Image is a frame taken from this video of Iranian missiles raining down on Israel without interception due to a weak and depleted air defense system after a year of war and genocide.
Mao, 1956:
Now U.S. imperialism is quite powerful, but in reality it isn’t. It is very weak politically because it is divorced from the masses of the people and is disliked by everybody and by the American people too. In appearance it is very powerful but in reality it is nothing to be afraid of, it is a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain. I believe the United States is nothing but a paper tiger.
When we say U.S. imperialism is a paper tiger, we are speaking in terms of strategy. Regarding it as a whole, we must despise it. But regarding each part, we must take it seriously. It has claws and fangs. We have to destroy it piecemeal. For instance, if it has ten fangs, knock off one the first time, and there will be nine left, knock off another, and there will be eight left. When all the fangs are gone, it will still have claws. If we deal with it step by step and in earnest, we will certainly succeed in the end.
Strategically, we must utterly despise U.S. imperialism. Tactically, we must take it seriously. In struggling against it, we must take each battle, each encounter, seriously. At present, the United States is powerful, but when looked at in a broader perspective, as a whole and from a long-term viewpoint, it has no popular support, its policies are disliked by the people, because it oppresses and exploits them. For this reason, the tiger is doomed. Therefore, it is nothing to be afraid of and can be despised. But today the United States still has strength, turning out more than 100 million tons of steel a year and hitting out everywhere. That is why we must continue to wage struggles against it, fight it with all our might and wrest one position after another from it. And that takes time.
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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 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.
German media is currently plastering the image of a Palestinian burning in his hospital bed everywhere - not because they’re outraged over Israel’s crime against humanity, but because they’re demanding a politician who shared said image critically to resign over “antisemitism“
Germans just can’t help themselves being nazis
https://nitter.poast.org/frutiger_sof/status/1847665436566933873
The IOF bulldozing a UN position
The UN mission in Lebanon, UNIFIL, alleges that the Israeli army has demolished a peacekeeping force position in Marwahin using a bulldozer.
Kuwait taking part in the genocide
Leader of the worker’s (Trotskyist) party of Algeria calls for updating the 2025 budget to include Palestine and Lebanon:
After commending the current diplomatic mission of Algeria, she called for Algerian authorities to stop funding the Palestinian authorities, as she criticized them heavily for being “Zionist comparadors”.
Also she called for coordination with Jordanian authorities to assist in aid and helping injured north Gazans in their situation of famine and shortages due to the continues zionist aggression.
She also left a very large part of her speech to comment the leader Yahia Sinwar, as she described him a “legendary leader”, and that although his death is tragic it will not slow resistance down.
She also attacked a lot of Arabic channels and described them as “zionists”, saying that they aim to plant strife among Palestinian and Lebanese people, and attempting to isolate the resistance from its population.
She finished her speech by saying that the zionist entity lives in a state of collapse due to the strikes done by the resistance of Lebanon and Palestine, despite of all the massacres and destruction.
I don’t understand calling the PA comparadors but in the same time reach for Jordan, but okay.
The live streaming platform Twitch has banned users with Israeli IPs from creating new accounts,
gamers are very mad.“Vice President Kamala Harris’s advisers say the empathy she has expressed for Palestinians in Gaza should not be confused with any willingness to break from U.S. foreign policy toward Israel as a presidential candidate.”
Himmler Harris echoing Genocide Joe’s “Nothing will fundamentally change”
Lol
gave anne applebaum a “price for freedom” and in her speech she gave a passionate appeal for germany to send more military aid to ukraine and fight russia in the name of peace.Look at the lopsided conflict between Pissreal and Lebanon
Lt.Col Daksa was the head in charge of the operation in Jabalia. He and his team arrived to the camp to gather intelligence from the field before Hamas blew up his military vehicle
There are others dead. Some senior officers were with him in the vehicle
“Israel” spent years talking about how Hamas uses human shields when fighting, yet when they found Sinwar (actually, Sinwar found them) he was alone armed with nothing but an AK, a vest and a bunch of grenades. Sinwar proved them wrong over and over again, he was not in Qatar, he wasn’t hiding in bunkers never coming out and he wasn’t fighting against the enemy hiding behind defenseless women and children. He stood alone against an elite group of “israeli” soldiers that included artillery and tanks, he fought them even as a tank shell severed his hand and left him mortally wounded…, but still kept fighting, all by himself with whatever strenght he had left.
When you read the details about how “israel” got him, it proves that Sinwar, despite his age, was still able to fend off a much larger “israeli” force by himself with inferior tools, and only after they employed overwhelming firepower they were able to take him down. “Israel” will not win and destruction awaits for them at the end of the road.
Ukrainian forces are basically encircled yet again, this time in the Avdiivka-sized city of Selydove, south of Pokrovsk.
We’ll see if they follow their usual strategy of endlessly funneling in troops and equipment down the “road of death”.
The vassalization of Europe is now complete. The Ukraine war has succeeded in turning Europe away from China as an export market, and towards the US. In other words, Europe now depends on the US for security, energy and its consumer market.
This is to be expected because Europe now needs to earn dollars to pay for its energy bill, and to earn dollars you gotta sell stuff to Americans. America gets free stuff from a dependent Europe simply by starting a war between Ukraine and Russia.
British Columbia, one of Canada’s most populous provinces, had a provincial election yesterday that is turning out to be a real nail biter.
Some background, BC spent the early oughts through 2017 run by the BC Liberals, the right wing provincial party. In 2017 the NDP, the left wing party, won a squeaker of a win and formed a minority government with the green party. 2020 saw a resounding NDP victory and they formed a majority government. In the last couple years the BC Liberals imploded and rebranded as the BC Conservatives. The rebranded BC Conservatives use a Canadian maga aesthetic and have done a stereotypically incoherent campaign against social welfare, indigenous, and LGBT people. The NDP portray themselves as social democrats but govern as neoliberals without some of the worst excesses of neoliberalism (but just some - they still supported the RCMP in their attacks on wetsuweten land defenders and protestors at fairy Creek). The BC Greens are similar to the NDP and so aren’t bloodthirsty as the German greens or as geopolitically aware as the US Greens.
This election in 2024 looks to be a repeat of 2017, with NDP on track to hold 46 seats, cons 45 and the greens 2, where 47 is needed for a majority. The final count will be done in a week.
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/british-columbia/2024/results/
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/oxfam-condemns-killing-water-engineers-gaza
Oxfam condemns in the strongest terms the killing in Gaza today of four water engineers and workers from the Khuzaa municipality who were working with our strategic partner the Coastal Municipalities Water Utility (CMWU).
The four men were killed on their way to conduct repairs to water infrastructure in Khuzaa, east of Khan Younis. Despite prior coordination with Israeli authorities their clearly-marked vehicle was bombed. Oxfam stands in solidarity with the CMWU, their partners and the families of the victims.
This is like the world central kitchen strike the Israelis did
The Palestinian Resistance in Gaza uses an unexploded US-israeli missile to annihilate an ‘israeli’ tank.
East of Jabalia camp. They are still resisting with everything they have.
