After 15 months of genocide - and resistance to it - the Israeli regime realized that they could not win a military victory against Hamas, and were forced to sign a humiliating ceasefire in order to get their hostages returned.
With much of Syria under the control of Al-Qaeda, and an increasing level of covert infiltration into Lebanon, the crisis in the Middle East is not over, and we may still be in its beginning stages, as the center of hegemony continues its gradual shift away from the United States. Their navy, once considered the best in the world, is likely also not very happy about their ships and aircraft carriers being forced to retreat by Yemen, one of the poorest countries; and all eyes are on Iran, who has, over the last year and a half, demonstrated a newfound confidence and strength to directly strike Israel.
The recovery for Gaza will take, at a minimum, decades; it could indeed never fully recovery to even how it was before, considering it is not in Israel's interests to see their concentration camps recover. But Hamas has proven to be steadfast and the tunnel network has proven its resilience, despite facing some of the most powerful conventional bombing in history. This shows that Palestine's liberation is a when, not an if; and hopefully a much sooner "when" than expected before October 7th.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. 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.
is ICE actually increasing the amount of deportations? there's all this hullabaloo now that the dang cheeto is doing it but hundreds of people have been deported every day since like, obama no?
Maybe, but Trump doesn't have the Title 42 option anymore. It was in effect because of COVID, so Trump and then Biden got to deport as many fucking people as they wanted. Biden had longer to use it, but did use it more per month than Trump. Here is some light lib copium whose first and last graph undercuts any defense of Biden: https://archive.is/jfBuS.
Using this data for 2024: https://archive.is/EBJNm, Biden deported over 700 people per day. I guess we can use that to see what Trump does. It will likely take a few months before we get numbers though.
I think the primary difference between the two will be where the deportations happen. Biden seemed to focus mainly on the border. Trump may instruct ICE to sweep up anyone possible within that you live "close" to a border so you have no rights zone.
Edit: wow, looking at the first link again:
That is like 2700+ per day on average over four years. jfc.
yeah holy hell man i knew this to be the case but liberals really do not care when it's blue hitler doing it, obama did 400 fucking thousand one year apparently
If Trump won in 2020 and used title 42 like Biden did, we would have never heard the fucking end of it (and tbh there would have been more resistance against it too...)
Obama around 1500 per day, Biden around 3000 per day.
Maybe they meant "Title 42" on the first legend, but labeling it as "During Covid" is breaking my brain. Like, imagine labeling any deportations at all since COVID started—and especailly when the pandemic was even officially recognized in 2021 and 2022—as NOT being "During Covid".
Anyway, good stuff otherwise. I have repeatedly pointed out the whole "more deportations during Biden's first year than Trump's whole first term" to liberals and they just stare back at me with a blank face. (And next time I see them, they're blathering the same shit they did initially, with zero shame).
Yeah it's a bad way to display it, but the light yellow definitely represents the title 42 deportations since they start and end on the dates it was in effect.
To soon to say overall but certainly more people have been deported between Jan 20th-Jan 26th 2025 compared to Jan 20th-Jan 26th 2021
do you know where i can find the stats on this?
I’m afraid the primary source is ice/border patrol and it can also be pieced together through media/ngo sources. I can’t do you better from my phone someone might know more than me
We can be certain trump has deported more right out of the gates and that is no credit to Biden because it took Biden time to ramp up his deportations due to Covid policies
Obama and bush are tough scores to beat but I’m guessing trump will at least deport more than biden I’m afraid(as well as deporting more than his first term)
thx!
I don’t think includes Title 42, which made up a huge portion of Biden’s deportations, especially early on.
yeah I think you're right that's what makes biden exceed trumps numbers
I think Obamna has deported more people than Biden, Bush or Trump. I also believe that Trump is doing this shit mainly to show his voters that he is doing what he was elected to do. The problem is that it's not just the US that is mistreating people and deporting people who have lived in the US for years, Trump is also threatening Latin American states with tariffs if they don't accept these deportations. Mexico and Colombia have already closed their airspace to US Air Force planes, which is forcing some planes to return to the US.
so where were they being deported to before? i dont really understand the sudden resistance from mexico and columbia
I believe each president had their own policy on this, but Trump 1 had the "Remain in Mexico" policy, where he would kick people to Mexico to wait a non-determined period of time to either be accepted or rejected to enter the USA.
Mexico and Colombia are left-wing governments, the USA/TRUMP decided to virtue signal to the MAGA voters by treating immigrants like criminals and slaves, cuffing their hands and legs, beating them and throwing them into US Air Force planes. I think Mexico and Colombia saw an opportunity to stand up to the US and test whether Trump is bluffing with the whole tariff issue or if he's really going to do it. Colombia is/was the US's number one ally in South America for years, it would be very stupid to sanction a country in which the US has invested so much money and resources.
Yeah, one of Biden's first acts as president was to restart the drug war in Columbia. The Columbian government isn't standing up to the imperialism in general; just to Trumps' overt and acute use of it for clout.
I suspect Mexico and Columbia are reacting more to the fact that Trump is making a spectacle of it than to the deportations themselves. Mexico has been a huge partner to the U.S. in its deportation and anti-migrant/anti-refugee policies all along, even under nominally "leftist" presidents who make a public show of alleging to oppose such policies. Especially as the U.S helped to militarize Mexico's southern border and move some of the violence there under Biden (I suggest looking up what Aviva Chomsky has said/documented about this).