Image is of smoke rising after Iranian missiles impact a US military site in Bahrain.
My weekly preamble is in spoiler tags below.
preamble
After a few weeks of both diplomatic and military manuevering - mostly over Iranian control of Hormuz - we have hit the hottest phase of military exchanges since at least the MoU period began. The US has generally focussed on striking southern Iran, although they have also sporadically hit transportation infrastructure elsewhere, which was repaired in less than 24 hours. Meanwhile, Iran has struck a wide range of targets, with an interesting focus on Jordan, but has, up to the time of me writing this, so far relented on striking the Zionist entity. The US and Iran have had little periods of mutual military strikes during the “ceasefire” before, and so it’s hard to tell for sure whether this yet another temporary spat or if it represents a full return to the pre-ceasefire conflict.
A complicating factor in this conflict is that Ansarallah has become increasingly active, and seems eager to start to break the siege it has been put under by threatening to attack Saudi Arabia and Saudi-aligned forces. This has put Iran in a somewhat awkward spot. On the one hand, it has greatly helped Ansarallah resist foreign attackers and has even recently sent civilian airplanes into Sana’a to begin to break the siege. On the other hand, Iran has, with China’s help, generally desired to improve its relationship with the Saudis over the years. While in this latest war there have been a major dispute between them over whether Iran is “allowed” to strike US military infrastructure located in Saudi Arabia, the Saudis strike me as considerably less anti-Iran as the UAE, let alone the Zionists, and did send a delegation to Khamenei’s funeral. I guess we’ll just have to see what happens next, but I strongly suspect that Iran is going to help Yemen over the Saudis.
And finally, Lindsay Graham has died of a sudden heart attack a suspiciously short time after visiting Ukraine. He was a true enemy of civilian populations all the way to the end of his life, and he seemed to particularly despise children. He advocated for using nukes against Gaza and the total annihilation of anybody and everybody who had even the meekest criticism of Zionism. If God (and, more pertinently in this case, Satan) does exist, I hope Graham is extended the exact same level of courtesy and respect in the afterlife that Graham extended to all Palestinians.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on the Zionists’ 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.
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.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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.
Today’s Iranian retaliatory strikes:
According to the IRGC, the fourth wave of Operation Nasr 2 targeted “KJL,” which it described as, “the US army’s principal logistics and support center in West Asia at Mina Abdullah, Kuwait.” The statement said the facility “was set ablaze and destroyed” as a result of the strikes.
In the next statement in the series, the IRGC said the fifth wave of Operation Nasr 2 was launched at dawn by the Corps’ Navy, hitting “the NSI Management Center, the Command and Control Center, major warehouses containing military parts and equipment, and fuel depots belonging to the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.”
In another statement, the IRGC said the sixth wave of the operation targeted the US base at al-Azraq in Jordan. The Corps said the strikes were carried out by its Aerospace Force, which targeted shelters housing US F-15, F-16, and F-35 warplanes at the outpost and “eliminated a number of US MQ-9 strategic drones stationed at the base,” destroying the shelters and the unmanned aircraft.
Source: https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 UPDATE: Ahvaz children’s hospital was hit by an American missile; the entire hospital is being evacuated
US finally going back to their roots in their aggression. Except on a Wednesday instead of a Friday?
Followed by
Launches
Not ballistics. Anti-ship missiles towards U.S. vessels in the Sea of Oman.
Breaking news Trump considering shoving US military personnel directly into a wood chipper
BREAKING: Trump is looking to expand US military operations in Iran by not only bombing energy sites and power plants starting next week, but also sending US ground forces to fully seize Kharg Island and other Iranian islands along the Strait of Hormuz and bombing the deepest and most fortified mountain in Iran, the Pickaxe Mountain nuclear-linked tunnel complex, per WSJ.
Trump held a Situation Room meeting Tuesday evening to discuss the seizure of Kharg Island and other territory along the Strait using US ground troops including Abu Musa, Greater Tunb, and Lesser Tunb. He also said “We’re going to take out Pickaxe Mountain.”
Congratulations to Argentina for beating the colonialist dogs.
Now VIVA ESPAÑA! VIVA PALESTINA!
It’s never coming home, is it?
Reuters: Russia says Ukrainian drone kills chief engineer at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
The chief engineer at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been killed by a Ukrainian drone near the station, the head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Wednesday.
Alexei Likhachev said in a statement that a Ukrainian drone had struck a service car between the plant’s site and the town of Enerhodar, killing the engineer, Alexander Yakovlev, and the driver.
Temporary government in Gaza is accusing a UN official of lying about police operations that lead to an Israeli massacre on a local police station that happened earlier this week
Full tweet from Drop Site
🇵🇸🇺🇳 NEWS: Gaza Government Files Formal Complaint Against UN Official, Says Statement ‘Provided Pretext for Incitement’ Before Deadly Israeli Strike on Police
Drop Site obtained a document from Palestinian officials showing that Gaza’s caretaker government has filed a formal complaint against a senior UN official, accusing him of issuing an inaccurate statement that fueled incitement against Palestinian police before a deadly Israeli attack.
The complaint, sent Tuesday by the secretary-general of Gaza’s caretaker Council of Ministers to UN Deputy Special Coordinator Ramiz Alakbarov, concerns his July 12 statement accusing Gaza’s “de facto authorities” of obstructing aid and assaulting workers at a World Food Programme site in Jabalia.
Gaza’s government says the incident was a lawful police operation targeting smuggling within the WFP distribution system, and that the UN’s Gaza team had been kept informed through ”direct and continuous coordination with the Ministry of Interior’s operations room, with full knowledge of the information relating to the incident and the measures taken by the relevant authorities.”
The letter says Israeli forces subsequently killed eight civil police personnel in a strike on a police post in Jabalia on July 14, including the area’s police chief, Col. Mohammed Marwan Salem.
The Gaza authorities accused the UN of choosing public condemnation over established coordination channels agreed upon months earlier. The statement, they wrote, “provided a pretext for incitement against government agencies and exposed their personnel to greater danger.”
Gaza’s caretaker council—which is currently administrating the Strip following the recent dissolution of the Hamas-led government—said, “We have repeatedly confirmed our readiness to review and further develop this mechanism in coordination with your team, including considering any proposals you deem appropriate, or even reconsidering the implementation of inspection procedures should you formally request it.”
It called on Alakbarov to issue an official clarification and end what it described as an “unjustified campaign against government institutions, and to commit to relying on the existing institutional coordination channels in a manner that preserves the neutrality and credibility of the United Nations, strengthens ongoing cooperation, and respects the mandates and legal frameworks governing the work of each party.”
Edit:
more info on the police station strike
💢 Seven Palestinian police officers, including member of Gaza’s female police unit, were killed Tuesday when Israeli forces struck the Jabalia police station. The interior ministry identified them as
- Muhammad Salem, police captain in Jabalia
- Yamen Obeid
- Abdul Malik Abu al-Jibeen
- Ghassan al-Daqas
- Mufid Halawa
- Ibrahim Mousa
- Fatima Zaqout, a member of the women’s police unit
Personnel from the same station had been accused this week by UN humanitarian coordinator Ramiz Alakbarov of obstructing a WFP aid operation in Jabalia. Gaza’s Interior Ministry strongly rejected the allegations, saying police intervened during a chaotic attempted theft and discovered contraband inside aid trucks. Israel’s COGAT agency, which manages the entry of aid into Gaza, later amplified Alakbarov’s statement to accuse Hamas of seizing aid and undermining its distribution — hours later Israel struck and killed 7 officers at the same station this morning, continuing its systematic assault on Gaza’s civil security police and personnel. Some 3,000 of the 10,000 Gaza civil police officers have been murdered by Israeli forces, including a large percentage who were on the job.
the England vs Argentina match has Ended
Evil has Won
First goal by Gordon
2nd and 3rd goal by Argentina Fernández and Lautaro
A stream https://envivo.tvazteca.com/
Many things have been said of this match, for one Malvinas/Falklands drama started like 3 days ago between both countries and Argentina asked to use their dark blue jersey (the one they used when they beat england with the hand of God) also therr will probably be a few fights since the stadium isnt segregated
Here is an article No, the match between Argentina and England is not ‘just a football match’ https://hexbear.net/post/9027084
It will be a fun match for sure
USA socdems: “we will implement programs for loans and carbon credits that will help the enviroment cooperating with corporations and, etc”
French Socdem Melechon:
We will nationalize time through planning and eco-regions.
Those who agree to join the plan will be helped. They will have to meet quality production requirements that respect workers and the environment. Without compliance with these obligations, no funds will be disbursed.
Eco-regions will serve as the foundational framework for alerting, forecasting, organizing ecological planning, and ensuring that the law is not violated.
They will transform the French Republic into the world’s first ecological republic.
https://x.com/JLMelenchon/status/2077048184082182218
Also he wants to change the name of the french language
https://xcancel.com/TheIntelFrog/status/2077427580559401208
A third medical evacuation mission from the Middle East in the last five days has now been completed. US Air Force C-17A Globemaster III #AE1471 as RCH799 conducted two patient pickups in Saudi Arabia before continuing to Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Officially, U.S. officials continue to state that no casualties have resulted from the latest wave of Iranian attacks. If true, that would suggest multiple unrelated non-combat medical incidents requiring evacuation from at least three separate locations occurred while Iran was simultaneously conducting missile and drone attacks against U.S. forces and regional partners. Earlier this week, another medevac mission appeared to rendezvous with patients brought in from multiple locations to a base in Jordan before transporting them to Ramstein. While these flights do not independently confirm combat casualties, they raise questions that have yet to be publicly addressed.
don’t mind the ambulances constantly driving in and out of my house, there’s nothing unusual going on!
Bloomberg is saying that Chinese crude oil imports are rebounding.
If that is true, it is huge news. China suddenly cutting their oil demand like that delayed all of our estimates for when oil reserves will start to run dangerously low, resulting in supply disruptions and price spikes. My guess is that Chinese refineries want to run at ~100% now because the stocks of gasoline and diesel are starting to run low as well and spiking the price of crude is the less bad option.
If Count Binface actually wins this, what happens in Parliament, does he have to go to Parliament in character as Count Binface, or does the guy who plays him go to Parliament as himself?
‘We’re encased in flames’: Rail worker captures harrowing video as wildfire closes in on CN train
An article about a wildfire in northern Ontario, Canada, including video. A freight train crew was literally surrounded by an active forest fire. I’m not sure I would have stayed as calm as the crew did.
