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.
Japan considers formal recognition of Palestinian state, says top diplomat - Press TV
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Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa says her country is considering plans to formally the State of Palestine, taking into account the progress of the so-called peace process in West Asia.
During a meeting in the capital Tokyo, the 71-year-old Japanese politician stated that her government supports the purported two-state solution to the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
She said Japan understands the Palestinians’ aspiration for the establishment of an independent sovereign state, and that it supports the ongoing efforts to achieve such a goal.
“With regard to recognition of the Palestinian state, we want to continue to address this issue comprehensively, taking into account how to advance the peace process,” the top Japanese diplomat stated.
Earlier, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit had called on Japan to recognize a Palestinian state.
“That is the only solution; the apartheid, annexation and oppression committed by Israel are not feasible solutions,” he said at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, where he attended the 5th Japan-Arab Economic Forum.
Aboul Gheit said the Israeli occupation, oppression and persecution of Palestinians and Arabs since 1967 caused Hamas resistance movement to attack the Israeli regime in a large-scale offensive, dubbed Operation al-Aqsa Storm, on October 7.
“Israel has the urge and desire to suppress Palestinian hopes of independence,” he added. “We, however, are calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
The Palestinians hope to establish an independent state of their own in the Gaza Strip and West Bank with East al-Quds as its capital.
Israel occupied East al-Quds during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. It annexed the entire city in 1980, claiming all of al-Quds as its “eternal and undivided” capital in a move never recognized by the international community.
Seems like that Jackson Hinkle guy broke up with Trump. What will happened with Maga Communism now?
Man with AK-47 arrested near Republican National Convention in Milwaukee
There are some rumors I heard on some liberal media, that some goverments in Latin America are already preparing to receive mass deportations of immigrants if Trump wins the elections. Which is something Biden negociated with Venezuela, and is currently doing.
If the DNC just like chooses a different main character to play, I wonder if any libs at all will start to question how democratic their fan favorite system really is
The CBC has endorsed vp for president. Endorsement came from CBC PAC. Democrats have raised more than $5 million in just over an hour with Biden’s announcement he’s exiting the race.
The Brazilian Goverment called the Brazilian ambassador to Argentina, Julio Glinterlinck Bitelli, for consultations, after the growing tension between the President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the President of Argentina, Javier Milei, became increasingly vocal.
President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks — including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.
The former president (and dictator) of Peru, Alberto Fujimori (Age 85), will be the candidate of Popular Force, a right-wing nationalist party, for the Presidential elections in the country, in 2026. The announcement was made by his daughter, Keiko Fujimori, party leader.
Peruvian Joe Biden, both took part in genocides.
Trump should have picked JC Denton
joe ‘the butcher of gaza’ biden rip 1942 - 2024
his long reign of terror is joever
https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/804
21st century Ukraine: total population collapse. I think the “without migration uncertainty” assumes a few million refugees will return soon.
New copypasta from Hasbara in comments.
I’d link the video, but it’s with Michael Transphobe Tracey on Katie Halpe. Going undercover to debunk antisemetic allegations at Colombia University and my spidey senses say don’t platform a known transphobe.
Not “one random person” saying something antisemitic, thousands of virulent statements including “Jews must die” “Hitler should have finished the job” and many more. 200% increasec of antisemitic incidents this year in the U.S. according to FBI statistics. NYPD did the right thing dismantling that ILLEGAL encampment. They were funded by groups from Iran and China. More important tha their threatening words, littering, destroying property and holding custodians hostage, our young generation is being brainwashed to hate the U.S.A. The are dupes of the plan by the Marxists and Islamists attempt to bring down the West and they are dangerous.
Maybe Thomas Matthew Crooks was timetraveller, he was trying to stop Trump from selecting JD Vance as his VP.
