Not really news but still pretty funny and I just heard about it for the first time.
A different kind of blowback:

Dust from the Sahara is being blown over to France, bringing with it radiation left over from French nuclear weapons tests from the 1960s.

Afghanistan: Taliban negotiate with USA

The Taliban, who rule Afghanistan, have negotiated with the USA about a prisoner exchange, as Taliban spokesman Sabihullah Mujahid told journalists in Kabul on Wednesday. Two US citizens are in custody in the country. They are to be exchanged for Afghans who are interned in the US prison camp at Guantanamo in Cuba. The talks took place on the sidelines of a recent summit with UN representatives and Afghanistan envoys from various countries in Qatar. Nothing is known about the results so far.

Balloons from North Korea disrupt air traffic

The balloons full of garbage that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been sending to South Korea for weeks are having an impact on air traffic. More than 110 flights have been disrupted by the balloon launches that have been going on since the end of March, said South Korean MP Jeong Jun Ho on Wednesday, citing the Ministry of Transport. More than 10,000 passengers were affected. The DPRK is using the balloons to respond to previous actions from South Korea in which propaganda material was also sent north in balloons.

Johnathan Shite

Update: we made up

Unfortunately China isn’t doing as well as France:

It’s all just a bunch of military dictatorships or monachies

It’s just my 4th save too, so I was bumbling around a lot too. And I guess Argentina is probably a bit harder to play anyways.
But I really like the kind of stories this game can tell. Really fun imo

Aren’t we all?

Paradox showing it’s true colors

I’d rather just shave it all off instead of having to know I look like this

Your average German antifascist Magazine:

Dear readers,
One wall, two posters: In Hamburg, unknown people at Rote Flora changed the clear statement against Hamas into a statement of solidarity with Palestinians. It should no longer be written on the wall that the killing of Jewish people in Israel and around the world is not a liberation struggle. Anti-imperialist movements have been criticized for years for uncritical solidarity. The occupied cultural center in the Schanzenviertel has not changed its position. “Free the world from Hamas” is now hanging there. This demand reflects that Hamas is an Islamist terrorist organization. On October 7th of this year, the Islamists, who have controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007, confirmed that they were, above all, carrying out terrorism by targeting civilians, murdering the defenseless, executing babies and children, raping women and displaying the dead. That day, Hamas hoped to murder as many Jewish people as possible. They killed people true to their fundamentalist Islamism. On that one On that day, Hamas didn’t just take over 250 people hostage by kidnapping them from Israel. They also took hostage the approximately two million people in Gaza, who serve as human shields alive and as propaganda material when dead. Propaganda and contempt also seems to come from parts of the Israeli government post October 7th that articulated scenarios, such as the relocation of all Gazans to the Sinai or the use of nuclear weapons.

With all justified compassion for the civilians in Gaza: If you are a leftist, you do not demonstrate with reactionaries, if you are a feminist, you do not show solidarity with the rapists and murderers of Hamas who are close to the Iranian regime. If you are an anti-fascist, you stand with the Jews and against anti-Semitism, especially in Germany. Any secret joy for the organization driven by religious fanaticism is no less an anti-Semitic reaction. The criticism of parts of the migrant communities and the left-wing solidarity spectrum because of anti-Israel positions and/or anti-Semitic sentiments is not new. It has been expressed for years and often comes from the respective milieu. In the current discourse, some politicians and journalists are now taking a harsh tone against migrants and “the” left. And they suggest that the entire migrant left and all migrants living here stand in unison against Israel. A generalization that also applies to other leftists. The fact that the German section of Fridays for Future is quickly drowned out when it spoke out clearly against one-sided “Free Gaza” solidarity. It is even more quickly drowned out that anti-Semitism is not just virulent in majority society, but omnipresent. But let’s not talk about the Aiwangers and Walsers of this society. Let us also not remind you that the German fraternity decided to exclude Jews at the Würzburg Burschentag in 1822. Let’s better forget that “Death (…) is a master from Germany”. Anti-Semites are always the others - especially the strangers, the immigrants.

Your editorial team
MAGAZINE #derrechterand 205/2023 3

Just got this in the mail and immediately cancelled my subscription.
Like literally reproducing every Israeli propaganda talking point that has been debunked already and calling yourself leftists, all the while scolding every actual leftist that is not a Israeli lapdog. Infuriating.

German original

The cover - it translates to “Against all antisemitism - without question!”

White supremacy, the biggest boogie man in modern American history.

Damn right.

The “white supremacists” had complete control of the senate building earlier this year.

Did they hunt down and kill politicians around Washington?

Did they burn down small businesses en masse the way we’ve seen rioters in other cities do every time a “protest” occurs?

Did they establish a new, more racister constitution and declare a new republic?

Were any statues toppled in the building?

cool, they rather side with fascists over there apparently than accepting white supremacy is even a thing

No, here is the link.

I mean these things did happen, just not at the front when you are fighting each other directly, but for example in POW camps they did happen.
Like for example, this is a story from POWs in a camp in Omsk in 1917:

“A lot of us prisoners of war in Omsk understood that we had to support the Russian workers in their struggle.
Even here in the distant Siberia it wasn’t just about the revolution in Russia, but about the fight to free all the workers of the world.
We didn’t just want to stand on the sidelines and watch, but form our own battalion, maybe even 500 fighters strong.
That is why we called a meeting in the camp of Omsk, in which comrade Thomann explained the situation to our fellow comrades.
He was excellent in getting the point across how we, even in our position in Siberia, could be of aid in supporting Soviet efforts in the European part of Russia.
If we could hold the Whites here in Siberia and in the far east in general, then they were unable to bring their full power down on the central parts of Russia.
By standing our ground here we could, even if only a little, aid our comrades in their fight.
We passed lists around so everybody willing to fight could sign, shortly thereafter 800 people willing to fight had signed on.”

• Ferdinand Effenberger, Source: Illustrierte Geschichte der deutschen Novemberrevolution 1918/1919 - p.24

Here is a picture of former German, Austrian, Serbian and Hungarian prisoners of war, now Red Guards.