Dr Marwa Osman writes:

Zionist Israel is pushing to include the following clauses in its future security agreement with the Julani terrorist regime:

▫️Guaranteeing Israel full freedom of movement in Syrian airspace.

▫️Granting Israel the right to penetrate Syrian territory whenever it claims “security necessities.”

▫️Declaring southern Syria a demilitarized zone, with police forces only.

▫️Keeping all territories occupied by Israel under its permanent control.

Welcome to Julani's Syria.

Reports of israel bombing Yemen from the Cradle:

Over 30 Israeli airstrikes on Yemen in around 10 minutes.

Update | Sanaa Government Health Ministry reports two killed and 35 injured in Israeli airstrikes on the capital.

death to israel

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Pentagon fires intelligence agency chief after Iran attack assessment

US defence secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon's intelligence agency chief, just weeks after a White House rebuke of a review assessing the impact of American strikes on Iran. Lt Gen Jeffery Kruse will no longer serve as head of US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Pentagon said in a statement. Two other senior military commanders have also been ousted by the Pentagon. The defence department has not offered any immediate explanation on the firings.

In June, President Donald Trump had pushed back strongly on a leaked DIA report that found that attacks on Iran had set back its nuclear programme by months only. The White House declared the agency's assessment "flat out wrong". Trump had declared the nuclear sites in Iran "completely destroyed", and had accused the media of "an attempt to demean one of the most successful military strikes in history". Speaking at the Nato summit at the time, Hegseth had said that the report was made on "low intelligence" and that the FBI was probing the leak. Kruse's exit was first reported by the Washington Post.

The DIA is part of the Pentagon and specialises in military intelligence to support operations. It collects large amounts of technical intelligence, but is distinct from other agencies like the CIA. It is understood that Hegseth had also ordered the removal of the chief of US Naval reserves and the commander of Naval Special Warfare Command, an anonymous source told Reuters on Friday. In a statement, US Senator Mark Warner warned that Kruse's sacking was a sign that Trump had a "dangerous habit of treating intelligence as a loyalty test rather than a safeguard for our country".

Trump has removed a number of officials whose analysis have been seen to be at odds with the president. In July, Trump said that he had ordered his team to dismiss Commissioner of Labor Statistics Erika McEntarfer "immediately", after a report showed that job growth had slowed. And in April, Trump fired General Timothy Haugh as director of the National Security Agency, along with more than a dozen staff at the White House national security council. Hegseth has also pushed out a number of military officials at the Pentagon. In February, he fired Air Force General C Q Brown, who was dismissed along with five other admirals and generals.

The Institutional Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Instituciona, PRI) is a political party in Mexico. The party held uninterrupted power in the country and controlled the presidency twice: the first one was for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000, the second was for six years, from 2012 to 2018.

The PRI governed Mexico as a de-facto one-party state for the majority of the twentieth century; besides holding the Presidency of the Republic, all members of the Senate belonged to the PRI until 1976, and all state governors were also from the PRI until 1989.

Throughout its nine-decade existence, the party has represented a very wide array of ideologies, typically following from the policies of the President of the Republic. Starting as a center-left party during the Maximato, it moved leftward in the 1930s during the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas, and gradually shifted to the right starting from 1940 after Cárdenas left office and Manuel Ávila Camacho became president. PRI administrations controversially adopted neoliberal economic policies during the 1980s and 90s, as well as during Enrique Peña Nieto's presidency (2012–2018). In 2024, the party formally renounced neoliberalism and rebranded itself as a "center-left" party.

In the 2018 general election, as part of the Todos por México coalition, the PRI suffered a monumental legislative defeat, scoring the lowest number of seats in the party's history. Presidential candidate José Antonio Meade also only scored 16.4% of the votes, finishing in third place, while the party only managed to elect 42 deputies (down from 203 of 2015) and 14 senators (down from 61 in 2012). The PRI was also defeated in each of the nine elections for state governor; the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) won four, PAN three, and the Social Encounter Party and Citizens' Movement each with one.

In the 2024 general election, as part of the Fuerza y Corazón por México coalition, the party supported independent candidate Xóchitl Gálvez (considered close to the National Action Party) for President, who finished in second place. The party recorded its worst result by vote share in its history, although narrowly managed to avoid its worst seat results thanks to a slight gain made in the Senate. It was also the first time in its history that the party failed to win at least 10 constituency seats in the Chamber of Deputies.

Amid the party's worsening electoral performance, it has attempted to redefine itself as a social democratic party since 2021.

So, is the PRI trying to appeal to the Mexican working class? If things continue as they are, the PRI will soon dissolve (like the PRD) and most of its members will likely join the PAN, while some more left-wing members will likely join MORENA.

Next week's thread is up!

Very good video from Jon Elmer at Electronic Intifada going over resistance ops.

Four important points.

1. The resistance has developed a new IED specifically designed to be thrown into the top of enemy armored vehicles. The reason why the child-killing army sits with the vehicles hatch open is because the vehicle air conditioning units fail and the inside can heat up to 60C. It gets a lot hotter inside 🔻 once the mujahideen show up 😎

2. The resistance is still well supplied. The resistance has acces to an enormous amount of unexploded enemy ordinance which explains why they continue to have weapons and explosives despite the total siege. They wont run out of weapons anytime soon. "Return to Sender operations" the resistance calls them. They are also using captured tactical vests, automatic weapons, and other equipment from the child-killing occupation soldiers. Some of their recent operations included drone footage from the resistance which means they have their own operational drones.

3. The resistance carried out an enormous operation earlier this week where 20 resistance fighters emerged from a tunnel and denazified an iof forwarding operating base. "The occupation forces, according to their own army radio, didnt even realize what was happening until the resistance was already inside the base. We await video footage. This is only one of over a dozen operations this week. The resistance also carried out multiple video recorded operations in Khan Yunis which reveals that the iof absolutely does not have control of this region despite their claims. The resistance continues to punish the zionists. Multiple videos of resistance sniping zionist officers and sending them to hell.

4. My interpretation: the reason the occupation is having these recruitment crises is because they are getting smoked on the battlefield. Despite their maximalist rhetoric, its very clear that the zionists are nowhere close to winning in Gaza.

It looks like China banned some Nvidia hardware like the H20. Facebook is halting its AI investments and hiring. Research found that 95% of projects where companies tried to integrate AI into their businesses are a complete failure.

First cracks starting to show in the "AI" stupidity, or as we used to call it before the rebrand - machine learning.

Am I wrong in thinking that the recent pushes by the UK and the EU to censor the internet and compromise encryption is entirely because of the Ukraine war and Israel?

I think Europe realized that, in order to arm up and make their population willing to sacrifice themselves for the state (and for Israel), they need to establish absolute control over what people are discussing online. Essentially establishing the "totalitarian" system they keep projecting onto their geopolitical enemies.

China’s youth unemployment hits 11-month high as army of graduates joins job hunt SCMP

China’s youth unemployment hit 17.8 per cent in July, the figure’s highest level since August 2024, as millions of degree holders seek work

China’s youth unemployment rate rose to its highest level in 11 months in July, as a record number of graduates enter an already shaky labour market.

The urban jobless rate for the 16-24 age group, excluding students, rose to 17.8 per cent last month from 14.5 per cent in June, putting an end to four straight months of decline and marking the metric’s highest level since last August, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday.

The figures come as a record 12.2 million university students graduate this summer, with a majority of them joining a sizeable applicant pool that has had trouble finding open positions that meet their education and skill levels. In recent months, Beijing has launched a string of initiatives to aid graduates and other young people as they seek employment.

For instance, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security is running a campaign from July to December to support jobless youth and college graduates with services such as career guidance sessions, referrals and training opportunities.

But unemployment among this age cohort remains high, fuelled by a mismatch between jobs and expectations in a challenging economic environment where domestic demand has yet to make up for shortfalls in traditional growth sectors like real estate.

“The market is quite rough,” said He Yue, a computer science graduate currently based in Beijing. After receiving her diploma from a university in Chongqing, she has spent over two months looking for a suitable job.

After sending in dozens of applications for media operations roles in the national capital – a field where she has prior experience – He has only received one offer, which failed to meet her salary expectations of 6,000 yuan (US$835) a month.

“The offer was only for a base pay of 4,000 to 5,000 yuan. After deducting living expenses such as rent, transport and meals, I’ll be left with around 1,500 yuan or less,” she said.

The role also required frequent overtime, which she said she was reluctant to take on at that wage level.

Unlike many of her friends who are planning to apply for postgraduate programmes, He said she would continue her job search, possibly shifting focus to positions in Hangzhou, China’s rising tech hub on the east coast.

Nearly 3.9 million people signed up for the postgraduate entrance exam this year, as many young Chinese are pursuing master’s degrees to gain a competitive edge amid cutthroat competition for entry-level positions. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate for those aged 25 to 29, also excluding students, stood at 6.9 per cent in July, up from 6.7 per cent in June.

China’s overall urban jobless rate edged up to 5.2 per cent in July, after holding at 5 per cent for the two months prior.

Good article on the current job market for young people. It ain’t pretty.

As I have said before, 12 million new graduates joining the work force this summer adds even more pressure to the already intense competitive environment, and the irony being that this is probably the generation that received the best quality education of all time, only to graduate and couldn’t find work.

The deflationary spiral continues. We’ll see how long before the leadership figures out that they need to change course and abandon neoliberalism altogether (not very likely if we’re being honest).