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.
Clear the airspace will also allow Iran to use best attack indicator HF band strategic radar which can track stealth plane with no problem but have low resolution and hard to read in busy airspace.
I don’t think the US has any stealth aircraft in the region right now, just F-15s and A-10s. Venezuela also had these VHF/UHF radars in the P-12/P-18 Spoon Rest series, and more advanced ones like the Chinese JY-27A Wide Mat, I don’t know how much early warning they gave Venezuela but it didn’t seem like much, if any.
While these VHF/UHF radars could give some advanced warning of an incoming attack, basing a ground controlled intercept strategy around them as the key sensor would require a technological miracle to work against modern stealth jets. The F-35 is not the F-117. But at the same time, this is very different to how China plans to use these VHF/UHF radars. For China, they are just one sensor in a swarm of sensors, China’s air defence strategy is very much a “system of systems”, with high levels of integration being the goal.
While I doubt using a radar like with the Nighthawk would work, especially with NGJ pods, I wonder if IR missiles could work better if coordinated with ground stations, which themselves may even help encourage American aircraft to stay low enough to engage.
Correct yes. HF/VHF is much harder to jam from air compare with higher frequency radar. Resolution is low to target but modern computer processing can make detailed enough information to combine. For stealth aircraft shaping and coating can not affect this frequencies at all, it is useless. Some breakthrough on other band above the range which stealth protect as well (but very sensitive, easy to jam, not much propagation). Enough data and can get a missile with imaging IR terminal guidance close enough to kill. Infrared sensor have advanced faster than countermeasure against. No countermeasure work any more for imaging sensor with good algorithm.
Jamming pod actually will make plane carrying it very vulnerable. Radar jammer is directional and emit a loud signal to jam. Passive and semi active type missile can «home on jam» follow the jam signal and IR terminal. Anti radiation missile from plane will also kill very easy. Difficult for poor country to counter it but not big power.
VHF/UHF is completely different properties from HF. Not related.
HF will see stealth and non-stealth the same.
I do not think is a reasonable assumption to make. US was very active in the coast for a long time and attack was very fast and low flying helicopter attack. Very different situation.
Radar probably could see but how to know that it is attack this close?
Definitely JY-27 family is not a primary sensor, is a surveillance radar. Can provide important initial tracking information which will allow other sensor system to find correct sector and vectors.
HF radar is a very different purpose. It is over the horizon strategic radar. The purpose is strategic information. Earliest warning and useful for directing. Can also be satellite-based.
So over the horizon radars that operate below 30Mhz, like Sepehr/Ghadir? Yes that would probably be the best thing Iran has to detect an incoming attack. Israel did destroy a few of them in previous attacks, but Iran should still have some sites functioning.
Interesting page on those, with recordings
The sounds of these things is very ominous.
Yes this one.
Very interesting page. Choice to not use FMCW is very interesting.