Image is of a protest in San Diego against ICE.
On January 7th, 37-year-old Renee Good was murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. While a considerable amount of the discussion online has been about the direction her wheels were turning and things like that, truthfully, I think it’s just fundamentally bad to shoot a person to death with a gun if you happen to be a state mercenary enforcing an incredibly racist federal policy, regardless of the circumstances.
The murder has since prompted a wave of vigils and protests, not only in Minneapolis, but also in virtually every major city in the country. The demands are justice for Good in particular, and the abolition of ICE in general, to avenge its many victims. The Trump administration has done all they can to inflame the situation, designating Good a “domestic terrorist” and saying that the agent who shot her will be immune from prosecution.
Protests and resistance to this administration’s policies have, encouragingly, had an element of international solidarity - not only are flags from countries throughout Latin America (and also Palestine) present, but speakers in protests have even been actively condemning the recent imperialist actions against Venezuela. For it is, of course, one joint struggle. The imperial boomerang always returns - and in the modern day, it returns rapidly.
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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.
It was rumoured that Pakistan extended their nuclear umbrella to Iran, in the event of a nuclear strike, in the 12 day war.
Pakistan also knows that they’re probably next after Iran. Mossad + India already tried to denuclearize them during that brief conflict.
As far as I know:
This was a joint collaborative effort by Iran and Pakistan, where they scratched each other’s backs. Notice how neither ever escalated or got mad about it. Both used each other to deal with problematic populations without legal issues. This is actually proof of how close they are, and their collaboration.
There’s nothing stopping a nation from being friendly with multiple countries at once.
Not in government. Every nation has racists, this is completely irrelevant
“There are some racist Persian factions that despise Pakistanis for being browner compared to Aryan lineage, idk. Maybe I read too much twitter.”
I think we’ve all seen the Iranian diaspora’s Israel flags and rabid disavowing of being Arab. It may be true, but they hardly need to react like a white supremacist being called black.
The circumstances of that bombing are allegedly about the Balochi seperatism. They both bombed Balochis in each other’s borders, and everything was over within 48 hours.
Given that Iran also did strikes in Syria and Iraq, I believe there was a scheme that Iran had to urgently put down - that the public still doesn’t know about.
Can you expand on what you mean by that? I have seen some horrible memes (for the slop section on hexbear maybe) about some Pro-Protest account about supporting to “erase all Sunnis” (Pelavi was not radical enough), become Zhoroastrian again, and stop “worshiping Arabs (and their religion)”.
Also I knew an Afghan personally who told me he was treated badly for racist reasons in Teheran.
Pro-protester saying to erase Sunnis is a strange one. I think that’s an Israeli op - they do try to put a wedge between Iranians and Arabs.
If anything, I hear pro-Pahlavi ex-muslim Iranians taking the Sunni line and calling Shiism an Iranian made up version of Islam.
If an anti-iran gov person says something Islamophobic, it’s against all Muslims.
If they say something racist - it coincides with American racism, but carves an exception for Iranians (except Arabs). So Afghans, Arabs, and others are treated as lower.
Yes Afghans are treated terribly. I am 2-hop away from an Iranian doctor who non-consensually removed an Afghan immigrant’s uterus. Reminiscent of what white American doctors have been doing to Latin-American immigrants.
What’d be the point of doing this in secret? Iran needs deterrence.
Idk if it was completely secret, only communicated to the appropriate parties, or false.