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Interesting take here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1847318553495470362.html

He reckons Britain has fully dropped involvement in Ukraine after the operation to expand the war failed.

The zionists are trying to accelerate their extermination campaign in North Gaza at these moments.

Hossam Shabat, journalist in North Gaza:

What’s happening in the Jabalia refugee camp can be summed up as a rapid extermination mission; we have never seen anything like this.

Preventive deployment of Iraqi security forces was reported around the premises of MBC TV, a channel majority-owned by the Saudi government, following the broadcast of a report that labeled several leaders of Iraqi militias, part of the Axis of Resistance, as “terrorists,” along with leaders of Hamas including Al Deif, Haniyeh, Sinwar and even Hassan Nasrallah.

Several armed groups issued threats against the channel over these statements, and even declared Saudi Arabia as a target.

Matt Miller: “Israel has the right to tаrget civilians”

Normality in Cuba as the Island's government works to solve the electricity disconnection.

Cuba suffers a total blackout and announces an 'energy emergency'. The Cuban electricity company announces that “there is no set time for total restoration”.

On Friday morning (18), Cuba's electricity system suffered a “total disconnection” that left the country without power. The massive blackout occurred after the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant, the most important in the country, broke down causing an “unforeseen exit” from its functions, according to the Ministry of Energy and Mines.

In a brief message on social media, President Miguel Díaz-Canel stated that the country's authorities are “giving absolute priority to the attention and solution of this highly sensitive energy contingency for the nation”, guaranteeing that “there will be no rest until it is restored”.

The collapse at the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant comes at a dramatic time, just hours after the government declared on national television that the country is in an “energy emergency”.

PDF in tgram link or here https://files.catbox.moe/9morsr.pdf:

The Thorn and the Carnation (2004)

A novel written by Yahya Sinwar that describes his time within the occupation prisons during his imprisonment, delves into his psyche, and highlights his transformation into a figure of significant influence, shaped by his experiences and the shared suffering of his people.

https://t.me/PalestineTunes/242

This debatebro has chatting nonstop at the corner of our antigenocide protest for 50 minutes by now

There was a guy in a fucking Hayek shirt who decided to pass on that schtick, the guy we’re stuck with is a true believer in Right-Sorkinist Socratic dialogue lol

https://al24news.com/en/algeria-mauritania-armies-sign-cooperation-protocol/

Algeria and mauritania sign military cooperation protocol. Interesting to note that at the same time morocco bombed mauritanian civilians in the liberated territories of western Sahara and just recently unveiled a drone developed with the help of the entity. Morocco took the habit since normalization to bomb civilians from other nations in western Sahara as a response.

Every little detail I hear about Sinwar's life and death makes it feel straight out of Shōnen Jump. A man born in a refugee camp that outlives him. A man who went from emiseration to a college degree. A man who became fluent in his oppressors language in captivity. A man who went from indefinite imprisonment to leading the resistance. A man who projects a Samsonian level of indomitability. They have to keep making excuses that 'he's in another country', 'he's underground' for why they just can't kill him for years, but you can find him walking down the street in Gaza and just pull him aside for an interview.

He's still above ground fighting, a year into the entire region being carpet-bombed with the expressed intent to kill him specifically. He gets hit with tanks, missiles, dronefire, he's still fighting with a severed hand–he's 61 years old! Even when he's bleeding out in a dusty-old chair exposed to the elements, the surveillance drone pilots are still instinctively dodging the pieces of rebar he's chucking at the damned thing in a final 'fuck you' to his oppressors with his one good hand.

They have to finish him off with a sniper round. They can't touch this man. They can't be near this man. He's the bogeyman. It feels intrinsically embarrassing to even make the comparison–it makes me feel like my analysis is fundamentally juvenile, but I just cannot shut it out of my mind, it keeps coming back to me the more I think about it–this man went out like Gojo Satoru. A life and a death that can only be rivaled by Che Guevara's in terms of it feeling straight out of fiction. What a guy.

I'm just one episode away from finishing listening to Blowback Season 5, about Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge. I encourage newsheads to listen to it, like all their seasons it's very well put together and detailed. Every so often in the newsmega there are posts about 'why don't the vietnamese like the chinese very much?' Without being vietnamese myself or having any special insight into vietnamese public opinion, I can't help but think that China's actions actively supporting the viciously murderous Khmer Rouge regime in the late 70s has something to do with this. It's pretty wild to me that there was a time within living memory where China and the US were working together to support the Khmer Rouge against their shared foes of Vietnam/USSR. Bizarre and ugly history.

blowback season 5 is paywalled but the hosts appeared on free episodes of radio war nerd and chapo earlier this month if you want to get the jist.