There’s way too much going on right now for me to really focus on any one country this week. The aftermath of the fall of the Nepal government has, somewhat surprisingly, reverberated around the world, and not only in countries that are enemies to the West as you’d expect; for example, Morocco’s government battle fiercely with Egypt’s and Jordan’s to be first in line to lick the dogshit off the boots of Zionists, and yet Morocco is currently embroiled in a large protest wave based primarily around a youth unemployment crisis (though their population is also remarkably pro-Palestinian, which generates additional friction). We’re also seeing similar protests in Madagascar, Peru, and Paraguay, and perhaps more will come. I’m personally fairly doubtful in the potential for meaningful economic results from these protests (the current imperialist system seems too deeply embedded for a movement that isn’t explicitly communist and anti-imperialist to alter conditions), but it is quite possible for new political results at least.
Outside of the developing world, it appears that the unpopularity of western leaders, such as in the UK, France, and Italy, is creating new levels of unrest. In Britain, the political system has become so utterly moribund that even the artificial democracy of a two-party system (more-or-less; the Lib Dems do exist I suppose) no longer suffices, with both Conservatives and Labour gradually sinking. The Reform party appears like it may become the new standard-bearer of the capitalists and petit-bourgeois - that is, the historical wellspring of fascism - and the Left Party (whatever name they eventually choose) may or may not rise to meet the occasion. In France, they’re on their fifth Prime Minister in two years, after Lecornu lasted about a month, attempting the liberal classic: promising change, and then appointing the exact same people who have ruled for the last few decades. And pro-Palestinian protests and general strikes have erupted in Italy, in defiance of their rightwing government under Meloni.
While there’s plenty of other events (e.g. continuing aggression against Venezuela that might soon erupt into a war) it would be remise of me not to mention the very much ongoing events vis-a-vis Palestine and a potential peace deal there, seemingly supported to some degree by Trump. It could be legitimate, and it could be some big act (very likely the latter, IMO). Both Trump and Netanyahu seem to believe that they’re very talented political masterminds, producing manoeuvres and feints that would make Machiavelli blush. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I trust the militant organizations inside Palestine to outplay these American failsons. Hamas and similar groups are not nearly as gullible as the Iranian reformist faction - though few people are!
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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.
This is absolutely impossible from the civil society side. The genie is out of the lamp, you don’t have hundreds of millions of people suddenly forget images of dead babies with a ceasefire.
Can happen, but it will take years if not decades for “Israel” to somewhat regain international prestige.
The zionist Holocaust has radicalized both ends of society. You’re right that the civil parts of society have fought against the zionist entity throughout boycotts, protests, direct action, truth-telling, etc., and they will continue to do so. At the same time, tthe inhuman parts of society have fought just as hard to erode, erase, exile, villify, and outlaw pro-Palestinian thought and action (including Palestinian existence), and they won’t stop here either. There’s no going back in either direction.
I’m also weary of the liberal tendency to forget everything as soon as it is “finished”. Over 1 million Americans died of COVID in the last ~5 years, and many more continue to die by COVID, and hundreds of millions of Americans don’t give a shit.
It’s day 0 of a permanent ceasefire. I want to be hopeful, but it feels really hard right now.
Maybe, but I am absolutely certain that, when it comes about the struggle of Palestinian liberation, the masses that are for anti colonialism and justice are overwhelmingly many more than those that normalized violence and genocide.
They definitely lost that battle.
“The zionist Holocaust has radicalized both ends of society.”
It has also radicalized them both to how much zionist capital controls America. Not that I like that it means the far right blame ze Jews in general, obviously, but it bodes badly for support of the colony as material conditions worsen.
Agreed. Even my apolitical aunt who enjoys hobbies like buying teapots at antique stores to give to people and making quilts is going off about how the Zionist entity needs to be destroyed for the genocide they’re doing. You can’t just pretend that didn’t happen, the image of Israel as a “normal” place is forever destroyed for billions. There’s no going back.
Those who control the tools of propaganda get to re-write history. TikTok will soon come under the US control, and the power of the short-form contents will do their jobs. Together with Google and Meta, history will be re-written, and collective memories of past events altered.
Honestly I don’t even think any of those are needed. Who remembers the Iraq War? Less than two decades out, the civil society has largely forgotten the war crimes. Remember that anti-Iraq War protests were magnitudes larger than today’s protests against the genocide in Gaza.
Bush is being rehabilitated because “Trump is worse”. Fewer people even gave a damn about the NATO invasion of Libya and led to the collapse of an entire civilized society.
Again this is true but mostly for the global north.
Iraq and Libya where done within the context of pax americana, virtually no one in the global south gave a shit even in 2003/2011. If anything it was celebrated or ignored.
Everyone is much more attuned to Palestine today. And our job as revolutionaries is to maintain that fire lit, to not let the martyrs be forgotten, for as long as possible while material conditions ripen to moments of economic turmoil that are bound to come (see the AI and Asset bubbles).
I don’t think anyone else cares that much more either. It’s a case of “damn that sucks but not happening to me and mine so -shrug-”. I mean we haven’t seen riots or people trying to shut down Arab countries over the genocide of fellow Muslims over the past two years and the disdain for the entity is likely to continue as is the resignation that their governments will ignore them and normalize with it and that’s life. The Asian countries aren’t about to stop trade over it. African nations aren’t about to do anything either. Latin America has its own more pressing problems and this will recede from the mind. Europe and the US will get historical revisionism. Who else is there?
Most likely a low intensity attempt at BDS will continue with only mild success as the US and Europe continue to prop it up financially, culturally, etc and they will be spending hundreds of millions on propaganda, on critically acclaimed cable short form content, on movies, on references in TV shows, on influencers to say subtle things or give them trips to their propaganda exhibit on the thing.
I really think people just are not good at keeping hatred burning inside them without something actively stoking it. So it’s likely this will recede from the minds, the clampdown and control of the narrative will drive into overdrive, there will be a few admissions, some symbolic heads will roll or be offered up even if only as targets for ire and after nothing happens because the US protects them everyone will more or less let it recede behind whatever the latest US manufactured outrage is, probably the re-taking of Taiwan by China after they declare independence at US insistence and the consequent war for instance will blow this all out of the minds of most people within 5 years. If not that then other US atrocities like perhaps a war on Venezuela, or a big hyped up thing about totally not a CIA cut-out extremist islamist group ISIS type doing horrendous things. The liberal zionists will for sure be shoved to the front for propaganda messaging about mistakes and inevitabilities and how sad it all makes them boo hoo.
I’d love to be wrong but they are very good at this and have done so in such a successful way with such a great track record. The time for western media or the mainstream to break on the narrative and change the course of this, for countries to stand up and be counted was at least 6 months ago if not longer. From here the effort only goes downhill because now it’s an Arab problem that they’ll take care of among themselves and the zionist hands can be nice and clean of the atrocities they delegate out and people will be prompted with racist suggests that the whole region is just complicated and full of violent people.
It’s radicalizing but so was Bernie’s failure and sheep-dogging for the Dems. So have been many other events. I don’t see a sea-change that results in the zionist entity actually being isolated and BDS’ed into compliance or collapse as if people didn’t feel the guilt to do that while the genocide was at its most intense they certainly won’t do it in the aftermath. If celebrities only barely stood up with the most tepid and couched criticism at the very end in the most brutal moments they’re not going to stick their necks out and popularize BDS now that the zionists will be out to take their heads for daring to cross them. If this is all we mustered with tiktok not fully under US propagnada direction think how much worse it will be with even more intense censorship going forward on all major platforms. It’s harder to censor things people KNOW are happening, it makes them aware of the censorship and resentful of it and uppity. But things that have receded are easily memory-holed, suppressed, language policed to shut down criticism of the zionists or subsume it into something harmless.
The world failed. And it will be written about and catalogued and future zionists will denounce it and distance themselves from it after it’s quietly admitted to in 25 years with no fan-fare and no consequences because that was the old “israel” just like Bush was just the old US.
I hope I’m wrong.
I thought TikTok was only controlled in the US as TikTok USA?
While I do agree that the protests aren’t large enough (especially in the puppet master U.S.), criticism of Israel has been very taboo in the West for a long time as can be seen by the fact that majority of both parties largely sided with Israel until the genocide.
And Israel is really fueling the antisemitic ‘ZOG’ accusations, no American (afaik) permanent residents were targeted and even Visa holders weren’t targeted as aggressively as Trump. It’s very interesting that you are more free to criticize the U.S. Government while in the U.S. as compared to Israel.
White people in america used to be pro-abolish cop during blm. Libs will work FAST to rehabilitate israel somehow, thats their job.