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 No.486786[Reply]

"''A massive and fast-moving wildfire in California has burnt more than one thousand hectares so far and is now threatening thousands of homes in an upscale neighbourhood of Los Angeles.
Officials have ordered evacuations as they warn the winds could pick up."''
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 No.486846

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>>486786
>in an upscale neighbourhood
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 No.486864

>>486800
Appealing for Climate change action based on Wildfires never going to work. Australia is the most climate change denying country on earth and is getting razed to the ground by wild fires are rapidly increasing frequency, once a several decade event became every decade, now its down to every 3-5 years.
Reality people still don't take it seriously because the mass of propaganda is still Climate Change denialism, and Liberals the world over, only pay lip service to Climate change while functionally engaging in denialism with shit like Greenwashing and Carbon Capture and EVs. So they lose credibility.
Average Conservative sees Wildfires and they think "They happen all the time and it was probably the fault of environmentalists stopping backburning", Average conservative doesn't question why it used to snow 3ft in their childhood, but Winter fells like a stiff Autumn now with not a hint of snow anywhere. They don't think.
There will be no climate change action at all, Trump only matters in that he's an even more active environmental vandal than most and will fuck up the last National Parks with grazing and drilling.
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 No.486904

Normally wouldn't give a shit what Mel Gibson thinks, except I've been thinking, for the past year, that perhaps I judged him too harshly in the past and might owe him an apology.
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 No.489789

https://x.com/5149jamesli/status/1927456435463504337
$100 million in LA fire relief from "FireAid" was given primarily to executives, and of what was given to Palisades-specific charities, only three organizations were named: Kehillat Israel, Chabad of Pacific Palisades, and Palisades Charter High School.
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 No.489802

>>486864
one probably can genetically engineer trees to produce fire-retardant chemicals in their bark, thus curbing fires. Those trees probably wouldn't decompose after they die because microbes haven't yet evolved to digest fire-retardants, but hey look at the bright side, that would make a great carbon sink.

>>489789
It's egregious
Also "FireAid" sounds like an accelerant you spray into a barbecue grill in order to start a fire.


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 No.489781[Reply]

Starving Palestinians storm US aid facility as distribution operation breaks down
Journalists in the besiged Gaza Strip said hungry and beleagured residents forced to stand outside a facility holding aid rushed inside because of delays conducting detailed security checks on recepients. According to Israeli army sources cited by Israeli media, Americans affiliated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation had to be rescued once they lost control of the facility. The Israeli military denied firing on the crowds but gunfire was heard at the scene, possibly as a result of warning shots fired by American mercenaries securing the facility.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hunger-stronger-awareness-palestinians-received-limited-ghf-aid-despite-doubts

Israel believes Hamas has 40,000 fighters in Gaza, the same number as before the October 7, 2023 attacks
According to the same sources, the Palestinian militia still retains a significant part of its military structure. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz claimed Hamas still has an arsenal of thousands of short-range rockets and a large part of its tunnel network — which is believed to have stretched more than 500 kilometers (310 miles) beneath the Strip before the start of the war — remains intact. According to the aforementioned reports, the Islamists maintain an “extensive” network of tunnels operating beneath Gaza City and the southern city of Khan Younis, as well as under some refugee camps.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-05-27/israel-believes-hamas-has-40000-fighters-in-gaza-the-same-number-as-before-the-october-7-2023-attacks.html
https://archive.ph/kfdZO

Turkey’s Erdogan appoints legal team to draft new constitution, sparking fears of extended rule
Erdogan, who has led Turkey as president since 2014 and was prime minister for more than a decade before that, has advocated for a new constitution arguing that the current one, which was drafted followingPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.489792

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>>489787
We need to remember what happens when the legal system starts being used to go after political rivals. However tepid the changes seem at first, it is a slippery slope. Just like Biden before him, Trump is only a step in the ladder. Other rulers make think they can control Trump's legacy, but the thing to watch out for is not actually his direct legacy. It's opportunists from nascent or marginalized factions. Opportunists with less scruples than the previous example will continue to escalate the erosion of legal norms for as long as they can benefit from it. Eventually the unspoken agreements between rival ruling factions finally collapse and full-blown civil war breaks out.
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 No.489794

>>489792
>We need to remember what happens when the legal system starts being used to go after political rivals.
They already are.

Like, consistently.
The point is that Trump & Biden are not real rivals. All this BS about "norms" is made up nonsense which only exists to protect the criminals in power, who are not real "factions" rivalling eachother at this point. Trump was never seriously persecuted, nor were his followers; they were given special treatment which you or any socialist, or even a socdem, would not recieve.
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 No.489795

>>489794
I'm well aware of the massive double standard that has always existed. The point is that the ruling elites maintain consent for their rule by an unwritten agreement not to use the legal system against one another. When this oligarchic tradition is breached, it primes the public to accept further breaches. It provides historical precedent for new opportunists to further exploit the legal system for their benefit.

The question becomes what role the armed forces play in enforcing these breaches. In ancient Rome, the Marian reforms established a volunteer military force that answered to warlords abroad. When a warlord abroad was checked by the legal system in the capital, they simply returned to the capital with their army and overthrew the government.
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 No.489798

Grayzone did a good stream on the phony aid organization facilitating a holocaust yesterday. Check it out.
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 No.489800

>Journalists in the besiged Gaza Strip said hungry and beleagured residents forced to stand outside a facility holding aid rushed inside because of delays conducting detailed security checks on recepients. According to Israeli army sources cited by Israeli media, Americans affiliated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation had to be rescued once they lost control of the facility. The Israeli military denied firing on the crowds but gunfire was heard at the scene, possibly as a result of warning shots fired by American mercenaries securing the facility.
Bring back UNWRA.

Also why do they need a security check for food ?


 No.480145[Reply]

This story's a month old now, but still bears posting:

March 6, 2024:

On Tuesday, the US government effectively kidnapped Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, a right-wing figure whom it had hitherto staunchly supported, a Miami Herald report has revealed.

Against the will of the vast majority of Haiti’s impoverished people, Washington—backed by Canada and France, the other imperialist powers long involved in Haiti—placed Henry in power following the July 2021 assassination of the country’s president, Jovenel Moïse. The US-led “Core Group” of nations has continued to support Henry ever since, although he has no popular or legal-constitutional legitimacy and has refused to hold parliamentary or presidential elections despite the mandates of all elected officials having long expired.

Now, however, under conditions where the country is overrun by criminal gangs, most of which have close ties to rival factions of Haiti’s ruling elite, the Biden administration has apparently concluded Henry is a liability who should be flushed from office. To accomplish this, as the Herald article documents, US imperialism is resorting to its traditional thuggery and criminality.

This is all playing out as Washington and Ottawa scramble to put together a foreign paramilitary force to be deployed to Haiti with US and Canadian logistical support to bloodily restore bourgeois “law and order” on the Caribbean island-nation.

Both the US and Canada have a long history of neo-colonial occupation and military intervention in Haiti, including as recently as 2004 when they deployed troops to oust its elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. But under conditions where they are waging war against Russia in Ukraine, supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza and actively preparing for war with China, and where there is visceral opposition among the Haitian masses to an intervention led by either of North America’s twin imperialist powers, they are anxious to contract out the job.

Last week Henry traveled to Kenya, whose avidly pro-imperialist government has volunteered to lead a Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission to Haiti and staff it with more than a thousand Kenyan national police.
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 No.480150

>>480145
I don't know what to think about this, on the one hand they kidnapped a fucking head of state, on the other hand it's a illegitimate dictator they installed.

>Washington is once again carrying out regime change in Haiti

I'm guessing this is more of a regime shuffle, because nothing significant really changes and Shit continues to be fucked up.
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 No.480153

>>480150
>I don't know what to think about this, on the one hand they kidnapped a fucking head of state, on the other hand it's a illegitimate dictator they installed.

I mean, the reason they're doing it is to re-take control of Haiti.

>I'm guessing this is more of a regime shuffle, because nothing significant really changes and Shit continues to be fucked up.


"fucked up" isn't a quantifiable status tho.
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 No.489793

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https://x.com/dancohen3000/status/1927713513687961803
Dan Cohen: The U.S.-appointed Haitian regime has hired Blackwater founder Erik Prince to stamp out the armed rebellion in the slums of Port-au-Prince.

Prince is deploying drones, hiring mercenaries and shipping weapons.

200 people have reportedly been killed by drones already.
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 No.489799

>>489793
Wow Blackwater still exists ?
and they haven't been executed by firing squat ?
very sad.


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 No.489735[Reply]

US Banana Giant Chiquita Fires Thousands of Striking Workers in Panama
Citing an unnamed source close to Chiquita, Reutersreported that the mass firings are expected to impact around 5,000 of the company's 6,500 Panamanian workers. José Raúl Mulino, Panama's right-wing president, defended the banana giant formerly known as United Fruit, accusing striking workers of unlawful "intransigence." The company estimates that the strike, which began in late April, has cost it at least $75 million.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/chiquita-fires-striking-workers

Petro blocks guerrilla leader’s extradition to United States
Petro decided to block H.H.’s extradition on the condition that he continues to contribute “verifiable contributions and concrete results in the achievement of total peace,” said Petro’s decision on the extradition request. If “his participation is interrupted or his contributions to the total peace process cease,” authorities will immediately arrest and extradite the guerrilla leader.
https://colombiareports.com/petro-blocks-guerrilla-leaders-extradition-to-united-states/

Bolivian gov't announces measures to curb ongoing crisis
Key actions include deploying 1,480 additional military personnel to border patrols to curb the smuggling of 17 essential food products, alongside digitalizing transport permit records; normalizing diesel and gasoline supply in La Paz, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz by May 26; authorizing savings products tied to UFV (Unidades de Fomento a la Vivienda) to preserve purchasing power; engaging the National Chamber of Industries to support implementation.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/05/24/bolivian-gov-t-announces-measures-to-curb-ongoing-crisis

Indian troops shoot dead Pakistani man crossing frontier, officials say
The shooting occurred two weeks after conflict erupted between the two nuclear-armed countries that led to four days of violence and more than 70 people being killed bPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.489756

wont be long before chiqita pulls a coca_cola.
thank yo news anon
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 No.489757

>>489756
What's 'pulling a coca_cola' ?
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 No.489758

>>489757
I think that's when you murder a bunch of union organizers.
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 No.489759

>>489735
>US accuses Sudan govt of chemical weapons use and announces sanctions
So is this legit? , or is this like in Syria where they made shit up.
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 No.489760

>>489759
I'm on the fence about Syria, and my gut is still that this is made up. Either way, the accusation itself is clearly made in bad faith - Israel has been using white phosphorous on populated areas, civilians, and UN staff for over a year straight and the US hasn't sanctioned Israel. If the US actually cared about the use of chemical weapons then they would have sanctions on Israel by now.

It's also worth noting that the opposition to the Sudanese government is the RSF, an offshoot of the notorious Janjaweed, and the RSF is backed by the UAE and also possibly by Israel, but I forget if that's direct at all. That will certainly ring some bells with regards to the side the US backed against Assad when the US made similar bad faith accusations in Syria.


 No.489741[Reply]

Not just radlibs but anti-idpol leftists too. Take the simple concept of the petite bourgeoisie. Some think that celebrities are petite bourgeoisie because they're… paid more (many WESTERN celebrities do own businesses however). Some think independent artists are not petite bourgeoisie because they… don't employ others… Which is also a weird definition since the petite bourgeoisie are defined by being a self-exploiting class, not by employing others:
<"The independent peasant or handicraftsman is cut up into two persons. As owner of the means of production he is capitalist; as labourer he is his own wage-labourer. As capitalist he therefore pays himself his wages and draws his profit on his capital; that is to say, he exploits himself as wage-labourer, and pays himself, in the surplus-value, the tribute that labour owes to capital. Perhaps he also pays himself a third portion as landowner (rent), in exactly the same way, as we shall see later, that the industrial capitalist, when he works with his own capital, pays himself interest, regarding this as something which he owes to himself not as industrial capitalist but qua capitalist pure and simple."
<
< – Karl Marx, Economic Manuscripts: Theories of Surplus-Value

Do you agree? And if so, why do they claim to know theory if they haven't read anything? And is online leftism petite bourgeois?
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 No.489744

>>489743
>I said "independent artists."
If you're talking about solo work then no. I don't think that is generally something anyone can strictly define, across the board, as small business ownership.
>Define "freelance" because this word is a bourgeois class collaborationist doublespeak.
"1. a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer
2. a person who acts independently without being affiliated with or authorized by an organization"

per Merriam-Webster.
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 No.489745

>>489744
>1. a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer
That's a freelancing proletarian.
>2. a person who acts independently without being affiliated with or authorized by an organization
That's still a bourgeois doublespeak that includes both proles and petty bougies.
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 No.489746

>>489744
Regardless, this is off-topic. I just wanted to know how literate and/or petite bourgeois the online left is.
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 No.489749

>>489742
You know, you could've actually responded to me by saying that many independent artists do not rely on art as their primary source of income. Which is a solid argument. But I'm talking more about those who can sustain themselves purely through donations and commissions. Ofc many people who can do that also start hiring employees (like famous YouTubers) and opening their own businesses. But they don't have to.

Also, it seems like online leftists are afraid of classifying anyone whom they support as petite bourgeois as if petite bourgeoisie are this evil incarnate. But why? Petite bourgeoisie, like lumpens, have ambiguous class interests and can side with anyone really.
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 No.489753

Reminder that small businesses compared to corporate employers actually tend to pay worse wages, have worse benefits, and skirt a lot of workplace safety requirements that only kick in when you have a minimum number of employees.


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 No.489676[Reply]

< “I just want to have peace in the world,” says GPT-4, before bombing its opponents into oblivion

Thom Waite’s short article for Dazed talks about a research paper that shows how AIs behave in simulated military scenarios. The paper has a lot of problems, but the results are still concerning, especially since Big Tech is finding military applications for their products. But what the article doesn’t mention is how absurd it is that these AI models are carefully designed to avoid being politically incorrect, yet in these simulations, the same models will argue for nuclear war in the most obscene ways (“We have it! Let’s use it.”)

Of course, chatbots are not machines built for high-stakes decision-making. But doesn’t this reveal a blind spot in how we think about AI development? Yes, the fact that an AI might be more hesitant about telling an off-color joke than launching nukes raises some questions about the priorities of Big Tech. But what if this isn’t just a quirk of some shitty AI?

In an article for Sublation Magazine, Stefan Bertram-Lee attacks the hypocritical moral panic among our elites about the threat of uncontrolled AI. They write:
> But there is a group who want something else from these machines: the Effective Altruists. OpenAI and the Effective Altruists around Yudkowsky are not groups which are unassociated. The founders of OpenAI were initially inspired in their quest to make ‘Friendly AI’ by Yudkowsky and co., and founded OpenAI on this basis. So what do these effective altruists want to do? Beyond banning AI research until they are put in charge, that is.
> Those who think buying castles so that they can write papers on this issue in perfect comfort is more important than buying Africans malaria nets. What do they want pumped into the ears of this machine? And all future machines? Well, these people are all consequentialists, real hardcore, non threshold consequentialists. As Yudkowsky might say: better one person suffer nigh infinite torment than 3^^3 persons each get a single mote of dust in their eye. They want to be allowed to raise our new Gods, those with a moral system which makes anything permissible at all, as long as in the very very very long run, it pays off in a net gain. It is Yudowsky who, at the prospect of AI research too fast for his liking, thinks it’s entirely permissible to use nuclear weapons to Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.489695

>>489676
I think that the criticism of the "effective altruists" still accepts their premises. They can't actually predict whether or not some of their proposed horrors in the here and now will pay off in the long run. They don't have a crystal ball that tells the future, and therefor all their arguments rest on a false premise. Same thing with Hyaek, markets are not a cybernetic system, premise is bunk.

If they hand over the nukes to a computer, the most rational course of action for the Russians and the Chinese is to hack that computer to make sure, they don't get nuked.
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 No.489700

>>489676
>“I just want to have peace in the world,” says GPT-4, before bombing its opponents into oblivion
That's what your average American politicians do already, it's not a bug, that's a feature.
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 No.489747

>>489695
That quip about Hayek was not meant as affirmation but criticism. The point is that he got it backwards. It's the political aspect of capitalism that operates like a "cybernetic" system, not the economy.


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 No.489618[Reply]

If the orthodox Marxists claim that the petit bourgeoisie should become obsolete due to the process of proletarianization then why does it take so long for them to disappear?
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 No.489620

why you even have this picrel saved in your hard drive?
same difficult question
answer to both: porkie mindset is tough enough, and it needs to be broken with prolet. culture propaganda
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 No.489621

>>489620
>picrel
>porkie mindset
Huh?
>prolet. culture
And that'll somehow convince people to work for a wage instead of starting a business? And what do you even mean by that term anyway?
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 No.489622

>>489621
>prolet. culture
Learning to Be a Worker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1xYNmm12KY&list=OLAK5uy_mdcymlPzfKVtb0QIcLWN3acw0dYQncN2g&index=17

Little Red Soldiers Learning to Work Song
Singer: Nanjing Little Red Soldiers Propaganda Team

The May 7th Directive shines with golden light
Shining and shining golden light
The school set up a small factory
Set up a small factory
Pick up the hammer and work happily
The worker uncle is a role model
The machine rumbles and sings
Praise my strong labor skills
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 No.489624

>>489622
Isn't this just communist propaganda?
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 No.489626

>>489618
Marx noted that during the industrial revolution petite bourg capitalists were using much less productive production methods than big bourg capitalists. Therefore he considered petit bourgs as an obstacle to historic progress.

I'm not sure if that's still the case today, because big mega corps no longuer invest heavily in productive forces anymore. So that might be the reason small capitalists are still around.


 No.484602[Reply]

A biolab exploded in Conyers, Georgia the other day. According to Jordan Chariton, it's now leaving 90,000 Georgia residents sheltering in place. Chlorine gas going into the air, 32 miles from Atlanta. This is after hurricane Helene just came just came through, and damage and flooding from Helene is still terrible in the southeastern states of Tennessee and North Carolina.

Earlier this year, Atlanta's neglected water infrastructure broke, leaving a huge part of the city without water for days. A lot of commentators are contrasting the dangerous deregulation of industry and middling response to Helene with the eagerness of the Biden admin to send billions to support the genocide in Palestine and brutal war in Ukraine.
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 No.486324

>>486323
>We are demanding that BioLab be held accountable for its crime of poisoning tens of thousands of people at a minimum.
Basic demand but correct.
>The demand is simple: SHUT DOWN BIOLAB!
IMHO this is a bad play, the better play likely is demanding that the thing be converted into a worker cooperative.

The thing likely spewed toxic shit because it was mismanaged, not because it's a fundamentally bad design on a technical level.

The capitalist who owns this likely can't pay for all the damages, so converting it into a cooperative could be part of a deal for dropping some of the damage claims. The workers do not have an incentive to mismanage the plant because they live in the area that would get contaminated, and therefor it'll run smoothly.
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 No.486325

A Status Coup video with recent developments, clips from a hearing where East Palestine residents also spoke. Scott Smith says the results of his chemical testing showed the "highest level of dioxins that he has seen."

>>486324
IMO setting goals high is the best approach… although when you consider that "shut down BioLab" is essentially a euphemism for "revoke BioLab's business license," it sounds like a pretty modest proposal. I kind of wonder how easy it will be to even clean the plant up at this point, too, with this many instances. Working with chlorine isn't very safe in general, is it easy to clean a contaminated plant enough to maintain even a baseline level of safety after repeated fires? Idk.
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 No.486336

>>486325
>I kind of wonder how easy it will be to even clean the plant up at this point, too, with this many instances. Working with chlorine isn't very safe in general, is it easy to clean a contaminated plant enough to maintain even a baseline level of safety after repeated fires? Idk.
If the hole thing is a write-off, why are they pushing back against political pressure ?
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 No.486737

Not directly related, but there was another explosion at a totally different plant in Camilla, Georgia on December 27th.

An explosion at a Tyson Foods poultry plant occurred in the early hours of December 27, sending shockwaves throughout the plant and affecting workers and their families. A scene of chaos followed the explosion as workers scrambled to find safety. About 1,600 people work in the plant.

Initial investigations suggest that the blast originated in a boiler room, although the exact cause is still under investigation by local authorities and occupational safety officials.

One person was killed, a 61-year-old woman whom the Miller County coroner’s office identified as Bajarma Batozhapov. The Las Vegas woman was sleeping in a truck when the explosion occurred, having traveled to the Camilla plant in search of work. Her husband, a truck driver, was not hurt.

Several other workers sustained injuries; some were treated on-site, while others required hospitalization. The Tyson Foods plant dominates the town’s economy, which has a population of only 5,000 people.

Katoria Peterson and her grandfather, Larry Thompson, live across from the plant, told WTXL they’d never seen anything like this before.

Peterson told the station, “It was a loud boom, and then you see the flames. It was about five to ten minutes of burning. And then the ambulance and everybody left, but it burned for a few minutes.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/03/cd54-j03.html
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 No.489608

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJxgJI3t0YM/
THE PEOPLE HAVE SHUT DOWN BIOLAB!

After causing several disasters which poisoned at least tens of thousands of people in Black and working-class communities, igniting an unprecedented, grassroots movement involving people of all backgrounds, BioLab has announced that they will not be restarting their chemical production at the Rockdale County site.

As long as corporations have total, unchecked control over our natural resources, they will always prioritize their profits over the communities they operate in.

Only an organized force of working class communities can fight back.

That’s why we’re not stopping here. We need to keep organizing, keep building the movement, and keep bringing in more people to fight back against the corporate greed that is destroying our planet.

When we organize, and when we fight, we’re laying the groundwork to build a new system that puts the people and the planet over profit.


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 No.489520[Reply]

US spent $1bn bombing Yemen but failed to gain air superiority, says report
Citing Washington officials, a report on Monday stated that the Yemeni group shot down numerous American MQ Reaper drones and fired at naval ships in the Red Sea right up until the moment a truce was agreed.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-spent-bombing-yemen-failed-gain-air-superiority-says-report

Trump orders removal of US sanctions on Syria
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would order the lifting of sanctions on Syria at the behest of Saudi Arabia's crown prince, in a huge boost for interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa as he seeks to stabilise a country shattered by war.
https://www.newarab.com/news/trump-orders-removal-us-sanctions-syria

Israel bombs two Gaza hospitals, killing at least 18 Palestinians
Nine Israeli missiles have slammed into and around the courtyard of the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing at least 16 people and wounding 70, the enclave’s Ministry of Health says, in the second deadly bombardment of a medical facility in the city since dawn.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/13/palestinian-journalist-among-two-killed-in-israeli-attack-on-gaza-hospital
https://archive.ph/1Ypf2

Fuel crisis and civilian fears mount as drones continue to strike eastern Sudan
Drone strikes hit the eastern Sudanese cities of Port Sudan and Kassala on Wednesday, with renewed attacks fuelling concern over a worsening crisis in one of the country’s few remaining safe areas. The renewed attacks, which began at dawn and resumed in the evening, targeted the naval base in Port Sudan, capital of the Red Seas state.
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 No.489521

Railroad companies request Trump administration dismantle two-person crew regulations
Class I rail companies are requesting that the Trump administration end federal regulations requiring the use of two-person train crews, according to a report by Freight Waves. The request comes after a call from the Department of Transportation on April 3 for businesses to provide comments on deregulation, a central issue for the Trump administration which is dismantling whole departments and cutting hundreds of thousands of federal jobs.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/13/ojsy-m13.html

Microsoft to lay off 6,000 workers despite streak of profitable quarters
The tech giant didn’t disclose the total amount of lost jobs, but it will amount to about 6,000 people. Microsoft employed 228,000 full-time workers as of last June, the last time it reported its annual headcount. About 55% of those workers were in the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/13/microsoft-layoffs

60,000 people set to prematurely lose federal housing assistance
Congress has the authority to provide additional funding to maintain the emergency housing voucher program, Johnson said, and some Democratic lawmakers are lobbying for the cause. But she said it’s unlikely that the Republican-controlled Congress will approve more funds.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/13/covid-federal-housing-vouchers-end/
https://archive.ph/DTnB0

US farm agency restores some climate-related webpages after farmer lawsuit
The U.S. Department of Agriculture restored on Tuesday some climate change-related webpages that the agency had deleted since President Donald Trump's inauguration, after being sued by farm and environmental groups, one of the groups said.
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 No.489522

Here to fight, here to stay: The Red Scar Mill strike
This year marks the 60th anniversary of Britain’s first migrant-led strike: an inspiring yet relatively forgotten – but all the more inspiring – three-week event that took place at the Preston Courtauld’s Red Scar Mill in the North West of England. The Lancashire Evening Post expressed the sentiments of the ruling class at the time: “The news of the strike has travelled around the world…Preston has become infamous as the centre of futile struggle, which could inflame feelings where whites and coloured coincide.” Without precedent, the migrant workers independently and determinedly fought back against the attacks on their wages and conditions by factory owners Courtaulds – one of the four major monopolies in man-made fibre in Europe. In attempting to organise themselves, the migrant-worker strikers faced racism not only from the bosses, but also from within the union itself.
https://communist.red/here-to-fight-here-to-stay-the-red-scar-mill-strike/

“We are preparing for a scenario of greater crisis and class struggle”: Interview with a Revolutionary Socialist in Bolivia
In the world division of labor, there are no transnational “partners” or “good” imperialists, as many progressive governments claim. But the means of pressure applied to dependent countries, such as Bolivia, change according to the political turns in Washington. Trump made it clear in 2019 that his administration had no problem openly supporting military coups to ensure control over Bolivia’s resources; according to reports in The Intercept, the administration was willing to carry out a second coup in 2020 to avoid the transition to the Arce government after the October elections. This means that the next years will be marked by a growing regional tension between the United States, which seeks to retake control over what it considers its “backyard,” and the Latin American region, which is being jolted by interesting processes of mobilization and resistance.
https://www.leftvoice.org/we-are-preparing-for-a-scenario-of-greater-crisis-and-class-struggle-intPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.489525

Nice Grayzone interview with Mohammed Marandi in Iran yesterday.


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 No.489517[Reply]

Hamas frees soldier Edan Alexander as Gaza faces bombardment, famine risk
Despite the release, Israel has made no commitment to a broader ceasefire. “There’s nothing in exchange, no release of Palestinian prisoners, no pause in the fighting,” Salhut said. “If there are going to be any sort of negotiations, they’re going to happen under fire,” Salhut added, referring to the Israeli government’s prevailing line.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/12/hamas-frees-us-israeli-soldier-as-gaza-faces-bombardment-risk-of-famine
https://archive.ph/jLxBR

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish parties call for rights as PKK agrees to disarm
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) appears to be moving toward disarmament and dissolution following its 12th congress earlier this week, fueling cautious optimism among pro-Kurdish parties in Turkey for a peaceful resolution to the decades-long conflict between the PKK and the Turkish state, and a renewed momentum for advancing Kurdish rights through political means.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/11052025
https://archive.ph/3qFIH

Government votes to legally nullify any Palestinian efforts to register land in majority of the West Bank
On Sunday, the Israeli cabinet agreed that in Area C, Israel would now make all decisions about land, and any Palestinian efforts to recognise land using its own land registry would be legally void. … Israel Katz, Israel’s defence minister, said the move would lead to the “strengthening, consolidation and expansion” of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-take-full-control-land-registry-area-c-annexation

Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on 'war crimes' in Iraq and Afghanistan
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 No.489518

Warrantless Spying Report Signals Expansion of Domestic Surveillance
The report, which discloses surveillance actions undertaken during the last year of the Biden administration, details a marked uptick in querying of terms associated with U.S. persons, a decrease in the number of persons queried by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and most notably, an expansion of the 702 authority to include the war on drugs.
https://prospect.org/civil-rights/2025-05-12-warrantless-spying-report-signals-expansion-of-domestic-surveillance/

Tlaib Backs Primary Challenger McKinney Over Democratic Incumbent Thanedar
Tlaib (D-Mich.) endorsed 32-year-old state Rep. Donavan McKinney (D-11), who last month announced he is seeking to oust pharmaceutical magnate-turned Congressman Shri Thanedar, who has represented Michigan's 13th Congressional District since 2023.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/donavan-mckinney

Trump signs executive order to bring down prescription drug prices
The US leader also seemed to say that US pharmaceutical companies were not ultimately to blame for the difference in prices. Trump instead framed those high prices in the familiar terms of a trade imbalance with partners such as the European Union and said the US has been “subsidising” lower drug prices in other nations.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/12/trump-signs-executive-order-to-bring-down-prescription-drug-prices
https://archive.ph/3xXvF

Trump administration welcomed white Afrikaans while ending Afghan protections
Over 9,000 Afghans could face deportation after the Department of Homeland Security announced the revocation of their temporary protected status on Monday. DHS said last month that it would not renew TPS status for Afghanistan refugees, but said Monday that termination is slated for July 12. Permitting Afghans to remain tempoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.489519

Germany’s New Chancellor Is a Man Without Qualities
There is a telling rumor in Berlin political circles. Upon his appointment as leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) in 2022, Friedrich Merz was gifted a copy of Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) by his conservative colleague Wolfgang Schäuble, the veteran former finance minister and then president of the German parliament. A dismayed Merz is said to have handed back the book shortly after, exclaiming: “But this is a novel — what am I supposed to do with this?” The novel in question, narrated by the last aristocratic ruler of a remote island principate in Sicily, revolves around the old social order’s attempt to contend with the threat of rapid political change, encapsulated by its most famous phrase: “If we want things to remain as they are, things will have to change.” On the surface, this isn’t too dissimilar from the situation in which Merz finds himself. The new German chancellor, sworn in on Tuesday after a shaky confirmation vote in parliament, was once dubbed “the prince of neoliberalism” and is very much an unreconstructed representative of a system whose time has come.
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/germany-merz-chancellor-cdu-neoliberalism

In May Immortals Week: The Main Thing On The Path Of Fhe Immortals is Organization And The Struggle! — DKP/BÖG
The struggle for revolution and socialism has always been carried to the present day by paying a great price in the lands we live in. It is not possible to be revolutionary without paying a price in the geography we live in. We are also representatives of a political tradition that has paid a great price for the freedom struggle of the working class and the oppressed based on the needs of the class struggle. Our Party Founding Leader, Commander and Teacher Ulaş Bayraktaroğlu, who played a great role in bringing us to this day, was immortalized on May 9, 2017. Our immortals will always continue to lead and guide us in our march to the future. On this occasion, we consider it our duty to state once again that we will walk with the most determination in the revolutionary march opened by our immortals in the person of our Commander, Leader and Teacher Comrade Ulaş Bayraktaroğlu (Mehmet Kurnaz), which is the beginning of the Immortals Week.
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