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Some more updates from Syria. Syrian and Russian airstrikes continue pounding the terrorists, while a growing number of countries are issuing statements of support for Syria.

Syrian President Bashar Assad vowed that the terrorists will be defeated. Syrian forces and Iranian volunteers are presently regrouping near the important city of Hama: https://www.rt.com/news/608469-assad-defeat-terrorists-syria/

President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, stated that his country supports Syria’s struggle against terrorism and protection of its sovereignty, territorial integrity, and stability: https://tass.com/world/1880237

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani stated that, “Syria's security and stability are closely linked to Iraq's national security”: https://english.news.cn/20241201/ffe1101e8393408abb216167e8d2ed45/c.html

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated that the terrorist attacks are part of a US-Israeli attempt to spread insecurity in West Asia: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/30/738228/Iran-Russia-Syria-Foreign-Minister-Abbas-Araghchi-Sergei-Lavrov-resurgence-Takfiri-terrorism-American-Israeli-project-West-Asia-Astana-peace-

I am getting impatient for show trials of American rulers

bibi posts about syria

turkey gets f35

ceasefire in lebanon

mysteriously completely unaffiliated groups start attacking in syria

Context from 2018: Syria's Idlib spared attack, Turkey to send in more troops

Turkey will send more troops into Syria’s Idlib province after striking a deal with Russia that has averted a government offensive and delighted rebels who said it kept the area out of President Bashar al-Assad’s hands.

Putin got fucked over again by a NATO-backed "peace deal"

#Al-Shahba canton is witnessing massacres against Kurdish civilians forcibly displaced from Afrin by Syrian terrorists affiliated with the Turkish occupation, random killings, and cutting off communications and the internet. No voice reaches the world about the tragedies of children and innocents. 7 civilians were killed on flimsy charges. Humanity is crying out for help!

Moroccan here. Just want to add that the first years of Mohammed 6 were marked by great optimism, naming him "the king of the poor". This optimism was later on shattered, and a new form of oppression took place. While Hassan 2 was a dictator who sent people who opposed him to a secret prison, and people just vanishing like for publicly saying the wrong things like Mehdi Ben Barka, the opposition was fierce. There was a notable coup attempt in 1972. The reign of Mohammed 6 presents a friendly face but is marked by a shift to business, the king owns many major businesses in the country, making competition nearly impossible. The king gets to extract all the riches while pretending to be this meek gentle king, and the prime ministers are changed at will and they get to be the focus of all the discontent people have. Speaking against the king is still a political taboo that you never hear publicly.

Khan Sheikhoun has fallen, we're officially in the Afghanistan stage now. This is total collapse. Rebels are two empty villages from entering Hama

Apparently, there's a Syrian-Russian response to the rebel updates that have come

“The joint Syrian–Russian air force began to intensify its operations as the overlapping picture of the field became clearer, and the sites that the terrorists entered since dawn yesterday were monitored,” the correspondent added.

According to the Russia Reconciliation Center, at least 400 militants and fighters belonging to other groups have been killed.

The Syrian air force continued to strike HTS positions in the Idlib and Aleppo countryside on 29 November.

Meanwhile, extremist opposition groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) say they have seized the entire western Aleppo countryside despite several towns being recaptured by government forces. Damascus's troops have also sustained heavy losses.

HTS-led factions announced early on 29 November that they took the towns of Miznaz, Kafr Dael, Al-Barqoum, Babis, Bashqatin, Bashantra, Al-Kasebiyeh, and Al-Arbikh. They said later that morning that they had taken over several other towns.

The extremist factions claimed on Friday afternoon to be two kilometers away from the center of Aleppo city after battles with government troops in the New Aleppo neighborhood.

Extremist fighters were also said to be close to the M5 highway, controlled in part by Syrian and Russian troops.

“Our units have not finished completing the operations of removing mines and securing them from war remnants, and until this task is completed, the western Aleppo countryside will remain a closed military zone. After completing these operations, the region will secure the return of tens of thousands of families to their homes from which they have been displaced for four years, God willing,” said Hassan Abdel Ghany, the spokesman of a recently established HTS-led operations room.

Pls practice discipline in what/how you share information. Verify. Provide sources. Do not take rando telegram channels as gospel.

The Lie of Singapore

I have written a lot about Singapore and Malaysia here. Posts, here and there, that showcase aspects of their incestuous relationship.

But I never really stated explicitly, or more clearly debunk, the pernicious state narratives that both states and their comprador classes vehemently adhere to.

So I am going to rectify that right now.

Note: communal and racial are synonyms in Singapore and Malaysian politics. See here for elaboration.

General Background

The region was known as Malaya and Northern Borneo, back in the 19th and first half of the 20th century, consisting of the Malay Peninsula and their surrounding islands and the British controlled part of Borneo, but explicitly did not include the Riau Islands, were under Dutch administration or the Southern Thailand provinces, which were seceded to the Thai Monarchy in 1909, even though both regions had Malay majorities.

This region was sorted in more or less 3 distinct types of administrations, the federated and unfederated Malay Sultanates, in addition to the the protectorate of Brunei, in which over time the role of the Sultans diminished as the power of the colonial British advisers grew. The second was the Strait Settlements, British crown colonies which British laissez-faire Capitalism was allowed to flourish, especially in goods that the British were particularly good at trading (smuggling), opium. The colonies in Borneo, Sarawak and North Borneo Chartered Company (Sabah) was land “given” by the British protectorate Brunei to the British. Unlike in Malaya, Sarawak and North Borneo was also under direct control of the British, and Sarawak in particular was under the rule of the “White Rajah” (White King). Missionary influence especially was prevalent here, which resulted in more extensive use of English and Christianity being the majority in the state.

The Strait Settlements were crown colonies located in strategic positions within the Straits of Malacca, and were concentrated in the 3 main ports of Melaka, Penang (now officially called Pulau Pinang) and Singapore. These ports were fully controlled by the British and had appointed governors. The infamous one being Stamford Raffles, so-called founder of Singapore.

Nearing independence in the 1940s and 1950s. Guerrilla warfare was being waged by the Communist Party of Malaya, with membership within their mass organisations nearing 50% of the entire workforce. Furthermore there were unrest in others parts of the Malayan economy. Indian labourers in rubber plantations, Chinese miners in Tin mines, the Malay peasantry facing accumulation by dispossession and oppression by the Chinese capitalists, local Malay landlords, and the general comprador Malay Sultanates and their British advisors.

Independence was the name of the game, with waves of unrest and decolonization swept across East Asia at that time. In China, in Korea, in the Philippines, in Indonesia and in Viet Nam.

Malaya was no exception.

The Official Narrative™️

We gained independence in 1957 - under the "good graces" of the British, who simply let us free after of course, negotiations by the Malay sultans themselves. One infamous speech in which the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (the elected King) screamed the word "Merdeka!" (independence) 7 times and centuries of colonial exploitation just vanishes! At this point, this independence was only for the Malay Peninsula sultanates, and so logically lead to the official name of the federation of Malaya.

After a decades spanning communist guerilla warfare, the so-called 'insurgency', and British inability to maintain and sustain their prized colony in Southeast Asia, and fear of the so-called domino effect if communists and anti-colonial forces were to win, they came up with the Malaysia Agreement. An opaque document that mainly involved negotiations and consultations with the comprador elite and their masters. It stipulated that the British colonies of Sarawak, the North Borneo Chartered Company (Sabah), Malaya and Singapore were to merge into Malaysia.

This was to the dismay of the Malays, the British-educated elites in the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) proclaimed, because the indigenous were a minority in their own native land. The Malays, they proclaim, do not want to include Chinese majority Singapore in the federation. Even including Sarawak was contentious, because Sarawak was majority Christian.

Singapore’s British educated Chinese elite, influenced by the British Labour Party and the Fabian society, formed the People’s Action Party. There was a more radical sect within the party that called for the creation of a unified proletarian state. The party, was in theory, on-board with unification.

The various state actors signed the agreement in 1963 to form a unified and federated Malaysia.

However, the official narratives warns us, racial tensions were simmering. The Malays were not giving equal voting representation the Chinese majority in Singapore. The Malays, were also afraid of a secret Chinese communist takeover, precipitated itself by the super-liberal People’s Action Party!

The Racialised Class Realities laid bare

Secret negotiations were taking place between the reactionary comprador elements of the PAP and UMNO, even before the signing of the 1963 Malaysia Agreement, of an eventual secession of Singapore.

The elites in Singapore publicly welcomed the idea of unification, and so the infamous clip of Lee Kuan Yew crying after Singapore being “kicked” from federation was widespread. Little did others know until decades later that it was merely a facade, when he was the head of the clique that lead the negotiations for separation.

It would be good for Singapore because they would remain in a singular currency market with the underdeveloped parts of Malaya and North Borneo, without dealing with rising labour militancy. Think the Eurozone with the European periphery. As I mentioned before, Singapore's departure would secure the politial hegemony of UMNO.

"When the Tunku (the first Prime Minister of Malaysia) first informed Keng Swee in December last year (1964) of his desire to have Singapore "hive off" from Malaya, it generated considerable excitement amongst us first because this showed their realisation that we cannot be fixed in Malaysia and the supremacy of Malay communalists assured forever. Next, it gave us an escape, if there is to be trouble in Malaya with communal clashes over language and other issues. We might in such a rearrangement insulate ourselves from communal conflict which is building up in Malaya.

"[The] greatest attraction of this rearrangement is our hope to get the benefits of all worlds - the common market, political stability with economic expansion, and autonomy in Singapore without interference from KL. The picture of a prosperous and flourishing Singapore doing better than the rest of Malaysia is most attractive."

And here is where the whole story crumbles, from the words of Singapore's infamous and first Prime Minister himself, Lee Kuan Yew.

The fake stories about our so-called independence laid bare for what it was and continues to be. Lies, regurgitated by compradors and foreign Capital.

Epilogue

This brief exposition of independence was of course simplified and did not include many of the nuances that made up the whole story. From the inclusion of North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei, disagreements between the various Sultans, the specific amendments to accommodate Singapore's brief inclusion in the federation, the voting boycotts, racial riots and the Northern Borneo Communist uprisings, and the many grassroots shifts that had occurred by the time of independence and the couples of decades after. Many had to be foresaken for brevity.

History does not spare the sympathy to give us breaks.

In my previous characterizations of Singapore, I tried to convey this Europhilia that was/is heavily present in the elite's unsophisticated and underdeveloped minds.

Just read their own words -

Next, it gave us an escape, if there is to be trouble in Malaya with communal clashes over language and other issues

Who has not had the displeasure of interacting with a white European who has definitely exclaimed that they are not racist, while actively benefitting, supporting and instigating racism? How are these words any different?

The guardians of so-called "Asian values", while in actuality mirror their European counterparts in crystal clear clarity. This is recognised by many of the European chauvinists, who often emphasize that the Orientals can only be prosperous if they imitate the West, with Singapore being their prime example.

Singapore's role in the world economy is like that of South Korea, Rwanda, United Arab Emirates, or Panama. It is, and continues to be, a colonial outpost of US hegemony. Treat it as so.

Learn to read through the libspeak that a lot of the Singaporean and Malaysian elites like to shroud themselves in.

🛑|🇸🇾 Syria’s SANA agency: Individuals linked to terrorist groups who were responsible for filming fake scenes in several neighborhoods of Aleppo to give the impression that terrorist groups had taken control of those areas were apprehended.

from https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1862623124056945040

::: spoiler To add to the pile of takes being posted about this ceasefire, here is a quick writeup Derek Davidson from Foreign Exchanges/probably the most frequent Chapo guest sent out tonight. I am just posting this because it gets delivered to my inbox:

While I am technically on vacation I did want to send a brief update on the ceasefire that Joe Biden announced earlier today between Israel and Hezbollah. Momentum had been building toward this for several days now, despite outward appearances as the Israelis maintained and arguably intensified their bombing campaign. Indeed, they continued bombarding Lebanon throughout the day on Tuesday, while Hezbollah kept up its rocket attacks on Israel, everybody getting in a few last licks before the ceasefire goes into effect at 4 AM Wednesday local time. If all goes well this will mark the end of a conflict that started shortly after Hamas’s October 7 2023 attack in southern Israel, when Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel. That conflict has killed nearly 3800 people in Lebanon and nearly 130 in Israel, while displacing upwards of 1.2 million in Lebanon and some 46,000 in Israel.

The deal in its most basic form opens a 60 day window, during which Hezbollah and Israel will attempt to implement the terms of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Lebanon War. That means Hezbollah will withdraw its military forces, or at least its large weapons that are capable of striking Israel, north of the Litani River or about 30-ish (give or take) kilometers from the Israeli border. The Israelis in turn will withdraw from southern Lebanon. If those two conditions are met then the 60 day window will turn into a full-fledged ceasefire—at least until the next time Israel and Hezbollah go to war. Israel’s security cabinet approved the deal on Tuesday prior to Biden’s announcement. The Lebanese government had already signaled its approval, which came along with Hezbollah’s indirect approval.

There are mechanisms in the deal that aim to ensure Hezbollah’s compliance. The most immediate of those involves the Lebanese military, such as it is. As the Israeli military (IDF) and Hezbollah withdraw, Lebanese forces will deploy to the area between the Litani and the Israeli border where they will function in concert with the United Nations peacekeeping force (UNIFIL) to police the ceasefire. This is where the United States and France enter the picture. They’re apparently committed to supporting the Lebanese military and improving its capabilities so that it’s able to fulfill this mission, as well as to unspecified measures to improve the wrecked Lebanese economy.

The US and French governments will also join the Israeli and Lebanese governments, and UNIFIL, in overseeing the deal. This is a significant development considering that as recently as Sunday the Israeli government was refusing to have anything to do with Paris because Emmanuel Macron had recognized the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Lebanese government had conversely insisted on French participation, presumably reasoning that the French government might actually try to constrain future Israeli military action where the United States is barely even a rubber stamp anymore on that front. That’s important because the main thing the overseers will be doing is determining whether/when the Israelis are entitled to resume their military campaign in Lebanon.

By all accounts, Israeli officials wanted it written into the deal that they retain the right to use Lebanon as a free-fire zone if they decide that Hezbollah isn’t meeting its obligations. That is not, as far as I know, explicitly written into the agreement Biden announced on Tuesday, surely because it was unacceptable to Hezbollah and the Lebanese government. But the Israelis reportedly have assurances from Washington that the US will support their reentry into Lebanon should it come to that.

Based on what’s been reported so far I think we have to conclude that the Israelis have gotten much of what they wanted out of this conflict. In the main they got Hezbollah to break its “Axis of Resistance” ties to Hamas and agree to a ceasefire that has nothing to do with Gaza. That’s meaningful both in the near term, as it means in theory that the Israeli government can begin moving displaced people back into northern Israel without having to interrupt its genocidal campaign, and in the long term, if it permanently fractures the relationship between those two groups. Then there’s the damage Hezbollah has taken. Over the course of the past 13 months the Israelis were able to exploit apparently gaping holes in the internal security of Hezbollah or one of its allies to kill several of its senior leaders, including former Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, along with a larger number of mid-level officials. Those losses will take time to overcome.

That said, the Israelis haven’t gotten everything. For all the hits it’s taken Hezbollah is still standing and still seemed to be putting up a fairly robust resistance to IDF incursions in southern Lebanon—robust enough that it may have made Israeli leaders more amenable to a ceasefire. It’s also still a major force in Lebanese politics, and if we take its civilian elements into account the damage it’s suffered over the past 13 months is still significant but not debilitating. As I noted earlier the Israelis didn’t get the explicit permission they wanted to continue operating in Lebanon with impunity, though that’s more a technical setback than a real one.

This deal is hours old and as I write this it only came into effect about 30 minutes ago so I think to say much more would be to delve fully into speculation, and to be completely frank I think I’d rather go back to being on vacation. One bit of speculation that I will offer is the possibility that this deal isn’t so much going to end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah as shift the locus of that fighting into Syria. The IDF has never been reluctant to attack Hezbollah targets in Syria but it’s ratcheted up the frequency and intensity of such attacks in recent weeks, and it may be worth noting that after Biden’s announcement it bombed three crossings along the Lebanese-Syrian border in northern Lebanon. We’ve also seen reports of late about IDF construction projects in the occupied Golan that may be encroaching deeper into Syrian territory.

Bashar al-Assad’s government has been scrupulous about staying out of this conflict and maybe he’s got some sort of private understanding with the Israelis, but I still think this is something to watch. I’m not saying that the Israelis will immediately shift their operations to Syria in anything like the intensity we’ve seen in Lebanon, but over time they may continue to ramp things up on that front.

First ukrainian presidential polling since the start of 2022

https://www.intellinews.com/zaluzhnyi-leads-ukrainian-presidential-poll-355220/

Zaluzhnyi garnered 27% of support when respondents were asked whom they would vote for if an election were held next Sunday (November 24). Current President Volodymyr Zelenskiy followed with 16%, while former President Petro Poroshenko secured 7%. Other notable figures included Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, with 6%, and ex-Speaker of Parliament Dmytro Razumkov with 4%.

It sounds like Hezbollah had a military victory but strategic loss. Is this correct? I haven’t been keeping up with the ceasefire news.

So, aside from general , we learned that PA, jordan and egypt has absolute iron grip on their population. Evidently, then, limited armed struggle didn't work with just two sides. Legal avenue seems useless as expected, unless euros get tripped by icj ruling.

I guess in the west we only have individual bds and union-side divestment to work for, with a side of pal action (i didn't know keysight was involved). Probably need to look at what caused apartheid south africa hastened collapse in support as well

Hear trump doing that 25% tariff on mexico. Don't they exchange half a trillion in goods? No way this goes through right?

Sussy shit happening in Namibia. US wants to replace SWAPO with a more pro-West one. Not that SWAPO is a based communist party anymore but still.

The opposition is running on anti-corruption alone which in the absence of anything else is just a way for the right to capture power.

nazis bombing beirut again

(is anyone else xcancel broke, or is it some vpn thingy?)

Maarat Al Numan has fallen, the road to the Hama-Homs urban area is fully open if the rebels reach Khan Sheikhoun. My brain can't comprehend this, we're 2-3 days away from an Afghanistan level collapse. It's just unreal, how the hell is this even happening.

Footage has emerged of civilians evacuating New Aleppo, in the western part of Aleppo city, as HTS fighters are set to advance into this area...

It's not going well for the Syrian army at the moment.

Bit idea: brace should try and getting a talking spot on the TV to comment on the situation in Syria, by selling himself as an expert for having fought against ISIS in Syria

I don’t think the following is actually “true”, just describing it this way to get a point across:

It feels like, maybe two weeks ago, for the first time in years those involved at the absolute heights of imperialist power all got together in a smoky room and planned out their next moves. NATO has ratcheted up support for Ukraine in incredibly dangerous ways (for the first time in over 2.5 I’m starting to get genuinely concerned NATO will risk all out war with Russia). What’s going on in Syria has very obvious NATO and Israel coordination. Then there’s the ceasefire - which I am not a doomer about, but I have also been assuming there must be some sort of unwritten agreement to wind down the fighting in Gaza.

None of this is dooming, just that this all feels coordinated and very significant.

The empire strikes back.

Looks like Assad's lost Aleppo. Video of HTS forces in the city center seems pretty legit to me.

A counter offensive will happen but Aleppo is going to be fucked and it will take a long ass time to get them out.

Biden only has two months left suddenly hes locked in imperialist bullshit activated ISIS back gave ukraine 300000000 missiles.

According to Iraq’s Al-Nujaba TV, quoting a senior security official in Damascus, CONFIRMED the death of Abu Muhammad Jolani.

lmaoo, HTS leader scum already got eviscerated by a Russian airstrike

Biden pardoned Hunter

Very suspicious timing with events in Syria today

Protest arrests after seven detained over links to Kurdish rebel group PKK

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1lg37mrgd1o

BIG escalaTION in the Georgian elections situation.

The EU parliament passed a resolution to:

A re-run under international supervision

A transparent investigation into violations

International refusal to recognize results

In response the government has decided to close down the matter of opening negotiations with the EU until 2028 and they're also refusing budget grants from the EU until 2028

People are protesting at the parliament, folow Sopo Japaridze for more updates.

Incredibly funny that the EU is going to "lose" georgia because of its own intransigence

Some news from the West Asia front.

Allied Syrian/Russian forces eliminated over 400 of Washington’s al-Queda proxies since yesterday when the Western-backed terrorists launched large-scale attacks in the western Aleppo countryside: https://tass.com/defense/1879505

The Syrian military already liberated at least three settlements: Jubas and Kafr Battikh (south of Saraqib) and Az-Zarba (regaining control of the M5 highway): https://news-pravda.com/world/2024/11/28/885958.html

The Zionists violated the ceasefire and attacked a Lebanese position in Saida district: https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-violates-lebanon-ceasefire-with-airstrike-in-saida-district

DPRK are massively increasing their missile production

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/satellite-images-suggest-north-korea-expanding-missile-plant-researchers-say-2024-11-25/

The new assembly building is about 60 to 70 percent the size of the previous building used to assemble missiles.

Reuters are focusing this news on "increasing supply to Russia" but I personally think it should be viewed as dprk carrying out productive preparations for war.

In case anyone need clarification re: who the “rebels” are fighting for

EDIT: this could be the flag for the Syrian Baathist party, they have the same color scheme

https://t.me/PalestineResistX/187

My guess - Iran is unwilling to continue escalation when they lack nukes and Trump is coming in to power, and Hzb leadership is unwilling to fight on without Iranian backing.

Brazil Donates Cuba 10 Tons of Aid After Two Hurricanes Passage - Telesur English

Good on Lula for doing this. Also, surprised at Japan giving Cuba aid, but the Japanese Goverment and people have mostly been on friendly terms with Latin America.

Some news from Syria, Lebanon, occupied Palestine, and the Donbass. Note, regarding Syria specifically, I’ve heard from numerous sources that large numbers of Syrian reinforcements are heading towards Aleppo.

Allied Syrian military and Russian Aerospace Forces eliminated another 200 Western-backed al-Queda terrorists over the past 24 hours: https://www.rt.com/news/608432-russia-bombs-jihadists-syria/

The Syrian military also destroyed dozens of terrorist-operated vehicles and shot down 17 drones: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/29/738165/Syria-kills-injures-hundreds-terrorists

The Zionist invaders again violated the “ceasefire” and invaded the southern Lebanese settlement of Markaba and continued attacking Khiam: https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-army-pushes-deeper-into-south-lebanon-as-ceasefire-violations-intensify

Zionist genocidal attacks massacred another 70 civilians in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya: https://tass.com/world/1879969

Russian forces liberated the eastern Donetsk People’s Republic settlement of Razdolnoye: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Razd.mp4?_=1

Pissrael kills 5 including 3 WCK workers because they say one of them was involved in Oct 7