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.
Wikipedia lumping all these together as being a part of “the Gen Z protest movement” is the dumbest shit but it’s also hilarious because it’s pretty clear the consent manufacturing machine that came up with this moniker doesn’t actually support all of these and are probably mad that the strikes for Gaza in Italy and elsewhere are being described as Gen Z protests
The whole narrative surrounding this is bizarre and incoherent…. Young people are protesting? That in of itself is not novel and deserving of a label and this will only get more weird when Wikipedia is forced to contend with the fact that basically any protest that involves young people is going to be called a Gen Z protest by a “reliable source” that isn’t deeply integrated into the consent manufacturing machine such as the nytimes which only describe protests as Gen Z protests if it aligns with US interests.
Because we are being told that this is all innocuous it’s just about young people it will inevitably just be applied to anything and as mass media picks and chooses what does and does not constitute a Gen Z protest the people buying into this bullshit will have to increasingly jump through more and more hoops to justify why any of this even makes sense.
I think it speaks to how lazy the people pushing this stuff have gotten since the effort required is so small compared to back in the day you just have to game the algorithms and get your hashtags out there until western media starts running with the narrative.
Reading about this stuff is going to make me die of cringe so I think I will simply stop
Here’s a neat graph I found today in Klassekampen, the biggest left-wing newspaper in Norway. I did a quick translation using MS paint, sorry if it’s a bit wonky lol
Untranslated
___Is this the auxillery office for the galactic ministry of agriculture under Emperor Palpetine? Or is it Obama’s new presidential library?
I kinda like it aside from all the issues
Capitalist brutalism sucks oh my god.
brutalist building nice but it shouldn’t be used for gentrification and the reduction of public lands, or to be a propaganda piece for obama
jesus fucking christ
my memory is a little vague but I think they cut down a few dozen hundred-year-old trees to clear land for this eyesore
Yes, it is very Obama.
Lmao the Wikipedia article has a list of the classic Obumblerisms relating to it
hard not to conclude that Obama enjoys dabbing on his supporters
Why not both?
Trump is threatening Spain with extra tariffs because they aren’t buying enough US/NATO weapons. Very cool.
comrade trump accidentally sanctioning germany
NEW: POLITICO obtained private group chat messages between leaders of Young Republican groups across the country.
spoiler
They talk about putting their opponents in gas chambers,removed their enemies and refer to Black people as “monkey” and “the watermelon people”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
We’re gonna need a bigger
Welcome back Hitlerjugend
An exceptional photo in Cairo: the special Unit 101 of the Al-Qassam Brigades reunites today after years of separation.
From the right: Freed prisoners in the Wafa al-Ahrar deal Mahmoud Atoun, Mousa Akkari, Mahmoud Issa (freed yesterday as part of the Toufan al-Ahrar exchange) and Majid Quteish.
These are four young men from Jerusalem entrusted with the mission of capturing soldiers in order to liberate Palestinian prisoners from occupation jails. They kidnapped Corporal Nassim Toledano in 1992 with the aim of exchanging him for Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was imprisoned at the time, but they killed him due to the occupation’s refusal to engage.
They were arrested after six months of interrogation and search and imprisoned for up to 32 years, as in the case of Mahmoud Issa.
Today, they are reunited, liberated, at the hands of the Resistance and the steadfastness of the Palestinian people of Gaza.
Trump just said that the US did another terrorist attack on a Venezuelan civilian vessel.
UN confirms Israel allowing only 300 aid trucks daily into Gaza
Israel has told the UN it will allow only 300 aid trucks – half the agreed number – into the Gaza Strip from Wednesday.
No fuel or gas will be allowed into the war-torn enclave except for specific needs related to humanitarian infrastructure, it said.
Olga Cherevko, a spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza, confirmed the UN had received the note from COGAT, the arm of the Israeli military that oversees aid flows into Gaza.
COGAT said on Friday that it expected about 600 aid trucks to enter Gaza daily during the ceasefire.
The COGAT note said the restrictions are being taken because “Hamas violated the agreement regarding the release of the bodies of the hostages.”
Emphasis added.
Ethically, I don’t know what the correct number of UN officials being killed is the correct one. However, I’m certain it’s higher than the current number.
I know it’s obvious to us, but how do people spin this as not being collective punishment?
how do people spin this as not being collective punishment
They don’t. White = people. Israel = white. Palestine = not white. Palestine = not people. Therefore Israel has a right to do what is needed to stop the evil Hamas terrorists. This is the opinion of most westerners who actually have an opinion at all, including most of the ones who think “Israel has gone too far”. These are the underlying statements that you necessarily have to believe, deep down, to believe that “Israel has a right to exist”. Everything that comes after is just rationalization and window-dressing to soothe their malnourished consciences.
Another case of blatant admission of a war crime. Blocking humanitarian aid as a form of collective punishment.
First this, then the breaking point will be disarmament imo given that one side has specifically said they would only transfer arms to a Palestinian authority (not that one), while the other side won’t shut the fuck up about it
AFAIK, Hamas never agreed to disarmament, so it couldn’t be spun as “Hamas breaking the ceasefire”. It would be “Israel” walking away from talks and violating it, which I’m sure they will.
That’s the goal. After Hamas accepted the agreement, they’ve been scrambling to put the onus back on the resistance. Case in point
“ Palestinian Islamic Jihad Deputy Secretary-General Dr. Mohammed Al-Hindi to Al-Jazeera:
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The resistance factions did not agree to disarmament, and we do not accept the threat of disarming them by force.”
Israel with use every excuse the can to keep the genocide going.
I am sure we will see a singular instance wherein The deal imposed on the garden resistance was always planned to be impossible to follow, just like last time. The goal is to justify a resurgence of genocidal operations wants to really government is consolidated power, if only temporarily.
The fascists are beginning to signal their intent for those who have eyes to see.
The fascists are beginning to signal their intent for those who have eyes to see.
They’re not that subtle, government officials said out loud and online that the genocide was not over pretty much immediately. They’re just looking for the right opportunity.
President Xi has one final card to play in the trade negotiations
The good type of mushroom war
How much of it does China export?
I’m having trouble finding good data, everything I’m seeing has totally different answers. It does seem clear that China consumes the vast majority of the mushrooms it produces, because nobody says it’s the top exporter.
Average Yunnan lifestyle
interesting that you claim China needs to boost internal consumption, but they internally consume orders of magnitude more mushrooms than anywhere else
how many more mushrooms must your countrymen eat to satisfy you?
I think you are joking, but serious answer:
A nation produces to consume. When its people want to consume something it cannot produce, then it can exchange some of its production through export to get the stuff it wants to consume from abroad.
However, when a country runs an export-led growth strategy, its productivity is vastly greater than what its own people can consume (through suppressing domestic demand). It means a net flow of real goods and services (product of labor, energy and resources) into foreign hands, typically wealthy Western countries, while the exporter country receives foreign IOUs (a financial asset) in return.
So, instead of working 8 hours, a Chinese worker has to work 10-12 hours. Instead of working 5 days, they have to work 6, while receiving wages with suppressed purchasing power. Instead of focusing on prioritizing care for its own people (e.g. elderly, sick patients, children, disabled, poor people), the economy is prioritized towards providing cheap goods and services for foreigners.
When you produce more than you can consume and the export is not allowing the return for your own people to enjoy real goods and services produced by foreign countries (and instead, receiving financial assets in the form of junk papers), it is nothing more than a misallocation of labor, capital and resources where such vast surplus value is allowed its perpetual extraction by foreign imperialists under the guise of “neoliberal free trade” regime.
So… like twice as many mushrooms?
What do you think about future of India and West. India has more population and I think it has higher growth rate than China. It seems like West admits china’s rise could not be stopped, they might enable the India to rival China. Would China lose to India?
they might enable the India to rival China
Extremely doubtful. The Indian state is more interested in tearing itself apart with violent racism so that their capitalists can make a few more USD before it all falls apart than in serious development of any kind.
China and India are two nations destroyed by imperialism and colonialism which (somewhat) defeated those forces and gained full independence around the same time. The main difference is that China has had socialism, and India has had social democracy. We can see today the respective outcomes.
I’m seeing the same. I’m shocked there are no articles like ‘the sinister chinese consume 50 lbs of mushrooms per person every year. at what cost?’
The average Chinese citizen is macrodosing heroic amounts of psilocybin every day
Mostly in Yunnan lol. Getting accidentally dosed on hallucinogenic mushrooms is quite common. There are warning signs everywhere.
IMF prepared to support Gaza’s reconstruction after peace deal
The peace deal between Israel and Hamas that ended the fighting in Gaza is an opportunity for a lasting economic recovery in the Strip and the wider region, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says.
Deputy Chief Economist Petya Koeva-Brooks said the IMF is prepared to support reconstruction efforts and added the peace agreement would help other countries impacted by the war, such as Egypt and Jordan, recover also.
The UN has estimated more than $50bn will be required to rebuild war-devastated Gaza after it was pummelled for two years by Israel’s military.
Israel has used the bodies issue to alter the deal, limit aid and the opening of rafah crossing. They have also violated the ceasefire for the first time, killing and wounding Palestinians by armed drones and shelling
As far as I can tell “Israel” has yet to return any bodies of the people tortured to death in their death camps over the past year.
I believe they returned 45 bodies a few hours ago, but they could just pull them out of a morgue rather than excavating the rubble they were buried under
Anyone got an analysis of what’s going down in Madagascar
In this morning’s Economist Espresso:
The Trump administration wants to revive American shipbuilding, an industry that China now dominates. China’s shipbuilding capacity is more than 200 times greater than that of America.
When put in those terms it’s very funny. Good luck with that Donald.
So that means Trump is gonna invest in state owned shipbuilding industry right? Oh no it just means tons of handouts to private companies who will absolutely never actually build a single ship. Most efficient system in the world folks
Didn’t they sink the SS United States like a year ago? That’s pretty much the state of the American shipbuilding industry right now.
Where are the startups working on 📝🤨 intudstrial capacitanc- capacity. Yeah that stuff whatever it is
gonna disrupt the shipbuilding industry by bringing the gig economy to the shipyards, download my new app and register as a naval architect to get the most of surge pricing during peak demand
B2B SAAS
I B2B SAAS on my drydock and it IPOs my RSUs
There’s some reporting going around that Abu Obeida is dead, any truth to that?
Israel said they killed him a little while back. While there was no official confirmation, we haven’t had a statement from him since, so I believe it’s true
Murdering the spokesman, very civilized behavior from the occupying power.
They specifically target the public faces, first Haniyeh and Sinwar, then Deif, Abu Hamza, now Abu Obeida. 21st century Nazis
Basically any Palestinian that is well known or a public figure will be killed. If Israel knows your name, you’re going to be targeted. Israel is playing whack-a-mole with any person who sticks their head up even a little bit to the world.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5518 This HR 5518 bill passes and it allows US law enforcement to operate more freely on Canadian soil
It didn’t pass, it’s only been introduced. It also doesn’t have any real effect other than telling Kristi Norm to renegotiate treaties/agreements with Canada to allow both sides to operate on both sides of the border.
Vassal status affirmed
