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Bulletins and News Discussion from June 30th to July 6th, 2025 - Alas, Poor Boric - COTW: Chile
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Image is sourced from this People's Dispatch article, depicting communists attending the 2023 funeral of Communist Party President Guillermo Teillier, who was tortured for years under Pinochet's regime and helped rebuild the Communist Party while under a fascist dictatorship.
We had the Six Day War in 1967, we had the Nineteen Day War (Yom Kippur) in 1973, and now we've had the Twelve Day War. I wonder how many more very short wars will plague the region until Palestine is freed?
However, moving on from Western Asia from a little while, we have some interesting news from Chile - the former labor minister and communist, Jeannette Jara, has won the primary election for the left-wing bloc in a landslide (~60% of the vote), as the current President, Gabriel Boric, is term-limited. Her achievements include a minimum wage increase and a reduction of the work week to 40 hours.
In November, Jara will face down the contenders from other parties, including José Antonio Kast, who is analogous to Brazil's Bolsonaro. Unfortunately, Jara is now the lead figure of a party that has been taking quite a few Ls under Boric's leadership. Ostensibly a Democratic Socialist, he ruled as - you guessed it - a neoliberal, bending the knee to the US and EU. He not only failed to overthrow the Pinochet-era constitution, he actually allowed the right-wing to turn the proposed new constitution into something worse, and had to settle for campaigning against the new one and keeping the old one. And he had very little solidarity with other left-leaning leaders on the continent, like Maduro, Lula, Petro, or Castillo.
With this in mind, I cannot help but look at Argentina's very recent history and feel a little dread - but if anybody can save Chile at this point, it can only be a communist.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA 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.
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.
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.
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.
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I remember it from Shakespeare in school. Do kids in English language schools still do that these days, Macbeth, Othello, the Merchant of Venice, etc? I can't remember which Shakespeare play Shylocks was from, I remember he was a Jewish money lender, so I guess that's where the anti Semitic stuff comes from.
It's merchant of Venice. The movie version with al Pacino is excellent. Pacino plays shylock.
And yes it's a complex play with respect to antisemitism. At the simplest level, it is about a vengeful Jewish merchant who wants to claim his pound of flesh for a debt owed, killing the (Christian) debtor, and how Christians by-your-logic the jew out of his claim, forcing him to convert, taking his daughter and his wealth. There are lots of tropes of shylock the hand rubbing Jewish money lender stereotype who charges exorbitant interest of Christians. It was written in a deeply antisemitic country/time/place and was surely put on in many places with shylock explicitly as the antagonist and villain. The nazis loved it.
It's also canonically sympathetic to shylock and the Jewish people - shylock is motivated by commitment to the law and a sense of loyalty to oneself. He's a flawed character, hypocritical in his own way, but his flaws are a reflection of a lifetime of experiencing antisemitism, instances of which are illustrated in the play (Antonio has been screwing with shylock's business because he's a jew, shylock's daughter Jessica runs away with/is absconded by a shady Christian, and ultimately shylock is forced through lawfare to convert under penalty of death and will his entire estate to the same shady Christian). The famous monologue "if you prick us, do we not bleed" is explicitly about how Jews are no less human than Christians (nazi productions of merchant of venice cut this speech apparently). Also, Antonio and bassiano, the guys who borrow the money from shylock in the first place, are idiot fuck boy antisemites who 100% have it coming. The trial at the end of the show is clearly a kangaroo court farce.
There's also a modern play called shylock that explores these themes in a meta way. In that show, an actor is playing shylock in a production of merchant of venice that is being shut down because of charges of antisemitism. The actor playing shylock is a Jewish guy who talks about how he chose to portray shylock as a villain and thus earns the opprobium of Jewish theatre critics for being a race traitor. The theme of this metaplay is that art should be challenging and that you, the baby brained audience, should read and watch film/plays with a critical eye even if it hurts your feelings.
My username is a Shakespeare reference from hamlet. The carp of truth refers to finding the truth with the help of lies.
this is exactly how we engage with reading western media
That's exactly why I chose it