I could use some more Telegram news follows. I currently follow Mint Press, Red Stream, Resistance News, Middle East Spectator, and teleSUR. Rybar too but they are a mixed bag.

Saudi Arabia reports 4 new cases of MERS coronavirus

Saudi Arabia has reported four new cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), a coronavirus which first emerged about 12 years ago, according to health officials. Two of them were caused by human-to-human transmission.

According to a statement from the World Health Organization on Thursday, three of the cases were found in Riyadh between April 10 and April 17. The index case, a 56-year-old school teacher, had no clear history of exposure to MERS risk factors.

The teacher first developed symptoms – including a fever, cough, a runny nose and body aches – on March 29. He went to the emergency room of a local hospital on April 4 and was taken to the ICU on April 6, where he died the following day.

Might as well ask this here: what do our heads think are the chances of dnc shenanigans?

You know, taking genocide joe behind the shed and so on? From electoral standpoint seems like a slamdunk scenario tbh

Victory Day pilots with the flags of Allied nations.

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Tanks approach outskirts of Rafah, says Egyptian official

A Palestinian security official and an Egyptian official say Israeli tanks have approached Rafah, and reached as close as 200 metres (yards) from the crossing with neighbouring Egypt, reports Associated Press.

It’s understood that area where the tanks are is on the outskirts of Rafah, in southern Gaza.

The Egyptian official said the operation appeared to be limited in scope, the AP reported. The news agency could not independently verify the scope of the operation.

The official and Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV said Israeli officials informed the Egyptians that its troops would withdraw after completing the operation.

The Israeli military declined to comment and the Guardian has not been able to independently verified the reports.

The Egyptian official, located across the border from Rafah, and the Palestinian security official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to the press.

On Sunday, Hamas fighters near the Rafah crossing fired mortars into southern Israel, killing four Israeli soldiers.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/06/israel-gaza-hamas-ceasefire-updates?page=with%3Ablock-66395f1d8f08cb3df581b7d7#block-66395f1d8f08cb3df581b7d7

Even though awoo is first, because nobody said it...

First

Does anyone have the article of how the US military wasn’t able to produce extra parts for some weaponry/combat vehicle to do repairs because they decided to get rid of the mold from their storage room? They sold it to a private buyer and had to track him down to repurchase it from him. I think he turned it into some playground for his kid

Boeing 737 skids off runway in Senegal

It just keeps happening

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce5ljpnggp4o

https://archive.is/XfUxe

Fucking space dorks jog with some of the obnoxious people in the Army and earn the right to call themselves "space cowboys"

The Space Cowboys: Guardians earn their spurs in cavalry tradition

“It’s kind of cool to be called Space Cowboys,” Space Force 1st Lt. Jackson Jennings told Task & Purpose. “It just feels right.”

Jennings was one of three Space Force officers who completed an infamous Army Cavalry “spur ride” at the end of April to earn their spurs, an official Cavalry Stetson hat and the unofficial title of Space Cowboys, err, we mean Cavalry Scout-Guardians.

Jennings, 1st Lt. Jordan Savage and Capt. Bradley Evans joined close to 230 Army soldiers from the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team in Fort Bliss, Texas to “earn their spurs.” > The “Order of the Spur” is a Cavalry tradition where soldiers serving with Cavalry units complete a “Spur Ride.”

Basically these turbonerds get to wear fancy hats and spurrs now and be extra obnoxious at formal events.

Turns out the UAW university strike vote is happening on May 13th, so still a while in the future. The leadership voting went alright though at least. The shittier part of the union still holds at the highest level, but there's more people in various campus level leadership positions, so the grassroot tendrils are still spreading.

Is there a better Palestinian Marxist theoretician to read than George Habash? Pls recommend

A pretty interesting book about Armenian Marxist Monte Melkonian is My Brother's Road by Markar Melkonian, himself a Marxist journalist. Monte was a leader in the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) an anti-Turkish/NATO/Israel ML group based out of Lebanon and allied with the PFLP and probably the Soviets. The book is interesting because no one really knows anything about this very secret organization but goes pretty in depth of one of the top commanders who seemingly was involved with many of the conflicts in the middleast from the mid 70s onwards. He was involved in the 79 revolution in Iran and the Lebanese civil war and invasion by Israel. ASALA got started during the civil war as a kind of neighborhood defense thing in Beirut but they expanded their operations through the middle east and Europe. The group eventually splits and Hagop's group carries hired assassinations while Monte's group fights in the first karabahk war, where he ends getting killed. There's a lot of great stories in this book though from blowing up Israeli tanks alongside the PFLP to getting arrested and the negotiation to get him released is we're going to cancel your embassies if you don't let Monte go, which they did.

ASALA is still around as sort of a boogie man but they haven't done anything since the late 90s. The Turkish nationalists often insinuate that ASALA created the PKK, but to my knowledge I don't think the two groups really worked together, but someone else my know more.

Markar also published a collection of his writings in The Wrong Train from the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent Soviet Armenian Republic and the transition to capitalist system but I'm a lazy butt and never finished it.

I don't think Markar is a academic Marxist considering he never denounced his brother who basically was the like the old school Bolsheviks that were in Stalin's group.

Some other famous Armenian Marxist are: The Mikoyan brothers. One is where MiG jets comes from and the other was a Bolshevik politician active from Lenin to Khrushchev and was a personal friend of Stalin from childhood. He was a negotiator during the cuban missile crisis and loved ice cream more than socialism according to Stalin.

There's Bagramyan a marshal of the soviet union during the Great Patriotic War. He led the liberation of the Baltics

Simon "Kamo" Der-Petrosian was a main member of Stalins group and his biggest thing was the Yerevan Square Expropriation which was a heist that ended killing like a dozen Tsarist Pigs and stole millions. He eventually got caught, was sentenced to execution, feigned insanity and was freed during the revolution where his group was so brutal to spies even Lenin told him to chill.

Sergei Lavrov is a former Marxist and favorite RBF diplomat of the Russian Fed. In the Soviet days he spent a lot of time in Sri Lanka and is fluent in Sinhala. He's more of a hardliner than Putin and was a cheerleader of the DPR and LPR basically from the onset.

I'm sure there's many more especially from the Soviet Union but I'm just going off the top of my head. Marxism was extremely popular in the Armenian community since it was the capitalist faction of the Turks that engaged the genocide. The Armenian community was split between the dashnaks who were the pro revolution social Democrats and Marxists. There were some libs but most understood revolution. The Dashnaks were/are anti Soviet and tend to be pretty conservative nowadays. The Marxists don't really exist in an organized fashion mostly fading away after the fall of the Soviet Union.

pog-pog-poggity pog pog

https://twitter.com/Pal_action/status/1788139260916216232

The Pashinyan regime continues to betray the interests of the Armenian people:
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/armenia-stops-financing-csto-amid-growing-rift

new citations needed:

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-axios-nyt-help-white-house-obscure-their-role-in-rafah-invasion

The AFL-CIO should start its own version of AAA but for non-union workers. Pay a membership fee (maybe based on income?), get access to stuff like discounted insurance, union-affiliated lawyers who can help with stuff like labor complaints, people who can help explain things like unemployment benefits/help people fill it out, etc. A lot of the services offered could overlap with services their unions already offer, meaning they could maybe consolidate some stuff and lower costs for benefits.

Putin proposed appointing Belousov as Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Federation Council reported

Andrei Removich Belousov was born on March 17, 1959 in Moscow in the family of Rem Alexandrovich and Alisa Pavlovna Belousov. His father went through the Great Patriotic War in the aviation troops, graduated from MGU and became an economist. Belousov’s mother was a radiochemist who worked in the chemistry of rare elements.

Andrei Belousov studied at the prestigious “second” physics and mathematics school. In his youth he practiced sambo and karate. In 1981 he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University with a degree in cybernetics economist.

From 2008 to 2012, he was Director of the Department of Economics and Finance of the Russian Government. Belousov was called “a man of German Gref’s team.” During the 2008 crisis, Belousov personally prepared anti-crisis documents for then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

In 2012–2013, Belousov headed the Ministry of Economic Development. From 2013 to 2020, he was Assistant to the President of Russia for Economic Affairs.

In January 2020, Belousov was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia. At the end of April - May 2020, he served as acting prime minister for three weeks due to the fact that Mikhail Mishustin became infected with coronavirus infection

Putin appointed Shoigu Secretary of the Russian Security Council

Vladimir Putin decided that the Russian Ministry of Defense should be headed by a civilian; the department should be open to innovation and advanced ideas,

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Putin is ready to launch invasion of Nato nations to test West, warns Polish spy boss

The Argentine government removed teleSUR’s signal from the open digital television grid.

teleSUR denounced that President Javier Milei's administration prohibited the broadcast of its signal on the Argentine open digital television system.

"Milei, you are afraid of the truth of the people," Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said.

I’m going crazy, god bless the Resistance. Folks, what’s your opinion on Islam? Is it, as all religion, spiritual cope for material harm?

Former chief of the Israeli Knesset’s foreign affairs and security committee:
“Israel” must choose which defeat it wants, a small defeat against Sinwar, or a major defeat against the Axis of Resistance

https://twitter.com/EyesOnSouth1/status/1788269044971524379

Defendant Khorram required all employees from the butler, the chef to the housekeepers, to walk around with a pouch or fanny pack filled with cocaine, GHB, ecstasy, marijuana gummies (100 - 250 mg’s each), and Tuci (a pink drug that is a combination of ecstasy and cocaine).

from Rodney James' lawsuit against Sean Combs

EDIT: looking up "tuci" most other sources seem to think it is ketamine-based