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Image is of Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the leader of Ansarallah.


The death of Zionism has just massively accelerated.

previous preamble

BRICS has expanded to include Ethiopia, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Argentina is currently experiencing technical difficulties due to the election of the ancap clown Milei - once he's out of office, maybe they can try again.

I don't really have much to say about this one way or another. BRICS has, so far, made only nervous and small steps towards challenging US hegemony. This isn't really that unexpected, as only China and Russia are the real "true believers" in ending US hegemony (and even then, China's government either believes, or is pretending to believe, that reconciliation is still possible). Brazil, India, and South Africa are less enthralled by the concept of dethroning the US, most especially India, who had to make a firm decision in 2023 whether they were going to be on the side of America, or on the side of the Global South, and chose the former, strengthening their military relationship. They're still best of friends with Russia, but they are very obviously the sussy imposter of the BRICS group.

The prospects of BRICS are only really loosely correlated with the prospects of multipolarism, though. It's not a process that hinges on BRICS's successes or failures. It is coming because the contender states (in Desai's terminology) are irreversibly rising, and the US is irreversibly falling. If it will not be BRICS that leads, it will be a different organization. A better world is not only possible, but inevitable - unfortunately for the US.


I'm taking a week off the updates because I've been swamped lately, and also feel the need to reconfigure (and find new) sources. Needless to say that I've grown tired of Financial Times headlines, even if they do represent the actual views of the bourgeoisie.


The Country of the Week is Ethiopia! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.

The bulletins site is here!
The RSS feed is here.
Last week's thread is here.

Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA daily-ish 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 (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
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.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

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.
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.


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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 89 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

catholic cracker-americans must either agree with this or they are protestants

their cope is funny

[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 57 points 11 months ago

oh shit I sent it to a catholic-american and they agree with this bc of st paul, who is apparently 'the first communist' according to the bible

this is how we start the revolution

[-] MaxOS@hexbear.net 54 points 11 months ago

“We gotta do regime change in the Vatican”. biden-supervised

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 54 points 11 months ago

That's cool but the child predator church is still getting dismantled under communism

[-] ziggurter@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And the helping-to-colonize-most-of-the-world, indigenous-genocide church. No nice words of some guy filling one of the most viciously homicidal and slavery-inducing, authoritarian positions in the world is going to fix that shit, in a million years.

TBH shame on Hexbear for falling for this shit. We wouldn't buy it if Biden said it. Fuck the church, and fuck this nasty-ass pope with all the rest of them.

There's something to be said for this guy not being the most rabidly reactionary religious icon in memorable history, but that's a low fucking bar. Maybe remember he's still literally a king, a head-of-state, and CEO of one of the most wealthy corporations on the planet. The blood of children drips from the gold he ornaments himself and his private property with.

[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 51 points 11 months ago

can't wait for biden to repeat this

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 48 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The Agenda has put into motion, your Holiness.The Ukrainian heretics have been dealt with. The Middle East shall bring down the Great Satanic Empire. And the Irish shall be reunited by the end of 2024.

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

Biden being a secret papist agent is may be one of the funnier memes to come out of his presidency

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 44 points 11 months ago

The Hexbear Catholic faction is going crazy over this one.

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 41 points 11 months ago

"fuck it one struggle" - the actual pope

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago

Their primary cope is "the pope can still sin" and then they morshupls about how disagreeing with their personal politics = sinning

[-] Aquilae@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago

The pope saying something based was not on my 2024 bingo card

[-] 420stalin69@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago

I’ll be impressed when he excommunicates Biden.

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

They probably realize most of their followers are in the global south and the western world is too secularized to keep supporting the ostentatious papal lifestyle

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