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Those who were around in the early days of the news megathread may remember Pedro Castillo, the left-leaning leader of Peru who was deposed in December 2022. He was replaced by Dina Boluarte, the first woman to be President of Peru, who described herself as a progressive but afterwards routinely sided with Peruvian conservatives and American interests. To say she was unpopular is an understatement of titanic proportions - she descended to such lows that she was, at one point, the single most unpopular leader on the planet. As with most deeply unpopular leaders that side with the West, she kept power for a bafflingly long time.
However, on October 10th, after a period of protests against the government, she was impeached and removed by Peru’s Congress in a unanimous vote. José Jerí was sworn in as the new President, who was previously the President of the Congress and is a member of a centrist Peruvian party. The government is trying the classic strategy: keep doing the same thing as before, and sacrifice an unpopular figure - here, Boluarte - in the hopes that this appeases the crowd.
Is this strategy working? It doesn’t really seem to be - protests are not only continuing, but strengthening, as it is clear that neoliberalism will not reformed and the brutality by police will not stop (there was very recently a high-profile case in which a musician, Mauricio Ruiz, was murdered). Controversies surrounding Jerí, including allegations of SA, are already being reported. If Jerí is deposed, the next person in line to try their hand at ruling will be the former army general Roberto Chiabra, who would be the ninth President in less than a decade.
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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.
Sorry, if we can’t draw a red line at Nazis and their symbology, then where do we draw the line? When people are talking about how the Azov are all Nazis, almost 50% of it is their unending attachment to Nazi symbols, which include the totenkopf.
Unlike some people here, I think it’s plausible that he didn’t know it was a nazi symbol when he got it. I think most people who are part of the online left are far more well read in right wing symbolism and dog whistles than the average person, and even then some people here were unaware of it.
That being said, his reddit account indicates that he’s known about its nazi origin for almost a decade now. Not really any excuse for it at that point, especially when many tattoo artists would cover up gang or hate symbols for free, as well as many removal clinics doing removal treatments for free.
Oh shit. What? You mean that same Reddit history people are using to claim he’s a “based communist” and should be supported? LMFAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAO!
Can you point me to more info about this Reddit account and its documenting the knowledge about the totenkopf? I’d love to shove this in some
“leftists’” faces.
Yeah that’s the one but I’m not closely tracking the story in a way others are, so I don’t have any links or screenshots to offer sadly
Yeah hes thought this reddit account nonsense was going away, it really came back to bite him in the ass.
Perhaps not enough biting him in the ass, considering latest polling that came out indicated he is running away with it. If Mainer comrades wont run a candidate to challenge his “left lane” here, we just have to hope he was somewhat genuine in his change of heart and isnt a total Fetterman Act II
we can also just not invest our hopes & dreams & organizing muscle in the (obviously increasingly, considering Platner) cryptofash democrats or consider whether to give critical support to an unrepentant career war criminal at all
I didn’t say run a Democrat or support Planter.
I said if nobody on the actual left will run against him and it’s looking like he’s running away with it, it would be nice if it turns out he isn’t an actual nazi
no way he didn’t find out in the ten years since he got it and also the tattoo is burying the lede which is that the dude did four tours of duty at the warcrime factory as an adult in his early middle age and is completely unrepentant about it, this should have disqualified him from even the most critical of support from the get go.
I mean he literally said he found out some time after he got it, and he said that almost ten years ago now. That’s all we have to go off of and it’s not a completely unbelievable story. Not everybody is well read in Nazi symbolism. I know I didn’t know about that symbol until only a few years ago
Maybe you misread what I said, but I said no excuse in the ten years since his open acknowledgment of that to not get it removed. I get what you’re saying but the way you’re talking to me feels like you think I support him or something lmao
Cmon, that shit was in Indiana Jones.
I mean, I’ve never seen indiana jones but im def much younger than him and movies matter less culturally now than they did then.
I still don’t think it would be crazy to not remember that though, it certainly isn’t a huge detail I could tell you I’d confidently remember, same as if you asked me another part of their uniforms that isn’t the obvious swastika. That plus the fact a lot of other skull imagery does exist already, it is plausible to not have known.
To be clear, I’m not excusing him. I’m saying it is possible he didn’t know about it when he got it. Regardless, he certainly has known about it for almost a decade now though as he indicated in his reddit posts, so there’s zero reason to not have had it removed or covered at this point.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: