[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Khamenei's face was disfigured in the attack on the supreme leader's compound in central Tehran and he suffered a significant injury to one or both legs, all three sources said... The 56-year-old is nonetheless recovering from his wounds and remains mentally sharp... He is taking part in meetings with senior officials via audio conferencing and is engaged in decision-making on major issues including the war and negotiations ‌with Washington...

Ok.

The question of whether Khamenei's health allows him to run state affairs...

You just said he was already working. What question? How would 6 week old facial and leg injuries prevent him from running state affairs?

Writing an article about how Iranian society is responding to largely invisible leadership is fine, but that's only very briefly mentioned at the end of the article. The rest of the article is a whole lot of words to only say "we don't know much about him".

This is just ableist JAQing off.

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

I'm guessing that the House Oversight Committee wants her to testify, so she's trying to head it off at the pass before they officially ask.

Maybe Maxwell's slow trickle of claims in pro se filings had something that Bondi couldn't make go away.

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 33 points 22 hours ago

Eh, at least this money would go to innocent people and put back into their community's economy. Not like the money spent on Palantir and the White House nuclear winter ballroom.

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 249 points 1 day ago

Let's not gloss over this part:

...that the Department of Homeland Security had also posted a few hours earlier.

It's all fucked up. I can only hope Easmin's family sues and get a massive payout for the extra trauma inflicted by having this tragedy exploited for political purposes by both DHS and Trump. Truly ghoulish.

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Finland and West Germany were more major trading partners with the USSR, and more than half of Yugoslavia's trade was with the OECD.

Yugoslavia's economy destabilized firstly from the 70s oil crises and the IMF loans tied to requirements to privatize industries. Many of those loans were taken with the premise that the USSR may invade and the funds were necessary for defense.

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

That is a very oddly binary take on geopolitics. Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia in the 70s, Yugoslavia was one of the founders of the Non Aligned Movement.

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Slovenia wasn't part of the Soviet bloc though

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Slovenia is Eastern Europe?

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 64 points 2 days ago

Trump isn't the disease, he's just the most visible symptom.

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Neither do I, and if it weren't for the community rules, I might have dropped it off the title altogether. You'd think they'd just lost track of the time the way this is phrased, but it at least mentions the "massive wave of attacks against Lebanon". The other articles right now use even milder terms like "sporadic attacks in the gulf" or "Israel says it will continue operations".

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Israeli military announces ‘largest coordinated strike’ against Hezbollah since war began, carrying out a wave of airstrikes without warning on Beirut and across the country on more than 100 targets.
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The attack came less than 12 hours after the Iran ceasefire announcement.
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Iran and Pakistan said a ceasefire would include Lebanon, contrary to Israeli claims, but the US has yet to comment.
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Up until the wave of airstrikes by Israel across Lebanon, Hezbollah had not announced any attacks against Israel – a first since the war between it and Israel began on 2 March.
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The almost five weeks of war in Lebanon has brought the country to its breaking point, with more than 1.1 million people forcibly displaced... More than 1,530 people had been killed and 4,812 wounded by Israeli airstrikes, Lebanon’s ministry of health said on Tuesday.

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

It seems they may have agreed, but there's disagreement to how far the scope extends. It's not clear what the actual contents of the agreement were, but Pakistan, which mediated the deal, said the two-week pause in fighting did extend to Lebanon. Iran has previously included that as a term in talks, but hasn't confirmed if they kept it this time. But they likely did, I don't see why Pakistan would lie about that either.

Israel, unsurprisingly, says the ceasefire does not extend to Lebanon, and has not stopped attacking Lebanon. In fact, they just launched the largest attack on Lebanon in decades. It also sounds like an oil refinery in Iran was hit after the US ceasefire announcement, but there are no details of who hit it yet.

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 67 points 3 days ago

"...a more enduring threat: asymmetric warfare, in which individuals or small groups of militants can pose threats strategic to the American military."

You know what US military targets an Iranian "shoulder-fired missile" can't hit? The ones in the US. The only place the US military should be. Invading forces aren't entitled to an easy time stealing another country's resources.

The NBC can fuck right off with this war crime apologia masquerading as a news article containing a mild warning. It's not a Saving Private Ryan reboot, it's modern exploitation colonialism.

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Fake X account posing as his vet sparked global false reports of Jonathan’s death while soliciting crypto donations
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News outlets including the BBC, Daily Mail and USA Today falsely reported his death
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Nigel Phillips, the governor, was getting ready for bed on Wednesday night when he was inundated with anxious messages. He got up and searched the grounds to check on the tortoise. “Jonathan is asleep under a tree in the paddock,” he told the Guardian, adding that the animal was “very much alive”.

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The Israeli military has ordered the entire population of Beirut’s southern suburbs to evacuate, as it continued to bomb Lebanon and Iran, while Tehran launched retaliatory strikes against Israel and US bases across the region.

An Israel Defense Forces spokesperson told all residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs – more than 500,000 people – to “save your lives and evacuate your homes immediately”, before Israel launched airstrikes on what he described as Hezbollah targets. The area covered by the order included several hospitals and government ministries.
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The evacuation order was issued just a day after the Israeli military ordered all residents to flee the area south of the Litani River, which compromises about 10% of the country.

Emphasis mine. It's strange to me that very little of the conversation overall is about Lebanon, when Israel is pretty clearly invading it. Even most of this guardian report on the Beirut evacuation is about Iran.

Update: Israeli military begins strikes on Beirut suburbs

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