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New preamble:

Palestinian resistance groups have launched an operation in and around Gaza to fight the genocidal settler state oppressing them. Thousands of rockets have been launched towards the so-called state of Israel, overwhelming the Iron Dome. Settlers and the troops protecting them are being killed in the settlements surrounding Gaza, with many caught by surprise in the first few hours of the operation.

Palestinians are taking many Israeli settlers and soldiers hostage and bringing them back to Gaza. An Israeli general, Nimrod Aloni, has been confirmed captured. Palestinians are also taking military and civilian equipment back. Drones and MANPADS appear to be in use, and a number of Merkava tanks have been destroyed/disabled and their occupants removed and taken hostage. Palestinian forces appear to be heading in two main directions so far: southeast in the direction of Be'er Sheva, and along the coast in the direction of Ashkelon, but settlements all around Gaza have been assaulted and taken. It is obviously unknown how far they intend to go, or what their intermediate goals are.

Israel is bombing the Gaza Strip with aircraft, destroying buildings. It appears that their intelligence on the location of Palestinian forces outside of Gaza is very poor, and haven't been able to meaningfully strike them. Netanyahu has given a statement declaring that Israel is in a state of war. Iran has issued statements in support of the uprising, and Israel has responded with hostility to those comments. In all, the IDF appears to still be in a shockingly bad state hours after the assault began.


Old preamble on Antarctica:

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Much of the information for this news post, including both the images in the preamble, came from this article at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, which has been circulating in the media lately.

Image has been taken from this article.


Antarctica has had a uniquely bad year.

While the sea ice extent in the last 50 years or so has been very gradually declining, it has done so very slowly on average - by 0.1% per decade. This began to change in 2016:

Even so, this year is different, showing a remarkable decrease in the maximum sea ice extent. It is unconfirmed (I think) but this year may be the first in which the maximum extent fails to reach 17 million square kilometers - and is more than one million square kilometers lower than the previous record low maximum in 1986.

The fall in sea ice has been linked by some researchers to warming in the uppermost ocean layer caused by lateral and upward mixing of warmer water. The ocean is a gigantic heat sink, and has been absorbing much of the excess heat that humanity has generated via the greenhouse effect. But put enough heat into a heat sink and it will eventually fill up.

These changes in sea ice extent is no mere abstract climate worry or scientific curiosity. It is having a direct, catastrophic impact on the Antarctic's ecosystem. Emperor penguin colonies have had trouble breeding, so much so that:

...there is high probability that no chicks had survived last year in four of the five known emperor penguin colonies in the central and eastern Bellingshausen Sea. This was because the sea ice had melted well before chicks would have developed waterproof feathers. ... Today's report says about one-third of the 62 known emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica were affected by partial or total sea ice loss between 2018 and 2022.

And, last year, scientists conducted a study on the two plants that are able to grow near Antarctica, looking at a single Antarctic island for simplicity, and found that the populations of these plants had exploded in the last decade - growing as much in the last decade as they had in the last 50 years - due to rising air temperatures. It was warm enough for the scientists to wear shorts and remove their shirts.


The Country of the Week is Syria! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.


Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.

The weekly update is here!

Links and Stuff


The bulletins site is down.

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists

Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Add to the above list if you can.


Resources For Understanding The War


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.

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.


Telegram Channels

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

Pro-Russian

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

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.


Last week's discussion post.


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[-] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Israel's national rescue service said at least 250 people had been killed and hundreds more were injured in the attack.

At least 232 people in the Gaza Strip had been killed and at least 1,700 injured in Israel’s retaliation, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said.

[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Hexbear is a rehab center for self-aware redditors

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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

For centuries the Danish state produced ammunition for its military. In 2008 the factory was privatised because of muh free market private sector efficiency. In 2020 the new owners shut down the factory that was no longer profitable.

Now the Danish state has bought the factory back with the intent to resume production of ammunition, calling it a "question of national security".

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[-] Zrc@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago
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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Now the Indian government has arrested one of the senior left-wing journalist under terrorism charges.

The current FIR purportedly has its roots in an August report by the New York Times. The Wire had reported how BJP MP Nishikant Dubey had cited the report in the Lok Sabha to claim that Congress leaders and NewsClick had received funds from China to create an “anti-India” atmosphere.

New York Times offices needs a good bomb fedposting

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Tucker Carlson reports that the U.S. government prevented him from interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin. Carlson told the Swiss magazine Die Weltwoche that he had sought to arrange an interview with Putin, but U.S. officials blocked him. “I tried to interview Vladimir Putin, but the U.S. government prevented me from doing so. Think about [the implications],” Carlson told the newspaper on September 24. Worse, according to Carlson, no one in the U.S. news media supported his right as a journalist to report on the Russian leader’s views regarding the Ukraine conflict.

live-tucker-reaction

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is nationalism always going to inherently clash with union projects like the EU?

As the contradictions tighten I'm noticing that it's almost inevitable that as nationalism rises in EU populations they will inevitably turn on the EU itself, resulting in its destruction. Only a union project with internationalism as a core part of its vision that stamps out nationalism within it can survive because nationalist tendencies will always tend towards splitting from a union for "sovereignty". This is economically to the benefit of other large blocks like the US and also, to the benefit of any looters within those countries that seek to profit from their split.

The EU was founded to prevent the USSR from gobbling up more countries, which nationalists could support because the USSR as an internationalist project was a bigger threat to nationalism, but when the USSR ended the EU lost its reason to exist(for these nationalists) and it became a target of nationalist self-destruction itself.

It strikes me that the only way the EU won't succumb to this in the future is by turning the EU itself into a symbol of national identity that nationalists get behind.

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[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

It's midnight and I can't get to bed because I can't stop watching into what might be the destruction of Occupied Palestine

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Danish brewery corporation Carlsberg is being sued in a Leningrad court by it's Russian subsidiary Baltika Breweries following the corporation's decision to unilaterally "revoke" the contracts granting Baltika the license to produce and market international beer brands like Tuborg, Holsten and Kronenbourg in Russia.

In July Baltika Breweries was put under administrator by the Russian government following Carlsberg's threats to fire employees after a planned sale of the Russian subsidiary failed to materialize due to Carlsberg being unhappy with the price they could get for the Russian brewery group.

[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

2nd announcement, I have been randomly kidnapped by a transmasc and taken to the college lgbtq lounge

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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Armenia’s Bleak Future Thanks to US Neocons

US neocon efforts to stir up trouble in the Caucasus via Armenia will likely only force other countries in the region closer together and isolate Armenia. Neocon think tanks in Washington like the RAND Corporation and Middle East Media Research Institute have long advocated for stirring up trouble in the South Caucasus as another way to weaken Russia and Iran and potentially cause a rift between the two. Instead the opposite is likely to happen. This is an absolute worst case scenario for Armenia as it has allowed itself to become a proxy battleground between world and regional powers and will almost certainly end disastrously for the country.

To quickly recap recent events: Azerbaijan launched an “anti-terrorism” offensive against the long-contested region of Nagorno Karabakh on September 19. Azerbaijan has been blockading the lone road that leads to the region of Nagorno-Karabakh since December. Ever since the breakup of the USSR, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in a dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave recognized as Azerbaijani territory by the international community but mostly populated by ethnic Armenians.

Azerbaijan taking the region by force comes after months of miscalculations or purposeful maneuvering by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Under Pashinyan’s direction Armenia recently hosted military exercises with the US, invited the EU and Washington into the peace process with Azerbaijan (traditionally handled by Russia), the prime minister’s wife visited Kiev to deliver humanitarian aid, and on Thursday the Armenian parliament moved closer to adopting the Rome Statute, which Moscow calls a “hostile move.”

Was Pashinyan making loud overtures to the West in an ill-fated attempt to coax more support from Russia in the long conflict with Azerbaijan or was he simply maneuvering to blame Russia for the loss of Nagorno Karabakh and move Armenia closer to NATO, the EU, and Washington? Either way, he got in over his head. He has now given away Nagorno Karabakh with nothing to show for it.

It’s possible that Pashinyan was caught up in magical thinking that he had more support from Washington despite the fact the US has no real way to project power into the Caucasus. After all, Secretary of State Antony Blinken was demanding in July that Azerbaijan immediately reopen the Lachin Corridor, which is the sole road that connects Armenia to Nagorno Karabakh. Nancy Pelosi went to Armenia last September and pledged “the strong and ongoing support of the United States.” Members of Congress had also been making noise about more support for Yerevan and stronger opposition to Azerbaijan. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov recently said, “We have information that they [the West] are signaling to the Armenians, ‘Come to us, kick the Russians out of your territory, remove the [Russian] military base and border guards too, the Americans will help to ensure your security.’”

Well, Armenia is still waiting for the US support, and for now Pashinyan is left holding the bag and flailing about. While he blames Russia, he’s also tried to downplay claims of mass casualties and backed the ceasefire brokered by Moscow. Pashinyan will now meet with his Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev October 5, potentially for a wider peace deal. The blaming of Russia for the loss of Nagorno has unleashed widespread anger in Armenia.

Ironically, Pashinyan who came to power via a color revolution with a more nationalist message, now might be deposed via a color revolution by more nationalist forces. Who that might be remains to be seen, but the mood in Armenia – stirred up by Pashinyan – is now one of anger over betrayal and not just by Russia. Pashinyan has managed to alienate Armenia’s two allies in the South Caucasus (Russia and Iran) while emboldening the two hostile countries on opposite sides (Turkiye and Azerbaijan).

Events have spun out of control for the Armenian prime minister, which begs the question: What were his intentions to begin with? If goal was to offload the Nagorno issue and go all in with the EU, NATO, and Washington, he got his wish. Did he not anticipate the domestic backlash?

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While some analysts have declared that 30 years of conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan is now ending because the latter has taken control of Nagorno Karabakh, there’s also a strong possibility that this is just the beginning of a new awful chapter. Because Armenia has thrown in with the West thereby alienating its two backers in the region (Russia and Iran), its concerns will no longer be given much weight as transportation and trade deals are worked out.

That could result in more lost territory for Armenia or a bypassing of the country altogether. Because the US overplayed its hand, alarming others in the region, it will force Russia, Turkiye, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the table to iron out wrinkles in regional security and bring them closer together. A major sticking point between Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey ever since the 2020 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan has been a transportation corridor between Azerbaijan and its Nakhchivan exclave wedged between Armenia, Turkiye, and Iran. The problem for Azerbaijan and Turkiye, which also wants the corridor in order to fulfill a long dream to connect Central Asia’s Turkic republics to Turkey proper via Azerbaijan, had been that Russia restrained these ambitions, but the actions of the Pashinyan government have made that position less tenable.

There is also the issue of Iran, however. Tehran has said such a corridor is a red line, as it would mean goods and energy could flow freely between Azerbaijan and Turkiye without having to be rerouted through Iran, thereby eliminating the lucrative fees Tehran charges for such transfers. This is part of the reason Iran is so opposed to such a plan and has beefed up its presence along its border with Armenia.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Evo Morales will stand for the presidency, Luis Arce expelled

The congress of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS-IPSP) has voted to present Evo Morales as its candidate for the presidency at the 2025 elections and has also voted to expel current President Luis Arce from the MAS, signifying the party’s formal split with the government.

At the national party congress today in Lauca Ñ, Cochabamba, the plenum voted to approve two resolutions of the political commission, the first of which reads:

1.- Ratify Evo Morales as president of the MAS-IPSP.

2.- Declare Evo Morales Ayma as the sole candidate of the MAS-IPSP for the Bicentennial elections 2025 – 2030.

3.- That in the 2025 elections, no alliance be made with other political parties.

4.- In compliance with the current statutes, all candidates for other positions must be members with at least 10 years of seniority.

5.- Instances of betrayal be sent to the disciplinary committee to consider their expulsion from the political party.

6.- Declare maximum alert and state of emergency to avoid the banning of the MAS-IPSP and protect the candidacy of Evo Morales for the national elections.

The second resolution, with regard to Luis Arce’s expulsion reads as follows:

Ratify the legal and legitimate consensual support for brother Evo Morales, as president of the national leadership of the MAS-IPSP Brother Commander Evo Morales Ayma is confirmed and declared by consensus as the only candidate for the bicentennial While the process of requesting and registering these results within a duly reasonable period, the new board must convene the next congresses; Organic congress to review the statutes, Political congress, Congress to discuss the bicentennial agenda

The corresponding disciplinary and ethics court is instructed to initiate legal actions for expulsion from the MAS-IPSP, against elected authorities who were denounced during the development of this commission, among them deputies, senators, and other authorities for betrayal of the political instrument MAS IPSP, expulsion of the representative, Deysi Choque, expulsion of the councilor Leydi Guzmán Arispe, expulsion of the departmental assembly member Raquel Valencia Aspeti, expulsion of the substitute deputy Samuel Mamani Sánchez, expulsion of the departmental assembly member Jorge Antonio Isnado, expulsion of the national representative of Oruro Mirian Martines, expulsion of the Oruro deputy, Juan José Jauregui, expulsion of other brothers and sisters who betrayed the ideological principles of the MAS-IPSP, expulsion of the deputy Rolando Cuellar, and expulsion of a further 20 names

We urge and demand that the constitutional court express itself as soon as possible regarding the unconstitutional appeals filed against the MAS-IPSP We repudiate any attempt to ban the MAS-IPSP

We repudiate the acts of violence at the CSUTCB congress in the city of El Alto. The corresponding instances and channels must be respected regarding their delegates and election of candidates

The self-expulsion of Luis Arce Catacora and David Choquehuanca for not attending the MAS-IPSP congress is acknowledged The reading of the protocol on depatriarchalization is available for consideration by the plenary session, by the congress.

[-] Gay_Tomato@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Palestine will be free.

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

anyone remember the oil price cap? lmfao

oh, the optimistic days of December 2022

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Update on Turkey/US sussy situation @zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net

US's inherent resolve Twitter account published a statement threatening self-defense in case of Turkish intervention in Northeastern Syria, and now deleted it.

I now agree with you that something quite serious is going on between them.

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[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Can someone make the "If Russia leaves there will be no war, if Ukraine stops then there'll be no Ukraine" thing but for Palestine? Also keep the same Ukrainian yellow and blue. It'll be the ultimate Liberal mind breaker.

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[-] Commiejones@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago
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[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The entity's media is admitting its failure to act against the heroic Al-Aqsa Flood. Furthermore, they acknowledge that the tank that was destroyed was none other than the "AI-powered" Merkava 5 tank, the most modern tank in the IOF's arsenal that entered service only weeks ago. As reported by the zionist "Yedioth Ahronoth" newspaper, this "reveals a resounding failure on the Israeli military, intelligence, and political levels."

Zionists are lamenting over their systems collapsing and succumbing to absolute paranoia. The IOF has lost control of the settlements surrounding Gaza and is powerless against the valiant resistance. The resistance is currently controlling eight settlements in the Gaza envelope. The enemy's Channel 13, Haaretz, and many other Hebrew channels claim that there is nothing to protect them and that the resistance has complete control of the situation.

From their cowardly army to their cowardly people hiding in trash cans, an estimated one million settlers are ready to leave the entity.

found at https://t.me/s/PalestineResist

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[-] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess this is pretty meta but it looks like there's an askchapo thread that's a starting to attract federated NAFOs coming in to provide cover for Ukrainian nazis. I'm kinda tired rn but if other folks want to take a swing:

https://hexbear.net/post/776633?scrollToComments=false

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

The IOF's bombing of Gaza at the moment is unceasing and barbaric, carrying out several massacres and leading to entire families martyred in a pathetic attempt to restore its broken "prestige" due to historic resistance advances.

The entity’s thirst for blood, punishment, and revenge on the Palestinian people becomes more apparent by the day. The IOF has increased the frequency of its indiscriminate targeting of homes in Gaza with no present resistance activity, leveling homes on residents' heads.

We know, as our readers know, that the people are the resistance and vice versa: it is the relationship between the sword and shield, the heart and arm. Every Palestinian struggles under the occupation. As this historic battle rages on, we know that the tactics of the occupation will evolve. They will continue to target homes regardless of the presence of resistance activity in an attempt to demoralize the Palestinian people, draw blood, and accelerate their genocide.

As this happens, it is our obligation to our principles that dictates we must not fall into the trap of distinguishing between armed resistance fighters and non-combatants, as every Palestinian has a role in the current state of affairs. Every martyr must be mourned, and every zionist strike must be seen for the crime that it is. We will not allow the occupier or Western media to dehumanize us by creating distinctions between a colonized people whose remained existence on their lands is "militant."

Every Palestinian is a civilian even if they hold arms. A settler is an aggressor, a soldier, and an occupier even if they are lounging on our occupied beaches. As the IOF calls up thousands of reserves, it is clear that all settlers are soldiers. There exists a colonizer and the colonized, an oppressed and the oppressor. The people cannot be dissociated from resistance, because we are in a constant state of resistance.

Certainly, an explosive response is coming.

This struggle has been imposed on us. To resist is to survive, and to resist is a right.

from https://t.me/PalestineResist/13782?single

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago
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