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.
Only 11 percent see brexit as success https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how-much-support-for-brexit-in-uk-2025-398515/
(reposting vegeta1 from the end of the last news thread)
I understand that even american leftists hate brexit because a large visible part was very much just anti-immigrant shit but I just want to posit a cenario where it somewhat succeeded in making lives in the uk better and leftists in the rest of europe would have something to fight the overwhelming hegemony of pro-europeanism in the people's heads, especially now with european rearmament and support for israel but the "european project" is just too popular
That's all, fuck the eu I hope more rightoids vote to leave it. Feel free to reply that I'm wrong I just wanted to put that out there
the 'left' version of brexit would be getting kicked out of the EU for being too prosocial and disruptive to the neoliberal project
I think this is secretly a "chicken or Egg" debate, because a left arising in a western nation which is anti-EU will never happen without leaving the EU, but no left movement in western nations will leave the EU while still pro-EU
I'm not claiming that it's impossible either way, just that it goes so directly in contradiction with the basic forces in those cases that the chance is too small to rely on. Now letting the right wingers make the decision for them isn't the best solution, but at least it forces leftists to confront those problems
left parties should be anti-EU as a matter of economic policy, doing big show referenda and rallying around an anti-EU 'populism' is a dead end that'll court the right
I don't mean to rally around it, just not to complain about leaving the EU and act like it's principled to regret leaving. Left parties should be anti-EU, but they're not always. Now, they might be forced to be more principled, and to make economic and social analyses that are useful in creating a real movement. Though my hopes aren't high for the Islanders right now.
Short of an revolution left brexitism would have never succeeded in the long term. Because neoliberals in Labour would have soft-couped the nation once the EU fined the UK for disrespecting free trade or fair competition or whatever.
This wasnt the case. When Brexit happened it was lauded by predecessors of hexbear.net and by its associated podcast as an act of solidarity with the greek worker.
The UK was reimagined as „a victim“ of the EU and not the greatest advocate of fiscal austerity and expansion into the east and balkans. Only in the last couple of years became the obvious, obvious.
I was always of the opinion that Brexit could be a good thing, but it wouldn't be because it is done by Tories with the explicit interest of having more power in their ability to sell the government to private capital and manipulate the market.
It made no sense to have the pro-Brexit left on, when they were by far not a factor in the movement.
The theory I've always believed (because it's exactly the kind of ghoulish shit that the British upper class would do) is that the urgency was because the wealthy were worried about the impacts of the 5th EU Anti Money Laundering Directive.