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Water service returns in Iraq’s Kirkuk Kakai villages
Ahmed Kirkuki said that the committee treated the issue “as a top priority” after receiving complaints from residents, launching a series of meetings with relevant authorities to find a permanent solution and restore water supply lines. “Many residents had been forced to rely on water tankers and alternative sources to meet their daily needs, placing a significant financial and living burden on families.”
https://shafaq.com/en/society/Water-service-returns-in-Iraq-s-Kirkuk-Kakai-villages

Iraq making headway on pass long-shelved, controversial cybercrime bill
The bill was first introduced by the Iraqi council of ministers under the ex-preimer Nouri al-Maliki in 2011. The political establishment sought greater control over digital infrastructure following the regional so-called Arab Spring protests, which demonstrated the power of social media to mobilize the public.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/categories/iraq/1078261

Deir Ezzor tops the list | 61 attacks by IS*IS claims lives of 50 people in Syria in 2026
Despite the ongoing security and military operations to pursue ISIS cells in different areas of Syria, ISIS cells have carried out different attacks, ambushes, assassinations and IED explosions since the beginning of 2026, targeting primarily military and security forces of the Syrian Interim Government along with civilians in several areas.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/384202/

‘Farcical reality’: Healthcare workers respond to targeting over pro-Palestine symbols
Middle East Eye spoke to a number of pro-Palestine NHS workers about their experience campaigning against the genocide in Gaza and the backlash they have faced from their workplace as a result. The Mann report was commissioned by former health secretary Wes Streeting in 2025 to investigate antisemitism in the NHS. However, the British Medical Association (BMA) noted that, although the need to combat antisemitism and racism within the NHS is vital, some of the recommenPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

EPA proposes weakening heavy-duty truck pollution rules
Specifically, the proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency would scale back and postpone two provisions designed to make sure emissions-reducing technology keeps working while a vehicle is in use; one related to warranties, and another related to the useful life of emissions technology.
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/09/nx-s1-5886354/epa-heavy-duty-truck-emissions

In ‘Death Knell for America’s Wildlife,’ Trump Admin Guts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species
Whereas the law has for decades been interpreted as protecting endangered animals’ habitats from significant “modification or degradation,” the administration said that offenders would have to directly injure or kill an endangered animal to be considered in violation of the law.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-endangered-species-act-2677204239

Detainees tell their lawyer an ICE officer shot a Houston driver through a passenger window
The shooting Tuesday during an attempted traffic stop by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Houston has revived critical voices deriding the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and how ICE operates. Immigration arrests around the country recently surged to 10,000 over a five-day period, fueled in part by massive Congressional funding.
https://apnews.com/article/ice-shooting-houston-lorenzo-salgado-araugo-10cf77f29d4559f0f3796342b946031a

Thousands of LA renters housed during pandemic no longer at risk of homelessness, officials say
On Thursday, city and county housing authorities announced that increased federal funding and improved local budgets will now allow all emergency housing voucher holders to transition out of the temporary pandemic program and into the traditional Housing Choice Voucher program, widely known as Section 8.
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Indian Workers Are on the Front Line of Global Exploitation
All over the world, we can find Indian migrant workers subject to extreme forms of exploitation and abuse: dying in the Gulf states as a result of the US war on Iran, just as they died a few years earlier of heat exhaustion as they built the stadiums for the World Cup in Qatar; brought in to replace Palestinians on Israeli construction sites after October 2023; trapped in modern slavery on Italian farms or bamboozled into the Russian army. This is not a coincidence but a structural design. To understand why Indians are so consistently available to do precarious work in the most dangerous places and on the cheapest terms, we have to begin in a Dalit basti in Bihar, a manual scavenger’s neighborhood in Andhra Pradesh, or an Adivasi village in Jharkhand. The compliance that global capital values in Indian labor was first produced inside India itself. It operates through caste structures, landlessness, and the systematic informalization of work, codified by a social system that treats these workers as disposable long before they cross any border.
https://jacobin.com/2026/07/india-caste-migrant-labor-exploitation

Corporate Dems Are Weaponizing Graham Platner’s Demise
It's clear something messed up happened in Graham Platner's relationships, and he hasn't hidden that. But let's be adults. This is a political attack. Notable Maine Democratic Party donors in recent years include Reid Hoffman, Haim Saban, and David Ellison. David Ellison! As in the Trump ally who fired Stephen Colbert and is taking over TikTok, CBS News, and CNN. These names should mean something. Saban may be the single most important AIPAC donor in the Democratic Party. Another big donor to the Maine Democratic Party is the founder of Zynga, Mark Pincus, who said in 2024 that "When you attack Amazon, you’re attacking America." It goes beyond big tech and Wall Street. Crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried’s partner Nishad Singh at FTX gave $100,000 to the Maine Democratic Party in 2022. The insiders running the party are the people funded through these streams of revenue. They are the ones dealing with the donors and currying favor with them. And while I will not speak out of school, the Maine Democratic establishment simply cannot be trusted and thaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.



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Let's imagine an economy where production and distribution is determined through a plan, where workers obey an elected factory manager, and where there is no massive corruption or parallel market activity.
How would the following issues be solved ?

>information problem

How do you determine where to allocate labor, and where to distribute the products

>Under/Over reporting problem

There is an incentive gap between the workers at a factory tasked with production, and the planners who do not know how much they can produce.
How do you make certain that the workers are truthful about their productive capacities ?

>innovation problem

How do you make sure that there workers aim at adopting and implementing new technologies to the fullest extent possible, and that they also try to develop local innovations by themselves.
In essence, how do you make sure that the workers use the most efficient means of production.

>ECP/Price determination

If the economy is currency-less, how do you determine opportunity-costs ? If there is some form of tractability between goods, how do you determine the prices of different goods.
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>>2858541
> on the contrary I have many premises, which is why I find your lazy assumptions about my motivations and inability to tell different users apart incredibly both tedious and, in and of themselves, part of the case against planning.
>its a material fact
>its an obvious fact
lots of assumptions there bud, still no premise

>>2858541
yeah, dirt cheap travel by plane is totally a prerequisite for a functioning market economy and not an example of the excesses and wastefulness of it. boeing becoming a dysfunctional quasi state enterprise that lost its core competency in engineering and manufacturing functional air planes is a great example for how well the market is able to allocate ressources in an efficient manner.
you ignoring every good faith post giving you arguments isn't you being a dishonest wrecker moron.

its totally us who are lazy and combatative and not you who has not a single clue about even the most basic fundamentals of political economy; or how a modern manufacturing supply chain operates end to end.

>>2858806
  1. (you) every post you think is mine, I need a good laugh
  2. yes, people being able to travel is good, actually.
  3. you can't accuse me of blaming the state for boeing's failures and then turn around to claim I'm using it being a quasi state entity as an example of market efficiency. this is just incoherent. stop seething and think before you post. (after you hastily (you) half the thread, of course.)

>>2858861
Nothing and no one will ever travel, that’s immigration and it’s scabbing

>>2856695
OP Please read through >>2566144



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I look at early Science fiction, and it seems a lot of it before the 50's had a communist character to it - thinking of stuff like "Red Star" or the whole topic of Russian Cosmism, it seems a lot of this got swallowed up by liberal and pro-colonial science fiction (starship troopers, star trek). So what happened? How would you contrast proletarian science fiction and bourgeoisie science fiction generally?
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I'm reading Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale from Ivan Yefremov (hottie) and it's very pleasing the optimism, I'm not exactly sure how far it is into the future but then everything is organized through councils/commissions.

you can also check this thread on /hobby/
>>>/hobby/2419

>starship troooooopers
>Pro-colonial

>>2863528
Might not be colonial but it sure compares the bugs to chinese communists

>>2863286

Bull’s Hour is the sequel and it’s also excellent!



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If crime is merely a function of poverty why do the bourgeoisie who are ultra rich commit so many crimes?

Seems to me crime is more of a function of sociopathy than poverty
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>>2863069
>If crime is merely a function of poverty
I'd say of wealth inequality, not poverty.
/QTDDTOT/ though, ig.


>>2863084
>theft is caused by poverty
The intellectual might of leftism.

>>2863069
>If crime is merely a function of poverty
it's not
literally every single study on the subject shows this

>If crime is merely a function of poverty
Nice misframing, monkey boy!

This claim is usually made in the context of petty theft, violent muggings and gang murders. The kind of crime that makes everyday people, or small business owners, feel unsafe.
The ultrawealthy and states tend towards committing different crimes.

>Seems to me crime is more of a function of sociopathy than poverty

Crime and law is not a proxy for morality or social cohesion. I regularly avoid paying the wealthy and I use those savings to support people and organizations in need - am I therefore a sociopath?



 

Why do almost all modern "communist" party members look like 'that'.
I sound like a conservative here but all communists nowadays look fat and uncared for. Aren't ML parties supposed to prepare a vanguard for the revolution? If so why do most ML parties have members like slobs? Every time I look at my local communist org I get repulsed and honestly, if I weren't a communist myself, I would never take them seriously.
What is the solution to this degeneracy?
>pic kind of related
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>>2853562
Substack reads: "Virgil Abloh's Modernism"

>>2853790
good chance of that or he follows leftypol/leftypol adjacent accounts on twitter

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>>2853449
Least of our problems when proletarians ask why "socialism failed" in the USSR.

>omg fellow commies, does anyone else think we're all fat and ugly teehee. why don't we all wear suits and rant about degeneracy



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🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™


<Armed, But Uninspired Edition


OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources

(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)

ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
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>>2841487
>if the working class actually exercises its primary strength as identified by Marx, that of the ability to withhold work, it's just bargaining and expecting the bourgeoisie to roll over


well damn i guess marx was just a retarded liberal.


>>2840691
Kind of hope the disillusionment with Platner is a sign that people are getting fatigued of vets coming home and waving their military credentials in front of their face, as if it means anything other than they’re a mercenary for imperialism.



 

🗽 UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

>Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™


<7/7 Never Forget Edition


OP Backup Site: https://usapol.neocities.org/
💀 ICE & Prison Resources

(Amerika is the most incarcerated country in the world!)

ICE tracker using public info and user submissions // https://www.iceinmyarea.org/
list of deaths at ICE concentration camps // https://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers
visualization of prison population in US // https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in (RANT Collective) // https://www.organizingforpower.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Organizing-in-Jail.pdf
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>>2862821
>The ones I have seen in that thread are quoting Carl Schmitt
>no screenshots or context
damn that's crazy

>>2863010
>prove to the class
What class?
>i stand by my statement that rightism is mental illness
Not wrong, but not the complete truth. Rightism is also confusion and ignorance.
>i stand by my claim that the average man under 55 voted for trump
Sauceless statement
>if "going to college" turns rightists into lib/leftists, "not going to college" is being raised wrong. simple as
Not an absolute

>>2863015
the metaphorical class which positions me as a teacher, everyone else as students, and you in particular as a bad student being told to explain their behaviour to the class, all for comic effect. (now here's the lesson: unlike anything in my earlier post, that particular phrase was performative.)

>>2862625
>leftoid media
>ditch the people who found Platner objectionable
I didn't even see that but then again, i don't go to shit sites like twitter all the time

>make their beds with the DNC "progressives"

The people who found him objectionable were the main part of the DNC, DNC "progressives" and DNCfags who where copying the DEM's AIPAC text in /USA/, he still won the first part of vote after when everyone was shit talking for the wrong/dumbest reason and only a few times with maybe past crimes were talked, so the first part with "cancelled" is less of thing now to the point where plantman could've keep going still.

>Platner was meant as a trojan horse from day one

nearly all progressive dems like AOC are

Reminder,
the whole TWister Vs. Treatler spam is nothing but barely concealed poltard wrecking to make leftists look shitty.



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Burnham slammed for backing Starmer's war policy
In his first pronouncement on foreign policy and the military build-up, Mr Burnham emphasised backing for the continuing Ukraine conflict and support for the escalating arms bill. He also failed to mention Palestine or the crisis in Gaza at all in the article, which appeared in The Times, despite claiming he would be “guided by our values.” He also pledged to retain Jonathan Powell as national security adviser in No 10.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burnham-slammed-backing-starmers-war-policy

UK Labour government rams through authoritarian National Security Bill
The Commons passed the Bill unopposed after agreeing to six amendments proposed by the House of Lords supposedly meant to safeguard against its extraordinary attacks on press freedoms and the activities of NGOs, without addressing the equally chilling impact on anti-war and anti-genocide protests.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/07/09/ksbb-j09.html

Russia's Saratov oil refinery at a halt since Wednesday's drone attack, sources say
Russia's Saratov oil refinery stopped oil processing on Wednesday following damage from a drone attack, two ​sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Ukraine ‌has increased attacks on Russia's energy infrastructure in recent months to try to undermine Moscow's war effort.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-saratov-oil-refinery-halt-since-wednesdays-drone-attack-sources-say-2026-07-09/

Turkey brokers intra-Somalia talks as federal rifts test Ankara’s influence
Turkey brokered a first round of talks this week between Somalia’s federal government and opposition representatives in a bid to break a deepening political impasse over the country’s constitutional reforms. The two-day talks, held in Mogadishu on Tuesday and Wednesday, brought together “representatives of the Federal Government of Somalia and opposition represePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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How is Brandon doing? Last I heard he was on HRT. How emasculating. Pushed out by your party for being braindead and then straight on to the HRT.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-is-receiving-radiation-and-hormone-therapy-to-treat-his-prostate-cancer-aide-says

‘Absolutely Unprecedented’: Trump Lackeys Crushing Efforts to Rein in Price-Hiking Corporate Mergers
Three unnamed sources told the outlet “that DOJ staff have privately complained that the Trump administration is essentially deciding not to enforce antitrust laws that are critical to keeping companies from becoming single-source providers and being able to charge enormous sums for their product or service.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/doj-antitrust-division-mergers

New Mexico accuses US Justice Department of impeding Epstein investigation
“Despite verbal assurances of cooperation from the USDOJ, access to the requested records has not been granted, no substantive response has been provided, and more than 130 days have now elapsed,” Torrez, a Democrat, wrote. “The [New Mexico Department of Justice] views this length of time as an unreasonable delay under any rule of reason.” The southwestern state reopened its investigation into Epstein in February, after the federal government released millions of files related to the convicted sex offender.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/9/new-mexico-accuses-us-justice-department-of-impeding-epstein-investigation
https://archive.ph/rUqgb

Who is behind the 'Muslim anti-BDS' campaign launching in the US?
The coalition says it seeks "to benefit Israel, its Arab citizens and Palestinians employed by Israeli companies", arguing that boycotts harm both Palestinians and Israelis. It also says it aims to raise at least $500,000 by encouraging 500,000 supporters to each contribute $1 by 9 October. The funds would be invested in Israeli treasury bonds and donated to four organisations: Sharaka, the Jerusalem Interfaith Centre, the Combat Antisemitism Movement, and Debate for Peace.
https://www.newarab.com/news/who-behind-muslim-anti-bds-group-launching-us

The hidden costs of low-tax states
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>>2863433
joan biden

Communist Workers Platform USA (CWPUSA): How MAGA and “Progressivism” Obscure the Struggle for Socialism
In recent weeks, the Democratic Socialists of America has claimed a handful of electoral “victories.” In New York’s 7th and 13th Districts covering Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, candidates Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier defeated the Democratic Party old guard in the primaries. In Colorado’s 1st District, Melat Kiros unseated 15-term incumbent Democrat Diana DeGette. These candidates have run on common platforms such as Medicare For All, Abolish Ice, Ending War, Housing for All, and Unions for All. As prices for rent, food, gas, insurance, and more continue to climb while wages stay low, and with jobs being few and far between, the workers of this country look for a way out. Daily stress from bills, debt, and harsh workplaces wears us down. Our families are more and more burdened by this week-to-week, day-to-day struggle. Meanwhile, the capitalist class throws a parade. The stock market reaches atmospheric heights, Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, billions more of our dollars are sent to fight wars against competing states, and impossible sums of money are poured into AI technology that the capitalists will use to surveil and displace us from work to their exclusive benefit. The situation is worsening. In the desperate grasp for a way out of this reality (worker’s daily reality within capitalism), the ruling class has developed two opposing and equally pernicious political options, both aimed at keeping capitalism alive and well.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/07/how-maga-and-progressivism-obscure-the-struglle-for-socialism.html

Multinationals Sold Kenyan Farmers a Lethal Harvest
The word dawa, Swahili for “medicine,” threads through Francis Marete Mboroki’s speech as he describes the chemicals he spent decades spraying across his small farm on the fertile slopes of Mount Kenya. They were sold as the tools of progress: modern seeds, bigger harvests, prosperity. Even as European and US regulators banned or restricted these chemicals at home, Mboroki kept spraying them, unaware they could be poisoning him. Today his doctors believe those pesticides caused the throat cancer slowly consuming his body.Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2863432
>burnham
Watch him resign in 2 years or call a snap election like rishi sunak did
>jew Arab party split vote
Nobody cares not even left-electoralists
>venezuela pro Israel
How did trump manage to predict Venezuelan would fold tgis quicly?
>>2863438
The 3rd thing is cia or something



 

Why did the CIA spread AIDS in Russia?

Russia has one of the highest rates of HIV-AIDS in the Western World, rivalling many countries in Africa. And this isn't a new thing either. The USSR had an AIDS crisis towares the end, and there's plenty of evidence that HIV-AIDS was one of the major factors behind the USSR's collapse. It's ironic, because all the capitalist indulgences such as homosexuality, IV drug use, and prostitution were highly, highly taboo in the USSR, and yet AIDS rampaged through their society. The only logical explanation is that AIDS was a CIA bioweapon.
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>>2861050
Polygamy was banned in France and it was called Islamophobia, so not that surprising

>>2861100
Explain

>>2861050
i'd recognize it as retarded. the problem is not in the cloth, it's in the person underneath it.

>>2858652
yet you are here replying to this thread

>>2861050
Kinda a big difference between your choice of fashion and mutilating children. Why not defend FGM while you're at it because banning it would be islamophobic.



 

>Simplified Chinese was officially introduced by the government of the People's Republic of China in the 1950s as part of a broader effort to increase literacy and modernize the country. The reform reduced the number of strokes in many commonly used characters and standardized certain character forms, making them easier and faster to learn and write. Although the government promoted the reform, it drew on simplification practices and proposals that had existed for centuries. The primary goal was to help expand education and enable more people, especially those with limited access to schooling, to become literate. Simplified Chinese is now the standard writing system in China and Singapore, while Traditional Chinese remains in use in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.

English needs spelling and conjugation overhaul so badly
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>>2862188
And to be clear, Zephaniah was heavily dyslexic, he couldn't read nor write when he left school at 13, and wasn't even diagnosed with dyslexia until 21. So this was a high degree of dyslexia with a very late start.

Chinese script was invented because multiple kingdoms speaking different languages could be unified by a singular writing system. Even if you don't know how the words are supposed to be pronounced to the other person you can still understand the ideas. Chinese script is already a lingua Franca by design.
Chinese script should be the universal writing system, while speaking whatever language is convenient

>>2862751
>Even if you don't know how the words are supposed to be pronounced to the other person you can still understand the ideas.
Only the oldest Chinese characters are pictographs and most of those have been transformed completely into logograms. And you can't just look at logograms and know what it's talking about.
>Chinese script should be the universal writing system, while speaking whatever language is convenient
Japan did that and now they have three writing systems. Even the Korean writing system would be better.

>>2843122
>liking something
>idealism
oh nonono maokeks…

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