West Journalsit are Terroist . Genocidal Maniacs. they should be considered legitimate enemy targets. What differenciantes them from a soldier is only that a soldier can never do the harm they do. all those in here are save , the others should be seen as Intelligence Assets , same goes fucking Celebreties like Sean Penn and Mark Hamil....

The TrueAnon sub going private during this is so cowardly. Fed-run sub vibes.

Reuters quoting Israel's representative to the United Nations: Israel is cutting ties with United Nations Coordinator Tor Wensland until he condemns Iran's activity against the State of Israel

Resistance Bloc Member of Parliament Hassan Fadlallah:

We are prepared for all eventualities, but we will not reveal to the enemy our next steps. The actions of the Lebanese resistance are related in part to national defense, but also part of the ongoing battle in Gaza. The Lebanese resistance understands well its duty, and what it must undertake in the context of the major battle taking place in Gaza. Neither the people, the fighters nor the leadership of the resistance pay any heed to the threats and pressures of the Americans. We are in the heart of this battle. Our position is precisely calculated, and takes into account all scenarios and possibilities. The situation is developing rapidly, and while the enemy knows how to begin battles, he cannot know where they will end.

From the resistance telegram!!!

🚨 Iranian Foreign Minister Abdollahian:

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Iran cannot remain idle in the face of this situation. During my presence in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah confirmed to me that all scenarios are on the table.

We have informed the zionist entity through its supporters that if its crimes in Gaza do not stop, tomorrow will be too late.

Hezbollah has identified all the red lines and will take appropriate measures at each stage.

I say to the zionists, if you want war, fight the militants, not women and children.

The resistance is unwilling to give up the [military] prisoners but the civilian captives are on the table [for negotiation].

Interesting tidbits. If this isn’t a translation error, is it saying what I think it means? They’re saying tomorrow is the deadline for them to stop the indiscriminate bombing? Also, wonder what they plan to keep the military prisoners for, hope the civilians can be brought to safety and not just get murdered by the IOF.

Really weird when a local liberal politician who hasn't been on social media for a while pops up to post videos of some guy saying "actually Jewish people can't be doing an occupation in the Levant because my schismatic sect of the religion broke with two thousand years of Jewish thought and practice in the 1880s and now manifest destiny lebensraum right of return!"

More Lebanon-Israel border: https://streamable.com/k2iziw

A Hezbollah Official says they have "yet not" mounted any attack on the Jewish state.

Probably just individual groups taking their own initiative.

The Country of the Week is Palestine!

As mentioned in the preamble, feel free to post or recommend any material related to Palestine, whether from a thousand years ago or yesterday. You can post it anywhere in the thread, but you can also reply to this comment if you wish.

If you're feeling particularly ambitious and want homework, you could take on any or all of these questions (no reward, but I'll be very proud of you):

• Who are the main political actors? Are they compradors, nationalists, international socialists, something else?
• What are the most salient domestic political issues; those issues that repeatedly shape elections over the last 10, 20 years. Every country has its quirks that complicate analysis - for example, Brexit in the UK.
• What is the country's history? You don't have to go back a thousand years if that's not relevant, and I'm counting "history" as basically anything that has happened over a year ago.
• What factions exist, historically and currently? If there is an electoral system, what are the major parties and their demographic bases? Are there any minor parties with large amounts of influence? Independence movements? Religious groups?
• How socially progressive or conservative are they? Is there equality for different ethnic groups, or are some persecuted? Do they have LGBTQIA+ rights? Have they improved over time, or gotten worse?
• What role do foreign powers play in the country’s politics and economy? Is there a particular country nearby or far away that is nearly inseparable from them, for good or bad reasons? Is their trade dominated by exports/imports to one place? Are they exploited, exploiters, or something in between?
• If applicable, what is the influence of former colonial relationships on the modern economy and politics?
• Is the country generally stable? Do you think there will be a coup at some point in the future, and if so, what faction might replace them?

Last week's country was Syria.

Discussions included:

• A discussion on the early Ba'th days, by @punk_punk@hexbear.net
• @LargePenis@hexbear.net's field trip to Syria.
• An attack on a graduation ceremony in Homs, which caused Syria/Russia to start hitting Idlib.

This is our Geopolitics Reading List so far! Please chime in with suggestions!

General Theory:

• Super Imperialism, by Michael Hudson.
• Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis, by John Smith.
• Superexploitation and the Imperialist Drive of Capitalism: How Marini's 'Dialectics of Dependency' Goes beyond Marx's 'Capital', by Andy Higginbottom.
• Capital Volume 3 Lecture Series, 32 videos, 10-15 minutes each, by Andy Higginbottom.
• World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction, by Immanuel Wallerstein.
• Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire, by Radhika Desai.
• Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy, by Radhika Desai.

Canada:

• Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination, by Tyler Shipley.

Chile:

• 1000 Days of Revolution: Chilean Communists on the Lessons of Popular Unity (I cannot personally find an online version).
• Santiago Boys Podcast, analyzing Allende's government and Cybersyn.

Syria:

• Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics, by Hanna Batatu.

United States:

• Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture, by Oswaldo Zavala.

Venezuela:

• Objective Conditions in Venezuela: Maduro’s Defensive Strategy and Contradictions Among the People, a longform article by Steve Ellner.

Xi or Putin please declare a military operation on Israel

Get on lemmygrad and go to this post now

the amount of genocidal fascists is twitter level

IDF wounded a journalist in their shelling of Lebanon

https://streamable.com/isl3i8

Anyone have the link that story of Israel telling civilians to go the city center to escape bombing and then bombing the city center?

if someone IRL tries to convince me the 40 beheaded babies are real I am only going to refer to them as the babies thrown from the incubator by Saddam Hussein

Norman Finkelstein laying out Israel's genocidal plan and the USA's support. Norm's on my shitlist for some other stuff but he's pretty solid on Israel. Looks like it's a clip from Jimmy Dore. I

13 Oct. 2023

Press release

We adamantly reject to be expelled from our homes once again. We will resist Israel’s attempt to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Our unwavering determination is to resist Israel’s pursuit of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, firmly resolved to prevent a second Nakba from unfolding. The current developments in Gaza represent an extraordinarily audacious and brutal endeavor to forcibly remove the Palestinian indigenous people from their land.

Israel has publicly declared its plan to commit genocide against Palestinians.

The Zionist entity, supported by Western governments, has conducted a war of intense bombardment, releasing more than 6,000 bombs upon Gaza within the past week. Nearly 500 children have been tragically killed as a result of the intense bombardment, carried out by the Zionist entity. They have targeted mosques, a church, educational institutions, residences, and medical facilities with bombings, yet it is our people who are erroneously branded as terrorists.

Today, we have seen the mobilization of millions in the Arab and Muslim world, extending their support to the courageous Palestinians in Gaza. We express our heartfelt gratitude for their solidarity and implore them to continue, urging them to march to the borders and play their part in this historic juncture that promises the restoration of our freedom and the dignity of all Arabs and Muslims.

To our allies living in western countries, the free noble people of those societies. You too have a role to play, to pressure your governments to abandon their support to Netanyahu and his fascist government. To correct the lies of the media, lift this barbaric siege on our people.

Yes what the Zionists are doing is inhumane, it is unprecedented, it is barbaric and contravenes all the laws and treaties that the so-called free and democratic countries claim they believe in. But our resolve is unbreakable. We will not surrender our legitimate fight for freedom and self-determination. We will either live standing tall or we will die fighting.

Izzat Alrisheq
Member of the political bureau of Hamas

One of the pigs who murdered Elijah Mclain was sentenced to day. Apparently he was negligent in his commission of homicide. Redditors talking about it helpfully reminded me that kkkrackers in this country are bootlicking scum.

If you can - for just a moment - think of the tragedy that his MNSBC legal pundits not being able to be on tv to talk about Trump. They've got their brands to build and their books, podcast, etc to plug.

Haven’t seen anything definitive but feeling seems to be that ground invasion is indeed going to happen now. Otherwise what are the evacuation order and huge troop movements for?And with the deadlines given, it does seem like today is probably the day. Only thing I could see delaying it would be logistics. Seems like troops and armor still mustering at the border. Maybe they’ll push it off another day or two, but sure seems like it could start at any time.

The “Israeli” army announces that an air force warplane was hit by an anti-tank missile fired by Hamas fighters.

Massive salvo of rockets targeted occupied Beershaba and Askalan

Successful Resistance infiltration operation from Gaza to Ashkol occupation settlement. Heavy confrontations ongoing with israeli forces inside the settlement

Sounds like a counterattack is underway

I was arguing in a music thread at another site. The topic was tangentally the Gaza war. Out of the blue he wrote...

Remember those eeediots who painted the Ukrainian flag on their cheeks to show sympathy? I once questioned one of them and he responded by spitting on me. I lost my stibs and gave him a good beating. I had to pay a fine and I still have community work to do. That's what I get for putting the assholes in their place.

I replied with "Thank you for your service?" Nobody at that site even knows what CTH means so I wondered how he'd take it. I don't know but the argument ended. I think in the end - he didn't even want to argue. He just wanted to vent. But it's hard/impossible to know what's going on that at that site. Maybe he was drunk or very high when he wrote "I lost my stibs" so he meant "I lost my shit". I had to edit the entire quotation to make it easier to read but I left stibs in for color.

MSNBC just mentioned reports of Israeli's alleged use of white phosphorus.

Edit. It ended up to be in passing. Baby steps?

On the one hand, if the U.S. navy gets involved, that really would not bode well for the resistance. On the other, what can they do really that idf can’t accomplish already with its own genocide equipment (albeit less effectively) Ground war is gonna be a slog regardless. On yet another hand, if somehow a carrier gets hit… that would really be something.

There’s currently more times I’m hearing a bomb on the live stream than not. Also those flashes are way bigger and brighter than other nights. Genociders.