"The peace activists are war activists," Palantir's CEO told a room of government officials, military contractors, and tech bros. "We are the peace activists."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/ai-weapons-palantir-war-technology

https://archive.is/Nydgu

https://nitter.poast.org/mideastXmidwest/status/1791506327413420412#m

Burkina Faso President survives the 9th Assassination attempt:
https://sycamoretimes.com.ng/2024/05/19/burkina-faso-president-survives-the-9th-assassination-attempt/

Harvard’s Gaza encampment ends after administration agrees to meet

This is the Brown thing all over again isn't it? Disbanding an encampment over a vague promise to discuss the demands instead of actually fulfilling them? The organizers say that they are aware that this isn't a win for divestment but that it is a win for organizing and that they're going to continue the struggle "through other means"? I'm sure they mean what they say but this is just proving to colleges that vaguely promising "discussions" of divestment works to shut down encampments and I feel like other schools are going to start employing this tactic too now that Brown and Harvard have set an example.

Police dog prevents genocide

California Highway Patrol officers charged a man with multiple felonies after a drug-sniffing dog detected over 511 grams of fentanyl in his car during a traffic stop on Interstate 80 earlier this week. The quantity is enough to potentially kill 250,000 people, the agency said in a Facebook post Thursday.

Maybe this is why Israel has been bombing hospitals - those hospitals might have stocked painkillers that could have killed everyone in the entire region!

Not a headline you see everyday:
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/spain-denies-port-call-for-ship-transporting-explosives-from-india-to-israel-101715956458543.html

Spain turns away ship with explosives from India to Israel, says it’s a first

Russia reportedly discovered and destroyed an ammunition warehouse by paying a Ukrainian refugee in Poland to set up a security camera to watch for Western supply shipments

DPRK built a new Cadre Training School with Marx and Lenin on the building and it's gorgeous.

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/dba82750f688f6ad2c84417457b0bec6.kcmsf

IOF goons getting owned because they post their warcrimes on Tiktok for the Resistance to see:
https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1791261195258810863

The US seems to be trying to more aggressively get China and other Russian Allies to stop helping Russia evade sanctions by threatening them with sanctions. The frustrating thing is that it seems to be working with more Chinese banks refusing Russian payments.

https://archive.ph/nvJ6I

France declared a state of emergency in its colony of New Caledonia after an anti-colonial uprising broke out there, killing and wounding. New Caledonia has long sought independence, hoping to support itself through mining.

France does not want to lose control over them, so it is increasing colonial oppression in New Caledonia, fearing that the ripples from the collapsing colonial empire in Africa will also affect French colonies in other regions of the world.

New Caledonia must be free and completely independent of France. The troops of the French colonialists must be expelled from the country. France's military bases must also be closed. The collaborators of the colonialists must be punished as traitors to the people of New Caledonia. The mineral wealth of New Caledonia must belong to the people.

It's ~~1944~~ 2024, and a Nazi takes a video of his German tank bogged down and stuck in the mud in Ukraine.

Video on Reddit

Georgia just passed foreign agents bill

Chabahar Port: US says sanctions possible after India-Iran port deal

India had entered an agreement to develop the strategically important Chabahar port, close to Iran's border with Pakistan, in 2016.

On Monday, it signed a long-term deal with Iran to develop it further.

India's shipping minister called it a "historic moment in India-Iran ties".

But the move may not go down well with the US, which has imposed more than 600 sanctions on Iranian-related entities over the past three years.

In a press briefing on Tuesday, the country's State Department Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel said, when asked about the deal, that the US sanctions on Iran are still in place and that Washington would continue to enforce them.

"Any entity, anyone considering business deals with Iran - they need to be aware of the potential risks that they are opening themselves up to and the potential risk of sanctions," he said.

Oh, so america is going to anger India now?

Thousands march in Dublin calling for end to violence in Gaza

Thousands of people took part in a rally in Dublin city centre on Saturday calling for an end to the violence in Gaza.

The event was organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), and was supported by more than 100 Irish civil society groups.

The group said the event was staged to call “for an end to Israel’s genocidal assault on the people of Gaza, and for the Irish Government to take action to hold Israel accountable”.

Protesters assembled at 1pm at the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square, before marching from there to Leinster House for a rally outside the Dáil. A number of speakers criticised the Government’s “empty words” on Israel following its actions in response to the October 7th attack by Hamas, and called for concrete sanctions against the state.

Those taking part in the rally carried flags, wore Palestinian attire, and chanted slogans including “free, free, Palestine” and “ceasefire now”.

Speakers include IPSC chairwoman Zoë Lawlor and Irish Palestinian Zak Hania, who was trapped in Gaza until recently.

This would be such a massive self-own I don't really believe they would do it:
https://twitter.com/IhabHassane/status/1790842821190041807

🚨Breaking: Israeli Channel 11 revealed that Netanyahu held meetings with ministers and decided that the Palestinian Authority must be eliminated.

Hebrew media quoted Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich:
"It is time for the Palestinian Authority to collapse financially and go bankrupt."

Ben Gvir:
"Smotrich is right - the Palestinian Authority supports terror and does not deserve a single shekel."

Our strike vote is starting today for UAW 4811, the grad student/student researcher union for the University of California system. For those unaware, this push started back after the raids on the UCLA encampment. It apparently gave the union enough cause to start this proceeding. Which is good! Likely the vote will go through, and then things will get spicy. The vote closes Wednesday afternoon.

On the downside, the highest level of the union leadership still has a bunch of collaborationist fuckers, so they undercut the total power of the strike before it started by declaring it a 'limited' strike, with a maximum deadline of June 30th. Obviously, presetting a deadline for your labor action isn't great. It also undercuts the threat of long term withholding of student grades, which would result in the academic machinery grinding to a halt. That said, it is at the very least past the deadline of the quarter's instruction.

The UC system is weird in that instead of semesters, we use quarters of the year, with a Fall, Winter, and Spring quarter of primary instruction, and then a summer quarter. That means that school goes way farther into May/June than pretty much everywhere else, so the campus won't be empty by any means, and there will be disrupted classes. There will be some form of material impact, and every bit helps I hope.

I was talking with someone, and they think that the University might just play nice and try to wait it out, but I'm really not sure about that. They were pretty chill, in terms of direct force at least, during on more "normal" strike about a year ago, but the harsh crackdowns of students literally just sitting around makes me think it might be different this time. I think it's possible that if our strike materializes, and it has actual material consequences, however mild, they might windmill slam that police brutality button. I feel kind of paranoid typing and talking about this lol. But regardless, I started stocking up on first aid supplies and some protective stuff. I don't know how far away we are from Kent State 2.0.

Me 9 hours ago: There's no way the Zionist entity would get rid of the PA. That would be such a massive self-own.
Bibi: https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1791079411602628964

I am not prepared to replace "Hamastan" with "Fatahstan."

Cars being set on fire in New Caledonia:
https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1791039523368972530

A Haredi tank unit did some good and opened fire on some Israeli paratroopers

Two IDF tanks killed five IDF soldiers and wounded seven more in a friendly fire incident on Wednesday when they fired on a forward IDF battalion headquarters in Jabalya in northern Gaza. The IDF cleared for publication on Thursday.

The tanks were said to be under extreme pressure from dozens of rocket-propelled grenade attacks in the area.

All openings to the tanks, including the canopy on the top, were ordered to be kept closed to avoid any hole or vulnerability to the RPG attacks.

This, in turn, limited the tank's visibility.

Does the IDF intend for their tanks to go into battle with all the hatches open for pleasant airflow and visibility??

Tank Unit 202 is a Haredi-integrated unit, and the soldiers said that they saw a potential threat emerge from the battalion headquarters, which was only 10-20 meters away from them.

Apparently, the owner of OnlyFans is some massive donor of AIPAC:
https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1790142460728848788

Helicopter carrying Iran’s president suffers a ‘hard landing,’ state TV says without further details

NEVER get in a helicopter

Niger stays winning.

Niger’s prime minister says the termination of military cooperation and bilateral relations between his country and the United States was due to American threats and Washington’s opposition to the African nation's partnership with Iran and Russia.

Underlining the US failure to combat terrorism in Niger and the Sahel region for a decade, Zeine said, “The Americans stayed on our soil, doing nothing while the terrorists killed people and burned towns. It is not a sign of friendship to come on our soil but let the terrorists attack us.”

Just want to underscore the level of heroism underway here: Sen. Tammy Duckworth has been working to evacuate Dr. Adam Hamawy (who saved her life after her helicopter crash) from the hospital the IDF is besieging and bombing. But he and his colleagues have insisted they not leave unless the IDF allows in a new rotation, otherwise the patients will all die and the IDF will overrun the hospital and leave it in ruins as they have done to every other hospital in Gaza.
Five staff were evacuated today but Hamawy refused to go, leaving his body on the line to defend and to treat his patients. He is effectively saying, if they are going to kill everyone in the hospital, they'll have to kill him too.

https://nitter.poast.org/ryangrim/status/1791478368879144998#m

AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!! Absolute fucking cowards!

COWARDS: Dems PLOT Online Convention To DODGE Gaza Protests

China doesn’t need to invade to achieve Taiwanese unification

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4657439-china-doesnt-need-to-invade-to-achieve-taiwanese-unification/

China is more likely to pursue a “short of war coercion campaign,” as we call it, centered on political and economic warfare accompanied by limited kinetic action than an invasion of Taiwan for three main reasons:

First, annexing Taiwan by means short of war significantly limits possible damage to other Chinese grand strategic objectives. The People’s Republic of China’s long-term strategic goals are to continue to build-up what it calls its comprehensive national power and become the world’s leading power. It then aims to decisively reshape international politics and place itself at the center. Although Chinese leader Xi Jinping clearly believes that unifying Taiwan with the mainland is a key component of this grand strategy, he may be loath to risk China’s march to geopolitical dominance by starting a full scale and likely global war.

Second, a short of war strategy centered on political warfare and limited kinetic action could be successful. Taiwan’s most recent elections highlighted deep domestic political divisions, coinciding with a rise in skepticism of America’s support. These sentiments are further reinforced by the fact that Taiwan remains internationally isolated. Taiwan status is sui generis in international affairs: it is a fully functioning nation-state not recognized by the international powers. This creates an opening for China’s manipulation of Taiwan’s understandable fears of abandonment.

Third, strategies short of war are consistent with Chinese strategic thinking and previous behavior. A number of Chinese warfighting concepts reference the utility of fighting wars using means beyond traditional applications of kinetic force. These concepts have been employed regularly in Chinese “gray zone operations” in the South and East China Seas and Taiwan Strait. Given their general success, China will likely intensify their employment in a campaign to annex Taiwan.

Ok so... Stupid language aside.

1. They'll apply pressure!

2. They'll do politics!

3. Nothing, this number is just here to write three things. Uhhh, they've done "no-war strategy" before? Yeah put that down.

TL;DR The Hill is saying China won't invade Taiwan now but they're doing it in the most insufferable way possible framing it in the most sinister way possible when it's just.... Politics? They're just saying that reunification will happen politically but they're using SHORT OF WAR and POLITICAL WARFARE and LIMITED KINETIC FORCE to frame it.

Enemy media :

Yesterday, #Hezbollah recorded its greatest success since the beginning of the war and destroyed one of the most expensive and advanced defense systems. A #Hezbollah drone worth 20,000 shekels targeted a multi-billion project east of Tiberias yesterday

The occupation army announces that #Hezbollah targeted the Sky Dew balloon, the large surveillance balloon,at an air force base near Tiberias, which is of great importance for monitoring air threats in the north, especially drones.

The #Israeli Ministry of Defense boasted of the spy balloon's superior ability to monitor #Lebanon and #Syria. 24 hours later, #Hezbollah targeted the balloon with a suicide drone.

Article from Israeli state propaganda on the topic.

Israelis from the North are still displaced, and Israel has displayed quite literally zero ability to do anything about it. I'm gonna take an L here: I assumed that the Israeli military still had some vague vestiges of competency that would allow them to meaningfully attack Hezbollah and carry out at least an offensive by now, but no. They're really just fucked, entirely helpless to Hezbollah's many daily strikes.

The Gaza resistance is doing very well too. Lots of attacks reported and lots of daily casualties. The resistance hasn't degraded; it actually seems to have improved since the first days of the war. Plenty of attacks in northern Gaza too, so Hamas is still very much undefeated throughout Gaza despite the propaganda.

Defense Minister Gallant yesterday publically voiced that he opposes the plan for military rule over Gaza, instead wanting a new form of international rule to replace Hamas there. Presumably because he knows that a military occupation of Gaza is untenable and will lead to casualties that Israel cannot withstand for any length of time. An international coalition replacing Hamas is, of course, also not going to work. They'd still have to try and defeat Hamas to exert this plan. They're just trying to put the casualty load on other countries. I wonder if this stuff is designed busywork for the government employees at this point. Like, it's akin to a thinktank asking "When Ukraine conquers Belgorod, will the Ukrainians administer it or will a NATO coalition?" It's geopolitical fanfiction. It's a dude who peaked in high school obsessing over how cool and fit he was back then and assuming he's still just as fit despite being an ailing 40-something year old with double digit physical health problems. This ain't the 1990s anymore, motherfuckers.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid said yesterday: "'...relations with the US are collapsing, the middle class is collapsing, they have lost the north' and 'we will not win with this government'"

And Netanyahu is calling for the Palestinian Authority to be dismantled, which is akin to a dog begging for chocolate. There's a part of my brain that is wondering whether Netanyahu is really a secret comrade who also wants Israel to collapse. It takes genuine skill to be this incompetent, to the point where it's a little suspicious.

Israel is doomed.

Xi Agrees To Deepen China-Russia Military Ties, Brushing Off US Warnings

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks in Beijing on Thursday and agreed to deepen military cooperation, as China has brushed off US warnings about its relationship with Russia.

According to The South China Morning Post, Russia and China released a joint statement that said they would “further deepen mutual military trust and cooperation” by expanding joint military exercises, increasing air and sea patrols, and strengthening their coordination under bilateral and multilateral frames.

Xi also renewed a call for a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine. “Both sides agree that a political settlement of the Ukraine crisis is the correct direction,” he said. “China’s position on this issue has been consistent and clear, including … the respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries and the legitimate security concerns of all parties.”

China has consistently called for peace talks in Ukraine throughout the war, while the US and most of NATO have opposed the idea and flooded weapons into the country. Regardless, the US and NATO have accused China of fueling the conflict by increasing trade with Russia, a natural step for two countries facing similar pressure from the West.

China doesn’t provide weapons to Russia, but the US points to the export of technology that can be used to build weapons as evidence of Beijing providing “material support” to the Russian military. The US recently sanctioned 20 Chinese companies for trading with Russia.

While Putin was in Beijing, the Pentagon issued a fresh warning to China over its relationship with Russia. Ely Ratner, assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, spoke with a Chinese military official and raised “serious concern over the [Peoples Republic of China’s] support for Russia’s defense industrial base that enables Russia’s war in Ukraine.

South Africa: Israel Must Withdraw From Entire Gaza

South Africa's ambassador to the Netherlands, urged the court to order "the immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal of the Israeli army from the entire Gaza Strip.”

South Africa urged the United Nations' highest court on Thursday to issue an order to stop the Israeli attack on the city of Rafah as part of its case accusing Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip.

It said that the attack on Rafah "must be stopped" to ensure the survival of the Palestinian people.

Vusimuzi Madonsela, South Africa's ambassador to the Netherlands urged the court to order "the immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal of the Israeli army from the entire Gaza Strip.”

The two-day hearings at the International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, come after South Africa last week asked for additional emergency measures to protect Rafah. More than one million Palestinians have taken refuge in the southern Gaza City.

Israel, which has denounced South Africa's claim that it is violating the 1949 Genocide Convention as baseless, will respond on Friday. In previous filings it stressed it had stepped up efforts to get humanitarian aid into Gaza as the ICJ had ordered.

Last week, South Africa called for additional emergency measures to protect Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where more than a million Palestinians are sheltering.

It also asked the court to issue an order to Israel to allow UN officials and organizations providing humanitarian aid, as well as journalists and investigators, to enter the Strip without hindrance. She added that Israel has so far been ignoring and violating the orders previously issued by the court.

“From the beginning, Israel’s intention has always been to destroy Palestinian life and wipe them (the Palestinians) off the face of the earth,” South African lawyer Thembeka Ngcukaitobi said. Rafah is the last place.

There is a solidarity encampment set up at the University of Witswaterrand and naturally, all of the in and out of South Africa came to the realisation that the "American/Apartheid" method cannot be utilised.

There's also a Palestine rally in Tallinn again on the 1st of June.

Also two weeks until the elections in South Africa. Would be amusing if the African Christian Democratic Party website got deep-fried. Again.

Just hearing not-yet confirmed reports of Ansar Allah possibly striking successfully the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Mason (DDG-87) in the Red Sea. Folks keep eyes out for information as it rolls in.

Edit: Just an FYI there's no information on the matter out of the 5th Fleet that's stationed in the region on the question so we're currently working in an intelligence fog of war in this regard. Don't jump for victory or wonder in dread for the future just yet. Just keep waiting to see what's going on.

Edit 2: fun game for the mega to play, how many u.s wars were started over u s boats getting bombed or "bombed"

Hundreds of trucks blocked the Kyiv - Odessa highway in protest against forced mobilisation in Ukraine

https://streamable.com/zkua65

The French Empire has deployed its military to put down insurgents in the Pacific island of New Caledonia, which is near Australia! And France has also banned TikTok in that island to hide human rights violations.

Source

Anyone seen that clip of Antony Blinken playing Neil Young's "Rocking In The Free World" on an electric guitar with a random Ukrainian band? The USA is really trying to do the whole "blue jeans and rock and roll revolution" propaganda again, three plus decades later.

Found some YouTube links for those that want to see

https://youtu.be/ZsK3M9gXmos

https://youtube.com/shorts/atbVtlSFl_M

Blinken has arrived for a surprise visit to Kiev.
Things are definitely getting dicey. I'm not going to make any sweeping predictions, but the American brass is at least taking this offensive very seriously.

get in loser, we are going to read news

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1cu7d9w/ru_pov_president_putin_says_they_have_no_plans_to/

Putin confirms that there are currently no plans to capture Kharkiv city, which reinforces the buffer zone theory. "Nothing ever happens" gang stays winning.

Chinese online store advertising their mini paper shredder as the same paper shredder used by the Israeli ambassador:
https://twitter.com/XiranJayZhao/status/1789563706554155482

Biden found another billion in the couch cushions to blow up more innocent people with..

Real nice "pause". They can always find 1-20 billion a month of our taxes to go blow up shit that is no threat to us but when it comes to domestic improvements HOLD THE PHONE HOW ARE YOU GOING TO PAY FOR IT?!

The German artist seething that they had to include Marx, so they gave Marx the thinnest book:
https://twitter.com/Etrichtaube6380/status/1789660804398080450

all this for tomato water

Daily reminder comrades: never ride a fucking helicopter

Was the Fico assassin an old, dormant Gladio asset who has just been activated?

The old guy had probably been checking his dead drop every day for the past 50 years until one day, the instruction finally arrives.

colonists attacking and destroying gaza aid with cover from the cops who do nothing.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram/comments/1ctjms0/israeli_settler_expressing_joy_while_filming_the/

https://old.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram/comments/1ctat5k/mobs_of_israeli_settlers_attack_jordanian_aid/