Image is sourced from this article depicting the 28th ASEAN Plus Three Summit, which took place at the same time as the 47th ASEAN Summit.

Last week concluded the 47th summit of ASEAN in Malaysia as well as a swathe of concurrent summits surrounding ASEAN. For those unfamiliar, formally, China is not a member of ASEAN, but is part of the ASEAN Plus Three (as part of the “Three”, alongside Japan and Occupied Southern Korea). And while not really ASEAN, there is also a yet wider organization, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which tacks on Australia and New Zealand to the group of countries that are currently in ASEAN (which is the single largest trade bloc on the planet). At the summit, Timor-Leste was officially introduced into ASEAN, making it the 11th country to do and the first since Cambodia in 1999.

Many important figures throughout Asia, as well as Trump, Ramaphosa, and Lula, attended the event. As you can imagine, Trump’s appearance was not exactly positive - signing four rather coerced bilateral deals there, including with Malaysia, which forced those countries to buy American goods in exchange for certain exemptions from Trump’s high tariff regime. The US is currently in a bit of a panic due to China restricting access to rare earths, a critical component of many weapons technologies (and electronics in general) and is looking around for countries to help supply them. After the summit, the US and China signed a deal related to tariffs and rare earths, but it seems very unlikely that this is the end of the saga; the US politically, economically, and militarily cannot tolerate China’s existence as a sovereign actor and will try to overcome them until the American Empire topples.

Meanwhile, China did as they ordinarily do, and urged higher regional integration and trade without high tariffs, as well as adherence to the Global Governance Initiative (which, as we here never tire of noting, is an interesting thing to try and encourage while the US only more feverishly violates the sovereignty of nations everywhere). One hopes they’re supplying a bit more than just speeches to Venezuela, Cuba, and beyond, as the US prepares to start bombing.

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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine

If you have evidence of Zionist crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

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.

  • hellinkilla [they/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    I was curious due to this post, Turkey issues arrest warrant for Netanyahu on charges of genocide, and found the below. Is it good?

    Türkiye’den Netanyahu hakkında yakalama kararı! Hamas’tan açıklama: Takdire şayan - A Haber Son Dakika Gündem Haberleri (Turkey’s decision to arrest Netanyahu! Explanation from Hamas: Appreciative)

    machine translated from turkish

    ahaber.com.tr

    Turkey’s decision to arrest Netanyahu! Explanation from Hamas: Appreciative

    ahaber.com.tr Haber Merkezi

    Stressing that Israel continues to commit genocide and crime despite the decisions of the UN, the ICC and The Hague Court of Justice, Damascus, Damascus said that genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes against humanity, Turkish judicial authorities may investigate and prosecute, and there is no statute for these crimes.

    Damascus added that the genocide will answer one day in front of the law, and that the International Association of Lawyers and the Bar Association No. 2 of Istanbul will be a follower of justice as the voice of the conscience of all humanity.

    DECISION OF CLOSE ABOUT NETANYAHU FROM TURKEY
    The Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office said that as a result of the genocide and crimes against humanity that the State of Israel has systematically committed so far in Gaza, thousands of people, including women and children, have been injured, and the settlements have become unusable.

    Hind Receb, a 6-year-old girl, was killed by Israeli soldiers on 29 January 2024 with 335 bullets, “On 7 October 2023, the actions mentioned until today continued increasing day by day, 500 people were killed in the hospital on 17 October 2023 as a result of the attack on al-Ehli Baptist Hospital on 17 October 2023, and on 29 February 2024, medical equipment was intentionally destroyed by Israeli soldiers, the Turkish Palestine Friendship Hospital was bombed on 21 March 2025, many health facilities were attacked, Gaza was also under the blockade and the victims were prevented from humanitarian access to humanitarian aid.”

    In the statement, it was reminded that this situation was widely available in the world public and the activists in the Global Sumud Fleet in order to deliver humanitarian aid to the region were on their way to Gaza by means of naval transport, but this fleet was attacked by the Israeli navy in international waters. As a result of this attack, it was reminded that a resentory investigation was initiated within the framework of the provisions of the United Nations Convention on Maritime Law, the rules of authority under Article 15 of the Criminal Procedure Law and the “extendence”, “qualified looting,” “harming the property,” “depriving the person of his freedom” and “abducting or detaining the means of transportation.”

    The victims who were detained by the State of Israel were sent to Turkey by air on 4, 7, 9 and 10 October, it was reported that the victims were subjected to judicial and psychological examination at the Istanbul Forensic Medicine Institution and the forensic examination reports were sent to the Chief Prosecutor’s Office.

    In the statement, "Our General Prosecutor’s Office applied to the statements of the persons in the capacity of victims and in the capacity of the victims, and museums were written to the Directorate of Istanbul Provincial Security Directorate and the National Intelligence Organization in order to reveal the material truth during the investigation procedures and to identify the persons who are criminally responsible in the case."

    “NETANYAHU, KATZ, I GVIR, TIME AND HAIR LISTEDE…”
    During the investigation process, the Prosecutor’s Office submitted petitions to the Chief Prosecutor’s Office regarding the process through the deputies of the victims of the Global Sumud Fleet, and the Istanbul Bar Association No. 2 filed a complaint with the Chief Prosecutor’s Office today, the following were noted:

    “In light of the evidence obtained, it has been determined that the officials of the State of Israel have criminal responsibilities for the systematic ‘crimes against humanity’ and ‘genocide’ actions in Gaza and the actions of the Global Sumud Fleet. The arrest warrant was issued for the arrest of 37 suspects on charges of “crimes against humanity” and “crimes against humanity” and “genocide” set forth under Article 77 of the Turkish Penal Code and “genocide” charges against the Istanbul court of duty at the request of our Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on November 7, 2025, and the arrest warrant for the arrest of the ‘genocide’, which was regulated under Article 77 of the Turkish Penal Code and Article 76 of the Turkish Penal Code. The investigation continues meticulously and multifaceted.”

    HAMAS MEETS WITH SATISFACTION
    The Palestinian group, Hamas, welcomed the Turkish court’s decision on Friday to issue an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and 36 other officials on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity due to Israel’s deadly war on the Gaza Strip.

    The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued its arrest warrants against senior Israeli officials, including Defence Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Land Forces Commander Eyal Zamir and Israeli Navy Commander David Saar Salama.

    “DURSING”
    "This admirational step reflects the true stance of the Turkish people and its leadership, in the hands of fascist invaders, to stand firmly towards the ties of justice, humanity and brotherhood, which unite them with our oppressed Palestinian people who have faced and remain one of the most violent genocide wars in modern history in the hands of the Turkish people."

    World governments and judicial bodies have been urged to “pure legal orders to follow the leaders of the Zionist (Israel) occupation wherever they are and to take them to the courts for their crimes against humanity.”