Spain Will Formalize its Arms Embargo on Israel
Spain continues to lead opposition to Israel among European states. Not a high bar to clear, but credit where it's due to the extent that it is.
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Bulletins and News Discussion from September 8th to September 14th, 2025 - Reconciliation, Resets, and Really Cool Parades
(hexbear.net)
Analysis and images of the parades is all over the internet and in the last megathread; for the China-India stuff I recommend this article, as well as the Tricontinental in general.
Image is from @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net's comment in the last megathread.
Last week was the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2, and on such an occasion, China put on quite an impressive military parade, especially in comparison to the rather drab and corporate parade that the USA recently had. In attendance were many world leaders, including Putin, Kim Jong Un, and a very happy-looking Lukashenko.
This took place shortly after the SCO summit in Tianjin, in which Modi was notably in attendance. That one of the world's most powerful fascists was in attendance in China near the anniversary of the World Antifascist War is obviously pretty ironic. Regardless, the mood was still relatively positive; for example, Xi announced the acceleration of the creation of the SCO development bank, and Indian-Chinese relations are once again in the thaw cycle of their long-term cyclical pattern, with direct flights resumed and links expanded. The fact that there is this much projected optimism from China about a Global South which is being increasingly tariffed, infiltrated, starved, looted, bombed, invaded, and massacred in the hundreds of thousands by rabid imperialist dogs is perhaps a little tone-deaf, but buoying up the SCO is better than doing nothing at all, I suppose.
Any astute Geopolitics Understander can tell you that this is certainly not India joining the side of the Global South, but instead a move somewhat forced upon them as they seek to balance both sides for their own gain. As Trump amps up pressure on India via tariffs, it is natural that India would seek leverage, and there is much that India gains: industrial development, increased intra-regional trade, and scientific knowledge from a China which has, in numerous fields, now pulled ahead of the USA. India is also facing numerous internal crises, ranging from run-of-the-mill capitalist incompetence and corruption, to worsening conditions for farmers, to the ravaging impacts of climate change, and increasing their links with China is a way to vent off a little of that pressure and protect Modi's regime.
Last week's thread is here.
The Imperialism Reading Group is here.
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Israel'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 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.
Can anyone fill me in on the implications on the Murdoch deal I’m too busy to look into it
Sounds to me like the son who wants to keep news corp super conservative won out? So now there won’t be drama when the old fucker croaks and nothing will happen?
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/epstein-birthday-book-congress-9d79ab34
Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump’s Signature Revealed
Lawyers for Epstein’s estate have given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book
god forbid a man have a hobby outside of sports and grilling
Authorities are saying he was arrested and forced to immediately resume sports gambling
dudes rock
General Gerasimov turned 70 years old today, the age limit for high ranking officers in the Russian Armed Forces, and Putin reportedly awarded him the Order of Courage. There's a good chance he will retire and be replaced.
The timing is kind of a weird coincidence. Trump's 50 day sanctions deadline just expired, Russia and Ukraine are getting more aggressive with their missile strikes, and the "hot phase" of the Zapad military exercises in Belarus is beginning this weekend.
First norwegian election results are in: *Succdem-led block on top with a lead of ~9 mandates *Fascist party second largest party with ~24% of votes counted
Who gained, who lost?
Socdems up, socialists up, other socialists down, greens up, centrists way down, conservatives way down, libertarians/fascists way up, christian conservatives up, libs down.
Final count still some hours away.
So overall polarization between right and left, with center right and left collapsing? Are any of the socialists or greens any good?
Both socialist parties (Rødt/Red party and Sosialistisk venstreparti/Socialist left party) are cool, green party (Miljøpartiet de grønne) have some good policies but are mostly lib.
another french cracker got no-confidenced
unlimited macrons on the french budget
(watch ps suggest some dipshit for prime minister with policies of unlimited police/military budgets, but they would also re-privatize the edf to saudis to limit the austerity)
I really don't understand how the French system works. Why is macron still president?
in the current constitution, the French president is legally god
DE GAULLE
President is a separate entity, same as in usa, but parliament elects ministers to do stuff, like in germany (not consents to president's selection like in usa (although macron did some shopping around to get bayrou in the first place)
but parliament elects ministers to do stuff
Technically the president unilaterally choses the PM, who is not obligated to submit himself to a vote of confidence (though before Macron, PMs usually did), and the PM choses the ministers (though in practise the president usually has a strong influence on the picks). However the parliament can force the PM and his government to resign through a no-confidence vote (that's what happened last winter), so it is supposed to have some amount of leverage vis à vis the government. What happened here is slightly different, the PM called for a confidence vote, but the effect is the same (though there are slight differences in how the votes are tallied).
apparently I managed to post these a couple of hours right before the last thread ended:
a more substantial article on nakedcapitalism on european militarization, austerity, and the shift from fever dream balkanization of russia via shipment of arms to their ukrainian proxy towards domestic crackdown with the same military assets.
The money graph:
[Protests in western European capitals] might look like child’s play once the current European leadership is finished decimating national economies with endless self-destructive decisions all stemming from a ruling class dream to balkanize Russia. In the name of that goal, they have replaced cheap and affordable energy with the expensive kind, killed industry, engaged in economic warfare with much of the rest of the world in a failed bid to isolate Moscow, and become completely beholden to American vultures.
I think that connecting the dots between proxy dreams, militarization, austerity, and domestic crackdowns is very important for the actual left.
Inshallah, the European powers don't drag us all into a new world war. Inshallah their demise is swift and otherwise harmless.
I doubt it, but it's always nice to pray! 
My read on the current global situation is that China's global alter-economy is weakening the imperialists more and more every single day. That leaves the super-empire with more incentive to wage wars but less ability to win wars. The likely outcome is a few terrible wars that go badly for the empire and then a fading of the US as global hegemon. Elaborated below, this is off the dome and probably like 40% bullshit:
spoiler
The super-empire's gotten by on financial imperialism as its primary tool for a long time, wielding the IMF + World Bank tag team to trap the global south in underdevelopment. China (and the rest of BRICS to a lesser extent) is breaking that through alternative financial and development models. The PRC is the world's second largest exporter of capital. It invests hugely in the global south with low profit margins and high rates of debt forgiveness or restructuring in favor of the borrowing nations. In fact, the PRC has lost over $700 billion dollars in its foreign investments. On the other hand, those investments have been huge boons to the countries receiving them, increasing jobs, industry, infrastructure, etc. All of this means that the indirectly coercive tools of the super-empire, based on having no other option for access to capital, are losing their grip. Why take that IMF money with structural adjustments and de-development when you can get Chinese money with no strings attached that they'll forgive if you really need them to?
That means the US and co need to put more of their resources into costlier and riskier forms of directly coercive violence. They'll ramp up their efforts at regime change operations, where they've had a few big wins recently, like Syria. But Syria took 15 years of horrifying civil war to bring down. And the US has had plenty of defeats to, totally failing to unseat Maduro and seemingly helpless to do anything about Morena in Mexico. Lula is back in power and the US's efforts to attack him are shoring up his weak public support. They've had no big wins in Africa recently. As countries get a twinge more economic stability and sovereignty, they become less vulnerable to these attacks. And that leaves the US with just the big one: direct military intervention.
Obviously, the US is always willing to go to war, but it's never the preferred path. It's incredibly expensive and unpopular and doesn't have anywhere near the success rate of financial manipulation. Iraq was a half-victory, Afghanistan an outright failure. Though the super-empire is capable of projecting power anywhere, it can't project power everywhere. And the same economic development that makes countries resistant to color revolutions and coups makes them resistant to military intervention.
So you have history's greatest killer, dripping with blood and actively wreaking havoc where it can, but in a gradually shrinking operational zone. The longer it waits to substantially escalate military conflict, the worse its economic situation gets and the harder military victory becomes. The empire is fully aware of all of these dynamics and now has to choose how to deploy its proportionally shrinking but still gargantuan resources to hold onto what it can and use it to build a new economic base to beat China before it's too late. If they act decisively, waging major wars during Trump's current term, they might be able to cow enough countries into submission to peel them off of China and, hopefully, block the PRC's growing alternative. The PRC will almost certainly not intervene militarily to protect anyone - maybe increase trade, provide some critical components for arms. Is that Chinese trade support enough for countries to repel the US? It was for Iran, but who's as strong as Iran? The other alternative is the US realizes that it's already too late to win a global war (which it is) and turns its focus squarely to where it has the most control: Europe and the Americas. Leave Africa and Asia to China (for now) and convert its vassals and colonies into a massive war machine to feed a very hungry and sickly capitalist class.
I predict an attack on Venezuela, which is the biggest counterhegemonic force in Latin America that the US could potentially crush. It can't really do anything militarily to Mexico or Brazil except kill a bunch of people, but it might be able to remove Maduro and put in a comprador that can revive the US economy through a massive infusion of cheap oil (by starving the renewable energy industry, Trump is trying to create conditions where this war is totally unavoidable). But I don't think that war would have much success. You'd get the first true repeat of a Vietnam-like war that wrecks the US economy and political system, but they won't have alternative countries to turn to except Europe. Somebody in Europe is going to say "fuck this" and we'll get war on the paranoid peninsula once again. That might spill over into Africa and West Asia, but I think Europeans have very little juice when it comes to global war these days. The continette will be plundered, the US will get a dead cat bounce, and then the whole creaky thing will lay down and die, its military resources exhausted and its financial tools made irrelevant.
If we can kick off a revolution or two in the imperial core, this whole thing could get disrupted.
God willing, the empire explodes in its attempt to dominate over the world directly
On Belt and Road initative
In fact, the PRC has lost over $700 billion dollars in its foreign investments. On the other hand, those investments have been huge boons to the countries receiving them, increasing jobs, industry, infrastructure, etc.
I don't doubt its material prosperity to its receivers, but where'd you get the number 700 billion?
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GSR.NFCY.CD?most_recent_value_desc=true You can isolate that data just to China in the bar up top. They are the lowest net income from abroad in the world except for Ireland (who totally isn't colonized anymore btw, don't worry about it)
A lot of this argument is pulling from this phenomenal book, Why The World Needs China. I just finished it a few days ago and strongly, strongly recommend it. I'm gonna do an effort post on it sooner or later.
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If its anyone that starts a new world war it will be US, europeans wont doing anything without approval from washington
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Turkish police seize opposition HQ in Istanbul:
Riot police stormed the Istanbul headquarters of the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on 8 September, forcing entry after hours of clashes to escort court-appointed interim chief Gursel Tekin inside.
The Istanbul 45th Civil Court of First Instance had dismissed provincial head Ozgur Celik last week, ruling that delegate votes in the party’s 2023 provincial congress were influenced by alleged bribery.
The court threw out the elected board and named former CHP deputy chair Tekin as interim provincial head, a decision rejected by both Celik and CHP headquarters.
Tekin, who earlier said he would not enter the headquarters with police, requested riot police support after both the CHP headquarters and Celik rejected his appointment.
He arrived to find the building barricaded and occupied by party members, including MPs.
Riot police used pepper spray and shields to disperse demonstrators, with CHP member Suat Ozcagdas telling Halk TV that officers fired tear gas “inch by inch” as they moved floor by floor inside the building.
“There are elderly people and people with asthma. On every floor they enter with gas. This is a human rights violation,” he said.
Protests began on Sunday, when the CHP called on Istanbul residents to gather outside its offices after police cordoned off the site.
Earlier on Monday, several political influencers who had voiced support for the protests were detained.
Internet watchdogs reported bandwidth throttling that slowed access to social media platforms.
The CHP denounced the takeover as a “siege.”
In a separate interview with the Financial Times (FT), party leader Ozgur Ozel accused the government of staging “a coup against the future ruling party.”
“They are trying to take over the party that won the last election, was the founding party of the Turkish republic, is the party leading every poll … We’re facing an authoritarian government and … the only option is to resist,” he said.
In Istanbul, Tekin claimed those resisting him “were not CHP members.”
“Nothing can stop us, even if they shoot us,” he said, insisting he would not back down, after a water bottle was thrown at him as he attempted a press statement.
The party’s general headquarters later announced it would close its provincial branch headquarters and operate from another location until a new Istanbul congress is held.
The Istanbul decision has drawn attention to a separate lawsuit in Ankara, scheduled for 15 September, which could annul the results of the CHP’s 38th Ordinary Congress in 2023 and unseat Ozel.
Since October 2024, more than 500 CHP members and officials have been detained nationwide, according to state disclosures reviewed by Reuters in July.
The arrests have included Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival, and 16 CHP mayors accused of corruption. CHP figures have described the campaign as a political operation to dismantle the party after its victories in last year’s local elections.
4 Nazis burned in Gaza via another dunking operation, inshallah there is video
“ "Israeli" media reported that this morning, around 5 AM, an explosive device was thrown at an IOF tank crew near Jabalia, northern #Gaza. Fire was opened on the tank and its commander, leading to the tank catching fire and all crew members being killed.
4 soldiers were killed. Between Al-Quds and Gaza, 10 settlers and soldiers have been killed today so far.“
Milei suffers major setback in bellwether vote
With 91% of polling stations reporting, Fuerza Patria has 47% of vote against nearly 34% for Milei's ruling La Libertad Avanza.
President Javier Milei vowed Sunday to "accelerate" his libertarian reforms after a crushing defeat in elections in Buenos Aires Province. The regional vote carries significant weight and comes ahead of highly anticipated midterms on October 26.
The 54-year-old economist has slashed public spending, dismissed tens of thousands of public employees and led a major deregulation drive since taking office in December 2023. He acknowledged his party's "clear defeat" by the centre-left Peronist movement in the elections to the legislature of Buenos Aires Province, the country's economic powerhouse.
A deflated-sounding Milei admitted to unspecified "mistakes" which he vowed to "correct" but said he would not be swayed "one millimetre" from his reform agenda. “Not only will we continue on the same course, but we will deepen and accelerate it,” he said at a muted election night event in the resort of La Plata, where he took the stage in silence, in marked contrast to his usual dramatic entrance to rock music.
Most of his officials left the headquarters as soon as the President finished speaking, without making any statements to the press. With 91 percent of the votes counted, the centre-left Fuerza Patria coalition had taken over 47 percent of the vote against nearly 34 percent for Milei's ruling La Libertad Avanza, official results showed. The 13-point gap between Milei's party and the left was far greater than opinion polls had predicted. Turnout in the election was high, at around 63 percent.
Elections in Buenos Aires Province are telling as a bellwether for Argentina. The region contributes more than 30 percent of Argentina's GDP and accounts for 40 percent of all eligible voters. The election renewed 23 Senate seats and 46 banks in the provincial legislature. The result poses major concerns for Milei, coming just six weeks before midterm elections. Some members of his party downplayed the extent of the defeat, pointing out that La Libertad Avanza had nonetheless increased its share of legislators in Buenos Aires Province.
The government went into the election under a cloud following a corruption scandal at the ANDIS national disability agency involving the president's sister and right-hand woman, Karina Milei.
In a sign of the anger among many Argentines over the affair, Milei and his sister were pelted with stones on the campaign trail in late August, with skirmishes breaking out among supporters and opponents. Karina Milei, who has not defended herself publicly, voted at around noon and left surrounded by supporters, without making any statements to the press. The ruling party's election drubbing comes three days after Milei suffered a major setback when Congress overturned his veto of a law increasing allowances for disabled people.
Disabled people bad, according to the ancaps. Straight up nazi shit.
On the economic front, the self-described "anarcho-capitalist" is struggling also, despite success in fighting inflation and in erasing a fiscal deficit. Last week, his government began selling treasury dollars to stem the depreciation of the currency, the peso, which had been accelerating in recent weeks despite high interest rates.
"We must learn from this” [election defeat], La Libertad Avanza candidate Diego Valenzuela told AFP, claiming that the result "was due to not engaging in economic populism, which is new in Argentina." His remarks were aimed at the Peronists, accused by Milei of leading South America's second-biggest economy to ruin through excessive spending and protectionism. Milei's party absorbed former president Mauricio Macri's (2015-19) PRO party for the elections, while Peronism secured hard-fought unity despite multiple internal rifts.
Electoralism sucks for sure but it's still good the see the ancaps lose regardless. Their handling of the economy is, to say the least, not very good and that has a direct impact on a lot of working class people in the Province of Buenos Aires, which almost by default is a Peronist stronghold... and now it's gotten even bigger.
Still unclear what's going to happen. I do wish milei gets to purge her own sister from the party because of that corruption scandal lmfao, that would be absolute cinema. However, it is very likely that he'll do a minor purge, some "reshuffling" along internal lines and go back at it with full austerity until the general elections in 2027. Perhaps they'll put the entire economic model on overdrive to see if they can make it that far, but it'll end up crashing anyways, Macri did that to secure a win in the elections in the past and not only lost the electoral process but he also crashed the economy lmfao.
Meanwhile the Trots got around 5% of the votes, solid third place all things considered. Not a terrible result for a party that: Doesn't really care about electoralism, does politics in a heavily Peronist region, does politics without any kind of media support and campaign funds are acquired completely from internal backers, which is, their own militancy. They secured two seats.
Also, look at this loser lmao
Dresses like shit, looks like shit and probably smells like shit too. HOW MANY LAYERS OF CLOTHING DO YOU NEED? It wasn't even that cold last night lmao
Libertarians really are the dumbest people on the planet. "Oh, my complete cutting of all government funding resulted in a massive economic crash and destroyed everyone's lives and wasn't the miracle that fixed everything I thought it would be? Clearly the problem is that I didn't slash enough funding!"
Is that a leather jacket under a leather jacket?
Yes. I'm actually surprised you could move with such heavy jackets, even more when he has MORE CLOTHING UNDERNEATH.
Dude's way off, something is really off about him apart from well, everything else. His way of dressing is questionable at best, always using these big leather jackets and dirty pants as well as horrible shoes, most of the times he's wearing black. He was never seen with a simple shirt, casual or otherwise, he's always covered in long clothes even during the summer...
He comes off as a weird ass dude, not to inspiring tbh. It's even worse when he talks about food, how eating actually bothers him and if he could "just inject food to save up time he would". Like who the fuck thinks like that about food? In Argentina even, were we fucking love food of all sorts...
how eating actually bothers him and if he could "just inject food to save up time he would". Like who the fuck thinks like that about food?
I know an autistic person who has a lot of sensory issues regarding food and would much rather not have to eat if they could. Some people just have very different attitudes towards things. It is strange that he doesn't have handlers telling him how to dress and behave for better PR though. Maybe no one around him gives enough of a shit, they're just there to loot and plunder the economy.
He makes me feel uncomfortable in a way that even other ghouls don't manage to
I think there's a weird genuineness to him. He's like if your local basement dwelling ancap who has never had a proper conversation with another person IRL managed to somehow become the leader of a country. He's not a grifter, he's sincere in his stupidity.
What do you mean?
that must be a kink, and i really wouldnt put it past him