over them, so it is increasing colonial oppression in New Caledonia, fearing that the ripples from the collapsing colonial empire in Africa will also affect French colonies in other regions of the world.

New Caledonia must be free and completely independent of France. The troops of the French colonialists must be expelled from the country. France's military bases must also be closed. The collaborators of the colonialists must be punished as traitors to the people of New Caledonia. The mineral wealth of New Caledonia must belong to the people.

Me 9 hours ago: There's no way the Zionist entity would get rid of the PA. That would be such a massive self-own.
Bibi: https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1791079411602628964

I am not prepared to replace "Hamastan" with "Fatahstan."

A Haredi tank unit did some good and opened fire on some Israeli paratroopers

Two IDF tanks killed five IDF soldiers and wounded seven more in a friendly fire incident on Wednesday when they fired on a forward IDF battalion headquarters in Jabalya in northern Gaza. The IDF cleared for publication on Thursday.

The tanks were said to be under extreme pressure from dozens of rocket-propelled grenade attacks in the area.

All openings to the tanks, including the canopy on the top, were ordered to be kept closed to avoid any hole or vulnerability to the RPG attacks.

This, in turn, limited the tank's visibility.

Does the IDF intend for their tanks to go into battle with all the hatches open for pleasant airflow and visibility??

Tank Unit 202 is a Haredi-integrated unit, and the soldiers said that they saw a potential threat emerge from the battalion headquarters, which was only 10-20 meters away from them.

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Niger stays winning.

Niger’s prime minister says the termination of military cooperation and bilateral relations between his country and the United States was due to American threats and Washington’s opposition to the African nation's partnership with Iran and Russia.

Underlining the US failure to combat terrorism in Niger and the Sahel region for a decade, Zeine said, “The Americans stayed on our soil, doing nothing while the terrorists killed people and burned towns. It is not a sign of friendship to come on our soil but let the terrorists attack us.”

Just want to underscore the level of heroism underway here: Sen. Tammy Duckworth has been working to evacuate Dr. Adam Hamawy (who saved her life after her helicopter crash) from the hospital the IDF is besieging and bombing. But he and his colleagues have insisted they not leave unless the IDF allows in a new rotation, otherwise the patients will all die and the IDF will overrun the hospital and leave it in ruins as they have done to every other hospital in Gaza.
Five staff were evacuated today but Hamawy refused to go, leaving his body on the line to defend and to treat his patients. He is effectively saying, if they are going to kill everyone in the hospital, they'll have to kill him too.

https://nitter.poast.org/ryangrim/status/1791478368879144998#m

Apparently, the owner of OnlyFans is some massive donor of AIPAC:
https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1790142460728848788

Helicopter carrying Iran’s president suffers a ‘hard landing,’ state TV says without further details

NEVER get in a helicopter

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AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!! Absolute fucking cowards!

COWARDS: Dems PLOT Online Convention To DODGE Gaza Protests

Cars being set on fire in New Caledonia:
https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1791039523368972530

South Africa: Israel Must Withdraw From Entire Gaza

South Africa's ambassador to the Netherlands, urged the court to order "the immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal of the Israeli army from the entire Gaza Strip.”

South Africa urged the United Nations' highest court on Thursday to issue an order to stop the Israeli attack on the city of Rafah as part of its case accusing Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip.

It said that the attack on Rafah "must be stopped" to ensure the survival of the Palestinian people.

Vusimuzi Madonsela, South Africa's ambassador to the Netherlands urged the court to order "the immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal of the Israeli army from the entire Gaza Strip.”

The two-day hearings at the International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, come after South Africa last week asked for additional emergency measures to protect Rafah. More than one million Palestinians have taken refuge in the southern Gaza City.

Israel, which has denounced South Africa's claim that it is violating the 1949 Genocide Convention as baseless, will respond on Friday. In previous filings it stressed it had stepped up efforts to get humanitarian aid into Gaza as the ICJ had ordered.

Last week, South Africa called for additional emergency measures to protect Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where more than a million Palestinians are sheltering.

It also asked the court to issue an order to Israel to allow UN officials and organizations providing humanitarian aid, as well as journalists and investigators, to enter the Strip without hindrance. She added that Israel has so far been ignoring and violating the orders previously issued by the court.

“From the beginning, Israel’s intention has always been to destroy Palestinian life and wipe them (the Palestinians) off the face of the earth,” South African lawyer Thembeka Ngcukaitobi said. Rafah is the last place.

This would be such a massive self-own I don't really believe they would do it:
https://twitter.com/IhabHassane/status/1790842821190041807

🚨Breaking: Israeli Channel 11 revealed that Netanyahu held meetings with ministers and decided that the Palestinian Authority must be eliminated.

Hebrew media quoted Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich:
"It is time for the Palestinian Authority to collapse financially and go bankrupt."

Ben Gvir:
"Smotrich is right - the Palestinian Authority supports terror and does not deserve a single shekel."

Enemy media :

Yesterday, #Hezbollah recorded its greatest success since the beginning of the war and destroyed one of the most expensive and advanced defense systems. A #Hezbollah drone worth 20,000 shekels targeted a multi-billion project east of Tiberias yesterday

The occupation army announces that #Hezbollah targeted the Sky Dew balloon, the large surveillance balloon,at an air force base near Tiberias, which is of great importance for monitoring air threats in the north, especially drones.

The #Israeli Ministry of Defense boasted of the spy balloon's superior ability to monitor #Lebanon and #Syria. 24 hours later, #Hezbollah targeted the balloon with a suicide drone.

Article from Israeli state propaganda on the topic.

Israelis from the North are still displaced, and Israel has displayed quite literally zero ability to do anything about it. I'm gonna take an L here: I assumed that the Israeli military still had some vague vestiges of competency that would allow them to meaningfully attack Hezbollah and carry out at least an offensive by now, but no. They're really just fucked, entirely helpless to Hezbollah's many daily strikes.

The Gaza resistance is doing very well too. Lots of attacks reported and lots of daily casualties. The resistance hasn't degraded; it actually seems to have improved since the first days of the war. Plenty of attacks in northern Gaza too, so Hamas is still very much undefeated throughout Gaza despite the propaganda.

Defense Minister Gallant yesterday publically voiced that he opposes the plan for military rule over Gaza, instead wanting a new form of international rule to replace Hamas there. Presumably because he knows that a military occupation of Gaza is untenable and will lead to casualties that Israel cannot withstand for any length of time. An international coalition replacing Hamas is, of course, also not going to work. They'd still have to try and defeat Hamas to exert this plan. They're just trying to put the casualty load on other countries. I wonder if this stuff is designed busywork for the government employees at this point. Like, it's akin to a thinktank asking "When Ukraine conquers Belgorod, will the Ukrainians administer it or will a NATO coalition?" It's geopolitical fanfiction. It's a dude who peaked in high school obsessing over how cool and fit he was back then and assuming he's still just as fit despite being an ailing 40-something year old with double digit physical health problems. This ain't the 1990s anymore, motherfuckers.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid said yesterday: "'...relations with the US are collapsing, the middle class is collapsing, they have lost the north' and 'we will not win with this government'"

And Netanyahu is calling for the Palestinian Authority to be dismantled, which is akin to a dog begging for chocolate. There's a part of my brain that is wondering whether Netanyahu is really a secret comrade who also wants Israel to collapse. It takes genuine skill to be this incompetent, to the point where it's a little suspicious.

Israel is doomed.

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Just hearing not-yet confirmed reports of Ansar Allah possibly striking successfully the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Mason (DDG-87) in the Red Sea. Folks keep eyes out for information as it rolls in.

Edit: Just an FYI there's no information on the matter out of the 5th Fleet that's stationed in the region on the question so we're currently working in an intelligence fog of war in this regard. Don't jump for victory or wonder in dread for the future just yet. Just keep waiting to see what's going on.

Edit 2: fun game for the mega to play, how many u.s wars were started over u s boats getting bombed or "bombed"

Hundreds of trucks blocked the Kyiv - Odessa highway in protest against forced mobilisation in Ukraine

https://streamable.com/zkua65

China doesn’t need to invade to achieve Taiwanese unification

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4657439-china-doesnt-need-to-invade-to-achieve-taiwanese-unification/

China is more likely to pursue a “short of war coercion campaign,” as we call it, centered on political and economic warfare accompanied by limited kinetic action than an invasion of Taiwan for three main reasons:

First, annexing Taiwan by means short of war significantly limits possible damage to other Chinese grand strategic objectives. The People’s Republic of China’s long-term strategic goals are to continue to build-up what it calls its comprehensive national power and become the world’s leading power. It then aims to decisively reshape international politics and place itself at the center. Although Chinese leader Xi Jinping clearly believes that unifying Taiwan with the mainland is a key component of this grand strategy, he may be loath to risk China’s march to geopolitical dominance by starting a full scale and likely global war.

Second, a short of war strategy centered on political warfare and limited kinetic action could be successful. Taiwan’s most recent elections highlighted deep domestic political divisions, coinciding with a rise in skepticism of America’s support. These sentiments are further reinforced by the fact that Taiwan remains internationally isolated. Taiwan status is sui generis in international affairs: it is a fully functioning nation-state not recognized by the international powers. This creates an opening for China’s manipulation of Taiwan’s understandable fears of abandonment.

Third, strategies short of war are consistent with Chinese strategic thinking and previous behavior. A number of Chinese warfighting concepts reference the utility of fighting wars using means beyond traditional applications of kinetic force. These concepts have been employed regularly in Chinese “gray zone operations” in the South and East China Seas and Taiwan Strait. Given their general success, China will likely intensify their employment in a campaign to annex Taiwan.

Ok so... Stupid language aside.

1. They'll apply pressure!

2. They'll do politics!

3. Nothing, this number is just here to write three things. Uhhh, they've done "no-war strategy" before? Yeah put that down.

TL;DR The Hill is saying China won't invade Taiwan now but they're doing it in the most insufferable way possible framing it in the most sinister way possible when it's just.... Politics? They're just saying that reunification will happen politically but they're using SHORT OF WAR and POLITICAL WARFARE and LIMITED KINETIC FORCE to frame it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1cu7d9w/ru_pov_president_putin_says_they_have_no_plans_to/

Putin confirms that there are currently no plans to capture Kharkiv city, which reinforces the buffer zone theory. "Nothing ever happens" gang stays winning.

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There is a solidarity encampment set up at the University of Witswaterrand and naturally, all of the in and out of South Africa came to the realisation that the "American/Apartheid" method cannot be utilised.

There's also a Palestine rally in Tallinn again on the 1st of June.

Also two weeks until the elections in South Africa. Would be amusing if the African Christian Democratic Party website got deep-fried. Again.

all this for tomato water

Anyone seen that clip of Antony Blinken playing Neil Young's "Rocking In The Free World" on an electric guitar with a random Ukrainian band? The USA is really trying to do the whole "blue jeans and rock and roll revolution" propaganda again, three plus decades later.

Found some YouTube links for those that want to see

https://youtu.be/ZsK3M9gXmos

https://youtube.com/shorts/atbVtlSFl_M

The French Empire has deployed its military to put down insurgents in the Pacific island of New Caledonia, which is near Australia! And France has also banned TikTok in that island to hide human rights violations.

Source

get in loser, we are going to read news

Blinken has arrived for a surprise visit to Kiev.
Things are definitely getting dicey. I'm not going to make any sweeping predictions, but the American brass is at least taking this offensive very seriously.

To rebuke the argument that Georgia's Foreign Agents Registration bill is necessary to prevent State Department NGOs from undermining Georgian sovereignty, the Foreign Ministers of Iceland and the Baltics have arrived in Tbilisi to participate in and encourage Georgia's color-revolution protests against the "Russia law"

Daily reminder comrades: never ride a fucking helicopter

The German artist seething that they had to include Marx, so they gave Marx the thinnest book:
https://twitter.com/Etrichtaube6380/status/1789660804398080450

Chinese online store advertising their mini paper shredder as the same paper shredder used by the Israeli ambassador:
https://twitter.com/XiranJayZhao/status/1789563706554155482

In the so-called "communist party" of the U.S' 32nd National Convention, they've published a list of the preliminary resolutions that'll be voted for in their convention.

In general it fucking sucks like always, stuffed with too much fluff and hot air and barely any actual substance, and generally points in the direction that they'll take the Joe Biden direction of "Nothing will fundamentally change" with regards to their incoherency, disunity, and fundamental rightist status quo. of course I'm more here to point out the funny stuff that I always love to point out any chance I get, and that's the fact that CPUSA can not help itself in being the tail that's pinned to the donkey. AKA they want to enshrine into their party, again, that all good communists must vote blue no matter who to defeat Trump and fascism at the ballot box!

Section 5. The 2024 elections

WHEREAS the 2024 elections, at the federal, state, and local levels, represent a pivotal juncture, a moment of crisis. The crisis we face features the threat of fascism, bellicose militarism, brutal racism, military assaults on immigrant workers, anti-human attacks on women, people of color, and LGBTQ people, and an unrelenting war on workers, and especially their unions. The crisis also includes existential attacks on our environment and smashing democratic structures, including the right to vote.

From the unified democrat-republican capitalist government, right?

Right?

WHEREAS the MAGA forces have put forward a dangerous fascist agenda outlined in their 2025 Project that seeks to cut support for public institutions, Social Security, SNAP, public education, healthcare, union rights, and democratic and civil rights. Defeating Trump alone is not enough. We must defend the Constitution and defeat MAGA candidates at all levels in the 2024 election.

AND HOW ARE YOU GOING TO ACCOMPLISH THAT?

WHEREAS the recent upsurge in labor militancy and the people’s movement has mobilized hundreds of thousands of people into action, resulting in significant victories such as union organizing drives, historic wins for labor by the UAW, Teamsters, SAG-AFTRA, the election of a progressive mayor in Chicago and Los Angeles, and the victory in Ohio to enshrine the right to reproductive healthcare into the state constitution. These, and many other recent examples, show that when we organize and fight back, we can win.

CPUSA: By "We" we of course mean to include ourselves in the accomplishments of other people whom we had nothing to do with.

WHEREAS growing working-class militancy and unity is decisive to defeat Trump, MAGA, and the extreme right at the ballot box in 2024. The Communist Party USA is part of, in the thick of, this deepening struggle. Communists are independent but in the mix of this exploding anti-extreme-right coalition.

"independent"

WHEREAS the corporate/financial extreme right and the extreme-right coalition have a strategy to disrupt, demoralize, and splinter the growing unity in the anti-fascist and people’s movement. Principled unity in action is an asset Communists bring to the table. Communists and our friends have a strategic role in building and maintaining unity within the anti-extreme-right coalition.

Here's a fun question. Who is the military-industrial complex siding with? lets take a look at which campaigns are the fine people of Lockheed Martin are pouring all their blood money into.

BOTH SIDES!

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that to defend the working class, people’s movement, and democracy, the Communist Party issues this urgent call to action to build a broad People’s Needs, Not MAGA Greed Campaign, an all-people’s front to win victory. We must go all out to support the all-people’s front for a maximum voter turnout on the critical issues affecting our lives.

Interesting wording here. They don't want to actually build anything, but are calling on someone else to actually put in the work of building an "all-people's front". Not even mentioning that they want this "all-people's front" to be explicitly used to vote . I think they're saying they want ACORN back but maybe without all the sexpestry.

THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Communist Party is committed to year-round organizing and mobilizing on the issues facing the working class, to build a broad-based grassroots movement on its behalf, and will encourage our members to work in their local communities with labor and other forces in targeted voter registration, education, and mobilization efforts, in support of the issues to help elect communist and progressive candidates, support voting rights for immigrants, and support progressive ballot initiatives. We call on our members to work on neighborhood-based canvassing and to get out the vote with labor and allies for the strongest pro-worker and progressive candidates at every level.

CPUSA has literally ran only one person back in 2022 since they were liquidated after the death of Gus Hall. This is also to include the fact that People's World, the mouthpiece of the party, has repeatedly condemned any progressive candidate that doesn't run with a blue D next to their name as fascist enablers and electoral spoilers. The only candidates they want people to vote for is whatever bog creature the DNC swamp coughs up.

THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a victory over rightwing candidates will be a decisive defeat for the corporate rightwing and fascist forces. This will help change the balance of forces and clear the way to change the direction of our nation–to slash the military budget, end the sending of weapons to Israel, tax the rich, win quality healthcare for all, strengthen the right to vote, strengthen union organizing rights, restore Roe v. Wade, and end police murder of unarmed people of color.

What the fuck was the 2020 election then? Where's the military budget slashing, the end of weapon shipments to Israel, taxes on the rich, universal healthcare, stronger voting rights, stronger labor rights, womens reproductive rights, and the cop fucking that we were supposed to see since 2020? How the fuck is any of that supposed to happen in 2024-48 when all of those were weakened steadily over 2020-24?

Fucking Liberals.

THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Communists will give full united support and participation in the broad front to defeat Trump, Trumpism, and the MAGA Republicans.

CPUSA party line is yet again officially going to be "Vote Blue No Matter Who!"

Submitted by the Political Action Commission, Communist Party USA

Completely politically inactive commision of the Collaborator Party USA

Fico’s assassination attempt fucking sucks man. The one good political change in Europe in the last 5 years and he just gets shot by some old reactionary fuck. Fico and his party was the only example in Europe of an anti-NATO leftist group. If Fico dies then all that’s left is fucking Orban. Grim

Al Qassam reporting that the IDF bombed their own troops on purpose

Biden found another billion in the couch cushions to blow up more innocent people with..

Real nice "pause". They can always find 1-20 billion a month of our taxes to go blow up shit that is no threat to us but when it comes to domestic improvements HOLD THE PHONE HOW ARE YOU GOING TO PAY FOR IT?!

Barge collides with bridge Galveston Texas.

This has got to be the clunkiest way they could have phrased that title lmao

colonists attacking and destroying gaza aid with cover from the cops who do nothing.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram/comments/1ctjms0/israeli_settler_expressing_joy_while_filming_the/

https://old.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram/comments/1ctat5k/mobs_of_israeli_settlers_attack_jordanian_aid/

South Africa is in the ICJ again, asking for more provisional measures against Israel. Can't wait for the court to do fuck all. It's being livestreamed in al jazeera

Ukrainian President Signs Law to Send Prisoners to Front Lines

The authorities will also impose tougher sanctions against men who do not fulfill their obligations with the Army.

On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the law approved on May 8 by Parliament that allows certain categories of prisoners to sign contracts with the Army.

With the approval of this law, Ukraine seeks to increase the number of soldiers in its ranks to reduce the gap in personnel that separates its army from the Russian Armed Forces.

The regulations allow prisoners who wish to shorten their sentences if they sign a contract to enlist in the Ukrainian Army. Prisoners convicted of rape, double murder, political corruption or crimes against national security cannot benefit from this measure.

Ukraine is seeking to recruit more soldiers with several legislative initiatives, including a new mobilization law that will come into force on next Saturday.

The authorities also plan to impose tougher sanctions against men of military age who do not fulfill their obligations with the Army.

Previously, on Wednesday, visiting U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that his country will provide an additional US$2 billion in military aid for Ukraine.

The funding will be directed toward providing weapons for Ukraine in the near future. It wil also be used for purchasing weapons and investing in Ukraine's military-industrial sector.

Last month, the U.S. approved a long-delayed support package for Ukraine worth about US$61 billion. The package includes US$49.9 billion for military assistance.

The FARDC says that it foiled a coup by armed men that left two police officers and Christian Malanga, opposition leader of the United Congolese Party, dead in Kinshasa, DR Congo.

United Congolese Party

Headquarters: Washington, D.C.

too easy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZHZWie7OHc Taiwan parliament brawl.

Taiwan’s parliament descended into a brawl on Friday just days before the inauguration of Lai Ching-te, the new president.

Politicians pushed, hit and tackled each other, clambering across tables as they swarmed around the speaker’s seat in the legislative chamber after tempers became heated in a bitter dispute about parliamentary reforms.

The argument broke out over a push by the main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), and its allies, to give parliament greater powers of scrutiny over the government.

This includes a controversial move to criminalise officials who are deemed to make false statements in parliament – a proposal which has been rejected by Mr Lai’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as “an unconstitutional abuse of power”.

The unruly scenes are likely to add to speculation that Mr Lai will face a tougher challenge than President Tsai Ing-wen, his predecessor, in gaining support for his legislative policies after he takes office.

• The Telegraph

Slovak prime minister is shot.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/15/slovakia-prime-minister-robert-fico-shot/

...and remember everyone: every palestinian that dies is actually an actor and every baby pulled out of the rubble is a doll. Therefore, please vote Joe Biden to continue supplying 2,000 pound bombs to "Israel" and get over it!

Article in which the author accuses Biden of withholding information about Hamas leaders because he supports Hamas and wants a Palestine ruled by factions backed by Iran and the US

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/sinwar-exchange-rafah-biden-gaza

Israel’s plans for the “Day After” are clearly irrelevant, since Biden and his aides have formulated their own scenario: Hamas “technocrats”—i.e., the leadership in Doha—will constitute the Iranian-backed component in a Palestinian unity government in tandem with the U.S.-backed faction that now rules the West Bank, Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority.

If Israel finishes off Hamas, the Biden administration’s efforts to complete Obama’s Middle East security architecture will collapse. From that perspective, Team Biden prefers to sacrifice Sinwar and save Obama’s most important strategic initiative, which aims to override the traditional U.S.-led order of the Middle East and give birth to a new and unholy anatomy, tying America to an anti-American terror-state that embodies Jew hatred.

Incredible brain power at work here

Small little US Ally Belgium Dumped a impressive 22 Billion of US Tresury Bonds on the Market , while China Dumbed 53 Billion in the Largest to date Selloff

Chud rep possibly. Idk.

Video of 18yo dragged out of family car to be press ganged into the meat grinder.

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Fucking around: IOF dronestriking Lebanese civilians
Finding out: Hezbollah dronestriking IOF garrison

https://twitter.com/ME_Observer_/status/1791091538065236202

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Does anyone have a clear idea on how the populations of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, et all are pressuring their governments to do something? I know there is basically no freedom of expression or political activism in most MENA countries, but that's why I'm asking. Even if their leaders have gone full sellout to US / Zionist interests, the people definitely haven't. Erdoğan is a slimy fuck, but he's at least nominally answerable to the electorate. The Moroccan, Algerian, Jordanian etc leaders aren't. So are any of these populations trying to influence their governments? Protests? Disruptions? Some group of soldiers looking to depose Sisi? Are the authorities in all of these countries strong enough to just officially shrug their shoulders about the situation and clobber anyone who tries to speak up?

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My Grandpa, who was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, has refused to get into one since then because he knows they are death traps.

Never get in a helicopter

TrueAnon rules for life proven correct again

In Ukraine there is a massive concentration of ukrainian troops occurring in Kharkiv. I think they're preparing for another city defence. That or they're prepping an offensive.

From The Red Stream (@theredstream) on Telegram:

Tens of thousands of people in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia have taken to the streets in protest of French President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to reform New Caledonia’s electoral system. At least eight pro-independence activists had already been arrested before being released under pressure from protesters.

The latest wave of protests comes as the French National Assembly in Paris again gave a green light for the proposed constitutional changes, which native pro-independence parties fear will significantly affect their representation.

Last week, the National Assembly law committee debated the proposed constitutional amendment’s value. The bill should be debated again today, with a vote scheduled for May 14.

This move would allow an additional 11,000 mostly non-Indigenous people to determine the future of the French overseas territory, where voices favoring independence have grown.

My understanding of the situation is that there is a large, indigenous-led, and somewhat leftist movement for independence on New Caledonia. In order to avoid further erosion of the French colonial empire, Macron is pushing for an expansion of the franchise to people who have only recently moved to New Caledonia (i.e. non-indigenous) who presumably are less supportive of independence.

The Hades community is being extremely cool

https://www.reddit.com/r/HadesTheGame/comments/1cqsaoq/guess_melinoe_is_a_communist_confirmed/

21 people remain stuck on the ship currently attached to the remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/jordan-foils-arms-plot-kingdom-caught-iran-israel-shadow-war-2024-05-15/

They said the plot's aim was to destabilize Jordan, a country that could become a regional flashpoint in the Gaza crisis as it hosts a U.S. military base and shares borders with Israel as well as Syria and Iraq, both home to Iranian-backed militias.

COMPRADORS STRESSED

I forget the twitter name, but I’ve been reading some analysis from a Vietnamese account. They gave some insights into the country’s dealings with Israel, primarily how Vietnam buys weapons from them because they’re one of the few countries that are willing to transfer technology to them, i.e. allows Vietnam to produce and modify the weapons domestically. They didn’t give too many details on how licensing worked or whether Israel receives any money from weapons modified by Vietnam, but the goal was self sufficiency which of course can’t happen if you’re reliant on westerners to give everything to you forever. And also how they’ve banned pro-Israeli content from the media lol.

My new phone's autocorrect has very quickly adopted the Maoist Standard English spelling, lmao

Ship grounded

A U.S. Navy ship participating in a military exercise in the Gulf of Guinea ran aground this week as it was leaving a port in West Africa.

The expeditionary sea base USS Hershel “Woody” Williams got stuck around 1 p.m. Thursday, shortly after leaving Libreville, Gabon, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa said Friday in a statement.

The ship broke free at about 5 p.m. Thursday at high tide, said Lt. Cmdr. Jason Tross, a spokesman for NAVEUR-AF.

The China-Russia statement in a nutshell:

• The rise of multipolarity, in particular the strengthening of developing countries, is a process that is objectively occurring. Some countries are trying to fight this trend with hegemonism, masquerading their harmful politics under the guise of a "rules-based order". Russia and China want to use bilateral relations to build a more democratic world order.
• No country should gain security at the expense of another country's security.
• There are two fundamental principles that should be upheld. First, there should be no neo-colonialism nor hegemonism; countries should be able to freely pick whatever political, social, and economic systems they desire without pressure from outside, especially not sanctions. Second, the UN Charter should be the backbone of a multipolar world order.
• Countries which are trying to exert hegemonism, provoking regional tensions, etc - that is, the United States - are bad, and are using a Cold War model for modern times. This endangers the security of everybody.
• The United States is trying to exert military dominance everywhere via missile defense systems, various missile programs, military bases, submarine deals, etc. This is bad.
• The United States is trying to contain both Russia and China in particular using the aforementioned tactics. This is very destabilizing and bad.
• The United States should not use biological nor weapons in outer space to further exert military dominance. Those things should be off-limits to any country.
• The United States is provoking the DPRK and trying to cause a new war on the Korean Peninsula. The United States should take responsibility for Afghanistan and help them, rather than sanction them.

Then there's all the cooperation stuff between Russia and China:

• Deepening military cooperation, including joint air and naval patrols.
• More bilateral trade and investments, including in shipbuilding, civilian aviation, cars, equipment manufacturing, electronics, metallurgy, mining, etc.
• Deepening energy cooperation, including in nuclear energy, with the wider goal of keeping international energy stable.
• Further usage of local currencies in bilateral trade, more banks and institutions in that regard, etc.
• Education and scientific cooperation, study abroad programs, the teaching of each others' languages, etc.
• Cooperation in mass media, basically just doing journalism better and at higher quality.
• Cooperation inside various international organizations like the UN, World Health Organization, World Trade Organization, the SCO, BRICS, etc.

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Israel kills more than 500 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7

I never thought warfare like this was possible, these men put Metal Gear characters to shame

Robert Fico's Assailant:

A 71-year-old man was immediately detained by Fico's bodyguards. According to multiple Slovak media outlets, the suspect is from Levice and possessed the firearm legally in connection with his private security job. He had authored three poetry books and founded a "Movement Against Violence".

Okay so apparently the Fico shooter is actually a huge nazi (with big scary ties to Russia), in one of his books intro he's crying about the "hundreds of thousands of gypsies who are a parasite on our social system", etc. etc.

Probably simply didn't like Fico (who is kind of a succdem but from his pov a scary communist) and decided to off him.

Okay so since there's a bit of confusion about this: The stuff that he's a liberal is made up, probably by gov sponsored media so they can smear the lib opposition, hungarian state media is blaring the same shit like that he was doing this because Fico wanted to subvert state media or some shit. the progressive liberals (aka liberals, the opposition) already said he was never a member.

Here's the book i was talking about: https://www.databazeknih.cz/knihy/efata-318489 put it in deepl.

Edit: There's apparently a video about him talking about how he wanted to off Fico for tampering with state media, i'm taking that with a grain of salt for now.

Edit 2: This is apparently him on a fash "migrant hunter" militia's memorial service for Jozef Tiso, the leader of the nazi regime during ww2 in slovakia.

the student protest media liason who got interviewed (but instead of quoting her at all the zionist reporter just said she "spoke with nuance") should have recorded the interview and released the audio and a transcript

And y'all were just saying that not enough politicians get assassinated

War trophy from the anti-French riots:
https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1791866361783660820

A protester (on the left) can be seen with a rare "Steyr HS .460" anti-materiel rifle which was captured during the raids.

watching some footage from the rescue operation and uhh... they weren't lying about the bad weather conditions at least

Any thoughts that Jeff Bezos actually exposed that billionaire WhatsApp chat?

I am referring to this leak from 2 days ago which I assume has made the rounds here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/business-leaders-chat-group-eric-adams-columbia-protesters/

It seems weird that one shot right to the Washington Post, which isn't typically how these things leak out. Bezos was in allegedly in the chat, but I don't know if WP would have done this if there was anything incriminating about Bezos.

I love this as a fan theory, I love the intrigue. You have a group of your competition willing to throw themselves on the pire in increasingly obviously ways. You sit on the chat and then once the damage is done blast that out from your own newspaper. Maybe he had beef the Kind bar guy. Maybe this ordeal is fucking with his portfolio overall. Maybe he just wanted to throw his weight around and knock the other reptilians down a few pegs.

American Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration

“We’re continuing to work around the clock with the government of Israel and with the government of Egypt to work on this issue,” the State Department said.

May 13 2024

Upward of 20 American doctors are trapped in Gaza as a result of Israel’s post-invasion closure of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, according to sources with knowledge of the plight of two ill-fated medical missions.

For real though the dude did NOT look happy in the helicopter in footage before the crash... Not starting a conspiracy, probably he just did not like flying. Nightmare way to die.

Americans caught in coup attempt in Congo

The American ambassador to the Congo says his country has nothing to do with it.

The military of the Democratic Republic of Congo successfully thwarted a coup attempt aimed at seizing the Palace of the Nation and the residence of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Vital Kamerhe, as reported by the country's national television RTNC.

Prompt action by the armed forces quickly restored public order, resulting in the detention of the rebels.

The coup attempt is linked to supporters of the "New Zaire" movement, led by Christian Malanga, who reportedly established a government in exile abroad.

According to the analytical project Atum Mundi, Malanga, who resided in the United States, allegedly participated in the attempt and was subsequently killed.