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.
Certainly not trying to do ISRAEL-IS-FINISHED-posting. Of course BDS is the only way to actually progress on that front, but getting to the point where BDS becomes more impactful because most people are interested in doing it is also important
one would think so, and yet, where are politicians promoting it? news figures? list of bds companies is rather small (aside from bigger list from the un/albanese), but all you get is vague words about bds (even that not from politicians, of course). Would be nice if anyone vaguely leftist would conclude their program/article/podcast with a list of companies every time, but alas.
i think i’m fairly cynical about this: unions (in satan) won’t do jackshit (they either benefit from it or are not involved, like sympathy strike from starbucks is not exactly a leverage), politicians will try to “that was a long time ago”, so the only thing left is bottom up consumer behavior, which doesn’t work typically, but with widespread disgust, it is the time to promote it, now and before.
(that’s leaving aside the big ones, which average treatlerite can’t imagine their life without - fifa/google/tiktok)
does zohran or lmaocia finish his videos with boycott cisco/hp/intel? no? because burgers. same for whatever greens in uk do, they campaign on vague responsibility, but they don’t offer something that is feasible now, not that well known and can be done by people regardless of affiliations.
Sure all of those would be great progress, but none of them would be possible without a base level cultural awareness that the situation is disastrously fucked up as it currently stands. No domestic pressure will ever arrive at those institutions until a critical mass of people actually care enough to do something AND think they have to power to do something. That’s why it’s so important that enough young people have actually been turned so hard against Israel
like they were in 2021? young people will forget/get treats/get annoyed with lack of immediate success/think they’ve done something already in protests
In that case I guess I’m supposed to believe that you just came into this world with the correct opinions on all of these issues and haven’t learned anything along the way?
no, i’m frustrated that people highlighting zionazi crimes be like “this deserves hague” (not gonna happen) instead of “this crime is sponsored by sodastream”. and young people are especially susceptible to changing circumstances, lack of revolutionary rapture, etc. While boycotts requires just two decisions: when you start it and when you end it, be it via betrayal of prior commitments (which in this case are truly minimal, only google and amazon are kinda hardmode ones) or a win.
companies in non-natsec fields would drop pisrael over even 5% drop in revenues.
and who do we suppose would be participating in said boycott?
people thinking pisrael is the devil? which mena people did before 2015 by default. i’m trying to be optimistic here, sympathies of 30% of americans changed to palestine in last 2 years, yet there is no corrseponding drop in sales of involved companies. Which brings me to either terminal treat brain or unawareness such a campaign exists. Now which is the optimistic variant?
More than 30% of americans, which is an incredible start in the state that is the main guarantor of the zionist entity’s existence. People have to care and be made aware before they can start to think about boycotting. People also have to care and be made aware before they can mount any effective pressure campaign, and you’d be lying if you said that more people have not been involved with these actions than prior to the previous two years