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The war in Sudan has so far been marked by a lot of incompetency and mismanagement by government forces (the SAF). After months of bitter fighting, in late 2023, the opposing Rapid Support Forces suddenly expanded their control towards the southeast of Khartoum after not a lot of resistance, most notably taking the city of Wad Madani. This led the SAF supporters and officials to panic and point fingers at each other about what the hell the army is even doing, while RSF soldiers looted the city.

These victories led to a short period in late December and early January where diplomacy and peace talks were considered, but such attempts fell apart. The leader of the RSF visited various African countries, including meeting Paul Kagame in Rwanda, to boost his legitimacy. Then, the RSF attacked into South Kordofan and consolidated their hold on other areas.

The Sudanese capital of Khartoum sits on a river which divides it from the city to its west, Omdurman (see the post image). The SAF and RSF have been fighting over this grand urban area for the whole war, with the RSF holding most of Khartoum (with an entirely cut-off SAF force holding on in the center), with a similarly cut-off SAF force also in eastern Omdurman, up against the river. For 10 months, this force has been under siege - but no longer. In perhaps the first actual W of the war for the SAF, they finally managed to break the siege a week ago, pouring supplies in. This leaves a section of the RSF now cut off, though Omdurman is still not under full SAF control (and, who knows, the whole situation could once again go badly for the SAF).

Meanwhile, the Sudanese socioeconomic situation has completely collapsed, with potentially a 20% fall in GDP and 8 million people displaced, with 2 million from Khartoum alone. 18 million Sudanese, or about a third of the population, is in acute hunger, and 20 million children are out in school. The refugees streaming out of the country are causing knock-on effects in neighorboring countries like Chad. Nobody is even really counting the dead anymore.

Red is the government forces, the SAF. Blue is the RSF opposition. Other colours are various factions.


The Country of the Week is Sudan! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.

The bulletins site is here!
The RSS feed is here.
Last week's thread is here.

Sunday's briefing 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.


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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 114 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If anybody wants to know what the hell I've been doing for the last month that has disrupted the Goddamn News schedule, it's been creating this hefty list of theory that is now up on the bulletins website. It's far from finished, but I got to like 75 pages in Google Docs and I was just tired of sitting on it for any longer.

And these aren't all just crusty books from the 1940s. There are a couple on there from 2024 and quite a few from 2023, for example.

Post explaining it here.

The regular posting schedule will be continuing ASAP.

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[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 121 points 9 months ago

How China is covering the massacre

“Israel attacks civilians gathered to seek aid, killing 112”

It is worth noting that 袭击 carries a more sinister connotation, implying surprise and deliberate deception.

In case y’all wanted to know what actual journalism looks like.

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 110 points 10 months ago

Hamas statement on Aaron Bushnell

The heroic pilot, Aaron Bushnell, will remain immortal in the memory of our Palestinian people and the free people of the world, and a symbol of the spirit of global human solidarity with our people and their just cause.

Arabic text

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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 101 points 10 months ago

One thing I have seen on Arab twitter today is them saying an American Soldier is braver and stood up more for Palestine than their leaders.

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[-] Zrc@hexbear.net 100 points 10 months ago

gonna start concern trolling about mental health on every post about westoid troops dying for their country. "No sane person would commit suicide by fighting the Russians, mentally ill people should not be used for political gains :/"

[-] Zrc@hexbear.net 93 points 10 months ago

"We'll never understand why these israeli settlers decided to end their life by being killed by Hamas, but radicalization through social media is definitely to blame :/"

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 93 points 10 months ago

Live look at the inside of the NYT offices

Another Slammer banger 🫡

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 67 points 10 months ago

Context is that there is supposedly some internal issues at the times right now, presumably from the journalists that haven't completely lost their conscience. We'll see if anything comes of it.

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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 90 points 9 months ago

Western leftists are the most domesticated and toothless people you'll ever see. The leader of the Danish conservatives just dropped dead at age 52 from a cerebral hemorrhage. As can be expected from a senior conservative politician he was a vile disgusting little turd of a man, a nationalist, a monarchist and a zionist who never saw a cop, a flag or a troop he didn't want to shag, never saw a refugee, a minority or a poor person he didn't want to harm and never saw an oligarch he didn't want to enrich. He was a pompous self-righteous prick who always kicked downwards.

And how does the Red-Greens, the self-described revolutionary socialists who are the furthest left you get in this deeply unserious country, react? I swear to God, they released a statement about how good and generous a man he was and about what a great loss for democracy him kicking the bucket is. Not a word about the evil he did or the pain he caused his victims.

With leftists like these, why do we need succdems?

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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 88 points 9 months ago

IDF ran over the people they shot and killed/injured with tanks.

Remember when westerners were talking about the Chinese tanks running over civilians in Tiananmen Square?

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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 83 points 9 months ago

PRESS RELEASE: #Nicaragua institutes proceedings against #Germany and asks the #ICJ to indicate provisional measures

Nicaragua accuses Germany on charges of abetting genocide in Gaza

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 83 points 9 months ago
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[-] atturaya@lemmygrad.ml 82 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

my god reddit is a cesspool. I went to check out if the massacre is even being allowed on /r/worldnews:

> top post is titled "IDF says it fired on Gazans who endangered troops in stampede; Hamas claims 70 dead" from fuckin timesofisrael

> top comment is a guy agreeing with that IOF position saying something like 'I agree with the IOF, looks like they all died in a stampede or by trucks, looks chaotic!'

> looked through that guy's comment and it's an Israeli. guy also has comments denying the Tantura massacre.

incredible website. I'm gonna delete my account and block the website for good now, absolutely repulsive place.

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[-] sempersigh@hexbear.net 81 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not sure if this has been posted about yet but after years of effort and fierce resistance the uyghur genocide article on wikipedia has changed its name from uyghur genocide to "Persecution of Uyghurs in China" the article itself is still really bad but the fact that this has finally happened is a pretty telling sign that reality is catching up.

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[-] RION@hexbear.net 79 points 10 months ago

reddit-logo when someone publicly martyrs themselves to protest genocide: I can't believe people are acting like there's anything to celebrate or condone here! Killing yourself for a cause is selfish, cowardly, and ineffective. Think of his poor children!

reddit-logo when someone willfully delivers themselves to be imprisoned by the government that has already tried to poison them: the most noble of sacrifices, my epic sir. This sends a message of bravery and courage no one will forget. I'll ask my wife's boyfriend if we can name their child Navalny o7

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[-] AbbysMuscles@hexbear.net 79 points 9 months ago

Gaddafi would never have put up with this shit

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[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 78 points 9 months ago

Aaron Mate is the most vindicated man on Earth

https://www.opcw.org/media-centre/news/2024/02/opcw-identifies-isil-perpetrators-2015-chemical-attack-marea-syria

They finally admit it. He spent years interviewing people and investigating the source of the chemical attacks and they just tweeted it out

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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 78 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Skimming through the r/politics mega on the Michigan primaries when I see this gem:

For those of you unfamiliar with how the US government works, the Arms Export Control Act of 1976 gave pretty much all authority over arms exports to the President. Congress currently has no ability to veto arms deals and I believe they have never actually successfully stopped an arms sales. Biden, however, could simply revoke the export licenses on Israeli weapons, though.

What Congress has been doing for the past half century is giving Israel store credit that has to be spent on US weapons, of which only the president can authorize export.

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 77 points 9 months ago
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[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 77 points 9 months ago

here is how Uncommitted can still win

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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 77 points 10 months ago

Looking at the reactions to the self-immolation, it really is impossible for liberals to comprehend anyone sacrificing themselves over something they strongly believe in. Just a total ideology of selfishness. The two main ways to discredit or distract from what this guy did are either calling him mentally ill, or ignoring what he did entirely and focusing instead on that one cop.

[-] wopazoo@hexbear.net 73 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Liberals don't actually have beliefs. To them, belief is about signaling group affiliation, not actual intellectual belief.

When a liberal says that they believe in freedom and democracy, they don't mean that they think that freedom and democracy are the best ways to organize a society, they are merely saying that they belong to WEIRD (western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) society.

Of course it's incomprehensible for a group of people who are profoundly nihilistic that someone would actually be willing to die for what they think is right.

I'm reminded of the tale of the liberal who says big words about climate change but cannot not be arsed to give up their gas-guzzling SUV. To them, "I believe that climate change is real" is merely a statement of group affiliation (i.e. "I'm with the cool kids"), not a factual statement that implies the need for urgent action.

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[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 76 points 10 months ago

I can't stop thinking about Zelensky's claim that 31k Ukrainian troops have died and the comparison to how many people have been murdered in Gaza by Israel in a fraction of the same time.

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[-] batsforpeace@hexbear.net 76 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

RT - Ukraine ready for war with China – top MP [2024-02-24]

Kiev is ready to assist the US in a war against any enemy, be it Iran, North Korea, or China, a senior Ukrainian MP has said, claiming that his country would prove to be a valuable military ally.

In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Friday, Aleksey Goncharenko doubled down on calls for the US to send Ukraine more military aid amid gridlock in Congress.

”Ukrainians are ready… We are ready to stand with the United States shoulder-to-shoulder, either in trenches near Tehran, or in North Korea, or near Beijing. No difference,” he stated. “Because we appreciate your support.”

Despite his plea for more Western military aid, Goncharenko argued that Ukraine has “the second strongest army in the free world” after the US, making it “a very valuable ally.”

[-] IceWallowCum@hexbear.net 73 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Pictured: Ukraine army ready for their next war

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[-] context@hexbear.net 76 points 9 months ago

Xi (Foolishly) Plans Communist Answers For China’s Property Crisis. Forbes

If the leaks and rumors are true, Beijing stands ready to launch a new and radical solution to the economy’s property crisis – a government takeover. What the authorities refer to as “a new model” would replace the old emphasis on ownership with more rentals and use government funds to buy up bankrupt properties so that in time the government’s role in real estate would rise from 5% of the market at present to 30%. Such an act would surely take the nation back to its communist roots if not quite the days of Mao Zedong. If it would veil the property crisis for a time, it would in the long run do tremendous damage to China’s economic prospects.

xi-peel

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[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 75 points 9 months ago

“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’” … “The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”

-Aaron Bushnell

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[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 75 points 9 months ago

Scholz pulled the "Fuck it, i gonna tell them then"

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[-] ziggurter@hexbear.net 74 points 10 months ago

Aaron Bushnell may have been reacting to mandatory deployment orders to Gaza. When liberals come at you with the blah, blah, blah, radicalized, blah, blah, blah, mental illness, blah, blah, blah you can throw in their faces that he was about to be forced to go conduct the genocide (even if this isn't necessary for his act to be heroic).

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[-] Zodiark@hexbear.net 74 points 9 months ago

I feel like the whole world is unraveling.

This is a very depraved and evil society. I used to imagine it was out of willful ignorance, being overburdened, and exhausted. I still believe this is true to a certain extent, but I am coming around to the belief that this is deliberate and willful complicity; complicity of depravity, of indifference.

And where once there used to be a facade of attempt at denying this, everyone in power is openly embracing genocide. Israel supporters are brazenly celebrating this.

Geopolitics and its government administrators aside, I'm really disgusted at ordinary people choosing the wrong side - the side of genocide - in this moment.

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[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 73 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

latest Zionist atrocity is stomach-churning. the "Israeli" terrorists sent in an aid convoy with food, a bunch of starving Palestinians showed up, the IOF terrorists opened fire on the starving people killing at least 104 and injuring 750, running over many dead and wounded with tanks

Zionists Use Food-Baits To Attract And Kill Starving Civilians | Moon of Alabama

EDIT: PressTV now says 150 dead

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 73 points 9 months ago
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[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 72 points 9 months ago

r/worldnews has motherfuckers posting that Biden brokered the saudi-yemeni ceasefire, I am losing my mind here yells-at-cloud

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[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 71 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 70 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Heavy losses inflict ‘dramatic manpower crisis’ on Israel

by The Cradle.


The Israeli military is demanding an addition of at least 7,000 soldiers to its forces due to a serious manpower crisis. The 7,000 are needed on top of the soldiers already enlisting, the Israeli army said on 1 March. “The army requires standards for another 7,500 officers and noncommissioned officers, while the Treasury currently approves only 2,500. These are unprecedented numbers, which indicate the shock that befell the IDF following almost 150 days of fighting, which began with heavy losses on 7 October,” Hebrew news site Ynet reported, citing the army’s General Staff. “The army is compiling the data that will explain how dramatic the manpower problem is,” it added.

Just one day ago, Israel’s Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, called to end draft exemptions for members of the ultra-Orthodox community. Gallant said he would only support legislation allowing for continued exemptions if all members of the ruling coalition backed it. The minister asserted that “all parts of society” must “bear the burden” of service. Gallant’s position could result in tension with ultra-Orthodox parties in the coalition, viewed as integral to the current government's survival, according to Hebrew media. However, the army’s demand for a boost in manpower “has nothing to do with politics or the demand for equal burden: The situation is simply not good and does not match the threat map,” Ynet wrote.

Israel is taking severe losses in its genocidal war in Gaza and its attempt to eradicate the Palestinian resistance. While Israel claims that Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah is the final Hamas stronghold, the group’s military wing, along with several other factions, continue to fiercely confront Israeli troops across the strip. A source from within the resistance told Al-Mayadeen on Thursday that the Israeli army has been forced out of Gaza City’s Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, where it had been operating over the past eleven days in an attempt to clear out Hamas fighters. The source added that the neighborhood is a “graveyard” for Merkava tanks, and the “bloodied and torn” uniforms of Israeli soldiers are spread out across the battlefield. Clashes between the resistance and the army continued to rage on 1 March in several areas of Gaza, including the southern city of Khan Yunis and the Jabalia area in the northern strip.

In all, the military situation still appears to be in Palestine's favour, which is quite remarkable given that we've been in this conflict for 5 months now. The bloody mathematics of attrition is playing out in both Ukraine and Israel.

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[-] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 70 points 9 months ago

never stop hating on israel comrades, even when its dead. Even when YOU are dead. Imma get 'fuck israel' put on my gravestone even if i have to carve it in as a corpse.

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 69 points 9 months ago

🇨🇺 Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez: — Cuba joins the global mobilization in support of Palestine on March 2nd. In all provinces and in Havana, we will take to the streets in solidarity with our brotherly people and to condemn the Holocaust that "israel" aims to cause in Rafah. Everyone for Gaza!

Free Palestine.

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[-] edge@hexbear.net 68 points 9 months ago

One idea under discussion among Trump allies as a way to drive the Palestinian wedge deeper into the Democratic Party is to run advertisements in heavily Muslim areas of Michigan that would thank Mr. Biden for "standing with Israel," according to two people briefed on the plans who weren't authorized to discuss them publicly.

lmao Trump is definitely going to win.

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[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 68 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's really depressing how much worse shit has gotten globally. 1950s style sexism seems to have made a grand comeback, men in positions of power don't even face the minimal consequences they used to when caught abusing a woman, attitudes towards LGBT rights seems to be going backwards, racism has never left but people aren't even pretending to be "politically correct" anymore. That's not to mention ongoing wars and genocide because of Western military domination. The Ukraine war will probably end up being more devastating than Iraq when all is said and done, and Israel is killing Palestinians and committing genocide at an unprecedented rate. Not even during the height of the war on terror of the 2000s was Israel doing anything near as devastating as they are doing now.

Genuinely have no idea what my place in this world is. Should shit go south in South Africa (lol), and I was looking to try to move to one of the "pro LGBT humanist" western countries, they would probably hate on me if my partner was the wrong race. Yet if I were to go to another country on the African continent, there would be a ton of hate for being LGBT. Like is there any place on this planet for us? Trying to maintain hope with everything that's happening globally but it's getting really hard. Where do we go from here, honestly. Everything seems set in motion already, and there seems to be nothing anyone can do about it except for playing their expected part. Maybe the grass is greener where you water it, but community outreach is really difficult.

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[-] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 67 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Russia releases wiretapped recording of german military officials discussing Taurus delivery for ukraine

FRANKFURT, March 2 (Reuters) - Germany is investigating an audio recording published in Russian media reported to be a conference call of high-ranking German military officials talking about weapons for Ukraine, sparking concerns of espionage in Germany and calls for clarification from Russia. A German defence ministry spokesperson said on Saturday that it couldn't confirm the authenticity of the recording, but the Federal Office for Military Counterintelligence Service was investigating the matter and all necessary steps would be taken.

The recording can be found here on vk.com. I listened to it and think that it's authentic. Around 30:00 one of them says: "Imagine the press gets wind of this" germany-cool

Edit: The German Ministry of Denfense confirms the authenticity of the recording (Article in germ*n)

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[-] companero@hexbear.net 67 points 10 months ago

The Guardian: Several Nato and EU members considering sending soldiers to Ukraine, Slovak PM says

I remember back in 2022 how the "cooler heads" had to explain that NATO troops killing Russians fundamentally could not be allowed to happen. Impressive how far we've come.

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 67 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The Intercept has posted an article saying that the push for the "Hamas weaponized SA" NYT story was largely pushed forward by senior leadership, and that journalists are concerned that the author of the piece will be used as a scapegoat.

“The New York Times said, ‘Let’s do an investigation into sexual violence’ — it was more a case of them having to convince me,” she said. Her host cut her off: “It was a proposal of The New York Times, the entire thing?”
“Unequivocally. Unequivocally. Obviously. Of course,” she said. “The paper stood behind us 200 percent and gave us the time, the investment, the resources to go in-depth with this investigation as much as needed.”

A lot of the article is just Schwartz admitting that she couldn't find any evidence at all until she started asking the IOF/Israeli police, who said a bunch of shit that has since been debunked, and who pressured her to run the story as soon as possible. She also said that she had not spoken to a single woman who claimed to have been assaulted.
To be clear, Schwartz is former IOF and a terrible human being, but she is also totally unqualified as a journalist, and her being picked to lead the article makes it abundantly clear that NYT editors wanted an article from nothing.

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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 66 points 9 months ago

George Galloway: "I'm no Jeremy Corbyn you see. I won't turn the other cheek. If you slap me I'll slap you back"

I know he has his bad sides but this is the energy the left needs. Generations of polite boyscouts has done nothing but to make the western left irrelevant and weak.

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[-] smokeppb@hexbear.net 66 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Max Blumenthal brings up an important point: Aaron Bushnell - possibly among other Air Force members - were enlisted against their will to participate in the Palestinian Genocide:

US Airman Aaron Bushnell did not kill himself to protest some other country's war

The US Department of Defense has compelled the participation of Air Force members like Bushnell in Israel's Gaza genocide

Their orders to deploy to Israel read "mandatory"

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1762196403969728851

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