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Title is a reference to Resistance imagery about how Israeli soldiers will enter Gaza alive but leave it in coffins - the same is true for American soldiers in the Middle East if the regional war expands.

The image is of the Fattah-1 Iranian hypersonic ballistic missile, which its creators boast can overcome any missile defense system on the planet, has a range of 1400 kilometers (and thus Iran can strike Israel), and has a terminal impact velocity of Mach 13.


Dozens of American soldiers have been injured and 3 have been killed on a base in the Middle East. There has been confused reports about whether the attack was on Syrian territory or Jordan's - the Al-Tanf base is in Syria, but Tower-22 in Jordan is another base that helps supply Al-Tanf, and Tower-22 is the one that is alleged to have been hit. These is the first confirmed deaths of American troops since the conflict began, though it's not likely that this is actually the first deaths after hundreds of drone/missile strikes throughout the region on American bases, unless you think American soldiers are having extremely timely heart attacks just after a missile hits.

The attack is certainly impactful, though it does also have considerably symbolism. Courtesy of John Helmer:

The operational success of the strike for the attackers is strategic. Tower-22 is a logistics, supply, and rear guard post for the Al-Tanf base which US troops are operating thirty kilometres north across the border in Syria. The attack demonstrates that both Tower-22 and Al-Tanf, Jordan and Syria, are newly vulnerable to weapons which the US forces have failed to detect and neutralize. Just as significantly, the massive US airbase called Muwaffaq Salti, 230 kilometres west across Jordan, is also vulnerable now.

It indicates that Iran now possesses Russian expertise in countering American equipment:

“This is a significant accomplishment,” one of the sources said. “Was the bypassing of the US air defence system at Tower-22 pulled off with Russian assistance? US bases generally rely on the C-RAM [Counter Rocket, Artillery and Mortar] system. It was sent to Ukraine last year where the Russians have been learning to defeat it. What now of American EW [electronic warfare]? They’ve been doing a fair job of knocking drones down up to now. It seems a ‘coincidence’ that, not a week after the meetings in Moscow with Arabs and Iranians, we see this success. It’s a success the circumstances of which, we can be sure, Biden and Austin are not keen to advertise.”

I am putting my take on the table right now: I am 99% certain that the US won't attack Iran directly. I think we are still quite a while away from that being a possibility. Much more likely is that Iranian officials in Iraq or Syria will be hit by a retaliatory strike, as Israel has done recently. It is a significant escalation nonetheless. And it comes as Israel seems to be gearing up for a suicidal war with Hezbollah.


The Country of the Week is Iran! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.

Updates continue to be AWOL - but I am cooking something. Hopefully.

The bulletins site is here!
The RSS feed is here.
Last week's thread is here.

Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful. Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:

Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.


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[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago

Zionist entity struck Damascus and killed 7 people, among them civilians

[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago (3 children)

forecasting a sharp increase in the number of american occupation troops getting blown up in the near future

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Report: US Plans Weeks-Long Bombing Campaign Against Iranian Targets

US officials told NBC News that the US is planning to launch a weeks-long bombing campaign in the Middle East in retaliation for the drone attack in northeast Jordan that killed three American soldiers.

The officials said that the targets are expected to include Iranian targets outside of Iran, and the campaign will involve strikes and cyber operations. Other reports have said the US is considering targeting Iranians in Iraq and Syria or the Iranian navy.

While the potential targets are not inside Iran, direct attacks on the Iranian military could provoke a full-blown war between the US and Iran. The US is considering taking this course of action even though the Pentagon admitted it has no evidence Iran was directly involved in the drone attack in Jordan.

The Pentagon has said the Jordan attack had the “footprints” of Kataib Hezbollah, one of the main Shia militias in Iraq. The US says that Iran is responsible only because it arms Kataib Hezbollah and other Shia militias. US officials told The New York Times that while Iran arms and funds the Shia militias, there’s no evidence Tehran is “calling the shots.”

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday that US intelligence suggests the drone attack was carried out by the Islamic Resistance of Iraq, a shadowy umbrella group of Iraqi Shia militias.

The Islamic Resistance has taken credit for many of the 160 attacks that have been launched against US forces in Iraq and Syria since mid-October. The attacks started in response to US support for the Israeli slaughter in Gaza.

Kirby also hinted at the possibility of a drawn-out bombing campaign. “The first thing you see won’t be the last thing,” he said, adding that it won’t be a “one-off.”

Iran has vowed to respond to any US attacks on Iranians in the region. “The Islamic Republic would decisively respond to any attack on the county, its interests and nationals under any pretexts,” said Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s ambassador to the UN.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago (17 children)

Fresh battle video slop for you violence lovers. CW: A very clear sniper kill https://streamable.com/8kdgkk

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Will Zaluzhny go quietly? Is there anything he could realistically do without sabotaging the Ukrainian war effort?

It would be funny if he went full prigo-pog and marched on Kiev, but I seriously doubt he would do that.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Anyone with video editing skills feel like editing one of those hamas-red-triangle videos to have the V.A.T.S UI and sound effects and stuff

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago

Dystopian. Evil. A checkpoint with a camera/facial recognition and a loudspeaker tormenting Palestinian refugees as they are forced to flee their homes: “Khaled Mashal did you send your suit to the dry cleaning today?” followed by “women and children pass only.” A genocide. https://twitter.com/hebh_jamal/status/1752375177516560857

[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A Yemeni recording the air raids on Sanaa: “O’ America, by God, even if you burn Sana’a we will still stand with Gaza.” https://twitter.com/revolutionaryem/status/1753900400351093230

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago (1 children)

CW bodies being burried.

idf-cool accused of summary execution of 30 civillians after their bodies were found in severe stage of decay in the back of a school yard. Found blindfolded and tied up.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Maybe I should stop doomscrolling on Twitter but does anyone notice that the whole "arab colonialism" talking point is becoming increasingly mainstream. I remember prior to Oct 7th that the concept of "Arab colonialism" was a relatively fringe idea. Now I see even Pro- Palestinian people spreading this talking point as if it's a established historical fact. thonk

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Syrian Author discussing how the "US plan to withdraw from Iraq and Syria" is a psyop that no one believes except people outside the region. It's in Arabic but heres some excerpts I quickly translated. https://www.almayadeen.net/articles/واشنطن-تروج-لنية-الانسحاب-من-سوريا--صواريخ-المقاومة-أصدق-أنب

"In Syria, no one believes the stated intentions or claims of the United States, even when Washington puts forward ideas about the need for communication between the Syrian government and the SDF , under the pretext of continuing to fight the terrorist organization Daesh, because Syrians know that it [the US] is behind ISIS.

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Accordingly, the strategy of the resistance forces in the region is moving in only one direction, which does not take into account any American official announcements or media leaks. This direction is the direction of resistance and targeting all occupation bases in Syria and Iraq, as well as intensifying targeting on the zionist occupation entity in Occupied Palestine and the Occupied Golan Heights.

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Also, in the recent speech of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad he clarified his position on the presence of the American occupation forces. He emphasized that resistance is the only way to liberate the occupied Syrian territory.

This is a position confirmed by all the leaders of the axis of resistance including the leaders of the Iraqi resistance factions, and Mr. Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the leader of Ansarallah in Yemen, as well as the recent speech of the political leader Osama Hamdan from the Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine, Hamas.

Hamdan revealed the Palestinian [and entire Axis] resistance constant communication with the Syrian leadership, especially during this battle [Al-Aqsa Flood] and the critical role played by Damascus in this struggle against the occupier, for the sake of freedom and liberation of the region.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago (9 children)

farmers have now started a blockade of paris using tractors, blocking eight highways. In recent years Paris has earned more and more scorn from the rest of France, and is rightfully seen by many as a different nation within the nation, utterly disconnected from the realities of most. Interested to see how the government will deal with this, since pretty much everyone is sympathetic to the plight of farmers.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (11 children)
[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's an obvious propaganda push. Hiding behind black faces as you said. It's the exact same stuff with regards to pink washing and rainbow imperialism. This kind of thing is used to drive up support for war amongst egalitarian/radical liberals and progressives, and divide the anti war movement.

Also these are obviously not the only US military personnel that have died over the past few months, there is a reason why these were the deaths made public to the media.

A propaganda push that clearly works, look at the comments here on a left wing internet space

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Just a question. I know it is pointless to refute the non-logic of genocide. But I keep thinking about this every time I hear about how Gaza must be carpet bombed due to how "embedded" Hamas is in the Gazan population. How there are "no civilians" in Gaza.

I obtain all value from the sidebar of the most obvious wikipedia articles which are linked.

Hamas in Gaza:

  • Population Palestinians (2016) = 4,816,503 source

  • Hamas Membership = 20,00025,000 source

  • Math: ( 25,000 / 4,816,503 ) * 100 = 0.5%

result: 0.5% Gazans in Hamas

IDF in Israel:

  • Israel 2024 population = 9,846,080 source

  • Available and "Fit" for military service = 1,499,998 males, age 17–49 (2016), 1,392,319 females, age 17–49 (2016) source

    • Total = 2,892,317
  • Math: (2,892,317 / 9,846,080) * 100 = 29%

result: 29% of the total population of Israel is available and "fit" for service in the IDF.

(If you include "unfit" people the total is 3,068,249, or 31% of population.)

The IDF % does not even count those who served in the past but are no longer "available", for example being over age 50. People who have directly on an individual, documented level participated in crimes on Palestinians. Furthermore it does not exclude children (28% of Israeli population is <= 14 source). If only adults were included it would be a solid majority. I think this math is pretty generous to the israeli side.

And still about 1/3 of their population seems to be directly, presently involved as combatants or potential combatants.

It seems to me that if I were Israel, I wouldn't be introducing an argument like this.

Is my logic flawed? Or is it just too sick to think like this?

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Anyone else been reading a ton about Islamic history since October 7th? Genuinely fascinating history that I never learned about in school,

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if this is a sign that I should step back and take a break but I can't help but feel that sentiments like "Zionists are attempting to turn Jewish imagery into hate symbols, and we CANT LET THEM SUCCEED!" are kind of just self absorbed.

Like it just feels obvious that the only way to actually do that is to dismantle the Israeli state that is physically scarring the flesh and soil of Palestine with the Star of David, and that this shit of like protesting by performatively wearing Jewish symbols to somehow defy that reality just feels like self absorbtion, I can sympathize that its scary and frustrating to have this happen with your iconography, but like what are you actually doing by specifically making a show of continuing to wear those symbols and then posting monologues about it?

Idk, maybe I just need to block all this shit out on twitter and not pay attention to it for a while.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wow so Biden has decided not to nuke Iran, further showing the world how the USA is the sick man of the americas. The states are now solely in the hands of Xi who controls everything.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago

AL jazeera common Irish W

US and UK have no respect for international law or other cultures, Irish MEP says Irish MEP Mick Wallace has condemned the US and the UK for bombing Yemen, accusing the allies of having no respect for other cultures or international law.

“The people of #Yemen stand in Solidarity with the #Palestinian people no matter what happens,” Wallace, a member of Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL, said in a post on X.

“The #US + #UK are bombing Yemen because they have no respect for other cultures or for International Law – No respect for anything that doesn’t suit their Political Agenda…”

[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago (7 children)
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The US says the timing of the strikes was unrelated to the transfer of the remains of the troops killed in Jordan, which took place just hours earlier.

Rather, the weather determined the timing, the Pentagon says.

"This was designed around the weather," director of operations for the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, Douglas Sims, told reporters.

"Good weather presented itself today, and as a result this took place."

Multiple military aircraft were involved, including long-range B-1 bombers that were dispatched from the US.

"The beauty of the American bomber is we can strike anywhere in the world at a time of our choosing," Mr Sims said.

can we kill america already please thanks

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago (1 children)

ok so ur with ur honey and yur making out wen the phone rigns. U anser it n the vioce is "wut r u doing wit my daughter?" U tell ur girl n she say "my dad is ded". THEN WHO WAS PHONE?

Suddenly door flys open n its Lindsay Graham lookin all wild n he yell "Iran's on the phone n they say it's time for war!" n ur just sittin there shockd like wut even, the dead dad or Lindsay Graham crashin the make out sesh? Total wtf moment, bro. WHO WAS PHONE? WHO WAS WAR?

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago

The Communist Party of Mexico presents its presidential candidate for the 2024 elections (spanish)

On January 28th of this year in Mexico City, the Communist Party decided to participate in the next electoral process where the new president of the Republic will be elected, as well as senators, deputies and some state and municipal governments.

Marco Vinicio Dávila Juárez from Veracruz, a graduate of the Faculty of Biology of the University of Veracruz, an active member of the party with more than 40 years of militancy will be the PCM candidate for the presidency of the republic, he has a trajectory where he has participated as a student and youth leader as well as Secretary of the Organization and Director of the Central Organ.

The decision to participate in the next elections in 2024 was made during the IV National Political Conference of the party and from the evaluation of the six-year term of the current president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, where they pointed out as conclusions that the current government represents an anti-worker and anti-popular policy, they also pointed out that currently in Mexico there are 50 million people in extreme poverty as well as wages that do not reflect a real increase in purchasing power despite the increases pointed out by the government in office who they also accused of having nothing to do with the left.

The PCM pointed out that Mexico lacks the political option of the working class because the electoral law has an anti-democratic character and the candidacies of the political party alliances of MORENA-PVEM-PT as well as that of the PRI-PAN-PRD are of interests far removed from those of the majority of the inhabitants because they represent a policy of shock against the working class "An option of radical change to put a stop to injustice and bring the workers to power. That is the option represented by the Communist Party of Mexico". In addition, candidates were presented for the positions of head of the Government of Mexico City and for the Government of Morelos.

The PCM has a long history within the left in Mexico, it was founded in 1919 as a workers' political party thanks to the National Socialist Congress, the last time it ran in presidential elections was in 1976 with Valentín Campa Salazar, one of the leaders of the 1959 railroad strike.

obviously they wont win, but i do think its good for any communist party to not blindly follow the socdem/labour party of their home country, hopefully they will be able to use the current anti-neoliberal discourse of the left in Mexico so they can grow in size, the current communist party is still kinda small ever since the collapse of the original PCM in 1981. here is the parties newspaper if you want to learn a bit more about them (in spanish)

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago (4 children)

2020 South Carolina democrat primary - 536,949 voters

2024 South Carolina democrat primary - 130,903 voters

Wonder if there's an enthusiasm gap?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Theres also an incumbant gap and a no competitor gap.

before you tell me there's other people running, think to yourself, do you think anyone that isn't a political junky would even know theres some shitlib other than biden running for president?

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Good interview with Yanis Varoufakis: The EU and the War on Gaza w/ Yanis Varoufakis - 99 ZU EINS - Ep. 347

My favorite part:

There's no doubt that it was a highly problematic verdict. It was a diplomatic verdict. It was a kind of decision a court makes when it doesn't want to make a decision. But even that is a victory for Palestine....[Israel] went to the court with one demand, that the court dismisses the case. Just dismisses the case. Out! And in that, Israel lost... In the court of public opinion in the United States, in Britain, in France, in Germany...our governments have become complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people by dismissing out-of-hand the very word "genocide".

(Also some good economic analysis of Europe and European politics over the last 15 years.... "Europe has become the stupid continent.")

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago

Found fuck out around time! Hehe. No healthcare for this very reason, methinks. My gender? Apache attack helicopter 😆 stupid games ➡️ stupid prizes.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

alex-aware the drone was allowed to fly into the US base' airspace because they thought it was an American drone. What if there's someone redpilled in the ranks and this is their modern day fragging

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Good video by BadEmpenada about false claims of anti-Semitism by Zionists. But that's stuff we're probably most all familiar with. So even better is this article he cites as one of his sources. Powerful shit:

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (6 children)

squidward-nervous

amerikkka response presumably tonight

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