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.
Kawsachuan News
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there’s no getting off this train
since the stolen election earlier this year I’ve been saying Ecuador is in the right position for a revolution, and now this wave of toppled governments across the globe, massive escalation in both state violence and popular organization
revolution revolution revolution
Pains me to say but there is no way we are going to see revolution in Ecuador or pretty much elsewhere at this moment.
No country in the world in active revolt has an organized and respectable vanguard revolutionary party to channel and organize the masses towards a proper seizure of power. In Ecuador you will see hard repression, maybe some token agreements and then the spontaneity of the revolt will wither away and only the ashes to pick up.
Until the world starts creating better and more formidable communist parties, repression and fascism are the order of the day.
I don’t say this to be a doomer, I say this so that YOU, yes you that are reading this (not only Jack lul), take action and start building better revolutionary parties so that we get better chances at social revolution.
The Ecuadorian Shining Path/Puka Inti are too weak and deorganized to really led anything. If the current goverment collapse the Correistas will probably take over control of the goverment and allow Correia to return from Belgium. Idk if that would stop the protests considering CONAIE doesn’t exactly like Correia. Though I can see Petro, Claudia and Lula probably supporting an eventual pro-Correia goverment.
Either that or will happen like in Peru, and Noboa will return to his native land of Miami and let another neoliberal ghoul take over. I doubt a military coup will happen without direct support and approval of the USA.
My read, obviously from an external and limited position, is that CONAIE is pretty well positioned for a revolutionary movement in Ecuador. What’s your take on them?
Correistas (Left-Wing Nationalist Socdem supporters of exiled former president Rafael Correia) do not like them (they accuse CONAIE of being CIA backed) and CONAIE does not like Correia due to his antagonism towards CONAIE and some of his economic policies taking away lands from some native groups. They ended up working together sometimes, usually during elections, in congress and during protests.
Last time there was a coup/revolution in Ecuador (2000), CONAIE overthrew the Neoliberal goverment of Jamil Mahuad, and formed a brief Civic-Military junta with Left-Wing Military leaders, the plan was to let the military take control until new elections were held. But the US pressured Ecuador too much and the Right-Wing faction of the army organized and dissolved the Junta.
CONAIE endorsed Gonzalez this year, and since I’m thinking the election is the key spark here, I’m placing significance on the potential of their future cooperation. I’m not able to find good info on the Correista’s stance towards the current uprising. The protests images I’ve seen show a highly visible presence of communist parties, but no idea if those indicate anything other than the ability of those parties to print flags and get them waving around in a crowd.
While it’s been a quarter century since that, CONAIE has lead a large number of uprisings that usually win meaningful political and material gains in the time since. They’re a well-practiced and disciplined organization. The current uprising has a broad geographic base and does not appear at all deterred by the crackdown. Noboa’s position is very weak and I do not see him lasting. Maybe we just get him out of office and a similar changing of hands to 2000, but my hope is that they can go further and secure deeper structural changes.
Overall, I don’t see them establishing an ML DOTP, but I could absolutely see them taking advantage of Noboa’s enormous unpopularity, the opportunity for alignment with Correista and communists that opens up, and the declining capacity of the empire to carry out color revolutions in order to carry out the most thorough revolution we’ve seen since the Bolivarian. Clearly, one way or another, Ecuador doesn’t return to where it was a few months ago.
One solution, revolution