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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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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.
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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
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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:
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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.
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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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In what way is it a loss for the US to weaken its trade with the world's factory while China uses the opportunity to increase trade with the rest of the world and internal consumption? China is suffering no economic harm and further strengthening its central position in the world economy while US manufacturing and the dollar's position both decline. The existence of the tariffs if not a victory for the US is they do exactly the opposite of what they intend to and China gives nothing in return.
If American tariffs don’t harm China, and in fact aid it, as you are arguing, why did China work vigorously towards lowering them from 200+% down to 50%? If it’s so great for them why bother? They obviously care and it obviously damages them or they wouldn’t be entertaining this game of chicken with Trump and would have just ignored him
You are not well informed about this. https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/06/trumps-us-china-trade-tariffs-timeline/
Currently, the tariffs are 33% from China and 50% from the US. Pretty comparable.
Because there is a substantial qualitative difference between a total halt to trade, as happened when they were 150%+, versus costs easily absorbed by Chinese industry (mostly at the expense of American distributors) at 50%. And importantly, that halt to trade was far more damaging to the US than it was to China. China was able to confidently say "we will match you in halting trade until you buckle and come back to the table", which is exactly what happened and exactly what would happen again if the US does this silly 500% tariff move.
While that was going on, China increased and deepened trade relationships with essentially every single country on earth. But you're obsessed with what the tariff numbers are - you're using the Trump metric of success. Whoever has the bigger tariffs wins. But what we as materialists actually need to look at are what effects this has on the global flow of capital and commodities. While full Q2 numbers aren't available since it ended yesterday, April numbers - when the trade war was its very height and US-Chinese trade effectively halted - show that China's foreign trade overall increased: https://www.china-briefing.com/news/chinas-economy-april-2025-resilient-exports-and-investment-defy-us-tariffs/exports-and-investment-defy-us-tariffs/
China initiated new positive negotiations and signed new trade deals with a slew of different countries during and since the tariff war: ASEAN, Japan and Korea, South America, and Europe. Vietnam joined BRICS!
The primary objective of the tariff war was to isolate China from the global market by making everyone choose between the world's two biggest economies. And in essentially every single instance, the world chose China. The US instead isolated itself, and because the dipshits running the empire don't understand materialism, they also backfired on both the secondary objective of strengthening the dollar's role as global reserve and the tertiary objective of strengthening US manufacturing .
If you look any more deeply than "US tariff number bigger", you'll see that tariff war backfired in exactly the way every single sensible Marxist predicted it would.
Chinese EV manufactures are consolidating into duopolies and seem to be following the market capture route that Amazon and Netflix did, underselling competition and seizing the market share. Especially in the EU but also every other market except the US. This is compounded by their independent infrastructure, production capabilities and capacity, as well as battery and charging technologies. The dialectic rule of sufficient quantity making a qualitative change is near.
I think regardless of which side we take I think it is fairly safe to say the rare earth nuke was fairly underwhelming.
For such a last resort "superweapon" they surely wasted on a shit deal that at best, being extremely generous, just maintains the previous status quo for some short amount of time.
The question should be what other weapons are China capable never mind willing to use again that are capable of achieving the same effect?
China only used (one of?) their best weapons to just force the same death cult embrace to continue. Who cares about calling that a victory? I fear the US is realizing they can pressure not China but their partners and Chinese non-interventionalism is the best possible gift.
Personaly I need to see those Chinese J-10s actualy parked on some airbase in Iran "soon" before we even begin to see a clear and real change of Chinese FP forced by Israel`s aggression.