Image is of Brazilian chuds storming the National Congress building in opposition to Lula winning the election, on January 8th, 2023, in their remarkably even shittier version of the January 6th events in America.
Bolsonaro, who is in the tragic category of pro-US South American leaders who are so awful and uncharismatic that even they can't get the US to help them overthrow a democratically elected left-ish government, has recently been facing that most elusive of things in this current world order: consequences for his actions. Bolsonaro and his friends have been under investigation by the police, and his passport has now been seized, meaning he is unable to leave the country. Alongside the man himself, the leader of the Liberal Party, Valdemar Costa Neto, has been caught up in searches and investigations. Brazilian Army Colonel Bernardo Correa Neto, a former aide to Bolsonaro, was very recently arrested upon his return to Brazil from the US, as well as another colonel.
From the Hexbear South American correspondent (a position I just made up), @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net:
Lol, they are really fucked. Iirc, this is a municipal election year in Brazil, Bolsonaro can't campaign publicly, he can't promote his candidates. The leader of his party is currently in prison. And even if he is released from prison, they are forbidden to communicate with each other. The high-ranking members of the Liberal Party are pretty much fucked because they can't communicate with each other and getting support from Bolsonaro could be very bad, as left-wing candidates will exploit the fact that Bolsonaro will probably be imprisoned for planning a coup.
The FBI seems to have concluded its investigation into Bolsonaro's money laundering scheme in the US and handed over its findings to the Brazilian Federal Police, I don't think Bolsonaro can even go to the US anymore, or any other country. And it could get even funnier, there is a very small chance of the Liberal Party being banned and all its seats in congress and the senate being transferred to other politicians, many of whom, even if they are conservative, will be much more favorable to Lula's social and economic reforms, as it has been proven that Bolsonaro used the party to finance the coup.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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.
Some news from another alpine country Austria:
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Tibor Zenker left the Upper Austrian capital Linz satisfied on Saturday. The Labor Party (PdA) had just held its sixth party conference there. PdA chairman Zenker particularly emphasized "the young composition": "I think I was now the third oldest person present." In order to underline the perspective on the youth, the activists of the "Youth Front" also attended the meeting in the Volkshaus Linz. Ebelsberg took part.The PdA was founded in 2013. It went back to the Communist Initiative (KI), which, according to its own statements, was formed in January 2005 as a "collective movement of Marxist-Leninist forces outside the KPÖ" after many years of factional struggle.
The party conference began on Saturday morning with a series of reports, including those from secretary Mathias Schneider and the international commission. Party leader Zenker's political summary focused a lot on the social emergency: "At the national level, the inflation crisis has had a full impact. Certainly, in a networked, internationalized economy, all countries have been affected in one form or another by rising inflation," he explained: "But it is astonishing: within the EU or the Eurozone, the inflation rate in Austria was one of the highest – and this in a constant way.«
He summarized the party's development not uncritically: »The past term of office made progress. Of course, these may seem too small or too slow to some. It cannot be denied that certain difficulties and inadequacies have still not been resolved." In the jW conversation, he remained just as realistic: "Inadequacies" were mentioned and there was "a lot of optimism." The difficulty: “Too much work for too few people.” A ten-member board is supposed to lead the PdA into the new term of office. Zenker was unanimously re-elected. The former KPÖ chairman Otto Bruckner remains his deputy. Also represented on the board are the Lower Austrian local councilor Armin Kollarik and Moritz Pamminger as representatives of the youth front.
The PdA is also a founding member of the European Communist Action (EKA), led by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). Internationally, the task is to strengthen “the Marxist-Leninist pole in the international communist movement.” Requests for solidarity went to the Communist Party of Venezuela, Cuba and Palestine. Greetings from the DKP, the Communist Organization (KO) and the KPD-East arrived from Germany.
As part of the party conference, a rally was also held to commemorate the Austrian Civil War, the 90th anniversary of which began on February 12th. Three army soldiers died on the outskirts of Linz. After the fighting, the Schutzbund member Anton Bulgari was executed. Bulgari Square, where the PdA held the anti-fascist commemoration, is named after him.
“After ten years, the party conference showed that the party is alive and developing,” emphasizes Zenker to jW. He emphasized several times that "many young comrades would take part in the development": "We are on the right path, even if it will not be easy." Shortly before the party congress, the PdA had achieved a respectable success. The communist list she supported received more than 1,300 votes in the labor chamber elections in the state of Tyrol - an increase of 400 votes compared to a previous list. A move-in was narrowly missed.
Despite narrowly missing the mandate, the PdA was still satisfied when asked by jW. Top candidate Tobia Carfora now wants to continue working: "Under difficult conditions, the Communist List was able to convince over a thousand Tyroleans of class struggle demands and Marxist-Leninist content." He sees this as a "great and important success."