Image is of Joseph Robinette Biden, who has stepped down and will not run against Trump in the 2024 election.
In the aftermath of Trump surviving an assassination attempt, many professional opinion-havers are now talking about the scourge of “political violence” that has overtaken, or will soon overtake America, and how we must not let chaos rule. This is, of course, patently absurd. The American government and its allies have been the greatest force of political violence on the planet since the beginning of colonialism, and the foundations of the country are made of corpses. Today, America commits political violence by forcing Ukrainians into the maw of Russian artillery instead of trying to reach a peaceful settlement, which Russia has repeatedly expressed interest in and offered Ukraine relatively favourable terms. They supply Israel with endless weaponry to destroy entire cities and populations, while Biden supporters insist that somehow things could be worse than daily massacres and mass starvation.
In May 1945, French police fired on protestors, causing retaliatory attacks on French settlers, killing about a hundred. In response, the French murdered 45,000 Algerians in a little under two months, in a frenzy of political violence called the Sétif and Guelma massacre. As the massacre was being completed, the International Court of Justice was established. It goes without saying that Algeria never benefited from the ICJ, and the War of Independence from 1954 to 1962 was made inevitable. Over a million Algerians were killed before France could bear the fighting no longer and gave up, and Algeria won itself a state. Comparisons to the ongoing war of independence and genocide in Palestine are obvious.
While the means of colonial violence have evolved over the centuries, the basic structure of it has not. As in Algeria, Vietnam, and Cuba, resistance groups in and around Palestine are fighting for a world with less political violence. The American government would drown every city in the developing world in blood to prevent peace.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish 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 (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
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.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
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.
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.
President Lula has announced that Brazil is thinking of joining the Belt and Road Initiative. “Since China wants to discuss the Silk Road we’ll have to prepare a proposal to discuss what Brazil can gain if it takes part in this deal," he said,"What is Brazil’s important share?”
I think this is less of a no-brainer than it might appear. Because Brazil is a large enough country and still has enough of a legacy from the developmentist era where the big conflict in these international investment processes is the role of construction companies. The Brazilian government tends to favor saving market share for local corporations via government contracts. Even with the projects the Chinese already engaged with in Brazil, joining the Belt and Road Initiative should involve a lot of negotiation and back and forth between the parties.
For the record one of the reasons the Mercosul/UE FTA didn’t go anywhere is because the Europeans wanted brazilian government contracts to be more open to foreign bidders while still not budging on imports of south american goods.
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Great quote from an article on the air war in Ukraine:
The Russian air forces have underwhelmed over the past 2 ½ years of war, but they also have rapidly adapted and scored wins through tactics such as stand-off bombing and synchronized drone and missile barrages. Other elements of the aerospace forces have also effectively denied Ukraine the chance to shift the battlefield from the skies.
“It’s been surprising they’re adapting over time through trial and error,” Justin Bronk, an airpower expert at the UK’s Royal United Services Institute, said.It’s surprising that they have done what literally every armed force has done in every conflict since the dawn of humans?
UK sure pulling out the calipers for this one. Did they think the Slavic brainpan was incapable of adaptation?
“It’s been surprising they’re adapting over time through trial and error,”
This is both racist and revealing about the war empire approaches problem solving
This coming from the inbred freaks who kept getting their helicopters shot down or forced to land by Provo small arms fire
“We didn’t believe the slavic forebrain was capable of learning from experience” says John Racism, a vaguely man-shaped ham from the UK’s Royal Institute for Dipshittery
Person got killed during eviction. Cops claimed they shot first. But maybe just maybe if you didn’t bring out the whole sheriffs force to take someone’s home they could still be alive and have a home.
Uncommitted has the most delegates out of anyone left in the primaries
It doesn’t matter much but Biden and RFK Jr are tied in Utah polls. And that was before the debate.
It would be hilarious if Biden comes in third in a state.
He should honestly just drop off the ballot in Utah and see if Kennedy wins it and fucks with the electoral college totals. Like it might strategically be better for him.
Hell if he dropped from a bunch of the solid red states it could put Trump in a bad position contending with Kennedy. I don’t see any reason he shouldn’t. Kennedy’s polling puts him just a couple points behind Trump in a head to head in states like Oklahoma and Arkansas, although ofc it’s biased. Even if Kennedy doesn’t win any, if Trump has to play defense in solid red states, that takes resources from his campaign in the Rust Belt.
Here’s how Biden can still win.
Man the optics of Biden dropping out of any state races though…damn that would be a hard hit lol
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Kamala’s husband tested positive for covid 10 days before Joe.
All hail Queen Kamala. She’s getting rid of two rabbits with one stone.
KHamas strikes from the shadow
Biden held ‘tense’ call with group of House Democrats over concerns he can’t win
“Tell me who enlarged NATO, tell me who did the Pacific basin! Tell me who did something that you’ve never done with your Bronze Star like my son — and I’m proud of your leadership, but guess what, what’s happening, we’ve got Korea and Japan working together, I put Aukus together, anyway!” he said.
Brandon trying the Trump strategy of insulting veterans to increase his popularity
Biden’s legacy will be ‘Genocide Joe’: Arab American advocate
Abed Ayoub, executive director at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), says despite some domestic achievement, Biden’s will rank as “one of the worst” presidents in US history because of his unconditional support for Israel.
“He’ll be remembered for the hundreds of thousands killed, injured and displaced in Gaza,” Ayoub told Al Jazeera. “There is no way around it. Genocide Joe is what he’s going to be remembered as.”
@mkultrawide@hexbear.net did it
Kamala Harris 1000% poured a vial of covid snot into Joe’s coffee.
And honestly, good for you ma’am
do you think I just fell out of a coconut tree??
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Volcel Police I can not contain this amount of
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The people’s VOLCEL VANGUARD are on the scene! PLEASE RESERVE YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS FOR STRATEGIC ACTS OF MASS REVOLUTIONARY CUMMING!!!
No matter what hellish fate awaits us, we can always cherish in our hearts the week where Biden sat alone in his house, sick and sad and betrayed by everyone around him.
This is a battle long lost, but it’s amazing that he’s pissing and shitting himself (literally I assume) at the prospect of the Democrats doing to him what they did to Bernie four years ago. Fuck you old man, I hope the China virus eats your brain to death.
Also, for all the articles that make it seem like he’s about to step down, I have a feeling the libs are going to “learn” what we’ve all known forever: that beneath the dementia and the goofy old heehaw bullshit, Biden is actually just a huge stubborn fucking asshole.
BREAKING: Grindr experiencing outages due to unprecedented traffic in Milwaukee, WI.
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Biden directs DHS to give Secret Service protection to RFK Jr.
Biden is basically following Trump’s order there.
