There’s way too much going on right now for me to really focus on any one country this week. The aftermath of the fall of the Nepal government has, somewhat surprisingly, reverberated around the world, and not only in countries that are enemies to the West as you’d expect; for example, Morocco’s government battle fiercely with Egypt’s and Jordan’s to be first in line to lick the dogshit off the boots of Zionists, and yet Morocco is currently embroiled in a large protest wave based primarily around a youth unemployment crisis (though their population is also remarkably pro-Palestinian, which generates additional friction). We’re also seeing similar protests in Madagascar, Peru, and Paraguay, and perhaps more will come. I’m personally fairly doubtful in the potential for meaningful economic results from these protests (the current imperialist system seems too deeply embedded for a movement that isn’t explicitly communist and anti-imperialist to alter conditions), but it is quite possible for new political results at least.
Outside of the developing world, it appears that the unpopularity of western leaders, such as in the UK, France, and Italy, is creating new levels of unrest. In Britain, the political system has become so utterly moribund that even the artificial democracy of a two-party system (more-or-less; the Lib Dems do exist I suppose) no longer suffices, with both Conservatives and Labour gradually sinking. The Reform party appears like it may become the new standard-bearer of the capitalists and petit-bourgeois - that is, the historical wellspring of fascism - and the Left Party (whatever name they eventually choose) may or may not rise to meet the occasion. In France, they’re on their fifth Prime Minister in two years, after Lecornu lasted about a month, attempting the liberal classic: promising change, and then appointing the exact same people who have ruled for the last few decades. And pro-Palestinian protests and general strikes have erupted in Italy, in defiance of their rightwing government under Meloni.
While there’s plenty of other events (e.g. continuing aggression against Venezuela that might soon erupt into a war) it would be remise of me not to mention the very much ongoing events vis-a-vis Palestine and a potential peace deal there, seemingly supported to some degree by Trump. It could be legitimate, and it could be some big act (very likely the latter, IMO). Both Trump and Netanyahu seem to believe that they’re very talented political masterminds, producing manoeuvres and feints that would make Machiavelli blush. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I trust the militant organizations inside Palestine to outplay these American failsons. Hamas and similar groups are not nearly as gullible as the Iranian reformist faction - though few people are!
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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 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.
The fact that this particular repulsive freak “country” can commit genocide for two years and be openly protected by FIFA while the Russians were expelled the femtosecond they stepped over the Ukrainian border is so unspeakably disgusting that I quite literally cannot find the words to describe it here.
Death to “Israel”. Death to FIFA. Death to the European Union.
Mamdani officially called Diaz-Canel and Maduro “dictators” and said “their administrations have stifled free and fair elections, imprisoned political opponents, and suppressed a free and fair press”. This is as Trump is openly calling for airstrikes against Venezuela and regime throw against Maduro. What a fucking snake.
Tired of interviewees and people who write opinion pieces calling things “globalist”, please either use “imperialist” or “homosexual” depending on what you actually mean so that I don’t need to invest effort and research into figuring out if I want to launch you into the sun.
Thank you for your attention in this matter!
PM urges students not to join pro-Palestinian protests on 7 October
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has urged students not to join pro-Palestinian protests on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel, warning of “rising antisemitism on our streets”.
Sir Keir said it was “un-British to have little respect for others” by staging demonstrations on the anniversary, adding protests had been used by some as a “despicable excuse to attack British Jews”.
I am neither young nor am I British, but I suspect if there’s one thing British students just love, it’s being tut-tutted by dickhead government geezers.
After two full years of constant hand-wringing about “anti-semitism,” CBC interviewed a Ukrainian soldier and his tattoos may or may not come as a shock to you
3 hours later:
CBCTheNational has edited their own video to blur one of his two swastika tattoos, without any editorial note explaining what they are blurring and why. (The 2nd partly obscured one is still partially visible, just to the left of blurring) Absolutely insane and unacceptable
NYT;
“President Trump has called off efforts to reach a diplomatic agreement with Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, paving the way for a potential military escalation against drug traffickers or the government of Nicolás Maduro.”
This is insane from the NYT;
“Mr. Trump has grown frustrated with Mr. Maduro’s failure to accede to American demands to give up power voluntarily and the continued insistence by Venezuelan officials that they have no part in drug trafficking.”
Mamdani, darling of the “American Left”, continues to stake out his pro-war-criminal position. This time clarifying that he believes Maduro and Diaz-Canel are “dictators”, just in time for his government to invade Venezuela.
https://hexbear.net/post/6353688
Sorry for contaminating the news mega with this. I just think it’s internationally relevant to drive home once again how Americans are not to be trusted, especially because of the build-up to action in Venezuela. I can already see the trajectory of this man’s political career as he sells out more and more the closer he gets to national government.
just in time for his government to invade Venezuela.
I didn’t even think about this timing, what a fucking worm
I can’t wait for those who have been going so hard for Mamdani here to explain this one away
He’s hiding his power levels in Caracas, we need to invade to liberate then
He’s dog whistling!
Actually the best way to stop the fascist jackboots invading Venezuela is to hire more combat support roles and then hope inflation prices the soldiers into irrelevance. This is revolutionary.
How many times were they saying something like “why does he need to be revolutionary, no one thinks Mamdani needs to be a revolutionary he just needs to be the best NY mayor option and expecting him to be revolutionary is online leftism”
But this is exactly why having no revolutionary theory means Mamdani is not a socialist and therefore can not be a step towards socialism. Having a Bernie, AOC, Mamdani or whatever pro capitalist progressive actually hinders revolutionary progress more than it helps, they are sheep dogs for the capitalists. If Mamdani calls himself a socialist he has proven himself to be a liar who has no intention of upholding socialist values. It’s one thing to have criticism behind close doors, but to openly justify negative public sentiment against a nation who we are actively preparing to destroy and already committing war crimes against is cosigning the war crimes.
Definitely not pro-capitalist.
I share some of the concerns being voiced here. But not that one.
This is in response to criticism he received over an interview 3 weeks ago. He was asked if he would condemn them as dictators, he claimed he didn’t know enough about Cuba and Venezuela to call them that (lol), but did say Maduro ran a “government of repression” and made sure to differentiate his politics from theirs. That was insufficient, so now he’s making sure to confirm his imperialism
In America, you cannot become a mayor of a city if you have the wrong opinions on federal foreign policy
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
All gringos are bastards
Pinche gringos.
cia told him they will kill his family if he doesn’t toe the line
I think this is even more of a mark against the DSA. How can your candidate not have any clue on Cuba or Venezuela? Do they do basic political education in the DSA or is it all vibes based?
I’d had a YDSA member tell me that all nations besides cuba and north korea are imperialist so evidently there’s no actual standard to political literacy.
One million people protested in Rome on the 4th after attacks on the flottilla, this picture I shot goes hard af
God damn I’m tearing up now, it’s finally over. Big respect for the Qataris for actually sticking around until the end and getting this deal done despite getting stabbed in the back by Israel and the US. May God have mercy on the all martyrs of the last two years. In the end, Israel didn’t break the resolve of Gaza’s people and they emerged victorious and steadfast from this catastrophe. Shame on the world for the last two years. We Arabs and Muslims don’t deserve Gaza’s blood.
My Prediction is that we’re going to see a POW-MIA style conspiracy theory take hold as the next chapter of Hasbara, as Zionists will refuse to accept that Israeli genocidal actions including large scale bombing and mass starvation killed the majority of the oh-so-precious hostages.
An occupier got sniped and killed hours before the ceasefire goes into effect. Israel postponed the ceasefire (presumably to kill more women and children)
Hamas has continued hunting collaborators who were given no special treatment in the agreement
The former spokesperson for the occupation army: The militias cooperating with the Israeli army in Gaza (Yasser Abu Shab group’s) will not enter Israel, and they must face their fate alone; the Israeli army did not force anyone to fight the movement (Hamas), and they must bear the consequences of their decisions.
The Nazi Entity doing the evil it always does when it signs a ceasefire: kill as many people as possible while they still can.
Watching reddit turn on the nobel prize winner when they find out she dedicated the prize to trump has been interesting
The existence of just one good IOF soldier continues to elude researchers:
https://xcancel.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1975476862793965576#BREAKING | Some Israeli media reported that the “serious security incident” in the #Gaza outpost was caused by a soldier mishandling a hand grenade inside the living quarters.
According to preliminary field reports cited by Israeli media, the soldier was “playing with” the grenade when he noticed the safety pin had been removed and threw it between two sleeping comrades.
Both were critically wounded, while the soldier sustained light injuries.
#Palestine
I’m convinced Rubio and the Nobel committee are in cahoots. The committee called up Rubio and told him they wouldn’t give it to Trump but they would give it to anyone else Rubio named. And of course he landed on Machado. It makes too much sense.
