Image, sourced from this article, is of George Bush in 2002 meeting with María Corina Machado, who was even then being trained as a figure to oppose Venezuelan socialism, and very briefly succeeded with the Carmona Decree. Now the latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, she has begged the Zionist entity to drop bombs on the Venezuelan people.
As of me writing these sentences, it appears that the ceasefire in Gaza is underway. Zionist ceasefires are, of course, an oxymoron - not only in the grand sense that their work to continue genocidal atrocities against others locally and regionally will not cease until the Zionist entity’s occupation of Palestine is overthrown and Palestinians can resume the governance of their territory - but also in the literal sense; that bombings and shootings are often only merely reduced, and rarely cease entirely (as was/is the case on their northern border with Lebanon). Nonetheless, hopefully the population can receive some aid, and the long process of rebuilding can begin.
On the other side of the world, it seems increasingly likely that a new war is set to begin. Because the US is eschewing the usual process of generating pro-war propaganda and casus bellis (aside from a laughably transparent Nobel Peace Prize award) and seems content to just skip straight to the “bomb and depose” step, it’s quite hard to predict what precisely they want to do. Anything seems to be on the table - from freely striking Venezuelan territory where “drug dealers” are to try and prompt a Venezuelan response, to assassinating Maduro and/or his generals and hoping a power vacuum can be filled with compradors, to attempting to outright invade Venezuela and establish direct American control over important government sites. All appear to be possibilities, though as of right now, the most drastic measures seem unlikely due to their difficulty.
We know that the US has almost totally abandoned diplomatic communication with Venezuela, and that the US has deployed warships, a nuclear submarine, F-35s, surveillance planes, and at least 4,000 military personnel to the Caribbean, with some sources putting the numbers higher. Some people have suggested that the point is to try and force Maduro into a situation where he must begin hostilities, or be seen as weak and perhaps overthrown from within. It is at least encouraging that Maduro is not like Allende in Chile, and is taking this situation extraordinarily seriously; the masses are being trained and mobilized in the event of an invasion, and military drills are ongoing. Venezuela has no real capacity to stop the US from attacking and bombing them, but it is much more possible to prevent a West-friendly puppet from gaining meaningful control of the country. A comprador might be able to make a brief statement or decree in a Venezuelan city saying that Chavismo is over, but actual power will hopefully prove very elusive.
2020, and particularly 2022, has clearly become a turning point for the Western imperial system, in which increasingly aggressive and reckless moves are required to keep the system functional (stability is, at this point, out of the question). Unfortunately, this has also resulted in the deaths of many long-lasting, inspiring figures, such as Nasrallah, and many more will certainly die before the empire collapses. If Maduro is assassinated - and I’m having trouble imagining how he won’t be doggedly pursued in the days. weeks, and months to come - I have hope that a successor will rise to continue to lead the Bolivarian Revolution.
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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.
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.
Maybe I’m very late to this and maybe what I’m about to say is obvious, but has anyone else been thinking that the massive mobilization of ICE is a way for the state to integrate the fascist gangs/militias/paramilitaries like Proud Boys, Patriot Front, et al. into the security services in a similar manner to what happened in Ukraine with their fascist groups? They’re obviously the “target audience” for the recruitment drives and it feels like we haven’t heard from those groups in some time, especially since you’d expect them to show up in defence of ICE at the counter-ICE rallies. It’s also possible that these people could move “laterally” into other agencies once they have their foot in the door via ICE mass recruitment, then we’d really be seeing something similar to Ukraine. Just some things I’ve been thinking about after watching this translated documentary about Ukraine’s “decentralized totalitarianism” (the author disparages the original use of the term to conflate fascism and communism, but he feels it’s descriptive in a post-Maidan context) and how every imperialist frontier is a labratory for the future, and was curious about what the newsmega crowd thought.
Of course! Both israel and especially ukraine are blueprints of the re-fascisization of western society and measures of social control
we’ve long been saying it. We’re not making Ukraine “more democratic”. Ukraine is making us more explicitly fascist. The ukrainification of Europe is well underway
Ironic how so many did deny the danger Ukraine poses.
why do you care so much about the “nazis” that’s just Putin propaganda
We care because they don’t. The very fact of them being willing to overlook nazism for political expediency is a major red flag and warning. We care because those nazis will get infinite good press, weaponry, training and funds and freedom to set up their own drug and trafficking networks throughout europe. We care because their nazism will corrupt the supporters of it.
Agreed, the moment I realized that yeah libs weren’t immediately turned off associating with azov nazis, was the moment I knew fascism is locked in now.
Hard to get people to deny something they won’t even acknowledge as existing
LMAO at the idea that Ukraine is making the US more fascist. Its like saying the Polish made Nazi Germany more fascist. Ukraine is a testbed for US (and European) fascism.
It makes sense if you agree with Aimé Césaire’s argument that fascism is colonialism turned inwards to the metropole.
What the empire does in Ukraine it will do to itself soon enough
The American populace is not even 50% as fascist as the Ukrainian populace. We have a ton of people of color here, immigrants, urban populace that hates the government but can’t do anything about it. Ukraine doesn’t have any of that. Everybody who was anti-Nazi left years ago, either to Russia or to Europe.
To be clear, this is mostly the fault of American psychological operations, propaganda and the putting into power rightwing elements in Ukraine. It’s not something unique to the Ukrainian character, just a reality of Operation Aerodynamic and the Maidan. It’s more acute there, but ultimately, they are a pawn of the real imperialists.
The American populace is not even 50% as fascist as the Ukrainian populace.
fuck off. 62% of Ukrainians believe that life was better under socialism. The current Nazi régime is a minority composed of Galicians and diasporites imposing its will on the country and tyrannizing its own population for being “moscals” or “bydlo”. It only managed to come to power through a undemocratic coup conducted externally BY YOUR GOVERNMENT! but i guess the people of eastern Europe are supposedly just so stupid and subhuman as to automatically turn into Hitlerites… might as well call every syrian or Iraqi daesh…
meanwhile the US is a settler colonial state built on genocide and slavery with Himmler and co. talking openly how inspired they were by the american experiment. no need to talk about that though apparently
your poll is from 2010. Run that in 2025 and it will be like 5%
If that were true, Zelenski would not have to cancel elections. If that were true, the Nazi goons would not have to beat people to death in the streets. If that were true, the west would have to sponsor the dehumanization of what’s left of the Ukrainian proletariat. If that were true, people wouldn’t have to be press ganged into the military. If that were true, there would be no need for this war.
The more adequate comparison would have been Italy. The empire literally used salami tactics „invented“ by Indonesia elsewhere.
100%. The massive mobilization of ICE, its giant budget, etc, is a way for Trump and co to have a fascist paramilitary arm operating directly under the purview of the executive, without all the strings attached with going through the FBI or the DoD or CIA. ICE are basically the Brownshirts, the internal police force answerable directly to the executive, given broad and vague powers and vast hardware to directly carry out their will.
how every imperialist frontier is a labratory for the future
It truly is except USAmericans have no Russia to denazify them by force. I do believe that Trump will be the vehicle for the ruling class to obtain their domestic fascist militias in preparation for the mass climate change migration (the current migratory corridors will look minuscule compared to 5-20 years down the line). Once the fascist thugs become part of the American civil society it will be impossible for any progressive reformer from within the system to take them out.
To add to that. I do think that the american ruling elite is preparing to get rid of its „sickly“ „excess“ population and reduce wages.
but excess population helps but downward pressure on wages
Killing union leaders/organizers does as well. They once used the mafia for roughing up „demanding“ workers.
I’m certain they’re going to use ICE to patrol polling stations to “stop illegals from voting” i.e. stop non-white people from voting.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Bernie Sanders and AOC on CNN right now talking about israel-palestine
Bernie said “call it a genocide if you like”
socdems are the moderate wing of fascism
Syriza’s failure was the last straw that radicalised me from “democratic socialism”. Class war is war. No more half measures,
TsiprasWalter
President Xi has one final card to play in the trade negotiations
Western yurop.
Cops gave me a concussion. Will press charges tomorrow. There’s vidz of unmarked mf beating up people everywhere, even national newz had to talk about it.
tldr I saw a kid getting georgefloyed, called them murderer (nobody cared) and told them not wearing id number was illegal. They georgefloyed me and put me in detention for 12 hours. No food nor drink. Guy next to me got beat up bad, a guy told me they were putting CS gaz right into his eyeball.
Statement by Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades:
“The resistance has abided by the terms of the agreement. We have handed over all the living prisoners in our custody, as well as the bodies we were able to retrieve. As for the remaining bodies, locating and extracting them requires extensive efforts and special equipment. We are exerting great efforts to close this file.”
Israel has used the bodies issue to alter the deal, limit aid and the opening of rafah crossing. They have also violated the ceasefire for the first time, killing and wounding Palestinians by armed drones and shelling
We love our soon-to-be harm reduction “stop purity testing” saviour from fascism presidential nominee Gavin Gruesome.
Eurovision Song Contest organiser calls off Israel vote
Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer vote on Israel’s participation in the competition following Middle East “developments”, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) says.
Eurovision has faced controversy linked to Israel’s war on Gaza, and several countries pledged to withdraw from the event if Israeli contestants took part.
“The Board agreed to put the issue on the agenda of its ordinary Winter General Assembly, which will be taking place in December,” instead of the extraordinary meeting that had been slated to take place online in November, an EBU statement said.
Whatever fate europeans end up inflicting on themselves, they deserve worse.
Europe is basically saying that if the Nazis in 1943 said: “That is enough for now, lets give this war business a rest for a while”, that would be perfectly acceptable.
unlimited strikes on Brussels
I hope Austria crashes and burns even further that would make Switzerland look like a joke
Critical support for the Hague invasion act
mr. amoc, time to stop
Look how quickly they turn back to „normal“ the moment they think its „safe“ and people stop protesting.
Palestinian bodies returned by Israel blindfolded, signs of possible ‘field executions’
Some of the Palestinians’ bodies handed over by Israeli forces on Tuesday were blindfolded and handcuffed, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.
According to these sources, there are signs that several individuals may have been subjected to “field executions”.
Additionally, tank tracks were found on the bodies, suggesting that some may have been run over by Israeli vehicles.
He’s still got it!
Trump Brags About Surviving Assassination Attempt at Charlie Kirk Ceremony
spoiler
“But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time - I turned to the right,” he said, referencing the life-saving moment he miraculously shifted his head and avoided the bullet of would-be assassin Thomas Michael Crooks in Pennsylvania last year.
“Charlie couldn’t believe it, actually.”
The remark, made as Trump stood next to Kirk’s grieving widow Erika, was immediately criticized for being insensitive.
40% of employees are reporting wasting an average of 2 hours at a time cleaning up AI-generated workslop, per CNN
Confirming. This is ruining my life. I hate it. I have to look over other people’s work and the second I can tell it’s written with AI my day is ruined. It saved them an hour of writing at the cost of my two hours of reviewing and climatological devastation. Deeply stupid bullshit to be doing, especially in the environmental field
Same, but in fucking railway safety shit
This isn’t just annoying for whoever’s receiving the workslop — it actually costs companies money. Employees reported spending an average of nearly two hours dealing with each instance of workslop. Researchers calculated, based on participants’ self-reported salaries, that these incidents amount to an “invisible tax” of $186 per month. For a company with 10,000 people, they estimated workslop costs more than $9 million a year in lost productivity.
Iran’s deputy Foreign Minister:
Tomorrow Iran, Russia, and China will jointly send a letter to the UNSC to announce they recognise the end of Resolution 2231.
Russia, China and 121 other countries from the NaM insist that the sanctions reinstated by the US and E3 through the so-called “snapback” mechanism have no legal validity and UN member states are not obligated to implement them.
With the end of this resolution, the status of Iran’s issue at the IAEA will also change, and from now on, the IAEA Director-General will no longer be required to issue reports on the JCPOA.
Leaders of Egypt, Qatar, Turkiye and US sign Gaza deal
Strange, I feel like there’s an important name missing from this list, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
Albania will not stand for this exclusion
Dua Lipa is being deployed to Egypt for a tactical humanitarian retaliatory strike AS WE SPEAK.
The Argentinian currency reserves in US Dollars situation continues to deteriorate. The country is bleeding reserves, the Central Bank lost 513 million USD in just two days. The immense weight of the foreign debt continues to crush the country’s economy, and thus the exchange rate between the Peso and the US Dollar remains very high, which makes everything expensive despite the “low inflation”.
Meanwhile, the US Treasury announced the bailout towards Argentina would reach 40 billion USD. The US Treasury is directly intervening in the Argentine market by buying excess pesos. This is yet another form of debt, but that massive accumulation of pesos immediately becomes a ticking bomb: If tomorrow a new administration takes place that doesn’t have the US approval, the US could potentially re-release these pesos back into the market and drop a literal nuclear bomb into the economy, perhaps provoking inflation to spiral completely out of control. Or it could be used as a way to blackmail future administrations into further consessions, who knows?
I think the fate of this country, as we once knew it, is sealed. When the US falls off from the world stage, we (alongside “israel”) will follow. We’re now bonded together, not as equals, but as dogs and their master.
On a more personal note, the images of milei hanging out with Trump a day or two ago are really hard to speak about. Never in my life I have seen a president get dragged around the mud so much, never seen a more pathetic representation of what a vassal is… ever. Menem (the guy who did most of the shock therapy policies in the 90s) was a MASSIVE US fan, ridiculous even. But even then Menem stood with leaders like Clinton with some presence, even in public he was not humilliated. Other presidents, who gave a lot to the US, were also well received and treated with some respect. The same cannot be said for milei, whose clown-like appearance was mocked by the likes of Trump (another clown, but this one is different). It is humilliating as a nation to have leaders like these. And even though I am not particularly fond of this nation, even though I am not a nationalist, I still hold some love to it, I don’t want to see it being dragged across broken glass, mud and shit for nothing, especially so because millions upon millions depend on it. It is humilliating, it’s beyond words.
May the United States of America die, may javier milei get beheaded and as always: Death to “israel”.
