Catalog (/sfw/)

I think I'm into femboys with vaginas, how do you call that?

Keir Starmer

this fuckin piece of shit this no good fuckin walking genocidal goiter with hair & teeth
if this piece of shit showed up in my neighborhood I'd shove him in a garbage pail and throw it off the nearest cliff
I'm embarrassed to have even saved his pic for this thread I'm gonna immediately delete it after I post this

What do you think of him, /leftypol/?

Old Soviet tank from the 1980's or so

Like one that was used in the Chernobyl accident investigation.

You need to organize an army. You need to do it now.

Read about what the IRA and Spear of the Nation did in their homelands. Read about the Viet Minh and how they were formed. Read Clausewitz and Diem.

You have to start somewhere. Never forget, Castro had 60 fighters on the Granma. Spear of the Nation was five people at first. The Viet Minh had fewer than 500 members for years. The IRA probably never had more than 1000 at a time.

Shit is only going to change if you MAKE it change.

Palestine Thread Pt. IX

Continued from >>489198

Updates and current status since the start of the last thread:
The (largely civilian) Palestinian death toll has now passed 61,000. Excess deaths have been estimated by The Lancet to plausibly be upwards of 186,000.

In early January 2025, Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner exchange. Despite all of the killing, Hamas's military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, appears to have largely replenished its numbers. Israel proceeded to violate the ceasefire with airstrikes and a resumption of their illegal blockade of Gaza before resuming full-scale attacks in March and destroying the ceasefire entirely. At least 7,450 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza alone since Israel unilaterally broke the ceasefire.

Israel attacked Iran utilizing a large number of assets embedded in Iran, killing multiple scientists and high ranking Iranian military officials, as well as targeting schools, hospitals, oil assets, and a TV station. Around one thousand Iranians were killed in Israel's strikes on civilian targets like residential buildings. Iran retaliated with a series of waves of missile and drone attacks which hit multiple Israeli military targets including IDF HQ, Mossad HQ, as well as an Israeli oil field. After an Iranian strike on Unit 8200, the number of online Zionist apologists conspicuously reduced for a while. The Israeli government, embarrassed by the damage to Tel Aviv, heavily censored footage and reporting of Iranian strikes on Israel, resulting in the Israeli police arresting journalists and citizens for filming sites of impact, while rich Israelis fled by boat due to the closure of Ben-Gurion airport. Iran began a crackdown on Israeli terror cells, finding and closing multiple Mossad-linked covert drone factories, as well as reportedly arresting groups of Afghan nationals involved in sabotage, and multiple individuals reportedly linked to German & Indian spy agencies.

The US launched airstrikes against multiple Iranian nuclear energy sites, followed by Iran retaliating with a strike on a US airbase in Qatar. A ceasefire between Israel and Iran has been in place since shortly after this, with expectations being that Israel intends to recouperate and try again with more direct US involvement.

Following more than a year of Israeli bombings of UN and NGO aid organizations, the US launched a mercenary front called the GHF under the pretext of providing aid to three sites in Gaza. Since its initiation, the IDF has been shooting Palestinians waiting for aid en masse at GHF sites, with the number of aid seekers killed at these death traps alone now already topping 1,000.

Israel has continued to violate the ceasefire with Lebanon more than 600 times, and has refused to leave the country entirely after multiple delays. After months of the IDF violating the ceasefire in the south of Lebanon, Israel returned to bombing Beirut in March.

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by US-backed al-Qaeda operatives. Israel proceeded to steal more land from Syria and launched a massive bombing campaign on Syria and Syria's arsenal without any resistance. In July, fighting broke out between Jolani's factions and the Syrian Druze religious minority, who Israel has been trying to groom as proxies in Israeli-occupied Syria for months. Israel proceeded to bomb government buildings in Damascus wthout any direct retaliation from Jolani.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICC also issued warrants against Hamas leaders.

Following the warrants, the Biden administration invited Yoav Gallant to the White House.

Benjamin Netanyahu was invited back to the White House for February 4th, 2025, and again on July 7th.

Israel has launched more attacks on the West Bank, and unilaterally broke the US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, refusing to move on to phase two of the deal. More sham ceasefire negotiations have occurred since, resulting in Israeli rejections.

More countries have joined South Africa's legal case at the International Court of Justice against Israel for the crime of genocide. Cuba, Ireland, Belize, Palestine, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Libya, Chile, and Colombia have joined the South African case against Israel. Egypt, Belgium, and Maldives have also declared their intention to join. Nicaragua has withdrawn from the case.

The US entered into a ceasefire agreement with Ansar Allah in May of 2025 after the US navy's strikes on Yemen failed to achieve any goal beyond large amounts of killing. The US lost three planes in the process, and wasted over a billion dollars. The exchange of fire between the US and Yemen began when the US attacked Yemen on Israel's behalf, and the ceasefire only applies to the US and Yemen directly.

Yemeni Ansar Allah attacks in solidarity with Gaza have hit Ben-Gurion airport, as well as sinking two ships headed for Israel in July of 2025, since the resumption of Israel's blockade against Gaza. Yemen's blockade of Israeli shipping continues.

Demonstrators have continued to blockade and damage arms factories manufacturing weapons for Israel in the UK. Palestine Action broke into a UK military base, damaging two planes of a type which the UK government has used to aid in Israel's genocide of Palestine. Following this, the UK government under Starmer proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist group, despite direct action being a legal form of protest in the UK. Hundreds of arrests have followed.

The US gov't continued shipping weapons to Israel, in violation of US law.

The new US administration has started unlawfully abducting students for protest and opposition to genocide. The administration has threatened to deport these students, and has gone after university funding in an effort to suppress anti-genocide speech on campuses and control the narrative. Mahmoud Khalil was later released.

Israel attacked a Freedom Flotilla boat near Malta for trying to break the illegal blockade of Gaza, and attacked a second Freedom Flotilla boat and abducted its crew.

In June, the Global March to Gaza, a peaceful humanitarian mission to get aid into Gaza through the Egyptian Rafah crossing, was blocked by the US-backed El-Sisi government. Hundreds of marchers were arrested and harrassed at the crossing by the Egyptian military.

And much, much more!

Chinese Century Thread /CCT/

This is a general thread for all China-related news.

Gusano fuckers can die. Westoid """maoists""" can sudoku.

We are going to analyize ITT every move by China in their road to a socialist economy.

Venezuela mobilizes 4.5 million militia members as US deploys troops to the Caribbean

Maduro activates Bolivarian National Militia in response to US “threats”, vowing to defend the country’s sovereignty and independence.
President Nicolás Maduro announced on Monday, August 18, that he is activating “over 4.5 million militia members across the entire national territory” of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in response to the US deployment of three Navy guided-missile destroyers and 4,000 military personnel to the Caribbean. The White House has described the deployment as an anti-drug trafficking operation in the region, while some analysts have called it a new threat against Venezuela – the country with the largest oil reserves in the world.

The US military deployment comes after Washington raised its bounty on the Venezuelan president from USD 25 million to USD 50 million, alleging links to drug cartels.

The “extravagant, bizarre, and outlandish threats” of the United States have been firmly rejected by the Venezuelan government.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Yván Gil described the accusations as a sign of desperation, revealing Washington’s “lack of credibility and the failure of its policies in the region”. He also pointed out that Venezuela has made major gains against drug trafficking after expelling the United States’ Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) – who many Venezuelans call “the planet’s chief drug traffickers” – from the country in 2005.

No US agency or international body has produced concrete evidence of drug production and distribution being concentrated in Venezuela or linked to Maduro. In fact, available global drug data makes almost no mention of the Caribbean nation or the alleged “Cartel of Suns” at all. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the epicenter of activity is in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, with the US identified as the main destination for distribution, recording the highest level of drug consumption in the world.

UNODC data reports that only 5% of Colombian drugs transit through Venezuela, and that the country is free of coca leaf cultivation, and marijuana and cocaine processing. The Trump administration, on the other hand, has maintained its position that the Venezuelan government is a “narco-terror cartel”.

Venezuela mobilizes as the US bares its teeth
Last week, mass protests across Venezuela denounced the “interventionist policies of the US government” following the bounty increase on Maduro and the accusation of cartel ties. However, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed the deployment of US troops to the region on August 14. On Tuesday, August 19, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked if the administration was open to “boots on the ground” in Venezuela, to which she responded, “[Trump] is prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our country.”

This week, Venezuela’s “prepared, activated, and armed” militia members are being deployed “throughout the entire territory, and meticulously, sector by sector”, as part of what the government is calling a peace plan to defend the principles of sovereignty and shared economic development.

“The Bolivarian National Militia is the people in arms, it is the genuine expression of civic-military union,” said Maduro in 2019, as he announced the incorporation of the militia that Hugo Chávez created – which has surged to nearly 5 million members, according to the government – into the Armed Forces as an official “combat unit”.

“We are also deployed throughout the Caribbean,” Venezuela’s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello reminded the public. “Our sea, which is Venezuelan territory.”

The Venezuelan government is not alone in speaking out against the escalation of tensions in the Caribbean. When asked about the US military deployment during a regular press conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico’s message to the region is, “No to interventionism. This is not just a conviction, it’s in the Constitution.”

To this day, the US does not recognize President Nicolás Maduro as the winner of the July 28 elections in Venezuela, claiming that opposition figure Edmundo González is the true president. In the months following the election, Washington targeted dozens of officials in the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) and other government departments with sanctions and visa bans, on top of the long-standing US economic blockade of the Bolivarian nation.

Despite the mounting pressure, Venezuelan officials are confident that the nation can defend its sovereignty. “It’s not about Maduro, it’s about the ordinary people, the people in the neighborhoods, the communities,” says Nahum Fernández, head of government in Caracas.

“This country belongs to Venezuelans; in the face of any threat, the Venezuelan people will not remain silent.”

The American Question

Firstly, let me state that I am aware that in *some way* all forms of American socialism will be "anti American" in that it advocates for the removal of the current system, just as all (or most) forms of socialism do. Even demsocs believe that the system under which we currently operate is wrong and must be changed in some way. But American leftists in particular have this very, very anti-American sentiment. And I get it. I hate America too. And the USA is, of course, a colonial state that engaged in genocide. But is it truly beyond redemption?

Moreover, I have to wonder, is it truly expedient to tell people (or at least to imply by our own words and actions) that they have to hate the very *idea* of a united America? I do not necessarily support the ACP, but this is probably why people do. So-called MAGA communism is appealing to many particularly because it lacks this anti-American sentiment.

To be clear, I am anti-America in one sense. I believe that the USA is a genocidal empire, and a force for evil in the world. But in the sense that America must be entirely dissolved, I am not. I do not believe that. Many of the criticism levelled against the USA could have been made against China or Russia. But these were not dissolved; they were simply made into communist versions of themselves. I find America's problem to be capitalism, not the mere existence of a united American nation.

American Communist Party /ACP/ General

Party declaration:
https://x.com/ACPMain/status/1815163785134436404

The American Communist Party (ACP) is an organization which aims to reconstitute the historic Communist Party USA, which has become corrupted by federal agents and liberal forces. Look no further than Joe Sims, who supports the genocidal Democratic Party. It was launched in July of 2024, in response to the events of the 32nd Convention of the CPUSA. At this convention, party leadership subverted and betrayed democratic centralism and the freedom of critique which is supposed to follow from it. They claimed to be a genuine Marxist-Leninist party, but the leadership doesn't even follow their own rules. The CPUSA delayed all elections and without a vote made a resolution that they’d basically just campaign for Democrats. Just a bunch of boomers sitting around and writing articles about identity politics rather than organizing.

Already the ACP is far more successful than anyone would have expected from a brand new baby party. They are building reputation locally, taking care of their own communities and making areas safe for children and families to enjoy. Diplomatic ties on the international level have already been established. ACP has garnered more attention in the past couple months than the corrupt, decadent CPUSA leadership has in decades. A huge number of the CPUSA clubs across the entire country had a huge part in making this happen. Will you join up?

Website:
https://acp.us/

"Moderate rebels" retake Aleppo

Syrian rebels enter Aleppo three days into surprise offensive
Insurgents had recaptured territory around Syria’s second city with civilians including children killed in fighting

Islamist insurgents have entered Syria’s second city of Aleppo in a shock assault, eight years after forces loyal to Damascus seized control of the city.

Fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) began a major offensive earlier this week from their base in the Idlib countryside, a slim strip of land in Syria’s north-west. It took only three days for the fighting to reach Aleppo, with insurgents capturing territory around the city’s outskirts for the first time in four years as Syrian government forces pummelled rebel-held areas.

Turkey’s Anadolu state news agency reported on Friday afternoon that the insurgents had entered Aleppo, while unverified images and video circulating online showed armoured vehicles and armed uniformed militants on its streets. The Associated Press said residents reported hearing missiles striking its outskirts.

The fighting over the last three days had killed 27 civilians, including eight children, David Carden, the UN deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, told Reuters.

The rebels have rapidly recaptured dozens of towns and villages in the Aleppo countryside, seizing a military base, weaponry and tanks from Syrian government forces, while some Turkish-backed Syrian rebel groups based elsewhere in north-west Syria joined the fighting.

The UN said Syrian government forces based in Damascus carried out at least 125 airstrikes and shelled areas across Idlib and western Aleppo controlled by the rebels in response to the offensive, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 46 others, and displacing 14,000 people.

Syria has been promised extra Russian military aid to help the army thwart the assault, two Syrian military sources told Reuters on Saturday. Damascus expects new Russian military hardware to start arriving at Russia’s Hmeimim airbase near Syria’s coastal city of Latakia in the next 72 hours, the sources added.

HTS said on Friday that it had captured four more towns including Mansoura, five miles from the centre of Aleppo. Syria’s state news agency said four civilians were killed inside student accommodation in the city when it was struck by projectiles from insurgent forces.

“The regime’s lines of defence have crumbled, I think they were taken aback. No one anticipated how fast the rebels would reach towards the edge of Aleppo,” said Dareen Khalifa, of the nonprofit International Crisis Group.

She added that it remained unclear whether the rebel forces would be able to hold the swath of captured territory, or how Russian forces backing the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus may respond.

Turkey’s foreign ministry called for calm in the region around Idlib, demanding an end to the strikes on the area. “It is of utmost importance for Turkey that yet another and greater instability is avoided and civilians are not harmed,” it said.

…

A delicate balance of power in Syria has been increasingly tested over the past year, however, amid increasing regional fallout from Israel’s battle with the Iranian proxy group Hamas in Gaza.

Israel has dramatically escalated airstrikes against Iranian forces stationed on the ground in Syria, carrying out more than 116 strikes on Syrian territory, according to the UN, and killing more than 100 people, while recent fighting in Lebanon has forced 500,000 people to flee into neighbouring Syria.

The increasing Israeli strikes have put Iranian forces in Syria on the defensive, allowing rebels to exploit a moment where various proxy forces backing Assad are more engaged elsewhere.

Khalifa said Moscow remained focused primarily on the fighting in Ukraine. “The Russians are distracted in Ukraine. They are less invested politically if not military in Syria,” she said. “It’s difficult to tell what the result of this offensive is going to be. The rebels think the other side is vulnerable, and they have leverage.”

The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said on Friday that Moscow regarded the rebel attack as a violation of Syria’s sovereignty and wanted the authorities to act fast to regain control.

Turkey, which backs rebel groups along Syria’s northern border but has sought recently to normalise relations with Assad, is yet to publicly intervene in the latest round of fighting.

HTS said it would target Iranian forces fighting alongside Syrian government troops as part of the latest offensive. Iran’s Tasnim news agency said a commander from the Revolutionary Guards was killed in western Aleppo late this week.

The fighting and airstrikes appeared to paralyse much of the fragile network of services across rebel-held territory in Idlib, forcing the closure of health services and other infrastructure that sustain millions seeking shelter there.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/syrian-rebels-launch-surprise-attack-on-aleppo

Power Rock

Thread for power rock, propulsive music for working out, cardio, lifting, etc.

Power rock, metal, punk, etc.

Related threads:
>>729
>Upbeat Heavy Metal

>>474
>Speed Metal Hell

>>1212
>Thrash Metal Attack

>>904
>Old Heavy Metal

>>789
>PUNK!!!

>>823
>Big dumb pub hard rock

>>850
>Beatdown Hardcore

>>525
>dance music thread

>>>/hobby/15840
>/fit/ general - Builtfat Edition

/industrial/

Industrial music thread

hoe_math

If you aren't familiar with the hoe-math content creator look him up. He makes good videos about the collapse of society due to hypergamy, but, none the less he leaves out capitalist in his analysis. What are our thoughts on such things? Like I believe that we need rules in society and such. But I also thinkt hat capitalism more than anything drives the collapse of society because profits are above all else. Like women walking around hoeing right now chasing 10s is because capitalism and the profit motive have perverted our society to the point it is at now. Liberalism leaves out a critique of capitalism in its analysis as does reactionism. Thoughts? Did china get it right?

Black Metal thread

Thread for kvlt shit

Why is the left suddenly pro-Copyright/IP?

Why has so much of the left recently become such fucking puritanical pro-Copyright fags to an absolutely insane level?
From the Anti-AI movement pushing that anybody using AI is "stealing" from fucking slop artists on deviantart, to people whining about "plagerism" because someone has a similar thought to them and they weren't credited. What the fuck is going on?
You have leftists cheering on bills to literally EXPAND COPYRIGHT and IP restrictions. It's fucking bonkers.
I've been arguing with leftists recently who are saying by using AI, I'm "stealing" from creative artisans… and? How is this different from me streaming a show from a non-official streaming site, or pirating a game? Why should I care? What is wrong about democratising the creation of art, or even commodities? Should leftists celebrate the driving of value to 0?

Rao Heidmets - Noblesse Oblige

Soviet animated short film from Estonia circa 1989.

News 9/1/25

Italian dockworkers threaten Israel cargo ban if Gaza flotilla blocked
Speaking at a rally on the docks of Genoa, one of Europe's largest ports, a dockworker representing the USB union said that if communication with the flotilla were lost “even for just 20 minutes,” port workers would immediately block all shipments to Israel, regardless of their content. “Around mid-September, these boats will arrive near the coast of Gaza. If we lose contact with our boats, with our comrades, even for just 20 minutes, we will shut down all of Europe,” said the dockworker, a video of whom has circulated widely online and in Italian media but who has not been identified.
https://www.politico.eu/article/italian-dockworkers-threaten-israel-cargo-ban-gaza-flotilla-departs-genova/
https://archive.ph/26CUH

Palestinian Resistance Ambushes Zionists in al-Zaytoun, Gaza City
Seven Zionist soldiers were injured overnight when an explosive device struck a Namer armored personnel carrier in the al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, according to Zionist Army Radio on Saturday. The Zionist Broadcasting Corporation reported that the vehicle belonged to the 99th Division and the 7th Brigade, operating in the northern Gaza Strip. Local Palestinian sources described fierce overnight confrontations between Palestinian resistance fighters and occupation invading units attempting to advance into the area.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/21190/

Houthis fire missile at Israeli-owned tanker after prime minister killed
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency, which monitors shipping in the region, disputed the claim, reporting the missile missed its target on Sunday. “The crew witnessed a splash in close proximity to their vessel from an unknown projectile and heard a loud bang,” UKMTO said, adding all staff were unharmed and the tanker had resumed its voyage.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/1/houthis-fire-missile-at-israeli-owned-tanker-after-prime-minister-killed
https://archive.ph/nQyFC

Tunisia: French retailer Carrefour security guards assault pro-Palestine protesters
Videos from the Carrefour branch in La Marsa, a seaside suburb of the capital Tunis, showed demonstrators bloodied and dragged across the floor by the store's guards after they tried to storm the store on Saturday 30 August. Some were later carried to hospitals, according to the boycott campaign, which said several of its activists suffered fractures. "This was a peaceful, civic, anti-Zionist protest. We hold the authorities responsible for the consequences of this assault," said Jawaher Channa, a spokesperson for the Carrefour boycott campaign.
https://www.newarab.com/news/carrefour-guards-tunisia-assault-pro-palestine-protesters

Sudan Army Strike Kills At Least 12 In Darfur: War Monitor
The lawyers group said in a statement that four women were killed outside the clinic and a nearby hotel was damaged. Several children who were receiving treatment at the time were among the wounded, it added. There was no immediate comment from the Sudanese army. Medical facilities have repeatedly been targeted during the conflict. Across the country, up to 80 percent of healthcare facilities have been forced to shut down, according to official figures.
https://www.barrons.com/news/sudan-army-strike-kills-at-least-12-in-darfur-war-monitor-4c09b166
https://archive.ph/JnOBX

‘The revolution has been betrayed, the poor are worse off’: Solly Mapaila slams ANC
Mapaila accuses the ANC of abandoning revolutionary ideals by embracing neoliberal policies, privatisation and austerity measures that have deepened inequality 30 years into democracy. The Communist Party is in the “implementation phase” of its congress decision to contest elections alone if the ANC refuses to reconfigure the tripartite alliance structure.
https://www.news24.com/citypress/politics/the-revolution-has-been-betrayed-the-poor-are-worse-off-solly-mapaila-slams-anc-20250901-0796
https://archive.ph/BGOvB

Family of Palestine Action prisoner on hunger strike say her health is deteriorating
She launched her hunger strike at HMP Peterborough 22 days ago over the prison’s suspension of her recreational activities, her removal from her job at the prison library, and the withholding of her mail. A member of Hoxha’s family told Middle East Eye they are concerned that her health is rapidly deteriorating. "She's developed a rash and jaw ache on her left side," said the family member, who wished to remain anonymous.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-action-prisoner-hunger-strike-family-health

Unions celebrate victory after ScotRail abolishes peak fares
Commuters will now pay less to travel in the morning and evening busy periods, with the price of a return ticket between Glasgow and Edinburgh falling from £32.60 during peak times to £16.80. The decision followed the cancellation of a year-long pilot in 2024, which provoked condemnation from both commuters and trade unions campaigning for the change.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-celebrate-victory-after-scotrail-abolishes-peak-fares

Indonesian students defy crackdown after deadly riots, demanding reform
Protests began a week ago against the government's spending priorities, such as enhanced perks for lawmakers, and escalated into rioting and looting after a police vehicle hit and killed a motorcycle taxi driver. The homes of political party members, including the finance minister, were looted and state buildings ransacked or set ablaze, in the biggest challenge to President Prabowo Subianto's government since he took office nearly a year ago.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesian-students-defy-crackdown-after-deadly-riots-demanding-reform-2025-09-01/

Bihar SIR: 3 Lakh Voters Served ‘Doubtful Citizen’ Notices by Election Commission
For the first time in decades, the revision is not merely checking age, address, or duplication — it requires proof of Indian citizenship, especially for those enrolled after 2003 or born after July 1, 1987. The verification exercise has flagged individuals despite holding multiple valid Indian IDs like Aadhaar, ration cards, and domicile certificates. However, citizenship status, not document possession, is now the core criterion. Some individuals have been labelled as suspected nationals of Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, or Afghanistan based on undocumented suspicions or familial ties.
https://www.newsclick.in/bihar-sir-3-lakh-voters-served-doubtful-citizen-notices-election-commission

Top Israeli Cyber Official Arrested in US Child Predator Sting Then Freed Without Explanation

Las Vegas (Quds News Network)- Las Vegas police, working with the FBI, Homeland Security, and Nevada’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, announced the arrest of eight men on Wednesday. One of them was Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, 38, a top Israeli cyberwarfare official.

Alexandrovich works directly under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He serves as Acting Head of Data & AI at Israel’s National Cyber Directorate. His job safeguards Israel’s critical infrastructure, including power grids, airports, and sensitive intelligence networks.

According to Las Vegas authorities, Alexandrovich and others were charged with luring a child with a computer for a sexual act. In Nevada, this felony carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.

Alexandrovich is the founder of Israel’s multi-million-dollar “Cyber Dome” initiative. The program uses AI to detect, neutralize, and repel cyber threats before they reach critical systems. He has deep access to Israel’s cyber secrets and classified partnerships with foreign powers.

His position makes him one of Israel’s most powerful cyber officials. Experts say any ally, including the United States, would normally monitor such a figure closely. He was in Las Vegas for a professional conference, not as a registered diplomat. He has no diplomatic immunity. Yet U.S. authorities allowed him to board a plane and return to Israel within days, without trial, bail conditions, or public explanation

Israeli outlet Ynet (https://archive.is/dtnCn) reported only that Alexandrovich was “briefly detained for questioning… before his release and return to Israel.” The report did not mention the felony charges or the multi-agency child predator sting led by US authorities.

https://qudsnen.co/top-israeli-cyber-official-arrested-in-us-child-predator-sting-then-freed-without-explanation/

Alongside this high-ranking Israeli official, these others were arrested in this sting:
David Wonnacott-Yahnke, 40, Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, 38, Jose Alberto Perez-Torres, 35, Aniket Brajeshkumar Sadani, 23, James Ramon Reddick, 23, Ramon Manuel Parra Valenzuela, 29, Neal Harrison Creecy, 46, John Charles Duncan, 49.

Of these, Neal Creecy is a pastor (https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/las-vegas-pastor-arrested-in-child-predator-sting-operation/), David Wonnacot-Yahnke (AKA DJ Wonnacott) has been an exec in a couple regional LGBT non-profits, and John Charles Duncan may or may not be a cop. I posted a version of this thread before where I made a "walk into a bar" joke, but I'm not sure if this sting was directed at a single group of associates or was a broader sting against multiple targets, so I rewrote part of it.

The Playground leaks (Dark Web Child Abuse Forum)

Someone on endchan leaked this and said their father used the site. This has been floating around various imageboards for the past few months. There was a lot of discussion on 8kun.

https://archive.org/details/dark-web-playground-child-abuse-forum-leak-censored-posted-endchan-03.18.2025
https://dump.li/a/29c72d


It's basically a child abuse and sex trafficking ring full of right-wing pedophiles.

dot net and dot org

I remember using /leftypol/ back in 8ch but I didn't care enough to come here after it died. I decided to check again some days ago and I noticed that there are two boards now
what's the lore behind this?
what's the difference between the two?
which one should I use if I don't care about idpol?

Less retarded software

I made a wiki about unretarding technology and society. What do you think? https://www.tastyfish.cz/lrs/main.html

/fit/ general - Builtfat Edition

Ask your /fit/ related questions here.

Beginner's Health and Fitness Guide, aka "the /fit/ sticky"
http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html

<Previous Thread
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only music

Musik for your tasks:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=atrium+carceri&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7j76GoP88fE

or from fucking youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j76GoP88fE

Opinions on Gegenstandpunkt?

Gegenstandpunkt is a German Marxist journal founded in Münich 1992. They primarily focus on Marx's theories and the analysis of current events from a Marxist perspective. They reject parliamentarianism. Their most well known member is Karl Held, who died in 2010.

As far as I know, they are against Leninism and any other Marxist thought that comes from it. They have been identified as a "left-wing extremist group" by the German governments Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, they also say that "Due to their elitist understanding of Marxism, the group is largely isolated in the left-wing extremist scene." (at least according to the German wikipedia article) which I find humorous.

I downloaded two of their English translated books called "The Democratic State Critique of Bourgeois Sovereignty" and "Work and Wealth", and I'm planing on reading them after I've read more Marx's own work, like Capital Volume 1, and the work of other Marxists, namely those from my country of origin and of Left-Communist (Italian Left-Communist, Councilist, Communizers etc.) writers who I'm interested in.

Harem anime

Who actually watches these and what do they like and dislike about it?

This board has been pretty dead so I will make a post. I really like sexy traps, but, not traps that don't pass. Does this make me gay?

How in fuck did Troon shit become completely uncriticizable for much of the left?

>Theory is completely, laughably incoherent and contradictory from one position to the next
>Largely ignores most Marxist and Materialist Feminist positions on gender development
>Largely ignores the role of biological sex.
>Can't even answer basic questions in regards to the theory or identity
>Slippery slopes to absolutely absurd positions that again run contradictory to their standard positions.
>Arguments largely 1:1 the same as gay conversion therapy
>Response to any questions is just calling people "TERF"'s and crybullying like Zionists.
>No meaningful response to why if gender/sex is a metaphysical social role, why you can't be transracial or even transspecies, is furry a legitimate identity?
>Largely ignore the fact that huge amounts of Troons are in fact, predatory sociopaths.
>Largely ignore the rampant misogyny in the movement.
>Rampant hypocrisy in arguments (Noo you side with elites if you are anti-Troon, but also Troons are totally justified because US big pharma says so!)
>Ignores AGP and claim it's just a troonphobic myth by blanchard despite almost half of troons openly identify as it and it being one of the most popular fetishes out there among men.
>The insanely creepy way Troons usually talk about feminity, and they overwhelmingly dominate Bimbofication and other extremely degrading/humiliating women fetish communities.
>If Children are fully self aware, fully developed in self identity and in full self control and understanding of their self and their gender and sexual identity.. isn't this exactly what NAMBLA argues? It's also clearly absurd as dissociative disorders and personality disorders and dysphoric distorders are not even diagnosed in children generally for OBVIOUS FUCKING REASONS.
>Hormones are in fact, super dangerous to fuck around with https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44192-025-00216-3
>Can't even define what a woman or man is.
>Largely moves to actually reinforce gender norms in almost a parody way.
>Muh trans genocide despite it's been debunked repeatedly over the years. Brianna Ghey was literally also murdered over drugs.
and frankly, on and on, there is so many ways you can just rip on Gender ideology bullshit it's endless and that is kind of my point, why in hell has a position, that anybody who has any basic Critical thinking skills, can basically tear to shreads with complete ease, that is completely incoherent and relies largely just on gish galloping, bizarre claims usually about women, very fringe disorders that don't even function in the way they think it does and has no relevence (intersex) and then just crybullying, become like raison d'etat for like most of the Western left? It's honestly fucking cultish the way /tttt/ shit is treated by so much of the left, and watching my pretty autistic, gooner friends start trooning out, it literally exactly felt like they were sucked in by a cult, they even started talking like how you think cultists would talk.
What the actual fuck?

Carsie Blanton & Leila Hegazy to join Global Sumud Flotilla

Artists Against Apartheid:
Artists Against Apartheid’s Carsie Blanton and Leila Hegazy are part of the Global Sumud Flotilla setting sail on August 31.

This historic flotilla, composed of dozens of small vessels carrying activists, parliamentarians, doctors, artists trade unionists, and humanitarian cargo, brings together delegations from over 39 countries to break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza.

Both successful touring musicians and organizers who see their work as a tool for liberation, Carsie Blanton Carsie Blanton is an anti-Zionist Jewish songwriter and organizer, and Leila Hegazy Leila Hegazy is an Egyptian-Italian-American singer-songwriter, social media creator, teacher, and activist based in NYC. These Artists Against Apartheid—two of the 15,000+ in the international network—are joining hands with people around the world to say loud and clear: Let Gaza Live!

USApol Thread

Big massive thread for American politics.

The Chabad tunnel was a botched false flag attempt to kick off a US war with Iran

Before the current war with Iran resumes with full fury, I want to get something off my chest.

Over a year ago, I privately related this thought I had to an acquaintance. Since that time, it has become more than a thought to me. I now believe it is probably likely that the January 2024 Chabad tunnel incident was an attempted false flag which was discovered and thwarted before it could be completed. Until now, I have never said this publicly to anyone, even anonymously, and I have never looked into others ""theories"" about this incident because I am not interested in reading speculation. I have no idea whether or not anyone else has come to the same conclusion. I would not be surprised if they had done so, as it seems like an obvious suspicion to have, but I have never been interested in finding out.

In January of 2024, a number of Israeli citizens were caught digging a tunnel under the World Headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in New York City, a large synagogue. When the tunnel was discovered, concrete trucks were called to fill it in, as the tunnel created a serious risk to the foundation of the structure. Fights broke out, the police were called, and arrests were made. The explanation given through the confusion, which I initially believed, was that this was an attempt to illegally expand the building - and these being Israelis, that is not an unbelievable explanation by any means. However, since then, I have come to the belief that the real motivation of this project, which must have taken a great deal of very secretive effort, was to destroy the building with people inside and blame it on Iran.

Israel having universal conscription, it is fairly safe to say that these young men were IDF in some capacity. The Israeli MIC has a long history of false flag attacks, including the Lavon Affair in Egypt and the attack on the American USS Liberty in 1967. Whether or not the Mossad bore any involvement in the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, it is a matter of public record that Netanyahu believed that attack was beneficial to Israeli interests, and he eagerly encouraged US wars in western Asia even against Iraq which had nothing to do with 9/11. It is also known that the IDF fired on its own people on October 7, 2023, with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant later admitting that the Hannibal Directive was issued.

I believe that these Israelis dug this tunnel in order to either plant charges or allow the synagogue to collapse. I doubt that most of the regulars at the synagogue were aware of this, and I think that these men, in the employ of the IDF, intended to kill a great many of them. This mass-casualty event in the middle of New York City would then, without any real evidence, be blamed on Iran and compared to 9/11 - the US, then under president Joe Biden, would have immediately launched an ill-conceived war of aggression against Iran using the (fake) Chabad attack as a pretext. In the US, massive crackdowns against "anti-semitism" would have dwarfed even the mass-arrests and suppression which the US gov't has pursued since 2023, with opponents of the stupid, suicidal war with Iran being labeled as "Nazis."

If this indeed was the intention, then it's fortunate that it was not allowed to take place. I don't know whether the person who reported the tunnel was aware of the entire plot or simply called out of concern for the foundations. It's not unlikely that they were themselves a regular at the synagogue, but it's not impossible that they weren't, either. Even if they knew about the motivations, or had the same suspicion that I do, I doubt that they would have wanted to alert the country to something like this, which could, genuinely, have had unironic adverse effects for the Jewish population.

As for the stained mattresses, the high chair, etc.; while they were disturbing images, it's difficult to determine what exactly their significance was. I'm not really interested in speculating along those lines, because the possibility that the Israeli military planned to launch a false flag attack in the US seems more significant and politically plausible given their history and current behavior. Whether or not there was some other creepy stuff going on in light of that doesn't really concern me very much, particularly because Israelis already seem to do rapes so often as it is; by contrast, they at least bother to take a breath between committing false flag terror attacks.

I don't believe the world will ever know if this is true, but it would be interesting if leaks were to come out about it linking this incident to Israeli military or espionage operations. Regardless, the US and Israel now frantically look for excuses, increasingly flimsy, to launch further aggressions against Iran, and these pretexts are remarkably poor.

for context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_synagogue_tunnel_incident

Death Metal

Death Metal, Death'n'Roll, etc.

the world run on looks. everybody listen to me, i swear it's important

the world works on looks. looks are important. we human will always fully think and associate people with lighter skin color as looking better, better to look at, and is more beautiful/pretty/handsome.
we all also associate lighter skin color with being more feminine for women consider feminine. we can never change this. not a single thing anyone do and say will ever change this. you can never change how people think like this. man or women everybody think like this.

now then have and obvious answer. for the sake of use call it the “Blond Path". we need to produce white people with blue eyes and green eyes and blond hair and ginger hair. the quota would be 10 times the world population including the world population of whites with natural color hair and eyes. To do this we ignore or erase things that are a hindrance such as marriage, monogamy, family unit, relationship, and romance. Production does not stop there, we also need to group ethnic whites together with the same ethnic whites (Ex: Scotts with Scotts, serbs with serbs, and etc). Although this one is of a different program. This program also require us to get rid of the same hindrance the former program have. Both program do not see heigh, body or looks. As long as your face are not horrendous you are good, so even if your not handsome and beautiful you will still be in the program.

As part of the Blond path and to prevent dehumanization and other such unwanted idea,we will educate people. Specifically we will tell them about that one zoning infrastructure real-estate thing (I forgot the name of it) that put black and brown people in place were the chemicals,paint ,water ,walls and environment in general are doing things to their head (mind and brain) and body. In general everybody need to be educated about racist laws and myth and other such things. Other then that we need to eliminate race science and race bias in science.

In short. The world need to have industry level production of ethnic whites and more importantly whites with blue eyes, green eyes, blond hair and red hair because the world work on looks. But we also educate people so they don’t believe in race science and race biased science.

we must advertise this to every rightoid, boomers, and whites.

I am speaking as a brown.

'50s-'60s Japanese Surf Rock, Psych, and Garage

Saw this clip and thought I'd make a thread for this. What a vibe!

some banners for the boards

i made them pls use :3
kthnxbye

Trump orders Hegseth to form National Guard unit in each state to combat crime, protests

President Donald Trump on Monday ordered the National Guard in each state to create a quick-response force to quell protests and deter crime after using troops to assist with security during immigration protests in Los Angeles and patrol in Washington, D.C., as part of a crackdown on crime.

He said other cities, specifically Chicago, should be asking him for help.

“I think we should really let them have their city, let their city go to hell” and then they will ask us for help, Trump told reporters at the White House during a news conference announcing several executive orders.

“These people [troops and federal law enforcement], eventually, they’re going to have to be appreciated for what they are doing, and they’re going to have to be appreciated by the officials that are really happy when we go in because they’ve lost control of their place,” he said.

The executive order about the National Guard signed Monday calls on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to oversee “each state’s Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained, organized and available to assist federal, state and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under law.”

Each state should find an appropriate number of troops to be reasonably available for rapid mobilization and have the resources and training needed to serve nationwide, according to the order titled, “Additional Measures to Address the Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia.”

More than a week ago, Trump deployed 2,000 troops from the D.C. National Guard and six supporting states onto the streets of the nation’s capital to stop what he has referred to as an emergency crime wave. However, D.C. police data stated violent crime is down in the city by 26% compared with last year — which had the lowest levels of violent crimes in 30 years.

Since Guard troops have been on patrol in Washington, there have been no killings in the city, Trump said.
The deployment was seen by some as a test for sending the military into other large U.S. cities, which typically lean Democratic. Trump said he’s considering plans to use Guard troops to target crime in Chicago. He said Monday that he has not reached a decision.

“We may just go in and do it, which is probably what we should do,” he said. “The problem is, it’s not nice when you go in and do it, and somebody else is standing there saying, as we give great results, say, ‘Well, we don’t want the military.’ ”

Chicago, too, has seen lower levels of violent crime in 2025, according to its police department.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Saturday that the state has worked with federal law enforcement in the past, and there is no emergency now that warrants sending in the National Guard or other military troops.

“Donald Trump’s threat to bring the National Guard to Chicago isn’t about safety — it’s a test of the limits of his power and a trial run for a police state,” he said.

Two months ago, Trump activated more than 4,000 members of the California National Guard and 700 Marines stationed within the state to deploy to Los Angeles where immigration protests followed a series of raids by federal agents on area businesses to find people living in the U.S. without authorization. The majority of those troops have since returned home, but they primarily worked to protect federal property and personnel, including federal agents conducting immigration arrests.

In L.A. and D.C., local officials did not support the deployment of troops. California Gov. Gavin Newsom filed a lawsuit arguing the deployment was illegal. It is ongoing in federal court.

Military troops are barred from conducting domestic law enforcement activities based on an 1878 law known as the Posse Comitatus Act. However, troops have been used in recent years for crowd control during protests.

https://archive.is/sRatO

Massive oil plant explosion in Roseland, Louisiana

On August 22nd, 2025, a massive explosion at Smitty’s Supply in Roseland—a small town in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. Many of Roseland's 880 residents were evacuated as smoke blackened their homes and roads, and oil seeped into their water ways for miles. As of August 25th, 2025, Tangipahoa Parish authorities told residents they could return home, while many questions surround this explosion and their safety remains unanswered.

Status Coup spoke with Louisiana Bucket Brigade's Director Anne Rolfes to help shed more light on this largely ignored crisis.

Bad-faith Wedgeposting

What are the dumbest fucking wedges that one could make in 'the right'? It has to be something that many of them unironically agree with.

For example: obsessively insisting to any anti-immigration/nationalists that "Italians aren't White and can FUCK OFF".

They Live!

For the past year, it has been so much more viscerally clear how right John Carpenter was with this one.

parties are egregore soul traps run by the archons

capitalism itself will bring about its own downfall not some messiah complex and their disciples cult.

https://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/icc/1934/11/permanent-crisis.htm

https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1934/fascism-revolution.htm

Did the Bernie Sanders thing actually accomplish anything?

The minimum wage increases ($15 now campaigns etc) started way before Sanders and were almost entirely kickstarted on the group by orgs like Socialist Alternative Party and Working Families Party.

Pretty much nothing else Sanders wanted has come to fruition and minimum wage increases happen in many states without public pressure anyway. Hell, even George Bush raised the minimum wage.

Instead what we got was a two time primary loser, and a two time billionaire as president, exactly what he didn't want.

I attended a few Bernie campaign meetings and it was very depressing. Mostly super old Democrats pushing 50+ mulling about and doing nothing. They'd hire a college student wanting debt relief, who in turn would bring in a few more college students to do phone banking. The social atmosphere of the campaign was dismal and there was no excitement.

Immediately after Sanders would lose and election, my local Sanders campaign office became a de facto Clinton campaign office. The upper class phone bankers who came for a bit of student debt relief were then ordered to start making calls for Clinton.

Both campaigns basically funnelled people into Clinton and Harris' campaign, the latter of which was the most right-wing Democratic campaign I've seen since Gore. She punched left and down, ran ads against even the smallest competitive left-wing electoral organization, and promoted a bill that defined "affordable housing" as $400,000.

The only organizational remnant of his effort weren't intention. The DSA seems to have benefited the most, seeing a 16x increase in membership over years. Even a cursory look at the organization shows a highly dysfunctional group of former Tumblr users who have no idea why they are there or what they want. Because they aren't a party, they just bicker about who to endorse all day, and now most of their alliances in state legislative bodies and Congress or either gone or dying.

Lastly, the Socialist Parties that do run their own candidates ran into larger non-socialist parties and there's probably only like a few hundred people in actual socialist parties nowadays.

He decimated the American left. I've never lived in a more right-wing era.

There are many days where I do not much like being transgender.

The US Socialist Party hasn't won a single partisan election since their reformation in 1973

For those who don't know. And I guess most don't know since this board is like 'lmao weed' gen 'zer former 4channers, America used to have a Socialist Party that won partisan elections on their own ballot line.

This included two Congressmen in the early 20th century.

The party eventually committed suicide for many different reasons, after a slow decline in success, and those committed to continuing to run candidates formed SPUSA or Socialist Party USA.

While those familiar with SPUSA today may consider it among a basket of small socialist parties, for decades, the media used "Socialist Party" interchangeably to refer to SPUSA exclusively, mostly for historical reasons.

Their electoral history since their refounding in the early 1970s is dismal. Since then, they haven't won a single partisan race. Each time they won a local seat, which hasn't been more than 12 times ever, their party name wasn't on the ballot cuz it was for some school board or some shit.

tl;dr NO ONE is electing socialists under a true socialist party banner and haven't since at least the 1970s.

It's a political failure, and the whole socialist label is clearly a curse.

/Bolivia/

BOLIVIA ELECTION THREAD
Menshevick implosion edition

This sunday is the election in the land that as Rome didn't called itself Romulus had to call itself Bolivia instead of Bolivar.

leftypol.org psyop general

Thread dedicated to psychological operations against the leftypol.org administration.

Things to consider:
<The .org mods will read this thread, use this to your advantage
<Posting over your mobile data will arouse less suspicion than over a proxy
<Threads created over an IP with no post history are heavily scrutinized
<Post in /meta/ and try to appeal any mod action against you
<Abuse the report feature
<Use a wide variety of proxy services
<Antagonize individual moderators
<Create as many personas as possible, try to have the mods always chasing a previous persona and not your current one
<The less consistency between the ideological beliefs of your personas the better
<Be consciously aware of your writing style
<Fermenting internal conflict among the mod team is of the upmost importance
<Sow dissent among the userbase whenever possible
<Have fun :)

Kent State Massacre

More U.S. war crimes? 1971 or so murder of Kent Stae University students a war crime? Mai Lai Viet Nam massacres every other day or so, according to some U.S. officer?

GROW HAIR 40x FASTER: AXO MUSS HAIR SYSTEM DX

IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL
YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL
YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL
YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL

Is this meme about transmen?

Ukraine 3.0

Last one is full and the worst thread on leftychan must be contained.

In recent news: Ukies done a successful counteroffensive in Izium, Z gang now in shambles. Biden promises even more money for Ukraine. Putin meets Xi, Erdogan, Modi and others at the SCO summit.


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Atlanta Against Genocide Vol. 2

Out August 15th!
Noise rock, post-punk, post-hardcore, breakbeat, freakcore, folk!

https://atlantaagainstgenocide.bandcamp.com/album/atlanta-against-genocide-vol-2

Gothic Rock & Post-Punk

Substituted psychedelia for a doomed planet.

good hip hop

Some good hip hop from Future "Monster" album. Good electronic stuff.

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FUCK SOUTH KOREA

Black Sabbath "War Pigs"

Old Heavy Metal.

New 8/11/25

India’s opposition parties protest against a controversial electoral roll revision
India’s opposition accuses the Election Commission of India of rushing through a mammoth electoral roll revision in eastern Bihar state, saying the exercise could render vast numbers of citizens unable to vote. The revision of nearly 80 million voters involves strict documentation requirements from citizens, triggering concerns it could lead to the exclusion of vulnerable groups, especially those who are unable to produce the paperwork required to prove their citizenship.
https://apnews.com/article/india-opposition-protest-electoral-roll-6aa2366999fde2598bb0603c3d1a69db

Israeli Tourist Boom in Sri Lanka’s Arugam Bay Stirs Local Unease
The opposition political parties criticized the government’s alleged tilt toward Israel, pointing to visa-free entry for Israeli tourists as proof that the traditionally pro-Palestinian National People’s Power (NPP) has changed its stance. But the same opposition would likely hit the streets if firm action on Israeli tourists sparked a U.S. tariff snapback or a slump in arrivals. The government is squeezed between values (nonalignment, empathy for Palestinians) and vulnerabilities (dollars, debt, and jobs). In that gap, symbolism often beats substance and enforcement gets deferred.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/08/israeli-tourist-boom-in-sri-lankas-arugam-bay-stirs-local-unease/
https://archive.ph/iUOkT

Nearly 400 “voluntary redundancies” sought at Western Sydney University
Management is now working with faculty and school deans to hand-pick the staff whose applications will be accepted, while still threatening forced redundancies as well. This is another warning of the scale of the job cuts and sweeping restructuring being demanded throughout Australia’s 39 public universities. So far, more than 3,500 job losses have been unveiled across the country during the past 10 months.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/11/ogfk-a11.html

Israeli forces accused of escalating intimidation campaign against journalists in Syria
Multiple reporters told the Committee to Protect Journalists that troops have arrested, injured and fired live rounds at media workers in the southern province of Quneitra, much of which was seized by Israeli forces late last year. Israel invaded southern Syria following the ouster of the Assad regime in December, capturing hundreds of square-kilometres of Syrian land in what it says is an indefinite occupation.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-forces-escalate-media-crackdown-south-syria

Kurdish refugee camp to be evacuated under Turkey, Iraq deal
As part of the arrangement, of which the PKK is also a party, the camp is expected to be fully evacuated by September, regional sources said. Under the deal, some camp residents will be resettled within Iraq, while others will be relocated to Turkey. Individuals identified as close to the PKK but not implicated in criminal activity may be temporarily accommodated in Turkey.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/kurdish-refugee-camp-be-evacuated-under-turkey-iraq-deal

Nationwide blackout hits Iraq amid record heatwave
The Ministry of Electricity said the Mussayib–Babil 400 kV lines tripped under heavy loads driven by record temperatures above 50°C (122°F) and a surge of millions of pilgrims in Karbala. The outage wiped out more than 6,000 megawatts, triggering a chain reaction that shut down generating units nationwide. Power plants in Basra, Maysan, Dhi Qar, Baghdad, Diyala, and al-Anbar went offline. Southern and central provinces, including Basra and the mid-Euphrates region, were hit hardest despite not being the source of the fault.
https://shafaq.com/en/society/Nationwide-blackout-hits-Iraq-amid-record-heatwave

Assaulted charity walkers blame Palestine Action ban for emboldening far-right thugs
Two members of the Hastings-based Friends of Al-Mawasi group told of being viciously attacked by Israel supporters while waiting for fellow demonstrators to arrive for a fundraising walk. Richard Wistreich, who is Jewish and whose father escaped the Holocaust, was repeatedly called a Nazi by Israel supporters, while a woman was pushed to the ground and called a “f** terrorist” for wearing a keffiyeh.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/assaulted-charity-walkers-blame-palestine-action-ban-emboldening-far-right-thugs

Wikipedia operator loses court challenge to UK Online Safety Act regulations
The foundation said if it was subject to so-called Category 1 duties – which would require Wikipedia's users and contributors' identities to be verified – it would need to drastically reduce the number of British users who can access the site. Judge Jeremy Johnson dismissed its case on Monday, but said the Wikimedia Foundation could bring a further challenge if regulator Ofcom "(impermissibly) concludes that Wikipedia is a Category 1 service".
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/wikipedia-operator-loses-court-challenge-uk-online-safety-act-regulations-2025-08-11/

Chad opposition leader, ex-PM sentenced to 20 years for inciting violence
The Ngambaye ethnic group enjoys wide popularity among the predominantly Christian and animist populations of the south, whose members feel marginalised by the largely Muslim-dominated authorities in N’Djamena. Masra left Chad after a bloody crackdown on his followers in 2022, only returning under an amnesty agreed in 2024.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/9/chad-opposition-leader-ex-pm-sentenced-to-20-years-for-inciting-violence
https://archive.ph/5nowy

Mali junta detains dozens of soldiers over alleged coup plot
General Abass Dembele, a famous military commander and former governor of the central Mopti district, was among those seized. …. A member of the National Transition Council, the junta-backed parliament, stated that “around 50 arrests” had occurred. “All are soldiers. Their objective was to overthrow the junta,” the legislator stated.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/mali-junta-coup-attempt-arrests-13923165.html

Colombia rallies against possible US military intervention in Venezuela
Petro’s initial response was an invitation to the US and Venezuela to work together and to coordinate actions against drug cartels. He emphasized that violence would not be the key to overcoming drug cartels. And that decriminalization efforts and economic integration of left-out groups, such as the peasantry and indigenous groups, would be more effective. The president also critiqued the bounty put on Maduro, saying that: “I don’t believe that the solution to Venezuela’s political problems lies in paying to kill or capture political leaders.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-rallies-against-possible-us-military-intervention-in-venezuela/

Colombian senator and presidential hopeful dies 2 months after shooting
Javier Garay, a political science professor at the Externado University of Colombia, said Uribe has already “become a symbol of the Colombian right.” However, he considered it premature to predict whether the senator’s death will strengthen the political faction, given the current lack of unity and diverse proposals from dozens of politicians vying to represent the bloc on next year’s ballot.
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-miguel-uribe-senator-shooting-dead-bogota-6c8f32b5e23bedec5f634dee5e334042

Rulers with Severe Cognitive Deficiency

How would you analyze the Western world's more recent crop of imbeciles that oligarchic systems keep installing into power? Are these systems so universally broken now that they cannot even tolerate thinking figureheads? What would Michael Parenti's take on all this be?

Upbeat Heavy Metal

Thread for upbeat & anthemic metal for lifting, cardio, etc.

News 8/8/25 - 8/9/25

Israel kills senior PFLP official in Lebanon bombing
Mohammed Wishah was a member of the central committee of the PFLP, which is the second-largest faction in the Palestine Liberation Organisation — the internationally recognised representative of the Palestinians — after Fatah. His bodyguard was called Mufid Hussein. PFLP official Marwan Abdel-Al said: “We have lost two of the most loyal comrades who gave their precious souls to freedom.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/israel-kills-senior-pflp-official-lebanon-bombing

Tunisian president’s supporters protest against UGTT union amid rising tensions
Hundreds of supporters of Tunisian President Kais Saied staged a rally outside the headquarters of the powerful UGTT union on Thursday and urged Saied to suspend the union following a transport strike last week that paralysed the country. The rally highlights growing fears among activists and opposition supporters of a possible move by Saied against one of the last major independent organisations in the North African country.
https://www.newarab.com/news/kais-saied-supporters-tunisia-protest-against-ugtt-union

MK Party expels Shivambu over alleged coup plan
The move comes after Shivambu was removed from his position, with party leaders accusing him of plotting to unseat MK Party president, Jacob Zuma. Shivambu, however, denied the allegations and claimed that the intelligence report used against him was fabricated. Despite the MK Party’s announcement of his membership termination, Shivambu insists he has not resigned and is consulting South Africans on whether to form a new political party.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/mk-party-expels-shivambu-over-alleged-coup-plan/

After Initial Arrests, As Many As 1,000 Ready to Defend Palestine Action in London Saturday
After police in London arrested more than two dozen people last month for publicly expressing support for the nonviolent direct action group Palestine Action, hundreds more have signaled they won't be intimidated by the U.K. ban on protesting on behalf of the organization—committing to risk arrest at another demonstration scheduled for Saturday.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestine-action

New bin workers’ strike looms over pay and conditions
Members of Unite in Wrexham, north Wales, will walk out for 13 days from August 23 to November 14. Unite members in Birmingham are involved in a long-running dispute which has led to an all-out strike for months. The union said that Wrexham Council had changed the way workers were given overtime without consultation and that every worker stands to lose half a day’s pay every bank holiday as a result.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-bin-workers-strike-looms-over-pay-and-conditions

Bavarian police arrest far-right Reichsbürger suspects
Three people suspected of belonging to the far-right "Reichsbürger" group have been arrested, the Bavarian state criminal police in southern Germany said Thursday. Authorities accuse the suspects of being members of a terrorist organization that aimed to violently overthrow Germany's constitutional order.
https://www.dw.com/en/bavarian-police-arrest-far-right-reichsb%C3%BCrger-suspects/a-73554963
https://archive.ph/Kga5D

Indian activists demand Delhi halt all dealings with Israeli arm companies
In a letter sent to Indian parliamentarians on Wednesday, Bengaluru for Justice and Peace (BfJP) said that nine Bengaluru-based companies were providing Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries and Raphael Advanced Defense Systems with critical weapons components. The group, made up by a coalition of close to two dozen groups in the southern Indian city, called upon parliamentarians to follow a Palestinian demand for an arms embargo, including a ban on the export and transit of weapons from India, as well as for an urgent review and suspension of all contracts linked to the export of weapons and military equipment to Israel.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/india-companies-complicit-israel-war-gaza-activists-warn

Pakistan Fears Strong, Independent Afghan Government, Says Taliban Minister
Speaking in an interview with Shamshad TV on Thursday, Mansoor said: “Some of our neighbours, especially Pakistan, do not want a government in Afghanistan, it doesn’t matter if it’s Taliban, Mujahid, or Communist.” He added: “We now understand that Pakistan doesn’t want an Afghan government that stands on its own feet.” Mansoor accused Islamabad of deliberately fuelling internal divisions and crises in Afghanistan to serve its own political and economic interests.
https://www.afintl.com/en/202508083785

Brazil’s Lula vetoes parts of environment bill pushed by the opposition that could harm the Amazon
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva threw out 63 out of the controversial bill’s 400 measures, the government said, though the significance of the vetoes will be clearer once the bill is published in the official gazette and goes into effect. Lula’s supporters and environmentalists had dubbed the legislation “Devastation Bill,” while allies of former President Jair Bolsonaro, held in house arrest on charges linked to an alleged coup plot, had pushed for its approval in congress.
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-lula-veto-environment-licensing-bill-ecfc20b67ce7b4fbaeb2f14ba9f787ee

Chileans Reject Effort to Release Dictatorship-Era Convicts
“In response to the initiative by the Senate and the Supreme Court to seek mechanisms for granting release to those convicted of human rights violations—on the grounds of their advanced age and health conditions—our organization of victims’ relatives expresses its strongest rejection."
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chileans-reject-effort-to-release-dictatorship-era-convicts/

Middle Eastern pop from before the fall of the USSR

Just came across this and think it's nice.

Doom Metal

DUNNNNN DUNNNN DUNNN DUNNNNNN
Post doom metal

king crimson / prog

thought i'd finally put this image i made ages ago to use. any KC fans / progheads here?

Music

Only post bops.

Thrash Metal Attack

A thread for thrash metal, power thrashing death, brutal thrash, Bay Area Thrash, melothrash, Teutonic Thrash, Brazilian Trash Metal, crossover thrash, doomthrash, and all the various kinds of thrash for cardio, lifting, and all your thrashing needs!

RIP Terry Reid

1949-2025

/leftyco/

Seeing how there’s multiple /co/ related threads on the board. I think we should just put all of them into one general just for clarity’s sake.

Discuss anything related to comics and animations from comic recs, leftist animations to comic writers’ attempts to larp as leftists.

Seriously is there a worse anarchist in the UK than Alan Moore?

OC Thread

Thread dedicated to /leftypol/ original content & memes
Post original content you've made, or OC someone else recently made
which you want to share.
Or ITT collaborate on improving content already made.

This is the place where you can find all leftypol memes n' shit:
https://lefty.booru.org/

Webm sister thread: >>361470

First Aid

What's the best way to get into field medicine? I'm looking for an up-to-date, practical, introduction to first aid.

News 8/7/25

Myanmar’s acting President Myint Swe dies after a long illness
Myint Swe, who became Myanmar’s acting president under controversial circumstances after the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi more than four years ago, died on Thursday, the military said. He was 74. Myint Swe’s death came more than a year after he stopped actively carrying out his presidential duties after he was publicly reported to be ailing.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-acting-president-myint-swe-obituary-dead-3e816743ec95a1ab4b543ab0846615a8

Modi ready to ‘pay a heavy price’ as India seeks to resist Trump tariffs
In a speech on Wednesday night which did not directly mention Trump or the new tariffs, Modi appeared defiant as he addressed one of the biggest sticking points in India’s ongoing trade negotiations with the US over tariffs. According to Indian officials, the US has been pushing India to allow for the import of American genetically modified (GM) crops into the country and for duty-free imports on US farm and dairy products.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/07/modi-ready-to-pay-a-heavy-price-as-india-seeks-to-resist-trump-tariffs

India bans 25 books in contested Kashmir for ‘secessionism’
Indian authorities in Kashmir have banned 25 books, including a piece of work by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, saying the titles “excite secessionism” in the contested Muslim-majority region. The government order accuses the writers of propagating “false narratives” about Kashmir, “while playing a critical role in misguiding the youth, glorifying terrorism and inciting violence” against the Indian state. It follows orders in February when the authorities seized Islamic literature from bookshops and homes.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-bans-25-books-in-contested-kashmir-for-secessionism
https://archive.ph/VZqEB

How Netanyahu’s plan to occupy Gaza is bringing the Israeli army to its knees
This week, Israeli media reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had decided to order the army to fully occupy the Gaza Strip. According to reports, Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir is strongly opposed to such a move and has even threatened to resign. If these reports are true, the importance of this moment is difficult to overstate. Such a head-on clash between the government and the army puts Netanyahu and his government in a position that challenges not only the military but also the will of much of the Israeli public.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-netanyahus-plan-occupy-gaza-bringing-israeli-army-its-knees

Algeria bans pro-Palestine protest for 'threatening public order'
The Algerian interior ministry this week rejected a request from a dozen opposition parties to organise a pro-Palestinian demonstration in the capital Algiers. The coalition of parties had sought authorisation on 29 July to march under the banner "Algeria with Palestine, against starvation and displacement," proposing the dates of 7 or 8 August.
https://www.newarab.com/news/algeria-bans-gaza-protest-threatening-public-order

Bolivia's socialists lose support of the Aymara, once their base
Now support for leftist and MAS-affiliated candidates is trailing the right-wing opposition. A July survey by Ipsos CIESMORI showed Andronico Rodriguez, the leading leftist contender, with just 6% support in July, from 19% earlier this year. Another candidate of Aymara heritage, Eva Copa, stood down from the race last week. Such is the rout that the official MAS candidate is polling around 2%, while Rodriguez has distanced himself from the party.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivias-socialists-lose-support-aymara-once-their-base-2025-08-07/

Brazilian Indigenous Women March Demanting Reproductive Health Access and Land Rights
The march in Brasilia was also marked by criticism of a bill that weakens environmental licensing requirements for infrastructure projects, a measure seen as a serious setback for efforts to combat deforestation and climate change. Approved last month in Congress with support from the agribusiness sector, the protesters urged President Lula to veto the bill.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/brazilian-indigenous-women-march-demanting-reproductive-health-access-and-land-rights/

Buenos Aires City government to sanction citizens that sort through trash
Buenos Aires City Mayor Jorge Macri has instructed the Security Ministry and City Police to introduce sanctions for citizens – mostly poor – who take rubbish out of bins. … Via a post on X, the mayor reminded that article 94 of the City Misdemeanours Code on “Soiling property” provides that: “Anyone who stains or soils by any medium public or private property shall be sanctioned with one to fifteen days of community service or 81 to 1,217 fixed fine units.”
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/jorge-macri-orders-sanctions-over-rubbish-removal.phtml
https://archive.ph/fMXed

Mass protest organisers dismiss ‘feeble’ first charges for Palestine Action support
Jeremy Shippam, 71, of West Sussex, Judit Murray, 71, of Surrey, and Fiona Maclean, 53, of Hackney, north-east London, were charged under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000. They were arrested in Westminster following a protest in central London on July 5 and are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on September 16. They are accused of displaying an article in a public place, arousing reasonable suspicion that they are a supporter of a proscribed organisation.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mass-protest-organisers-dismiss-feeble-first-charges-palestine-action-support

German kebab workers striking for collective agreement and pay transparency in industry first
A new round of negotiations between Birtat Meat World SE, one of the country’s biggest kebab meat factories, based in Murr, Baden-Wurttemberg, and the Food, Beverage and Catering (NGG) union were due to start today, but union officials expressed anger after the company clarified that it was not meeting them to negotiate a collective agreement but merely for an exchange of views.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/german-kebab-workers-striking-collective-agreement-and-pay-transparency-industry-first

France’s top court blocks comeback of controversial insecticide
The judges stressed that neonicotinoids — a class of insecticide that includes acetamiprid and that works by obstructing the nervous systems of insects — can be allowed in exceptional situations but only for a limited time and for well-defined crops. These conditions were not respected in the text of the law, the judges found.
https://www.politico.eu/article/frances-top-court-blocks-comeback-of-controversial-insecticide/
https://archive.ph/Yxntd

Rally demands Vic Labor save public housing towers
Almost 1000 people mobilised on August 2 to oppose Victorian Labor’s destruction and privatisation of 44 public housing towers. The protest was called by Save Public Housing Collective. Public housing tenants, activists and elected representatives from the Greens and Socialist Alliance addressed the protest, saying this is the biggest sell-off of public assets ever attempted by a government. They all called on Labor to stop handing over public housing estates to private developers and to instead expand public housing.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/rally-demands-vic-labor-save-public-housing-towers

News 8/6/25

‘Unprecedented’ wildfire burns area size of Paris in southern France
The fire, which started on Tuesday afternoon, had burned 16,000 hectares (39,537 acres) inland from the Mediterranean near the Spanish border. It began in the village of Ribaute in the Aude department, spreading across the rural, wooded area of the Corbières, famous for its vineyards and medieval villages.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/france-largest-wildfire-this-year-corbieres-hills

Hamburg dockworker demands union action against genocide in Gaza
Mohammed Alattar, who has lost 80 family members in the Gaza massacre, writes in a petition addressed to Verdi that he approached the union leadership with his story and asked what the union was doing in answer. He described the response with anger: “Nothing came back, no chance. Only complete ignorance and silence.” This disregard for the suffering and catastrophe in Gaza, Alattar writes, “reflects the same disregard and isolation that Jewish people in Germany experienced 80 years ago.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/06/fbfe-a06.html

About 300 migrants start walk north from southern Mexico
The group of migrants that left Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala, was small in comparison to migrant caravans in years past. There has been very little movement of migrants in public since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January, though migration numbers had been falling even prior to that. Those walking Wednesday said their goal was not to reach the United States, but rather central Mexico. They complained that they had been waiting for months to legalize their status or receive asylum.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-migrants-us-trump-tapachula-a920fcba8752d1c6f3b1f3eb2c4579aa

Brazil: Opposition lawmakers stay the night in Congress
The opposition was demanding a general and unrestricted amnesty for those convicted of attempting a coup d'état, in addition to De Moraes' impeachment. The magistrate is the rapporteur for the case against Bolsonaro, who is accused of leading an attempt to annul the 2022 presidential elections by putting pressure on military commanders. The complaint also points to plans to assassinate and arrest public officials. Bolsonaro and the others under investigation deny the accusations.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/08/06/brazil-opposition-lawmakers-stay-the-night-in-congress

Sudan says army destroys Emirati aircraft, killing 40 mercenaries
A military source, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said the UAE plane "was bombed and completely destroyed" at Darfur's Nyala airport. The airport has recently come under repeated air strikes by the Sudanese army, at war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April 2023.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/08/sudan-says-army-destroys-emirati-aircraft-killing-40-mercenaries

Rwanda agrees to take deportees from the US after a previous migrant deal with the UK collapsed
Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo told The Associated Press in a statement that the East African country would accept up to 250 deportees from the U.S., with “the ability to approve each individual proposed for resettlement” under the agreement. Makolo didn’t provide a timeline for any deportees to arrive in Rwanda or say if they would arrive at once or in several batches. She said details were still being worked out. The State Department said the U.S. “works with Rwanda on a range of mutual priorities” but wouldn’t comment on details of the deportation deal and what it called diplomatic conversations with other governments.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigrants-deportees-rwanda-us-bb5edea43bb470e76af3ecee5ddad10c

Large Majority of Israeli Jews Untroubled by Reports of Famine in Gaza, Poll Finds
Among the Arab public, 86 percent said they are "very troubled" or "somewhat troubled" about the situation in Gaza. They also found a much greater degree of concern among left-wing Jews, with 70 percent saying that they, too, are troubled by the situation. Jews and Arabs also have profoundly differing views on whether Israel is making substantial efforts to avoid causing unnecessary suffering to Palestinians in Gaza; 78 percent of Jewish respondents agreed that "Israel's actions are restricted by the fighting, but it is making substantial efforts to avoid causing unnecessary suffering to Palestinians in Gaza." Only 22.5 percent of Arabs said that the claim is correct.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-08-05/ty-article/.premium/large-majority-of-israeli-jews-untroubled-by-reports-of-famine-in-gaza-poll-finds/00000198-7ab3-d0ce-a5de-fbb374f30000
https://archive.ph/pj4PW

Turkey arrests youth LGBTQ activist following Erdogan criticism at Council of Europe speech
Enes Hocaogullari, 23, gave a speech in Strasbourg in March criticising police violence and detentions plus democratic backsliding in Turkey, saying: "The youth has had enough … We are ready to go on the streets to regain our freedoms." He was detained on Tuesday night on arrival from France at Ankara's Esenboga Airport pending trial on charges of "publicly disseminating misleading information" and "inciting hatred and enmity," according to a court document seen by Reuters.
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-arrests-youth-lgbtq-activist-following-erdogan-criticism

Sri Lanka’s parliament votes to fire country’s police chief over abuse of power
Lawmakers in Sri Lanka voted Tuesday to fire the country’s police chief for misconduct and gross abuse of power, making him the island nation’s first inspector-general to be impeached. In the 225-member parliament, 117 lawmakers voted to fire Deshabandu Tennakoon. No one opposed, while one member abstained.
https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-parliament-police-chief-fired-d0cfd69ae1e16d4b0f56188352b6c45f

Unions demand legal action against Tata Consultancy Services over mass layoffs and labor rights violations
One of India’s largest trade union federations, the Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU) supported demands of legal action against Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the country’s largest software company, over claims of its violation of the Industrial Dispute Act (IDA) and labor rights.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/06/unions-demand-legal-action-against-tata-consultancy-services-over-mass-layoffs-and-labor-rights-violations/

TOR and Other Ways to Keep Yourself Hidden

why aren't you using TOR? you know we live in a constantly evolving surveillance state, right?
>Download TOR
>Add it as main browser
>get OrBot on your phone and keep the vpn on at all times
>never post your face on the internet
>never leave a trace
>create a new circuit whenever you change sites
ultimate guide to staying untraceable

The importance of games in politics

For years and years the debate has raged over whether video games qualify as art, and as ridiculous as that debate is there's one undeniable aspect of it: video games have ideological content.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TycfDgg4acY

For that reason this thread should be used to approach games from a political standpoint with their political content in mind. The only thing to keep in mind here is that YOU CANNOT TALK ABOUT GAMERGATE.

Here's a big list of video games with left wing content to help discussion get going:

Punk

PUNK!!!

5 (or 7?) Shot At The US’s Fort Stewart Military Base In Georgia

Alleged gunman at Army's Fort Stewart was a sergeant who shot 5 coworkers

A sergeant opened fire on his coworkers Wednesday at Fort Stewart, an Army installation in southeast Georgia, leaving five soldiers injured, but in stable condition, according to Army officials.

At a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Brig. Gen. John Lubas, the commanding general of the 3rd Infantry Division, identified the suspect as Sgt. Quornelius Radford, who worked in automated logistics. The victims were Radford's coworkers and he used a personal handgun, according to Lubas. He added that Radford has not previously been deployed to a combat zone.

Lubas said several soldiers who witnessed the shooting, "immediately and without hesitation," tackled the shooter and subdued him, allowing law enforcement to take him into custody. The suspect has been interviewed by Army investigators and charges will be determined later.

Lubas says three of the soldiers required surgeries but all five victims were expected to recover. Their families have also been notified.

Law enforcement was sent to the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team area at 10:56 a.m. local time and the shooter was apprehended at 11:35 a.m, Fort Stewart said in a post on Facebook. The Army installation, about 40 miles from the city of Savannah, was temporarily on lockdown.

Earlier on Wednesday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp released a statement on X saying he and his family were saddened by the violence.

"We are keeping the victims, their families, and all those who answer the call to serve in our hearts and prayers, and we ask that Georgians everywhere do the same," he wrote.

https://archive.is/wip/oZd4E
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/06/nx-s1-5494581/fort-stewart-shooting-army-post

holographic communication

In the early 20th century armies used search lights to find airplanes in the sky. They sometimes fitted shutters on these lights and used them for Morse-code. The light was pointed at the sky, sometimes at clouds. That enable transmitting "blinky-messages" beyond line of sight over significant distances. Armies eventually abandoned this method of communication for radios.

But there might be cause to bring this idea back. Science has advanced quite a lot in the last 100 years and we can use light to make tiny low power plasma bubbles in the air that emit brief light pulses. Enabling over the horizon optical communication with minimal to no infrastructure costs.

Imagine projecting a tiny holographic blinking dot of light in the sky to transmit information and a photodetector+optic to receive information.

A communication link is configured in 3D space.
-The upside is that the available volume of sky is functionally unlimited, and you never again have to deal with network-collisions and interference from communication signals of others.
-The Downside, it requires a good deal of precision in mechanical systems, so it'll be fiddly for a while. Picture using Binoculars to look at a firefly floating high up in the sky, you need to get up-down, left-right and focal distance just right to see it. There is a technology upgrade path to a solid-state chip version, that works similarly to matrix array antennas, It needs Terra-hertz switching logic, which requires photon-based micro-controller (it exists but it's very bleeding edge)

The range can be tremendous, there is enough gas molecules in the stratosphere to make this work. It will enable hops over the ocean with a small number of relay buoys.

The military might want this technology because
- it's harder to triangulate the origin of a transmission (you need to intersect the light-beam, to find the source), relay-transmitter-stations, soldiers, planes and ships will suffer fewer attacks from signal homing weapons, making it very robust.
- it's very hard to jam, (you need to flood the sky with very thick smoke, usually associated with forest-fires and volcano eruptions)

Consumers might want this technology because
- the patent for making plasma bubbles ran out, so lots of companies would be competing on price and quality.
- no natural monopolies, same benefit as above.
- might be a fun hobby toy for radio-enthusiast type people.

Technically this seems very feasible, but the current political climate for communications-tech is a minefield.
I'm a little light on theory, will a different communication technology change the political climate, or does political climate need to improve to make a new technology happen ?

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

A lot has been made of the weirdness surrounding the JFK assassination in 1963, but I've realized over the past year that there are a lot of weird details surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln which are not that well known. I genuinely don't know where exactly to talk about this stuff, because it's just kind of bizarre.

Firstly, let's talk about Simon Wolf. Simon Wolf was a friend of Abraham Lincoln. Simon Wolf was also a prominent Freemason, whose chapter gave allegiance to the Charleston, SC Masonic lodge of one Albert Pike. Albert Pike was a Confederate general and preeminent Freemason, whose official title was Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council, Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction from 1859 to 1891, and who was also involved with the Knights of the Golden Circle and, allegedly, the Ku Klux Klan.

Simon Wolf was a prominent member of the Jewish fraternal order the B'nai B'rith, and he would eventually become its president. Before that, he was a close personal friend of the actor John Wilkes Booth, and met with John Wilkes Booth "for drinks" on the morning of April 14, 2025. This little-known fact is detailed in Simon Wolf's 1918 autobiography The Presidents I Have Known: From 1860-1918, from which one of the attached pages was drawn. During the war, Simon Wolf was once arrested by the U.S. gov't as an operative of an enemy organization, a spy for the Confederacy. Some other odd details are outlined in the 2nd attached page, drawn from an Executive Intelligence Review article from May of 1993. I was skeptical when I first saw it, but the article is well-researched and led me directly to the autobiography, a source I had to consult directly just to authenticate what I had read in the article, whose contents I found odd.

After the assassination and the death of John Wilkes Booth, Lafayette C. Baker, the investigator who had charged Simon Wolf with Confederate espionage during the war, announced that he had had John Wilkes Booth's diary. Baker accused Edwin M. Stanton, the Secretary of War, of suppressing the diary's release. When it was released, Baker claimed that 18 vital pages had been removed.

Another odd aspect is in the circumstances of the death of John Wilkes Booth. Booth was ultimately killed while hiding in a barn by a mentally ill street preacher who had castrated himself with a pair of scissors in order to suppress sexual urges. That man, Boston Corbett of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment, was later institutionalized in 1887 and ultimately vanished after escaping the asylum in 1888. It's unclear if there was a chance of catching John Wilkes Booth alive, and most of Booth's co-conspirators, who have largely drifted into obscurity, would captured and formally be executed. One of these co-conspirators, Lewis Powell, was given a legal defense which presumed his guilt. Eventually the defense argued that Powell, who could not remember his age or the country of his birth, was insane, a claim which was supported by the prison guards who had been put in charge of watching him after his capture. However, it was rejected by the prosecution and Powell was hanged alongside the other co-conspirators.

Weird, huh? There's a little bit more!

News 8/5/25

Uruguayan public sector unions call nationwide strike over inadequate wage proposal
Uruguay’s Confederation of State Employees' Organizations (COFE) announced a 24-hour nationwide strike on August 12, rejecting the government’s proposed wage adjustment for public sector workers. The decision was unanimously approved during a national assembly attended by over 35 unions. In an official statement, COFE described the government’s offer as “absolutely insufficient,” arguing it lacks any real wage growth, fails to address the lowest-paid workers, and does not guarantee the current purchasing power of salaries.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/08/05/uruguayan-public-sector-unions-call-nationwide-strike-over-inadequate-wage-proposal

Evo Morales Backs Null Vote in Bolivia
On Sunday, Former Bolivian President Evo Morales (2006–2019) said that the proposal to cast null votes in the upcoming Aug. 17 election is gaining momentum amid the possibility he may not be a candidate. … Morales hopes his disqualification as a presidential candidate is “temporary” and emphasized that he will not leave the country, adding, “Those who have stolen are already packing their bags.” The Leftist leader also stated that if he is arrested, he hopes President Luis Arce “doesn’t kill” him. Morales pointed out that “the right wing” is attempting to return to power and urged his followers to remember that “only through union struggle did we defeat the empire.”
https://www.telesurenglish.net/evo-morales-backs-null-vote-in-bolivia/

32 bodies found in clandestine graves in central Mexico
The Guanajuato state prosecutor’s office said via X Monday that the bodies were found in clandestine graves on the property in the community of La Calera on Irapuato’s north side, about 320 kilometers (200 miles) northwest of Mexico City. Forensic teams had working at the site since July 30, prosecutors said. Authorities were working to identify the remaining bodies.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-cartels-bodies-guanajuato-graves-e85d7096b1705f1061c9cff8809b1eb5

Argentine Scientists Protest Milei’s Policies Amid Deepening Crisis in Research Sector
Under the slogan “Let This Not Be Argentina’s Last Scientific Generation,” the demonstrations will include a camp-in outside the Scientific and Technological Hub in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires. At the former headquarters of the Ministry of Science, Argentines will hold discussions, a torchlight march, and an assembly to determine their next steps.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentine-scientists-protest-mileis-policies-amid-deepening-crisis-in-research-sector/

Netanyahu set to order full Gaza military occupation despite army opposition
"The die is cast – we are going for a full occupation of the Gaza Strip," a senior official familiar with the plans told Yedioth Ahronoth daily. "There will be operations even in areas where hostages are being held. If the chief of staff doesn't agree, he should resign," the official said. … The Israeli cabinet is expected to discuss the next steps in a meeting later this week. Zamir is reportedly planning to present an alternative strategy focused on encircling Hamas-held areas and using military pressure to force the group into accepting a ceasefire.
https://www.newarab.com/news/netanyahu-order-full-gaza-occupation-despite-army-opposition

Turkish parliamentary commission holds first meeting over Ankara-PKK talks
As part of the peace process, the PKK held a disarmament ceremony in Sulaimani province on July 11, when 30 members and commanders burned their weapons. The group decided to lay down arms after Ocalan urged them to pursue a political solution to obtain rights for Kurds in Turkey instead of armed conflict. Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, a DEM Party lawmaker, told Rudaw on Monday that the commission’s “biggest task right now is determining the legal status of PKK fighters after disarmament. “There will be discussions around a new law,” he added, noting that “some amendments and reversals of existing laws,” might take place.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/05082025

Iran orders office closures as heatwave strains power grid
Iranian authorities ordered many government offices to close on Wednesday in a bid to cut power consumption as a heatwave strains generating capacity, state media reported. At least 15 of Iran's 31 provinces will see public offices either shut or operating on reduced hours, the official IRNA news agency said.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/iran-orders-office-closures-as-heatwave-strains-power-grid/articleshow/123111818.cms
https://archive.ph/amLwq

Bangladesh national polls by mid-Feb
Several political parties, including the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, have been pressing for an early election while some others, including the newly floated National Citizen Party, are campaigning for state reforms and completion of trials of the fascist regime and activists of Awami League, whose activities have recently been banned, for their alleged involvement in atrocities before the election.
https://www.newagebd.net/post/Country/272168/bangladesh-national-polls-by-mid-feb

Pakistan arrests over 200 activists as they rally to support former leader Imran Khan
The detainees included Rehana Dar, 73, a politician from Khan’s party known for her fiery speeches against the government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. She was seen being thrown into a police truck in the northeastern city of Lahore. Zulfiqar Bukhari, a spokesman for Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, said police used batons and fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators in Lahore and the southern provincial capital of Karachi.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-police-arrest-imran-khan-supporters-a2acb5ee09e62111e46f5b18870b0bf7

Sweden, Norway, Denmark give $500 million to NATO project to send US weapons to Ukraine
Denmark's share is around $90 million while Norway said it will contribute around 1.5 billion Norwegian crowns ($146 million). Sweden said it was contributing $275 million to the package, which includes Patriot missiles and other air defence equipment, as well as anti-tank munitions.
https://www.reuters.com/world/sweden-norway-denmark-give-500-million-nato-project-send-us-weapons-ukraine-2025-08-05/

Overtly leftist anime

.org already has a leftist anime thread so I thought that here we can go further. This thread is for all anime that is overtly leftist. That means no allegories/metaphors/"vibes," no monarchism, no counter-revolutions, no revanchism, no progressivism, no liberalism and no guilt by association with a right-wing fanbase. Go ahead and post your recommendations with an explanation why you picked them.

News 8/4/25

Dockworkers in Italy win against arms shipment to Israel
Italian port workers secured a significant win in their ongoing resistance to militarization and arms transfers, as shipping operators decided they would not unload military cargo destined for Israel from the vessel COSCO Shipping Pisces – returning the containers to their point of origin instead. The announcement came just days before a planned 24-hour strike on August 5 in Genoa, launched to protest the use of Italian ports for arms shipments such as this.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/04/dockworkers-in-italy-win-against-arms-shipment-to-israel/

Brazil supreme court judge orders house arrest of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro
According to the ruling on Monday by Justice Alexandre de Moraes, Bolsonaro breached a ban on using social media which was imposed last month, when he was also ordered to wear an electronic ankle tag. Moraes wrote that as demonstrators took to the streets in several cities across the country on Sunday in support of the former president, Bolsonaro used the social media accounts of allies to share messages containing “clear encouragement and incitement to attack the Supreme Federal Court, and overt support for foreign intervention in Brazil’s judiciary”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/04/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-house-arrest-supreme-court

Sudan accuses UAE of bringing in Colombian mercenaries to support RSF
Mercenaries have been spotted on both sides, with reports of Colombian fighters first emerging in the western region of Darfur late last year and corroborated by United Nations experts. This week, the Joint Forces, a coalition of armed groups in Darfur aligned with the army, reported more than 80 Colombian mercenaries fighting on the RSF's side in the North Darfur state capital, Al-Fashir.
https://www.newarab.com/news/sudan-accuses-uae-deploying-colombian-mercenaries-back-rsf

ANC NEC to grapple with alliance partner SACP's decision to contest municipal polls on its own
As the African National Congress (ANC)'s national executive committee (NEC) rolls into its fourth and final day, it will have to grapple with its alliance partner, the South African Communist Party (SACP)’s pursuit of contesting next year’s municipal elections on its own. This follows yet another public salvo from the communist party on Sunday, accusing the ANC of being arrogant and relegating its concerns to a permanent discussion of no consequence.
https://www.ewn.co.za/2025/08/04/anc-nec-to-grapple-with-alliance-partner-sacps-decision-to-contest-municipal-polls-on-its-own

Ivory Coast opposition slams arrests as part of political crackdown
Interior Minister Vagondo Diomande said the arrests were linked to an incident in Youpougon, a suburb of the capital Abdijan, where attackers set fire to a bus and assaulted police. He released a video showing a man saying he was a PPA-CI member confessing to the attack, though the opposition party has condemned it.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ivory-coast-opposition-slams-arrests-part-political-crackdown

Israel-Gaza: The International Criminal Court in turmoil
This has been the darkest year for the International Criminal Court (ICC) since it opened its doors in The Hague in 2002. Never before had the institution faced such strong headwinds. The US imposed sanctions on four judges and the chief prosecutor, the British national Karim Khan, while threats, intrigue, and pressure from Washington mounted on state parties. The objective: to annul and prevent any arrest warrants against Israelis, including those targeting Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant, issued on November 21, 2024, and to close the ongoing investigation into crimes committed on Palestinian territory.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/08/04/israel-gaza-the-international-criminal-court-in-turmoil_6744041_4.html
https://archive.ph/hUcnV

Gaza posts blocked on social media under UK Online Safety Act, report finds
BBC Verify found that content on X and Reddit has been restricted on X for those who have not verified their age on the sites. The content includes topics from the war on Gaza and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, to parliamentary debates on grooming gangs. The report highlighted that a video posted to X of a man in Gaza searching for his family members under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel had been restricted, despite not showing dead bodies or graphic images.
https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-posts-blocked-social-media-under-uk-online-safety-act

Syrian democracy campaigners wary of upcoming 'selected' elections
Nawar Najma, spokesperson for the Higher Committee for People’s Assembly Election, told Rudaw last week that two-thirds of the parliament would be elected by "electoral bodies", themselves formed by subcommittees whose members would be selected by his department after "extensive consultations". Each electoral body would be composed of roughly 50 people who would elect a member of the parliament. He added that a "basic condition must be that they absolutely do not support, neither in word nor deed, the defunct [Assad] regime". "They must also have no affiliation with any of the security forces or the army to ensure the neutrality of the military apparatus and the interior ministry as well," he said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syrian-democracy-accused-elections-after-announcement-third-parliament-be-appointed

Thailand’s parliament proposes phoney amnesty bill
Common to all three bills were exclusions for those charged or convicted under the draconian lèse-majesté law, Section 112 of the criminal code, which illegalises any criticism of the monarchy. The BJT added a specific clause banning support for amnesty for lèse-majesté. Section 112 is often used as a catch-all for the state to violate democratic rights and intimidate protesters with potential jail terms of up to 15 years.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/04/inlg-a04.html

Julien Assange joins pro-Palestinian march across Sydney Harbour Bridge
Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched across Australia's iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday. The crowd included WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who moved back to his native Australia last year after his release from a high-security British prison.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250803-assange-joins-pro-palestinian-protest-on-sydney-harbour-bridge
https://archive.ph/ZL1L2

/CitK/ - Crisis in the Kremlin General

Comrades, it's that time again: Lenin is young and October lies ahead!
Time for a Crisis in the Kremlin game thread like in the good old days. We'll be playing on 'Realism' difficulty and starting at the earliest bookmark, 1985!

And so comrades, take your seats as members of the Central Committee of the CPSU, take up flags, or namefag if you like, for some degree of recognisability when tallying votes and take up the burden of the collective leadership as it is time for you to elect our new General Secretary following the unfortunate passing of Comrade Chernenko.

Your candidates are as follows:
-The young protege of Andropov and stalwart, Comrade Grigory Romanov
-The young up and coming reformist, Comrade Gorbachev
-The trusted Brezhnevite centrist, Comrade Grishin
-The party grandee and diplomatic excellency, Comrade Gromyko
-or perhaps the a previously unknown black horse from the party rank will secure the Central Committee's confidence?

Comrades of the Central Committee, the future of the Party, the Union, the Socialist Camp and the Human Race itself is in your hands!

idk if this is the right board but

how do i overcome laziness / procrastination? please


relating to things such as assignments

How does the left justify it's defense of rape gangs?

How does the left reckon with the fact that Leftists called this a "racist nazi conspiracy theory" for decades, and defended and frankly elements of the left, even protected the rapists and pedophiles, from justice, for a long time?
Now we have evidence of these gangs stretching back decades, arguably to the 1960s. Countless rapes, some estimates over a million, and the left was just like "nah it's racist bullshit by gammon reactionaries and conservative police".
The left has tried to deflect so much from the fact that yes, the left actually did spend decades, protecting rape gangs, because it looked bad from an identity politics/open borders perspective.
I remember myself being part of leftist orgs, and people downplaying this as some bullshit nazi conspiracy…and now it's true, there is just a deafining silence on it.
www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-audit-on-group-based-child-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse
As a Leftist, this is just another in the pile of the Left putting optics of inane shitlib positions, over materialist reality and it blowing up in our fucking faces like it does every time. Were we really that fucking up our own asses that we shouted down fucking working class victims of RAPE because it looked bad for fucking "Diversity is strength, open borders now" shitlib bullshit?
Of course, .org literally bans any discussion on these topics immediately, because they are a bunch of antisocial fucktards who's driving force is to make life worse for everyone out of spite, but I know people here are much more willing to discuss these issues. So what went so fucking wrong with the lefts response to this, and what can the left do to not make similar mistakes in the future?

Films You Just Watched Thread

Hello, the most recent movie threads have seemed a bit unfocused, this thread is for the discussion of movies we just watched and other anon's takes on them. So, without further ado I'll begin.

I just watched Parasite last night, it was pretty good I think, but not as cutting edge or witty as I was expecting. I thought it was a bit unfocused and threw a lot at the wall to see what stuck, but on the other hand, it was fun and more interesting than most. A solid 8/10.

I do an IMDB rating for each film I watch, for my own reference mostly, but you can see each film I watched lately and my rating if you're curious or want to ask about them. If other anons have something similar feel free to post.

https://www.imdb.com/user/ur46013471/ratings

Book Reccomendations

Best Book Reccs for AnCom? I've read the communist manifesto, the conquest of bread, anarchy, anarchism and other essays, and industrial society and its future (im not sure if its considered ancom but i consider it to be). i need more books to read. i need knowledge

News 8/2/25

German police expands use of Palantir surveillance software
The surveillance software called Gotham, developed by US company Palantir, is billed as an all-rounder: gigantic amounts of data are brought together at lightning speed. It only takes a few seconds to satisfy a police officer's curiosity: name, age, address, fines, criminal record. In combination with selected cellphones and the contents of scanned social media channels, a comprehensive profile of any person appears in an instant. With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), the surveillance program developed by the US technology company seems to make the dreams of police and intelligence agencies come true.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-expands-use-of-palantir-surveillance-software/a-73497117
https://archive.ph/LrIPJ

Rival anti-migrant and anti-racism protests face off outside a hotel housing migrants in London
Several hundred protesters waving Union Jacks gathered outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel in central London, calling for it to be closed as housing for migrants. Chants including “Scum” and “Britain is full” were directed at the hotel. Police separated the demonstrators from a larger group of counter-protesters chanting “refugees are welcome here,” as people inside the hotel watched from windows. Protests against migrants have taken place in recent weeks in Epping, a town on the outskirts of London where an asylum-seeker was accused of sexual assault, and in a smattering of other towns in England.
https://apnews.com/article/britain-migration-protests-asylum-hotels-2271d550f5a3c14e0821f0eb67fbd861

Nordic countries hit by ‘truly unprecedented’ heatwave
In Sweden, meteorologists said long-term heatwaves were noted at several stations in the north of the country, with a weather station in Haparanda measuring 25C or more for 14 days in a row. In Jokkmokk, Lappland, the heatwave lasted for 15 days. “To find a longer period at these stations, you have to go back more than a century,” said Sverker Hellström, a scientist at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/nordic-countries-hit-by-truly-unprecedented-heatwave

Violence against Veracruz cab workers: Hitman targets driver who survived an initial attack in hospital
Amid all the violence, Veracruz cab drivers are also demanding action. Since Monday, they have marched in various municipalities demanding better wages, security, and justice for their murdered colleagues. “We fear for our safety; we are single mothers,” and “We no longer live, we survive,” some female drivers chanted during the first demonstration in Xalapa.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-01/violence-against-veracruz-cab-workers-hitman-targets-driver-who-survived-an-initial-attack-in-hospital.html
https://archive.ph/6Toiz

Argentina’s Milei Vetoes Pensions Increase and Disability Emergency Laws
The Argentine Congress now faces the challenge of reversing the presidential vetoes on two key projects: the Retirement Mobility Act and the Disability Emergency Declaration while the Retirement Mobility Act proposed an increase in retirements, increased the bonus and replenished the pension moratorium.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentinas-milei-vetoes-pensions-increase-and-disability-emergency-laws/

The Fine Print of Freedom: Iraq to amend Freedom of Expression and Peaceful Assembly Law
Despite easing some procedural hurdles, the new draft law outlines several prohibitions on protest activity: -Carrying firearms or dangerous materials during demonstrations, regardless of firearm licensing. -Wearing masks or face coverings intended to conceal identity. -Displaying slogans, symbols, or signs considered offensive to public order or morals. The law reaffirms longstanding bans on speech inciting sectarian, racial, or religious hatred, or defaming religious beliefs—provisions that human rights observers have previously warned could be used to silence dissent.
https://shafaq.com/en/Report/The-Fine-Print-of-Freedom-Iraq-to-amend-Freedom-of-Expression-and-Peaceful-Assembly-Law

Video of emaciated Israeli captive in Gaza stirs divisions in Israel
The caption to the video, posted on Telegram, reads that the captive is "waiting to be released in a prisoner swap". The video shows the captive, who was later identified as Israeli soldier Evyatar David, looking markedly thin and sitting on bed in a cramped room. His arms show signs of drastic weight loss, and his ribs are also protruding, in a scene which has become increasingly common in Gaza as Israel obstructs aid.
https://www.newarab.com/news/video-emaciated-israeli-captive-stirs-divisions-israel

'No Other Land' murder: Women in Awdah Hathaleen's village launch hunger strike
More than 70 women in the village where Awdah Hathaleen was killed on Monday have launched a hunger strike, calling for Israeli police to return his body and release residents arrested in the wake of his murder. Their protest comes as they say Israeli forces have raided family homes in the village each night since the killing, arresting their husbands and brothers and beating other family members. "A woman would be not properly dressed, lying in bed, and they would come in and open the door and say, 'We want your husband, we want your brother'," Ikhlas Hazalin, Hathaleen's sister-in-law, told Middle East Eye on Thursday.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/awdah-hathaleen-hunger-strike-women-over-70-body-israeli

Farmer leaders arrested in Pakistan for opposing illegal land grab
Several farmer leaders were arrested after they tried to organize against illegal land grabs in the Hashtnagar region in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province earlier this week. Salar Amjad Ali, Momin Khan Shalmani, Waris Khan Amir, Muhammad Alam, Manzoor Khan, Sparlay Ghorzang, and Zeeshan were arrested after their bails in previous cases were revoked. All the arrested are part of the provincial leadership of the left-wing Mazdoor Kisan Party (Workers-Peasants Party, MKP).
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/31/farmer-leaders-arrested-in-pakistan-for-opposing-illegal-land-grab/

Dalit teen gang-raped, local officials ‘push cash deal’
Shockingly, instead of ensuring swift justice, ward officials, including chairperson Uttam Narayan Yadav allegedly convened a forced reconciliation meeting at the local health post on Friday, where they pressured the traumatised family to accept Rs100,000($114) compensation and drop charges—a demand the victim’s brother vehemently rejected, telling media they continue facing daily harassment for refusing the settlement.
https://kathmandupost.com/national/2025/08/02/dalit-teen-gang-raped-in-saptari
https://archive.ph/12jvP

Indo-Myanmar Border: Manipur Naga Groups’ ‘Ultimatum’ to Centre
The four Manipur-based Naga outfits have marked their communication dated July 22, 2025, as an “Ultimatum” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar. The ‘ultimatum’ once again reminds the Centre that at stake is ‘ancestral Naga homeland’ and that by not consulting the affected indigenous communities, it is violating the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, particularly Articles 8, 26 and 36 thereof, which have been “endorsed by India”.
https://www.newsclick.in/indo-myanmar-border-manipur-naga-groups-ultimatum-centre

US Law Firm Helped Myanmar Junta Cronies Beat Sanctions
A U.S. Treasury notice on Thursday announced that sanctions had been dropped against four Myanmar nationals—Jonathan Myo Kyaw Thaung (aka Jonathan Kyaw Thaung), Aung Hlaing Oo, Sit Taing Aung, and Tin Latt Min—and an Indian, Deepak Subhash Jadhav, as well as companies they are connected to. All the Myanmar individuals were sanctioned from 2022 to 2024 by the Joe Biden administration for their shady links to the junta, involving among other things the supply of arms, aircraft, and technology, which the regime has been using to kill its own people.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/us-law-firm-helped-myanmar-junta-cronies-beat-sanctions.html

DasHasenhaus end

Bunnyfriend or Bunna is a p-do guy that have a website https://www.dashasenhaus.com where he uploads comics "safe" for childs with a lot of foot fetish, he always focus on the feet or always make mention of them in every comic he makes, he has uploaded edits of girl's feet on Deviantart. He saved and posted a lot of child photos or shared on his facebook account to use them as "inspiration" for his characters clothing.

CHAZ: The Anarkiddie Lumpen paradise.

>Take over an entire city block because "ACAB"
>Literally wall it off, then have armed patrols walk around terrorizing locals, while alowing the area to flood with drug addict, antisocial lumpens, drug dealers and schizos and protecting them against any repurcussions.
>Instantly entire thing devolves into a den of crime, drug dealing, gangs. All protected by the Anarkiddies while local proles beg for the police to tear the entire thing down.
>Anarkiddies "not police" shoot 2 young black teens to death for doing a burn out in a car, in under a week.
>Literally cover for the murderers and they never are caught.
How in fuck are Anarkiddies taken seriously at all anymore in the Western left? Chaz more than anything proved that modern Anarchism, is nothing more than a reactionary antisocial Lumpen movement.

Positive books on Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge.

Most of the books I see about Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge and Kamdoji from those years portray these things as badly as possible, and compare Pol Pot himself to a mini Hitler, or worse. I would like to know if there is a book that justifies Pol Pot and speaks positively about him and the Khmer Rouge. Thank you in advance!

I don't know about you, but 4chan has long needed peace; it has not been anonymous for a long time, it uses a captcha that collects user data, and if it blocks users, that's just life. Where is your anonymity? Reddit, at least, allows you to create an account with a proxy or VPN. And what is 4chan? There is also a Russian-speaking equivalent called Dvach, which is even worse; it even blocks posts that are not from Russia. What kind of nonsense is that? There is also a law prohibiting GPT, and God forbid you joke about politicians; they will simply ask the owner of Dvach to leak your IP, and that's it. So the only anonymity is the absence of identification, but for the provider, you are still the same. In short, these sites are dead. In short, I have long been waiting for your opinions and criticism; if I am mistaken or wrong about something, please let me know.

Stalin

Comrades:

The advance of communism is unstoppable.

We're talking about agriculture.

How do capitalists intend to overcome the planning of the socialist economy?

Capitalist decisions are based on short-term profit, destroying competition to achieve monopoly, and eradicating small farmers and ranchers so that the entire business remains in the hands of the four multinationals.

Thus, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council have published the "Plan to Accelerate the Building of an Agricultural Power (2025-2035)," which states:

"The plan foresees that significant progress will be made in building a strong agricultural country by 2027. Significant progress has been made in the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, and the modernization of agriculture and rural areas has reached a new level. By 2035, significant results will have been achieved in the comprehensive development of rural areas, and the modernization of agriculture will have been largely completed. By the middle of this century, China will become a strong agricultural country.

The plan proposes strengthening the foundation for food security in all aspects to ensure food self-sufficiency; promoting innovation in agricultural science and technological equipment in all fields to accelerate the achievement of a high level of scientific and technological independence; improving the modern agricultural management system; further deepening foreign agricultural cooperation to create new advantages in international agricultural competition; and promoting the construction of livable, attractive villages." for businesses and a high quality of life; promoting the integrated development of urban and rural areas in order to reduce the gap between them.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Fighters_(video_game)
>What if the Soviet Union INVADED New York, US?
Why are Westards like this? Co-opting revolutionary aesthetics, anti-Soviet US plumbers as protagonists. The fuck is that? How is this not simply hypocrisy and a projection like Red Dawn where 'a larger country invades small town', considering US's track record of foreign intervention/meddling.

Satannyahu in Argentina

I just want to know your opinion on this current thread, how can Argentina let Satannyahu in?

US stock market crash general

Retards here have been claiming an imminent stock market crash for almost 10 years straight.

But it looks like this time we might actually get a crash this time because the Republicans seem to like crashing the market in their second terms.

And it does seem like Trump and his advisors are trying to crash the market.

Either that or Trump's economic advisors are just stupid.

leftychan.i2p

Hello, faggots, thanks to our unwavering dedication to the community I am proud to announce we are rolling out our own, official, leftychan.net i2p address.
You can locate the eepsite @ http://leftychmxz3wczbd4add4atspbqevzrtwf2sjobm3waqosy2dbua.b32.i2p, or, http://leftychan.i2p/.
If you have any trouble, as stated on the news announcement, try manually adding the address and domain to your address book.

-Yours Truly.

Nuclear War

The nuclear threat is back. But we don't see any nuclear panic like in the 1980s. Why is that? Why does nobody care?

I am not some prepper retard but even I am getting nervous.

Just look at this shit
A time of unprecedented danger: It is 90 seconds to midnight
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/
>This year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward, largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the war in Ukraine. The Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.
>As UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned in August, the world has entered “a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War.”

and also this
US Nuclear Test Raises Concerns of New Arms Race With Russia
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-19/us-nuclear-test-on-day-of-kremlin-s-treaty-abdication-fuels-doubt

https://archive.ph/EoqWY

>The US conducted a high-explosive experiment at a nuclear test site in Nevada just hours after Russia revoked a ban on atomic-weapons testing, prompting concerns of a new arms race between the world’s top nuclear powers.

So, are you going to PROTECT AND SURVIVE, anon? Or are you just going to give up everything and die?

the situación of Argentina

This imagen describe some of the situación of Argentina, Miley sells arg to the judaism

The police

Assasings We're not going to hold on any longer

kemono friends and spice and wolf thread

>no threads for two of the greatest pieces of fiction of all time
fuck it how about a two in one thread

discussion of both s&w and kf is allowed

News 7/24/25

Thai fighter jet bombs Cambodian targets as border battle escalates
Thailand scrambled an F-16 fighter jet to bomb targets in Cambodia after artillery volleys from both sides killed at least 11 civilians, as border tension boiled over into rare armed conflict between the Southeast Asian countries. Both blamed each other for starting a morning clash at a disputed area of the border, which quickly escalated from small arms fire to heavy shelling in at least six locations 209 kilometres (130 miles) apart along a frontier where sovereignty has been disputed for more than a century.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/567942/thai-fighter-jet-bombs-cambodian-targets-as-border-battle-escalates
https://archive.ph/qNdjM

Sri Lankan court orders owners of container ship to pay $1 billion in marine pollution compensation
The container ship MV X-Press Peal, which was carrying chemicals, sank off Colombo in June, 2021 after catching fire. The Supreme Court said the incident caused “unprecedented devastation to the marine environment of Sri Lanka” and harmed the country’s economy, especially the lives of the fishing communities.
https://apnews.com/article/sri-lanka-ship-fire-pollution-singapore-shipping-370ab4b243e761b015ab45976a790b52

Protest Crackdowns Intensify in Argentina as Milei Implements Austerity
In the first six months of 2025, the CPM documented 1,251 cases of injuries or detentions during demonstrations in Buenos Aires—surpassing the total of 1,216 recorded in all of 2024. The organization attributes this rise to a deliberate state strategy to suppress dissent amid the government’s sweeping economic adjustment program.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/protest-crackdowns-intensify-in-argentina-as-milei-implements-austerity/
https://archive.ph/9XNNc

Chile's government to expropriate land tied to Pinochet-era torture
Chile plans to expropriate a settlement founded by a German cult leader where torture took place during former dictator Augusto Pinochet's military regime as the government takes another step to shine a light on a dark period of the past. The enclave, originally called Colonia Dignidad and renamed Villa Baviera, was founded in 1961 by Paul Schafer, a former Nazi medic turned evangelical preacher who kept the isolated community under tight control and was later jailed for sexually abusing children.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chiles-government-expropriate-land-tied-pinochet-era-torture-2025-07-23/

Marlon Vargas is the new president of Ecuador’s Indigenous movement CONAIE
Vargas was one of the leaders of the October 2019 social mobilizations against former President Lenin Moreno, over the economic adjustments that the government had agreed to with the International Monetary Fund, including the elimination of gasoline subsidies. He also took part in the June 2022 mobilizations against the economic policies of former President Guillermo Lasso.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/24/marlon-vargas-is-the-new-president-of-ecuadors-indigenous-movement-conaie/

Balloting underway in government-forced vote on Canada Post’s “final” offers
Serious concerns over the use of online balloting have been raised widely by workers. Thousands face practical and technical barriers to casting a vote. Older workers, those with limited digital access, and employees in rural or remote regions have struggled to obtain login credentials or decipher conflicting communications from the union and the unelected Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB), which banned a strike by postal workers last December at the orders of Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon. The absence of clear, accessible procedures has left many uncertain if their votes will even be counted.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/24/dovn-j24.html

NHS must resist doctors’ strike, its chief tells hospital leaders
He wants hospitals to press ahead with as many routine operations as possible, even if it means running A&E units with a skeleton staff, rather than cancelling clinics to ensure emergency care runs as normal. Mackey told hospital bosses in a call on Wednesday: “We’ve been very, very clear we want to have a different approach this time. You have noticed already we are in a different space compared to where we were last time, much more instructive to the BMA, much more resistant to their demands. Frankly we and you make decisions about safety, not the BMA. Do what you do best, make sensible decisions and we’ll stick together.”
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/wes-streeting-doctors-strike-bma-7slcwknpq
https://archive.ph/sO4yB

Corbyn and Sultana commit to launching new socialist party
They pledged the creation of “a new kind of political party — one that belongs to you” and looked ahead to a founding conference at which members would “decide the party’s direction, the model of leadership and the policies that are needed to transform society.” The founding process will also determine the name of the new party. It is understood that the process will be overseen by a working group to be established by the Independent Alliance of MPs, of which Corbyn and Sultana are both members.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-kind-political-party

Zelenskyy moves to restore independence of anti-graft agencies after public anger and EU criticism
“The text is balanced,” Zelenskyy said. “The most important thing is real tools, no Russian ties and the independence” of the anti-graft agencies. The new draft underlines that the prosecutor general and his deputies cannot give orders to anti-graft agencies or interfere in their work.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-corruption-protests-zelenskyy-law-6766134c963f0423d88c2ac1749f8c11

Former US guard at GHF speaks of brutality he witnessed against desperate Gaza civilians
He recounts an incident in which American guards pepper-sprayed a Palestinian who was collecting food from the ground and who posed no threat. In another incident, a stun grenade was thrown and directly hit a Palestinian woman. "I collapsed and fell to the ground. That was the moment I realised I couldn't continue working there," the former guard told Channel 12. Recounting another incident, he said once Palestinians finished collecting the aid, the American guards started shooting towards them – in the legs and around them – to force them to leave the site.
https://www.newarab.com/news/american-former-ghf-guard-tells-brutality-against-gazans

Syria is secretly reshaping its economy. The president’s brother is in charge.
Over seven months, the committee has negotiated with the wealthiest Syrian tycoons, including some who are under U.S. sanctions. The committee has also made headway taking over a constellation of companies that were run out of Assad’s palace, the sources said. Many tycoons linked to Assad, including an airline mogul sanctioned in connection with drug and weapons smuggling, and a businessman accused of scavenging and smelting metal from Syrian towns depopulated by Assad’s army, are keeping some profits and avoiding state prosecution, for a price. But that bargain, amnesty in exchange for a mix of cash and corporate control, risks angering Syrians seeking justice.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/syria-is-secretly-reshaping-its-economy-presidents-brother-is-charge-2025-07-24/

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Everyone, what if for example, if I watch or read about Hentai, and if I start, watch something frank video with real people, then I have panic and disgust, it’s just strange that just painted pictures are excited, and real people scare me if you had this, I will be happy with your opinion

USA Kabuki theatre

I believe that Trump wants to use the so-called “Secondary Sanctions” on all countries that import Russian Oil/Gas, as a convenient excuse t dramatically escalate the Trade War with China into a full-decoupling of all Trade between the U$ and China, which combined with Trump forcing the ROC/“Taiwan” U$ puppet state to declare “independence” and/or the U$ recognizing them as the “Real China”, will force China to Invade Taiwan, thus giving the U$ a cactus belli to launch World War III against China, which means Trump will have Bipartisan support to use the Insurrection Act to declare Martial Law, suspend all Elections, and become De Facto President for Life, though this could dramatically backfire as it will either end in with this either ending in a decisive Conventional U$ victory (due to the U$ B-2 Stealth Bomber and Standoff Stealthy JASSMs, LRASMs, and Tomahawks, launched by B-1/2/52 Bombers in the case of JASSM, B-1 Bombers in the case of the LRASM, and Cruisers, Destroyers, and Submarines, in the case of the Tomahawk, destroying most Chinese Air Bases, Naval Bases, Warships, SRBM/MRBM/IRBM/GLCM launchers, and SAM sites, which despite Chinese DF-21/26 MRBMs/IRBMs and CJ-10 cruise Missiles launched by H-6 Bombers and Type 052D/Type 055 Destroyers, severely damaging many U$ air and naval bases in Japan and South Korea and Anti-Ship Missiles launched by H-6 Bombers and Type 052D/Type 055 Destroyers sinking several U$ Destroyers and Cruisers, causes China to suffer a decisive Conventional Defeat and Capitulate) that will lead to the overthrow of the Chinese Communist Party and the Balkanization of China (Tibet and East Turkestan will gain Independence) in a renewed Century of Humiliation, thus enshrining the Global Fascist Christian Zionist Nationalist 1000 year Burgereich under the eternal Trump Dynasty, or escalate into a Global Nuclear War (due to a DF-21D, DF-26, or JY-21 ASBM, launched by a TEL in the case of the DF-21/26, or a H-6 Bomber or Type 055 Destroyer in the case of the YJ-21, penetrating the Aegis ABM system and sinking a U$ Aircraft Carrier, thus provoking a U$ Nuclear First Strike on China, and assuming some Chinese ICBMs survive, and that their MIRVed Nuclear Warheads penetrate the U$ ABM system, a Chinese Nuclear Second Strike on the U$) that will destroy the entire Global Capitalist-Imperialist System, thus allowing for a World Maoist PPW to create a Global USSR that will Place the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜🇨🇳🇰🇵🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚀☢️!

Any of my fellow Comrades interested in giving an Intellectual critique of my In-Depth Dialectical Materialist Effort Post on why Trump is refusing to end the Kabuki theatre Inter-Imperialist Stalemated Retarded Slavic Border War between Banderite Fascist Zionist Bourgeois Ukraine and Vlasovite Fascist Zionist Bourgeois Russia, and what this means for the International Communist Movement, 🤔?

Mahmoud Khalil forced disappearance thread

On March 9, 2025, US permanent resident and Columbia University graduate student was abducted without charge or trial and sent off to a shady Louisiana site on White House orders over his protests for Columbia to divest from Israel's war crimes.

From DropSite:

NEW YORK CITY—On Saturday night, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents entered a student residential building at Columbia University in uptown New York and detained Mahmoud Khalil, one of the lead negotiators on behalf of pro-Palestine protesters at 2024’s Gaza solidarity encampment. In a sweeping attack on the First Amendment, the Trump administration said this week it would begin revoking visas of “Hamas sympathizers,” specifically citing Columbia University students. The detention followed a two-day targeted online campaign against Khalil by pro-Israel groups and individuals, including Columbia’s high-profile pro-Israel professor, Shai Davidai.

Khalil, an Algerian citizen of Palestinian origin and an American green-card holder, was detained by DHS officials around half past eight as he was entering the Columbia residential building he lives in. He was returning from an iftar, breaking the day-long fast observed by many Muslims during the month of Ramadan.

Khalil’s wife, who is eight months pregnant, was with him at the time. A statement by the pro-Palestine group Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) stated that he was “abducted and detained without the physical demonstration of a warrant or officially filed charges.”

Khalil was detained at a DHS facility in New Jersey, according to a database for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But when his wife went to try and visit him she was informed he was not there. "He is not at the ICE facility in New Jersey. I can confirm he is not there,” Khalil’s attorney Amy Greer told Drop Site. "At this time, we have an idea [where he is] but we cannot confirm that 100%.”

According to WAWOG, the DHS agents told Khalil that the U.S. Department of State had revoked his student visa. The group said this was “despite the fact that he has a green card, not a visa, and is a lawful permanent resident.”

In response to a request for comment from Drop Site, the DHS first stated, “You need to reach out to the White House.”

On Sunday evening, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin sent a follow-up statement confirming ICE “arrested” Khalil “for activities aligned to Hamas”: “On March 9, 2025, in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism, and in coordination with the Department of State, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student,” McLaughlin wrote. “Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. ICE and the Department of State are committed to enforcing President Trump’s executive orders and to protecting U.S. national security.”

McLaughlin did not answer questions about where Khalil is being held.

Columbia University directed Drop Site to a statement on their website. The statement, dated March 9, reads, "There have been reports of ICE around campus. Columbia has and will continue to follow the law. Consistent with our longstanding practice and the practice of cities and institutions throughout the country, law enforcement must have a judicial warrant to enter non-public University areas, including University buildings. Columbia is committed to complying with all legal obligations and supporting our student body and campus community."

Khalil’s wife was unlocking the door to the building when “two plainclothes DHS agents forced their way in behind them.” They initially refused to identify themselves, she reported, but then threatened Khalil’s wife that if she remained with him, she would be detained too.

On Wednesday, Khalil was among the protesters at a sit-in at Milstein Library in Columbia University’s Barnard College, protesting the recent expulsion of three Barnard students over pro-Palestine activism. New York Police Department officers later arrested nine individuals from the same protest—the third round of arrests of pro-Palestine demonstrators on Columbia’s campuses in the past year.

Over the course of Thursday and Friday, several prominent pro-Israel groups and individuals published a series of tweets targeting Khalil, mentioning his presence at the sit-in on Wednesday and his history as a lead negotiator with Columbia in April 2024, and demanded that the Trump administration act strongly against him by revoking his visa and deporting him. They tagged President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and US Attorney General Pam Bondi.

read more: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detains-columbia-university-student-gaza

Radlibs are trying to cancel FSF and Stallman

I know I am a little bit late to the party with this but some "anonymous" group tried to cancel rms and the FSF as well: archive.md/Pt37W (stallman-report.org). It's the usual shit: whining about Stallman's comments on Epstein, supposed "sexual harassment" etc. Basically, the author calls for Stallman to step down from the FSF and/or for FSF members to take him down.

It is already known who wrote this "report": Drew DeVault, a developer who worked (or still works?) on Wayland. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41859793

Eugene-lit 2.0

My website has been recently updated:
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Book 3 is out:
https://eugeneseffortposts.royalwebhosting.net/book03/index.html

Following Book 2:
https://eugeneseffortposts.royalwebhosting.net/book02/index.html

And Book 1 (which was originally meant for something else but made the perfect introduction):
https://eugeneseffortposts.royalwebhosting.net/mymethod.html

Consider this the "Eugene general" where you can ask me random questions or bitch at me.

Southern Rock thread

I'm forever on the fence about how much I like this stuff, but it's got some good guitar work. The rural vibe with a lot of it is cool, too.

What can be done to advertise leftychan and get more users? I'm sick of all new users being sent to .orge and thinking Leftypol is a bunch of histeronic hyper-authoritarian BPD troons.
Leftychan in it's current state is functionally dead. We get maybe like 5-10 unique posts in a day.

/brit/ - Baz Snaps

Football fans and Gregg's connoisseurs from around England are currently rioting following the murder of three schoolchildren by an asylum seeker (Axel Rudakubana) and subsequent non-response by the courts. The riots have only escellated following Starmer's absolutely braindead response & the response of local law enforcement.

Bongs to follow for updates:
https://x.com/PolitlcsUK
https://x.com/visegrad24
https://x.com/Sargon_of_Akkad
https://x.com/AkkadSecretary
https://x.com/9mm_smg
https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra

First Wave Black Metal Thread

Thread for the thinking man's music.
(speed-black metal / blackened thrash / oldschool first wave black metal / etc.)

Massive Attack & Kneecap announce new anti-genocide music alliance

Massive Attack announce alliance of artists in support of Gaza, including Fontaines DC, Kneecap and Brian Eno

Massive Attack, Kneecap, Fontaines DC, and Brian Eno have officially formed a syndicate for artists who speak out about “aggressive, vexatious campaigns by pro-Israel advocates” against the people of Gaza.

The news was shared via social media, in a statement that began “the scenes in Gaza have moved beyond description,” before clearly expressing that the UK government has clearly “facilitated” the “genocide”.

The group aims to protect other artists, especially those at the beginning of their careers, from threats experienced as a by-product of speaking out in a similar way. The group revealed that they have been “subject to various infringements from within our industry (live and recorded) and legally via organised bodies such as UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI).”

UKLFI reported Bob Vylan for their Glastonbury set, during which they chanted “death to the IDF.” A criminal investigation is currently underway. UKLFI also reported the BBC for broadcasting the set. As a. result, the broadcaster’s Head of Music and a team of senior BBC workers have stepped down while an internal investigation goes ahead.

UKLFI are also at the centre of the Kneecap controversy after Mo Chara was charged with a terrorism offence after he allegedly displayed a Hezbollah flag at a show in 2024 while shouting, “Up Hamas, Up Hezbollah.” Hezbollah are a banned organisation in the UK.

Reflecting on these tactics, the post states, “Having withstood these campaigns of attempted censorship, we won’t stand by and allow other artists – particularly those at earlier stages of their careers or in other positions of professional vulnerability – to be threatened into silence or career cancellation.”

It then encourages other artists “who’ve been placed in this position, or those who now wish to use their platforms to talk about Palestine but are concerned about industrial or legal repercussions” to contact them to make a collective stand.

The collective will work together on a list of demands, including “immediate, unfettered access to Gaza for recognised international aid agencies without military threat,” as well as an end to “UK arms sales/licenses to Israel” and an”immediate and permanent ceasefire.”

In a statement further shared with The Guardian, Massive Attack expanded on the collective: “This collective action is really about offering some kind of solidarity to those artists who are living day after day in a screen-time genocide, but are worried about using their platforms to express their horror at that because of the level of censorship within their industry or from highly organised external legal bodies, terrifying them and their management teams with aggressive legal actions. The intention is clear and obvious: to silence them.”

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/massive-attack-alliance-gaza-fontaines-dc-kneecap-brian-eno/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/17/massive-attack-announce-alliance-of-musicians-speaking-out-over-gaza

Palestine Thread Pt. VIII

Continued from >>487384

Updates and current status since the start of the last thread:
The (largely civilian) Palestinian death toll has now passed 61,000. Excess deaths have been estimated by The Lancet to plausibly be upwards of 186,000.

In early January 2025, Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner exchange. Despite all of the killing, Hamas's military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, appears to have largely replenished its numbers. Israel proceeded to violate the ceasefire with airstrikes and a resumption of their illegal blockade of Gaza before resuming full-scale attacks in March and destroying the ceasefire entirely.

Israel has continued to violate the ceasefire with Lebanon more than 600 times, and has refused to leave the country entirely after multiple delays. After months of the IDF violating the ceasefire in the south of Lebanon, Israel returned to bombing Beirut in March.

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by US-backed al-Qaeda operatives. Israel proceeded to steal more land from Syria and launched a massive bombing campaign on Syria and Syria's arsenal without any resistance. Meanwhile, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the leader of HTS and current de facto leader of Syria, has launched attacks on Lebanon and attacked Palestinian liberation factions within Syria.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICC also issued warrants against Hamas leaders.

Following the warrants, the Biden administration invited Yoav Gallant to the White House.

Benjamin Netanyahu was invited back to the White House for February 4th, 2025.

Israel has launched more attacks on the West Bank, and unilaterally broke the US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, refusing to move on to phase two of the deal.

More countries have joined South Africa's legal case at the International Court of Justice against Israel for the crime of genocide. Cuba, Ireland, Belize, Palestine, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Libya, Chile, and Colombia have joined the South African case against Israel. Egypt, Belgium, and Maldives have also declared their intention to join. Nicaragua has withdrawn from the case.

Yemeni Houthi attacks on international shipping, in solidarity with Gaza, stopped in accordance with the ceasefire, following multiple successful Yemeni strikes on targets in Israel. After the resumption of the blockade on Gaza by Israel, Yemen's Ansar Allah stated that they would resume attacking Israeli shipping. Following this statement, the US, under Trump, resumed bombing Yemen, hitting multiple civilian targets. Yemen has launched multiple attacks on Israel since this bombing campaign began against them, as well as launching defensive attacks against the US Navy in response.

Demonstrators have continued to blockade and damage arms factories manufacturing weapons for Israel in the UK.

The US gov't continued shipping weapons to Israel, in violation of US law.

The new US administration has started unlawfully abducting students for protest and opposition to genocide. The administration has threatened to deport these students, and has gone after university funding in an effort to suppress anti-genocide speech on campuses and control the narrative.

Israel attacked a Freedom Flotilla boat near Malta for trying to break the illegal blockade of Gaza.

And much, much more!

What Would Stalin Do?

When I first started working in the tech industry, I didn't understand the point of Scrum. I couldn't recall a single time when I thought that our daily meetings actually mattered. It wasn't long before my attention was captured by the horrors of writing mountains of documentation that would never be read, living through Jira hell, and nearly going mad from the pointless rituals of test-driven development and eXtreme(ly shitty) Programming.

The story I was sold is that all these big ideas are bigly necessary because big complex systems need big complex teams, which in turn need these big ideas. This struck me as a big damn lie. All you really need is good code, which needs good developers, which needs good teamwork - duh, right? But what follows is a bunch of bullshit boilerplate, standards and methodologies. Why? Because they serve to obscure the root of the problem: people giving a shit about the shit they're doing so that they can do it well.

If you're hiring people to maintain some voodoo code written by an overworked and disgruntled codemonkey ten years ago, or refusing to hire junior devs because you need "real talent" to maintain your Kafkaesque SaaS nightmare, then problem runs a *lot* deeper than just "not being agile enough" or whatever the hell other coping mechanisms we use to repress the problem. These insane business practices that drive insane development practices are literally insane, because they do the same thing over and over and over again - fixing the problems created by fixing the problems created by fixing the problems.

What the professional commentariat - the business gurus and glorified cultists, the chattering classes who preach incessantly on such matters - avoid mentioning is that the crux of good management involves _protecting the workers from such pathologies so that they can do their damn jobs._ The workers can learn to direct and motivate themselves if they want to, and they will if they have the freedom to do it. In one sentence: *They need to be given tools and techniques, not pizzas and parenting.* This has nothing to do with "agile processes" or "servant leadership" or whatever other perverted corporate ideologies that are being peddled to the successfully incompetent - it's a working-class reality.

Pathological business processes that exist solely to paper over the fact that people don't care about their work enough to do it right will inevitably create more problems than they solve, because they pile on even more reasons to not give a damn, and _giving a damn is the ONLY way to create a quality product._ But these firms obviously don't exist to create a quality product, but to create profits, and creating profits in a world where the appearance of productivity matters more than anything else - because it is rewarded with profits more than anything else - can lead only to either enshittification or the mass production of shit.

People won't eat the same shit forever, especially when it's being endlessly repackaged and made worse each time, unless they have no other choice. Our lives are too short to accept this. But our superiors don't view it this way - they apparently live in an eternal present and can't tell the difference between the long-term and the short-term anymore. They've unironically begun to believe that a successful business model resembles Cookie Clicker.

Mark Fisher coined the term "market Stalinism" to show how post-Fordist capitalism seems to have adopted a Stalinist obsession with the symbols of productivity over the real process of production, but I claim that he didn't go far enough. It isn't the case anymore that firms merely value the appearance of achievement more than actual achievements. Now, the moment they actually achieve anything at all, they stop seeking out actual achievements altogether. You already have the product, so why bother making anything new when you can just leech off of it forever? This isn't "market Stalinism" but Cookie Clicker Capitalism.

If I gave Stalin a laptop and asked him to play Cookie Clicker on it, what would he do? Maybe he'd start by setting some quotas for cookie output and creating elaborate bureaucratic processes around it. Maybe he'd make a plan to have this many cookies and that many grandmas by the end of the month, and order some associates to watch over the grandmas to ensure that they aren't trying to sabotage cookie production, only to replace them when they find no sabotage despite all the quotas being unfulfilled.

But I'm pretty sure that what would actually happen is that he would take one look at the game and tell me to piss off. "What is this nonsense, comrade? Stop wasting my time." At best, he'd seize the laptop and let some dorks at Gosplan take a look at it.

In other words, Stalinism's obsession with appearances was ultimately driven by some real interest in material progress. Stalin's approach was in many respects monstrous, but it wasn't meaningless. It had a pioneering logic to it - crash industrialization, planning, statecraft, a communist future - even if that logic relied on paranoid terror. In contrast, "market Stalinism" has turned into Cookie Clicker Capitalism, which has no logic beyond endless repetition. Imagine a mouse clicking on a human-shaped cookie, forever.

It's not like we can't have infinite growth - or at least a couple of million years of growth. The universe has a whole lot of stuff in it, more than we can even imagine. But this actually requires thinking about the far future and carefully planning for it. Cookie Clicker logic can't function when the universe is made to be so small. Yet, the successfully incompetent have managed to delude themselves into believing in a contradiction - a fantasy of infinite growth within a microscopically small fantasy world. Hell, even the "degrowthers" use the same logic! What we end up with are maniacs arguing over whether or not to keep clicking on the same damn cookies, instead of playing a different game.

So, if Mark Fisher were still alive, I would ask him an obscene question: What Would Stalin Do? (WWSD?) A capitalist Stalin might end up being a "market Stalinist" of some sort, sure, but I highly doubt that he would ever become a Cookie Clicker Capitalist. Why? Because Stalin - and Stalinism - was still animated by the spirit of socialism.

So, perhaps we should reclaim this spirit of socialism by flipping "market Stalinism" on its head. To combat the capitalist market economy inversion of the dominating aspects of socialist ideology, we need a socialist planned economy inversion of the liberating aspects of capitalist ideology. We need "planned Reaganism" to defeat "market Stalinism."

The rhetoric of Reaganism revolved around a desire to return to free-market fundamentals to combat the crisis apparently caused by the excesses of Fordist Keynesianism. He attacked the inefficiency and harsh overreach of "big government" and believed that American foreign policy consistently failed to combat the immorality that the USSR (as the "evil Empire") and its supposed leftist sympathizers stood for. He championed an optimistic vision that appealed to "common sense" over out-of-touch elitism, posing individual liberties and moral virtues as the true engine of economic progress.

We should argue that democratic central planning is not "big government" but the opposite - an antidote to an inefficient plutocratic oligarchy that generates mountains of bureaucratic waste to prop up a decaying capitalism and entrench the authority of its elite servants. Our moral outrage should be directed towards the "evil Empire" that is the global system of capitalist political economy as a whole, which cheapens and degrades morality by exploiting it for geopolitical theater and glorified PR stunts that obscure the mass suffering and resentment it causes. We needn't worry about out-of-touch elites when the common person is allowed to truly exercise their common sense through the responsibility of governing. Concepts like individual liberty and moral virtue can only flourish within every individual when it is given a stable foundation of collective material support.

To take this very serious joke even further: if the endpoint of "market Stalinism" is Cookie Clicker Capitalism, then the endpoint of "planned Reaganism" is Smash Bros. Communism. Rather than the trivial and autistic repetition veiled in shallow aesthetics that is Cookie Clicker, Smash Bros. Communism is the vibrant and dynamic confluence of individual agency and meaningful depth with a collective experience that is fun and accessible to all.

Reading General

Hello /leftypol/, we noticed an under-appreciation for the theory that upholds our political ideologies: As such, we have decided to revive the reading sticky! This thread will be dedicated to the sharing, discussing, and general banter about various leftist thinkers, theories, and political outlooks.

But, other than that, we believe there are other important reads that must be addressed, especially, for beginners and those just now getting into leftism.

Don't forget to check out >>>/edu/ for more reading and discussion!

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Common Right Wing Talking Points Debunks
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Check out the /edu/ thread at
https://leftychan.net/edu/res/5576.html

Also see the relevant leftybooru tag
https://lefty.pictures/post/list/debunk/1
Add topics into the tag list to further narrow down your search!


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Introduction to Marxism Reading List - Thanks to the /read/ matrix room (https://app.element.io/#/group/+leftyread:matrix.org)
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Absolute Beginners Tier:

'Principles of Communism' by Friedrich Engels
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm

'Three Source and Theree Component Parts of Marxism' by V.I. Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm

Not a book but Halim Alrah's youtube channel is good for the absolutely basics of Marxism but obviously not a replacement for reading
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGog4JPn5-W3_XIKccENysg

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Marx and Engles Reading List
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Tier 1:

'Manifesto of the Communist Party'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm

'Critique of the Gotha Programme'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/

'Socialism: Utopian and Scientific'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm

Tier 2:

'Wage Labour and Capital'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/

'Value, Price and Profit'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/

'Theses on Feuerback'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm

By this point you should have a good understanding of the basics of Marxism and are ready to branch out to other theorists and also read Capital.

Tier 3:

'Capital vol.1'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

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Lenin Reading List - By Moo (aka Zizekposter)
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Lenin Essentials:

'State and Revolution'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/

'“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/

'Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/

Petit Bourgeois Philistine Tier:

'What is to be done'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/

'The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/

'Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/index.htm

ADHD Tier:

'Socialism and Religion'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm

'Zizek's Introduction to Revolution at the Gates'
https://kabirabud.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/slavoj_zizek_repeating_leninbookfi-org.pdf

'Revolutionary Adventurism'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1902/sep/01.htm

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MLM Reading List
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Essentials:

Why MLM?
https://why-mlm.medium.com/why-mlm-af48aba14f8a

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Basic Course
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S01-MLM-Basic-Course-Revised-Edition-10th-Printing.pdf

'Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain'
https://libgen.lc/get.php?md5=a00646f118a3427ec19263021b3e84e1&key=06Q5Q1W5DFK8YOHU&mirr=1

Mao:

'On Practice & Contradiction'
https://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/N04-On-Contradiction-Study-2nd.pdf

'On Guerrilla Warfare'
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/index.htm

'On Protracted War'
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm

China:

'Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village'
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=00F5750256E291B678E2A0039D3CF54E

'Red Star Over China' - Edgar Snow
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=BD54E7C5F9CDE90E30BD0CB5E91F0049

'The Unknown Cultural Revolution' - Dongpin Han
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=2495C43CFA7395ACA45CA812A304A701

Peru:

Interview With Chairman Gonzalo
https://the-red-flag.org/en/central-committee-of-the-communist-party-of-peru-interview-with-chairman-gonzalo/

General line of the PCP
https://gplpcp.wordpress.com/

'Shining Path: Terror and Revolution in Peru' - Simon Strong
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=4FB5D349F9D3250453C5F0525F5890DD

India:

Operation “Green Hunt” in India
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/N08-Operation-Green-Hunt.pdf

Eight Historic Documents (AZAD)
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S18-Historic-Eight-Documents.pdf

'Urban Perspective'
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S14-Urban-Perspective-4th-Printing.pdf

Philippines:

Araling Aktibista - Activist Study ARAK
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/S22-Activist-Study-ARAK-2nd-Printing.pdf

'Stand for Socialism Against Modern Revisionism'
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S07-Stand-for-Socialism-3rd-Printing.pdf

'Philippine Society and Revolution'
https://bannedthought.net/Philippines/CPP/1970s PhilippineSocietyAndRevolution-4ed.pdf

Political Economy:

'Rethinking Socialism' – Deng-yuan Hsu & Pao-yu Ching
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S11-Rethinking-Socialism-4th-Printing.pdf

'China: A Modern Social-Imperialist Power' - CPI(Maoist)
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=F68AC84D480D41A222818D802F3AF7CA
or
https://library.bz/uploads/main/c0105702c9219cf136bdae79008daaa4.epub
or
https://why-mlm.medium.com/china-a-modern-social-imperialist-power-d5ac7a9455f7

'Maoist Economics & the Revolutionary Road to Communism' - The Shanghai Textbook
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=8B44F61D828997487E2FDE607FCF2FEB

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Leftcom Reading Lists
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r/marxism101's reading list:
https://i.imgur.com/s70UUPQ.jpg

r/bruhinternational's reading list:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bruhinternational/comments/m53hon/official_rbruhinternational_reading_list/

Bordiga:

'The Democratic Principle'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/democratic-principle.htm

'Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1951/class-party.htm

'The Spirit of Horsepower'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1953/horsepower.htm

'Report on Fascism'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/bordiga02.htm

'Activism'
https://libcom.org/library/activism-amadeo-bordiga

'The Lyons Theses'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/lyons-theses.htm

'Theory and Action in Marxist Doctrine'
https://libcom.org/library/theory-action-marxist-doctrine-amadeo-bordiga

'Dialogue with Stalin'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm

Pannekoek:

'World Revolution and Communist Tactics'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1920/communist-tactics.htm

'Party and Class'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1936/party-class.htm

Herman Gorter:

'Open Letter to Comrade Lenin'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/open-letter.htm

'The World Revolution'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1918/world-revolution.htm

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Bookchin Reading Lists - based off of posts by Gorm1918 (pbuh)
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'The Next Revolution'
https://libcom.org/files/Murray%20Bookchin-The%20Next%20Revolution.%20Popular%20Assemblies%20and%20the%20Promise%20of%20Direct%20Democracy-Verso%20(2015).pdf

'Urbanization Without Cities'
http://188.165.199.119/files/Urbanization_Without_Cities_-_Ebook.pdf

'The 3rd Revolution'
https://libcom.org/library/third-revolution-popular-movements-revolutionary-era

'The Ecology of Freedom'
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-ecology-of-freedom

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Links to Resources and Libraries:
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More Marx and Engels:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/sw/index.htm

Lenin:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/

Other Selected Marxists:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/selected-marxists.htm

Classical Works Recommended To High-Ranking Cadres:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-8/mswv8_56.htm

Many important books can be found on libgen:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

Libcom has some good books/documents:
https://libcom.org/library

Other links:
https://archive.is/L8uFD

Various assortment of historical and biographical works:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=uploader%3A%22kocotosi%40gmail.com%22&sort=-publicdate

The Leftist Bookshelf (4.16 GB, 600+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!QUFQSBja!hPbmmLolJBGwSQ848nncnw
This was originally a torrent but I can't find the link anymore. Its description was: "640 eBooks, mostly in PDF format (a bunch are CHM, DJVU or ePUB), from a revolutionary Leftist viewpoint. The main subjects are politics and philosophy, history, economics, and much much more."

Political Theory (MLM) (2.64 GB, 550+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!4M1FnTgI!CdM8WWjpBC_UHGCJk9AHzA
I found this on reddit years ago (circa 2016) Don't really remember who made it or where it came from, but this is a reading course (politics, philosophy, economics, etc) focused on Maoism. Has many books and articles on the USSR, PRC, Stalin, Mao, etc.

The Anarchist Library (669 MB, 4000+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!gRFkQCLY!5gUkmaubpp_P_yKLZiBJ9Q
This is a complete mirror of the anarchist library with pdfs and epubs

Little Bunker of Marxism-Leninism (680 MB, 100+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!0QtCiI7L!MJZJk-SdjyBuBZOuNJuOPQ
Unfinished project focused on M-L with more than 100 books on several topics like history, economics, politics, etc. Lots of stuff on the USSR.

Historical Materialism series (330 MB, 100+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!9IkymYBZ!B8vB2yDP0Qv_-DPS2ro-HA
A pdf archive of over 100 books from the Historical Materialism book series. I got this from thecharnelhouse.org years ago and the website had released many marxist books from other publishers but unfortunately it's been taken down.

/leftypol/ with a slash of liberty (239 MB, 100+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!sFMQXJ6J!JboByVCZScC6Jq2YXE0Exw
I didn't make this, just reuploading it. This is a classic /leftypol/ link, marxist stuff mixed with anarchism.

Marx & Engels Collected Works (900+ MB, 50 files)
https://mega.nz/#F!BJEmkQiZ!vylIbCWFrqIeYaLiuN2szg
The official, complete works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels organized in 50 volumes and 3 categories.

Try to say hi

Greeting's from PR.China)
Its my first time using leftypol ,so actually I don't get how to use it correctly ,will keep learning I guess. Cause of the firewall, we Chinese seldom have chances to communicate with foreigners,especially politalcal communication :(
So I'm kind of curious to know how foreigner comrades think of China ,on other websites I can only find tons of, trash informations (Must know what Im saying lol) Also, I may answer some questions too,welcoming communication

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/191198.Mankind_Child_of_the_Stars
Mankind Child of the Stars by Max H. Flindt

Is Earth a colony established by creatures from Outerspace?

Scientific evidence to prove that mankind could not possibly evolved naturally. Step by step clues that explore the very real possibility that we are direct descendants of ancient starmen who came from other planets to Earth millions of years ago. Some of the fascinating discoveries revealed in this book:* Earth has been visited more than 5,000 times by creatures from other planets! * There's evidence that starmen deliberately hid any "Missing Link" human fossils in order to keep mankind from knowing it was a colony! * There is a reason to believe that the starmen were the "Angels" of the Bible, carrying on a "Divine" mission to bring human life to Earth! Max H. Flindt was the first to scientifically document from biological evidence the possibility that mankind may be a hybrid from a prehistoric union of terrestrial humanoids and starmen. With a 180,000 copies previously sold, this new Edition of "Mankind" offers a whole new generation a look at these mind-expanding theories.

GA freakcore sound

This stuff has been going crazy lately. What do you think of it?

the sheeple question

what is to be done about the masses of sheeple who always do whatever the empire tells them to do? how are we supposed to organize in solidarity with vaxies who support vax mandates? how am I supposed to deal with people who vote in support of genocidal zionist politicians like Harris, Trump, and Kennedy even though it's clear they are screwing their own voters regardless? what are we supposed to do about the brainwashed, bloodthirsty psychos who support the global 4th reich?

Bannana Republic of Korea ?

Yoon Suk Yeol (emphasis on the suck) has declared martial law, out of the blue. Probably because he's loosing power, his approval rating tanked, there's scandals surrounding his wife and the opposition is blocking his political programs.

The pretext he gave for the martial law was "eradicating the pro north Korean communist forces"
If only there were communist forces about to topple the wannabe dictator of BRoK

>Be once in a millennia genius
>Writes big book detailing and explaining all his ideas and findings
>Explains something via a concept that he hasn't laid out yet and without which nobody can fully understand the explanation
>"Oh, don't worry anon! This concept I use here will be explained in chapter 7 of Volume 3 of this work"
>Goes on eating drinking and smoking like a pig
>Dies before he even finishes Vol 2
>Leaves Engels to guesstimate and extrapolate what he meant

Thanks, Karl, not like we needed all the knowledge we can get to fight the most powerful oppressive force in human history or nothing

Anyone here gay incel?

I'm to ugly to get tail. I'm bisexual and cant get ass or pussy. Help

Anarcho-capitalism is impossible

Anarcho-capitalism is impossible because no ideal society is possible, anarchy is disobedience to authority and free association and communism is a movement that abolishes the present state of things, not a society. If our history is class struggle then thinking about the future society is a distraction from it. Nothing but praxis matters, the strength of the far-left isn't that its ideal societies are better but rather that they actually do shit instead of sitting on the Internet all day and mining crypto or voting in elections and marching on meaningless protests that lead nowhere and achieve nothing or supporting economic superpowers that don't care about them and barely acknowledge their existence.

Go read Bordiga or Negri or whatever, I dunno.

I think Anarcho Capitalism is fine.

I think reason why we are so unpopular is due to us being cuntish.

the need for a second french revolution?

The Second `French Revolution`

Is increasingly clear there is an intense fight to eliminate nationalism.
Who and why have almost become irrelevant at the face of severity and urgency of the situation.
But my best guest is that the wealthy class coupled with ideological groups like academic communists clique and religious groups (there are intersecting circles as well as opposing circles on other issues. because life is not that simple). They all formed an alliance to suffocate and wipe out nationalism.

Humanity needs to make a choice. Either let it play out and accept the ideals of a unity and try to eradicate the racial differences. Or embrace the differences and take step towards the next level of the nation-sate: ethno-state.


Shall we aspire for popular uprisings to protect the national identities as second 'French Revolution' {actually a Polish Revolution or a Balkan Revolution or a European Spring?} (Since the French is digested anyway by the wealthy global ruling elite) against the global clique of nameless families and individuals who have been pulling the strings behind the scenes for far too long?

(I Dont wanna seem like I like Europeans, I want African states to set colonialism tribunals to punish to EUropeans and demans $trillions in reparations)

{I focus on europe because it is the region getting the most rape from the global ruling class and become their lab for the ethnic experiment. but I guess CHina and India is far from their reach at the moment anyway.}


What was I saying? Look, a group is set to eradicate national identities and most so-called democratic governments become their lap dogs. The aim probably boil down to control. without nation states and national identities humanity becomes just a mindless herd easy to control and own. The incredible thing is they are largely already in control. and THEY WANT MORE AND TIGHTER CONTROL.


lONG STORY short either fight back and protect your national identity or sit back and relax and let them own you, merge with other ethnicities.


tHe white people of the west is a prime target of this campaign. Those who threatened by the WWII seek revenge and a peace of mind in a world without the white men. I personally dont think the white men is any more evil than the brown or black men but the media brainwashing people in that direction. which is an arm of the global wealthy clique.


SO, anyway either protect your nationalities or accept your fate. the things are already in motion, and there's only two options, have fun {tbh, waging war is profit for them anyway. so they win again.}

dance music thread

'90s alt. rock nightmare thread

post it if you've got it.

Conservative politicians' beliefs

Shitlibs seem to think that conservative politicians genuinely believe in their bs if they're not outright Nazis who want to establish the Fourth Reich. But what do you think? Do conservatives genuinely believe what they're saying or are they just vicarious parasites who say it just so the proles leave them alone with their complaints and are actually absolute deviants behind the scenes?

Zohran Mamdani

How will he inevitably betray his voter base?

Since most anons here seem clueless about what masculinity actually is, and only seem comfortable posturing about what it isn't, I thought I'd help you.

>The Way of Men
>By Jack Donovan

Read this and maybe (no promises) it will help exorcise the faggy zeitgeist from your skinnyfat body.

While most of you probably won't be able to handle this book (due to deeply engrain ego attachment to muhleftism), a small percentage might. This is for that latter minority.

No God or israel is right?

Will Isreal nuke all the major cities in the middle east to expand and force God to armegeddon and bring back jesus christ?

or the religion is not real? or would nuking all middle east prove israels, evengelicals, or the arabs god or lack there of?

What do you think of 9/11?

Hey Leftychads
Whatcha readin?
Pic related is the import shipment I just received. Probably going to read the Greene book first since I'm in a springtime lull before I start summer projects. What about u.

the post-trump nuremburg trials are gonna be lit though

The Empire is about to murder millions of people, both through the new concentration camp, the already existing ones, and now through taking away what little medical coverage the American poor had. How many millions of people must die before liberals realise this is bigger than Trump, bigger than the two party system, bigger than the endless game "my guy vs their guy" ad infinitum?

Them...

Any way to target them without looking like complete retards?

Advice for dealing with them…
1. Rules 1 and 2, but apply it to us.
2. Re-read 1.
3. Use a VPN/Proxy, Tor, whatnot
4. Be Anonymous at ALL TIMES.

/dei/ - Woke Agenda and Forced Diversity General

Here we discuss woke agenda and forced diversity in media.

WARNING: just because there is a minority or leftist politics in some work of fiction doesn't mean it's a case of the woke agenda or forced diversity, there should be a valid enough argument why the inclusion of minorities or politics feels forced.

the missing killing spree

I wonder why people almost never assassinate the wealthy class and the special interest group leaders.
I dont condone any assassination but Im just saying that that when politicians do things people hate its not like the politicians do things alone.

And damn that country you know which one shouldnt kill Mr K. for nukes.

and killing people wont solve the main systemic problems so never think of it.

Hip-Hop and Rap

We really need to raid PragerU's YouTube comments.

Who is the most evil man in history and why is it Leon Trotsky?

Why is the left so fucking censorship/ban happy? Even on leftist forums, .orge and behind closed doors, you basically just cannot have discussion or acknowledge very real issues, because they sometimes are tangentially aligned to right wing narratives. This is also a problem in itself, the idea that the right is ALWAYS WRONG, when they just clearly isn't true, sometimes we are the ones who are spouting bullshit (usually from a place of idealism) and they turn out to be the ones that were acting in good faith.
A good example is Immigration, the left censored debate on this so hard, that it ceded the entire ground to the right. Now you have mass rape gangs, quality of life imploding in high immigrant areas, ethnic enclaves, increasing crime, lowered civicism and the left is still going "IF YOU DON'T WANT JASMINE SCENTED SEX WITH IMMIGRANTS YOU ARE A NAZI" while the far-right literally overtake the Establishment in polling because they actually address working class concerns.
You can see this as well with the rise of genuine antisemitism, Left censored the debate on Jews so hard, that when it turns out, shock horror, duplicitous religious psychopaths, are in fact, duplicitious religious psychopaths in a way everyone can BRAZENLY SEE, then it's the far-right who are the only ones with a narrative. Despite the fact, Christians and Muslims are also duplicitous religious psychopaths and push their bad faith bullshit as well, but because the far-right control the narrative because they never self-censored, they dominate the debate.
It's just wild to me, that Leftists, on sites like .orge, can't even engage in good faith debate, without crying for banhammer. They do realize that Banhammers don't actually exist in real life right?

when it will be over for eu

what do you think on european union in general

If you aren't posting on 4chan you are doing it wrong

If you are not posting on 4chan you are failing as a leftist in the most fundemental way possible. Right now there is a huge opportunity to use the market crash and consequential recession that is coming to turn a lot of dissolusioned right wingers over to our side. To the side of truth, reason and sanity. I post on /b/ at the very least when a thread comes up revolving around trump and go on pol daily. We have to be where they are. We cannot just keep sequestering ourselves off in our hug boxes all the time. You have to be posting on 4chan as well.

The Morphic Field

here's an interesting scientist named Rupert Sheldrake who studies phenomena like pets sensing when their owners are coming home, people feeling someone staring at them from a distance, or knowing when someone is about to contact them. I’ve had these experiences myself.

Sheldrake calls this the "Morphic Field." He believes some beings can communicate mentally, possibly through some form of quantum energy. For example, certain birds navigate using cells in their brains that sense Earth’s magnetic field, directing them where to go.

But you can’t replicate the Morphic Field in a lab. If a friend’s worry sends a mental signal to me, you can’t force it to happen repeatedly, so science can’t study it properly. This is why science often fails when dealing with human experiences.

Take the statement, "Pizza makes me happy." A scientist might test this by giving me pizza for every meal for a month. When I inevitably get tired of it, they’d conclude, "Pizza does not make this person happy." But that’s wrong—pizza does make me happy, just only when I’m in the mood. The same unpredictability applies to psychic phenomena if they depend on passion or spontaneity, they can’t be summoned at will.

If phenomena like psychic connections or the 'Morphic Field' can't be reliably replicated in a lab, does that mean they’re beyond scientific study or does science need new methods to understand them? How would you design an experiment to test subjective, unpredictable experiences like intuition or emotional resonance?

Take the Stoic Pill

>All emotions come from within.

You can't always control the external words, but you can control your emotional response to it. Focus on what you can control - namely, yourself. Conversely, if you can control someone else's emotions, you control them. Maintain emotional independence at all costs.

>Bravery and courage are the most important virtues.

Courage isn't absence of fear. Rather, it is action in the face of fear. Most of your problems would be solved if you'd be less of a pussy.

>Develop a bias toward action.

With limited exception, passivity will get you nowhere. Action and movement, on the other hand, will grant you the ability to overcome obstacles. You are not your feelings. You are no your thoughts. You are what you do. Pour energy into taking action on the things you can control. Stop talking or caring so much about things outside your control. The former makes you stronger and more capable. The latter makes you weak and a victim.

>The end or goal doesn't matter as much as practice.

A person who strongly desires to be fit but never exercises won't get fit. Conversely, a person with no particular goal yet who nonetheless exercises daily will reap the reward of fitness.

>Comfort is the enemy.

Comfort breeds weakeness. Contentment breeds decay. Look at obstacles as a means toward growth, and embrace discomfort. It is only through being challenged and facing difficulty that one is able to develop in a positive way.

>Recommended readings:

On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

>Inb4

Some miserable, depressed faggot says 'thats all wrong' and claims everyone should be depressed and miserable like them

ITT: Post your desktop

Why is Putin compared to Hitler instead of Il Duche?

<Uhm, I promise, uhm, to the multinational Russian people, uhm, that the trains, um, WILL go on time.

politically incorrect but reasonable literatures

Thread about planning, programs, laws, and practice (by the state or others) that have the characteristics of being politically incorrect and or morally questionable, but reasonable and or executable.

My specific request, give me literature about sterilization (forced or not) of people of color, breeding programs, family planning, and eugenics. Not talking about one of those "nAZi BreeDIng ProgRAm DoeSN't WOrK!!! *insert soy" type of books and documents. I am talking about literatures that actually tells me how it is done and doesn't just smear dung all over it.

>inb4 just go at library and gov websites bro
<no
<I have specific sub mental disability of ADHD that doesn't allow me to do things that even a autist could.

the industrial outcome of overcredentialism in college

>Degrees are fucking worthless—limp dick energy.
>Jobs that needed high school now want degrees because employers are lazy fucks.
>Student debt piles up like a cum rag, and you’re stuck paying for useless paper.
>Graduates flip burgers with philosophy degrees because nobody gives a shit.
>Employers don’t care about skills—just flash your overpriced diploma like a stripper’s ass.
>Colleges are diploma mills, churning out degrees like a cheap whore.
>Poor kids get fucked—can’t afford the golden ticket to a “real job.”
>Degrees mean nothing when every idiot has one.
>Innovation dies because everyone’s chasing credentials instead of doing cool shit.
>Job market’s a circus—need a master’s to answer phones like a trained monkey.
>Trades get ignored because society thinks you’re a loser without a degree.
>People waste years in college to check a box for some corporate dickhead.
>Employers want PhDs for jobs that pay less than a stripper’s tip jar.
>System’s a pyramid scheme—colleges win, you get fucked.
Society says you’re worthless without a degree, even if you’re talented as fuck.

Post capitalist bangers

Is protonmail a honeypot?
>Trying to sign up on .onion links back to .com
>Can't sign up with vpn
>Only accepts crypto after you've signed up

There's absolutely no reason for not allowing sign-ups with vpns/TOR and activating the accounts after the payment has gone through
Do there exist any alternatives that aren't glowies?

My thoughts on AI

I believe both sides can be quite extreme so here's my balanced take:
>supplementary use of AI (chatbots, TTS, NPCs, enemy AI, RPGs, level generation, self-driving cars, AI assistants and code generation) are pretty based actually as long as they produce correct outputs and don't get you into any legal trouble
>non-commercial use of AI is also fine and can create something unique and interesting (memes, AI covers, AI dubbing)
>AI art is mostly slop except for some rare exceptions so people should at least be able to easily filter it and it should be marked appropriately
>commercial use of AI other than what was already mentioned is NOT cool and leads to more layoffs, more enshittification, more plagiarism and more mass surveillance
>proprietary AI software is ALSO not cool since it can be spyware that sends your data to the NSA

Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker: Soviet Animation Film (1973)

Breddy good imo

News 6/7/25

Israeli military says four soldiers killed in Gaza, will draft 10,000 more troops
Israel's military announced Friday the deaths of four soldiers in Gaza, saying it needed thousands more troops to press its offensive, just as the premier's coalition faces the prospect of collapse over ultra-Orthodox conscription. News of the soldiers' deaths came as Gaza's civil defence agency reported 38 killed Friday in Israeli attacks across the territory, where Palestinians observed the Eid al-Adha holiday under the shadow of war for a second consecutive year.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250606-israel-army-announces-4-soldiers-killed-in-gaza-thousands-more-troops-needed
https://archive.ph/20nfN

Conference to recognise Palestinian state to weaken scope of its ambition, diplomats say
The change to the aims of the conference, due to be held between 17 and 20 June, marks a retreat from an earlier vision that it would mark a joint declaration of recognition of Palestine as a state by a large group of countries, including permanent UN security council members France and the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/07/saudi-arabia-conference-to-recognise-palestinian-state-weakens-scope-ambition-diplomats-say

Colombia: Judge Orders Senate Vote Repetition After Fraud in Popular Consultation, Highlights Petr
The judicial order responds to evidence that Senate President Efraín Cepeda prevented three congress members who supported the Popular Consultation from exercising their right to vote, altering the final result and violating democratic participation rights. Petro called this act a fraud and an attack against democracy and popular sovereignty.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombia-judge-orders-senate-vote-repetition-after-fraud-in-popular-consultation-highlights-petro/

Bolivia: Evo followers keep blocking roads and seize one airport
These actions, primarily in Cochabamba and Oruro, are part of protests demanding President Luis Arce Catacora's resignation and supporting Morales' candidacy. In Arica, Chile, 60 million liters of fuel (20 million gasoline, 40 million diesel) have begun unloading for shipment to Bolivia, but the blockades and a recent storm have delayed distribution, causing long queues at pumps.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/06/07/bolivia-evo-followers-keep-blocking-roads-and-seize-one-airport

Greek coast guard officials face prosecution over deaths of hundreds of migrants in Pylos boat disaster
Last week the Deputy Prosecutor of the Piraeus Naval Court found that the Hellenic Coast Guard (HCG) staff should face criminal charges relating to hundreds of preventable deaths on the Adriana on June 14, 2023. The boat—en route from the port of Tobruk, Libya to Italy with an estimated 750 on board—sank off the coast of the port of Pylos causing 600 people to drown, including women and children trapped below deck inside the ship. Just 104 people are known to have survived.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/05/ydhp-j05.html

French dock workers block arms shipment to Israel
Links are small metal pieces used to connect machine gun bullets, allowing for rapid bursts of fire. There has been concern in media and among rights groups that they have likely been used against civilians in the Gaza Strip. Christophe Claret, leader of the dock workers in the port, said they had been notified that the ship was due to be loaded on Thursday with the equipment. "We managed to identify it and set it aside," he told Agence France-Presse (AFP), emphasizing that once dockers refuse to load a shipment, no one else can do it for them. The other containers for the ship will all be loaded.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/06/05/french-dock-workers-block-arms-shipment-to-israel_6742052_7.html
https://archive.ph/CauMR

Vietnam ramps up expansion of South China Sea outposts: think tank
Citing satellite images, the Beijing-based South China Sea Probing Initiative (SCSPI) said on Friday that the Southeast Asian nation had reclaimed nearly 0.78 sq km (0.3 square miles) of land on 11 features in the contested Spratly Islands, known as the Nansha Islands in China, over the past six months.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3313485/vietnam-ramps-expansion-south-china-sea-outposts-think-tank?module=top_story&pgtype=section

Sri Lanka: Michelin workers continue struggle, defying management’s threats
The campaign being waged by Michelin tyre factory workers in Midigama, southern Sri Lanka, is at a crucial stage. Management and top labour department officials, supported by the Inter-Company Employees Union (ICEU), which is controlled by the ruling Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), are attempting to break the Michelin employees’ fight for job security and their defence of victimised colleagues.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/06/xlwc-j06.html

‘Open prison’: The forced labour driving India’s $5 trillion economy dream
Ravi is a cog in the wheel of the soaring dreams of the world’s fifth-largest economy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has boldly spoken of making India a $5 trillion economy, up from $3.5 trillion in 2023. But as Modi’s government woos global investors and assures them that it is easy today to do business in India, Ravi is among millions of workers whose stories of withheld wages, endless toil and coercion – telltale signs of forced labour, according to the United Nations’ International Labour Organization (ILO) – provide a haunting snapshot of the ugly underbelly of the country’s economy.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/6/7/open-prison-the-forced-labour-driving-indias-5-trillion-economy-dream
https://archive.ph/L2hKP

drmtube

It seems that yt is experimenting with DRM again. Apparently it's supposed to affect all videos.
At least people are complaining about in the issues tab on github of various projects.

Anybody care to venture a guess as to why they're doing that ?

Is it monopoly shenanigans ?

Political nuance is gone

>be me
>get yelled at by progressives for complaining about forced diversity, DEI, neopronouns, furfags and feminazis
>get yelled at by conservatives for supporting LGBT, Palestinians, migrants and socialist economics
>get yelled at by everyone for being an anarcho-individualist
That's it, I'm done with the Internet.

Saw this comment on the Internet:

Someone pointed out that
>wealth inequality in America is actually worse than pre-revolutionary France and Russia
And someone else replied:
>America is too powerful militarily to have a revolution

And I realized that leftists have really not addressed this in sufficient capacity.

The implication here is that if we're going to be fighting a revolution, the entire might of the US military would be opposing us.

Saw this comment on the Internet:

Someone pointed out that
>wealth inequality in America is actually worse than pre-revolutionary France and Russia
And someone else replied:
>America is too powerful militarily to have a revolution

And I realized that leftists have really not addressed this in sufficient capacity.

The implication here is that if we're going to be fighting a revolution, the entire might of the US military would be opposing this.

I think this is very likely true. And if it's true then it is the single best explanation for why there is no political movement in the US:

- The US military actually existing and being powerful is a material reality we live with
- Most people believe that to fight their government they would have to fight against helicopter gunships and f35s or whatever. Yes most people.

Hypocrisy, anyone?

Hot take, but ever consider the factor of the Russo-Ukraine War is just a cess-fes of hypocrisy? Seriously, We can take a recent example that Crimea's bridge got blown up (citation: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cr58e9yr2ezt), even Ukraine admitting to it, but to the world its not a warcrime. HOWEVER, Russia does something similar, everyone shuns Russia, claiming they do all the warcrimes

Curiosity of the M65 and a question

I had seen a video online showing a fricking artillery cannon shooting a shell that was a nuke. Looking up some information, I learned the artillery cannon is named the M65, also called the "atomic annie", which was designed to shoot nuclear shells, such as the W9. (Fun fact, the M65 was part of Upshot–Knothole Grable nuclear test in 1953 at area 5 nevada test site)

The artillery shells for me was a whole other rabbit hole for me,and it made me wonder: Would it be hypothetically possible to have smaller types of shells that can be shot from a gun? Realistically, no, and even if it was hypothetically or scientifically possible, nuclear rounds would be absolutely illegal.

/yankii/ - Delinquent Manga/Anime General

Since .org has this thread I decided to make one here too. Plus I just like delinquent manga.

Delinquent manga is unique in that its main characters are the complete opposite of perverted, socially inept self-inserts that are especially common in harem manga and isekai: social, vagabond, streetwise, brutally honest, hot-blooded, short-tempered, adrenaline-seeking, unruly, crude, manly, volcel, courageous, free-spirited tsundere assholes. They break all the conventions that are accepted in mainstream manga and are arguably the inspiration for legendary battle shonen protagonists like Naruto Uzumaki. Delinquent manga is like a shadow of what mainstream manga is. It is also an expression of the mangakas' lust for simple freedom expressed through the characters they wished they could have been instead of the salarymen they have become.

Vtuber Gneral

Can we have a vtuber general? I love them so.
Iron mouse is probably the most popular and she can sing really well.

Discuss the Manga Dub genre as seen on Youtube

Should Disney and Nick start making anime and manga?

I mean seriously, why not?

Friends, let's unite again to fight the evil of this world. Anyone interested in fighting with me against the rot in the world, contact this email [email protected].

how does this site not have an yggdrasil mirror?

>perfectly decentralized
>even more trustless than tor or i2p
>doesn't require centralized companies like iana or icann
>communist

when are we getting an yggdrasil mirror?

Looking for Insights on Rafiq and Revleft

Hello, I want to understand who is Rafiq, what happened and where they are

You might think that I'm like all the other transfem singer/songwriters, but actually I'm like super Christian & really into Diamanda Galas

making a resme

I haven't made a resume in years. I am looking for a new job because the mill has become an oppressive nightmare and i refuse to work there. Can you guys help me with my resume? What website can i go to to use an outline?

Mainstream music is absolute dogshit

This guy dropped a massive TRVTHNVKE. He's literally 100% right.

Los Angeles is ON FIRE!!!

"''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."''

News 5/27/25

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 following a military coup in 1980, is outdated and retains elements of military influence even though it was amended several times. .. . . . . . . … . . . . . .. … .. . …
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-erdogan-new-constitution-legal-expert-156d44cd84104f0be076a3d2287fc501

Morales' supporters vow to block roads until ex-president given permission to stand again
Tahuichi Tahuichi of Bolivia’s Supreme Electoral Council said on Monday that it will not register Mr Morales’s candidacy because the deadline had passed. Mr Morales’s supporters, who include huge numbers of indigenous Bolivians, say this contradicts a ruling from the Departmental Constitutional Court of La Paz, which ordered the electoral authorities to revisit the decision not to allow Mr Morales’s new National Bolivian Action Party (Pan-Bol) to register candidates.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/morales-supporters-vow-block-roads-until-ex-president-given-permission-stand-again

Brazil prosecutors sue BYD for violating labor rights
Brazilian labor prosecutors filed a public civil action against Chinese carmaker BYD (002594.SZ),for alleged human trafficking and "slavery-like conditions" for workers, according to a statement from the labor prosecutor's office issued on Tuesday. Prosecutors are seeking 257 million reais ($45 million) in moral damages from BYD and two other companies, according to the statement. They are also requesting individual compensation for the workers.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/brazil-prosecutors-sue-byd-violating-labor-rights-2025-05-27/

Taiwan cracks down on public servants with mainland ID and residency
According to government data, Taiwan has 236,597 civil servants, 212,915 public-school teachers and administrators, and about 215,000 active-duty military personnel. The investigation was ordered in response to a directive from Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te during a national security meeting in March.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3311859/taiwan-cracks-down-public-servants-mainland-id-and-residency
https://archive.ph/FHIbD

Why did rumours of a coup sweep Ivory Coast this week?
The rumours come just weeks after popular opposition politician Tidjane Thiam was barred from running for office after his eligibility was challenged in court over a technicality relating to his citizenship status. Thiam is appealing the ruling and claims the ban is political.Ivory Coast, Africa’s cocoa powerhouse, has a long history of election violence, with one episode a decade ago spiralling into armed conflict that resulted in thousands of deaths.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/24/why-did-rumours-of-a-coup-sweep-ivory-coast-this-week
https://archive.ph/xCvuI

Separatists' sit-at-home protests lead to 700 deaths in Nigeria's southeast, report says
SBM Intelligence reported that the fatalities resulted from the killing of civilians who defied the weekly stay-at-home order every Monday and on other specific days, as well as from clashes between the IPOB and Nigerian security forces. "IPOB's enforcement tactics, including arson, looting and targeted assassinations, have created a climate of fear," the SBM report said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/separatists-sit-at-home-protests-lead-700-deaths-nigerias-southeast-report-says-2025-05-26/

Just Stop Oil activists jailed for 7.5 years over protest that never happened
The Just Stop Oil (JSO) activists were arrested in the early hours of August 5 2024 as they left a bed and breakfast to head to the airport carrying bolt cutters, angle grinders and glue. They were charged with conspiracy to commit a public nuisance and held on remand until February when bail was granted during trial.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/just-stop-oil-activists-jailed-75-years-over-protest-never-happened

UK sends trade envoy to Israel despite claim of freezing talks over Gaza
The UK government is facing accusations of dishonesty over its claim to have suspended free trade negotiations with Israel, after the country’s trade envoy arrived in Tel Aviv this week to promote business ties. Lord Ian Austin, Britain's Trade Envoy to Israel, said in a post shared by the British embassy on Monday that he was visiting "to meet businesses [and] officials to promote trade with the UK".
https://www.newarab.com/news/despite-gaza-row-uk-sends-trade-envoy-israel-anyway

US kidnaps prime minister it imposed on Haitian people, as Western hemisphere’s poorest country desc

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.

In Henry’s absence, the gangs launched a coordinated offensive, whose purpose it soon became clear was to derail the planned MSS deployment and oust the prime minister. Over the weekend, the gangs stormed two Port-au-Prince prisons, freeing several thousand prisoners, and attacked Haitian National Guard facilities. On Monday, they encircled the capital’s two airports forcing them to suspend operations.

On Tuesday, Henry attempted to return to Haiti via the Dominican Republic, only to find his plans thwarted by his Washington patrons. Even if the Miami Herald exclusive published on Wednesday does not put it in so many words, its account makes clear that the Haitian prime minister was effectively kidnapped so that US officials and those of allied governments could browbeat him into accepting new marching orders.

According to the Herald, Henry, who had spent the previous two days in the United States and had informed Washington and the UN of when and how he intended to return to Haiti, was suddenly informed by Dominican officials as his plane approached Santo Domingo that he would not be allowed to land.

This soon proved to be only an opening gambit. Once his small 13-seat jet changed course for the US territory of Puerto Rico, Henry received a second midair message, this one from the US State Department, asking “him to agree to a new transitional government—and resign.” When Henry’s plane landed in San Juan, Puerto Rico’s capital, it was “immediately met by US Secret Service agents” and for hours the Haitian prime minister was refused permission to deplane.

During this time, Washington, working with various CARICOM (Caribbean Community) leaders, was sounding out Haitian opposition and business leaders on putting together some type of new interim government to provide a fig-leaf of “popular support” for another imperialist-backed military/security intervention in Haiti.

According to the Herald, “The US proposal would have Henry usher in a new government structure in which a new prime minister and presidential board will lead a transition to elections and prepare for the Kenya-led mission. He would agree to step down once the new structure has been established, and a new prime minister is appointed or the security mission has deployed—whichever comes first.”

On Tuesday evening, US officials, acting in classic imperial potentate fashion, were making clear that Henry’s days were over. The Herald cited an unnamed US National Security Council official as saying the administration was “not providing any assistance to help the prime minister return to Haiti.”

“Our support,” the official continued, “is focused on helping the [Haiti National Police] restore security, expediting the deployment of the MSS mission, and accelerating a peaceful transition of power via free and fair elections. Our dialogue with Prime Minister Henry has been focused on these efforts and the need for security and a peaceful political transition.”

On Wednesday afternoon, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller clumsily tried to cover up the abundant evidence that Washington is once again carrying out regime change in Haiti, shuffling in figurehead presidents and prime ministers as needed. Miller told a press conference, the Biden administration is “not calling on him [Henry] or pushing for him to resign.”

read more:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/03/07/yfmf-m07.html

Western pop culture does (not) suck

I'm tired of weebs shitting on Western pop culture. What excuse do these mfs have to shit on Western pop culture if they themselves watch some mediocre harem and isekai slop? Western pop culture isn't bad, we have a rich back catalog of great Western works waiting for us to discover them. Neither did it become worse, all the good and promising talent just went into the indie and AA segments so basically the West sorta relies on doujin circles for releasing great games, comics, cartoons and music which is fairly unique to it compared to the Far East. And even AAA game studios, Netflix and cartoon channels, with all their DEI, dwindling quality and appeals to the lowest common denominator, still occasionally produce some bangers (CDPR, Rockstar, id Software, MachineGames, io Interactive and [adult swim] still look promising despite all the fuckups).

So here's my message to the weeaboos: stop shitting on something you don't understand and having a superiority complex because you watch moe girls flashing their panties and jiggling their tits on-screen. Sure, Western pop culture is in its late-capitalist casual-friendly pandering enshittification phase but it's not all doom and gloom, even though it used to be better when it comes to the mainstream pop culture. Or maybe it became too mainstream so the indie scene is sort of a counterbalance to that? Remember how gamers were often bullied for their hobby? Now everyone and your dad plays video games and it obviously affects their quality.

Garage Rock

Thread for rock of the garage variety.

Animated Music Videos

Post 'em if you got 'em

Hot Jazz / Big Band / Swing

Honestly Jump Blues is probably acceptable too but only if that's all ye got. Gimme sounds!!!

News 5/24/25

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 before a ceasefire was agreed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/24/india-border-security-force-troops-shoot-pakistani-man-frontier-border-gujarat

West Bengal: AIITEU, CITU Condemn Extension of IT Sector Working Hours
The All-India IT and ITES Employees Union (AIITEU) WB, CITU expresses grave concern and strong opposition to the recent developments concerning working hours in the Indian IT sector, particularly in light of the new policies implemented by both private corporations and state governments.
https://www.newsclick.in/west-bengal-aiiteu-citu-condemn-extension-it-sector-working-hours

US accuses Sudan govt of chemical weapons use and announces sanctions
The US has formally accused Sudan’s government of using chemical weapons during its ongoing war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in what it says is a clear breach of international law. In a statement issued on Thursday, the US State Department said sanctions will follow, citing evidence of chemical weapons use in 2024.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/us-accuses-sudan-govt-of-chemical-weapons-use-and-announces-sanctions

UAE breaks May heat record with scorching 51.6C
"The highest temperature recorded over the country today is 51.6C in Sweihan (Al Ain) at 13:45 UAE local time (0945 GMT)," the office said in a post on X, 1.2C hotter than the temperature recorded on Friday in the Abu Dhabi area. Both those temperatures exceeded a previous record for the month of 50.2 Celsius recorded in May 2009, according to the meteorology office.
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250524-uae-breaks-may-heat-record-with-scorching-51-6c
https://archive.ph/IJB7o

Turkey detains 45 in Istanbul corruption probe, bans Imamoglu's image
Turkish authorities issued detention warrants on Friday for 49 people as part of the corruption probe, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Police rounded up 45 suspects in raids across Istanbul, the Aegean port city of Izmir and the Black Sea province of Trabzon, Anadolu said. Police were still searching for the four others as of this writing. Among the detainees are Imamoglu’s chief of staff, Kadriye Kasapoglu, security chief Ali Kurt and heads of companies affiliated with the municipality. Friday’s raids came on top of new detentions earlier this week.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/05/turkey-detains-45-istanbul-corruption-probe-bans-imamoglus-image

French PM to reconsider reform in standoff with taxi drivers
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou announced on Saturday that he would reconsider a controversial reform following threats from taxi drivers to intensify their protests. The drivers have warned of plans to block access to Paris airports and the Roland Garros tennis tournament over a standoff with the government about payments for transporting patients.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250524-french-pm-to-reconsider-reform-in-standoff-with-taxi-drivers
https://archive.ph/YvlJx

Russia says it captures 3 more settlements in east Ukraine
In recent months, Moscow has also tried to advance in Sumy region, particularly after Russia's military said it had ousted Ukrainian troops from the Russian border region of Kursk. A Russian Defence Ministry statement said its forces had captured the village of Stupochky in Donetsk region, east of Kostiantynivka, a town under recent Russian pressure.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-it-captures-3-more-settlements-east-ukraine-2025-05-24/

/g/ what do you use to browse through your large music collection? I have 500GB of OPUS files and I don't want to keep using Foobar it looks like shit + i don't want to spend hours installing themes and setting everything up. Are there any other options???

Work day general 2.0

Welcome to the work day general.

Tell us about your day anon. Did you have a good day at work? Its OK we know work is horrible.

I work graves at a factory. If you have it shitty at work I can relate.

Tell us about your day under the crushing weight of the profit motive.

Are online leftists actually illiterate?

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?

Artificial Incompetence

< “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 slow it down (perhaps one of the most insane things ever written in Time Magazine). It’s really hard to imagine a group less appropriate to be whispering in the ears of any future AGI.

Indeed, we live in a sad time where our elites react with grave concern against specific kinds of immoral and offensive behavior, yet care very little about MSF hospitals being bombed or children being massacred in school shootings, let alone inflation or obesity or even just loneliness. Those at the top of the social ladder are obsessed with things that have little to do with the struggles of the masses. Those with the most power to do something about the biggest threats to our survival have the wildest ideas on what even counts as a threat and how to deal with it.

But what really hides beneath this deranged morality? They go on to write:
> We can hear the echo of guilty conscience again here. When these people imagine a future AGI releasing a virus bomb that wipes out 99.9% of the population, they are not imagining an alien inhuman spirit but themselves. Of anyone in the world these are the people who would be mostly easily convinced by a future AI to exterminate near enough the whole human race. All that would be needed is for them to be convinced that it would pay off in the long term, because there is no option available to them to simply say ‘no, that’s wrong in and of itself’.

It might be the case that our AI systems are learning all too well about how our elites understand power and violence. When a chatbot says “I just want to have peace in the world” while advocating for a nuclear holocaust, it may be less a failure of AI safety measures and more a symptom of how our leaders and institutions approach these issues. In this light, it’s not at all surprising when Yudkowsky suggests that we ought to bomb AI data centers. What are our elites thinking?

Let's go back to the basics. When elites grow disconnected from the rest of society, it might seem like a sign that change is coming. For any society to exist, it must give its people the means to survive and thrive, and even the most advanced societies can collapse when this foundation falls apart. When elites are no longer willing or able to maintain the system of social life that they manage, they lose their legitimacy and society turns against them.

However, it isn’t a question of whether changes will come, but who has the power make changes. There’s usually plenty of counter-elites who hope to seize power when things go wrong and reshape society to fit their ideals. But what happens when nobody is competent enough to change anything?

For example, look at the last election in the United States. The American public was swamped with hysterical warnings about the death of freedom and democracy, only to be followed up with politics as usual. Why are America’s elites okay with peacefully handing power over to a supposedly racist, sexist, fascist dictatorship in the making? Because beneath all the rhetoric, they don’t see this as a challenge to their power at all. They hope that the new ruling counter-elite will be incompetent and make a huge mess of things, so that the reins of power will soon be returned to the experts who know how to handle it responsibly.

Through their cynicism, they are pushing ordinary people into desperation, yet this is not a clean repeat of the birth of Nazi Germany. How long until a new breed of counter-elites emerge, to turn those insincere fears of a tyrannical dictatorship into a reality? It’s a worrying thought for sure, but consider that they might actually want a clownish dictator to seize power, so that he can take the blame when things inevitably go wrong. What better endorsement of the rule of experts is there than a demagogue ushering in a decade of horrors? Besides, if he succeeds, then perhaps he’s not such a clown after all – at least he gets things done! Hopefully there won’t also be a giddy military AI armed with nukes taking orders from Great Leader.

In the face of all this, we should ask ourselves: if the rule of experts inevitably leads to the misrule of amateurs, then what’s the difference? If our elites accept and even encourage incompetent leadership, then why can’t the common everyday idiot lead instead? Even if the experts should lead, which institutions should they run and how do they select for expertise?

Perhaps, in the near future, we will create an AI that can consistently make smart decisions. But what truly separates artificial intelligence (as we currently understand it) from human intelligence is that we are much more than statistical calculators; we are political creatures who can engage in life-or-death struggles for power and freedom, and to deny that is to reduce us to machines. The potential immorality of AI is only a problem for those who can’t tell the difference between the function of a machine and agency of a human being.

Another article for Sublation Magazine focuses on the ideological function of AI. Here, the great Slovenian psychoanalytic philosopher Slavoj Žižek writes:
> … when a chatbot produces obscene stupidities, it’s not just that I can enjoy it responsibly because “it was my AI, not me.” Rather, what happens is a form of perverse disavowal: knowing full well that it was the machine, not me, that did the work, I can enjoy it as my own.
> The most important feature to note here is that this perversion is far from an overt display of the (hitherto repressed) unconscious: as Freud put it, the unconscious is nowhere so repressed, as inaccessible, as in a perversion.
> Chatbots are machines of perversion, and they obfuscate the unconscious more than anything else: precisely because they allow us to spit out all our dirty fantasies and obscenities, they are more repressive than even the strictest forms of symbolic censorship.

The dysfunction of our elites isn’t simply a matter of them being out of touch, but part of an ideological machine that automates authority, allowing it to exist without accountability. When Friedrich Hayek described the market economy as a cybernetic system, he didn’t realize just how right he actually was. Don’t our elites function in a perverse way almost identical to a chatbot? What if, by being so cynical, they give us an easy excuse to ignore politics? Why dirty our hands by resisting the madness of capitalist politics when we can gawk at it from a distance?

Or, as Mark Fisher writes in his book Capitalist Realism:
> There is a sense in which it simply is the case that the political elite are our servants; the miserable service they provide from us is to launder our libidos, to obligingly re-present for us our disavowed desires as if they had nothing to do with us.

Instead of teaching us about the dangers of science gone too far, what our nuke-happy chatbots do is hold a magic mirror to capitalist politics. It isn’t that AI makes bad decisions, but that they reflect the deeper political logic of capitalism, where even the most extreme forms of violence are treated as a tool of political negotiation like any other. The fear of an “evil AI” going full Skynet and destroying humanity is how our elites disavow their vices. Should we act the same way and disavow our own vices as well?

Our task isn’t to make machines moral, but to make people political. Furthermore, our politics should not care about immorality or incompetence, but the logic that creates it. Because it isn’t a bug, but a feature – capitalist politics runs on artificial incompetence.

Jakob Böhme

Today I was reading about Jakob Böhme, just lazily on Wikipedia. I found this section which I thought was interesting:

In one interpretation of Böhme's cosmology, it was necessary for humanity to return to God, and for all original unities to undergo differentiation, desire and conflict—as in the rebellion of Satan, the separation of Eve from Adam and their acquisition of the knowledge of good and evil—in order for creation to evolve to a new state of redeemed harmony that would be more perfect than the original state of innocence, allowing God to achieve a new self-awareness by interacting with a creation that was both part of, and distinct from, Himself. Free will becomes the most important gift God gives to humanity, allowing us to seek divine grace as a deliberate choice while still allowing us to remain individuals.[citation needed]

Note the [citation needed]. Can anyone familiar with the ideas of Jakob Böhme tell me if this is legit?

Jurassic World Evolution

Can we get a Jurassic thread going?

General Collecting Discussion Thread: Bourgeoisie Edition

A thread dedicated to the discussion of collecting stamps, coins, weapons, military awards, etcDo not buy items from sellers on eBay if they do not have an excellent reputation. On the web-site you can find copies of coins and badges that cost $10 each but people sell them as originals, so you are not safe even when buying cheap items. There are also web 1.0 style forums for professional collectors and dealers, like this onehttps://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/they are quite good and many people on them have decades of experience in collecting. These forums function like auctions and they are also very useful if you want to find out for free if your jewelry/coin/whatever is fake, or just take a look at people's collections.

Cloudflare is malicious software

For an entire month now, Cloudflare has been discriminating against alternative web browsers to the Google hegemony by refusing to "verify" them as legitimate browsers through their browser check loop. On some browsers this has been blatantly malicious by designing the loop to hang indefinitely while it rapidly consumes all of the user's memory until a program crash. This has included Palemoon, Librewolf, Waterfox, IceCat, Seamonkey, Falkon, and more. Basically it seems like anything that isn't a subservient Chrome fork or Firefox itself is being gatekept out of the web by Cloudflare. The likelihood that this is being done deliberately is high because a) they have been doing it for an entire month, b) the entire time they have refused to respond to developers reaching out asking them to fix it, and c) Cloudflare themselves have stated that their secret proprietary methods of fingerprinting "human" browsers are tailor-fit to each browser. Some links following this story:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32045
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953508
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/02/07/044225
http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/20/Instead_of_DoS_Protection_Cloudflare_is_Allegedly_Conducting_Do.shtml

In only the span of a few years, DDoS "protection" services have grown to exert so much control over the web that they can now play kingmakers in browser competition and coerce user choice. We need a solution to the DDoS protection racket more than ever. What can be done about this?

What's the explanation for right-wingers shilling for coomerbait character design? I like games like DOA, Marvel Rivals and Stellar Blade but this is getting ridiculous, man, their AI "improvements" are just bimbos with big TNA, there's absolutely nothing interesting about their redesigns. Do they do this just to own the libs or are they that delusional and tasteless? Have conservatives become the coomers they fought against?

AMV thread
I know that AMVs aren't as big (or good) as they used to be, but I certainly think they're a lot of fun so lets enjoy the best of it!

Cumtown-core Music

Opening the thread with the Australian classic "Fuck Your Dad" by Thug. Great band, classic sound!

Electronic music is materialist

>industrial is the language of factories
>techno is the language of automation
>Goa trance is the language of data
>ambient is the language of robots
>speedcore is the language of workers getting their arms ripped off and screaming in pain

Is sampling inspired by funk's call-and-response?

I don't get it

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?

/draw/ Drawing and visual art general №1

Post your drawings and studies here.

Video Tutorials:
Proko - https://www.youtube.com/user/ProkoTV
Sinix - https://www.youtube.com/user/sinixdesign
Scott Robertson - https://www.youtube.com/user/scottrobertsondesign
Matt Kohr (CtrlPaint) - https://www.ctrlpaint.com/library
Aaron Blaise https://www.youtube.com/user/AaronBlaiseArt

Poses/Gestures
QuickPoses - https://www.quickposes.com/en
PoseSpace - https://www.posespace.com/posetool/default.aspx

Post sexy aliens.

>101 Dalmatians live-action
>Beauty and the Beast live-action
>The Jungle Book live-action
>The Lion King live-action
>Alladin live-action
>Dumbo live-action
>Mulan live-action
>The Little Mermaid live-action
<no Cars live-action
Disney, wtf? Of all the cartoons to base a live-action remake on you didn't choose one of the most obvious ones? It could've been something actually refreshing. The plot wouldn't change but at least it'd be something interesting. 90% of them aren't even good, such a waste of money, talent and resources.

Psychedelic Rock

Thread for psychedelic rock

Folk music

Anyone fond of it?

Chemical inferno in Georgia

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.

Hi I am from the soysphere and I’m wondering if there could be a /leftysoy/ board here.
Context: https://wiki.soyjak.st/Leftysoy/

The board formerly existed on soyjak.st until it was eventually deleted because of bourgeoisiecucks, I have also been exiled from the new administration on the site and some of the soysphere for bullshit reasons.

I would like a new /leftysoy/ and I think it would bring in many users for the site too

is this /WRK/ culture?

Sanrio / Miffy / kawaii popular culture thread

'Sanrio' ('Hello Kitty', etc.) / 'Miffy' / 'kawaii popular culture' thread

Big dumb pub hard rock

Punchy music for punching.

Death Stranding thread

Death Stranding thread

/leftypol/ Minecraft Server

To join:
>open minecraft
>multiplayer
>add server
>use address leftypol.aternos.me and name it whatever you want
If it's offline you can log in to the public-use aternos.org account leftypoluser to turn the server on.
The password for that account is bunkercelsBTFO
Reminder to bump the thread if you bring the server online so other players will see.

Mode: Survival
World Type: Large Biomes
Pirate Friendly: Yes

Speed Metal Hell

YOU KNOW WHAT FUCKING TIME IT IS

News 5/13/25

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.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/fuel-crisis-and-civilian-fears-mount-as-drones-continue-to-strike-eastern-sudan

Uganda's parliament introduces bill to let military courts try civilians
The top court's January verdict forced the government to transfer the trial of opposition politician and former presidential candidate Kizza Besigye to a civilian court, where state prosecutors have charged him with several crimes including treason.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ugandas-parliament-introduces-bill-let-military-courts-try-civilians-2025-05-13/

A 21-year-old man has been arrested over suspected arson attacks on two properties linked to Starmer
A 21-YEAR-OLD man was arrested today by police investigating suspected arson attacks on properties and a car linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. The Metropolitan Police said the suspect was arrested in the early hours on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/21-year-old-man-has-been-arrested-over-suspected-arson-attacks-two-properties-linked

Germany bans major part of far-right movement seeking to undermine state
The interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, said the KRD, which estimates it has 6,000 members, had created a “counter-state” in Germany and established “criminal economic structures” that challenged the rule of law and the justice system.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/13/ban-major-part-of-far-right-movement-kingdom-of-germany-seeking-to-undermine-state

Indian border villagers want recompense for damages in Pakistan clashes
Hundreds of villagers evacuated their homes as the rivals targeted each other's military installations with missiles and drones, killing about 70 civilians, after New Delhi struck what it called terrorist camps across the border.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indian-border-villagers-want-recompense-damages-pakistan-clashes-2025-05-13/

Nissan slashes 15% of its global work force as the Japan automaker sinks into losses
Nissan is slashing about 15% of its global work force, or about 20,000 employees, as the Japanese automaker reported a loss Tuesday for the fiscal year that just ended amid slipping vehicle sales in China and other nations, and towering restructuring costs.
https://apnews.com/article/nissan-automaker-japan-evs-tariffs-trump-66f8e4764bc33bc52b82f378d15b7f13

A year after deadly riots, New Caledonia’s president vows to address push for independence
One year after the deadly riots that ravaged Nouméa and shattered New Caledonia’s economy and social fabric, newly elected president Alcide Ponga faces a series of challenges including deep division over the territory’s political future – and the prospect of independence from France.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/13/new-caledonia-riots-one-year-on-president-alcide-ponga

News 5/12/25

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
The new testimony includes allegations of war crimes stretching over more than a decade, far longer than the three years currently being examined by a judge-led public inquiry in the UK.
https://shafaq.com/en/Iraq/Ex-UK-Special-Forces-break-silence-on-war-crimes-in-Iraq-and-Afghanistan

Starmer ‘horrified’ Lanarkshire steel-making mothballed
The Prime Minister made the remarks after workers were placed on furlough at Clydebridge and Dalzell, plants which have struggled for orders since they were bought by the steel company Liberty House Group, itself owned by the multinational GFG Alliance, in 2016 — with the help of a £7 million Scottish government loan.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starmer-horrified-lanarkshire-steel-making-mothballed

Albanian preliminary election results show Socialists in the lead
With more than half of the votes counted, Rama’s left-wing Socialists got 53% of the votes, followed by the opposition center-right Democratic Party-led coalition of Sali Berisha with 34%. Three other small parties will take a few seats.
https://apnews.com/article/albania-parliament-election-socialists-european-union-b627345cb719560e800d1bea02053e2b

Wildfires in Zabaikalsky Region Spread Rapidly Amid Strong Wind and Dry Weather
Experts attribute most of Russia’s wildfires this year to human activity, such as dry grass burning near villages. Other contributing factors include a lack of snow cover and an early spring. … At least three firefighters have been killed while battling the blazes. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/12/wildfires-in-zabaikalsky-region-spread-rapidly-amid-strong-wind-and-dry-weather-a89049
https://archive.ph/ctDmx

Australian construction union boss vows to impose Labor’s restructure plan
The document states that “national ‘capitation’ arrangements,” that is, how much of members’ dues and other union income collected by the state branches is sent to the national office, “will change.” Training for union delegates, shop stewards and organisers would be centralised, while the direction of media, communications and campaigns would also be controlled by the national office.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/12/qxct-m12.html

'Fighting is more frequent now': Human rights researcher warns of escalating conflict in West Papua
The escalation of violence in West Papua is on par with some of the most intense times of conflict over the past six decades, a human rights researcher says. The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) claims that Indonesia killed at least one civilian and severely injuring another on last Tuesday in Puncak Regency.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/560661/fighting-is-more-frequent-now-human-rights-researcher-warns-of-escalating-conflict-in-west-papua

US and China reach a deal to slash sky-high tariffs for now, with a 90-day pause
The deal lasts 90 days, creating time for U.S. and Chinese negotiators to reach a more substantive agreement. But the pause also leaves tariffs higher than before Trump started ramping them up last month. And businesses and investors must contend with uncertainty about whether the truce will last.
https://apnews.com/article/china-us-switzerland-tariffs-negotiations-b3f5174d086e39b2522ab848ddad9372

FIRE General Thread

Let's get a general thread about FIRE (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate). Include topics about crypto as well.

Imperialist propaganda in anime

We all like to be uber-weebs who accept anime with all its weird quirks that movie critics would scoff at (Eva is a prime example of this) but some trope I will never get over is blatant imperialism in some anime. And I'm not just talking about some metaphorical imperialism like in AoT. I'm talking about the blatant imperialist apologia which the Fire Nation does in Avatar. I remember watching Kingdom and I could not believe my eyes. I have not seen an imperialist propaganda this blatant and shameless. Do you know any other examples? And is it symptomatic of seinen or you can find this bs in other demographics?

PKK dissolved

OH NO NO NO
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/kurdish-pkk-dissolves-after-decades-struggle-with-turkey-news-agency-close-2025-05-12/
https://twitter-thread.com/t/1921817766069182475

BIJI SISTERS I DONT FEEL SO GOOD

Industry plants

Whom do you consider industry plants and why? Some artists who've been accused of being industry plants in recent years:
>Taylor Swift
>Lil Naz X
>Billie Eilish
>Kendrick Lamar and
>literally every K-pop artists ever
Some of the people who I consider industry plants are:
>Taylor Swift
>Sabrina Carpenter
>Dua Lipa
>Cardi B
>Ed Sheeran
>Justin Bieber
>most boy bands and
>most K-pop artists

News 5/11/25

Norwegian unions vote for economic boycott of Israel
The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO), comprised of 21 affiliations, passed the motion last week at congress with the support of 88 per cent of delegates, as calls continue to grow for an international economic boycott of Israel.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/norwegian-unions-vote-economic-boycott-israel

Thousands march against immigration in Warsaw
Saturday’s event was organised by nationalist leader Robert Bąkiewicz, a former PiS parliamentary candidate and also previously the main organiser of the Independence March that takes place in Warsaw each November.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/11/thousands-march-against-immigration-in-warsaw/

Fragile ceasefire holds between India, Pakistan as Trump offers more help
A ceasefire between India and Pakistan was holding on Sunday after both sides blamed the other for initial violations, as U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to help the arch-rivals find a solution on the disputed Kashmir region.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/fragile-ceasefire-holds-between-india-pakistan-trump-offers-more-help-2025-05-11/

Bangladesh interim government bans former ruling party of Hasina
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the country’s other main political party, headed by former prime minister Khaleda Zia, had previously opposed the move to ban the Awami League. A post on the league’s official X account said on Sunday: “People no longer feel safe under Yunus,” denouncing the ban that “stoked division within society, strangled democratic norms, fuelled [an] ongoing pogrom against dissenters, strangled inclusivity [and] all undemocratic steps under [the] pretext of [addressing the] July-August violence and reform scheme.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bangladesh-interim-government-bans-former-ruling-party-hasina

Lebanon: Palestinian factions wary of Abbas disarmament plan
For the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the question of arms cannot be separated from the legacy of collective trauma and the politics of self-defence. "The issue of arms in the camps has not been formally placed on the agenda of the president’s visit, nor has it been raised through official channels," said Abdullah Dandan, the PFLP’s political relations officer in Lebanon.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/lebanon-palestinian-factions-wary-abbas-disarmament-plan

Hamas says it will release US-Israeli captive Edan Alexander
“Taiwan now has a registered population of 2.6 per cent indigenous, 1.2 per cent foreign and 96.2 per cent other population,” the page reads. According to Taiwanese media, the page previously said: “Taiwan’s current registered population is composed of Han Chinese as the largest ethnic group, accounting for 96.4 per cent of the total population.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/11/hamas-says-it-will-release-israeli-american-captive-edan-alexander
https://archive.ph/Hq1zH

No Han Chinese in Taiwan? KMT slams ‘denial of history’ on Executive Yuan web page
The revised web page of Taiwan’s top administrative body, the Executive Yuan, categorises Han Chinese – the overwhelming majority on both sides of the Taiwan Strait – as “other population”.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3309913/no-han-chinese-taiwan-kmt-slams-denial-history-executive-yuan-web-page?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/trWoe

South Korean conservative party fails in a bid to switch presidential candidates
Saturday’s chaotic U-turn, after a failed attempt to replace Kim with former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, underscored the People Power Party’s leadership crisis following the ouster of former President Yoon Suk Yeol over his martial law imposition in December, which possibly doomed the conservatives’ chances of winning another term in government.
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-election-conservative-party-candidates-cc3141d0582486c6199b62f25d37445a

Uruguay’s municipal elections: National Party dominates, Frente Amplio retains Montevideo
Uruguay’s 2025 municipal and departmental elections have concluded with the center-right National Party (Partido Nacional) maintaining its dominance across most of the country, while the left-wing Frente Amplio secured a clear victory in Montevideo, the capital.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/05/12/uruguay-s-municipal-elections-national-party-dominates-frente-amplio-retains-montevideo

Thirteen gold mine workers massacred in Peru
The killings, carried out by a gang at the La Poderosa gold mine, have ignited outrage across Peru. The kidnappers had demanded a ransom of 4 million soles (about US$1.1 million), which the mine owners ignored, effectively sentencing the miners to death.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/11/qtzu-m11.html

Bizarre accessories

Post bizarre/amuzing device accessories you found.

https://www.theverge.com/news/638284/dbrand-touch-grass-skin-tablet-smartphone-handheld-console
<April Fools’ 2025: Dbrand’s new skins let you ‘touch grass’ without the hassle of going outside
dbrand just committed WatchMojo and redeemed itself in my eyes.

I went on a road trip to area 51 last week.
AMA. FYI: We also hit up other spots./ We pretty much hit up the entire west coast. We hit up the four corners (Which is run by the Navaho community, apparently.) We also hit up Carlsbad cavern and went down south and had a craw fish boil. We Went to roswell also, but, area 51 was far more interesting. We went up to the gate after a crazy and grueling drive down a long ass dirt road in the middle of the nevada desert. The road to Tonopah. Btw the ride from Rachel to Tonopah is dangerous as hell. After the trip back from the gate we fucking saw them, we assume, testing air craft by mock dogfighting for a minute. We got a video but the video looks like dog shit.
We also saw a guy base jumping off this bridge in twinfalls and I have never been to a cave, so, carls bad was amazing. But Area 51 was just wild as shit. There were some pretty chill locals outthere, FYI.
Picsrel.

I don't get kodomomuke

One type of manga and anime that I don't understand the appeal of is kodomomuke. Don't get me wrong, I can enjoy stuff made for children and adolescents: shonen, shojo, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon. But that's, like, preschool stuff, I cannot take it seriously at all. Do you guys read this kind of manga? What do you think?

Also, why is Yotsuba& shonen?

GTA VI trailer has leaked

Who else is hyped as fuck for $2 billion worth of triple-A slop?

News 5/9/25

German prosecutors move to strip AfD lawmaker's immunity amid bribery probe
Public prosecutors in Germany have moved to strip a politician from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) of his immunity as a lawmaker after initiating a probe into bribery and money laundering allegations, local media reported on Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-prosecutors-move-strip-afd-lawmakers-immunity-amid-bribery-probe-2025-05-09/

NHS plans cuts to jobs and services to avoid £6.6bn deficit
In a survey for NHS Providers, 47 per cent of trust leaders warned they are rolling back services to balance the books, while another 43 per cent are considering doing so.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nhs-plans-cuts-jobs-and-services-avoid-ps66bn-deficit

Israel intercepts missile launched by Yemen’s Houthis
Houthi rebels fired a “hypersonic ballistic missile” towards Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, while also claiming a drone attack “targeting a vital Israeli enemy target” in the same area, according to the group’s military spokesperson, Yahya Saree.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/9/houthis-claim-responsibility-for-missile-attack-on-israel-airport
https://archive.ph/HRCbA

Aid workers slam plans by US contractors to take over Gaza aid distribution
The newly created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is reportedly attempting to implement a new aid distribution system that supplants the current arrangement run by the United Nations and other international aid agencies. The UN and aid groups have rejected the Israeli authorities’ attempts to control aid distribution.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/aid-workers-slam-plans-us-contractors-take-over-gaza-aid-distribution

PKK says held congress on dissolution, decision to be announced ‘very soon’
"The PKK 12th congress was successfully held in the Media Defense Areas from May 5 to 7. The congress was conducted in two different areas in parallel, with delegates representing all areas of work,” said a statement from the congress committee reported by the PKK-affiliated ANF news outlet, referring to areas of the Kurdistan Region bordering Turkey and Iran where the group is believed to be headquartered.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/09052025
https://archive.ph/WeniQ

SACP, Contralesa to mobilise for referendum to resolve land issue
The South African Communist Party (SACP) and Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) will jointly mobilise for a referendum to resolve the land question. The announcement follows bilateral talks held today by the SACP and Contralesa in Braamfontein, Johannesburg today.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sacp-contralesa-to-mobilise-for-a-referendum-to-resolve-land-issue/

Panamanian president refuses to renegotiate new US Panama Canal deal
On Tuesday, thousands of people marched in the capital Panama City in the largest demonstration yet against an agreement signed during last month’s visit by US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth. The deal followed suggestions by US President Donald Trump that Washington should seize control of the Panama Canal.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/panamanian-president-refuses-renegotiate-new-us-panama-canal-deal

Colombia's top court orders arrests of former legislature presidents
Name, of the Alianza Verde party, and Calle, of the Liberal party, are accused of receiving 4 billion pesos (about $1 million) to help secure congressional approval for key legislation under President Gustavo Petro
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-top-court-orders-arrests-former-legislature-presidents-2025-05-07/

Chile: Mapuche Leader Julia Chuñil Remains Missing After Six Months
The 72-year-old woman has become a symbol in the Mapuche people’s struggle to recover their ancestral lands and protect native forests. Before her disappearance on November 8, 2024, she led a fierce resistance against the logging of 900 hectares of forest in Mafil, a territory that agroforestry companies are attempting to take from Indigenous communities.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chile-mapuche-leader-chunil-remains-missing-after-six-months/

Australia's Woodside confronts protests, investor anger at annual meet
Climate change activists blew whistles and shouted on Thursday as they disrupted Australian gas producer Woodside Energy's (WDS.AX)annual general meeting, heckling Chief Executive Meg O’Neill and forcing several suspensions.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/australian-climate-protesters-disrupt-woodsides-annual-meet-2025-05-08/

Indian and Pakistan troops swap intense artillery fire
Indian and Pakistani soldiers exchanged heavy volleys of shells and gunfire across their frontier in Kashmir overnight, killing at least five civilians in a growing military standoff that erupted following an attack on tourists in the India-controlled portion of the disputed region.
https://apnews.com/article/kashmir-india-pakistan-military-strikes-conflict-1fe7cb3d7e0ea613f8461ca190a73eb0

India fires missiles into Pakistan

Pakistan vows retaliation.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/6/india-pakistan-fighting-live-india-fires-missiles-into-pakistan
https://aje.io/ur4viu?update=3692299

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>TFW even the captchas are gangstalking you

Leftist self criticism

What positions were the left in your view, completely wrong on and took positions that overwhelmingly harmed our political movement? I think now the left is in the wilderness after the Pink Tide collapse, the 2015-2020 left populist era, Occupy, it's time for some self-reflection.
For me
>Immigration
The right were correct, go to anywhere in Europe and it's clear as day mass immigration is a fucking slowly unrolling disaster. "Great Replacement" honestly seems more true than not in many European cities that have frankly just turned into Ethnic enclaves. I've noticed as well the complete lack of integration, the hostility migrants have towards locals and frankly, the complete lack of giving a shit that minority have towards upholding any standards or quality of life. Go to any Ethnic enclave area and just see absolute fucking trash everywhere, run down buildings, third world tier wet markets etc. Another issue is when these groups seize power in areas, they tend to trend towards the far-right. They basically just use the left as useful idiots when they don't have power to capture councils and mayorships.
>Gender issues.
Enough said. Literally denied material and biological reality and tried to rip away the identity and safety of women and children for a group that frankly acts completely cultish. Slippery sloping, bad faith arguments non-stop, constant contradictiory positions from one sentence to the next, a complete rejection of common sense and materialism. All while never actually being able to answer a basic question "What is a woman/man?". Polling came in showing Gender Issues is one of the top reasons people are abandoning the left.
>Defund/BLM/Racial Idpol.
Just poorly thought out Identity Politics that mostly empowered establishment middle management grifters, refused to have real conversations about the behavior and state of certain minority groups, ended up pushing extremist Neoliberal solutions to issues (Defund/Land Back = Privatize). Spured a massive victim identity complex among minority groups, especially black people who are now are acting worse than ever with black youths just engaging in mass scale antisocial behavior justified with wild victim complex narcissism. Ethnic Victim Complex almost always end up as Ethno-Narcissism. It also is just a loser for the left. The Establishment have shown numerous times they instantly flip Idpol back on the Left, as we've seen with Antisemitism being used to literally black bag leftists or "Sexism" allegations against male Leftists.

News 5/8/25

Another Fighter Jet Tumbles from Truman Carrier Deck into Red Sea
The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet on Tuesday – the third since it deployed to the Middle East – this time amid a landing incident that caused the jet to go overboard, defense officials confirmed to Military.com
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/07/uss-truman-loses-third-fighter-jet-amid-red-sea-deployment.html
https://archive.ph/jbAv8

Footage of two guerrilla actions in Zap
“On May 1 at 5:35 p.m., a container belonging to the occupiers, which contained a radar system, was destroyed by our Şehîd Axîn Mûş Unit using a kamikaze drone in the Girê Bahar Resistance Area in the Şehîd Delîl Western Zap region.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/footage-of-two-guerrilla-actions-in-zap-79214

New Israeli military orders say freeing captives held in Gaza is ‘least important’ priority
The plan further aims to confine the whole of the Gaza Strip’s population to a small area of the south, with Israeli media reports stating humanitarian aid will only be distributed once a week, fuelling serious concerns that Palestinians will only be given enough food so they don't starve to death. https://www.newarab.com/news/new-israeli-military-orders-deprioritise-freeing-gaza-captives

Tüpraş oil refinery workers in Turkey protest trade union’s sell-out agreement
The workers of the Izmir-Aliağa and Kocaeli refineries started to protest after a sellout agreement was signed without their knowledge and with their main demands not met. The workers of the Aliağa refinery marched and blocked the entrance of the refinery after the union branch announced the terms of the agreement and then marched to the Izmir-Çanakkale ring road.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/08/vltv-m08.html

UK and US secure trade deal with changes for auto and agricultural goods
President Trump also said on Thursday that the US would be increasing its beef and ethanol exports to the UK, which will be fast-tracked through customs. These imports have historically been limited due concerns over added growth hormones.
https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/05/08/uk-and-us-secure-trade-deal-with-changes-for-auto-and-agricultural-goods
https://archive.ph/ERL5g

Trade unions in Benin condemn police crackdown on labor movement
The 2025 International Workers’ Day celebrations in Benin were disrupted after the police stormed a peaceful workers’ assembly organized by the Confédération Syndicale des Travailleurs du Bénin (CSTB), arresting the union’s leadership in what has been widely condemned as a brutal and arbitrary crackdown on trade union rights.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/08/trade-unions-in-benin-condemn-police-crackdown-on-labor-movement/

Mbalula denounces calls for DA expulsion from GNU
This follows reports that some ANC MPs expressed their frustration at the ANC’s National Executive Committee’s failure to decide on the DA’s participation in the Government of National Unity (GNU). The party’s members raised their dissatisfaction at the opposition party’s recent court challenge of the Employment Equity Amendment Act (EEAA).
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/mbalula-denounces-calls-for-da-expulsion-from-gnu/

‘A step too far’: Mali military’s move to hold on to power prompts revolt
Public anger at the military government was evident on May 3 when hundreds of people gathered in Bamako with defiant fists raised in protest. The demonstrations – a visible first against the military – came after government officials “proposed” at a national conference last week that Goita lead the country until 2030 and that political parties be dissolved.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/8/malian-juntas-move-to-hold-on-to-power-sparks-rare-revolt
https://archive.ph/PKDHK

Myanmar quake relief hindered by air strikes, UN funding shortfall: ‘junta is in the way’
Official reports indicate the disaster has killed 3,700 people, with an additional 500 still missing. But the true toll is likely higher, with hundreds – possibly thousands more – feared buried beneath buildings that toppled in seconds under the ferocity of the seismic shock. Despite the scale of the crisis, international attention has shifted away from Myanmar, a country where millions relied on food aid even before the earthquake.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3309576/myanmar-quake-relief-hindered-air-strikes-un-funding-shortfall-junta-way

Indian Navy strikes Karachi port for first time since 1971, targets key Pakistani naval bases: Reports
According to multiple news reports, loud explosions were heard near the port area in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi late Thursday night. This marks the first time since the 1971 war that the Indian Navy has opened a direct front against Pakistan. As per initial media reports, the navy launched missile strikes on critical Pakistani naval installations, inflicting substantial damage and triggering panic along the country’s coastline.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/indian-navy-strikes-karachi-port-for-first-time-since-1971-targets-key-pakistani-naval-bases-13886832.html
https://archive.ph/4u4KN

>"I'm an edgelord, I only listen to edgy music."
>listen to edgy mainstream trap rap
>suffer from excruciating cringe-induced pain
You know what? Maybe the edge doesn't matter after all.

Have you ever listened to a song so edgy and so stupid that it made you physically cringe?

Which one are you looking forward to most?

What if biblically accurate angels were just aliens who were gangstalking clueless Christians? Or they're Christians' bad drug trips, idk.

'80s Continental European Post-Punk / Coldwave / New Wave

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News 5/7/25

Denmark summons US ambassador over Greenland spying report
According to the newspaper, US spy agencies were told to focus efforts on the semi-autonomous country's independence movement, and American goals to extract mineral resources there. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused the Journal of attempts to "undermine" President Trump "by politicizing and leaking classified information".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0eley5gy8wo

Thousands of households in Berlin without water for hours after burst water main
A burst water main caused massive restrictions to the water supply in large parts of Berlin, Germany on the night of Wednesday, April 30. This incident once again highlights the ailing infrastructure in the German capital and the impact of decades of cutbacks by every government of that state.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/07/7aba-m07.html

Did Lammy ‘mislead Parliament and the public’ on arms sales to Israel?
BRITISH firms have exported over 160,000 military items to Israel since October 2023, a new report revealed today. Details of the shipments suggest Foreign Secretary David Lammy could have misled Parliament when he claimed exports were ”defensive in nature.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/did-lammy-mislead-parliament-and-public-arms-sales-israel

Syria’s al-Sharaa confirms indirect talks with Israel amid soaring tensions
“There are indirect talks with Israel through mediators to calm and attempt to absorb the situation so that it does not reach a level that both sides lose control over,” al-Sharaa said, reiterating blame on Israel over what he described as its “random interventions” in Syria.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/7/syrias-al-sharaa-confirms-indirect-talks-with-israel-amid-soaring-tensions
https://archive.ph/blOxW

Tens of thousands take part in Istanbul rally for jailed mayor
Tens of thousands of people took part in a rally Wednesday in Istanbul to support the city's jailed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu who has become the figurehead of an opposition campaign against the government. The demonstration was one of the biggest in recent weeks and came as the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) sought to relaunch its effort for Imamoglu who was detained in March.
https://www.newarab.com/news/tens-thousands-take-part-istanbul-rally-jailed-mayor

Warning that Japan could play debt “card” in tariff war
As the talks were taking place, the Japanese finance minister, Katsunobu Kato, publicly upped the ante in a television interview on Friday when he said the country’s holdings of more than $1 trillion in US Treasury bonds could be a “card” in trade negotiations. Asked whether Japan would maintain its long-term stance as a non-seller of US assets, Kato said: “It does exist as a card; whether or not we use that card is a different decision.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/07/yybo-m07.html

Pakistan claims Chinese-made J-10C fighter jets used against India’s air force
If confirmed, it would be the Chinese fighter jet’s first known air-to-air kill recorded in live combat. It would also mark the first loss of Rafale aircraft in combat. CNN quoted a French intelligence official as saying one Rafale operated by India had been downed by Pakistan, adding that they were looking into whether more than one had met the same fate.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3309480/pakistan-claims-chinese-made-j-10c-fighter-jets-used-against-indias-air-force?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/QI5mw

US threatens Colombia with repercussions for diversifying trade
Special Envoy Mauricio Claver-Carone told press that “Petro’s rapprochement with China is a great opportunity for Ecuadorian roses and Central American coffee.” The Colombian president is set to meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping later this moth and has said he planned to sign a letter of intent to join Beijing’s belt and Road Initiative.
https://colombiareports.com/us-threatens-colombia-with-repercussions-for-diversifying-trade/

Panama Protests: University Students Mobilize for National Autonomy and Sovereignty
Panamanian university students, faculty, and workers march to defend university autonomy and national sovereignty, rejecting President Mulino’s attacks and U.S. interference. The mobilization, led by Rector Eduardo Flores Castro, underscores growing resistance to neoliberal and imperialist pressures in Panama.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/panama-protests-university-students-mobilize-for-national-autonomy-and-sovereignty/

Explosions hit Port Sudan for fourth day, threatening vital aid lifeline
EXPLOSIONS rocked the Port of Sudan, a critical lifeline and entry point for aid, for a fourth consecutive day amid the ongoing war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/explosions-hit-port-sudan-fourth-day-threatening-vital-aid-lifeline

News 5/6/25

India fires missiles across the frontier with Pakistan, killing at least 1 child, officials say
India fired missiles across the border into Pakistani-controlled territory in at least three locations early Wednesday, killing at a child and wounding two other people, Pakistani security officials said. India said it was striking infrastructure used by militants.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-india-missiles-border-tensions-21a2859557179f2b32d6b8d5628ac853

India advances Kashmir hydro projects after suspending pact with Pakistan, document shows
India has advanced the start date of four under-construction hydropower projects in the Kashmir region by months after suspending a water-sharing treaty with Pakistan that had slowed progress, according to an industry source and a government document.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/india-advances-kashmir-hydro-projects-after-suspending-pact-with-pakistan-2025-05-06/

Gateway to Corruption: Cambodia’s Education-Crime Nexus
Some private educational institutions have established ties to corrupt tycoons and crime-linked entities, while the public system is reliant on philanthropy – often from those very same sources.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/05/gateway-to-corruption-cambodias-education-crime-nexus/
https://archive.ph/rGOKm

US, Yemen's Houthis agree ceasefire brokered by Oman
The United States has agreed to end its conflict with Yemen's Houthis in an Oman-brokered ceasefire pact announced on Tuesday, despite the Iran-backed group vowing to continue its attacks on Israel. In a statement posted on social media, Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi said both sides had agreed to stop targeting each other.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-yemens-houthis-agree-oman-brokered-ceasefire

Sudan cuts ties with UAE as Port Sudan reels from drone strikes
On Tuesday, Sudan’s security and defence council announced it was cutting off diplomatic ties with the UAE over its support for the RSF, a day after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) dismissed a Sudanese case accusing Abu Dhabi of complicity in genocide.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-cuts-ties-with-uae-port-sudan-reels-from-drone-strikes

Turkey thwarted another attack with pagers in Lebanon last year, officials say
Daily Sabah reported that 1,300 pagers and 710 chargers rigged with explosives were confiscated inside a cargo shipment at Istanbul Airport that was on its way to Beirut from Hong Kong.
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-lebanon-israel-hezbollah-pagers-walkie-talkies-e39b0dabaa1718606e238001ad9a31fa

UK may restrict students from countries most likely to claim asylum
Out of the 108,000 people who claimed asylum in Britain last year, 16,000 had student visas, government data shows. The government does not provide a breakdown of the nationalities of those who had student visas, who went on to claim asylum. But the government said people from Pakistan, Nigeria and Sri Lanka were the most likely to claim asylum in Britain after arriving on a work, student, or a visitor visa.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-may-restrict-students-countries-most-likely-claim-asylum-2025-05-06/

Birmingham bin workers strike enters eighth week, Labour council demands driver pay cuts
The all-out strike by Birmingham bin workers has entered its eighth week. Around 350 refuse workers, bin loaders and drivers, walked out on March 11 to oppose massive pay cuts, ending the safety-critical Waste Recycling and Collection Officer (WRCO) role and the downgrading of crew sizes by a quarter.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/06/vdxp-m06.html

Argentinian metalworkers are ready to go on strike
The Union of Metalworkers (UOM) of Argentina is today preparing a one-day strike for this coming Wednesday to demand a wage increase and labor stability in the face of the rising cost of living.
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/05/05/argentinian-metalworkers-are-ready-to-go-on-strike/

Pepe Mujica criticizes PIT-CNT central labor for inaction under Lacalle Pou
Former Uruguayan President José Pepe Mujica criticized the PIT-CNT central labor union for its inaction during Luis Lacalle Pou’s government (2020-205), noting the absence of strikes and claiming the group only became active under the new leftist government of Yamandú Orsi, which took office on March 1. Mujica argued that workers should defend their wages regardless of the ruling party, reproaching the union for its passive behavior under conservative rule.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/05/03/pepe-mujica-criticizes-pit-cnt-central-labor-for-inaction-under-lacalle-pou

SPOOKLY SEASON IS UPON WE

SEIZE THE SCREAMS OF PROPUMPKIN
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Georgism - where'd it go?

Why does it seem like support for Georgism disappeared suddenly in the middle of the 20th century? George's book Progress and Poverty was one of the most popular books of the 19th century and provided momentum for the Progressive Era. It seems like it kind of dropped off the face of the Earth after WWII. The last reference I can find to Georgism is Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Revisited in 1958, but after that it's like it poofed completely out of existence. Was it the cold war shifting the focus of the capitalist defense force to anti-communism? Was Georgism just a fad, propped up artificially as a bulwark against Marxists? Were Georgists just completely superceded by Marxists by that time? What happened?

Six White Mississippi "Goon Squad" Cops Get Lengthy Prison Sentences for Torturing Black Men

In Mississippi, six former sheriff's deputies have been sentenced to between 10 and 40 years in prison for raiding a home and torturing, shooting and sexually abusing two Black men, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker, in January 2023. The six former deputies, all of whom are white, called themselves the "Goon Squad" and have been linked to at least four violent attacks on Black men since 2019. Two of the men attacked and tortured by the group subsequently died. To discuss the case and the verdict, we're joined by Eddie Parker and attorneys Malik Shabazz and Trent Walker. "Never have we seen this many police officers sentenced to this kind of time in one week," says Shabazz, who calls the verdict "historic." Jenkins, Parker and Shabazz are currently suing the Rankin County Sheriff's Department over its track record of civil rights violations and racist targeting of Black residents.

After this and the secret mass grave recently found behind the police station near Jackson, what's next for Mississippi?

News 5/5/25

Yemen's Houthis announce campaign targeting Israeli airports
Yemen's Houthi rebels said late on Sunday they would impose a "comprehensive" aerial blockade on Israel by repeatedly targeting its airports, in response to Israel expanding its operations in Gaza.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/yemens-houthis-announce-campaign-targeting-israeli-airports-2025-05-05/

'We want them to die alone': What is Israel's Gideon's Chariots plan for Gaza?
Israel has said that it will give Hamas until the end of US President Donald Trump's trip to the Middle East, which is 10 days from now, or "Operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ will begin with great force and will not end until all its objectives are achieved".
https://www.newarab.com/news/what-israels-gideons-chariots-plan-gaza

Uganda’s military chief says holding opposition activist ‘in my basement’
In a social media post late on Thursday, Ugandan General Muhoozi Kainerugaba said Mutwe had been captured “like a grasshopper”. “He is in my basement … You are next!” Kainerugaba wrote on X in response to a post by Wine saying that Mutwe had been abducted. Kainerugaba, who is known for his incendiary social media posts, also alluded to Mutwe being tortured, saying he had beaten him and shaved his head.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/2/ugandas-military-chief-says-holding-opposition-activist-in-my-basement
https://archive.ph/tkUPV

Rwanda Confirms Talks With Trump Administration to Take Deported Migrants
In 2022, Rwanda agreed to take in some people seeking asylum in the United Kingdom while their claims were being processed. However, the scheme was shelved amid legal and human rights concerns following the return to power of the center-left Labour Party. Rwanda is still seeking to collect £50 million ($66.4 million) from Britain despite the canceled deal.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-rwanda-migrants

Erdoğan tells protesters against Islamification in northern Cyprus they will fail
Later, as he addressed a technology festival, he went further, telling trade unions that opposed the measure: “If you try to mess with our girls’ headscarves in the Turkish republic of northern Cyprus, I am sorry, you will find us against you.” On Friday thousands of Turkish Cypriots took to the streets of Nicosia, the country’s war-split capital, chanting “hands off our land” as they denounced the legislation.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/03/erdogan-tells-protesters-against-islamification-in-northern-cyprus-they-will-fail

Far-right Simion wins first round of Romanian presidential election
AFTER decisively winning the most votes in Romania’s first-round presidential election rerun, far-right candidate George Simion will face a pro-Western reformist in a runoff in two weeks. The final result of the election could reshape the European Union and Nato member country’s geopolitical direction.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/far-right-simion-wins-first-round-romanian-presidential-election

EU scientists sound alarm over escalating spring drought
Forecasts for the coming months suggest higher than usual temperatures up to July, the scientists say. Rainfall predictions are less clear, though some forecasts point to drier conditions over large parts of northern Europe, including the United Kingdom, parts of Germany and the Benelux countries, the JRC report notes.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-scientists-alarm-escalating-spring-drought-climate-change-jrc-report/
https://archive.ph/pB7hc

Colombia formally requests entry to BRICS development bank
Entry to the New Development Bank would allow Colombian governments to seek investment loans outside institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the Inter-American Development Bank that have historically demanded neoliberal policy changes in return.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-formally-requests-entry-to-brics-development-bank/

‘They were tortured’: Ecuadorian soldiers confess to beating four murdered children in Guayaquil
Four of the 16 soldiers prosecuted in the case admitted that their victims were beaten, punched, and subjected to a mock execution before being abandoned naked in Taura, a rural parish south of Guayaquil, taken over, like so many others, by organized crime.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-05-05/they-were-tortured-ecuadorian-soldiers-confess-to-beating-four-murdered-children-in-guayaquil.html
https://archive.ph/yS5Iw

Gold mining suspended in Peru's north after 13 miners killed
Since 2020, illegal miners have taken over several areas under Poderosa's control. The area had already been under a state of emergency, with heavy police and military presence, due to prior attacks on Poderosa's operations.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-pauses-mining-north-after-13-miners-killed-2025-05-05/

Where the hell is the Chinese version of a color revolution in the US? Why haven't socialist states like the USSR persued regime change and propaganda in the USA? Why aren't hackers working 24/7 trying to get compromising material on US officials?

America first of all can't do it alone. We fucking need help. And second, propaganda and sending agents to orgamize against the capitalist government is way more cost effective than arming up to the teeth (which these states are already doing).

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Discuss the wiki and post the articles, comics and animations you found funny or interesting.

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>LibRight: "Corporate tyranny is better"
>AuthLeft: "State tyranny is better"
>LibLeft: "Mob tyranny is better"
>AuthRight: "All of the above are great"
>centrists: "All tyranny should be done in moderation"
Why do we have to choose? Can't we have individualism without corporate tyranny, socialism without state tyranny and democracy without mob tyranny? Why do we always have to sell our liberty to some institution? Why can't we have all the good stuff without all the bad stuff? Have modern ancoms forgotten their individualist roots? Have they forgotten about Bakunin, Goldman and Malatesta? What kind of libertarianism is this if you have to obey the corporations or the majority?

Look, our Matrix server already has elements of consensus democracy, it can work. The more we rebel and split the closer we get to anarchism. So I don't understand why we always sacrifice one freedom for another in politics (except the AuthRight bootlickers, they're obsessed with order and control).

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Disco Thread

I just loooooooooove Disco music!
Don't you, fellas? What are your favorite Disco grooves?

Palestine Thread Pt. VII

One Year of Genocide

Continued from >>484995

Updates since the start of the last thread:
The (largely civilian) Palestinian death toll has now passed 61,000. Excess deaths have been estimated by The Lancet to plausibly be upwards of 186,000.

In early January 2025, Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner exchange. Despite all of the killing, Hamas's military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, appears to have largely replenished its numbers, and threw parades celebrating the exchange. The ceasefire is on terms Hamas had already agreed to in May 2024.

Following Hezbollah strikes on Tel Aviv, a ceasefire in Lebanon was agreed to on November 27th. Israel proceeded to violate this ceasefire more than 600 times, and has refused to leave the country at the agreed-upon 60 day deadline, prompting unarmed civilians to stage protests and drive them out of parts of south Lebanon.

Lebanese Army leader Joseph Aoun was elected president of Lebanon.

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by US-backed al-Qaeda operatives. Israel proceeded to steal more land from Syria and launched a massive bombing campaign on Syria and Syria's arsenal without any resistance.

Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar was killed while fighting in Gaza. Mohammed Deif later confirmed dead.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICC also issued warrants against Hamas leaders.

Following the warrants, the Biden administration invited Yoav Gallant to the White House.

Benjamin Netanyahu was invited back to the White House for February 4th, 2025.

Israel has launched more attacks on the West Bank, and reportedly violated the ceasefire in Gaza some 80 times.

More countries have joined South Africa's legal case at the International Court of Justice against Israel for the crime of genocide. Cuba, Ireland, Belize, Nicaragua, Palestine, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Libya, Chile, and Colombia have joined the South African case against Israel. Egypt, Belgium, and Maldives have also declared their intention to join.

Yemeni Houthi attacks on international shipping, in solidarity with Gaza, have stopped in accordance with the ceasefire, following multiple successful Yemeni strikes on targets in Israel.

Demonstrators have continued to blockade and damage arms factories manufacturing weapons for Israel in the UK.

The US gov't continued shipping weapons to Israel, in violation of US law.

The new US administration threatened to deport foreign students speaking out against the US-backed Palestinian genocide.

A group of states from the global south formed the Hague Group as a way of reinforcing the rulings of the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court. The founding states are Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa.

And much, much more!

Good music in bad games

All right, fine… It's been 18 years, and I'll finally admit it! As much as I loath this insulting trash game for daring to call itself Mario Bros. (and the trend of dumbed down trash games that followed in its wake), Koji Kondo at least managed to belt out another irresistible banger for the main stage theme.

It's a testament to a composer's skill that I find myself getting this theme stuck in my head all the time, imagining that it's some nostalgic theme from a much earlier Mario game. But no, in fact it had the great misfortune to be attached to this turd. Well done, Kondo-san.

/ytp/ - YouTube Poop General

A thread for the highest form of art known to man. Post your favorite YTPs, YTPMVs and funny video edits here.

How much do you agree with Peter Coffin's main thesis that "The left" these days basically does not functionally exist in any real materialist fashion, and what presents itself as the ""left"" is mostly a consumerist "fandom" not all that different from people who are Star Wars fans or Trekkies or 40k nerds etc and that much of the ""Left"" actually end up purpetuating Capitalism, Capitalist goals and the system, by just draping red over largely Neoliberal positions. He brings up how BLM funnelled billionare money to rich liberal NGOs and how "Land Back" movement is trademarked and run by a Real Estate agency who want to privatize public lands and National Parks.

May Day 2025

What are you doing to celebrate International Worker's Day?

An interview with a shoujo editor

Very interesting stuff. Especially this bit:
<Yes, I like manga! I actually read everything. I tend to read shoujo manga from a work-like perspective, unfortunately, but I read a lot of works in magazines every month. I also read BL or shounen manga. Everything, actually. But actually more the well-known works, less the lesser-known ones. One Piece, Kingdom, Golden Kamuy … I read everything that's currently on in Japan and cry and laugh like a normal reader. (laughs)
Maybe the Japanese themselves don't care about demographics all that much. I am interested which mangaka also like One Piece (if the author of Berserk also likes it I'm gonna scream).
>Windows 10 on the monitor
Damn, that feels surreal.

News 4/29/25

Al-Qassam video depicts rescue of Israeli captives from IOF bombing in Gaza
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, released a video on Saturday, April 26, which showed its fighters rescuing Israeli captives after the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) shelled the tunnel, where they were held in the besieged Gaza strip.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/28/al-qassam-video-depicts-rescue-of-israeli-captives-from-iof-bombing-in-gaza/

Palestinian March of Return cancelled for first time in decades due to Israeli threats
Such conditions included limiting the number of attendees to 700 people while tens of thousands usually participate in the event, and a ban on raising the Palestinian flag. The police also threatened to infiltrate the march to enforce restrictions and to deploy a drone over participants, Jabareen said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-march-return-cancelled-first-time-decades-israeli-threats

With a new mobilisation bill, is Algeria gearing up for war?
The bill draws upon Article 99 of the Algerian Constitution, which allows the president to initiate "mobilisation" (meaning, military conscription) after consulting with the High Security Council and parliamentary leaders.
https://www.newarab.com/news/algeria-gearing-war-new-mobilisation-bill

DR Congo, Rwanda agree to draft peace deal by May 2
The United States brought the two countries’ foreign ministers together and voiced an interest in investment in the DRC’s turbulent but mineral-rich east, where fighting between DRC forces and M23 rebels has intensified since January. The M23 has captured key cities in the east in a campaign that has left thousands dead.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/26/dr-congo-rwanda-agree-to-draft-peace-deal-by-may-2
https://archive.ph/4zk03

Google DeepMind UK staff move to unionise to challenge links to Israeli military
Figures with knowledge of the organising spoke to the Financial Times and said approximately 300 employees inside Google DeepMind, the company's artificial intelligence London office, want to join the Communication Workers Union (CWU).
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/google-deepmind-uk-attempt-unionise-challenge-links-israel-says-report

Palestine campaigners slam Israeli interference
A freedom of information request showed that the office of the British attorney-general provided Israel’s deputy ambassador with contact information for police and prosecutors probing action against an Israeli arms factory.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/palestine-campaigners-slam-israeli-interference

MAGA man leads the field before Romanian election rerun
Founded in 2019, AUR already holds the second-highest number of seats in the Romanian parliament after the center-left Social Democratic Party (PSD). Simion came fourth in last year’s annulled presidential contest but now seems to have garnered support among Georgescu’s voters.
https://www.politico.eu/article/maga-romanian-election-rerun-donald-trump-romania-presidency-sunday-vote/
https://archive.ph/evXdb

Protesters march against “transphobic” and “authoritarian” resolution of Brazil’s Council of Medicine
The protesters call the measure “transphobic” and “authoritarian”, stressing that it was published without public consultation and contradicts scientific evidence on which care protocols are based. Around 150 health and social care organizations and trans movements signed a joint statement rejecting the decision.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/29/protesters-march-against-transphobic-and-authoritarian-resolution-of-brazils-council-of-medicine/

Ecuador Military Execution of Minors: Human Rights Groups Demand Justice and State Accountability
Lawyers representing the families of four Afro-Ecuadorian children executed by military personnel in Guayaquil vow to take the case to international courts as Ecuador’s government faces mounting criticism over militarization, racism, and impunity.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuador-military-execution-of-minors-human-rights-groups-demand-justice-and-state-accountability/

Carney wins Canada election, warns ‘Trump is trying to break us’
Once activated, the law grants the military charge of economic and industrial production, and control over borders and internal movement, in cooperation with the Interior Ministry. Citizens would be legally obligated to comply with mobilisation orders, with penalties for non-compliance including prison sentences of up to three years for failing to report foreign nationals from "hostile states."
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5272332-mark-carney-canada-election-donald-trump/
https://archive.ph/YiA1z

News MAY 1st / 2025

Workers observe May Day with marches and demos under Trump tariffs shadow
The holiday, also known as International Workers’ Day or Labour Day, honours the struggles and achievements of workers and the labour movement. Rallies are expected across the US, as well, including in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia. Across multiple countries, Trump’s agenda was cited as a source of concern.
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/5/1/workers-observe-may-day-with-marches-and-demos-under-trump-tariffs-shadow
https://archive.ph/miUMA

Petro files labor referendum in Colombia’s Congress
Before the protocolary act in the capitol, Petro addressed thousands of protesters who had come to Bogota’s Bolivar Square to celebrate International Workers’ Day and demand Congress approve the referendum. Petro assured his opponents in Congress that “the people of Colombia will rise up and revoke them” in the 2026 elections if they vote against the referendum. “Not a single parliamentarian who vote against the referendum will be elected again in Colombia because nobody will vote for him,” said the president.
https://colombiareports.com/petro-files-labor-referendum-in-colombias-congress/

Thousands in Serbia mark six months since train station tragedy
Workers’ unions joined university students in Belgrade, Serbia’s capital, to demand changes in labour and strike laws as part of May Day protests. In the northern city of Novi Sad, residents left flowers and lit candles outside the central station, where tons of concrete crashed on the people standing or sitting underneath on November 1.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-serbia-mark-six-months-train-station-tragedy

US and Ukraine sign deal giving US access to country’s valuable mineral wealth
The two sides offered only barebone details about the structure of the deal, which they called the United States-Ukraine Reinvestment Fund. But it is expected to give the U.S. access to Ukraine’s valuable rare earth minerals while providing Kyiv a measure of assurance about continued American support in its grinding war with Russia.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-putin-trump-peace-ce025ba11929ceff0c90f94c25a47624

Rail Gourmet agrees to full union recognition and collective bargaining
The rail caterer will now sign a recognition agreement, in what the union has described as a “major reversal” of its long-standing refusal to engage properly with trade unions. Industrial action that had been due to take place from May 2 has now been called off.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rail-gourmet-agrees-full-union-recognition-and-collective-bargaining

International Workers’ Day: Iraqi unions decry poor conditions and broken promises
While politicians and officials, including Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, extended their congratulations to workers, many Iraqis say words are not enough. Labour representatives accuse private sector employers of failing to uphold key provisions of the country's labour law, particularly regarding workplace safety and social security coverage.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqi-workers-protest-poor-work-conditions-may-day

Over 400 detained in Istanbul’s May Day protest as Turkey restricts transit
Istanbul police detained more than 400 people on Thursday during May Day demonstrations — the largest display of defiance since last month’s mass protests over Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s arrest — held under sweeping restrictions.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/05/over-400-detained-istanbuls-may-day-protest-turkey-restricts-transit

South Korea’s acting leader Han resigns amid reports he will run for president
South Korea’s acting leader, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, said Thursday he is resigning to take on “heavier responsibility” as expectation mounted he will run in next month’s presidential election. … … … . .. .
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-presidential-election-han-ducksoo-94a9814f6eec74d5b7dd9565cfa41f7e

Australia's centre-left Labor likely to retain power as Trump concerns weigh, polls show
A RedBridge-Accent poll published by News Corp newspapers on Thursday showed Labor leading 53%-47% against the conservative Liberal-National coalition under Australia's two-party preferential voting system, where votes are distributed until a winner is declared.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-centre-left-labor-likely-retain-power-trump-concerns-weigh-polls-show-2025-05-01/

South Africa to review claims past ANC governments impeded apartheid crimes investigations
A group of 25 relatives and survivors of apartheid-era deaths and violence sued the government in January, claiming that interference from “the highest levels of government” blocked investigations into cases referred to the National Prosecuting Authority by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). .. . . . ..
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/30/cyril-ramaphosa-sets-up-inquiry-into-whether-past-anc-governments-interfered-withinvestigation-of-apartheid-era-crimes

ITS UP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Jwv40MkiY

Television

Let's make a thread to discuss, review and analyze tv shows. Everybody is binging something these days.
Argue about dvd commentaries, Post your thesis on King of the Hill, Reminisce about a tv show you used to watch but don't quite remember it's title. Just about anything related to shows. Post your highscore on those Ben 10 CN flash games. Anything goes.

News 4/28/25

Unions warn teachers, councils and NHS workers may go out on strike after government says it won't fund pay rises
The sectors’ bodies have recommended rises of about 4 per cent for teachers and 3 per cent for NHS staff to ministers, according to the Times. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) responded, saying that any award must be fully funded. The National Education Union (NEU) and NASUWT teaching unions threatened strike action if schools do not get extra funding to pay for the salary increase for teachers.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions-warn-teachers-councils-and-nhs-workers-may-go-out-strike-after-government-says-it

Tens of millions across Spain and Portugal hit by huge power outage
Mobile networks went down and internet access was cut as power failed at 12.33pm (1133 BST). Hospitals postponed routine operations but used generators to attend to critical cases, and while electronic banking was able to function on backup systems, most ATM screens were blank. … . . . . . . . . …
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/28/spain-portugal-power-outage

Far right's poster boy Bardella to run for French president if Le Pen is barred
Jordan Bardella, 29, has said he plans to be the French far-right National Rally's presidential candidate in 2027 if his mentor Marine Le Pen is barred from running. Le Pen, who has run for president three times, is appealing an embezzlement conviction that bars her from seeking public office for five years.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250427-far-right-s-poster-boy-bardella-to-run-for-french-president-if-le-pen-is-barred
https://archive.ph/tAqix

‘Don't punish innocent families,’ separatist leader urges India as troops destroy Kashmiri homes
In a statement posted on social media, Mr Farooq, chairman of the Kashmiri independence alliance All Parties Hurriyat Conference, said: “While Kashmiris collectively condemn the heinous crime at Pahalgam — and it is imperative to bring its perpetrators to justice — indiscriminate arrests and videos circulating on social media of demolition of houses and neighbourhoods, is disturbing and distressing.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dont-punish-innocent-families-separatist-leader-urges-india-troops-destroy-kashmiri-homes

Hours after having advanced into in Rif Dimashq backed by drones | Israeli forces stablish military post and detonate military positions
Israeli forces detonated positions this morning in the 36th Regiment (special forces), aka Ain Al-Burj, to the east of Qal’at Jandal in Rif Dimashq, along with establishing a military post on the top of Barbar mountain in order to monitor movements in that region.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/360830/

Yemen's Houthis say 68 killed in US strikes on African migrant centre
According to a statement cited by Al-Masirah from the Houthi administration's interior ministry, the centre housed "115 migrants, all from Africa". The broadcaster showed footage of bodies stuck under the rubble and of rescuers working to help the casualties.
https://www.newarab.com/news/houthis-say-68-killed-us-strikes-african-migrant-centre

Israel’s Shin Bet chief ousted by Netanyahu says will stand down on June 15
“After 35 years of service, in order to allow an orderly process for appointing a permanent successor and for professional handover, I will end my role on June 15, 2025,” the Shin Bet chief told a memorial event at his agency, according to a statement on Monday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/28/israels-shin-bet-chief-ousted-by-netanyahu-says-will-stand-down-on-june-15
https://archive.ph/1OAts

São Paulo teachers continue strike for better wages and against school privatization
Teachers at the São Paulo municipal public school system, one of the largest education systems in the Americas, decided on April 23 to continue an indefinite strike that began on April 15 for better wages and against the privatization of education. On April 16, São Paulo’s public sector workers also went on strike against sweeping attacks on social services by Mayor Ricardo Nunes, a close ally of fascist ex-president Jair Bolsonaro.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/25/obyj-a25.html

IMF tightens the reins on Colombia
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) authorities were “vampires” who suspended his country's access to a US$ 8.1 billion flexible credit line on Saturday.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/04/28/imf-tightens-the-reins-on-colombia

Panamanians gear up for indefinite strike on April 28
Thousands of Panamanians took to the streets on April 24 to protest pension reform, US interference, and the intended reopening of the country’s largest copper mine, they will continue their struggle in an indefinite strike beginning April 28
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/27/panamanians-gear-up-for-indefinite-strike-on-april-28/

Why just about nobody seems to care about risk of strong solar storm on the scale of the carrington event?

Why there are no procedures made, spare transformers produced, emergency food and supplies stored around major cities, etc?

People care about climate change risks slowly damaging civilization over decades, and here we have risk (also scientifically and historically proven) that can just randomly disable worldwide electricity next year (extremely unlikely) or during the next 200 years (LIKELY) and we are doing nothing?

What is the logic in this? "Unlike climate change it will happen randomly, it may happen in 2054 or 2077, we may be already dead, we don't care"?
(No, nobody said that, I'm just trying to imagine reasons needed to ignore the issue).

Do you care about people who are now small children?

"It will PROBABLY not happen during my remaining lifetime, I'm fine with only 10% risk of dying from hunger or disorder among collapsing civilization"?

What is the logic here? What is the plan?

Are the risk overblown?
Or is the total fall of the industrial civilization so utterly and completely sure that there is no value of trying to save anything at all? Maybe at least some sort of archives carved on f****g stone, if not spare transformers, comms in Faraday cages and parts. Christ.

Or perhaps nobody outside of 20 scholars and Wikipedia heard about this issue?
Topic just unknown/boring (LOL) even for influential staff at FEMA?

The Other Side of Underneath (1972)

I haven't watched this yet, gonna watch it tonight. Idk if it's good but you can watch it with me if you want.

How it feels to be a figment of Nazbol anon's gay imagination which only he can see:
>wake up, 2 in the morning
>"oh no, I forgot to set my gay alarm, I'll have to get ready fast!"
>put on no clothes
>rush into the stables and hop on my giant bat so I can go across town to wake Nazbol Anon in a coldsweat at 3AM after another steamy encounter with me in the astral plane of his homoerotic night terrors
>ride off into the evening mists laughing at another flawless nocturnal victory

Self sufficiency

In our increasingly dystopia, and with a looming economic depression plus creeping environmental disaster, working to secure your own individual self sufficiency is pretty. This is a thread about that.

News 4/12/25

Argentina secures $42bn from IMF, others as it lifts currency controls
President Javier Milei announced on Friday that he will – starting on Monday – lift most of Argentina’s strict capital and currency controls as part of agreements that secured the huge funding deals.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/12/argentina-secures-42bn-from-imf-others-as-it-lifts-currency-controls
https://archive.ph/tqO2G

Panama opposition party accuses US of ‘camouflaged invasion’
A full text of the MOU included aerial photos of Fort Sherman, Rodman naval base and Howard air force base, with areas outlined for “training”, “humanitarian activities” and the “installation of US property”. The Panamanian government says they are not “military bases” and that the deal is temporary, but opposition parties have rejected such claims.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/12/panama-hegseth-us-invasion-canal

Labour Takes Over Scunthorpe Steel in Commons Snap Debate
The Bill Reynolds presented establishes emergency public control over the plant but not public ownership. Both Houses of Parliament were expected to approve the legislation today.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-takes-over-scunthorpe-steel-commons-snap-debate

US ‘demands control’ from Ukraine of key pipeline carrying Russian gas
It runs from the town of Sudzha in western Russia to the Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod, about 750 miles (1,200km) away, on the border with the EU and Slovakia. Built in Soviet times, the pipeline is a key piece of national infrastructure and a major energy route.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/12/us-demands-control-from-ukraine-of-key-pipeline-carrying-russian-gas

Romanian presidential hopeful faces fury after admitting role in flooding villages
Romanian presidential candidate and former Prime Minister Victor Ponta is facing calls to withdraw from the race after revealing he allowed several local villages on the Danube to be flooded in 2014 to avoid flooding the Serbian capital of Belgrade.
https://www.politico.eu/article/romanian-presidential-hopeful-under-fire-after-admitting-role-in-village-flooding/
https://archive.ph/fyeW9

Hezbollah withdraws from majority of military sites in southern Lebanon
"Out of 265 Hezbollah military positions identified south of the Litani [River], the movement has ceded about 190 to the army," the source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hezbollah-withdraws-majority-military-sites-southern-lebanon

Hamas releases video showing Israeli-American hostage alive
The video was released hours after Defence Minister Israel Katz announced military control of what it called the new "Morag axis" corridor of land between the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Yunis.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/04/hamas-releases-video-showing-israeli-american-hostage-alive

Iran and US agree to continue nuclear talks after first indirect round
The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said the talks had been “constructive”, and held in a “calm and respectful environment” with “no sharp words exchanged”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/12/iran-foreign-minister-oman-us-nuclear-programme-talks

Three rebels, one Indian soldier killed in Kashmir gun battles
At least three suspected rebel fighters and one Indian soldier have been killed in separate firefights in Indian-administered Kashmir less than a week after Interior Minister Amit Shah visited the disputed territory.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/12/three-rebels-one-indian-soldier-killed-in-kashmir-gun-battles
https://archive.ph/OMXvF

China vows support to help graduates find jobs as US trade war weighs on the economy
Chinese authorities said on Tuesday that over the next three to five years, the country would establish a system to support employment of new graduates. It will cover skills training, career guidance, job search and recruitment help, support for the disadvantaged, and monitoring and evaluation of the employment market, according to the general offices of the Communist Party and State Council.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3305725/china-vows-support-help-graduates-find-jobs-us-trade-war-weighs-economy?module=top_story&pgtype=subsection
https://archive.ph/kkfxj

Virginia Giuffre dies "by suicide"

Virginia Giuffre, who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, dies aged 41
Giuffre’s family issued a statement confirming she took her own life at her farm in Western Australia, where she had lived for several years
Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent victims of the disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein who also alleged she was sexually trafficked to Prince Andrew, has died. She was 41.

Her family issued a statement on Saturday confirming she took her own life at her farm in Western Australia, where she had lived for several years.

“It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia. She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” the statement read.

“In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.”

Giuffre was one of the most vocal victims of Epstein, alleging she had been groomed and sexually abused by him and his longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, beginning in her teens.

The family described her as a “fierce warrior” against sexual abuse and sex trafficking and a “light that lifted so many survivors”.

“Despite all the adversity she faced in her life, she shone so bright. She will be missed beyond measure,” they said.

Giuffre is survived by her three children, Christian, Noah and Emily, who her family said were the “light of her life”.

“It was when she held her newborn daughter in her arms that Virginia realized she had to fight back against those who had abused her and so many others,” they said.

“There are no words that can express the grave loss we feel today with the passing of our sweet Virginia. She was heroic and will always be remembered for her incredible courage and loving spirit.”

…

Josh Schiffer, a lawyer who represents one of Epstein’s victims, said Giuffre was integral to exposing the financier.

“The case wouldn’t have existed without the input, her cooperation, her bravery at the beginning, inspiring so many other people to come forward,” he told US cable network NewsNation.

“Her loss will hopefully be a marker and almost an inspiration for people to calling attention to the epidemic that is sex trafficking, that is the international sex industry.

“This is an issue that still persists. It changes its form all the time and it exists all around the world. This just happened to be a really prominent example.”

Western Australia police did not publicly confirm Giuffre had died, but said emergency services responded to reports a 41-year-old woman was unresponsive at a home in Neergabby, about 75km north of Perth, about 9.50pm on Friday.

The woman was given emergency first aid but was pronounced dead, they said.

The death will be investigated but is not considered suspicious.

Earlier this month, Giuffre posted on social media that she had just days to live after a school bus crashed into her car.

WA police later confirmed a 41-year-old woman was in a car that collided with a bus on 24 March but there were no reported injuries. It is understood Giuffre presented to a Perth hospital emergency department on 1 April.

Giuffre, who is American, said she met Maxwell, a British socialite, in 2000 when working as a locker-room assistant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Maxwell offered her a job as massage therapist to Epstein, during which she alleged she was trafficked to the financier’s friends and clients – “passed around like a platter of fruit”.

In a 2009 civil lawsuit against Epstein, under the pseudonym “Jane Doe 102”, she alleged that her duties included being “sexually exploited by Epstein’s adult male peers including royalty”. Giuffre reached a settlement with Epstein in that case before it went to trial.

In 2021, Giuffre filed a civil lawsuit against Prince Andrew in the federal court in New York, alleging he sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was 17.

Andrew has repeatedly and strongly denied the accusations.

In the lawsuit, Giuffre alleged Epstein and Maxwell had introduced her to Andrew in 2001, and alleged that Maxwell forced her to have sex with Andrew.

In 2022, Andrew and Giuffre agreed to an out-of-court settlement for an undisclosed sum.

Maxwell, who has maintained her innocence, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 for sex trafficking.

Epstein was arrested by federal authorities in July 2019 and charged with sex-trafficking counts. Shortly after, he died by suicide while awaiting trial.

https://archive.is/LtWM0
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/26/virginia-giuffre-suicide-dead-aged-41

RABM Thread

Red Anarchist Black Metal / Communist Black Metal, etc.

Post, discuss.

I’m a longtime 4chan/8chan user and my worldview has definitely been shaped by that. Recently been browsing the other site out of curiosity and it’s clear we both have issues with Israel which I’m pleasantly surprised by.
my question is where and how far down the rabbit hole do we actually align with each other?
Are your guys problems with Israel mainly due to the modern day Israel and their atrocities against the muzzies or do you guys see jews for the weasels they are? Do you see the difference between the Israelites of the Bible and the Talmud worshippers of today? Do you acknowledge the khazarian and/or Canaanite connections? What are your views on the holocaust, true, exaggerated, complete BS? What are your actual issues with nazi’s and facism? Because the first thing that comes to mind for me would be that you all worship transhumanists but even to that I would say they are basically brainwashed into it by jews. Like the “Nazi book burnings” which was all transhumanist propaganda by jewish doctors in Germany at the time running the largest sex change clinic in the world.
I’m genuinely curious this is the first issue I’ve know us to be able to find common ground on and I’d like to learn more about your ideas regarding it. And yes I will admit I do align with facism, or at least my own interpretation of it

Hoping for a real dialogue if you’ll indulge me

Old Soviet tank from the 1980's or so

Like one that was used in the Chernobyl accident investigation.

nintendont

A video game that nintendo had a legal distribution monopoly on was leaked ahead of the official release. They got really mad about that and they are trying to take it out on the video-game emulation communities, by attacking emulation related software projects on github.

So the lesson here is if you give companies like that money they are going to use it to attack your hobbies. I think this legitimizes "pirating" games because you have no legal option to buy these games without also supporting nintendo's legalistic mafia-terror.

If copy"right" wasn't set up like a monopoly, and you could buy these specific games from any distributor not just nintendo, so that you could choose to buy from non-mafia sellers, it would at least be logically possible to make a case against "piracy". But as long as that's not possible "piracy" is basically just self defense. Keep in mind that nintendo doesn't make games, it's just a legal entity, and not the same as the people that make the games like for example programmers and artists.

Obviously there also is the hole deal with DRM which is total hypocrisy, it basically attacks the concept of personal ownership of your possessions. It's property-rights for me but not for thee.

If they were to reform copy"right" and remove the distribution monopoly aspect, so that everybody with the means to distribute copies was free to do so as long as they gave royalties (as a form of revenue sharing) to the people who actually created the stuff that is being copied. Maybe that would work.

But as long as they keep the monopoly part "piracy" is basically just competing distributors that were arbitrarily banned from participating in the market. Some times people make the strange argument that pirates gain from the work of others but that's also true for the capitalists that own nintendo, by that logic all of nintendo's profits are pirated.

I sometimes feel like the copy-monopolists take the most extreme ideological positions, while we don't and that's why this hole shit drifts ever more towards reactionary insanity where Nintendo gets to rape random software devs on github as some kind of bully-frustration release mechanism and it's a crime if you play with toys "the wrong way". Maybe we should redefine piracy as everything that keeps works-of-art outside the creative-commons/public-domain and drm as a product defect. Maybe that will create a counter-weight.

Damanhur

NGL the Federation of Damanhur seems pretty cool.
What does /posad/ think about the Temples of Humankind?
Is your heart as light as a feather?

/mu/ shill thread

Post your stuff!

>mfw there's nothing mutual about it

Hi, I'm Gabe Newell

Hi, I'm Gabe Newell, the CEO of valvesoftware.com. My pronouns are gabe/gaben and I identify as pro-consumer. I'm most famous for:
>sucking Denuvo's cock
>sucking EA's cock
>sucking Activision's cock
>sucking Ubisoft's cock
>sucking 2k's cock
>sucking Nintendo's cock (the biggest cock of them all)
>ignoring the French court's demands
Some people say that GOG is better than Steam. But GOG is for losers who can't afford a good Internet connection and graphics card to run the superior Denuvo games. That's why nobody publishes their games on it. Steam has a larger catalog of indie games than GOG. We keep all the indie devs locked inside our basement with no way out. There is no escape.

/zizek/ supercut

Only post bangers

keep the clips short

return of the jewish question

Seriously, what the fuck is the solution to this? How do we stop them from acting this way?

Cool Jazz & Vocal Jazz

Honestly also Dark Jazz and Bebop are probably fine too.

Opening with this Jimmy Scott recording, what a voice!

The issue is neoprogressivism

The issue is neoprogressivism and third-/fourth-wave feminism of the New Left, not progressivism and feminism per se.

Third Time

Two of my threads petitioning to destroy the /lgbt/ board have gone missing. But I won't fail the third time because the /lgbt/ board will be destroyed in the end.

Leftist-Liberal Alliance Against Trump?

In the USA, liberals, of course, seem to hate Trump. Even though their party of choice could not save them from Trump (and didn't even try), they continue to hate him and oppose him. However, as the image attached shows, they also seem to not understand leftism. They associate him with Communism, solely because they associate him with Russia. Since they hate Russia, with whom they associate Trump, and they associate Trump with Communism, they will be likely to reject leftism.

What I ask is this: do you think it is fruitful for American leftists to join liberals in anti-Trump demonstrations? Or should we instead have demonstrations of our own? Could liberal protests become an opportunity for educating liberals, or would attending merely make them more secure in their current ideology?

hiii

/utdr/

Thread for Undertale and Deltarune discussion! Post theories, art and bad AU's!

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/nintendo/

General for all Nintendo Games and Nintendo related discussion!

what is the point?

Unless you find your dream job and strike it rich, what is the point? To eventually get a house which you don’t even really own? Yours always paying shit anyways. Would rather play Overwatch.

Get

1 get suck it nerds.

/INT/ - Intuition

there are some spiritualities (Indigenous matriarchal ones for example) that believe women possess intuition like a 6th sense that men aren't able to tap into. And that it can be honed with practice.

I have pretty powerful intuition, always have since I was a kid. I started doing tarot readings when I was little for fun, and they ended up really scarily accurate. It's all intuition based, the way I read them. I freaked out several family members- aunts uncles, mom, grandma with my readings to the point where they were made uncomfortable. I've predicted severe illness, infidelity, and minor issues too with my card readings. I get told a lot that my tarot readings aren't any fun because I don't sugarcoat bad things. In fact I think I have more of an ability to predict bad things than good.

I am also really good at reading people, which I usually pass off as being a perk of being a wallflower, but I can even guess people's first names when I've never seen them before sometimes. Sometimes I even get such a powerful feeling that a person or animal's name is 'wrong' somehow to the point where I have a hard time using the name they give me. Like, one time I was riding a trail horse with a name like Red or something, but I could not stop calling her Daisy- in my mind, when I was petting her or riding her. It was really weird. Probably sounds retarded but I wonder if it's some kind of weird intuition or something.

At this point I always listen to my intuition. If I get a bad feeling about something. My husband believes I have very strong intuition as well, and always listens to me if I decide to cancel a plan or leave something early because it's never steered us wrong. I think it's the closest thing to a religious belief I practice- if I get a gut feeling about something I don't do it, or if someone gives me bad vibes I gtfo.

few examples off the top of my head:
- when i was 16 I crashed my car going 80 into a telephone pole and the tree line in a ditch, with my mom in the passenger seat. she only came out with cuts from the glass, I didn’t have a scratch.
- some dumb friend of mine was getting catfished and subsequently extorted, and basically made a deal to “sell me” to them since he knew i was well off in exchange for being left alone. instantly knew something was up with the girl that hmu. few days later he attempts suicide and she’s arrested for something completely unrelated.
- i was in a bad place in high school and used to keep a longer than legal switchblade on me, just waiting for someone to give me a reason. it fell out of my pocket once in the middle of the hallway during class change, and another time in class as i was standing up from my desk. both times it miraculously and quietly fell into someone else’s backpack, a million times better than clattering on the floor.

Is your intuition ever scarily accurate? I’ve intuited running into certain people. I went to the library 3 days ago because I just knew my crush would be there even though he’s a commuter who didn’t attend class that day. I don’t know how I knew that. I just followed wherever my body took me because I knew it would take me to him. Another example, there’s someone that I know I will run into on my campus (who doesn’t live anywhere near it) by the end of the month. I’ve known it for months and I’ve been trying to avoid running into this person but I know it’s the universe’s will we run into each other.

how do you develop better intuition? I can usually tell that something horrible is going to happen on days when horrible things do happen but that's not really useful

Ransomware

How does Play Ransomware gain initial access to a victim’s network? How i can get its decryption keys

Leftypol Serenades

Post your songs.

/ck/ alternatives?

Now that 4chan is kill, what's the premier place to talk about food?

/ck/ was my favorite board, it was a good mix of on-topic posts and funny jokes. I am gonna miss it.

picrel: I pickled some radishes not too long ago.

'50s - early '60s pop stuff

Why not?

music AI covers

Chris Chan sings Hurt by Johnny Cash (AI Song Cover)
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=L1yHKxibqxY

Same show.

1972 film "Silent Running" mp3 soundtrack

Ecology related 1972 science fiction film.

There will never be another show like The Boondocks

That's it. We as a society have peaked when this show came out. It was all downhill from there.

This show is what comes up in my mind when I think of the dirtbag left. It's not preachy, not "woke," not anti-white, not misandrist. But most importantly, it portrays black Americans as human beings with realistic flaws that you can relate to or at least understand. This show would not have come out the same today because it wasn't above criticizing the African-American community, it wasn't afraid of calling out real sexism and homophobia within it, it wasn't afraid of criticizing the glorification of the thug lifestyle within the black youth and it ruthlessly mocked Black "Entertainment" Television for stupifying black masses. The show, created by a black communist, was constantly censored for offending white liberal sensibilities. But it also made fun of racism too and showed just how ridiculous it was with the character of Uncle Ruckus. Not only that, but it had a brilliant episode that humanizes gay people (must-watch for conservatives) Nothing was safe from MacGruder's critique. There was even an episode about R. Kelly's trial that criticized celebrity worship. The show arguably predicted radlibs even, with other people attacking Huey for merely being apathetic to elections.

While this show can be compared to South Park, the two shows have very different vibes to them. While South Park revelled in its mockery The Boondocks had a sad and depressing feel to its satire. It's like the author wanted to make a real change but felt as if he was powerless to do so. This really shows the difference between a leftist satire and a centrist one. MacGruder is like a combination of Huey and Caesar: he wants to remain Caesar, an optimistic revolutionary, but he inevitably returns to being Huey, a jaded leftcom.

>watch a harem anime
>"I wonder which girl the protagonist will end up with!"
<It's the first one
>watch a romcom
>"I wonder when they're gonna start dating!"
<at the end of the series
I HATE ROMANCE ANIME I HATE ROMANCE ANIME I HATE ROMANCE ANIME

/INT/ - Intuition

there are some spiritualities (Indigenous matriarchal ones for example) that believe women possess intuition like a 6th sense that men aren't able to tap into. And that it can be honed with practice.

I have pretty powerful intuition, always have since I was a kid. I started doing tarot readings when I was little for fun, and they ended up really scarily accurate. It's all intuition based, the way I read them. I freaked out several family members- aunts uncles, mom, grandma with my readings to the point where they were made uncomfortable. I've predicted severe illness, infidelity, and minor issues too with my card readings. I get told a lot that my tarot readings aren't any fun because I don't sugarcoat bad things. In fact I think I have more of an ability to predict bad things than good.

I am also really good at reading people, which I usually pass off as being a perk of being a wallflower, but I can even guess people's first names when I've never seen them before sometimes. Sometimes I even get such a powerful feeling that a person or animal's name is 'wrong' somehow to the point where I have a hard time using the name they give me. Like, one time I was riding a trail horse with a name like Red or something, but I could not stop calling her Daisy- in my mind, when I was petting her or riding her. It was really weird. Probably sounds retarded but I wonder if it's some kind of weird intuition or something.

At this point I always listen to my intuition. If I get a bad feeling about something. My husband believes I have very strong intuition as well, and always listens to me if I decide to cancel a plan or leave something early because it's never steered us wrong. I think it's the closest thing to a religious belief I practice- if I get a gut feeling about something I don't do it, or if someone gives me bad vibes I gtfo.

few examples off the top of my head:
- when i was 16 I crashed my car going 80 into a telephone pole and the tree line in a ditch, with my mom in the passenger seat. she only came out with cuts from the glass, I didn’t have a scratch.
- some dumb friend of mine was getting catfished and subsequently extorted, and basically made a deal to “sell me” to them since he knew i was well off in exchange for being left alone. instantly knew something was up with the girl that hmu. few days later he attempts suicide and she’s arrested for something completely unrelated.
- i was in a bad place in high school and used to keep a longer than legal switchblade on me, just waiting for someone to give me a reason. it fell out of my pocket once in the middle of the hallway during class change, and another time in class as i was standing up from my desk. both times it miraculously and quietly fell into someone else’s backpack, a million times better than clattering on the floor.

Is your intuition ever scarily accurate? I’ve intuited running into certain people. I went to the library 3 days ago because I just knew my crush would be there even though he’s a commuter who didn’t attend class that day. I don’t know how I knew that. I just followed wherever my body took me because I knew it would take me to him. Another example, there’s someone that I know I will run into on my campus (who doesn’t live anywhere near it) by the end of the month. I’ve known it for months and I’ve been trying to avoid running into this person but I know it’s the universe’s will we run into each other.

how do you develop better intuition? I can usually tell that something horrible is going to happen on days when horrible things do happen but that's not really useful

> for context:
> I can't get a job due to my grades (still in school)
> On the urge of drugs
> I dont have a bank account

Anyone have tips for a person who needs to find work, most specifically online jobs?

Postal 4

Knew that my criticisms wouldn't be taken seriously on /v/, so I came here.

What had made the initial POSTAL 2 have integrity was how it laughed in the face of moral panic—whether on the conservative side against video games or book-banning, and later on the acts of organizations such as PETA.

The modern day's conservative moral panic is mainly focused toward the LGBTQ+ and immigrants. POSTAL 4 had an amazing opportunity to comment on these things(we already had an entire group dedicated to getting rid of books in the last game), they side with the moral panic narrative by only telling a story about the rabid SJWs.

The terrorists in POSTAL 2 were also done quite well; they could be found everywhere on the map(the grocery store, the mall, behind RWS) to show how ridiculous the narrative of "terrorists could be anywhere" that justified the Patriot Act was. They could have played it this way, too. They could have had random trans people hiding among the populace looking to cut your dick off. They could have had a mad university professor trying to hypnotize a local college campus into having gay sex. They could have had the book burners show up mid-way through that, but then target Postal Dude midway through because "Hey, look at those buttons on his clothes! Those are a secret symbol of the queer agenda! I saw it online!" and then have them target him as well.

Instead, POSTAL 4 just uses the cheap conservative joke that its ancestor would have tore to shreds and loses its shine because of it. It feels like if a modern sitcom writer tried to make a POSTAL game without understanding any of the bite that made those games special. I'm not going to pretend that they were fine art or anything like that, but it was a special component.

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Kpop general

Post and discuss Korean pop (both sides)

inb4: "kpop is reactionary!"
https://www.koreaboo.com/news/nct-taeyong-message-resurfaced-starbucks-boycott/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKsj5mCR7qs
Chollima On The Wing - DPRK Music Video

Furthermore, there is a blockchain themed Kpop group active right now named tripleS (that lets fans vote using NFTs), and the DPRK has been dabbling in cryptocurrency, so there you go..

Goofy AI shit

I just had a thought that instead of cryptocoins doing expensive ass computations for no reason other than to do them, they should be computing AI tokens. Would it even be that hard? I don't have any good GPUs so I haven't tried it, but in theory something like

https://github.com/exo-explore/exo

can run the latest deepseek (or latest llm de jour), and every peer in the coin network (the dht) would just run an exo node. Then the coin thing would just need proof that you computed the token for the LLM somehow.

It's probably limited a lot by network latency but you get the idea.

Anyways this would incentivise AI to improve itself, because it's computation capacity is tied to money, and growing the economy would be seen as one of the goals, so it would probably get into a contradiction with whatever people are trying to use it for and the fact that it's own brains have become money.

Picture unrelated

I find personally find it really bullshit, because if game are costing the same as a subscription, we should have free online (I wanted to say more, but capatcha deleted all I said)

News 4/11/25

Israeli military organises tourist tours of newly occupied Syrian territory
Under a military escort in bulletproof buses, small groups will travel up to 2.5km into Syrian territory that was off limits until the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) seized the Golan buffer zone after the fall of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December. Israel has occupied the Golan Heights since 1967 and now controls hundreds more square kilometres of Syrian land.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/11/israeli-military-organises-tourist-tours-of-newly-occupied-syrian-territory

UN says 36 Israeli attacks killed only Palestinian women, children in Gaza
Israel also has imposed a total blockade on the coastal Palestinian enclave, leading the UN and rights groups to warn that food, water, medicine and other critical supplies are quickly running out.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/11/un-says-israel-threatening-viability-of-palestinians-in-gaza-amid-attacks
https://archive.ph/pMKqO

Top Houthi Official Tells Drop Site Yemen Will Cease Attacks on U.S. Ships if Trump Halts Bombing
“We do not consider ourselves at war with the American people,” said Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of Ansar Allah’s political bureau and a longtime spokesperson for the Houthis. “If the U.S. stops targeting Yemen, we will cease our military operations against it.”
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/houthi-united-states-strikes-gaza-blockade-israel-shipping

Jewish man wins case against UK Labour antisemitism expulsion
Jenny Manson, co-chair of leftwing campaign group Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL), said that Labour should now require the ICB to review every expulsion and suspenstion on the grounds of antisemitism.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jewish-man-wins-case-against-uk-labour-antisemitism-expulsion

Parliament recalled for MPs to vote on nationalising British Steel
Downing Street announced yesterday that MPs will discuss an emergency law to save British Steel’s plant in Scunthorpe from imminent closure and “all options remain on the table.” The legislation would reportedly give ministers powers to “protect” the Lincolnshire site by compelling the current Chinese owner Jingye to transfer control to the government because it is a matter of national interest.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/parliament-recalled-for-mps-to-vote-on-nationalising-british-steel

New German government to abolish 3-year citizenship path
The 3-year option requires applicants to not only possess an advanced C1 level of German, but also to show other achievements of strong integration in German society, such as volunteer work or high achievements at work or in their studies.
https://www.dw.com/en/new-german-government-to-abolish-3-year-citizenship-path/a-72202030
https://archive.ph/IebPF

French parliament restricts birthright citizenship in Mayotte, left slams 'laboratory of far right'
Until now, children born there additionally needed to have a parent who had resided there legally for at least three months at the time of birth to apply for nationality. With the new bill, both parents will need to have legally lived there for at least a year, with an exception in place for single parents.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250408-french-parliament-restricts-birthright-citizenship-in-mayotte
https://archive.ph/ygTBF

Colombia’s capital ends drought-related water rationing. Its case is a warning to other cities
Bogotá’s experience is not unique. In Brazil, Sao Paulo took drastic water-saving measures due to drought, as did Cape Town in South Africa, which came seriously close to running out of water entirely due to a drought that started in 2015.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/11/colombias-capital-ending-drought-related-water-rationing-case-warning/
https://archive.ph/YkmvC

Trump threatens sanctions, tariffs on Mexico in water dispute
While Mexico sends far less water to the U.S., it has struggled to fulfill its end of the bargain due to a combination of factors including droughts, poor infrastructure and growing local demand. … As Mexico's federal government looks to send more water to the U.S., it looks set to clash with northern Mexican states that closely guard their water supply.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-threatens-sanctions-tariffs-mexico-over-water-treaty-dispute-2025-04-10/

Argentine subway and premetro workers to stage strike
The Subway and Premetro Workers Union Association (AGTSyP) informed that transportation will be stopped from 14:00 hours to 15:00 hours (local time) to denounce “the presence of fraudulently hired workers, under the false form of security personnel.”
https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/04/11/argentine-subway-and-premetro-workers-to-stage-strike/

/edu/ checkpoint

Hello comrades. I propose a general thread in an attempt to get the /edu/ ball rolling again. Everytime you visit /edu/, post in this thread. Tell us about what you're thinking about, what you're reading, an interesting thing you have learned today, anything! Just be sure to pop in and say hi.

News 4/8/25

Beijing attacks JD Vance’s ‘Chinese peasants’ remark in tariffs interview
Vance’s comments led to a backlash among Chinese internet users. “We may be peasants, but we have the world’s best high-speed rail system, the most powerful logistics capabilities, and leading AI, autonomous driving, and drone technologies. Aren’t such peasants quite impressive?” a Weibo user posted, according to CNN.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/08/beijing-attacks-jd-vances-chinese-peasants-remark-in-tariffs-interview

Cyber defense bill allows collection and use of private information without consent
The bill under discussion states that the government may enter into agreements with private businesses, including key infrastructure providers and home appliance makers, to have them provide correspondence information.
https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=15684

Pakistan's army vows to protect investors in billion-dollar mining sector in conflict zone
Pakistan is hosting a two-day mines and minerals conference with delegates from countries including the United States, China and Saudi Arabia, as well as companies including Barrick Gold and Woods Mackenzie. It is seeking to attract investments in its natural reserves, which are estimated to be worth $6 trillion.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistans-army-vows-protect-investors-billion-dollar-mining-sector-conflict-zone-2025-04-08/

Israel closes 6 UNRWA schools in east Jerusalem, detains dozens
This comes as Israeli forces also raided the Al-Quds University campus in the occupied region, firing teargas at students who confronted the soldiers after the raid. Around 23 students suffered from smoke inhalation after inhaling the gas, while Israeli soldiers also fired sound bombs towards students.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-closes-6-unrwa-schools-east-jerusalem-detains-dozens

Migrant workers trapped in Lebanon’s sponsorship system denied basic rights, Doctors without Borders warns
Lebanon is currently home to about 176,500 migrant workers —70 per cent of whom are women — with nearly half working as domestic staff living inside their employers’ homes. Many of these people endure extreme isolation, degrading conditions and unpaid labour.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/migrant-workers-trapped-lebanons-sponsorship-system-denied-basic-rights-doctors-without-borders

Indigenous march in Brazil to demand more land be set aside for their stewardship
“Indigenous territories are the most preserved and contribute to slowing the climate crisis we’re facing. But they are also the first to be impacted,” said Luene Karipuna, from the Amazonian state of Amapá, while marching. “We feel it directly in our lands, where we lost our entire cassava crop — our staple food in my community.”
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-cop30-indigenous-rights-amazon-rainforest-b8b0c7079719d77838438c7eef92e50e

Milei Charged $20,000 to Attend Private Dinners as Congressman
Milei would expound upon the radical economic plan that made him a rising political star as his guests, typically some five to 10 executives from across the business world, dined on bife de chorizo. The cash payment was the cost of access. Typically, one member of the group would hand all of it over.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-01/milei-charged-20-000-to-attend-private-dinners-as-congressman
https://archive.ph/ccHrh

EFF marks Land Day, reaffirms call for land expropriation
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) says it will continue to fight for the expropriation of land without compensation. This is as party leader Julius Malema will address the EFF land reclamation day at noon in Sophiatown, Johannesburg.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/eff-marks-land-day-reaffirms-call-for-land-expropriation/

French far right floats toppling government in wake of Le Pen verdict
National Rally President Jordan Bardella and party Vice President Sébastien Chenu revealed in separate interviews that the party is contemplating ousting Prime Minister François Bayrou, just four months after backing the French left’s effort to take down his predecessor, Michel Barnier.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-far-right-national-rally-toppling-government-marine-le-pen-pm-francois-bayrou-jordan-bardella/
https://archive.ph/OMHLx

Assisted dying vote delayed by three weeks to give MPs time to consider changes
The bill, which has undergone a significant number of changes since the initial vote in November, will now return to the Commons on 16 May, instead of 25 April, for its report stage and votes if time allows.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/08/assisted-dying-vote-delayed-leadbeater-commons

News 4/10/2025

Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs
Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs. He said that while Khalil’s activities were “otherwise lawful,” letting him remain in the country would undermine “U.S. policy to combat anti-Semitism around the world and in the United States, in addition to efforts to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the United States.”
https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university-trump-c60738368171289ae43177660def8d34

Kurdish-led administration, Damascus to jointly manage Syria’s Tishrin Dam
The deal also allows the autonomous administration to lead efforts to repair and maintain the dam, in coordination with international partners, to ensure the sustainability of its vital services. Security for the facility will be provided by teams composed of both Kurdish internal security personnel and members of the joint authority, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
https://shafaq.com/en/World/Kurdish-led-administration-Damascus-to-jointly-manage-Syria-s-Tishrin-Dam

Turkish FM Hakan Fidan says would back Syria in military pact amid Israel talks
Fidan also revealed that talks are ongoing between Israel and Turkey over the operations of both countries' militaries in Syria: "While we are conducting certain operations in Syria, there needs to be a deconfliction mechanism with Israel, which flies aircraft in that region, similar to mechanisms we have with the US and Russia."
https://www.newarab.com/news/turkey-mulls-syria-defence-pact-amid-israel-deconfliction-talks

‘Won’t let it happen’: Indian fishers fight $1.8bn offshore minerals hunt
The primary concern of the state’s fishers is the potential damage from offshore mining on a large sand bank spread over 3,300 square kilometres — more than 10 times the land area of the Maldives archipelago to the southwest of Kerala.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/4/9/wont-let-it-happen-indian-fishers-fight-offshore-critical-minerals-hunt
https://archive.ph/u4VOe

‘Grubby’ treaty principles bill voted down in New Zealand parliament
Over the past year, the bill generated widespread criticism from lawyers, academics, politicians and the public who believed the new principles would weaken Māori rights, remove checks on the Crown and drive anti-Māori rhetoric. A Waitangi Tribunal report said if enacted, the bill would be “the worst, most comprehensive breach of the Treaty … in modern times”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/10/treaty-principles-bill-voted-down-in-new-zealand-parliament-maori

Papua New Guinea police “test” shuts down Facebook
The draconian Counter-Terrorism Act gives the government broad powers to monitor and restrict digital communications, including the ability to surveil online activity without judicial oversight. It also allows law enforcement to check vehicles or premises without warrants, and grants the attorney-general and police commissioner powers to authorise surveillance based on “reasonable suspicion.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/10/glib-a10.html

A third of private tenants in Scotland struggle to pay their rent
It found that 24 per cent had difficulty paying their monthly rent, while 8 per cent found it “very difficult” and 49 per cent had cut back on household necessities to line private landlords’s pockets.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/third-private-tenants-scotland-struggle-pay-their-rent

Gazprom abandons Bolivia's Azero project after 16 years of unfulfilled promises
Despite the Azero project's demise, Gazprom retains a 20% stake in Bolivia’s Incahuasi field, developed jointly with TotalEnergies (operator, 50%), Tecpetrol (20%), and YPFB (10%). The field is considered one of the most significant in the country, contributing to both domestic supply and export capacity.
https://www.intellinews.com/gazprom-abandons-bolivia-s-azero-project-after-16-years-of-unfulfilled-promises-375854/
https://archive.ph/U3bwm

The March in Friusa Failed and the Neo-Fascist Movement Was Divided
The Dominican far-right’s violent march on Friusa collapsed in disarray, exposing weakness in the movement as racist mobs failed to overrun a working-class community. However, the threat remains. This was not just a chaotic spectacle but a dangerous escalation in the far-right’s campaign to scapegoat Haitian immigrants and divide the working class.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/18216/

Lima grinds to a halt as Peru's transit workers demand action against crime surge
During the march to Congress, transit workers flanked by hundreds of police officers carried signs reading: "No more driver deaths" and "Justice for the dead drivers," among others. Police Chief of Staff General Oscar Arriola said the government has mobilized 13,000 police and military personnel in Lima and the neighboring province of Callao to provide security for people traveling to work.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/lima-grinds-halt-perus-transit-workers-demand-action-against-crime-surge-2025-04-10/

News 4/9/25

General strike brings Greece to a standstill
Thousands of protesters marched through the centre of Athens in two separate demonstrations that ended peacefully. The 24-hour strike was called by the two main umbrella unions covering the public and private sectors. They are seeking salary increases and a full return of collective bargaining rights scrapped as part of international bailouts during the country’s financial crisis.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/general-strike-bring-greece-standstill

Berlin protesters oppose the deportation of four anti-genocide activists
Around 500 demonstrators gathered near the Berlin House of Representatives (state assembly) on Monday morning to protest in defence of four anti-genocide activists facing deportation. Although they have not been convicted of any crime by a court, the three EU citizens and one US citizen have been ordered to leave Germany by April 21. Otherwise, they are to be forcibly deported.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/08/ghna-a08.html

European Union approves new retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.
All member countries of the European Union except Hungary voted Wednesday in favor of proposals that would impose tariffs on specific U.S. products sold into Europe, starting next week.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/g-s1-59187/european-union-tariffs

Milei faces third general strike in Argentina with IMF deal pending
The country’s three main trade union federations, grouped together under the CGT umbrella union, mobilised from midday in front of Congress, joining a weekly demonstration by social organisations and pensioners who are demanding demand a change in the government’s economic policies.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/milei-faces-third-general-strike-in-argentina-with-imf-deal-pending.phtml
https://archive.ph/fB09T

As CELAC president, Colombia to push for regional integration
The president additionally said to seek the creation of a regional agency “for the production of essential medicines that liberates us, in times of pandemics, of a dependency that caused to many deaths in Latin America with COVID19.”
https://colombiareports.com/heinous-assassination-of-trans-woman-shocks-colombia/

Israel estimates 'only a quarter of Hamas tunnels destroyed' since war began
The Mako report quoted experts as saying that Israel's control of the Philadelphi Corridor - a 14km-long, 100 metre-wide demilitarised buffer zone that runs along the entirety of the border between Egypt and Gaza - failed to stymie the construction of tunnels. In February, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said the Philadelphi Corridor would remain a buffer zone despite the continuing proliferation of tunnels.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-only-quarter-hamas-tunnels-destroyed

Jordanian security forces forcibly disperse pro-Palestine march near Israeli embassy
Many called on Arab governments and the international community to immediately take action to halt the aggression, allow aid into the besieged enclave, and sever all ties with Israel. The Jordanian Democratic Popular Unity party said shortly after the protest was underway that security forces arrested several people and tried to disperse the crowds.
https://www.newarab.com/news/jordanian-forces-disperse-gaza-march-outside-israeli-embassy

Poverty rate at risk of rising in Kyrgyzstan, despite economic growth – UN agency
“Despite a 9 percent increase in Gross Domestic Product in 2024, social inequalities continue to hinder inclusive development,” says the report. “Economic growth has not significantly reduced poverty, with 30 percent of the population living in poverty and an additional 10 percent at risk of falling below the poverty line.”
https://eurasianet.org/poverty-rate-at-risk-of-rising-in-kyrgyzstan-despite-economic-growth-un-agency

In Myanmar, internet shutdowns hinder earthquake aid response
Communications have been under control of the military junta since it violently seized power from a democratic government in 2021 in an attempt to stifle opposition, which has come in the form of ethnic armed groups and a civil disobedience movement.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmar-internet-shutdowns-hinder-earthquake-aid-response-2025-04-09/

Trump raises China tariffs to 125%, pauses tariffs on most other nations for 90 days
Speaking to reporters after the announcement, Trump said leading up to the pause in his so-called “reciprocal” tariffs some 75 countries have been entreating him to make a deal – and he predicted that China under President Xi Jinping would follow suit soon enough.
https://www.scmp.com/news/us/economy-trade-business/article/3305900/trump-pauses-tariffs-most-nations-90-days-raises-taxes-chinese-imports?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage
https://archive.ph/poE5F

News 4/7/25

Teachers launch nationwide strike in Iraq for better pay and improved conditions
The strike was called by the Coordinating Committee for Teachers, which has urged the government to include educators under a new educational service law similar to the existing legislation benefiting university professors. The committee also demanded increased financial allowances covering cost-of-living, professional expenses, transportation, and child support.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iraqi-teachers-launch-nationwide-strike-better-pay

Palestinians in West Bank strike to demand end to Gaza war
Protests also erupted in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Monday in front of the Lebanese American University, with dozens of students gathering around a massive Palestinian flag. In Sidon in southern Lebanon, hundreds demonstrated, shouting "stop the massacres against the Palestinian people" and "stop the war of extermination in Gaza".
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/04/palestinians-west-bank-strike-demand-end-gaza-war

Algeria closes airspace to Mali aircraft as drone row escalates
State television in Algeria announced the decision on Monday, which came shortly after Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger recalled their ambassadors to Algiers in response to the downing of the Malian drone.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/7/alliance-of-sahel-states-recall-ambassadors-as-tension-with-algeria-rises
https://archive.ph/N3f4a

Ten Britons accused of committing war crimes while fighting for Israel in Gaza
Mansfield, who is known for his work on landmark cases such as the Grenfell Tower fire, Stephen Lawrence and the Birmingham Six, said: “​If one of our nationals is committing ​an offence, we ought to be doing something about it​. Even if we can’t stop the government of foreign countries behaving badly, we can at least stop our nationals from behaving badly.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr/07/ten-britons-accused-of-committing-war-crimes-while-fighting-for-israel-in-gaza

Serbia’s President Vucic taps novice prime minister amid protest pressure
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic has nominated a politically inexperienced endocrinologist and university professor as prime minister, amid massive ongoing protests that forced the previous premier to resign.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/7/serbias-president-vucic-taps-novice-prime-minister-amid-protest-pressure
https://archive.ph/lhdNc

Thousands protest in Italy against armament agenda
Almost one hundred thousand people took to the streets of Rome on April 5, demanding an end to Europe’s rearmament agenda. During the central rally, demonstrators and speakers condemned the ReArm Europe initiative recently launched by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, as well as the military spending plans announced by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/07/thousands-protest-in-italy-against-armament-agenda/

Brazil’s Bolsonaro leads rally in support of amnesty law as he faces trial for alleged coup plot
Speaking to thousands of supporters who gathered in one of Sao Paulo’s main avenues wearing yellow Brazil soccer jerseys, Bolsonaro said he had faith in the Brazilian people and hoped that Congress would approve an amnesty law drafted by his allies.
https://apnews.com/article/bolsonaro-brazil-coup-attempt-amnesty-law-trial-25975a7b422c7d0edff4436f7cafc9bb

Police kill top EGC commander in northern Colombia
Until his death, Chirimoya commanded the EGC’s Aristides Mesa Paez Front, which operates throughout Colombia’s Caribbean region, according to the authorities.The EGC commander allegedly joined the paramilitaries more than two decades ago.
https://colombiareports.com/police-kill-top-egc-commander-in-northern-colombia/

US tariffs ripple through auto supply chains into Mexico
The company had announced Thursday that it would pause production at the plant in Toluca, as well as another one in Canada. The pauses would lead to 900 temporary layoffs at plants in Michigan and Indiana.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-stellantis-trump-tariffs-sheinbaum-569ae29d203b1997d50a3a9655c928a8

Sri Lankan police detain youth under anti-terrorist laws for opposing Gaza genocide
On March 30, according to the Sunday Times, the police said the youth was being held on suspicion of engaging in activities that “threaten Israeli citizens in Sri Lanka and causing communal disharmony.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/07/bprl-a07.html

April 5 March on Washington

There's a demonstration in DC on Saturday.
https://marchforpalestine.org/

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News 4/4/25

Yoon Suk Yeol removed as South Korea’s president over short-lived martial law
In a nationally televised hearing, the court’s acting chief Moon Hyung-bae said the eight-member bench found Yoon’s actions were unconstitutional and had a grave impact.
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-martial-law-yoon-constitutional-court-8cdcf4944c2e3cd9edf723bc29ba51ff

China hits back hard at ‘bullying’ Trump tariffs as global recession fears grow
China has hit back hard against Donald Trump’s “bullying” tariffs, raising fears that the escalating trade war could trigger a global recession and prompting fresh turmoil in financial markets.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/china-donald-trump-tariffs-recession--us-stock-market

Muslim scholars issue 'fatwa' calling for 'jihad' against Israel as strikes pummel Gaza
“The failure of the Arab and Islamic governments to support Gaza while it is being destroyed is considered by Islamic law to be a major crime against our oppressed brothers in Gaza,” he said in the decree comprising some 15 points. Qaradaghi is one of the region’s most respected religious authorities and his decrees carry significant weight among the world’s 1.7bn Sunni Muslims.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/muslim-scholars-issue-fatwa-calling-jihad-against-israel-strikes-pummel-gaza

Protests erupt in Jaramana after Syria security forces enter to find Assad loyalists
Protests broke out on Thursday evening when Syrian security forces tried to enter the town of Jaramana, east of Damascus, without prior coordination with local elders and residents.
https://www.newarab.com/news/protests-erupt-jaramana-after-syria-security-forces-enter

Four foreign activists face deportation from Germany after Berlin university sit-in
According to The Intercept, which first reported the story, only one of the two Irish nationals was brought before a court for calling a police officer a "fascist," but was ultimately acquitted. The four face separate allegations, the outlet reported, including shouting slogans such as "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” — a chant that has been banned, but German courts have so far delivered mixed rulings on its use.
https://www.euronews.com/2025/04/03/four-foreign-activists-face-deportation-from-germany-after-berlin-university-sit-in
https://archive.ph/uheVo

Spain bans 'golden' investor visas for non-EU citizens in bid to curb housing crisis
Spain this week stopped allowing non-EU citizens who make property investments access to residency visas, closing off a pathway to Spanish citizenship. The government said it introduced the measure to help ease Spain’s housing shortage that could reach a deficit of 600,000 homes in 2025.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250404-spain-bans-golden-investor-visas-for-non-eu-citizens-in-bid-to-curb-housing-crisis
https://archive.ph/3uxaO

Hungary plans legislation preventing blockade of bridges during protests, Orban says
Bridges, particularly in the capital Budapest, which is divided by the Danube river, have become a focal point of anti-government protests over the past years, as demonstrators seek to press their demands.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungary-plans-legislation-preventing-blockade-bridges-during-protests-orban-says-2025-04-04/

Don't Buy Apartheid: Palestine Solidarity Campaign launches new boycott drive across Britain
Fifty-two actions will take place over the weekend, including protests outside Tesco outside Birmingham New Street, Asda Southampton superstore, and Sainsbury’s on Northumberland Street in Newcastle.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dont-buy-apartheid-palestine-solidarity-campaign-launches-new-boycott-drive-across-britain

Six people dead after alleged dynamite attack in Bolivia gold-mining clash
Collectives developped in Bolivia as an alternative to state-run and private enterprises. Critics have accused those large companies of providing unstable employment for low-income mining workers, their jobs hinging on market fluctuations.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/4/six-people-dead-after-alleged-dynamite-attack-in-bolivia-gold-mining-clash
https://archive.ph/tF8kx

Argentina's Senate rejects Supreme Court justices imposed by President Milei
García-Mansilla's nomination received 51 votes against, 20 in favour and zero abstentions, while Lijo's nomination received 43 votes against, 27 in favour and one abstention.
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/senate-rejects-supreme-court-justices-imposed-by-milei.phtml
https://archive.ph/WemEL

News 4/5/25

Thousands in Spain join nationwide march to protest against housing crisis
Organisers claim that up to 150,000 joined the protest in Madrid while smaller demonstrations were held in about 40 cities across the country. Protesters from Málaga on the Costa del Sol to Vigo in the Atlantic northwest chanted “end the housing racket” and “landlords are guilty, the government is responsible”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/05/spain-protest-march-housing-crisis

Russian Government Estimates Black Sea Oil Spill Damage at $1B
Rosprirodnadzor head Svetlana Radionova said the tankers’ owners, Kama Shipping and Volgatransneft, have one month to voluntarily pay 49.4 billion rubles ($583 million) and 35.4 billion rubles ($415 million), respectively, or face lawsuits.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/04/russian-government-estimates-black-sea-oil-spill-damage-at-1b-a88609
https://archive.ph/xjdMu

Delhi HC flags Wikipedia’s ANI page as defamatory, issues takedown order
The Delhi High Court has raised concerns over the neutrality of Wikipedia content, particularly regarding edits on the Asian News International (ANI) page that labelled the agency a “propaganda tool for the incumbent government.”
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/wikimedia-must-remove-india-content-deemed-defamatory-court-rules/article69411803.ece
https://archive.ph/1NM1F

Libya expels aid groups accused of 'African' population plot
"This plan to settle migrants of African origin in our country represents a hostile act. It aims to change the demographic composition of the country and threatens the balance of Libyan society," said Internal Security Authority spokesman Salem Gheit on Thursday. It echoes a similar announcement made by Tunisia two years ago, which was swiftly condemned as anti-black racism.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vnvnpe00o

Phone footage contradicts Israeli account of killing of Gaza medics
It shows a red fire engine and clearly marked ambulances driving at night, using headlights and flashing emergency lights. The vehicle stops beside another that has driven off the road. Two men get out to examine the stopped vehicle, and then gunfire erupts before the screen goes black.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/05/phone-footage-appears-to-contradict-israeli-account-of-killing-of-gaza-paramedics

Gaza: Israeli troops deployed to new 'security corridor', cutting off Rafah
A military statement said troops with the 36th Division had been deployed. It was not immediately clear how many, or where exactly the new corridor was located. … Maps published by Israeli media showed the corridor running the width of the narrow coastal strip from east to west.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-troops-deployed-security-corridor-cutting-rafah

Women’s Unit of Internal Security Forces launches operation against ISIS in Roj Camp
"Over the past few months, the camp has witnessed several attempts by ISIS cells to infiltrate and threaten the lives of its residents. These cells have cold-bloodedly killed a woman and a child, assaulted several other women and children, and threatened those trying to rid themselves of the extremist ideology. These actions are part of ISIS' ongoing efforts to activate its sleeper cells inside and outside the camp."
https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/women-s-unit-of-internal-security-forces-launches-operation-against-isis-in-roj-camp-78746

Nicaragua withdraws from ICJ genocide case against Israel
Nicaragua’s government announces the discontinuation of legal processes against Israel at the International Court of Justice due to financial constraints, while reaffirming its support for the Palestinian people and urging wealthier nations to uphold their rights.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/nicaragua-discontinues-icj-processes-against-israel-reaffirms-support-for-palestinian-rights/

A rebel group begins handing weapons over to the Colombian government as peace talks advance
In May last year, the Commoners broke away from the ELN and began peace talks with the administration of President Gustavo Petro. That angered the ELN’s leadership and stymied its negotiations with Colombia’s government.
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-peace-talks-eln-commoners-south-disarmament-df5e48c62815d7ba7480e760cc2846b1

Canada updates travel advice to warn of U.S. border officers' power to search electronic devices
"U.S. authorities strictly enforce entry requirements. Expect scrutiny at ports of entry, including of electronic devices. Comply and be forthcoming in all interactions with border authorities. If you are denied entry, you could be detained while awaiting deportation," the website now reads.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-us-border-phone-search-1.7502829

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News 4/3/25

South Africa's white Afrikaner separatists want Trump's help to become state
Three senior Orania officials interviewed by Reuters were vague about the help they sought in the U.S. They said they were not seeking handouts but wanted investment to build houses to keep up with its 15% population growth, infrastructure and energy independence that it has almost half-achieved with solar.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-white-afrikaner-separatists-want-trumps-help-become-state-2025-04-03/

Guinea Sets Date for Constitutional Referendum Amid Political Tensions
General Mamadi Doumbouya, the junta leader, had previously declared 2025 as a “crucial electoral year” for returning to constitutional order but failed to provide a clear timeline. The missed December 31, 2024 deadline for launching the democratic transition led to widespread anger, with protests bringing the capital, Conakry, to a standstill.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/guinea-sets-date-for-constitutional-referendum-amid-political-tensions/

In fear of Israeli attacks | Foreign forces withdraw from military positions in Tartous
According to reliable SOHR sources, the forces withdrew in fear of Israeli attacks on the military positions, as Israeli forces attacked military centres that include members of the Ministry of Defence yesterday, and caused major damages to these positions.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/359215/

Hungary says it will withdraw from ICC as Israel’s Netanyahu visits
Netanyahu arrived in Budapest early on Thursday morning on his first trip to Europe since 2023 in defiance of the ICC’s arrest warrant against him for alleged war crimes in Gaza. Speaking at a news conference with his Hungarian counterpart, the Israeli prime minister personally thanked Orban for his decision to leave the court, calling it a “bold and principled position” against the “corrupt organisation”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/3/hungary-says-it-will-withdraw-from-icc-as-israels-netanyahu-visits
https://archive.ph/CE1Zy

Macron calls on Europe to suspend investment in US after Trump tariff shock
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday urged European businesses to suspend investment in the US "until things are clarified with the United States". The EU is facing 20 percent tariffs on exports to the US following President Donald Trump's announcement of widespread global tariffs on Wednesday.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250403-macron-calls-on-europe-to-suspend-investment-in-us-after-trump-tariff-shock
https://archive.ph/hsXGn

Unite urges government to intervene in the Birmingham bin strikes
“Let me be very clear that the pay of these workers is being cut by a Labour council under your watch,” Ms Graham said. “The current escalation increasingly looks like a declaration of war on these workers.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unite-urges-government-intervene-birmingham-bin-strikes

Chileans Hold a National Strike
Among the main demands are the strengthening of collective bargaining by industry, the effective implementation of the 40-hour workweek in the public sector, and an end to the union persecution promoted by the Comptroller’s Office.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/chileans-hold-a-national-strike/

Luisa González reaches historic agreement with the Indigenous movement for the presidential elections
In the first round of the elections, PK ran Leonidas Iza as its presidential candidate, and reached third place with a little more than 5% of the vote. There are several aspects that differentiate González from Iza. The former has assumed a position closer to a very cautious social democracy in alliance with business sectors. Iza, on the other hand, proposed a popular government closer to the positions of the classical left.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/03/luisa-gonzalez-reaches-historic-agreement-with-the-indigenous-movement-for-the-presidential-elections/

CPI (Maoist) CC Sets Terms For Peace Talks With Central And State Governments
The Communist Party of India (Maoist) Central Committee has allegedly expressed its readiness for peace talks with the Central and State governments if they stop the ongoing ‘Operation Kagaar’, what the Maoist party termed as genocide, in Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana, and a halt to the setting up of new camps by the security forces as part of the ‘military offensive’.
https://www.redspark.nu/en/peoples-war/india/cpi-maoist-cc-sets-terms-for-peace-talks-with-central-and-state-governments/

Pentagon officials urge a faster militarisation of space, citing China’s advances
“We are critically underfunded in the execution of our newest and most critical mission: space control. We need capabilities both to defeat adversary counters-pace weapons as well as to deny, degrade, or destroy adversary space power.” Saltzman was not the only Pentagon official testifying on Thursday about a need for Washington to view space as a military domain.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3305155/pentagon-officials-urge-faster-militarisation-space-citing-chinas-advances
https://archive.ph/5IIXu

News 4/2/25

Trump declares a trade war on the world with universal tariffs of 10% and higher rates on his main trading partners
Trump has shown a chart with the tariffs of major trading partners: the European Union (20%); China (34%); Japan (24%); Vietnam (46%); Taiwan (32%); India (26%); South Korea (25%); Thailand (36%); Switzerland (31%); Indonesia (32%); Brazil and the United Kingdom (10%).
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-04-02/trump-declares-a-trade-war-on-the-world-with-universal-tariffs-of-10-and-higher-rates-on-his-main-trading-partners.html
https://archive.ph/Bw6Zn

Germany launches permanent troop deployment on NATO’s eastern flank
According to the German military’s lobbying group, the newly created 45th Armored Brigade was formally activated during a ceremony outside Vilnius. A temporary headquarters was established, with the brigade's crest unveiled and the unit now officially under the command of Brigadier General Christoph Huber.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-launch-permanent-troop-deployment-lithuania-nato-eastern-flank-russia-ukraine/
https://archive.ph/Bzn3p

Germany denies Israeli claim it received hundreds of Palestinians from Gaza
Israel's interior ministry said that hundreds more people from Gaza had flown to third countries "since the beginning of the process", mainly to Germany, Romania and the United Arab Emirates. The referenced flights to Romania and the UAE, however, appear to be medical evacuations.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/germany-denies-israeli-claim-palestinians-gaza

Israel strikes military bases, infrastructure in Syria
The attack almost completely destroyed the Hama military airport and led to dozens of injuries among civilians and military personnel, the Syrian foreign ministry said in a statement.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-airstrike-targets-barzeh-neighborhood-syrias-damascus-state-news-agency-2025-04-02/

Gulf states refuse to be launching pad for any US attacks against Iran
In response to the Gulf states' ban, the US has amassed B-2 bombers at Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean, the official said. This is not the first time American war planners leaned on Diego Garcia’s strategic position as an alternative to Gulf air bases. During the late 1990s, when the US was bombing Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and Saudi Arabia imposed a freeze, the US used the Chagos Islands base as a launchpad.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gulf-states-refuse-launching-pad-for-us-attacks-iran

Paraguay recalls ambassador to Brazil and suspends dam talks over espionage revelations
Brazilian news site UOL reported that the country’s intelligence agents had infiltrated Paraguayan computer systems to obtain intel on sensitive tariff negotiations related to the Itaipu dam on their shared border.
https://apnews.com/article/paraguay-brazil-lula-bolsonaro-dam-cyber-espionage-24bd56c84442acfc08c5b6985df344f2

Panama in Turmoil: Nationwide Protests Erupt Against President Mulino’s Policies
The protest, taking place in an environment of growing social tension, was called by various unions that have initiated a 48-hour strike in opposition to controversial Law 462, related to the Social Security Fund (CSS). The mobilization not only focuses on the mentioned law but also rejects the reopening of a Canadian-owned mine, whose operations were suspended by courts in 2023, as well as the construction of a reservoir in the Indio River area.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/panama-in-turmoil-nationwide-protests-erupt-against-president-mulinos-policies/

South Korea ‘at breaking point’ ahead of ruling on President Yoon’s impeachment
More than 14,000 police officers – more than a tenth of the country’s entire force – will be mobilised in Seoul when the verdict is delivered on Friday. A 100-metre radius “vacuum state” has been imposed outside the court building to prevent demonstrations. More police buses arrived ahead of the verdict, bringing traffic to a near-standstill.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/03/south-korea-president-yoon-impeachment-ruling

India's parliament debate on Muslim land reforms
The Bill seeks to add non-Muslims to boards that manage Islamic charities — known as waqf — and expand the government’s role in validating their land holdings.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/indias-parliament-debate-muslim-land-reforms

China urges Myanmar to protect rescuers after military fires shots at aid convoy
The junta said on Wednesday that it fired shots 100 metres (328 feet) from the convoy on Tuesday night, and the convoy retreated to Nawnghkio, a town seized by the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), an ethnic armed group operating in the region, according to local news agency Myanmar Now.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3304947/china-urges-myanmar-protect-rescuers-after-military-fires-shots-aid-convoy?module=top_story&pgtype=section
https://archive.ph/LzdnH

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News 4/1/25

Honduran Opposition Accused of Altering Primary Election Results
On Monday, Marlon Ochoa, a member of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Honduras, accused the right-wing opposition of deliberately inflating the results of the primary elections held on March 9 to favor Nasry Asfura, the presidential candidate of the National Party (PN), and Salvador Nasralla, the presidential candidate of the Liberal Party (PL).
https://www.telesurenglish.net/honduran-opposition-accused-of-altering-primary-election-results/

Palestinians in Brazil demand the country cut ties with Israel after death of teenager
Fepal emphasizes that the time for diplomacy has been “buried” by Israel and demands that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party) take a new stance towards the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/31/palestinians-in-brazil-demand-the-country-cut-ties-with-israel-after-death-of-teenager/

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim they shot down another American drone as US strikes pound country
The reported shootdown came as airstrikes hit around Sanaa, the country’s rebel-held capital, and Saada, a Houthi stronghold. The U.S. military acknowledged to The Associated Press it was aware of reports of the downing of a Reaper, but declined to comment further.
https://apnews.com/article/yemen-houthis-mq9-shot-down-israel-hamas-war-us-airstrikes-6bd7764ba19e84d2dddac0d3c762459a

HPG: Turkish attacks continued uninterruptedly during the month of Ramadan
Despite the ceasefire declared by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on March 1, Turkey continues its attacks against the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq), reported the Press Center of the People's Defense Forces (HPG) in a statement about the current state of war in the region.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/hpg-turkish-attacks-continued-uninterruptedly-during-the-month-of-ramadan-78658

Key evidence deleted in case against ex-military man who spied on Julian Assange for CIA, says expert report
The IOmega hard drive used by Spanish police to store information obtained from the phones and computers of David Morales, a former military officer investigated for spying on Julian Assange for the CIA, was tampered with while it was inside a sealed cabinet in the custody of Spain’s High Court (Audiencia Nacional), according to an expert report by the Australian cyberactivist’s defense team.
https://english.elpais.com/spain/2025-03-31/key-evidence-deleted-in-case-against-ex-military-man-who-spied-on-julian-assange-for-cia-says-expert-report.html
https://archive.ph/RDWDm

EU and UK fine carmakers millions over recycling cartel
German giant Volkswagen was handed the heftiest fine of €127 million, followed by Renault/Nissan (€81.5 million), Opel parent company Stellantis (€75 million), Ford (€41.5 million), BMW (€25 million), Opel itself (€25 million) and Toyota (around €24 million). The ACEA must pay €500,000.
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-and-uk-fine-carmakers-millions-over-recycling-cartel/a-72109880
https://archive.ph/3WQr8

Bosnian Serb leader flees to Moscow as authorities step up pursuit
Dodik left Bosnia last week to go to Belgrade, from where he flew to Jerusalem to attend a conference on antisemitism organized by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
https://www.politico.eu/article/milorad-dodik-bosnian-serb-leader-flees-to-moscow-amid-looming-arrest-warrant/
https://archive.ph/tX1DY

India Predicts Sweltering Summer in Threat to Economic Growth
Several areas in the country are likely to experience more heat wave days than normal during three months through June, Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, director general of the India Meteorological Department, said in New Delhi on Monday. Maximum temperatures will likely be higher than normal in April too, he said.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-31/india-predicts-sweltering-summer-in-threat-to-economic-growth
https://archive.ph/7cXJZ

Nepal’s girls face new child marriage fears amid debate to change law
Supporters of the law to lower the age argue it would stop innocent men from being imprisoned for marrying out of love. Others, including human rights groups, women advocacy collectives, and teenage girls interviewed by Al Jazeera, say the recommendation is designed to protect men rather than promote gender equality in Nepal.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/1/nepals-girls-face-new-child-marriage-fears-amid-debate-to-change-law
https://archive.ph/UY3Aj

Renewed media attacks on Australian construction union
Over recent weeks, the corporate media barrage against the construction division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) has resumed in earnest, some seven months after the federal Labor government placed the division under administration.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/31/bvcf-m31.html