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Bulletins and International News Discussion from October 6th to October 12th, 2025 - A New Revolutionary Wave? (hexbear.net)

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Image is of demonstrators in Italy on October 3rd in solidarity with the people of Palestine as the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank continues; source is this article.

There's way too much going on right now for me to really focus on any one country this week. The aftermath of the fall of the Nepal government has, somewhat surprisingly, reverberated around the world, and not only in countries that are enemies to the West as you'd expect; for example, Morocco's government battle fiercely with Egypt's and Jordan's to be first in line to lick the dogshit off the boots of Zionists, and yet Morocco is currently embroiled in a large protest wave based primarily around a youth unemployment crisis (though their population is also remarkably pro-Palestinian, which generates additional friction). We're also seeing similar protests in Madagascar, Peru, and Paraguay, and perhaps more will come. I'm personally fairly doubtful in the potential for meaningful economic results from these protests (the current imperialist system seems too deeply embedded for a movement that isn't explicitly communist and anti-imperialist to alter conditions), but it is quite possible for new political results at least.

Outside of the developing world, it appears that the unpopularity of western leaders, such as in the UK, France, and Italy, is creating new levels of unrest. In Britain, the political system has become so utterly moribund that even the artificial democracy of a two-party system (more-or-less; the Lib Dems do exist I suppose) no longer suffices, with both Conservatives and Labour gradually sinking. The Reform party appears like it may become the new standard-bearer of the capitalists and petit-bourgeois - that is, the historical wellspring of fascism - and the Left Party (whatever name they eventually choose) may or may not rise to meet the occasion. In France, they're on their fifth Prime Minister in two years, after Lecornu lasted about a month, attempting the liberal classic: promising change, and then appointing the exact same people who have ruled for the last few decades. And pro-Palestinian protests and general strikes have erupted in Italy, in defiance of their rightwing government under Meloni.

While there's plenty of other events (e.g. continuing aggression against Venezuela that might soon erupt into a war) it would be remise of me not to mention the very much ongoing events vis-a-vis Palestine and a potential peace deal there, seemingly supported to some degree by Trump. It could be legitimate, and it could be some big act (very likely the latter, IMO). Both Trump and Netanyahu seem to believe that they're very talented political masterminds, producing manoeuvres and feints that would make Machiavelli blush. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I trust the militant organizations inside Palestine to outplay these American failsons. Hamas and similar groups are not nearly as gullible as the Iranian reformist faction - though few people are!

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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine

If you have evidence of Zionist crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

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

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:

Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.

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[-] Tervell@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago

I love the phrase "accounting trick" being used with regards to rearmament, certainly bodes well https://archive.ph/N4Z7v

Italy lines up fallback plan for freeing €12 billion defense spending

Italy is ready to use an EU-devised accounting trick to help boost its defense budget by €12 billion, or $14 billion, as it tries to meet tough new NATO spending targets.

The plan devised in Brussels last year allows EU member states to exempt defense spending when they calculate annual deficit spending, allowing them to raise defense budgets without breaking EU deficit rules. The EU normally requires member states to keep their budget deficit below 3% of GDP or face infraction procedures. An Italian government source told Defense News the so-called National Escape Clause (NEC), if used, could result in Italy adding €12 billion to its defense budget over three years starting from 2026. Rome’s readiness to use the EU rule was signaled in a Ministry of Finance budget document issued this month, which stated it could be triggered if low-cost EU loans to boost defense spending - dubbed the SAFE program - were not enough to get Italy up to NATO requirement that members spend 5% of GDP on defense and security by 2035.

“The decision on whether to activate the NEC is postponed until after the completion of the SAFE program, when its actual need will be assessed,” the document stated. Italy has already applied to the EU for €14.9 billion in SAFE loans. The document stated that Rome will give the EU a list by Nov. 30 of what defense products it planned to spend the loans on. It said the list would focus on “joint programs with other member states of third countries interested in developing defense strategies in collaboration with the European Union.” The document added the European Commission would issued a response to the request by Dec. 31. Italy spent €29.18 billion on defense in 2024, equaling 1.54% of GDP, and has said it will reach 2% this year. Government sources have told Defense News that the gap will be made up by reclassifying parts of the Italian coast guard as military units, but no formal announcement has yet been made, and a proper defense budget document breaking down spending for 2025 has yet to be published. Looking ahead to 2026, the finance ministry document says a further “gradual” rise in spending will see Italy budgeting 2.5 percent of GDP by 2028.

The document warns that hiking budgets too quickly would prompt a “rush to buy” which would result in the market hiking prices. “Based on a realistic projection, spending in relation to GDP would rise by 0.15 percentage points in 2016 and again in 2017 then by 0.2 percent points in 2028,” the document states. Planners would first use the SAFE loans to achieve that, then decide on whether to use the National Escape Clause. The permission to use the NEC by the the EU was part of its March 2025 ReArm scheme to push member states to increase military readiness in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “The EU’s fiscal rules limit how much member states’ governments can spend. That’s why the EU is allowing additional budgetary flexibility within the fiscal framework to ensure that rising defense expenditure does not jeopardize fiscal sustainability or trigger penalties normally associated with breaching EU budgetary limits,” the EU has said. “The flexibility under the NEC for defense expenditure would be available for four years, starting from 2025, with an annual excess through 2028 that will not exceed 1.5% of GDP,” it has said.

Italy has previously said it did not want to use the NEC option as long as its annual deficit was already over 3%, meaning it was facing an infraction procedure. But it now predicts it will drop to 2.8% next year. The document contains one paragraph hinting that Italy may not yet need to achieve the 5% spending demanded by NATO. Its logic is that the 5% target has been established to ensure countries reach specific military capabilities. If Italy can achieve those capabilities through “rationalization strategies and optimizing spending, it could yet be possible to deliver the capabilities assigned to each country with a smaller outlay.”

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago

After destroying Kiev's electrical system a few days ago, yesterday Russia launched a devastating attack on the electrical infrastructure of Odessa, Ukraine's fourth largest city. Russia's stance has changed, and it is now destroying Ukraine's infrastructure.

[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It looks like Argentinian interest rates for their debt are already back at ~80%. They might need another bailout ASAP. That Milei concert must have SUCKED.

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[-] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago

Russia has apparently being destroying Ukrainian Rail Locomotives now. This is a pretty good strategy because Ukraine's rails are the Soviet Gauge and they can't manufacture or even get more locomotives from their allies.

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[-] companero@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago

G*mer article from 17 years ago:

Chavez fears Mercenaries 2 as imperialist psyops … somewhere, an eagle smiles

What is shocking (and hilarious, and possibly chilling depending on your political slant) is Chavez’ reasoning behind his distrust of the gringos at Pandemic. Here’s a quote from one of his lackeys:

“I think the US government knows how to prepare campaigns of psychological terror so they can make things happen later.”

So … by allowing a games company within our country to develop a game loosely based on fictional scenarios, the government is creating an army of teens who will one day overthrow the Chavez regime in a quest to unlock the “Despot Deposed” Achievement?

(Subtext: I’d continue railing against Chavez’ paranoia, but that last sentence is probably more clever than anything else I’ll come up with today, so let’s just end there. — Nex)

Fun fact: Being a snot-nosed Mercenaries 1 fan eagerly awaiting the sequel was the first time I had ever heard about Hugo Chávez.

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[-] IceWallowCum@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago

News on the recent Italian strike? Is it still ongoing? How are the government and society reacting?

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago

Pakistani-Afghan Conflict Update:

Pakistani and Afghan troops clash on the border. The Taliban claims that several Pakistani army soldiers have abandoned their posts on the border.

There are already major conflicts on the border between the two countries, and the Pakistanis are retreating from their defensive positions, even leaving the bodies of dead soldiers behind. The situation has escalated rapidly, with the Taliban already sending reinforcements to the border, including armored vehicles.

The Pakistan Air Force is already operating in the border region, carrying out bombing missions. According to preliminary sources, the Afghan Taliban has simultaneously attacked the entire Pakistani border, with at least six combat fronts active at this time.

The Pakistani Army is firing guided rockets at Afghan Taliban and Al-Qaeda positions in Dandi Pathan. The Taliban displays a small amount of weapons captured from Pakistani soldiers who abandoned their defensive positions and fled amid armed conflict on the Afghan-Pakistani border.

According to Afghan media, Afghan special forces soldiers infiltrated Pakistani territory during the early hours of the morning, carrying out surprise attacks behind the border's defensive lines. The Pakistani Air Force is bombing government facilities inside Afghanistan.

A “leaked” email, posted an hour ago on a forum, allegedly reveals an agreement made on October 8 between India and Afghanistan to send Indian military and intelligence trainers to assist in a future “two-front war.”

The leak includes the coordinates of five Indian Army captains who are reportedly staying in Shashdarak, Kabul, a high-security area that hosts foreign officials and personnel, along with their emails and service numbers.

If true, this could explain the sudden visit of Afghanistan's Foreign Minister to India and marks an important red line, suggesting direct Indian military involvement in future operations.

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[-] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago

Irish Presidential race update: Right wing candidate Jim Gavin has dropped out, leaving only Humphreys and Connolly, and Connolly is favored to win.

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[-] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago

Map of Gaza shows how Israeli forces will withdraw under ceasefire deal

How is it a victory?????

How are the people trusting the scorpions to pull back?

And what does it mean for the tunnels?

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[-] SickSemper@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago

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[-] SickSemper@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

“Hebrew Channel Seven:

“Heavy exchange of fire between Hamas and armed militias (supported by Israel) in the Rafah area without Israeli intervention”

Is it possible, #Yasser_Abu_Shabak 🤔”

https://t.me/amsak2024/6863

Yasser Abu Shabak is so funny I’m actually mad I didn’t make this joke

To be clear, the resistance poster made the joke, not channel 7. They could never be that funny

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[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 51 points 2 months ago

This is what annihilation looks like: US manufacturing industry was reduced to zero overnight. Complete collapse. No chance of survival.

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[-] Tervell@hexbear.net 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

comrade hegseth waging protracted bureaucrat's war on the empire's military https://archive.ph/d4eZy

More than 60K defense civilians have left under Hegseth—but officials are mum on the effects

Months into a hastily ordered overhaul, officials declined to disclose metrics, discuss problems.

Nine months into the second Trump administration, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s effort to shrink and reshape the Pentagon’s civilian workforce has netted a reduction of more than 60,000 employees, or about 7.6 percent, comfortably reaching the 5- to 8-percent goal he set in March. But while the Pentagon provided those numbers to Defense One, they provided few other details, leaving it hard to judge how the effort to cut payroll and redirect resources is going. Multiple officials declined to talk about various problems caused by the sweeping cuts and policy changes Hegseth ordered just weeks into his job. They also declined to comment on criticism by current and former employees who say the changes were ill-planned and have hurt productivity and morale among the country’s largest national-security workforce.

“The consensus among the rank-and-file DOD employees is that the SecDef has essentially declared war on his civilian workforce, creating an atmosphere of mutual distrust and an implication that all DOD civilians are untrustworthy parasites until proven otherwise,” one department civilian, who asked not to be identified to prevent retaliation, told Defense One. To shrink his workforce, Hegseth fired probationary employees, froze hiring, offered buyouts, reopened early retirement, and ordered department organizations to submit ideas for eliminating “redundant or non-essential functions.” Pentagon leaders have called these moves responsible and thoughtful. “As Secretary Hegseth made clear, it is simply not in the public interest to retain individuals whose contributions are not mission-critical,” John Ullyot, then a Pentagon spokesperson, told Defense One in March. “Taxpayers deserve to have us take a thorough look at our workforce top-to-bottom to see where we can eliminate redundancies. That said, as we take these important steps to reshape the workforce to meet the President's priorities, the Department will treat our workers with dignity and respect as it always does.” But department leaders have often fallen short of that pledge.

Probationary employees were illegally fired. Current and former employees have said that murky or nonexistent guidance about the new policies have caused confusion. Multiple sources cited the ongoing hiring freeze that kept employees in hotels waiting for exemptions so they could move to their new DOD jobs overseas, and is now trapping other employees who are trying to complete transfers back to the United States. All this, combined with an exodus of civilian employees from an organization long accustomed to “doing more with less,” has made the massive workload even harder to tackle. Some commands are “close to a breaking point of simply not being able to accomplish key requirements—and I know that is true across the globe as well,” the DOD civilian said.

Buyouts and early-outs

The biggest chunk of the 60,000-plus workers shed came from buyouts and early retirements. DOD approved 55,000 applications for the Deferred Resignation Program and another 6,100 for the Voluntary Early Retirement Authority program, a Pentagon official told Defense One, asking for anonymity without giving a reason. Hegseth did not limit how many people could take the offers, and allowed the services only rare rejections of applicants deemed vital to national security. This had larger effects on some organizations than on others. In May, the Space Force reported that it had already lost 14 percent of its civilians to buyouts. “Because our numbers are so much smaller, I feel like the efforts to reduce the overall federal workforce had a little bit of an outsized impact on the Space Force,” Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said Tuesday at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference outside Washington, D.C. “In an attempt to get the entire workforce down 5 percent, certainly the civilians at [Space Systems Command] were above 10 percent, for sure, in some of those losses.” “The corporate knowledge—the expertise that our civilian workforce brings—is vital to acquisitions, and so the Deferred Resignation Program certainly took some of those out of play,” Saltzman said.

Firing ‘probies’

Another way Pentagon leaders sought to trim headcount was by firing probationary employees—generally, workers new to the department, recently promoted, or recently transferred from other DOD jobs—whose civil-service protections had yet to kick in. Prompted by the White House, Pentagon officials announced in February that they would fire 5,400 probationary employees. They removed 364 before a judge ordered them to stop and to rehire the ones who had left. The Supreme Court eventually knocked down the injunction, allowing such firings to resume, but the Pentagon is still required to send letters to the fired employees stating they were not dismissed for cause. The department’s personnel office declined to provide a current status of the firing, or rehiring, of probationary employees while litigation is pending, according to the Pentagon official.

Hiring freeze, still on

On Feb. 28, Hegseth ordered a hiring freeze across his department, just eight days after announcing one was on the way. The short-notice order forced managers to rescind job offers to thousands of people. The Army alone told 2,000 people that their new jobs had disappeared, spokesman Lt. Col. Orlandon Howard told Defense One. The freeze also prevented thousands of current employees from moving to new jobs within the department. Some employees found themselves trapped overseas, unable to return to the United States to take up their new jobs. Many were housed in hotels at government expense for more than a month, having given up their residences and dispatched their possessions to their new places of employment. In the Army, 150 employees were eventually allowed to move on after exemptions were secured, Howard said. The Space Force’s Saltzman said he had been able to secure enough exemptions to keep his service’s growth plans on track. But the freeze is still gumming up civilians who are finishing up overseas assignments and are unable to move into new roles in the United States.

“Currently, those that reach the end of their tour cannot leave because there are no jobs to apply to, and cannot leave on [the Priority Placement Program] because empty positions can’t be filled unless it is mission-critical, health- or safety-related,” the civilian said. “Basically, trapped overseas indefinitely.”

lol. lmao

The exemption process is bottlenecked by Hegseth, who initially insisted on personally reviewing every request. He widened the path slightly in a March 18 memo that delegated the task to the defense undersecretary for personnel and readiness and the secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, but added, “This authority may not be further delegated.” Asked about the hiring freeze and its effects, Pentagon spokesman Joel Valdez declined to answer. The first Pentagon official declined to provide numbers, including total number of job offers rescinded at the beginning of the freeze and total number of employees who have requested exemptions to be able to complete permanent change-of-station moves to new roles. The official referred such questions to the military departments, and declined to provide figures for defense agencies that aren’t part of a service branch, such as the Defense Intelligence Agency and Defense Health Agency. The Air Force did not respond to Defense One’s request for information as of publication. A spokeswoman for the Navy declined to comment entirely. The military departments were required to send such figures to Hegseth’s personnel undersecretary, but the spokesperson said the figures were not tracked.

The Pentagon has no estimate of how much money it spent on hotel costs and other incidentals for employees who had moved out of their homes and were forced to cancel and rebook flights, because each of those cases were approved at a command level, the spokesperson said.

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[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 50 points 2 months ago

The senior Hamas official told Drop Site that mediators assured the Palestinian side that the Rafah border crossing would be reopened in both directions. Rafah is the only crossing in Gaza to anywhere besides Israel.

Hamas knew the only path to a brokered agreement to end the genocide rested with Trump. “There is no other deal to be taken. Either this or return to fight with full American support coupled with Arab and Islamic passivity and let-down,” said the source.

The Palestinian negotiators, after consultations with a range of factions, agreed to a deal that will keep Israeli forces in Gaza even after all Israeli captives are handed over to Israel. “This is something they were not able to move,” the source told me.

The source close to the negotiators said “Trusting [Trump’s] word is the gamble they are taking. If it works, they will be considered geniuses. If it fails, they will be considered fools. It’s as simple as that.”

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[-] departee@hexbear.net 50 points 2 months ago

Afghan Media reports that information received from Taliban sources indicates that Khārji Noor Wali Mehsud, the leader of the TTP (Tehrik Taliban Pakistan), was killed in a drone strike on a cruiser in Kabul city tonight.

https://t.me/TheSimurgh313/57012

Pakistan supposedly strikes Kabul with US assistance

https://www.trtworld.com/article/b8b843c9db2d

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 50 points 2 months ago

Danish Elite Abandons Citizens Abducted by Zionist Regime

Two Danish citizens, including Member of Parliament Victoria Velasquez, have been abducted by the Zionist apartheid regime in occupied Palestine for participating in a humanitarian mission to break the genocidal siege of Gaza. Yet Denmark's Social Democrat-led right-wing regime remains silent, and the Nordic hermit kingdom's regime-loyal press appears more intent on smearing the victims than reporting the facts.

THE PERUVIAN GOVERMENT/DINA HAS FALLEN

José Jerí, Peru's new president, took office - Prensa Latina

Article

José Jerí, a 39-year-old lawyer, was sworn in early this morning as Peru's new president, replacing the ousted Dina Boluarte, and will serve for less than nine months.

Upon taking the oath of office as transitional president, Jerí promised an administration “of empathy and broad-based national reconciliation” in a situation he described as “one of constant political crisis, governments that do not finish their terms, weakened institutions, and a weary citizenry.”

He announced immediate action against “the evil that afflicts us,” public insecurity, and identified criminal organizations as enemies that must be defeated.

Jerí stated that the country can count on the National Police and the Armed Forces for this war, and that the commitment of all state institutions is needed to win the fight against crime.

He also saluted the young people of the Generation Z movement, who are holding anti-government marches demanding change “with just cause.”

Jerí did not immediately assume the presidency because Congressman Quito requested that the board of directors he presided over be censured in order to change its members and elect a new one by consensus, as the majority parties need their demands to be addressed.

The right-wing majority that decided Jerí's election as head of Congress rejected Quito's motion, after which the new leader was able to be sworn into office.

The current transitional president entered Congress in the 2021 general elections as a substitute for former president Martín Vizcarra, whose seat he assumed after Vizcarra's election was annulled due to corruption charges.

On the other hand, the outgoing president delivered a message to the country on state television, expressing her disagreement with her removal from office, which she said did not comply with due process. Given that she was no longer president, the broadcast was cut off.

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[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 49 points 2 months ago

The note passed to Trump from his Secretary of State just now in the White House.

“We need you to approve a Truth Social post soon so you can announce deal first”

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 49 points 2 months ago

https://t.me/PalestineResist/82661

🚨 Resistance security forces completed two successful operations against collaborator and outlaw militias in the #Gaza Strip.

The first mission targeted a criminal militia in Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City, where security forces seized control of the area before killing and arresting dozens of militants. Sources in Gaza confirmed that the group had refused to surrender themselves to security forces in exchange for amnesty.

The second mission targeted a militia in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. Over 58 members of the militia were arrested following intense clashes. One member, confirmed to be a spy for the occupation, was executed.

Beginning tomorrow, internal security forces in Gaza will open a weeklong window for outlaw militants to surrender themselves in exchange for amnesty.

[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The milei administration is facing several internal political scandals and conflicts, three major ones to be precise:

The public division between milei and his VP, Villarruel. To be honest, conflicts between the president and the vice-president are not that uncommon, these formulas are sometimes picked to make an approachment to certain demographics purely for electoral reasons. In this case, Villarruel's pick is to "secure" the far right vote to some extent and to gain certain support from the Armed Forces. She has always been a advocate for genocide denial, always doing her best to whitewash the image of the Armed Forces during the tortures, killings and kidnappings of the 1970's military dictatorship. Her father was also in the Navy, an Admiral if I'm not mistaken. Either way she does not command a lot of power within the military, it's not like she has a million soldiers ready to follow her in a coup. She tries to have influence among them but I think the top brass is way too mysoginistic to even think falling behind a woman. On the other hand, the Military Party is completely out of the game, and has been like that for like 30 years. When Capital needs to make "adjustements", they'll rely on large corporate bodies like the Sociedad Rural Argentina (The main institution that represents the interests of the largest landowners), the Unión Industrial Argentina (same but with industrial bourgeoisie), large media groups like Clarín or La Nación and so on, all synchronized with the coopted political parties like Partido Justicialista (Peronism), Unión Civica Radical (weird mix of US-style Democratic Party, german SPD and whatever), PRO (Neolib) and so on.
Karina, 3% and LIBRA. This one is recent. You may all remember milei's crypto scam. Well Congress is still investigating it but, of course, there will be no impeachment even though milei deserves it (actually he deserves much worse things). Now, Karina, milei's sister, holds a great deal of political power by being assigned, by his own brother (as if this was a monarchy or something) as his personal secretary. She's like Hitler's Martin Bormann, being the filter of information that comes in and out of the presidential office. Anyways, recently a few audios were leaked of high ranking government officials talking about taking funds out of the National Disability Agency (The public institutions that funds programs and gives assistance to disabled people) basically for themselves. The leaked audio says that "Karina should get around 3% or 4%" of the embezzled funds. Very amateur if you ask me, it's very stupid to fall like that. They tried to block the publication of the audios by saying this is "espionage", however a journalist travelled to Uruguay and leaked them there, well outside the reach of Argentina's sorry ass judicial system. Karina, who is not very popular among people because she's as charismatic as a piece of old clothing left to rot in some forgotten sewer, is consistently being attacked for this, and his brother, responsible for putting her in his own adminsitration, also faces the attack. The people who claimed they'll "end with corruption" are, in fact, corrupt themselves. Legitimacy? Down the drain I say. This also had a big impact in milei's party piss poor performance in the very important Buenos Aires elections a few weeks ago.
A great ally of milei is accussed of being a narco and resigned weeks before the midterms. So this one tastes veeery good because I absolutely hate this man. There's this bozo called Espert, a massive zionist, fascist and overall piece of shit person whose main shtick is to go around saying "Jail or bullet" for normal criminals and, oh of course, the left-wing opposition. He was a close ally to former president Macri, used to insult milei and then when the ancap loser began to grow he allied himself with him, had a bit of a falling off and then returned. He served in Congress for a bit and now he tried to run again for that seat. However, the Trots started to accuse him of taking funds directly from a narco and then provided evidence - It turns out the relation went too deep, they held personal meetings, flew in the same airplane and took around 200.000USD for his political campaign. Espert's links with the drug trafficker, Fred Machado, is also being investigated by the FBI. Espert first denied these allegations, then pivoted to "I know him but I never took funds", then "I know him and the funds went to the Party not me" and finally "This isn't corruption because this is within the sphere of private business". Well Mr. Espert, murdering someone is also a "private" thing but that doesn't make it less illegal lmao. And so, after coming under a shitstorm of.. shit, he resigned to his candidacy, throwing the entire party's effort into disarray just WEEKS before the all-important midterms. The all-powerfull big strong anti-corruption, super pro-cop and security guy just had his entire image destroyed by some random leftists. The Trots were right, perhaps too soon, because when they first accussed him of being a narco everyone else played dumb until it became politically viable to go after him with that. Still, the Trot's denouncement became the framework of his demise lol. Sweet sweet demise. Oh and Espert's and Machado's lawyer is also the lawyer of milei lmfao.

Oh and of course, death to "israel".

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c0e9lyypedjt

#smokebreak #workplace #chillax #genderreveal

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[-] SickSemper@hexbear.net 49 points 2 months ago

Israeli Ynet journalist Yossi Yehoshua:

"The Palestinian Authority is making significant efforts through a Gulf state to prevent the release of prisoner Marwan Barghouti as part of the exchange deal."

https://t.me/thecradlemedia/43939

Hmm I wonder which gulf state

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[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 49 points 2 months ago

Ceasefire fantastic but, imo, like other recent developments there's too much uncertainty right now. Gotta wait a couple weeks to determine the nature of the ISF and what will actually happen to Hamas before developing a full opinion. I worry the ISF is, like the GHF, a way to sidestep a UN peacekeeping force to be in israel's favor. But even this is pure speculation

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[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 48 points 2 months ago

It looks like the Trump admin really is just firing people during the shutdown;

Mike Johnson says on a RSC press call that OMB Director Russ Vought “takes no pleasure” in the mass federal layoffs that were announced today

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