157
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

Image is a snapshot taken from the recent Hezbollah video "Our Mountains, Our Treasures", showcasing their extensive underground fortifications, supply lines, and weaponry.


iran can't keep doing this to me, they've gotta respond soon, right? I'm gonna run out of analysis about countries soon, oh god


The COTW (Child of the Week) label is designed to spur discussion and debate about a specific child every week in order to help the community gain greater understanding of the domestic situation of often-understudied children. If you've wanted to talk about the child or share your experiences, but have never found a relevant place to do so, now is your chance! However, don't worry - this is still a general news megathread where you can post about ongoing events from any child.

The Child of the Week is Hassan LargePenis! He is chad-and-cuck rater and general commenter @LargePenis@hexbear.net's son, born over a month ago. @Greenleaf@hexbear.net recommended I have him as the COTW for a week and I finally got around to it.

Please check out the HexAtlas!

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.


(page 4) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] Hexboare@hexbear.net 64 points 4 months ago

Michelle Obama doing a DNC speech like she's definitely never planning a presidential run

Https://youtube.com/watch?v=YgJBFBwRXvc&

Amazing how she's older than Kamala by a year but still seems 20 years younger

load more comments (7 replies)
[-] destroyamerica@lemmygrad.ml 63 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

well time for speculation: if this is the start of the regional war, what are the strategies that each side will likely use? does hezbollah now have the capability to destroy every airfield in isr*el to limit the amount of airstrikes they can do? if the US gets directly involved (i.e. launching airstrikes with US jets, I know they were heavily involved with planning this attack) do they immediately try to sink the carrier? does isr*el even have a win condition here?

[-] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 60 points 4 months ago

Nothing I have seen from any US politician or bureaucrat in the last year makes me think the US will do anything other than full military support for Israel, up to and including US troops on the ground.

And certainly not after Kamala’s “blood for the blood god” speech the other night.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (6 replies)
[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 63 points 4 months ago

US Latinos continue to frustrate. Been hearing from some Guatemalan diaspora about how “I can’t afford to be a single-issue voter because I’m undocumented and might be mass deported if Trump wins.”

Like they’ve been politically active enough to follow Palestine and the Harris campaign, but somehow missed all of her talk about the border and how she’d be hard on it. Not to mention Biden continuing Trump policies. They had a border patrol officer speak at the DNC ffs

load more comments (9 replies)
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 63 points 4 months ago

I've gotten into the habit of trusting my instincts when something feels wrong and this dude's trajectory feels wrong.

https://www.lfi.org.uk/largest-lfi-delegation-in-a-decade-meets-president-herzog/

For those of you that don't know this dude, Christian Wakeford, it's because just a few months ago he was a nobody. A Tory backbencher you'd probably never hear about.

In just a few months he has gone from Tory backbencher to a Labour MP to a government whip to LFI vice chair (labour friends of israel) and now he's meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

Incredibly sus. Sets all of my sus alarms off.

load more comments (7 replies)
[-] FakeNewsForDogs@hexbear.net 63 points 4 months ago

This whole time I’ve been imagining the retaliation would look like this but also coordinated with simultaneous attacks from Iran and Yemen. I guess they are taking turns. Anyway curious to see how successful it was militarily, and also in “re-establishing deterrence,” as they say. My guess is that deterrence will prove elusive as long as the zionists have the capability to strike. They just can’t seem to help themselves.

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] Barabas@hexbear.net 63 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Sir Der Sturmer planning to make a speech on Tuesday where he blames the recent race riots on genuine concerns that society was left broken and a lack of prison places.

ukkk

I’m sure that will solve it. Can’t see this as anything other than as a bullhorn loud dog whistle that it is time to crack down on minorities. Asbo back with a vengeance.

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] sisatici@hexbear.net 62 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Another decapitated children. Death to America, death to anyone who is in favor of America and death to monsters with crocodile tears

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] Staines@hexbear.net 62 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The war is moving fast now.

This morning, Ukraine has issued evacuation orders up to 30km from the front lines around Novohrodivka in the Donetsk region. We might be seeing the start of collapses in Donetsk as the Russians push beyond the heavily fortified 2014 lines, and cut the Ukrainian defense in two. Meanwhile, in Luhansk, Ukraine is holding on by it's fingertips, and Russia is prying them away one by one, seemingly with deliberate intent of declaring the region liberated.

The Sudzha incursion is spreading Ukrainian troops thinner and thinner, while activating increasing numbers of Russian troops that were previously restricted to homefront-only operations. Ukraine has essentially double the number of enemy troops they are in contact with.

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] theother2020@hexbear.net 62 points 4 months ago

They are doing a Law & Order parody on the DNC right now.

Donald Trump. Guilty. Dun-dun.

load more comments (5 replies)

Some more news and footage from the front.

Russian forces continue destroying Kiev regime military vehicles in Kursk oblast: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/kursk2008:e

Russian airstrike destroys Kiev regime military command post in Sumy oblast: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Russian-glide-bomb:3

Russian missiles struck Kiev regime fuel depots, military airfields, and logistics hubs throughout Kiev-controlled territory (the news article has two videos showing the aftermath): https://southfront.press/new-russian-combined-attack-destroy-military-facilities-throughout-ukraine/

Mysterious fires broke out in Polish and Romanian warehouses containing military equipment that NATO wanted to send to the Kiev regime: https://southfront.press/mysterious-explosions-thunder-in-european-rear-of-ukraine/

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 62 points 4 months ago

Bruh why are they crying over Tim Walz speech?

load more comments (5 replies)
[-] dinklesplein@hexbear.net 61 points 4 months ago

"Liberal regimes fighting with the odds so heavily in their favour in material terms and the sense of 'history being on their side' have an impatient expectation of victory - call this the pressure of the philosophy of history. If you are truly convinced your victory is inevitable, resistance is, as the saying goes, futile. Opponents that engage in futile resistance, exacting a price from you, long after their defeat is inevitable, are treated as 'mad dogs' that demand their own destruction. Not just their defeat but their erasure and total destruction. Rather than encouraging liberal agents of history to raise themselves to great personal efforts and sacrifice, this philosophy of history, this sense of historic inevitability counsels the opposite. If your barbaric, cruel enemy does not understand that they must lose, if they want to go down in a meaningless suicidal blaze, there is no reason anyone on your side should needlessly expose themselves to risk. After all, that would deprive those citizen soldiers of the victorious future that is rightfully theirs. Instead, minimise your own losses and let massive firepower do the work. Collateral damage, especially if it occurs on the enemy side, is barely worth a mention."

Adam Tooze

[-] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 61 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Resistance News Network on Telegram (at 02:24 GMT):

Zionist warplanes have ended their bombing of southern Lebanon as part of what the IOF is calling a "pre-emptive" strike.

The towns in the south and southern depth that were bombed: Kfar Malaki (two airstrikes), Beit Yahoun, Al-Tayri, Wadi Salouqi, Deir Siryan, Ayn Qana, Tayr Harfa, Shama, Kounine Forest, the area between Zibqine and Yater, Al-Iqlim Heights, Ain Qana, Al-Louwaiza, Basaliyya, and Kounine.

Settlement councils across northern Palestine and the Syrian Golan have issued warnings to their settlers in light of an expected response, and the "Tel Aviv" airport has been closed.

Edits:

Resistance News Network at 02:37 GMT:

🚨 Missile and drone sirens renew across northwestern occupied Palestine, as well as near "Mount Meron" in the east, as the resistance in Lebanon launches a complex attack following dozens of airstrikes on southern Lebanon.

Resistance News Network at 02:40 GMT:

🚨 BREAKING: Missile sirens now ring in “Ben Ami,” “Cabri,” and numerous settlements east of “Nahariyya” in northwest occupied Palestine.

Resistance News Network at 03:11 GMT

🚨 The zionist Minister of War Yoav Gallant announces a 48-hour state of emergency following nonstop rocket fire and drone launches from Lebanon for the last 30 minutes.

load more comments (8 replies)
[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 61 points 4 months ago

ALLAH MAKE HOUTHIS SINK A US AIRCRAFT CARRIER AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!

load more comments (13 replies)
[-] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 61 points 4 months ago

Kamala has to lose. I don't think that she will lose but it's clear nothing will change over Israel. One party has to pay a price for this to change the political landscape and it will never be the Republicans. It probably will never be the Democrats either and electoralism is a total sham but at the very least the Republicans will destroy the US war machine from the inside because they are totally insane.

load more comments (15 replies)
[-] Jenniferrr@hexbear.net 60 points 4 months ago
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] miz@hexbear.net 60 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A regional war has been raging across West and South Asia. The US has in two decades invaded, occupied, and waged genocide in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya etc not to mention other proxy wars. Looming now is indeed a regional war but one not fought on imperialists' terms.

https://xcancel.com/UrOrientalist/status/1825330490821464295

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 60 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
load more comments (3 replies)
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 59 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

US charges Chinese dissident with spying for Beijing

lol, lmao

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8nzpx45wxo

spoiler

US prosecutors have filed criminal charges against a Chinese dissident living in the US, accusing him of being an agent of Beijing's intelligence service.

Yuanjun Tang, 67, was arrested on Wednesday in the New York City, the US department of justice (DOJ) said in a statement.

He is alleged to have spied on US-based Chinese democracy activists and dissidents.

Mr Tang, now a naturalised US citizen, is also accused of making false statements to the FBI.

The BBC could not immediately identify a lawyer for Mr Tang.

In Wednesday's statement, the DOJ said Mr Tang "was charged by criminal complaint with acting and conspiring to act in the United States as an unregistered agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and making materially false statements to the FBI".

It also alleged that between 2018 and 2023 he acted as China's agent on the orders of the country's ministry of state security (MSS) - China's principal civilian intelligence agency.

Mr Tang is accused of regularly receiving instructions via email, encrypted chats and other means of communications from the agency.

It is also alleged that he "regularly received instructions from and reported to an MSS intelligence officer regarding individuals and groups viewed by the PRC as potentially adverse to the PRC’s interests, including prominent US-based Chinese democracy activists and dissidents."

"He also travelled at least three times for face-to-face meetings with MSS intelligence officers and helped the MSS infiltrate a group chat on an encrypted messaging application used by numerous PRC dissidents and pro-democracy activists to communicate about pro-democracy issues and express criticism of the PRC government," the DOJ alleges.

He apparently agreed to work for China's intelligence agency in a bid to see his family living in mainland China, according to CBS, the BBC's US news partner, which cites US prosecutors.

According to court documents, Mr Tang was imprisoned in China for opposing the Chinese government.

He protested against the Chinese Communist Party during the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, CBS reports.

In about 2002, he managed to defect to Taiwan, and was later granted political asylum in the US, the DOJ said.


load more comments (3 replies)
[-] Teapot@hexbear.net 59 points 4 months ago

Deeply unserious mods. How can we beat the trans megathread when posts are deleted

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] Zrc@hexbear.net 59 points 4 months ago

trust me guys, we totally intercepted everything and preemptively destroyed 10000 missile launchers. nobody is allowed to talk about our great success because uhhh.... just because, ok?

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 59 points 4 months ago

Looks like I(srael)SIS did a false flag stabbing attack in Germany to "Avenge Palestine".

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 59 points 4 months ago
load more comments (10 replies)
[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 58 points 4 months ago

The vibescession was more true than the official numbers:

Government: US economy added 818,000 fewer jobs than first reported in year that ended in March

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy added 818,000 fewer jobs from April 2023 through March this year than were originally reported, the government said Wednesday. The revised total adds to evidence that the job market has been steadily slowing and likely reinforces the Federal Reserve’s plan to start cutting interest rates soon.

The Labor Department estimated that job growth averaged 174,000 a month in the year that ended in March — a drop of 68,000 a month from the 242,000 that were initially reported. The revisions released Wednesday were preliminary, with final numbers to be issued in February next year.

The downgraded estimate follows a jobs report for July that was much worse than expected, leading many economists to suggest that the Fed had waited too long to begin cutting interest rates to support the economy. The unemployment rate rose for the fourth straight month, to a still-low 4.3%, and employers added just 114,000 jobs.

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 58 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I forgot to report on this and it's a few months later than it happened. Every year the U.S. does military exercises in Africa (mostly Morocco), known as the African lion this year's event happened in May in Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal and Ghana. Although the U.S. denies its purpose, the exercise is clearly about invading Algeria, in the video African Lion 2021- Command Post Exercise they train against s400 and later on in the video you can see this map with the fake countries they're invading being "Rowand" and "Nehone". Similar to other U.S. invasion exercises like the ones they hold for Iran and the DPRK.

Sneaky editThis is the map of the oil in the region, now this makes sense

load more comments (12 replies)
[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 58 points 4 months ago

"Little Guantanamo" gets bigger

After the call, Noor started researching CMUs. She quickly learned that the units, sometimes called “Little Guantánamo” or “Guantánamo North,” were originally built to house people the federal government alleged had connections to international terrorism. The units, located as separate sections within two federal prisons in Marion, Illinois, and Terre Haute, Indiana, consist of single cells where people are isolated and subjected to intense surveillance and monitoring. People in CMUs have much less access to the outside world because of their status. They have extra limits on visits, phone calls, emails, and even postage mail. They can communicate only with approved contacts, and all communication is meant to be monitored.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 58 points 4 months ago

Still getting a lot of Ukrainian propaganda on tiktok. And I block all of them immediately so it's an effort for sure to get it in front of people

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 58 points 4 months ago
load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024
157 points (97.6% liked)

news

23643 readers
684 users here now

Welcome to c/news! Please read the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember... we're all comrades here.

Rules:

-- PLEASE KEEP POST TITLES INFORMATIVE --

-- Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed. --

-- All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. --

-- If you are citing a twitter post as news please include not just the twitter.com in your links but also nitter.net (or another Nitter instance). There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ or archive them as you would any other reactionary source using e.g. https://archive.today . Twitter screenshots still need to be sourced or they will be removed --

-- Mass tagging comm moderators across multiple posts like a broken markov chain bot will result in a comm ban--

-- Repeated consecutive posting of reactionary sources, fake news, misleading / outdated news, false alarms over ghoul deaths, and/or shitposts will result in a comm ban.--

-- Neglecting to use content warnings or NSFW when dealing with disturbing content will be removed until in compliance. Users who are consecutively reported due to failing to use content warnings or NSFW tags when commenting on or posting disturbing content will result in the user being banned. --

-- Using April 1st as an excuse to post fake headlines, like the resurrection of Kissinger while he is still fortunately dead, will result in the poster being thrown in the gamer gulag and be sentenced to play and beat trashy mobile games like 'Raid: Shadow Legends' in order to be rehabilitated back into general society. --

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS