Image is of Venezuela’s Maduro and Colombia’s Petro walking together at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas in 2022, sourced from this article.
Ordinarily, I avoid straying into the American domestic situation, but the government shutdown appears to be continuing into increasingly harmful territory. If the situation is not resolved, soon tens of millions of Americans will lose food assistance, and already millions of federal employees are furloughed or are working without pay. To those not in the know, this situation has essentially stemmed from the Democrats refusing to sign off on the Republicans’ plan to substantially shrink Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, which would eventually result in tens of millions losing healthcare coverage and tens if not hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths.
To be clear, though, the Democrats have not exactly been paragons of healthcare: they not only oppose plans to make affordable healthcare a right (in defiance of wide popular opinion), but also do their part to maximize suffering. Biden’s policies during the pandemic ensured at least one million people died, and millions of children lost public healthcare coverage. We may never know the true toll, as the US decided that simply ceasing to report on a problem means that the problem no longer exists.
In other news, over the last couple weeks, the US has expanded their hostility against Venezuela by also including Colombia in their ire, and particularly the left-leaning leader, Petro. Both countries are now experiencing major economic and covert pressure by the US to try and cause regime change. The US has deployed an aircraft carrier to the waters near Venezuela and is conducting a military training operation with Trinidad and Tobago, which Venezuela has warned may be the prelude to the long-awaited attack.
Additionally, the US is attempting to combat Chinese geopolitical interest in central America and the Caribbean by carrying out digital attacks and launching pressure campaigns against Chinese and pro-Chinese countries and organizations. Given China’s enormous economic weight, if central America were to break all ties with China, it would be a catastrophe for them; such decisions would only be made by outright compradors, and the resulting economic problems would make their reigns unpopular and, hopefully, brief.
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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.
BloombergTV:
“Having a socialist mayor would be catastrophic”
Bill Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square, tells the FII event in Saudi Arabia that he is firmly against Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to be the mayor of New York
A socialist mayor in NYC would be the worst thing that has happened in New York since… Uuhhh… Nevermind.
Horrific images and videos out of El-Fasher, Sudan. Not content with the total siege on the city, UAE backed Rapid Support Forces have entered the city and begun massacring indiscriminately. Over 5000 victims have been reported, including women, children, the sick, and the elderly.
Anyone involved in facilitating this genocide should be walled
UAE needs to be held to account as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Okay yeah, after knowing more about Sudan, the RSF are a genocidal evil army that should be rightfully put down.
I still can’t believe that the bodies and pools of blood are visible on lower resolution satellite images available to civilians. That’s horrifying in way rarely seen.
Jesus Christ.
wait wtf that is one of the craziest things ive ever read ???
I choose not to believe it for my own sanity
There are multiple different sanities. It would be nice if it was that easy
Unfortunately I’ve seen it. In a way it’s worse than the videos…
Yes I saw the post. Horrifying.
Straight up evil
Spain has re-issued arrest warrants against a high-profile Rwandan opposition figure in exile who stands accused of committing war crimes while serving under Rwandan leader Paul Kagame, in a case that has defied the politics of international justice for nearly two decades.
In a landmark lawsuit of universal jurisdiction, Spain indicted 40 military officials of the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) in 2008 on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and terrorism dating from the 1990s—during and after the Rwandan genocide.
. . .
Over the years, the UN and Western governments have granted Kagame and his senior entourage de facto immunity for international crimes, despite solid evidence that their forces committed crimes against humanity and possibly genocide in Rwanda and Congo in the 1990s. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, set up to prosecute crimes committed in 1994, only targeted Hutus connected to the former regime. The International Criminal Court has refused to indict Kagame and his senior entourage for crimes committed by their forces in Congo. Both courts are largely viewed as political tools of empire. Meanwhile, no government in Europe, North America, or Africa has been willing to extradite Kagame’s aides, who often travel abroad without concern.a high-profile Rwandan opposition figure in exile who stands accused of committing war crimes while serving under Rwandan leader Paul Kagame
Imagine my complete lack of surprise.
Wow, honestly huge that this is getting any coverage. The Rwandan genocide has gotta be one of the most misunderstood crimes in recent memories. The Hutu genocide against the Tutsi was 100% real, but the reprisals from the RPF were also arguably genocidal, but the world basically gave Kagame carte blanche to do whatever. The details are sickening.
Particularly sickening is how many people Kagame went on to murder using that carte blanche all over the surrounding region, IIRC.
Was arguing with Canadian shitlib NDPers about this the other day because they refused to disabuse themselves of the extremely one-sided story about the Rwandan genocide cooked up by Canada/NATO, Kagame, etc.
Oh let me guess, they took the opportunity to call Yves Engler a “gEnOciDe DeNiEr” because he dare questioned our White Savior fairy tale that we tell ourselves
That shit really chaps my ass because anybody who has even read his article in good faith can plainly see that is not the case, and is very obviously an intentionally disingenuous interpretation of it. The only reason it was ever brought up at all was an attempt at character assassination and deflection from pro-Gaza holocaust Zionazis.
Yeah, exactly. Even had some dipshit on r/Trueanon send me some rambling response about how it’s a bad look because of vibes or whatever. Elections turn NDPers into (even more) right wing dipshits so immediately.
Crackers really are just desperate to tell themselves about the one good NATO general who was definitely just a well-meaning smol bean who could have stopped a genocide if he had unlimited intervention powers and not a violent bloodthirsty neocon like every other prominent military figure in the history of NATO (at best).
The RSF/Janjaweed militias in Sudan have massacred so many people in El-Fasher during their genocide, that piles of bodies and pools of blood are visible on commercial satellite imagery from Airbus and Maxar.
Waring: Graphic, bodies and blood visible in low resolution: link to satellite imagery
Reports have also emerged that the RSF committed a massacre at the Saudi Hospital in the city, killing or leaving all patients for dead. There is horrifying video of this too.
Some day someone is going to compare something in Ukraine to this to my face, and I’m going to spontaneously burst into flame and vaporize the surrounding 3 blocks in a burst of anger. The crimes of the west and their allies will never be answered for. It simply isn’t possible for anything to answer for this.
Satellite images show the scope of the massacre. Jfc
For those of you not map brained enough to follow the minutiae of Ukraine v Russia, this is a good summary of the current state of the war in 2025 and expectations for the future.
https://open.substack.com/pub/bigserge/p/living-dangerously
The author is a bit of a reactionary Russophile, but he does understand logistics as well as Clausewitz so I think he is worth reading.
The article starts with discussion of the military and strategic relevance of tomahawks, the limits of what could be sent and what kind of launch platforms, and what kind of targets they could be used for.
spoiler
Ultimately, perhaps, this discussion is not about Tomahawks at all. These missiles, rather, are simply a totem which demonstrate two important dovetailing points. First, that American resources are not infinite, and as the United States reaches deeper into its bag to help Ukraine, it begins to grab at strategically critical assets that the US military simply cannot spare. Secondly, we must remember that America’s policy in Ukraine is a game of titration, with Washington probing the limits of Russia’s willingness to “eat the strikes” without allowing the reprisal violence to spill out of Ukraine.
The article continues with the significance of the lack of Ukrainian offensive in 2025 and the wider goals of Russian advances in various sectors, especially the eventual attack on Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, which the author thinks is likely next year.
The piece concludes with the Ukrainian theory of victory, which seems rather grim.
spoiler
In lieu of initiative on the ground, and facing a slow but relentless rollback of their defenses in the Donbas, the theory of Ukrainian victory has shifted in an unacknowledged but dramatic way. After years of insisting that it would achieve maximal territorial integrity - an outcome which would require the total and decisive defeat of Russia’s ground forces - Ukraine has reframed its path to victory mainly as a process of inflicting strategic costs on Russia that mount until the Kremlin agrees to a ceasefire. Consequentially, the debate about arming Ukraine has shifted from a conversation about armor and artillery - equipment useful for retaking lost territories - to a discussion about deep striking weapons like Tomahawks, which can be used to shoot at Russian oil refineries and energy infrastructure. In short, rather than move to prevent Russian from achieving immediate operational objectives in the Donbas, Ukraine and its sponsors are now seeking ways to make Russia pay a price such that victory on the ground is no longer worth it. It is unclear whether they have thought about what price Ukraine will pay in the exchange. Perhaps they do not care.
The key point here, however, is that the concept of Ukrainian victory has been completely transformed. There is now no real discussion of how Ukraine can win on the ground. For the Ukrainian bloc, the war is no longer a contest against the Russian Army, but a more abstract contest against Russia’s willingness to incur strategic costs. Rather than preventing Russian capture of the Donbas, the west is testing how much Putin is willing to pay for it. If history is any guide, a game predicated on outlasting Russia’s strategic endurance and willingness to fight is a very bad game to play indeed.
mainly as a process of inflicting strategic costs on Russia that mount until the Kremlin agrees to a ceasefire
I think this was always the plan from the beginning of the war, at least for Ukraine’s backers.
I think initially they had more maximalist goals wrt Russia. My impression of 2022 was that the real hawks and neocons including Biden hoped that sanctions would nuke the Russian economy, Russia would lose a bunch of troops/materiel, and those two factors would cause sufficient domestic unrest to allow some kind of regime change. Maybe that was all daydreams, but I think some people believed it.
Now I think the US is closer to ‘peace with honor’ or ‘a decent interval’ with Ukraine now. I don’t think they are truly seeking an end though, too many interests are served by continued war.
I think they wanted Ukraine to be a quagmire for Russia but didn’t care who actually won. The projected timeline for the war was probably as long as the Iraq War.
Then Israel drained daddy dry and it changed the calculus. Now, ironically, Ukraine has become a quagmire for the West and they’re struggling to fight against the contradictions keeping the war bucks flowing.
I think you’re broadly correct - though there was a delusion in the West that outright collapsing Russia was in the cards in the first couple years. (Picking this war seems irrational if they didn’t actually believe it was possible.)
It’s a testament to how badly the war is going that they’ve openly retreated from the propaganda “trenches” of outright victory.
I think that was mostly just a narrative sold to the masses to get them on board for the war. It’ll be easy! 🤫 😉.
The ruling class didn’t care about winning per se, they wanted to degrade the Russian state by trapping them in an endless war. The plan was for Russia to come out the other side weaker in 10-20 years no matter who won.
Except it’s not getting weaker, and it even looks like Russia will come out the other side stronger. They failed on every level and are starting to realize it.
Canadian charities channeling millions to fund Israeli [sic] army, illegal West Bank settlements | The Cradle
According to The Fifth Estate, Mizrachi Canada alone sent $50 million between 2007 and 2022, followed by another $5 million in 2023 and 2024. The CZCA transferred millions more to Israeli military-linked institutions, such as the Association for Israeli Soldiers and Friends of the IDF.
While Canadian law prohibits funding foreign militaries, these organizations retained nonprofit status, allowing donors to claim tax deductions.
When I saw the headlines, I thought they were actual charities, but no, just zionists.
Today’s MoA on Japan-US relations and the American expectation that Japan will “invest” $550b into American ventures in a very shitty deal. The article closes with some pretty fiery comments by PM Takaichi about pivoting away from the US and towards China. I’m not very familiar with Japanese politics so any perspective from those more knowledgeable would be most welcome. If Japan was to try and throw off the American military occupation that would be pretty cool.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/10/how-will-japan-handle-its-550-billion-trump-problem.html
This MoA article certified to be free of antitrans brainworms by hexbear patriots. No such guarantee regarding comments or other posts on the site.
If Amerikkka can’t even retain the Japanese fascists, they’re doomed lmao.
I am not sure why B keeps misspelling her name, maybe he’s an adherent of Menaker’s “never get their name right” when it comes to fascists
He might like misspelling. always spells it netanyahoo
he finally gets it right on the third and last instance
Thanks for the heads up, I fixed it in my post. I don’t know japan politics enough to note the error
Dissolve the ‘Labour’ Party of the UK, it has been co-opted and doesn’t actually represent ‘Labour’.
The UK literally flew reconnaissance planes from their Cyprus colonial outposts to aid in the destruction of Palestinians in gaza.
They also trained IDF soldiers didn’t they? When Starmer was already president
Thats a given, most western nation have active ties via training/knowledge transfer and the gaza genocide didn’t change a thing.
The UK and Blairite war criminals in charge, an iconic duo.
This post is a balm amongst a sea of
“The Bolitoglossa chirripoensis grows slowly, can take up to 20 years to reach adulthood, and has a low reproductive rate, which limits its population recovery capacity”
Woah
New type of guy just dropped
Finally some good fucking news. Maybe there’s hope after all.
Hi there lil guy!
Adorable.
The Russian IL-76 aircraft used by the PMC Wagner Group left Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, and flew to Cuba, disappearing from radar shortly after approaching Cuban airspace on Tuesday afternoon (10/28).
- Telegram
Military “Advisors” and equipment? Maybe just observers.
Probably just ammo and some spare parts, they have been doing that for months now. I think Brazil, Colombia and Bolivia also did the same for Venezuela some months ago.
interesting viewed in the context of what Flynn(?) said about “after Venezuela, then Cuba”
👀
Statement by Hamas:
"Hamas affirms that it has no connection to the shooting incident in Rafah and confirms its commitment to the ceasefire agreement.
The criminal bombardment carried out by the fascist occupation army on areas of the Gaza Strip constitutes a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement that was signed in Sharm el-Sheikh under the sponsorship of US President Trump.
This terrorist attack is an extension of a series of violations committed over the past days, including assaults that resulted in the death and injury of civilians, and the continued closure of the Rafah crossing, all of which confirms the insistence on violating the terms of the agreement and attempting to undermine it.
We call on the mediators and guarantors of the agreement to act immediately to pressure the occupation and curb its brutal escalation against civilians in the Gaza Strip, stop its dangerous violations of the ceasefire agreement, and compel it to abide by all its commitments."
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/45111
Israeli Walla News military correspondent Amir Bohbot:
"During a complex engineering operation in the Janina neighborhood of Rafah, where intense battles were taking place between the Israeli army and Hamas both above and below ground, it was suspected that armed men were present deep underground.
It appears that when Israeli engineering forces began targeting a central part of the last tunnel network in the area, gunmen emerged from underground and opened fire on the force. Informed sources said assessments indicate this was an armed cell that had been besieged for a long time and came out as a last resort to attack Israeli forces.
At this stage, the Israeli army does not know whether this was an attack plan approved by Hamas leadership in Gaza or an operation carried out by a besieged armed group that realized the army was closing in on them inside the tunnel."
At this stage, the Israeli army does not know whether this was an attack plan approved by Hamas leadership in Gaza or an operation carried out by a besieged armed group that realized the army was closing in on them inside the tunnel."
Or, or, an intentional false flag attack done by one of their controlled militias they’ve been arming to the teeth in order to give them a justification to do some more murdering and maybe even break the ceasefire intentionally. This is really why Hamas needs to disarm and/or liquidate those militias because they’re perfect for this use.
Unfortunately, the militias are now operating behind the “Yellow Line”.
Venezuela’s GDP Could Grow Over 9% in 2025
In its latest report, the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) confirmed that the country’s economy has experienced 18 consecutive quarters of sustained growth and that GDP rose 8.7% in the third quarter of 2025. By economic activity, GDP recorded the highest increases in construction (16.4%), transportation and storage (9.3%), manufacturing (8.9%), commerce (8.2%), and mining (7%).
“No one will ever be able to remove us from the world’s energy equation. However, dependence on oil income — a mistake made 100 years ago — must come to an end completely,” the Bolivarian leader said.
In its latest analysis, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) projected that Venezuela will have the highest economic growth in Latin America in 2025, with a GDP expansion of 6%. It will be followed by Paraguay (4.5%), Argentina (4.3%), and Panama (4.1%).
Oh thank you…
