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.
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.
I can't say I'm surprised that an amerikkkan "democratic socialist" reveals himself to be just another social fascist in disguise, but the fact that he's saying these things right when the empire is trying to manufacture consent for war, means he will have blood on his hands before he's even elected.
Oh wow, who could have expected this?! I am sure drumming up support for the us invasion for Venezuela will tots lead to NYC becoming the next „red vienna“
In the sense that it will be crushed by fascists and all the actual communists will be massacred, probably.
Zohran Mamdani killed Rosa Luxemburg
Remember when the news mega had struggle sessions over Mamdani?
He could've just said none of that, what would he even gain by railing against Cuba and Venezuela?
You (Mamdani) have talked about how you're like a socialist that likes communists, and Cuba's like a wholesome paradise compared to so much of the world, and even so much of Latin America.
And Venezuela isn't perfect, but this is literally the worst time to be talking about their problems. When you say something is just as important as what you say, and this is like complaining about Saddam while letting the US off light.
Um acktually his Democratic party appointed ~~minders~~ consultants informed him it was necessary to get more of the Latino vote despite the fact he was already doing well. By doing this he reassures first and second generation gusanos that his "socialism" is nothing like the real deal. Won't stop Fox News and the NY Post and his opponents in their attack ads from depicting him as literally mega-Stalin of course but the consultants said he should.
Never support a democrat
Zohran AOC Mamdani
I've been saying it all along. Running as a Democrat, wanting to "make cops' job easier", etc.
Dude is no leftist, and never has been. He just let DSA coach him on aesthetics, or whatever.
There's a reason he ran essentially unopposed in past elections.
The Pelosification is in progress
How long wil it take for the DSA and the "left" to drop the Democrats for good?
Did someone have a talk with him?
This is bad even by Bernie standards who would probably say something similar but qualify it with a call to end the embargo or praise the literacy programs and with Venezuela maybe he would condemn the strikes on the boats and say something vaguely anti war
Sadly the best possible interpretation is that he was actually being honest when he said a few weeks ago “that he didn’t know much about Cuba” and this is just pure ignorance speaking (which is quite profound like how do you have that much political experience plus dsa organizing without knowing basic facts about Cuba) If it’s not ignorance and he knows what a betrayal this is and is doing this as a cynical political calculation not only is that disturbing it also speaks to god awful political instincts like if you wanted a PC answer there’s a million better ways you could have done that you just gave a standard neo con answer dumb ass
Bernie called Hugo Chavez a Communist dictator
I know.
That’s why i said he would have given a similar answer with an additional qualifier (zohran can’t even qualify it)
For example here’s a statement from Bernie in 2019
Zohrans statement is even worse because he can’t even throw a half ass bone to the left about “well also regime change is bad”
He did say that in the full statement IIRC. It's still worthless because it's still wrong and manufacturing consent for intervention.
APAB
Just say you're more worried about the repressive regime in the US. Jfc