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CW imbedded videos text distressing images, tesimony, description of tourture victims.

Israel set up facilities dedicated to torturing Palestinians: Rights group

can't believe SARS-COV-2 won the most medals at the olympics slay queen

Rybar discussing the probability that this is not Ukraine's primary attack, and that a second much larger attack is coming. Also putting forwards the same idea that was discussed here that this is Ukraine grabbing land ahead of negotiations to take place later.

russian fuckupery continues ..

Ukrainian Himars striked a Big Ass Convoy of russian vehicles ..

and a Federal Emergency was decleard ....

Its Time for Putin to Show Ukraine what a Red Line means and continue to slowly advance towards volchansk ... Unbothered and in his Lane... who needs Breakthroughs and fast advances through non Fortified territory if you can also slowly grind yourarmy down advancing through the most fortified Area !

Show them Putin!

EDIT: I know. I know..

lmao just finished listening to the latest chapo episode where said he was 100% certain shapiro would be the VP pick

According to Channel Islam International live, 10K Zionist soldiers have been liquidated. Note that they (along with Salaamedia and Radio Islam as well as multiple other South African media outlets) specifically say "Zionist" or "occupation force".

to AmeriKKKa

Egypt has instructed all its airlines to avoid Iranian air space for a three-hour period on Thursday morning.

Walz did send the National Guard after the George Floyd Protests. He also seems to oppose the Cuban embargo, and opposed Obama in going further into Syria.

We are going to have to take this into account of course.

Tribal forces allied with Assad have started a Offensive against the SDF and the US occupied Oilfields ..

Does Iran have the right to defend itself?

Blinken: Yes but I'm not acknowledging their right but they shouldn't take actions that destabilize the middle east but I won't talk about hypotheticals but also I'm not not saying yes

what's this middle class shit, are they afraid of saying working class

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/5/world-reacts-to-bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasinas-removal-from-power

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina has resigned from her position and has fled to India while a new interim govt. has been put in place.

My Bengali family are taking this very well but still suspicious of the US possibly meddling in the weaker interim government. I'm not an expert in Bengali politics at all though other than Bangladesh has been trying to build its industry for a while now and Chinese foreign development has been a boon for the country and I don't see any anti-US designated enemy sentiment from the protests. Sheikh Hasina has been part of the push for bigger industry and expanding Bangladesh's economy but the state of labor rights in Bangladesh has always remained oppressive to a majority of Bangladeshi people.

Imo Ukraine should push for Moscow with all their army. The war has been boring for so long.

I’ve been sitting at the decades table for hours. Did they forget about me?

How do you do, fellow six sided ursines?

Just wanna put it out there that if the death toll of Gaza is currently 40,000 or thereabouts (according to gaza authorities) this represents roughly ~~7% of the population~~ 2% killed.

We should really be comparing this to the 20% of the population that the US killed in the dprk to truly make people realise the horror of what the americans did there.

Juan Guaidó, failed coup leader of Venezuela, got disrupted yesterday at the University of Portland. In 2019, Guaidó declared himself president of Venezuela after a phone call with the White House. He then was handed control of Venezuelan state assets in the US and UK, including CITGO and overseas gold reserves.

https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/politics/news/bnp-rally-thousands-gather-nayapaltan-ahead-start-3671461

Its so fucking planned, it hasn't even been 48hrs.

Go ahead and speak a lil bit of Chinese for 'em, Tim.

There was an article from my favourite Indian ex-diplomat one week ago which offers an explanation for the current state of play in regards to Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the US. Of course, now we have the news that the US may/is once again allowing Saudi Arabia to buy weaponry, so who knows exactly what's going on there, but even so.

Anyway, to summarize the article and arguments:

Javad Zarif has been appointed as the Strategic Deputy of the new Iranian president, Pezeshkian. Zarif was the guy who negotiated the JCPOA (better known as the Iran Deal), and is well-regarded in the West and a familiar face. This wasn't exactly unexpected, but nonetheless is a move that's difficult to interpret. Iran's leadership is simultaneously swearing vengeance on Israel (thus prompting the US to defend Israel and move military assets into position for deterrence), but also seems to be communicating that they're at least softening their hardline stance. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Grossi, has sought an urgent meeting with Pezeskian, which is also indicative of some openness. Regardless, Bhadrakumar predicts that Pezeshkian's reformism will act as a kind of release valve for discontent inside Iran, making protests and color revolution attempts difficult if not impossible.

Whatever the game being played with the United States here is, what's gong on with the gulf monarchies is a little clearer: MBS phoned up Pezeshkian to congratulate him and express their willingness to move closer together, and the Arab League has recently removed Hezbollah from their list of terrorist organisations. The vibe is that of an increasing willingness to accept Iran and its allies, and Pezeshkian has responded in kind, calling for regional unity. This is obviously detrimental to US interests in the region.

As for Israel, Bhadrakumar predicts that a potential regional war would continue until a Palestinian state is created, which might as well be synonymous with a Zionist surrender at this point. He says that the advantage lies with Iran, being bigger and stronger than Israel and able to maintain supplies to Hezbollah (as well as Hezbollah's own manufacturing, of course). That being said, the US almost certainly helped to kill Haniyeh, and the US is moving warships into the Persian Gulf (as well as other preparations like airplanes). Netanyahu must have received some sort of promise of support from the US if a regional war begins, which allowed him to order the assassination of Haniyeh as well as a high-up figure inside Hezbollah without as much fear as the post-April 13th landscape had. To what extent the tail is wagging the dog is unknown.

Drop out! drop out! drop out!

Niger joins Mali in telling Ukraine to kiss their African asses:
https://xcancel.com/AESinfos/status/1820918524690194694

🔴 After Mali, Niger cuts ties with Ukraine: an unprecedented diplomatic crisis

In an already tense international context, Ukraine has just suffered a new blow on the diplomatic scene. After Mali, it is Niger's turn to break off its relations with Kiev. This radical decision follows damning revelations about Ukraine's support for terrorist groups operating in Mali.

Gotta be honest, I'm not putting any faith in Harris/Walz, I'm not gonna vote, but it is nice hearing someone on a presidential ticket speak like a normal human being.

Yahya Sinwar was announced as the new head of Hamas

More reports on Israeli torture in Sde Teiman and other prisons. Disturbing material. Obviously CWs and TWs for pretty much everything.

https://www.btselem.org/publications/202408_welcome_to_hell

walz said assad must ... stay?

https://x.com/RobbieGramer/status/1820839603353288952

Venezuela: CNE Turns Over Electoral Data to Supreme Court, US Walks Back González Recognition

This Trump presser is hilarious, just the most obvious direct responses to criticisms he's trying to casually bring up.

Started by saying he would deffinitly rather run against kamala unprompted has already gone back to talking about how theybstole the presidency from Biden and how poorly he's being treated.

He's simultaneously trying to say "Oh yea I'd deffinitly rather run against kamala but they cheated Joe and he should deffinitly be allowed to continue running even though i deffinitly don't like him and am deffinitly not just saying that because I can beat him."

It really is wild when you don't listen to him for a while and are reminded there is literally no attachment to reality in anything that he says.

Although he did point out it was weird Biden made her vp after her most successful messaging was calling him racist.

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/arms-export-licences-to-israel-suspended-by-uk-government-h17rhdf2

Arms export licences to Israel suspended by UK government
Civil servants are understood to have stopped giving permission for weapons to be sold to the Jewish state

Wonder if this will result in more fascist violence in the UK?

For context, the Ukronazi incursion into Kursk oblast seems about the same in size as the Russian incursion into Kharkiv oblast. Neither seem consequential. The former will probably grind to a halt after a few days/weeks while the Russians keep making ground in Donetsk oblast. What does Ukraine have to gain by doing this? I have no idea. Morale boost? Reddit points? They could take the entire Kursk oblast and it would have zero impact on the outcome of the war.