With the funeral of the late Khamenei drawing crowds of millions of Iranians, and many dozen visits from foreign delegations and high-up figures from around the world, the war itself has hit a temporary lull. It appears that the battle over whether the Omani route is legitimate is continuing, with transits sometimes relatively elevated (but still nowhere close to pre-war levels) due to American air support, and sometimes stopped by an Iranian strike. What’s currently happening in the negotiations is extremely unclear to me because of a massive deluge of conflicting information and intentional disinformation.
However, with Vance confirming on live TV that they are treating the MoU as an opportunity to refill oil stocks (not physically possible to any significant degree given current transits and the SPR’s current level) and that they’ll see where they’ll go from there, the US maintaining that Iran cannot be allowed to have a toll/service fee system, and of course the ethnic cleansing in Lebanon, I currently can’t see how this ends without a return to war. The alternative, of course, is that either the US’s or Iran’s position is much precarious than they’re letting on, and they are bluffing but will capitulate under serious fire. I’ve been keeping my mind as open to the latter possibility as I have the former, and of course, it’s not as if Iran’s economic situation is all sunshine and rainbows and so that could potentially be the deciding factor, but to me, militarily, Iran has never looked stronger. The missile cities truly stood the test, and its air defense network is still plenty powerful enough to deter American planes and drones from getting too close to its airspace.
Elsewhere, we are nearing the completion of the latest wave of comprador installation in Latin America, with Colombia and Peru returning to a hard right political stance after a brief stint with more left wing politics. Venezuela is also being forced into submission regardless of which party is technically in charge under threat of overwhelming force by the US, after the US successfully bypassed Venezuela’s major and only defence, a well-armed and party-loyal population in the hundreds of thousands, by simply saying “If you take arms against us on the ground, we will do you what we did to Gaza.” Whether the Venezuelan people will continue to accept this humiliation or rise up is still up to debate, but if there is no response by the government at all, it does seem to spell a pause, though not necessarily the end, of Chavismo as it is currently conceived, and new developments will be needed to take Venezuela forwards. And, finally, Cuba has been forced to take the Dengist route (reform and opening up) for the possibility of survival after nearly a century of a more tightly controlled socialist economy, as the siege this time around proved even more impactful than even the very difficult times after the fall of the USSR. The next logical steps for the US will be to crush Brazilian and Mexican leftist politics, so we may see the ignominious return of the Bolsonaro faction, and perhaps even the man himself.
As I currently see it, with electoral tampering and fraud now both very commonplace and essentially unpunishable by leftist forces, there’s three main paths forward for the continent: 1) a return to the anti-imperialist guerrilla warfare that characterized much of the 20th century due to the once-again-confirmed failure of electoral politics; 2) just accepting submission to regional US hegemony as the US withdraws and relocates its forces and agents from Eurasia under fire, and hoping that maybe they can win an election here or there and that Somebody Abroad Does Something (the mythical “international community”, etc); or 3) the allure of the growing Chinese hegemony proves too powerful for even the American compradors to resist and they sign developmentalist business deals with them that undercut the IMF and World’s Bank plan to maintain imperialist underdevelopment.
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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.
US Congressman Ro Khanna was detained by Israeli settlers for several hours. He was visiting a village demolished in 2023.
Asked if he was running for president, Khanna said: “I’m strongly considering it and I’m more resolved to consider it after this trip.”
President Gustavo Petro denounced widespread electoral fraud in Colombia’s overseas vote, calling for a full judicial investigation into the reported irregularities. Petro claimed the National Electoral Council has yet to complete the official vote count and alleged that “half of the fraud” was concentrated at overseas polling stations.
Russia strikes at Ukrainian military-industrial complex - Prensa Latina
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Moscow, July 11 (Prensa Latina) The Russian army carried out a group attack with high-precision weapons against facilities of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex, the Ministry of Defense reported today.
“This Saturday, the Russian Armed Forces carried out attacks using high-precision, long-range weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles. As a result, targets of the Ukrainian military industry in Kyiv, which are used to manufacture and store long- and medium-range unmanned aerial vehicles, were hit,” the military body stated on its official Telegram channel.
The military ministry added that the army also struck port infrastructure in the cities of Odesa, Chernomorsk, and Izmail, which are used to transport and store military cargo and fuel. Two substations were also hit.
“We have images of an attack by a Geran-4 Seeker unmanned aerial vehicle against a target of the energy infrastructure used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
A fire broke out at a 110-kilowatt substation in Shostka, Sumy region, following a Russian drone attack. The facility is out of service, the ministry said. Another damaged substation is located in the settlement of Mena, in the Chernihiv region.
Work continues in Cuba to restore the electrical power system - Prensa Latina
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Havana, July 11 (Prensa Latina) Microsystems were established in each of Cuba’s provinces to guarantee vital services as part of the work being undertaken today to restore the National Electrical System (SEN).
According to an update from the Electric Union (UNE), a voltage collapse occurred in the microsystem of the western region during the early morning hours.
The same source pointed out that the priority is to reincorporate the generation of the Energás Boca de Jaruco units to begin the startup process of the Máximo Gómez, Ernesto Guevara, Antonio Guiteras, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and Diez de Octubre thermoelectric plants.
Once the eastern part of the country is reached, the agency clarified, the generation of the Lidio Ramón (Felton) and Antonio Maceo units will be incorporated.
The UNE also highlighted the work carried out by the electrical workers after the SEN fell yesterday afternoon, who are working intensely to restore service as soon as possible.
Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero noted that due to the impact of the energy blockade imposed by the United States, two disconnections of the National Electric System (SEN) occurred in the last week, in a context where there is almost no fuel available to power the plants and with several generating units out of service.
“The work of the electricians is titanic. Amidst the disruptions, our recognition,” he wrote on his social media account.
Araghchi arrives in Muscat to discuss management of the Strait of Hormuz - Prensa Latina
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Tehran, July 11 (Prensa Latina) Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived today in Muscat, the capital of Oman, to discuss with Omani authorities the agreements on the management of the Strait of Hormuz, the regional situation and bilateral relations.
The official Iranian news agency IRNA reported that the visit continues consultations held over the past two months between Tehran and Muscat regarding navigation on that strategic waterway.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei explained that the strait is one of the central issues of the memorandum of understanding signed with the United States, mediated by Pakistan and Qatar.
According to Baghaei, the memorandum contemplates the cessation of hostilities, the lifting of the US naval blockade against Iran, and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
The closure of that route led to an increase in oil and gas prices, as well as greater inflationary pressures, according to the source.
“As agreed, we were to consult and cooperate with Oman on this matter. To date, several rounds of technical meetings have been held in both Tehran and Muscat, and this visit also marks the culmination of those consultations to facilitate safe navigation in the Strait of Hormuz,” Baghaei stated.
US media reported on Friday, citing unnamed officials, that Washington demanded Tehran publicly commit to not attacking vessels in Hormuz and to keeping its routes open to commercial shipping.
Iran, for its part, insists on the need to coordinate the transit of ships through the strait in advance, which is considered one of the most important routes for the global supply of energy.
The joint Iranian-Omani committee for the management of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz held its first meeting in Muscat on June 29.
The Omani delegation was headed by Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Hinai, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while the Iranian representation was led by Deputy Minister Kazem Gharibabadi.
According to the Tasnim news agency, the parties examined Article 5 of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, which refers to the guarantee of safe passage for merchant ships, and discussed the future of the management of the strait within the framework of the rights of coastal states.
Both delegations indicated that the coordination must respond to their common interests, respect the sovereignty of both countries and comply with international law and existing bilateral agreements.
Iran and Oman had previously agreed to create a joint working group to continue the dialogue and reach an understanding on the management of navigation and related maritime services.
Transporters rule out signing agreement with Bolivian government - Prensa Latina
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La Paz, July 11 (Prensa Latina) Leaders of the Bolivian Confederation of Drivers today refused to sign an agreement with the Government, demanding that it provide them with written commitments from the Executive to guarantee the supply of fuel in the country.
The executive secretary of that union organization, Lucio Gómez, reiterated the warning to take pressure measures if deemed necessary, despite the state of emergency, after a meeting with the Minister of Hydrocarbons, Marcelo Blanco, and the president of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), Sebastián Daroca.
“We have questioned all the things they have failed to do to date and, therefore, no conclusion has been reached on the subject of the meeting, but rather, on the contrary, they should make it known in writing,” he said.
Visibly annoyed, he stated that now no one can hide the long lines of vehicles at service stations waiting to refuel, in addition to the continued failures in the quality of gasoline and diesel.
This Friday, interdepartmental transport drivers reported that only between 20 and 30 percent of the fleets are working, while around 80 percent are in the kilometer-long lines at service stations.
Television footage showed how in Cochabamba, trucks, trailers, buses, tankers and other heavy vehicles queue for up to four days to refuel with diesel.
Meanwhile, a similar situation is being recorded in Santa Cruz.
On this matter, Gómez insisted that the authorities are expected to put their commitments in writing to the people regarding how they will help with the supply and the volumes that will be distributed, so that this document can be taken to the executive secretaries throughout the country.
“We expect them to send it to us, to let us know between today and tomorrow (…) so that it can be considered, otherwise, we have heard the whole report, (…) we cannot believe in lies again, we cannot believe in commitments again,” he emphasized.
He confirmed that, if the document is not delivered for analysis in all departments, they will take protest measures, which will be defined by all the federations affiliated with that national organization.
“I had already stated this,” Gómez recalled, “we are not concerned that we are in a state of exception, we are not involved in politics, we are asking for something social; transportation needs to work at the national, departmental and provincial levels, interdepartmental, for cargo and passengers.”
“Therefore, regarding what you have indicated you will do in a document, we expect you to comply, and if you do not, you will have problems with national transportation,” the transport leader concluded.
Cause and effect.
Netherlands recruited 29 top scientist leaving U.S. under Trump
The fund the Netherlands established to recruit leading scientists mainly attracted American researchers leaving the United States under the Trump administration. Of the 34 top scientists recruited last year, 29 came from the United States, the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science reported.
The Tulip Fund was established by the previous Cabinet shortly after Donald Trump took office in America and implemented massive cuts affecting the academic world. The Schoof I Cabinet injected €25 million into the fund, and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) contributed the same amount. The fund provides a maximum of €1 million per scientist for a period of five years.
https://xcancel.com/mhmiranusa/status/2075673331353653253 (machine-translated)
The reason for halting the deployment of the Boxer amphibious task force to the Middle East during the 39-day war was a technical malfunction in the main engine cooling pump, which caused the Boxer to head to the Diego Garcia base for repairs instead of the Arabian Sea, thereby limiting the Pentagon’s available options in the war. https://archive.ph/v7aDV
https://xcancel.com/haylen630/status/2075700430005215459
>try to salvage your stupid ass war with a even dumber deployment of marines to kharg island
>the assault ship breaks down halfway
Exclusive: Maintenance Sidelined USS Boxer in Iran War
The USS Boxer amphibious warship and the embarked 11th Marine expeditionary unit were sidelined due to an engine-related issue in the early weeks of the war against Iran, as the U.S. launched a blockade against all ships going into or out of Iranian ports and weighed the option of taking Iran’s Kharg Island.
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According to three officials familiar with the incident, the main circulation pump that cools the engine malfunctioned and needed replacing while the ship was en route to the Middle East. The Boxer had accelerated its deployment from the U.S. West Coast weeks ahead of schedule to help reinforce troops fighting against Iran. Instead of continuing to the Arabian Sea, the warship and its thousands of Marines and sailors waited for replacement parts and repairs at the U.S.-U.K. base on the tiny, remote Diego Garcia coral atoll in the Indian Ocean. “USS Boxer was temporarily sidelined during a critical period to control a maritime strait,” one official told Newsmax, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the press. Another official, frustrated by the situation, said the Marines had deployed early aboard Boxer “to give our leaders more options.” “That option was taken away for a while because of yet another maintenance issue with an amphib,” the official said, using the more common name for an amphibious warship.
By the time the repairs were completed, the three ships of the USS Boxer amphibious ready group — USS Boxer, USS Comstock, and USS Portland — were redirected to the Strait of Malacca in U.S. Pacific Command to conduct maritime interdictions of vessels sanctioned for providing material support to Iran. Marines with the amphibious ready group interdicted the stateless oil tanker M/T Tifani on April 21, according to U.S. Central Command. The Boxer ready group is currently taking part in operations against Iran in the Middle East, as President Donald Trump declared the tenuous ceasefire with Tehran was “over.” One official told Newsmax the Boxer was in good shape when it deployed in March, and the Navy crew is doing all it can to keep its amphibious ship going while paying the price for years of reduced fleet inventory and availability. The Boxer incident has not been previously reported, and it highlights how military leaders continue to face limited mission options for the Marine Corps’ most sought-after rapid response units due to problems with amphibious ships. Newsmax broke the news last month that a shortage of sea-ready amphibious ships likely will keep the Marine Corps from deploying another full-sized rapid response force aboard vessels for almost a year. The development severely curtails the service’s ability to respond to crises around the globe at a period that coincides with China’s stated timeline for potential action against Taiwan.
does any piece of equipment in this single-ply-toilet-paper tiger ass military fucking work? jesus christ, literally one of the core concepts behind your empire is being able to sail marines to any part of the world within a very short timeframe, that’s like one of the most important capabilities for you to maintain!
https://xcancel.com/Pataramesh/status/2075843252297593244
Two hangars destroyed at the 🇺🇸 section of Jordans Muwaffaq Salti Air Base
- Its not clear if they were aircraft maintenance hangars, no high-res photos exist yet from that newly build section
- But if they were, some 🇺🇸 fighter jets are now gone…
And yes, the most heavily defended U.S. airpower operating base outside Israel lost at least two critical structures to a Iranian salvo of just 10 missiles. Not really a tolerable condition to wage war
https://xcancel.com/MenchOsint/status/2075853490744692886
🛰 I found a Planet sat imagery of Muwaffaq Salti from February 21, 2026, and it shows that the two hangars destroyed by Iran 48 hours ago were not even built yet. So they were fresh ones … what were they housing 🤔
AMK Mapping claims Ukraine has run out of Patriot missiles. At least covering Kiev.
It appears that for the first time in a long time, Ukraine has completely ran out of Patriot PAC-2/3 interceptor missiles.
During the last two ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, not a single missile was shot down. The last successful interceptions took place on July 2, where 4 Iskander-M ballistic missiles were shot down. During that attack, significant number of Patriot interceptors were wasted on intercepting Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles, which are much harder to shoot down than Iskanders. In the end, not a single Zircon was shot down.
The last recorded launch of Patriot interceptors in Kyiv was during the attack on July 6, where multiple Patriot interceptors failed in flight, and not a single Iskander-M was shot down. Some Patriot PAC-2 interceptors were used to shoot down Kh-101 cruise missiles.
During last night’s attack and the attack on July 8, not a single Patriot launch was observed. Additionally, once again, most radars failed to detect the incoming missiles, resulting in the sirens sounding AFTER the impacts. This occurred during the attack on July 8 as well.
Given that Mark Rutte grovelled to get Poland to hand over just six interceptors this week, I’m incluned to believe they’re scraping the barrel.
EDIT: ZelenSSkyy made a statement saying Ukrainian forces will not be making interceptions until the AFU “has the means to do so”.
Al Jazeera - Rate of displacement in occupied West Bank doubling, UN says. At least 67 Palestinians have been displaced by demolitions in the occupied West Bank this month, and two dozen structures have been demolished, according to the latest figures from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
It says Israeli authorities demolish these structures for lacking building permits “which are nearly impossible for Palestinians to obtain”. OCHA added that settler attacks and demolitions due to a lack of these permits this year have displaced more than 3,200 Palestinians, “an average of 17 people per day, double the daily rate over the preceding three years”.
Trump 1h ago
1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME! Orders have already been given, and the U.S. Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran - PRAISE BE TO ALLAH! President DONALD J. TRUMP
What are some good resources about the land back movement?
I’ve been afraid of learning about dark pieces of history, but after everything I’ve watched about Gaza, maybe I can make room after all for more of the US’s history to do with indigenous people within the US.
Btw, How to Erase a People by the YT channel uncivilized, is a great video doing a one-to-one comparison between Palestinians and indigenous people in the US.
When a gang of motorcycle-riding members of Boko Haram attacked a military base in eastern Nigeria a couple of years ago, they were stymied by a defensive trench surrounding the complex.
The extremists regrouped. Before launching another assault, they asked A.I. for help.
“We saw in a movie how motorcycles can jump over bridges,” a former Boko Haram commander told Antonia Juelich, a terrorism and technology researcher at Cambridge University. “We used A.I. to learn how to do this. We gave it information, like what motorcycles we use and the distance we need to jump and so on, and it gave us steps on what we have to do.”
Using tips from chatbots, mechanics modified the motorcycles to allow for faster acceleration and top speed. The riders dug their own holes, filled them with broken glass and fire, and practiced jumps — sometimes with fatal outcomes — until they achieved enough aerial liftoff to mount a successful attack, defectors said.
The episode, recounted in a research paper by Dr. Juelich shared with The New York Times ahead of its publication on Friday, highlights how generative artificial intelligence tools are increasingly aiding terrorist groups directly on the battlefield, experts say, despite efforts by their makers to safeguard them from misuse.
Reuters: US senators say agreement reached with Trump on Russia sanctions bill
These are Lindsey Graham’s “Bone-crushing” sanctions that would apply to countries buying Russian oil and gas. They said they were imminent last year and then nothing happened. Maybe they were put on hold due to the Alaska summit, but I don’t remember the exact timeline.
There’s a lot of potential “strategic synergy” here given the current situation with the global energy markets. China is of course the ultimate target.
