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Image is sourced from this People's Dispatch article, depicting communists attending the 2023 funeral of Communist Party President Guillermo Teillier, who was tortured for years under Pinochet's regime and helped rebuild the Communist Party while under a fascist dictatorship.


We had the Six Day War in 1967, we had the Nineteen Day War (Yom Kippur) in 1973, and now we've had the Twelve Day War. I wonder how many more very short wars will plague the region until Palestine is freed?

However, moving on from Western Asia from a little while, we have some interesting news from Chile - the former labor minister and communist, Jeannette Jara, has won the primary election for the left-wing bloc in a landslide (~60% of the vote), as the current President, Gabriel Boric, is term-limited. Her achievements include a minimum wage increase and a reduction of the work week to 40 hours.

In November, Jara will face down the contenders from other parties, including José Antonio Kast, who is analogous to Brazil's Bolsonaro. Unfortunately, Jara is now the lead figure of a party that has been taking quite a few Ls under Boric's leadership. Ostensibly a Democratic Socialist, he ruled as - you guessed it - a neoliberal, bending the knee to the US and EU. He not only failed to overthrow the Pinochet-era constitution, he actually allowed the right-wing to turn the proposed new constitution into something worse, and had to settle for campaigning against the new one and keeping the old one. And he had very little solidarity with other left-leaning leaders on the continent, like Maduro, Lula, Petro, or Castillo.

With this in mind, I cannot help but look at Argentina's very recent history and feel a little dread - but if anybody can save Chile at this point, it can only be a communist.


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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 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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[-] [email protected] 50 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Oh wild the sheriff that responded to the Idaho shooter was a former LA pig that got specialized federal training for counter-terrorism and has multiple security clearances and connections to every u.s intelligence agency and had also been trained by mossad and shin bet.

Shooter's step-dad may have also had connections to the war industry via ammunition manufacturer "The Kinetic Group" formerly connected to "Vista Outdoor"

Folks this stuff is screaming bungled conspiracy to me. The cops destroyed the evidence scene, pushed the perp's car off a cliff or some shit to make it hard to immediately investigate it too in the name of "preventing the perp from possibly fleeing" and how first-hand witnesses described the gunfight as the cops taking fire from multiple directions and how there was circumstantial evidence of spent/unspent ammo scattered around suggests a small possibility that this was a multiple perp operation instead of a single perp operation.

With not much info on the shooter still being known beyond the fact he liked firefighters, this whole event is still shrouded in Conspiracy Wrapped in a Mystery Inside of an Enigma.

Edit: just found out that the shooter was a nazi gunfucker who's remembered by his classmates as being a nazi gunfucker who wanted to go to college to join ROTC and be a murdering boot like his real dad (who was a FUCKING CAV SCOUT WITH THEIR DUMB FUCKING HATS AND SPURS! folks anyone that's a part of the fucking Cav scouts with their shitty lamp gear is fucking sus)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 19 minutes ago

fbi shootout in Idaho? I immediately thought itd be white seperatist losers ala Ruby Ridge

Settlers doing settler things

[-] [email protected] 43 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

This is apropos of nothing, but I didn't realize Khamenei was Azeri. Idk why but that's pretty cool to me. Multi-ethnic leaders, which you don't really see in Europe

[-] [email protected] 3 points 21 minutes ago

Me: Mom, can we have multi-ethnic leaders?

Mom: We have multi-ethnic leaders at home.

Multi-ethnic leaders at home:

[-] [email protected] 60 points 10 hours ago

Russian forces have fully liberated the Lugansk People’s Republic:

https://www.rt.com/russia/620811-russia-liberates-lugansk/

[-] [email protected] 26 points 8 hours ago

Holy shit. I know there will be more bombing, and maybe even some serious fighting at or within those borders, but this is heartwarming. A decade of hell and ethnic cleansing has passed and Lugansk remains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srDoyMfJS24

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 10 hours ago

Think they'll freeze the front along the borders or push on?

[-] [email protected] 47 points 10 hours ago

Various Russian officials and commentators have pointed out many times over the past several months that any "conflict freeze" or "permanent ceasefire" (such as the 'plans' being pushed by Western imperialist countries) would imply Russia not accomplishing the goals of the special military operation (i.e. de-Nazifying and de-militarizing Kiev). Russia will not agree to let the West win. So, the SMO will continue until Kiev capitulates.

Continuing the conflict is also a net win for the BRICS and multipolar world. In 2022, the Western imperialists were hoping to "quickly defeat Russia on the battlefield" and then destroy China. But now, the West is bogged down funding this costly anti-Russia proxy war and can not move on to attacking China.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 10 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 37 points 9 hours ago

It's classical right wing contradictions at play. Either:

  1. Allow cheap immigrant labor to fill the pockets of gringo capitalists.

Or

  1. Fulfil the racists that want to expell any one with a molecule of melanin in their skin.
[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 hours ago

He already promised this, then reversed it. In any case, they might not get a migrant hotel worker at their job, but they will just pick up that same worker somewhere else, so the effect will be almost the same.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 10 hours ago

This is real. Official stink.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 hours ago

I’m not defending a US President here, but Jimmy Carter had to put his peanut farm into a blind trust to be president and now we’re here.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 6 hours ago

For men and women? I ain't using this woke fucking perfume

[-] [email protected] 22 points 9 hours ago

Hmm, Victory. Wonder why it goes 45-47thinking-about-it

[-] [email protected] 32 points 10 hours ago

Cures covid too if you drink the whole thing

[-] [email protected] 29 points 10 hours ago

finally, a product for people who want to smell like racism

[-] [email protected] 19 points 9 hours ago

essence of diaper

[-] [email protected] 20 points 9 hours ago

Does Jeanette Jara have any relationship to THE famous Victor Jara? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADctor_Jara

[-] [email protected] 41 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Yesterday a fog "Tsunami" washed over the portuguese coast, shit looked so crazy my first thought was that it was AI

Anyway, the weather has been quite fucky lately, last year we had an very long summer, lasting nearly into october, then this year a very long winter, barely any spring, right now an already extremely hot summer (part of a southern european heat wave that ends tomorrow) and to top it all off this Silent Hill ass weather event.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 11 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 34 points 11 hours ago

if this hasn't been posted to elon on twitter, it should be data-laughing

[-] [email protected] 58 points 12 hours ago

Idaho murderer speculation going wild rn with who the speculated murderer is.

Right wing cranks doing their usual knee-jerk reaction to shield themselves from the truth.

Everyone else is pointing out the speculative shooter's dad was a former army scout turned neo-nazi biker gangster and step-dad having ties to the u.s Diplomatic Security Service and possibly Mossad as well due to his education in fucking Israel.

I'll continue to say this is all speculation but oh boy is it some fun speculation.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 11 hours ago

It's not but imagine if it was retaliation by Israel for the US not letting them keep their war with Iran going. This is now my head cannon until the real facts come out even though I know it's ridiculous

[-] [email protected] 40 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

L M A O what a joke the Syrian “revolution” was

“Sec. 8. Counterterrorism Designations. (a) The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General, shall take all appropriate action with respect to the designation of al-Nusrah Front, also known as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and other aliases, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under 8 U.S.C. 1189 and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under 50 U.S.C. 1702 and Executive Order 13224, as well as the designation of Abu Muhammad al Jawlani, commonly known as Ahmed al-Sharaa, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.

(b) The Secretary of State shall take all appropriate action to review the designation of Syria as a State Sponsor of Terrorism consistent with section 1754(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115-232; 50 U.S.C. 4813(c)), section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act (Public Law 90-629, as amended; 22 U.S.C. 2780), and section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (Public Law 87-195, as amended; 22 U.S.C. 2371).“

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/providing-for-the-revocation-of-syria-sanctions/

[-] [email protected] 31 points 11 hours ago

I saw a claim circulating around that a few Syrian diplomats got sent to the zionist entity and that they've agreed on giving away the Jolan to Israel, I couldn't find articles or sources like this so far so I am not sure yet

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[-] [email protected] 42 points 12 hours ago

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/syrian-forces-massacred-1500-alawites-chain-command-led-damascus-2025-06-30/

official sources (tm) acknowledgement

Some of the attackers responding to the March uprising carried lists of names of men to target, including former members of Assad militias who had been temporarily amnestied by the new government. Entire families with those surnames would later appear on lists of the dead handwritten by village elders. Multiple survivors described how the bodies of their loved ones were mutilated. The fighters, many of them masked, mustered in the new government’s heartland of Idlib, Homs, Aleppo and Damascus. And when armored convoys rolled out to western Syria, the militias’ cries of “Sunnis, Sunnis” rose in the night along with rhyming slogans calling for people to “slaughter the Alawites,” according to videos verified by Reuters.

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