Image is of Iranian speedboats spotted by a satellite in the Strait of Hormuz.
Not terribly much has happened in the last week. The main two developments is the very much expected resumption of fire in Lebanon as the ZIonists are famously agreement-incapable, and the continuing supply of equipment to the Middle East, including the George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier. This means there are now three aircraft carriers in the general vicinity, and while I’m uncertain how much of a role the burnt-out Ford and the increasingly exhausted Lincoln will ultimately play (they were rather ineffective during the first round), there are also a good ~20 destroyers and however many submarines that are carrying their own munitions. I have a couple more paragraphs of exposition below, but it’s unlikely to be major news to anybody here, so I’ve spoilered it.
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On the one hand, it feels like a resumption of the war for the US at this point would be complete madness. We are getting article after article from even the Western media admitting to US standoff+interceptor missile shortages, as well as detailing the extensive damage to US bases. The Zionists are also getting ever more mired in Lebanon, with Hezbollah’s unjammable fibre optic drones playing an ever more prominent role in causing substantial long range damage to invading forces. On the other hand, it is very unlikely that most of the US’s remaining firepower is being brought to the region on a mere bluff. For its part, Iran and their allies seem to have their finger on the trigger, with their own extensive repairs, upgrades, resupplies, and adjustments having been made for round two.
Assessing the overall global economic situation is difficult, not least because of a degree of financial manipulation that is almost admirable in its sheer scale and recklessness - to quote Ghalibaf: “Their frontline is the yield curve.” Multiple countries are now facing real and desperate shortages, including major economies like Japan. Diesel prices continue their record rises, and reports about the potential impacts to all sectors of the global economy are streaming in, with famines around the world now very likely. While the US is profiting from the rise in oil prices, it seems like it will be unable to meaningfully increase production for at least a year or two, and so the US will certainly not be replacing the massive oil barrel deficit to create an energy hegemony, as some have suggested. In contrary: this is the best opportunity in a generation for China, Russia, and Iran to collectively make economic decisions that could cripple entire pillars of American hegemony. However, if the response is lacking - and we’ve all seen before over the last four years how China’s responses to crises have been on the lacking side - we could see a (albeit temporary) strengthening of the US’s financial power, as this global crisis will almost certainly result in debt climbing even higher as Western financial institutions grant loans en masse to struggling countries in the developing world. It’s very uncertain times.
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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 the Zionists’ 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.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
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.
DFLP released a statement related to international workers day
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Workers of the world, its free people, and its rising nations, unite in the face of American imperialism and “israeli” fascism.
On International Workers’ Day, 01/05/2026, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued an appeal calling on the workers of the world, its free people, and its rising nations to unite in the face of savage American imperialism and “israeli” fascism, in their unholy alliance to ignite wars in the world, sow chaos and turmoil in its parts, plunder the wealth of its peoples, dismantle and reconfigure its political systems, and use fascist force as a means to achieve their colonial goals, including returning to the brutal methods of past centuries, torpedoing international legitimacy resolutions, disrupting the system of international institutions and organizations, and working to fabricate alternative alliances and frameworks, leading to threatening world peace, depriving peoples of their right to build their national state, their independent economy, and developing their ability and energies to build generations for a prosperous future, which leads to destroying what millions of workers have built with their arms and minds, impoverishing peoples and destroying civilization to be replaced by policies of racial discrimination, class oppression, the culture of savagery, and genocide, wasting human energies and natural resources in the service of ruin, spreading diseases and epidemics, and threatening the future of the planet.
The Democratic Front said in its statement: Perhaps what is happening in Palestine constitutes a model for the atrocities committed by the savage American-“israeli” alliance, as it has led to inflicting total destruction on the Gaza Strip, including the destruction of the health, environmental, educational, pedagogical, and food systems, in an attempt to return the Strip to the Stone Age and erase its existence from the map, through the war of genocide that has claimed the lives of more than 80,000 victims, 70% of whom are children, women, nursing mothers, and pregnant women, and the occurrence of more than 180,000 wounded and injured, more than 18,000 of whom are threatened with death due to the lack of necessary treatment, in light of an ongoing siege that has made the specter of hunger ever-present in threatening the survivors of the war, and whose existence on their land is still threatened by mass displacement projects.
The war of genocide and the destruction of nature in the Gaza Strip have led to the destruction of what the workers of the Strip, its sons, and its scientists have built with their arms, minds, and initiatives, armed with a civilized culture that constitutes in its presence a condemnation of the culture of “israeli” fascism that feeds on force, the force of killing and destruction, the extermination of others, and the looting of their lands, as is happening in the Strip, southern Lebanon, southern Syria, and its occupied Golan.
The Democratic Front confirmed in its statement: In the West Bank, the nature of the savage and fascist “israeli” project is also clearly manifested in starving more than 250,000 Palestinian workers who are living in a state of deadly unemployment, and the looting of clearance funds, and depriving the Palestinian people of them, which has led to inflicting severe damage to the Palestinian economy and its deadly repercussions on tens of thousands of workers, day laborers, those with limited income, and the masses of employees, reaching the point of threatening the banking system in the West Bank, which is threatened with collapse.
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The Democratic Front emphasized that the Palestinian scene constitutes a very clear picture that summarizes the ongoing conflict in the world between the alliance of savage American imperialism and “israeli” fascism on one side, and the rising peoples looking forward to developing their national identity, culture, civilization, and democracy, and their keenness on security, stability, prosperity, and building a bright future for all of humanity. In this context, the Democratic Front renews its appeal to the workers of the world, its free people, and its rising nations, to unite in the face of savage American imperialism and “israeli” fascism on global, popular, and official fronts, in the face of ethnic cleansing, racial discrimination, and policies of imposing sieges on peoples as a tool to achieve colonial ends, and to oppose wars and hostile acts, and to safeguard the legitimate rights of peoples to freedom, self-determination, the establishment of their national state, and the enjoyment of their national resources and wealth under the roof of social justice, democracy, and respect for the civilizations and cultures of others.
Central Media 30/04/2026