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 milei administration is facing several internal political scandals and conflicts, three major ones to be precise:
The public division between milei and his VP, Villarruel. To be honest, conflicts between the president and the vice-president are not that uncommon, these formulas are sometimes picked to make an approachment to certain demographics purely for electoral reasons. In this case, Villarruel's pick is to "secure" the far right vote to some extent and to gain certain support from the Armed Forces. She has always been a advocate for genocide denial, always doing her best to whitewash the image of the Armed Forces during the tortures, killings and kidnappings of the 1970's military dictatorship. Her father was also in the Navy, an Admiral if I'm not mistaken. Either way she does not command a lot of power within the military, it's not like she has a million soldiers ready to follow her in a coup. She tries to have influence among them but I think the top brass is way too mysoginistic to even think falling behind a woman. On the other hand, the Military Party is completely out of the game, and has been like that for like 30 years. When Capital needs to make "adjustements", they'll rely on large corporate bodies like the Sociedad Rural Argentina (The main institution that represents the interests of the largest landowners), the Unión Industrial Argentina (same but with industrial bourgeoisie), large media groups like Clarín or La Nación and so on, all synchronized with the coopted political parties like Partido Justicialista (Peronism), Unión Civica Radical (weird mix of US-style Democratic Party, german SPD and whatever), PRO (Neolib) and so on.
Karina, 3% and LIBRA. This one is recent. You may all remember milei's crypto scam. Well Congress is still investigating it but, of course, there will be no impeachment even though milei deserves it (actually he deserves much worse things). Now, Karina, milei's sister, holds a great deal of political power by being assigned, by his own brother (as if this was a monarchy or something) as his personal secretary. She's like Hitler's Martin Bormann, being the filter of information that comes in and out of the presidential office. Anyways, recently a few audios were leaked of high ranking government officials talking about taking funds out of the National Disability Agency (The public institutions that funds programs and gives assistance to disabled people) basically for themselves. The leaked audio says that "Karina should get around 3% or 4%" of the embezzled funds. Very amateur if you ask me, it's very stupid to fall like that. They tried to block the publication of the audios by saying this is "espionage", however a journalist travelled to Uruguay and leaked them there, well outside the reach of Argentina's sorry ass judicial system. Karina, who is not very popular among people because she's as charismatic as a piece of old clothing left to rot in some forgotten sewer, is consistently being attacked for this, and his brother, responsible for putting her in his own adminsitration, also faces the attack. The people who claimed they'll "end with corruption" are, in fact, corrupt themselves. Legitimacy? Down the drain I say. This also had a big impact in milei's party piss poor performance in the very important Buenos Aires elections a few weeks ago.
A great ally of milei is accussed of being a narco and resigned weeks before the midterms. So this one tastes veeery good because I absolutely hate this man. There's this bozo called Espert, a massive zionist, fascist and overall piece of shit person whose main shtick is to go around saying "Jail or bullet" for normal criminals and, oh of course, the left-wing opposition. He was a close ally to former president Macri, used to insult milei and then when the ancap loser began to grow he allied himself with him, had a bit of a falling off and then returned. He served in Congress for a bit and now he tried to run again for that seat. However, the Trots started to accuse him of taking funds directly from a narco and then provided evidence - It turns out the relation went too deep, they held personal meetings, flew in the same airplane and took around 200.000USD for his political campaign. Espert's links with the drug trafficker, Fred Machado, is also being investigated by the FBI. Espert first denied these allegations, then pivoted to "I know him but I never took funds", then "I know him and the funds went to the Party not me" and finally "This isn't corruption because this is within the sphere of private business". Well Mr. Espert, murdering someone is also a "private" thing but that doesn't make it less illegal lmao. And so, after coming under a shitstorm of.. shit, he resigned to his candidacy, throwing the entire party's effort into disarray just WEEKS before the all-important midterms. The all-powerfull big strong anti-corruption, super pro-cop and security guy just had his entire image destroyed by some random leftists. The Trots were right, perhaps too soon, because when they first accussed him of being a narco everyone else played dumb until it became politically viable to go after him with that. Still, the Trot's denouncement became the framework of his demise lol. Sweet sweet demise. Oh and Espert's and Machado's lawyer is also the lawyer of milei lmfao.
Oh and of course, death to "israel".