Image is sourced from this People’s Dispatch article, depicting communists attending the 2023 funeral of Communist Party President Guillermo Teillier, who was tortured for years under Pinochet’s regime and helped rebuild the Communist Party while under a fascist dictatorship.
We had the Six Day War in 1967, we had the Nineteen Day War (Yom Kippur) in 1973, and now we’ve had the Twelve Day War. I wonder how many more very short wars will plague the region until Palestine is freed?
However, moving on from Western Asia from a little while, we have some interesting news from Chile - the former labor minister and communist, Jeannette Jara, has won the primary election for the left-wing bloc in a landslide (~60% of the vote), as the current President, Gabriel Boric, is term-limited. Her achievements include a minimum wage increase and a reduction of the work week to 40 hours.
In November, Jara will face down the contenders from other parties, including José Antonio Kast, who is analogous to Brazil’s Bolsonaro. Unfortunately, Jara is now the lead figure of a party that has been taking quite a few Ls under Boric’s leadership. Ostensibly a Democratic Socialist, he ruled as - you guessed it - a neoliberal, bending the knee to the US and EU. He not only failed to overthrow the Pinochet-era constitution, he actually allowed the right-wing to turn the proposed new constitution into something worse, and had to settle for campaigning against the new one and keeping the old one. And he had very little solidarity with other left-leaning leaders on the continent, like Maduro, Lula, Petro, or Castillo.
With this in mind, I cannot help but look at Argentina’s very recent history and feel a little dread - but if anybody can save Chile at this point, it can only be a communist.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Elon Musk Forms a New Political Party to Challenge Trump and the Republicans
Say what you will about
but at least when he has an idea, he goes all out even if its the dumbest idea ever conceivedToday is Algerian independence day. Photos are from July 5, 1962. Over a million Algerians were killed by the french during the war of national liberation from french settler colonialism.
May the french and all the colonialist powers continue to be humiliated. May Allah protect the honorable and steadfast people of Algeria.
Supporters of banned Palestine Action group arrested at London protest
“Officers have arrested more than 20 people on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000. They have been taken into custody. Palestine Action is a proscribed group and officers will act where criminal offences are committed,” the Metropolitan Police wrote on X on Saturday.
Apparently there are some rumors that soldiers from Laos will go to Kursk to help with demining. Obviously they have a lot of experience with that…
The source is “Ukrainian intelligence”, so take with a huge grain of salt. I almost wonder if there was some telephone game situation, because “Laos” is used as a euphemism by Russians when discussing failures of their military.
US won 2-1 over Guatemala. We have truly become Guatepeor.
To Understand the Economy, This Fed President Is Ditching His Desk WSJ
When the conversation turned to inflation, the Richmond Fed president extracted an uncomfortably honest answer about how President Trump’s tariffs have some firms thinking about their power to raise prices.
“You can probably appreciate this from your McKinsey background: We’re raising prices where we can,” said Jim Datin, a Chapel Hill-based life-sciences executive and partner at a private-equity firm.
And what convinced Datin his company still had pricing power, Barkin asked, when conventional wisdom said it had evaporated?
“Some of it’s opportunistic with the supply chain right now,” Datin offered.
“In other words, tariffs,” Barkin said, translating the corporate-speak. Then the management consultant-turned-central banker cut to the chase: Are those price increases for tariff-related costs or are his businesses using “tariff noise” as “air cover to raise prices”?
“It’s both,” said Datin. “And I feel a little guilty saying that.” A regional banker chimed in: Some of his customers were reporting the same thing.
It’s this kind of candor that is keeping Barkin on edge—businesses raising prices not because they have to, but because they think they can get away with it. For Fed officials who fought hard to bring inflation down, such admissions make them uneasy.
There you have it, folks. Tariffs are not inherently inflationary, especially since the US runs on a free-floating exchange rate system.
The price hikes come from businesses thinking they can get away with it, not because they have to.
Bold of them to admit it.
Suprised to not see anyone’s thought’s on the BBB passing.
NetPol, a policing watchdog network that provides legal support to protesters, has received reports that even clothing with “Free Palestine” is being interpreted by some cops as a “potential breach of the proscription order”.
This isnt surprising to anyone here, but it goes without saying that the cops were never going to treat this order the same way they would fascists. It would be like telling someone with a union jack tshirt that they may be showing support for Nation Front!
These cops are obviously lying or misinformed of the law. Anything they do will absolutely not hold up to decent scrutiny by a judge - it is intimidation or stupidity. Even in the hellworld of TERF island.
I think the “official” guidance (even from cool orgs like NetPol) will essentially amount to hiding slogans, following police orders, and avoiding arrest where possible. I personally disagree, and believe we need to challenge cops on this when and where possible.
If you dont use your limited civil liberties to question the authority of the police to intimidate/repress anyone outside the strictest definition of “support for Palestine Action and its cause” we will essentially be obeying in advance for the ultimate goal of total illegalisation of Palestinian existence.
Beyond revealing their cowardice, the pose is just so awkward:
https://xcancel.com/broseph_stalin/status/1941050308790309021IOF soldiers are now taking their official photos with their backs turned. [It’s closer to having their left shoulder face the camera but turning their head right so we can’t see their face profiles.] Because they know. We know. They will be held accountable.
Hamas’ response to the ceasefire proposal, reported by most major news websites:
Hamas wrote on its official website: "The Hamas movement has completed its internal consultations as well as discussions with Palestinian factions and forces regarding the latest proposal by the mediators to halt the aggression against our people in Gaza.
“The movement has delivered its response to the brotherly mediators, which was characterized by a positive spirit. Hamas is fully prepared, with all seriousness, to immediately enter a new round of negotiations on the mechanism for implementing this framework,” the statement said.
Looks like the ceasefire could happen, depending on how negotiations go, potential conditions, etc. Hamas likely wants guarantees that Israel will not be able to restart the genocide and war unilaterally, and that the UN led aid mechanism will be reinstated.
There are like two people who still know this word and are also antisemitic and both are/were US presidents
Over thirty kids at summer camp got swept away and killed by flooding in Texas today because early warning systems have been stripped bare here.
As the weather gets worse and worse due to climate change we are actually scaling back preparation efforts for ideological reasons.
I hate this suicide cult that calls itself a political party. I’m so tired of it all.
: “We’re going to give them responsibility for these people and we’re going to have a registration system. They can be here illegally, pay taxes. They won’t gain citizenship and the farmers need them to work.”Trump wants to give farmers the power to decide who can stay in the US. At a press conference in Des Moines, Trump said that the farmer can be a guarantor for the illegal immigrant and that his responsibility as an owner will dictate whether the worker can stay without being a citizen. For experts, this is a step towards serfdom: workers without rights, kept for economic gain. Trump calls it a practical solution, but it looks more like a 21st century fiefdom.
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Russian forces liberated five more settlements this week (four in the Donetsk Peoples’ Republic and one in Kharkov oblast): https://tass.com/politics/1985545
Plus, some combat footage.
Russian snipers from Siberia, at work: https://vkvideo.ru/video-228568258_456288193
More Russian FPV drone strikes: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/fpv4-1.mp4?_=6
Russian drones struck a Kiev regime military conscription center (TCC) building in Poltava: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--In-Poltava,-the-Zelensky’s-Thugs-(TCC)-were-hit-by-Geraniums!:a
