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Bulletins and News Discussion from April 15th to April 21st, 2024 - Between The Darkness And The Dawn, There Rises A Red Star (hexbear.net)

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Image is of Iranian missiles flying over the Knesset, the Israeli parliament building in Jerusalem.

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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli 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 Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA daily-ish 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 (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
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.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

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.
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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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 64 points 7 months ago

So did the US just dissolve the prestige of the USD for $6 billion?

Seems... Short-sighted?

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[-] assyrian@hexbear.net 64 points 7 months ago

BREAKING: Iran-affiliated Iraqi militias Kataib Hezbollah says it will resume attacks against American forces after halting then for 3 months

why had these stopped in the first place?

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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 63 points 7 months ago

Rulers of EU nations are meeting today. On top of their agenda is a report detailing how the EU's competitiveness is lacking behind both the US and China. It is dawning on European US vassals that they are fucked economically.

The solution being proposed in the press is an old banger: Reforming the inner market. What if we "reduced regulation and administrative burdens on businesses"? Environmental protections are being mentioned as something that could be deregulated. The only sort of novel proposal is to create a big EU fund to provide subsidies directly to businesses.

So it seems like the solution to Europe's economic woes is the one solution that neoliberals have to any problem: Slashing protections for workers and lining the pockets of well-connected capitalists.

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[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 63 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

A couple billion dollars of weapons to Ukraine is one of the best things American taxmoney can buy. It's a small investment with a very profitable return. I don't get why Americans complain when it costs them virtually nothing compared to the benefits. We get to replace the EU's stockpiles and energy with American made products which generates jobs domestically (tankies and the QOP will ignore this and complain about expensive food and housing prices). We get to test our own weapons on our biggest enemy and destroy their military capabilities without triggering a nuclear war. And since Ukrainians are doing the fighting, we don't have to worry about paying them benefits and pensions or send our our countrymen to die. It's truly one of the most wholesome packages, all for a fraction of the cost of our annual military budget while raking in immense financial and security profits. The fact that anyone is complaining about this shows how deep Putin's propaganda reaches the US.

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[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 63 points 7 months ago

Turning the dial on the nuclear clock and looking back at America for approval, like a contestant on the price is right

[-] ziggurter@hexbear.net 63 points 7 months ago

The Intercept reveals how IDF propaganda is official, explicit NYT editorial policy: Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory” (and also the word "Palestine" BTW)

[-] OrlandoDeCabron@hexbear.net 63 points 7 months ago

A new thread struggles to be born, yadda yadda.

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[-] assyrian@hexbear.net 63 points 7 months ago

#BREAKING | The US House of Representatives votes by 366 votes to 58 on a bill to support 'Israel' worth $26.4 billion.

cool

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[-] Redbolshevik2@hexbear.net 62 points 7 months ago

Browsing /r/all because I'm never gonna die so wasting my life doesn't matter. Anyway I see a post titled 'Leading scholar Dr.snyder on the subject of eastern European nationalism debunks myths and lies spread by Russia about Ukraine.'

"Hmm. No, wait... it can't be."

The sound I made cannot be replicated

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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 62 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's extremely frustrating to be talking with some libs who agree that Israel is doing genocide/war crimes and that America is actively participating, only for them to turn around and claim that Israel "owns US politicians" and that things would just change if AIPAC et. al. disappeared. A bunch of these motherfuckers don't want to admit a bunch of Americans are true believers in zionism.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 62 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

US is reimposing oil sanctions on Venezuela

spoiler

The US is reimposing sanctions on oil from Venezuela, saying President Nicolás Maduro’s revolutionary socialist government has “fallen short” on commitments to hold a free and fair presidential election this year.

The measure amounts to a recognition by the Biden administration that sanctions relief, granted six months ago, has so far failed to persuade Maduro to run a genuinely competitive contest.

Mindful of the risk that fresh sanctions on Venezuela might push up oil prices in a US election year, Washington will allow US major Chevron to continue a joint venture with Venezuela’s national oil company PDVSA, which has been steadily increasing output.

In October Maduro and the US-backed opposition coalition signed an election agreement in Barbados, but the ink had barely dried before his government launched a sweeping crackdown.

The main opposition candidate, María Corina Machado, was banned from running, her selected replacement candidate was not allowed to register and some of her campaign team were arrested. {Polls had indicated|which polls lmaooo which polls motherfucker} that Machado would beat Maduro by a landslide.

“We have determined that although the Venezuelan authorities have met some key commitments, they’ve also fallen short in several areas,” a senior US administration official said, describing “a continued pattern of harassment and repression against opposition figures and civil society”.

The US administration official added that Maduro had upheld “certain aspects” of the Barbados agreement, including setting an election date, updating the electoral register and “starting a process to allow international election observation”.

In another gesture of collaboration, Washington and Caracas in December completed a prisoner exchange, in which 10 Americans — including six classified by the US as wrongfully detained — were released from a Venezuelan jail in exchange for the release of Alex Saab, a Colombian businessman and ally of Maduro whom US prosecutors accused of siphoning $350mn from Venezuela into US accounts.

Despite belligerent government statements in recent weeks, Maduro said on Monday he would “never close the door on dialogue” with the US, adding that his negotiators had met Washington’s envoys in Mexico last week. “I tell the negotiators to give President [Joe] Biden the following message: ‘If you want, I want. If you don’t want, I don’t want,’” Maduro said.

In response to the reimposition of sanctions, the president of Venezuela’s congress, Jorge Rodríguez, accused Washington of breaking a commercial agreement reached with Caracas. “We respect our word, and will never tolerate an ultimatum,” Rodríguez said. “We shall see who complied and who didn’t comply with their word and their commitments.”

The Biden administration has been juggling a wish to punish Maduro for rowing back on promises of free and fair elections with other concerns. It is worried about pushing Venezuela further into the arms of its allies Russia and China, and anxious that fresh sanctions might spur more Venezuelan migration towards the US.

Once a top global oil producer, Venezuela’s output collapsed from almost 2.9mn barrels per day in 2014 to below 400,000 b/d in 2020 as years of mismanagement combined with Trump-era “maximum pressure” sanctions intended to topple Maduro.

Helped by October’s temporary lifting of sanctions and increases in Chevron’s oil joint venture, Venezuela has boosted crude production to an average of just over 800,000 b/d in the first quarter of this year, according to Opec figures. The sanctions relief also allowed Venezuela to sell its oil directly, without having to use black market go-betweens charging large fees.

Venezuela has the world’s biggest oil reserves, as well as abundant natural gas. Energy companies have taken advantage of the sanctions relief to flock to Caracas over the past six months seeking possible deals with Maduro.

Shell and Trinidad’s national gas company signed an agreement to export Venezuelan offshore gas via the Caribbean island, while Spain’s Repsol and France’s Maurel & Prom also inked deals, according to news reports. These were covered by separate US sanctions licences. US officials declined to say whether these permits would continue, citing commercial confidentiality.

US companies investing in Venezuelan oil and gas not covered by existing licences will have until May 31 to wind down their operations. The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control “will consider requests for specific licenses to continue activities beyond the end of the wind-down period on a case-by-case basis”, according to a US State Department statement on Wednesday.

Venezuela’s oil minister Pedro Tellechea told reporters the sanctions would not hurt the country’s economy, and that foreign companies could apply to the US Treasury for individual licenses.

Analysts said the decision to tighten sanctions on the oil sector would have a limited short-term impact on Venezuela’s current production and exports but would hurt its long-term recovery.

“There will be no significant impact on Venezuelan production as the general license revoked on Wednesday was not generating investment,” said Francisco Monaldi, a Venezuelan oil expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute. He added that Chevron, with its own ongoing licence to operate in Venezuela, was the crucial investor in the country’s oil sector. “The reimposition of sanctions will slightly impact the availability of diluents on non-Chevron projects.”

Asdrúbal Oliveros, the director of Caracas-based consultancy Ecoanalítica, calculated that the renewed sanctions could cause Venezuela losses of foreign income worth about $3bn, and a 3.6 per cent decrease in gross domestic product growth — a price Maduro is willing to pay.

“In Maduro’s cost-benefit analysis, it was important not to cede too much political space,” Oliveros said. “This may give the government an excuse to tighten the political dynamics with more repression, giving less space to the opposition in the elections.”

https://www.ft.com/content/85a4e5b9-c536-4bfb-8dee-32bbed60311e

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[-] newmou@hexbear.net 62 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Looks like folks at Columbia University are forming a Gaza CHAZ. A GHAZA if you will

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[-] Autonomarx@hexbear.net 62 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Iranian sources tell #AlMayadeen that no external aggression against Iran was launched on Friday. What is being circulated about an Israeli attack on #Iran are lies and are part of a misinformation war, according to our sources. Sources also added that complicit #US media outlets are waging a proxy war of disinformation on behalf of the Israeli occupation. This comes after #Iran's Space Agency confirmed that several drones, of unspecified origin, were downed over Iranian airspace. The agency said that no missile attack on Iran occurred on Friday.

https://x.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1781165195382927748

It's a nothingburger. How would Israel even launch missiles at Iran with no one in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, etc seeing it? From a stealth fighter? It's probably a failed attack from the MEK or ISIS-K or some other terrorist proxy.

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[-] assyrian@hexbear.net 62 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

BREAKING: Israeli missiles hit site in Iran, a senior U.S. official tells our @MarthaRaddatz

Jerusalem Post: Initial reports of simultaneous explosions in Iran, Syria and Iraq

confirmed posadist-nuke

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[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 61 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Algeria's representative is submitting Palestinian membership to the UN right now

edit: as we all expected, the US voted it down. Twelve votes for Palestinian membership, two abstentions, and the US gets to veto it. democracy-manifest

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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 61 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Putin and Raisi had a phone convo. Nothing tremendously interesting except this line:

Putin condemned the attack on the Iranian consulate, stating, "What the Islamic Republic of Iran did in response to that act that happened criminally and in light of the inaction of the Security Council was the best way to punish the aggressor and represented the tactfulness and rationality of Iran's politicians.” The Russian head of state also added that Moscow believes Tehran “is one of the main pillars of stability and security in the region.”

I haven't been keeping up with Putin's statements and stances on the conflict but that's some pretty hostile language from a guy who wasn't exactly anti-Zionist not long ago

[tag: Russia, Iran]

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[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 61 points 7 months ago

OSINT^TM^ has concluded that the Israelis have decided on a method of retaliation but not a date. Seems like freshly evacuated bullshit to me but we’ll see. I’m leaning more towards they piss and moan about it for a month until everyone forgets about it and return their focus to speeding up the genocide.

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 61 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Columbia's president's parents were Egyptian gusanos who got their land expropriated by Nasser:
https://nitter.poast.org/nihalist___/status/1781028336459792537

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[-] assyrian@hexbear.net 61 points 7 months ago

Iranian chief negotiator: If the Zionist entity commits any new mistakes, the response will be direct and within seconds

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 61 points 7 months ago

[-] assyrian@hexbear.net 60 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

they really can't help themselves huh. Biden told them no, but they know they have his support no matter what they do.

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[-] assyrian@hexbear.net 60 points 7 months ago

French media: A man is threatening to blow himself up near the the Iranian consulate, police are at the scene

france-cool

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 60 points 7 months ago

Footage of Hezbollah targetting an iron dome platform:
https://nitter.poast.org/EyesOnSouth1/status/1780342350008446997

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[-] CDommunist@hexbear.net 60 points 7 months ago

Everytime I see that someone died in 2002 I think to myself "thank the Lord they lived long enough to see 9/11"

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[-] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 60 points 7 months ago

I am not fond of the “state” of “Israel”

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 60 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Roderic definitely in here reading the newsmega lol

https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1781557217587523635

@shipwreck@hexbear.net

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 59 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

US Veto's palestinian statehood at UN security council meeting

In favour: 12

Against: 1

Abstain: 2

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-security-council-vote-thursday-palestinian-un-membership-2024-04-18/

"The United States continues to strongly support a two-state solution. This vote does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood, but instead is an acknowledgment that it will only come from direct negotiations between the parties," Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Robert Wood told the council.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the U.S. veto in a statement as "unfair, unethical, and unjustified."

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