Over the last week, Sri Lanka has been hit by their worst national natural disaster since the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Over 2 million people (about 10% of the population) were affected; the death toll is currently climbing past 600; nearly a hundred thousand homes have been damaged or destroyed, transport infrastructure is heavily damaged; industry has been damaged; and farmland has been flooded. The cost of damage so far looks to be about $7 billion, which is more than the combined budget spent on healthcare and education in Sri Lanka.
While there is plenty to say meteorologically about how this yet another concerning escalation as a result of climate change (Sri Lanka does experience cyclones, but they are usually significantly weaker than this), it's important to note that such disasters are, to at least a certain extent, able to warned about and their impacts somewhat mitigated. However, this requires both access to early detection and warning equipment, and an economy in which development is widespread - in this case, particularly in the construction of drainage systems and regulated construction, which has not generally occurred.
The IMF, on its 17th program with Sri Lanka, is doing its utmost to prevent such an economy from developing, as they instead promote reductions in public investment. On top of this, the rebuilding effort for Sri Lanka is already being planned and funded, and such donors include, of course, many Sri Lankan oligarchs, who will rebuild the damaged portions of the country yet further according to their visions, while sidelining the working class.
Perhaps neoliberalism's decay into its eventual death occurring concurrently into the gradual intensification of climate change and renewed wars signifies the rise of the era of disaster capitalism.
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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.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
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 actual project cited called "Yuva Netritwa: Paradarshi Niti” (Youth Leadership: Transparent Policy)" ran from July 2021 to June 2022 and selected some 60-70 people for training.
I mean if any other protest from then, and I mean there were a lot of protest, managed to overthrow the government then will it also automatically be a color revolution because NED money once flowed here few years ago?
My point is that the scale of the protest was too large to have only evidence being some report from 2022 running a training program. The most suspicious part for international audience might be the use of discord to elect the interim PM, which is a fair thing to be worry about, but the burning of Supreme Court and the Singha Durbar is even more suspicious event for us. guess is there was some internal conspiracy involving Nepal Army due to their inaction for most of the day.
not denying it couldn't possibly have been a color revolution but just haven't seen any credible evidence of US involvement. Also that NED training program might even be related to MCC since the timeline match more.
Yes, it just flowed once. The CIA only did one thing and then left.
There's much more evidence. Hundreds of organizations, with millions of dollars of receipts. Among these are The Committee to Protect Journalists, The Federation of Nepali Journalists, Freedom Forum Nepal, The Gurkha Welfare Trust, Alliance of Youth Movements, Hami Nepal, Open Technology Fund, DRAPAC VPN Project, Legal Aid & Consultancy Center, Initiative for Democratic Renewal, etc. etc. with 1000 more trusts, NGOs, charities, initiatives, ministries, yada yada.
NED just admits to a bit of it outright on page 26 of this document about their 2024 budget. Notice they are even entangling themselves within the labor movement like they did in Poland and Chile to destroy those socialist governments. This is what they outright admit to, this is the tip of the iceberg of all the covert activities they actually do. There's shady CIA shit going on at massive scales, and there's tech giant and social media manipulation, billions of dollars of private NGO money, and there's a comprador-liberal rot in society that is the base that sustains all of this social infrastructure. People you know are beneficiaries of this widespread patronage network and that influences you in ways you are not fully aware.
https://www.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Asia-Grant-Listing-FY24.pdf
Brian Berletic details it in his videos on the subject. Grayzone's reporting is of note because it is bringing to light and emphasizing even more additional supporting evidence. Not because it's novel in its overall point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgZXwXIVZTk
He cites all of his sources in the description of the video. You'll have to watch the video to hear his arguments, but they are not only compelling they are completely open and shut with zero room for doubt. This was not "co-opted". It was planned and orchestrated for decades in the open by the Liberal-Comprador portion of Nepalese society alongside western NGOs, charities, churches and "rights groups".
You can't just go around denying this and obfuscating it without expecting pushback. We weren't born yesterday.
hey, i know these guys! they were VERY active in ukraine in the lead-up to, during, and after the 2014 coup, and were linked to failed attempts in hong kong and belarus.
but it's not a color revolution
sorry, but i dont quite understand which case you mean. are you referring to ukraine, hong kong, belarus or nepal?
i'm being facetious, sorry. Of course these are all color revolutions. I'm mocking the western left tendency to fall for it again
ahh ok! im sadly not that good at detecting irony sometimes, sorry for that.