Image is a frame taken from this video of Iranian missiles raining down on Israel without interception due to a weak and depleted air defense system after a year of war and genocide.
Mao, 1956:
Now U.S. imperialism is quite powerful, but in reality it isn’t. It is very weak politically because it is divorced from the masses of the people and is disliked by everybody and by the American people too. In appearance it is very powerful but in reality it is nothing to be afraid of, it is a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain. I believe the United States is nothing but a paper tiger.
When we say U.S. imperialism is a paper tiger, we are speaking in terms of strategy. Regarding it as a whole, we must despise it. But regarding each part, we must take it seriously. It has claws and fangs. We have to destroy it piecemeal. For instance, if it has ten fangs, knock off one the first time, and there will be nine left, knock off another, and there will be eight left. When all the fangs are gone, it will still have claws. If we deal with it step by step and in earnest, we will certainly succeed in the end.
Strategically, we must utterly despise U.S. imperialism. Tactically, we must take it seriously. In struggling against it, we must take each battle, each encounter, seriously. At present, the United States is powerful, but when looked at in a broader perspective, as a whole and from a long-term viewpoint, it has no popular support, its policies are disliked by the people, because it oppresses and exploits them. For this reason, the tiger is doomed. Therefore, it is nothing to be afraid of and can be despised. But today the United States still has strength, turning out more than 100 million tons of steel a year and hitting out everywhere. That is why we must continue to wage struggles against it, fight it with all our might and wrest one position after another from it. And that takes time.
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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 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.
America should just follow indonesia mask off approach and just have kamala be the vice president of trump or vice versa.
CW: animal abuse
So, today here in Brazil a case made headlines: a nine-year-old broke into a vet hospital, tortured and killed 23 animals… I don’t know what to say, this is one of the most brutal things I’ve read in a very long time, really fucked me up. How does this happen? How can a child be capable of such cruelty? Isn’t there some kind of innate empathy towards other mammals? What the fuck is going on inside that boy’s brain?
Man, jesus fucking christ… this world can be a very grim place sometimes
Hezbollah Resistance fighters are currently engaged in the most fierce battles on the Lebanese-Palestinian border since the invasion began.
Israelis suffered significant losses in personnel, evac helicopters have not stopped transporting soldiers to hospitals for the past hours.
https://xcancel.com/eyesonsouth1/status/1846593645019062451?s=46
Not gonna look at polls, kamala will lose. They’ll blame Black/Hispanic people, men, Muslims, Jews, Jill Stein, and more, but the root cause will be the genocide in Palestine. If I’m wrong I’ll run a marathon with no training or something similar idk
Both campaigns have no energy. Boring election cycle
Zelensky claims North Korean troops are there as well. They’re going all in with this huh https://archive.ph/W0zja
i love the idea that the west thinks that north korea is a powerful enough entity to be needed to help russia, like the juche super soldiers are gonna turn the tide of battle
Putin is like Sauron summoning his allies from all over, this proves that he is desperate and the war will soon be won
99% sure this is a racist lie, 1% chance it’s true and extremely based
It would make sense for Korea to send military observers to learn how you fight NATO but I really don’t see what use Koreans taking part in active operations would be.
I hope they are tbh, good opportunity to test and sharpen their capabilities against NATO equipment
Hezbollah Daily Operations Update:
On Tuesday, 15/10/2024, the Islamic Resistance conducted 24 operations targeting Israeli troop movements, military bases, and occupied cities with precise missile barrages. Two Hermes 450 drones were also shot down.
https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1846686153098846403#m
🛑| Footage shows an Israeli Merkava tank on fire in Labbouneh, South Lebanon, after being targeted by Hezbollah.
🛑| Israeli army rescue units are unable to reach the burning tank in Labouneh.
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Some combat footage and news from the Palestine, Lebanon, and Kursk fronts.
Palestinian resistance groups conducted more IED and RPG strikes on Zionist tanks and other armored vehicles in Gaza: https://southfront.press/in-video-izz-ad-din-al-qassam-brigades-show-their-recent-operations-in-gaza-strip/
In response to the Zionist regime’s genocidal attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, Hezbollah resistance forces launched two Qader-2 missiles at Tel Aviv: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/10/15/735334/Lebanon-Israel-Tel-Aviv-Hezbollah-Qader-2-missiles
Another precise Russian drone strike on a Kiev regime tank in Kursk oblast: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/fpv_WIDE:b
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Where is Punxsutawney Phil when you need him? Instead of these grotesque media campaigns, each swing state should just have 50/50 pagan ritual involving cute critters to decide the electoral winner.
At the rate she’s going, Kamala will next appear on Lex Friedman with special guest Jordan Peterson to discuss why men feel isolated. Then she’ll make a surprise appearance on Asmongold’s stream to react to Tyler Olivera while muttering “based” every time he suggests that immigrants should be culled.
Finally, she’ll clinch the undecided vote by attending a book signing with celebrated author and beloved feminist, JK Rowling.
Edit: I forgot her one-upping Trump by having Peter Thiel attend one of her rally’s.
Telling trump NAFO tried to kill him and hopefully the funniest outcome happens.
death to germanyGermany reportedly asked Israel to sign a ‘genocide clause’
On 13 October 2024, German newspaper BILD reported in an exclusive (behind a paywall) that Germany asked the Israeli government to sign a so-called ‘genocide clause’ as a precondition for further arms deliveries. This clause apparently contained a written assurance from the Israeli government that German arms will not be used to commit genocide. The document is said to have arrived in Berlin on 10 October and allowed Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz to declare in parliament the next day that “We have supplied arms, and we will supply arms”.
This raises several questions:
- Does this imply that the German Government shares in the suspicion that Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip?
- Can such an assurance absolve Germany from its responsibility under international law not to aid or assist acts of genocide?
https://nitter.poast.org/StefanTalmon/status/1845765106451329190
