Remember when I commented on my fear of Israel using bioweapons against Palestinians? I'm not an anti-vaxxer but this is very suspicious https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-coordinates-delivery-of-25100-polio-vaccine-vials-to-gaza-amid-fears-of-outbreak/

They're rushing vaccines to a group of people they're deliberately genociding?

Least unhinged zionist take heard today from a Texan "returner"

Palestine is an ideology so you can't ethnically cleanse them

If these "people" don't go to jail at the very least there is truly no justice in the world

Staying with conservative family members day 2 update: I had been up for 30 minutes and was sipping on my coffee when I learned that my uncle watches YouTube Ukrainian propaganda videos of strikes on Russian military targets while drinking his morning coffee. He told me that Russia "is in trouble". He said, while chuckling, that he thinks one of these days we will wake up to the news that "Putin fell out of window". My response was "hmm, interesting " Honestly, I thought Newsmax viewers were pro-Russia.

Al mayadeen

Over 70% of roads destroyed by Israeli forces in Jenin.

Water supply has reportedly been disrupted for 80% of Jenin and the entire refugee camp.

There was a Massiv Missile Attack on Ukraine , but the Shoot them all Down .

To Celebrate, they Introduced Blackouts in the hole of Ukraine

Ukraine shot down its own F16 with a Patriot missile 4 days after receiving the jet lol

How Israel's Elite Intelligence Unit Targets Queer Palestinians in the West Bank

While the Israeli government often holds itself up as a beacon of freedom for the LGBT community, members of that very community are high on the list of targets for blackmail—though by no means are they alone on that list. Given the world-class nature of Israeli surveillance technology, it’s not hard for spy agencies to identify gay or lesbian Palestinians and ensnare them in their net.

Journalist Theia Chatelle spent months in the West Bank hoping to tell their stories. She was told it would be impossible. But over time, she found a number of victims of the program with the courage to speak out. She also identified members of the Israeli security agencies willing to admit to what’s going on.

Countries are really starting to draw the lines when it comes to information control.

There appears to be a partial sector collapse on the eastern frontlines of Ukraine, with Ukraine losing multiple towns and settlements within a couple of hours. Russia is closing in on Pokvorosk rapidly now. Ukraine retreating across the front. This is after two days of Russian missile attacks in Ukrainian electric and water infrastructure. Overall it looks like the Kursk gamble is starting to backfire in a big way, but more on that below.

As for the whole Kursk offensive that appears to have stalled, I take a different view to many. It was the best course of action Ukraine could take if they wanted to keep fighting. It's just that the choice to keep fighting is a poor one. Obviously the actual best choice would be to stop the fighting and start negotiations, but Ukraine/their NATO masters are unprepared to do so. So if they continue fighting, and we assume Russia will take more territory in the East, what does it matter if it falls quickly or slowly if it's considered lost anyways? Ukraine (as in from a realistic perspective and not rabid pro Ukraine propaganda) sees that territory as lost anyways, there's nothing they can do to stop the Russian advance or change the reality of the war on that front. So why not take some Russian territory and use it as a buffer to push up with artillery and long range weapons closer to Russia, to continue Ukraine's asymmetric strategy and launch more attacks into Russia, which they did and had some initial success, hitting Russian air bases and destroying some advanced fighter aircraft parked on the ground, as well as destroying many FAB munitions. And hope to hold that territory until autumn or even winter when it will be harder to root them out.

Overall the Kursk offensive militarily was executed a lot better than the previous Ukrainian "counter offensive", which was a disaster. Ukraine pushed up enough to get their artillery and Anti-Aircraft (AA) platforms in position, but not too far ahead as to walk into Russian traps and defence in depth. Getting the AA in position was critical to ensure that Ukrainian convoys did not get massacred by Russian helicopters and close air support like they did in the "counter offensive". Yes Russia did ambush a few convoys, but nothing like the counter offensive.

The question though is yes the Kursk offensive was executed well from a military perspective, but does it make sense in the big picture of the war? With the current frontline partial sector collapse, it's not looking good. The best solution big picture wise would be negotiations, there is nothing Ukraine can do to change the reality of the war, unless they plan on getting full NATO support, which is a extremely unrealistic fantasy. Any option that involves the continuation of fighting is a poor option from the Ukrainian perspective. So I would say the Kursk offensive was the best of the bad options, but still a very bad option. Continuing the war as it was and getting ground down by Russia without doing anything to stop the inevitable also appears to be a poor choice.

(Al Mayadeen)

An Israeli airstrike on a residential area in the Nur Shams refugee camp, in Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank, led to the martyrdom of at least five Palestinians on Monday night, Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported.

The aggression marks yet another aspect of the Israeli regime's war on Palestinians, be it in the Gaza Strip or the occupied West Bank.

Local media identified the martyrs as Jibril Jibril, Muhannad al-Qarawi, Mohammad al-Sheikh Yousef, Adnan Aysar al-Jaber, and Mohammad Alyan.

Martyr Jibril was freed by the Resistance from Israeli prisons in late 2023 after it conducted a prisoner exchange deal with the Israeli regime.

Nablus Telegram writes:

The cub martyr of al-Qassam, "Jibril Jibril", did not exceed the age of Twenty, was arrested by the occupation and released by the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades in the exchange of the Al-Aqsa flood, which took place several months ago. He became a prisoner, a pursuer, a skirmisher and a mujahid for the sake of Allah, he did not exceed agw twenty, and he walked on the path of al-Qassam.

Boycotts due to genocide hit multinationals

The boycott is having an effect: Multinational companies are coming under greater pressure because of business relationships with or in Israel. As Handelsblatt reported on Wednesday, the catering group Yum Brands, parent company of the restaurant chain KFC, as well as the fast food company McDonald's and food company Mondelez reported problems "as a result of the Middle East conflict". This means significant drops in sales that can be traced back to boycott campaigns in connection with Israel's war against the population in Gaza.

All three companies reported a drop in sales in their international business. While Yum Brands is being criticized for investing in Israeli start-up companies, McDonald's, for example, distributed free meals to the Israeli army (IDF) in October. System catering operator Americana, which is responsible for the branch presence of KFC and Pizza Hut in the Middle East region, suffered a 45 percent drop in its net profit in the first half of 2024, according to Handelsblatt.

The Kuwaiti Alshaya Group announced that it would lay off 2,000 employees after a drop in sales as a result of a campaign against the Starbucks branches it operates. In Indonesia, the operator there forestalled a campaign by publicly distancing itself. The McDonald's franchisee donated 100,000 US dollars for humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip. The parent company had bought back more than 200 branches from its partner there after protests against IDF support.

The Pakistani government set up a committee at the end of July to identify companies that should be boycotted because of their support for Israel in its offensive in the Gaza Strip. Last week, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that he would suspend coal exports to Israel "until it ends the genocide." Diplomatic relations have already been severed. According to the Times of Israel, Colombia is currently no longer importing weapons or surveillance technology from Israel.

Massive zionist invasion of West Bank happening right now. (The Cradle telegram)

Statement from PIJ translated by RNN telegram

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⚫️ Palestinian Islamic Jihad: — In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

The criminal occupation is launching a comprehensive assault on the cities and camps of the northern occupied West Bank in an open and undeclared war, one we had previously warned about. This aggression seeks to shift the focus of the conflict to the occupied West Bank in an attempt by the entity to impose new facts on the ground aimed at subjugating the occupied West Bank, annexing it, and asserting its control over our sanctities in an existential war against the Palestinian people.

The wide-scale military campaign being waged by the occupation in the occupied West Bank is part of its plans to assert control over the city of Al-Quds and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. The occupation seeks to implement its malicious Judaization schemes, including the construction of a synagogue within the courtyards of Al-Aqsa, in a blatant challenge to the dignity of all Arabs and Muslims, and in flagrant violation of all international laws and conventions.

Our fighters in Saraya Al-Quds in the West Bank are engaged in fierce battles to confront this criminal campaign, which includes the siege of hospitals, preventing the injured and sick from receiving treatment, and the use of drones and warplanes to bomb civilian targets within camps and towns. Additionally, the occupation has imposed a severe siege on these areas with hundreds of soldiers and armored vehicles in an attempt to break our people's spirit and crush their will.

As in Gaza, the enemy entity is committing its crimes in the West Bank while the world watches these atrocities, with a shameful official and popular Arab inaction. Many stand idly by in the face of the crimes the occupation is perpetrating against our people and sanctities, leaving the Palestinian people alone in confronting the continuous zionist killing and criminal machinery.

This is happening while the occupation continues to commit horrific massacres in a clear genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip, disregarding all international calls to stop the war, allow the entry of relief materials, and open safe corridors for civilians. It is supported by the American administration, which oversees these crimes and provides all kinds of political and military cover.

We call on the international community to take immediate action to stop these massacres and violations, holding the occupation fully responsible for the consequences of these aggressive policies. We also call on the Arab and Islamic nations to urgently and effectively mobilize in support of our people and sanctities, and in rejection of this ongoing aggression that aims to liquidate our just cause.

Indeed, it is a jihad of victory or martyrdom.

Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
Wednesday, 24th of Safar, 1446 Hijri, August 28, 2024 AD.

NYT with an article on Africa's debt crisis in which they blame. . . China. You see, countries have been "bristling at loan conditions dictated by Western leaders or the International Monetary Fund," because those loan conditions were too damned responsible, so they turned to Chinese loans which came "without environmental, financial or human rights restrictions."

Also - I went to find the Citations Needed episodes on the IMF, and their Medium account has been suspended? What's going on?

thought this is interesting. you can see who the petite bourgeoisie prefers

From People’s Daily, China Telegram channel:

Li Jiping, a former vice president of China Development Bank, a major policy bank in the country, has been arrested on suspicion of bribery, the Supreme People's Procuratorate said on Monday.

Has Russia captured a McDonald's anywhere in Ukraine so far? I'm pretty sure that Mariupol didn't have one. Hexbears come on please find me a pic of some Akhmat guy standing in a captured McDonald's

The US government moved to protect its business interests today, issuing a warning to Brazil: "The US Embassy is monitoring the situation between the Supreme Court and the X platform. We reiterate that freedom of expression is a fundamental pillar of a healthy democracy.

"Due to internal policy, we do not comment on court decisions or legal disputes." In short, it's another lesson on democracy from the nation that overthrows democratically-elected governments in Latin America at an average of 1 per 2.8 years, frequently installing bloody dictatorships in their place.

The story changed again, and now apparently the F-16 was downed by friendly fire from a Patriot missile

All the Americans on the news mega must read these articles investigating the co-optation of pro Palestine movement happening right now.

The Uncommitted Movement is uncommitted to resistance, committed to the establishment!

Uncommitted to Resistance, Committed to Donors, Part II

IOF have launched a large operation in the northern west bank. It seems to include thousands of soldiers and is expected to last several days. The city of Jenin and notably the Jenin hospital, where hospital workers report being unable to access the hospital. Resistance reports destroying military vehicles with remote explosives in Jenin.

This is a developing situation and I am getting info from ME observer telegram channel

I think it's now fair to call what's happening in Pokrovsk a big collapse for the AFU, perhaps the biggest since the lines stabilised in late 2022. The whole South Donetsk front has completely broken for the AFU, with barely any fighting units left because of the Kursk adventure and there are barely any fortifications at this point. The Ukrainians in true capitalist fashion gave the contracts for digging fortifications to private entities who stole the money and didn't dig anything beyond the areas close to the January 2024 frontline near Avdiivka, so it's now a big problem when the front has moved 35kms further. Everything that moves into the Donbass goes through Pokrovsk and Myrnograd, and Russians are now 7km from Pokrovsk and 1km from Myrnograd. Pokrovsk is also the gateway into Dnipro Oblast, which is the most valuable Oblast for Ukraine with its farmlands and massive Soviet industry. If Pokrovsk falls before the end of 2024, then Russia will basically be in a position where the entirety of Donetsk Oblast falls in 2025, and they can even rush along the E50 and the railroad straight towards Pavlograd by the end of 2025. It's a horrible situation for the AFU in South Donetsk, everything from Pokovsk to Kurakhove to Ugledar is on the verge of collapsing now.

"Say the line, Bart!"

"Zionist dumbass got sniped after exposing himself through a window."

https://xcancel.com/TVFreePalestine/status/1828835724558471516

China accepts U.N. recommendations to improve environmental conflicts in Latin America Hexbear Post

• China was up for a Universal Periodic Review with the U.N. Human Rights Council, in which other member countries analyzed its actions abroad and provided recommendations to improve.
• Some of the most popular concerns were connected to the environmental and social conflicts affecting Latin America, including violence against activists, rushed impact studies and weak oversight of projects ranging from dams and highways to mines and bridges.
• China accepted a record ten out of 11 recommendations, giving hope to some that the country will change how it handles future projects in the region. But some critics are concerned that the country won’t keep its word.

i think its good China said its willing to help more in latin america in areas like enviroment and social conflicts, their big push for solar energy shows they care about green policy

lmao Dems have gone from fighting to keep RFK Jr off the ballot to fighting to keep him on the ballot.

Not even pretending to be democratic. It would be hilarious if Republicans forced Biden to stay on the ballot.

BREAKING: Reports indicate that an American fighter jet may have been shot down over Syria. The pilot reportedly ejected safely and is believed to have landed in territory controlled by pro-Iranian forces. U.S. officials are currently awaiting confirmation on the pilot’s status. There is also speculation that the downed aircraft might not be American. It could potentially belong to Russian, Turkish, or Israeli forces, but no confirmation has been made regarding the plane’s origin. Meanwhile, both pro-Assad and Syrian opposition media are reporting that a U.S. Army UAV was downed by pro-Iranian militias over the Deir Ez-Zoor desert. Further details are still emerging. Photo of the parachute near Deir-Ez-Zor, trapped on powerlines.

Souce

Update :

its a Syrian Mig -23 ...

Nothing will fundamentally change after this election so much to the point that no one is panic buying guns and ammo and manufacturers are lowering prices lol

11 crew members of the ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge are still trapped in baltimore, a punishment worse than death

Images of the Haditha masscare that the US military tried to keep from the public have been released.

[CW Details of massacre]

Meet the hereditary chief who Amnesty International calls Canada’s first prisoner of conscience Hexbear Post

“The Canadian state has unjustly criminalized and confined Chief Dsta’hyl for defending the land and rights of the Wet’suwet’en people,” Amnesty International’s Ana Piquer stated in a press release. “As a result, Canada joins the shameful list of countries where prisoners of conscience remain under house arrest or behind bars.”

In October 2021, Dsta’hyl was arrested and charged with criminal contempt after confiscating and decommissioning heavy equipment utilized by Coastal GasLink to construct its LNG pipeline on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory. Dsta’hyl said he was enforcing Wet’suwet’en laws as the company did not have the free, prior and informed consent of hereditary chiefs to build the pipeline.

Wtf is happening in France? Is Macron actually going to give the election over to Le Pen?

US Navy sacks commanding officer of its destroyer, Yemen keeps winning.

The Drone Wars: How Ukraine Beat Russia in the Battle of the Black Sea

This is a terrible article. The author breathlessly describes how our heckin’ scrappy underdog Ukraine has been able to decimate Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. The article actually states that because of these naval victories and the current Ukrainian offensive into Russia that’s its Zelensky who will be dictating the term to Putin and not the other way around (I should point out that this article was written three days ago, and uh… a lot has happened in that time).

But I’m posting it here and not the dunk tank because I think the author stumbled into a couple interesting takes:

I actually don’t doubt that Ukraine has used drones, missles, and small craft to completely decimate the Black Sea Fleet. But what is completely lost on the author is that this is the dawn of a new age in naval warfare. Putin gets it and that’s why the Black Sea Fleet hasn’t ventured out. Yemen - one of the poorest countries on earth - is currently embarrassing the US navy, who has no response to the attacks. Surface navies are done. They’re sitting ducks now. I think in future history books they will talk about the Ukrainian destruction of the Russian fleet in the same way we talk about how the trenches in the Russo-Japanese War were a prelude to the trench warfare of WW1; only in this example WW1 will be more like China sinking the entire US Pacific Fleet in a day with hypersonics and drones (inshallah).

Also, the author postulates that the recent Ukrainian offensive was a ploy to show their allies that you can cross a major Russian red line and not push them to use nukes, thus encouraging them to allow them to have weapons that can strike deep inside Russia. While that’s a pretty bad idea for reasons obvious to everyone here… I think that probably was what Zelensky was thinking.

Resistance news telegram - 6 hostages found dead in tunnels. Who is to say didn't kill them because they kill everything that breathes and are spinning.

Today, the IOF published the identities of six dead settler captives who were found in Rafah, in southern #Gaza, not more than two days ago.

While the IOF claims that it came across the bodies in a tunnel in Rafah, and that no resistance fighters were in the area, the circumstances of these captives’ death are likely no different than any others’: Since October 7, the IOF has bombed, suffocated, starved, and even shot its own captives to death as part of its brutal assault on the #Gaza Strip. Netanyahu and his accomplices have determined that the continuation of the genocide war against Palestinians in Gaza is more valuable to them than the return of any captives.

While other captives’ bodies have been recovered previously, the recovery of six at once has sent shockwaves across the zionist entity. Notably, former zionist prime minister Ehud Olmert publicly called for wide protests, asserting that Netanyahu does not seek to return the captives alive and must be overthrown.

Zionist opposition leader Yair Lapid blamed Netanyahu for the six captives’ deaths directly, saying “they were alive,” indicating that they could have been returned to their families safely if a deal had been reached with the resistance in Gaza. The current president of the zionist entity issued a public apology to the families of the dead captives, admitting that their efforts to return them alive had “failed.”

While the entity continues to sink deeper into the quagmire of Gaza and break under the weight of its own contradictions, the resistance rising all across Palestine has been clear since the beginning: "The price we will take for five living prisoners or ten is the same price we would have taken for all prisoners had they not been killed by the enemy's bombing operations."

Vice President Kamala Harris tells DanaBashCNN that if she wins, she will appoint a Republican to her cabinet.

“I’ve got 68 days to go with this election, so I’m not putting the cart before the horse. But…I think it’s really important. I have spent my career inviting diversity of opinion. I think it’s important to have people at the table when some of the most important decisions are being made that have different views, different experiences. And I think it would be to the benefit of the American public to have a member of my Cabinet who was a Republican.”

The Republican:

I kept getting an ad on FB that literally said, Support Israel by purchasing this product. I reported it as inappropriate political content. I got a Support Messsage today that read, “We didn’t remove the ad.”

e - meant to post in the mega but whatevs

Violent clashes are currently ongoing across Jenin.

https://t.me/me_observer_TG/302954

https://t.me/me_observer_TG/302959

new username just dropped

I've been using ChatGPT to create comments that sound extremely liberal but with a strong pro-Palestine spin. It's really effective for discussions you would otherwise never have, either because you would be banned in no time for answering truthfully or because it's just too much work. Also, I don't have to worry about saying the wrong thing. You know, in Austria, you'll be called antisemitic if you don't literally kiss a picture of Netanyahu to prove otherwise.

Here's some fun recent peeks into Texas fascism.

More restrictions on trans people:

Transgender Texans will not be able to change the sex listed on their driver’s licenses, according to a policy change rolled out this week.

Under the new policy, Texans will not be able to change the sex on their licenses unless it is to fix a clerical error.

Link

Making lists of undocumented people getting healthcare:

Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order on Thursday that requires hospitals in Texas to collect information on the immigration status of patients so that the hospitals can then track costs incurred for the care of undocumented migrants. Previous guidance for hospitals did not include questions about immigration status. The executive order would mandate the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to collect this information so that the state of Texas could then bill the federal government.

Link

Not quite as recent news but back in March, the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, tried to require PFLAG, an LGBT support group, to disclose lists of transgender Texans, doctors who work with them, and any plans the organization might have to support trans people going forward. This was blocked thankfully by an Austin court, but I'm sure they're going to try again at some point.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-union-leader-says-country-its-way-political-ruin

Israeli union leader says 'country is on its way to political ruin'

Histadrut labor federation chairman Arnon Bar-David announced at a mass protest in Tel Aviv, “This afternoon, I decided to halt the Israeli economy starting tomorrow morning. Some are upset that I didn’t call for a general strike sooner, but I’m here to ensure no one is left behind. Jews don’t abandon Jews—what’s unclear about that? It’s unacceptable for our children to die in tunnels due to political considerations!”

He added: "We refuse to remain indifferent to the fact that our country has become one of abandonment! The economy has also been abandoned. As head of the Histadrut, the country is on its way to political ruin. We must stop this …coalition money is still going to unneeded ministries. Tomorrow morning, all of Israel will not go to work…including ports, factories, and offices."

The strike will start at 06:00 local time on Monday with Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport closing also.

gosh I hope they can get those polio vaccines to those poor kids in gaza before they get genocided by israel. it's so sad when they get bombed to death AND have polio.

glad they are taking care of the most lethal threat to kids in gaza.

Ukraine just got hit by a massive missiles+drone strike https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvg58p0d55dt

Vladimir Putin confirmed Trotsky's strongest soldier

Nestor Makhno estate-museum in Huliaipole, Zaporizhzhia region, was destroyed by Russian shelling, according to the National Police of Ukraine.

To clarify, the red building is not Makhno's house. It is the Museum of Local Lore. Russia destroyed the Museum of Local Lore and Makhno's house both.

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Article its from ukr pravda, i dont know how factual it may be

Due to his actions we at the hexbear mod vanguard have decided to banned Putin for sectarianism

Rest in power Abu Shuja

https://t.me/PalCommie/2216

The fascist Danish People's Party is no longer content with making it ever harder and more expensive to get a citizenship. Now they want to revoke citizenships "retroactively".

"It should be close to impossible to live an Islamic life in Denmark", as their spokesmen says.

Citizens who got their citizenship less than eight years ago should be required to take a test in language and "culture" that is even harder than the one they already passed to get their citizenships. In addition the fascists wants to "review" all citizenships granted for the past 20 years to see if they have committed crime, deporting anyone who might have done so.

Anyone about to be deported, under this policy or any other of the countless racist policies already in place, should be locked up and "made to feel they are in prison". To facilitate this, the fascists wants to create a new ministry of deportation.

The far-right Danish People's Party is not part of the current ruling junta but the entire political spectrum has a long history of legitimising them and adopting their racist ideas.

Timeframes where proportionate numbers of things happen

If Trump and the Republicans lose the election, and Ukraine loses the war during Kamala's term, then all the NATO-stans are going to crawl out of the woodwork and blame Germany for the loss.

100% certain this is going to happen. The Germans have suffered humiliation after humiliation in this conflict, and this would be the perfect cherry to top everything off.