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.
https://xcancel.com/WhiteHouse/status/2011476301060702329
Funniest outcome would be for the US to try and take it militarily, and fail completely.
God, imagine the humiliation, getting defeated by your own vassals.
This is yet another thing liberals started (or intensly amplified) and now right-wingers have taken up: Fearmongering about fake things russia or china aren’t really doing and won’t really do
It long predates russiagate Liberals.
Americans were absolutely sure that the USSR had nuclear subs swarming their shores so advanced that they couldn’t be detected. This justified them investing billions of dollars into anti-submarine technology, radars, etc.
They couldn’t find anything, which only convinced the US military and government that the soviets had super advanced stealth technology that they needed to invest into discovering.
Then once documents were released from archives it was found there just weren’t any USSR nuclear subs on the US coast.
Very similar to the balloon paranoia that occurred a couple years ago.
Whats that tower under the Chinese flag supposed to be?
The chinese St Basil cathedral
in communist China, they build ghost cities, ghost city москва even, they’ll build anything, and I believe it’s because they can 🫡
The US should overthrow their government just to stop this kind of bullshit.
Even the “Putin is hiding under my bed, I’m too scared of Russia to think straight!” kind of libs don’t buy that Russia is any sort of threat to Greenland.
I wonder if the people in charge in the US honestly are viewing geopolitics as a zero sum game where any part of the world they don’t control is going to be controlled by the other two major players in the world, regardless of practically or material conditions.
I feel like it’s more a message to the rest of the world/Europe in particular. “This is the choice you all face”. And he’s not necessarily wrong, except he didn’t realise that most of them were already down the US path because of economic subjugation and NATO, which he hates for some reason
They don’t want to spend money on the obfuscation, though the obfuscation is actually cheaper than occupation.
He pretends to hate NATO so that all the anti-Drumpf Libs reflexively defend and love NATO. It’s reverse psychology and a deliberate strategy to make normally anti-interventionist milquetoast libs into frothing warmongers.
What has he actually done “against” NATO despite all the rhetoric and discourse? Increased their funding by extorting more funds from Europe. Convinced Europe to expand their militaries. That’s it.
This is a fair assessment. I kind of feel like he hates spending money on literally anything though, even if it’s good for US imperialism, eg USAID. NATO has always been a protection racket in any case, it’s just becoming more overt
He hates spending money on soft power. He likes spending money on hard power. He’s 12.
But really, the Republican’s imperialist plan in the short term is to give up on soft power over the whole Earth and focus on hard power over their immediate vicinity
Agree
Trump probably does hate NATO because usa gets a bad deal, he’s all about the deal at face value
but that doesn’y mean the people who write his speaches and executive orders have any pro deal assesment
The “good deal” for Trump is to get Europe to pay into NATO more to increase the armies that the vassals supply to the hegemon, them. He’s just dragging up the slider to increase NATO’s military capabilities and imperialist force. He’s Genghis Khan demanding a higher amount of auxillaries from one of his conquered regions. Wow, this guy really “hates” NATO!
I dont think this new crop of failsons even understands material conditions outside of “gimme more, more gimme gimme”
Yes