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Image is of a solar park in Cuba, donated last year by China, sourced from this article.


To be honest, I don't have much to say about ongoing geopolitical events that hasn't already been said in previous threads (e.g. with India/Pakistan, Trump/Putin, and of course occupied Palestine), so this is more of a "news roundup" preamble for this week.

As we all know, the US (and the imperial core generally) has only three permitted international actions: sanctions, color revolution, and war. None of these have been going well lately, but sanctions are in particularly dire straits right now. Three examples from the last week or so:

  • The EU is on its 17th sanctions package, apparently, which is surprising, as I thought they were on their 76th or something. It apparently targets Russia's shadow fleet of oil tankers, but I don't think anybody actually gives a shit because we all know it won't achieve anything, so, moving on...

  • The head of Nvidia (as well as many others) have come out and said that the US chip export controls on China have failed, remarking that China's internal motivations to develop alternatives are strong and proceeding rapidly, especially as China's number of skilled scientists is only growing. Nvidia has said that they had a 95% share of China's AI chip market in 2020 or so, but now they only have 50%.

  • Lastly, an interesting one: Iran has received its first set of railway shipment of solar panels from China, and there is hope for accelerating shipments of even more products. Myself and many others have predicted a decoupling of Iran from the West and towards China and Russia (especially if any Western-built product could have Israeli devices implanted into them, such as with the pager terrorist attack on Lebanon's doctors), and having a strong link with China will be a necessary step for Iran and their allies to continue their offensives against Israel.


Last week's thread is here. The Imperialism Reading Group is here.

Please check out the RedAtlas!

The bulletins site is here. Currently not used.
The RSS feed is here. Also currently not used.

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 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.


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[-] ourtimewillcome@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago

Iran slams IAEA report as politically motivated, based on forged Israeli documents – the cradle

The IAEA issued a report on Saturday claiming Iran was in non-compliance with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty

[-] LoveYourself@hexbear.net 60 points 4 days ago

Samidoun writes on X

There has now been well over a year of fake "ceasefire" shenanigans from the US, the Zionist entity and the Arab reactionary regimes. This was always the danger of making the main focus on the term "ceasefire," rather than the relevant demand of "ending the genocide."

For the past week, we have witnessed a spectacle that has nothing to do with ending the genocide (nor, for that matter, a ceasefire) and is meant to do nothing more except toy with the sentiments and needs of a people undergoing genocide and being starved.

**The end of the genocide -- at least the portion of the genocide in Gaza -- can only be obtained by pressuring the Zionist regime. ** Instead, all of the pressure is being directed at the Palestinian resistance, which is not being careless and is seeking to protect their people.

The Zionist regime broke the January ceasefire, again and again. They break the ceasefire in Lebanon every day. And then they relaunched the genocide with full force on March 18. They continue to be armed and funded by the US, Canada, Britain, EU countries.

By right, all of these states should be 100% excluded from any "mediation" role -- although it is logical to demand a US guarantee for the actions of its colonial spearhead, "Israel".

So we've seen 2 US envoys, Adam Boehler and Bishara Bahbah, engage in negotiations with the Palestinian resistance, only to then have the US say that they don't actually mean any of those agreements or proposals and instead demand Netanyahu's latest proclamation.

This is not to mention the Edan Alexander matter, in which the Palestinian resistance turned over a prisoner (an occupation soldier -- a war criminal -- to be clear) to secure aid for their people, only to have the US again renege.

And, the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation," the "aid pier" reboot


ostensibly "humanitarian" but instead a mechanism to impose security control & surveillance on Palestinians & keep the starvation regime intact, with an entry into Palestine for US mercenary "military contractors"

The Palestinian resistance has engaged in all of these negotiations with a tremendous amount of responsibility. It has agreed to things even when it knows that the US cannot be trusted, in an effort to protect their people.

The latest Witkoff "proposal" was literally for 7 days (not 60, prisoner transfer to be completed within 1 week). The experience of just the past 60 months, let alone 78 years or 108 years, is clear: this just means agreeing to be bombed again in 7 days, but with less leverage.

ALL of the media reporting, in Saudi/US/etc media, about how "a ceasefire is coming soon!", Trump's proclamations and the like, are meant to do nothing more but quell opposition and build up hope among people living in intolerable conditions, in an attempt to force submission

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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 72 points 4 days ago

Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance has called Israel’s actions in Gaza a “genocide” - the first German party to do so

The Good Germans?? surprised-pika

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