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Bulletins and News Discussion from August 25th to August 31st, 2025 - The Limits of Electoralism - COTW: Bolivia
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A week ago, the Bolivian left-wing party, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), currently led by Luis Arce, decisively lost the round of elections against the right-wing. This comes after a prolonged period of "infighting" between Arce, and Morales, who previously led the MAS prior to the 2019 coup which briefly installed Jeanine Anez.
I put infighting in quotes because despite the nominal similarities between Arce and Morales, it is clear that this is not merely a counterproductive battle between two men - instead, the Bolivian left has arrived at a time of unavoidable conflict between two competing strategies. The electoral strategy is represented by Arce, who has aligned himself with a more middle-class-oriented campaign that is more economically liberal, whereas Morales represents a more working-class-oriented campaign that seeks to go further than tepid reform.
Such a conflict between electoralism and revolutionary action is inevitable in any and every developing country that 1) possesses a functioning left-wing party or organization, and 2) is under internal and/or external pressure by capitalists. This crisis must be resolved eventually - and this electoral failure is how such a crisis is manifesting right now. So while the Bolivian left has indeed lost the election, it is not yet defeated. The revolutionary campaign can, if it is willing, still ultimately stand triumphant. But what must be done is a real movement towards socialism, which goes beyond technocrats reforming from above, and instead transforms the state into a full political project of the working class, in which their movements, organizations, and protests are genuinely empowered. Such a project will involve repression by the forces of reaction, not least by the United States, but it is the only road left to take.
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Israel's Genocide of Palestine
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UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
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English-language twitter account that collates news.
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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.
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Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
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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.
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It is uncanny how good the zionist intelligence is.
They were able to bomb the bunker the Iranian president and command staff were in and only didn't target the supreme leader because he went totally off grid and not even the military or civilian leadership were able to find or contact him. They found and bombed Nasrallah's bunker and killed him. They've successfully killed most of Hamas senior leadership as they existed at the start of Oct 7th. And now this.
How do they do this? I get having deep penetration of a society like Lebanon because you've been at war with them for decades and plan to destroy them eventually anyways. I get the Gaza situation because of starvation, deprivation, turn-coats, blackmail networks. But how do they do this in Yemen? It really must involve signals intelligence and extensive hacking campaigns of an unprecedentedly sophisticated level.
The axis of resistance is going to continue to struggle as long as they can do these highly effective decapitating strikes.
It comes down to control of the skies. There was a rudimentary but still capable (at least for shooting down UAVs) air defence network in Yemen, which the United States heavily damaged earlier this year. This is what allows Israel to conduct such operations now with near impunity in Yemen's skies. Also, the use of smaller Israeli Navy warships, which Ansarallah in Yemen can't seem to track in the same way that they could track a US Navy Carrier Strike Group, allows for the launch of cruise missiles at virtually any time.
An abundance of traitors and also most of these governments try to work with international institutions. Israel was able to kill Iranian civilian nuclear scientists in their homes with their families because the IAEA leaked the info to them. Working with the IAEA and following the nuclear deal was a huge mistake for Iran.
It's less that zionist intelligence is competent and more the fact there are several highly ranked traitors within the leadership of the Axis
This flows directly from the fact none of these orgs are socialist in nature and infested with capitalist mindsets, making them infinitely vulnerable to monied penetration, socialist orgs aren't immune but there's simply more buffer, as the inherent nature of socialist organizing repels people with severe lumpenprole character
A single well-placed 100,000 dollar bribe can lead to the deaths of dozens, western intelligence doesn't need skill or operational vision to pull this off, simply flood the communication networks of the axis with dozens/hundreds of offers worth millions
Don't forget the Saudi, UAE, Egyptian, Qatari, Jordanian etc etc etc collaborators and kapos who help with the process.
Israel is the west's testing ground for surveillance tech. They probably have the best intelligence in the world. Not to mention the US share practically everything they know with the Israelis
On the other hand, I'm also surprised that the resistance can still fight after all these decapitation strikes. It makes me doubt if decapitation strikes even work.
They don't, because even exceptional leaders are not as important as the structure of leadership. If that structure is built with the ability to develop leadership, then you can dynamically replace your losses with minimal disruption.
Of course, the intelligence failyre is still an enormous weakness.
is it good intelligence or bad opsec?