Image is of Iranian speedboats spotted by a satellite in the Strait of Hormuz.
Not terribly much has happened in the last week. The main two developments is the very much expected resumption of fire in Lebanon as the ZIonists are famously agreement-incapable, and the continuing supply of equipment to the Middle East, including the George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier. This means there are now three aircraft carriers in the general vicinity, and while I'm uncertain how much of a role the burnt-out Ford and the increasingly exhausted Lincoln will ultimately play (they were rather ineffective during the first round), there are also a good ~20 destroyers and however many submarines that are carrying their own munitions. I have a couple more paragraphs of exposition below, but it's unlikely to be major news to anybody here, so I've spoilered it.
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On the one hand, it feels like a resumption of the war for the US at this point would be complete madness. We are getting article after article from even the Western media admitting to US standoff+interceptor missile shortages, as well as detailing the extensive damage to US bases. The Zionists are also getting ever more mired in Lebanon, with Hezbollah's unjammable fibre optic drones playing an ever more prominent role in causing substantial long range damage to invading forces. On the other hand, it is very unlikely that most of the US's remaining firepower is being brought to the region on a mere bluff. For its part, Iran and their allies seem to have their finger on the trigger, with their own extensive repairs, upgrades, resupplies, and adjustments having been made for round two.
Assessing the overall global economic situation is difficult, not least because of a degree of financial manipulation that is almost admirable in its sheer scale and recklessness - to quote Ghalibaf: "Their frontline is the yield curve." Multiple countries are now facing real and desperate shortages, including major economies like Japan. Diesel prices continue their record rises, and reports about the potential impacts to all sectors of the global economy are streaming in, with famines around the world now very likely. While the US is profiting from the rise in oil prices, it seems like it will be unable to meaningfully increase production for at least a year or two, and so the US will certainly not be replacing the massive oil barrel deficit to create an energy hegemony, as some have suggested. In contrary: this is the best opportunity in a generation for China, Russia, and Iran to collectively make economic decisions that could cripple entire pillars of American hegemony. However, if the response is lacking - and we've all seen before over the last four years how China's responses to crises have been on the lacking side - we could see a (albeit temporary) strengthening of the US's financial power, as this global crisis will almost certainly result in debt climbing even higher as Western financial institutions grant loans en masse to struggling countries in the developing world. It's very uncertain times.
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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 the Zionists' 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.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:
Statement issued by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine on the First of May (International Workers' Day)
"O workers of the world, crush the hell of imperialism"
The Popular Front on International Workers' Day: Towards protecting the rights of the toilers and building an international labor front to confront the genocide, break the siege, and end the occupation.
O masses of our working class... O revolutionaries of our steadfast people,
The first of May, International Workers' Day, arrives as a living embodiment of a historical journey of continuous confrontation against exploitation and injustice, cemented by the blood of workers, during which rights were extracted through decades of struggle and sacrifice. This day, which marked a milestone in the history of the international labor movement, renews its presence this year in our Palestinian reality, burdened with unprecedented pain, where its combative symbolism mixes with a daily scene of suffering and steadfastness.
We, in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as we commemorate this glorious occasion and evoke its revolutionary meanings, extend our greetings of reverence and esteem to the martyrs, prisoners, and wounded of the Palestinian labor movement, and to the struggles and sacrifices of the Arab and international labor movement, which were cemented by the blood of workers throughout history for the sake of liberation, social justice, and human dignity.
On this occasion, we affirm that the Palestinian worker is facing one of the most severe stages of targeting today, in light of a war of genocide that targets their physical existence and their ability to survive and produce, and seeks to undermine the foundations of their life and human dignity. What our workers are going through, especially in the Gaza Strip, exceeds traditional descriptions of crises; we are facing a total and comprehensive destruction of the production system, a systematic strike at the foundations of life, and paralysis in the production sector that has led to hundreds of thousands losing their livelihoods. Unemployment rates have reached suffocating levels, turning our working community into a victim of comprehensive aggression, a tight siege, and widespread destruction of factories and workshops. The "food basket" is also being subjected to annihilation, as farmers and fishermen face a scorched-earth policy; agricultural lands have been crushed, fishing boats destroyed, and production areas turned into fields of death and hunger.
The economy has also suffered heavy losses as a result of targeting workers in the occupied West Bank and exhausting them, which caused deep social shock and led to the spread of poverty and the accumulation of debts. The journey in search of work has turned into a daily confrontation with bullets and arrests at checkpoints and walls, where martyrs are killed and the wounded injured while they strive to secure the livelihood of their families.
O masses of the toilers and makers of life... O revolutionaries of truth, freedom, and steadfastness,
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, on this occasion, while renewing its commitment to defending the toiling classes, confirms the following:
We affirm our absolute commitment to the rights and interests of the Palestinian working class and our struggling people as a whole for the sake of their freedom, independence, and right of return and the establishment of their independent state with Al-Quds as its capital, in the face of comprehensive targeting that affects their existence and ability to survive and produce.
We demand binding policies that protect the rights of the toilers and guarantee the minimum level of decent living and social justice, through official laws and collective agreements that guarantee their rights and establish a fair minimum wage.
We renew the call to restore national unity and formulate a comprehensive strategy to confront the war of genocide and liquidation schemes, leading to the building of a steadfast economy liberated from the restrictions of agreements that pledge the livelihood to the will of the occupation.
We emphasize the necessity of rebuilding the Palestinian trade union movement on democratic and representative foundations through fair and comprehensive elections, building an international labor front in cooperation with international unions, and escalating boycotts, strikes, and political pressure tools, including boycotting the "Histadrut" and withdrawing investments from the war economy and the apartheid system.
We call for escalating field movement in ports and factories to disrupt supply chains and stop the tools of killing and destruction, expanding the international movement of unions and free people to lift restrictions on food production, and turning the union stance into a global pressure force to stop the genocide, break the siege, and end the occupation.
Long live the first of May as a day for struggle and liberation.. and victory to the toilers and the oppressed.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Central Media Department 01/05/2026