::: spoiler Regarding this CEO, there's one important question I've yet to see anyone ask... Vaxxed??

I don’t have strong feelings on Assad (because no investigation, no right to speak), but I fear the coming years are going to be horrific for the Syrian people. Complete instability, fighting among factions, etc… it’s the people of Syria who will suffer most. I don’t think you’re going to see things stabilize there for quite some time.

I do wonder, though, if this instability means Hezbollah will continue to be able to resupply from Iran.

Taiwan "liberals" supporting the right wing incel President.

Honestly, between the video and the getaway, the UHC exec murder looks like a professional hit. Like they must have denied some Delta Force guy's kid coverage or some shit.

Assad is gone? Wow. I didn't know that... he led an amazing life. What else can you say?

I'm starting to believe that there is a god out there, but that god is an evil god. That god is a god that not only allowed white supremacy, genocide, and colonialism to reign victorious for centuries, they actively supported them and blessed the perpetrators. They are the same god that decided the Al-Aqsa flood would not dislodge Israel after a year, but Israel-friendly terrorists take over an entire country in less than two weeks. A god that deserves to be overthrown, and their followers punished for their transgressions and crimes against humanity.

North Korean troops so 'poorly trained' that Putin army yet to throw them into battle, say western officials

Schrodinger's army

I don't feel anything about the collapse of the SAA in Hama and possibly further. It's a rotting government, even a particularly vulnerable minority like the Ismaili Shias in Salamiyah are seeing the writing on the wall and handed over their town to HTS today. People in the left anti-imperialist camp are missing too much context in their steadfast defence of Assad and the government. Yeah most minorities would rather live under Assad, that's obvious, but it's frankly a horrible government and most people are just indifferent at this point. I expected horrors to be committed when HTS took Aleppo, but they are behaving better than the SAA and NDF thugs so far honestly. It's very hard to be motivated to fight for the rotting Baath government, what does a vision of the future even look like at this point? Back to 2010, where you get arrested if you get caught praying when you have lunch break? It's psychologically over for the Baath government, their last 15 years have ranged from mediocre to disastrous in people's minds, and the natural reaction is that people either openly welcome HTS or become indifferent towards HTS.

Imagine if this was a sign that American anarchists are growing teeth again. There was once a time in the early 1900’s when calling someone an Anarchist in the US was the equivalent of calling someone a Tankie today.

It would be nice to see a mass purge of NATO-leftist pansies and get some real muscle back into the movement.

Wow I really think he's gonna get away lmao

the lock's been picked

Amnesty late as aways

A report from Amnesty International alleges that Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip constitutes the crime of genocide under international law, the first such determination by a major human rights organisation in the 14-month-old conflict.

The 32-page report examining events in Gaza between October 2023 to July 2024, published on Thursday, found that Israel had “brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell” on the strip’s 2.3 million population, noting that the “atrocity crimes” against Israelis by Hamas on 7 October 2023, which triggered the war, “do not justify genocide”.

Israel has “committed prohibited acts under the Genocide Convention, namely killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction” with the “specific intent to destroy Palestinians” in the territory, the report said.

It marks the first time Amnesty has alleged the crime of genocide during an ongoing conflict, and builds on a March report by the UN special rapporteur for Palestine that concluded “there are reasonable grounds to believe” Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians.

“Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call: this is genocide and it must stop now,” Agnès Callamard, the group’s secretary general, said in a news conference on Wednesday.

Amnesty cited the deliberate obstruction of aid and power supplies together with “massive damage, destruction and displacement”, leading to the collapse of water, sanitation, food and healthcare systems, in what it called a “pattern of conduct” within the context of the occupation and blockade of Gaza.

“We did not necessarily start out thinking we would come to this conclusion. We knew there was a risk of genocide, as the international court of justice said,” Budour Hassan, Amnesty’s Israel and occupied Palestinian territories researcher, told the Guardian. “When you join the dots together, the totality of the evidence, it is not just violations of international law. This is something deeper.”

The main allegations in the report are:

The unprecedented scale and magnitude of the military offensive, which has caused death and destruction at a speed and level unmatched in any other 21st-century conflict;

Intent to destroy, after considering and discounting arguments such as Israeli recklessness and callous disregard for civilian life in the pursuit of Hamas;

Killing and causing serious bodily or mental harm in repeated direct attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure, or deliberately indiscriminate attacks; and

Inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction, such as destroying medical infrastructure, the obstruction of aid, and repeated use of arbitrary and sweeping “evacuation orders” for 90% of the population to unsuitable areas.

As an occupying power, Israel is legally obliged to provide for the needs of the occupied population, Kristine Beckerle, an adviser to Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa team, said on Wednesday. She described Israel’s May offensive on Rafah, until then the last place of relative safety in the strip, as a major turning point when it came to establishing intent.

“[Israel] had made Rafah the main aid point, and it knew civilians would go there. The ICJ ordered them to stop and they went ahead anyway,” she said. “Rafah was key.”

At least 47 people including four children were killed in air strikes across Gaza on Tuesday, according to health officials in the territory, including at least 21 who were sheltering in tent camp housing displaced people near the city of Khan Younis. The Israeli military said it had targeted Hamas militants.

Amnesty has called on the UN to enforce a ceasefire, impose targeted sanctions on Israeli and top Hamas officials, and for western governments such as the US, the UK and Germany to stop providing security assistance and selling arms to Israel.

The rights group has also urged the international criminal court, which last month issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the former defence minister Yoav Gallant, to add genocide to the list of war crimes it is investigating.

Finally, it called for the unconditional release of civilian hostages and for “Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups responsible for the crimes committed on 7 October to be held to account”.

The report, You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza, is likely to be met with outrage in Israel and generate accusations of antisemitism. Several legal experts and genocide studies scholars contend that the 7 October attack was also genocidal.

The Holocaust led to the creation of the Jewish state and the Geneva conventions, which codified and outlawed genocide as a punishable crime. Both initiatives were the international community’s “never again” response to the horrors inflicted on European Jews by the Nazis in world war two.

In its conclusion, the report says that Amnesty “recognises that there is resistance and hesitancy among many in finding genocidal intent when it comes to Israel’s conduct in Gaza”, which has “impeded justice and accountability”.

“Amnesty International concedes that identifying genocide in armed conflict is complex and challenging, because of the multiple objectives that may exist simultaneously. Nonetheless, it is critical to recognise genocide, and to insist that war can never excuse it,” it states.

Amnesty said the report was based on fieldwork, interviews with 212 people, including victims, witnesses and healthcare workers in Gaza, analysis of extensive visual and digital evidence, and more than 100 statements from Israeli government and military actors it said amounted to “dehumanising discourse”. It also used video and photo evidence of soldiers committing or celebrating war crimes.

Israel’s acts in Gaza were examined “in their totality, taking into account their recurrence and simultaneous occurrence, and both their immediate impact and their cumulative and mutually reinforcing consequences”, it said. Findings were shared “extensively” on multiple occasions with Israeli authorities, the group added, but were not met with responses.

Thursday’s publication builds on the London-based rights group’s previous bold positions on Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories. In 2022, Amnesty joined Human Rights Watch and the respected Israeli NGO B’Tselem in issuing a major report accusing Israel of apartheid, as part of a growing movement to redefine the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a struggle for equal rights rather than a territorial dispute. Israeli politicians called for the report to be withdrawn, alleging antisemitism.

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham intend to deploy toxic materials in Aleppo, Idlib

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hayat-tahrir-al-sham-intend-to-deploy-toxic-materials-in-ale

A reliable Syrian source informed RIA Novosti that militants from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra, are preparing to use toxic substances in Syria's Idlib and Aleppo provinces.

An informed source revealed that militants from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham have transferred several cylinders containing toxic gases from a stronghold of the Turkistan Islamic Party near Jisr al-Shughur to southern Idlib and other areas in western Aleppo.

So Assad's enemies were the ones attempting to use chemical weaponry? Color me surprised.

This coverage is so funny because you can tell they're trying not to frame things like this but all this does is humanize him and make him seem normal.

Just got home from work and man what a thread to get back to. Like many of you, I am not Syrian nor do I have any ties there but man, what a ride it has been since this mess kicked off.

I mean it's always been critical support for Assad but still. I feel like it's clear that we're witnessing another Iraq or Libya. I'm afraid for what comes next now. It's a really tough time wrapping up this year, but hopefully the imperial core will face something soon. Or at least Ukraine getting KO'd at last. I don't know. Something...

Lastly, sure am gonna miss the Who must go memes, those were a favorite of mine. But in all seriousness, wishing nothing but the best to the Syrian people. Feels like dark times are ahead. :(

This year has been nutty.

1. Trump won U.S. elections in large part due to high cost of living

2. Modi lost his Parliamentary majority despite electoral fuckery due to high cost of living and mass unemployment

3. Hasina Government in Bangladesh got overthrown in large part due to high cost of living and mass unemployment.

4. And now, Syria, though of course in this case external interference was much more overt.

I think neoliberalism is not working. Nothing is going to change for any of these countries because within the neoliberal framework, there is no answer. The replacements will be just as bad if not worse.

X X HTS attack was a 4D chess move by the watermelon seller, Russia, and the Axis of Resistance.
Turkey arms the terrorists to attack Syria. The SAA fall back to make it look like HTS are a serious threat. This lets Iraq, Russia, Iran, maybe Yemen, all send troops to Syria without the west being too annoyed. The coalition quickly and effectively extinguish HTS with the two faced Erdoğan giving intel through back channels. Israel keeps violating the cease fire with Lebanon for the weeks that this operation takes. When HTS falls there is a large coalition of Russian and axis of resistance in northern Syria who move into southern Lebanon to enforce the ceasefire, and then into northern occupied Palestine to push the IDF back inside the UN recognized 1967 borders of isisrael. They break the siege on Gaza and once again Russians release prisoners from concentration camps and end a genocide by force.

I’m thinking ahead to a scenario where this guy is actually caught. I’m sure his trial will be pretty public and whatnot. Do you all think there will be rallies across the US in support of him? I sure as hell hope, that could be a really interesting organizing and agitating opportunity

apparently you can to stop martial law. you can just do that and the military can't stop you.

Quoting the tweet:

"Quite telling that at no point whatsoever the U.S. embassy in Seoul condemned or even criticized Yoon's coup attempt. During the coup they wrote they were "closely tracking" the situation and when it failed they praised Yoon's announcement to end martial law as "a crucial step". That's it.

In fact I checked around and I couldn't find a single example of a Western liberal democracy that condemned Yoon's move.

The "shared values" they keep saying they "support" apparently don't extend to condemning self-coups when attempted by friends...

If you wonder why people have become super cynical, look no further..."

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1864196912469168279

lol

Looks like our favorite assassin of the moment might not have used a traceable Citibike after all. Per the NYTimes:

The police are now investigating whether the gunman escaped on an unmarked e-bike, rather than a Citi Bike as they first said, according to two people familiar with the investigation.

The picture they released of him on the bike initially raised my doubts, since the wheels on that bike looked a bit too thin to be the ebikes that Citibike uses, but I just waved that away as the image quality is super shitty. Regardless this just adds more hope to the idea he'll get away without issue.

This goofy ROK nonsense is a just a big psyop to distract us from Syria, the current focus of Yankee imperialism, how's the Lion doing?

Well it seems like the SAA has managed to reorganize and prevent further advances into Hama City, but HTS are staging for an assault from the northern suburbs and publicly warning residents of such. HTS still capturing villages in Salamiyah District east of Hama but SAA still holding on to the main road just about 9km south from the new frontline. Seems like a sensible place to make a stand if the SAA has finally gotten its shit together after the shock has worn off. Also, all those rumors about coups were misinformation of course.

Aleppo is a total defeat, SDF accepted an offer from HTS to withdraw from the city, new civil administration being established already. I shutter thinking of the scores of captured equipment surely now in the hands of the bandits, and likely years of counterinsurgency that it will take to uproot them from the area.

NATO and the Zionist entity are conducting bombardments, hitting "iran-backed" government militias in Deir Ez-Zor (yet again) and assassinating Hezbollah's liaison with the SAA in Damascus today. Likely to try to distrupt arms deliveries. Turkey, a thousand curses upon them, is bombing SDF targets with air and artillery and sending their puppet army the SNA to attack the SDF in the north, probably aiming for Manbij.

~~The Great Satan went to the UN to say they are "happy with the treatment of people in Aleppo" by HTS~~, which is labeled by the Great Satan as a designated terrorist organization and AQ affiliate, so you know their hands are all over this offensive. Russian aviation must have also been effective the past few days since the Great Satan brought some White Helmet guy to whine about barrel bombs and destruction of hospitals. Old shit and a complete farce considering what has been sanctioned by them in in Gaza. Russia accuses US and allies, including Ukraine specifically, of arming HTS fighters.

Finally, another huge wave of internally displaced people in the wake of this offensive. The barbarism continues.

CW: MURDER

Here's the vid of the CEO assassination: https://x.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1864375810527801659

Israeli tanks have officially crossed the border of the demilitarised zone between the occupied Syrian Golan and Quneitra. Fuck Israel for not even letting people have one hour of fucking calm and good mood.

“Moderate” Syrian rebels (Al Qaeda) as Zionist tanks roll in to establish the Großisraelisches Reich: “We did it Patrick, we saved Syria!”

> Declare martial law

> Arrest opposition leaders

> Send the military to block access to Parliament

> Set up for a coup

> Quit

Welcome back, died 2023, born 2024

And here we go with blaming the resistance for the bombing days after Israel already broke the ceasefire, as predicted by many in the News Megathread. The immortal science takes another easy point

link for the libs: TW: The Guardian

Dear God I am so tired of being surrounded by zionist jews that use antisemetism or other facets of their identities such as being poc or lgbt to just be islamophobic or pro-genocide. Do they not realize even public perception of the people in the west has become more pro-palestine than pro-israel, small as it may be? When this all boils over do they not understand just how much ammo they're giving to antisemites and neonazis? By pretending there's no genocide, twisting facts and straight up lying do they think just whining is gonna convince people of the inevitable? I wish my biggest fucking issue in life was being upset that my tl was filled with "obvious antisemites" aka people talking about the gaza genocide. I'm just so fucking over it they're everywhere, may God help the non-zionist jews who have to deal with these people and what the fall-out of this genocide will bring. I'm so fucking tired of anti-arab rethoric and the clear apathy towards arab lives, not even children are spared from their evil. And ofc Palestine is not enough, they had to get their hands in Lebanon and Syria but somehow "Israel" is the victims. Cause apparently colonization and genocide it's ok if they do it. Rant over, I just ran into some victim playing zionists who are otherwise "progressive" and lost it. I'm so done, it sometimes feel like running into one of these people makes me forget that most of the world (not politicians, but people-wise, especially non-westerns) arent zionists or pro-Israel and it ruins my day, I gotta remind myself.

I hope Elon Musk attempts to "help" the police find the shooter, only for his garbage AI to fuck it up

A comrade in here called it: the CEO Killer’s gun had nothing to do with a random gun shop in Connecticut!

Pigs are just outdoing themselves on this one

Burkina Faso: Captain Ibrahim Traoré terminates the functions of the Prime Minister and members of the government

https://burkina24.com/2024/12/06/burkina-faso-le-capitaine-ibrahim-traore-met-fin-aux-fonctions-du-premier-ministre-et-des-membres-du-gouvernement/

The President of Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, terminated the functions of the Prime Minister and members of the government on December 6, 2024, according to a presidential decree read on the 8 p.m. news on public television (RTB).

Anyone know more info? I'm not even sure if this is real yet tbh.

Every 480p security cam frame of an alienated worker murdering a CEO instead of a classroom of children or a walmart/nightclub of minorities a painting

Israel is currently invading Syria, Bibi said the 1974 agreement is over and now they can invade Syria freely. Doubt these terrorist can organize any strong resistance to stop Israel, the Syrian Interim Government will probably only last a couple of months.

Is it fair to say that things went from bad to very bad in new and horrible ways today?

it's notable that Ansarallah has had major success despite being physically cut off from the rest of the Resistance and under a blockade, and it has defeated the US Navy in its attempts to open up the strait

For evening the odds on the cheap, there's no stock like drone stock.

Other health insurance companies have begun removing pages on their websites about their leadership

Gun crisisHealthcare crisis

Working together to force the government to address at least one of them

South Korean Parliament voted 190-0 to block the President's martial law declaration. South Korean National Assembly Speaker asks police to leave parliament.

South Korean parliament speaker Woo Won-shik says President Yoon's martial law is now null and void. - Yonhap. Speaker Woo: "All soldiers who entered the National Assembly building have left". Lee Jae-myung: "Martial law lifted... Will protect the lives and safety of the people

Law enforcement actively leaving South Korean National Assembly building - CNN

I hope Yoon just pretends this never happened and continues being president. Then next month he attempts another coup, it would be the funniest outcome lol

Theres a south korean ambassador speaking at our college, specifically to scaremonger about the DPRK Russia alliance.

any questions yall wanna submit?

How far out of date do we consider "news" for the mega?

I'm 3 months out of date on this but apparently Nuland got added to the board of directors of NED.

https://archive.is/OZLaO

South korea update

• The Yonhap News Agency is reporting that members of the national assembly have been banned from entering the building, with the South Korean military having reportedly announced the suspension of all parliamentary activity. We have not yet independently verified this information. The parliament speaker is traveling to parliament and plans to convene a session, according to local broadcaster YTN TV.

-The US, south Korea’s most powerful ally, has not yet commented on the martial law declaration. About 28,500 American troops are stationed in south Korea to guard against north Korea, led by Kim Jong Un.

• Here is a statement from martial law commander Park An-su.

He said:

All political activities are banned in South Korea following the imposition of martial law on Tuesday and all media will be subject to government monitoring.

All political activities, including those of the national assembly, local councils, political parties, and political associations, as well as assemblies and demonstrations, are strictly prohibited.

All media and publications shall be subject to the control of the martial law command.

With martial law imposed, all military units in the south, which remains technically at war with the nuclear-armed north, have been ordered to strengthen their emergency alert and readiness postures, Yonhap news agency reported. Under south Korean law, lawmakers cannot be arrested by the martial law command and the government has to lift martial law if the majority of the national assembly demands it in a vote. The leader of the prime minister’s own conservative party, Han Dong-hoon, has vowed to stop the imposition of the law “with the people” and Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the opposition Democratic party, which has a majority in parliament, has also expressed opposition to it.

A taxi driver in Seoul who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal said: “They’re using exactly the same methods they used in the Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan eras … Whenever their regime is in crisis, they use war-mongering and martial law to cover it up.”

Park and Chun were military dictators in South Korea between 1961 and 1988. “I never imagined this would happen again,” the taxi driver said.

-South Korean markets started reacting to the news. The won tumbled to the lowest level against the dollar in two years: 1,443 won per dollar.

-The Chinese Embassy in Korea told Chinese citizens in the country to remain calm and pay attention to political changes. It asked them to “strengthen safety awareness, reduce unnecessary outings, express political opinions with caution and abide by the official decrees issued by Korea.”

-Live video broadcast by state news media shows soldiers pushing against citizens who are trying to enter the National Assembly building.