Image, sourced from this article, is of George Bush in 2002 meeting with María Corina Machado, who was even then being trained as a figure to oppose Venezuelan socialism, and very briefly succeeded with the Carmona Decree. Now the latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, she has begged the Zionist entity to drop bombs on the Venezuelan people.
As of me writing these sentences, it appears that the ceasefire in Gaza is underway. Zionist ceasefires are, of course, an oxymoron - not only in the grand sense that their work to continue genocidal atrocities against others locally and regionally will not cease until the Zionist entity's occupation of Palestine is overthrown and Palestinians can resume the governance of their territory - but also in the literal sense; that bombings and shootings are often only merely reduced, and rarely cease entirely (as was/is the case on their northern border with Lebanon). Nonetheless, hopefully the population can receive some aid, and the long process of rebuilding can begin.
On the other side of the world, it seems increasingly likely that a new war is set to begin. Because the US is eschewing the usual process of generating pro-war propaganda and casus bellis (aside from a laughably transparent Nobel Peace Prize award) and seems content to just skip straight to the "bomb and depose" step, it's quite hard to predict what precisely they want to do. Anything seems to be on the table - from freely striking Venezuelan territory where "drug dealers" are to try and prompt a Venezuelan response, to assassinating Maduro and/or his generals and hoping a power vacuum can be filled with compradors, to attempting to outright invade Venezuela and establish direct American control over important government sites. All appear to be possibilities, though as of right now, the most drastic measures seem unlikely due to their difficulty.
We know that the US has almost totally abandoned diplomatic communication with Venezuela, and that the US has deployed warships, a nuclear submarine, F-35s, surveillance planes, and at least 4,000 military personnel to the Caribbean, with some sources putting the numbers higher. Some people have suggested that the point is to try and force Maduro into a situation where he must begin hostilities, or be seen as weak and perhaps overthrown from within. It is at least encouraging that Maduro is not like Allende in Chile, and is taking this situation extraordinarily seriously; the masses are being trained and mobilized in the event of an invasion, and military drills are ongoing. Venezuela has no real capacity to stop the US from attacking and bombing them, but it is much more possible to prevent a West-friendly puppet from gaining meaningful control of the country. A comprador might be able to make a brief statement or decree in a Venezuelan city saying that Chavismo is over, but actual power will hopefully prove very elusive.
2020, and particularly 2022, has clearly become a turning point for the Western imperial system, in which increasingly aggressive and reckless moves are required to keep the system functional (stability is, at this point, out of the question). Unfortunately, this has also resulted in the deaths of many long-lasting, inspiring figures, such as Nasrallah, and many more will certainly die before the empire collapses. If Maduro is assassinated - and I'm having trouble imagining how he won't be doggedly pursued in the days. weeks, and months to come - I have hope that a successor will rise to continue to lead the Bolivarian Revolution.
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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 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.
Maybe I'm very late to this and maybe what I'm about to say is obvious, but has anyone else been thinking that the massive mobilization of ICE is a way for the state to integrate the fascist gangs/militias/paramilitaries like Proud Boys, Patriot Front, et al. into the security services in a similar manner to what happened in Ukraine with their fascist groups? They're obviously the "target audience" for the recruitment drives and it feels like we haven't heard from those groups in some time, especially since you'd expect them to show up in defence of ICE at the counter-ICE rallies. It's also possible that these people could move "laterally" into other agencies once they have their foot in the door via ICE mass recruitment, then we'd really be seeing something similar to Ukraine. Just some things I've been thinking about after watching this translated documentary about Ukraine's "decentralized totalitarianism" (the author disparages the original use of the term to conflate fascism and communism, but he feels it's descriptive in a post-Maidan context) and how every imperialist frontier is a labratory for the future, and was curious about what the newsmega crowd thought.
Of course! Both israel and especially ukraine are blueprints of the re-fascisization of western society and measures of social control
we've long been saying it. We're not making Ukraine "more democratic". Ukraine is making us more explicitly fascist. The ukrainification of Europe is well underway
Ironic how so many did deny the danger Ukraine poses.
We care because they don't. The very fact of them being willing to overlook nazism for political expediency is a major red flag and warning. We care because those nazis will get infinite good press, weaponry, training and funds and freedom to set up their own drug and trafficking networks throughout europe. We care because their nazism will corrupt the supporters of it.
Agreed, the moment I realized that yeah libs weren’t immediately turned off associating with azov nazis, was the moment I knew fascism is locked in now.
Hard to get people to deny something they won't even acknowledge as existing
LMAO at the idea that Ukraine is making the US more fascist. Its like saying the Polish made Nazi Germany more fascist. Ukraine is a testbed for US (and European) fascism.
It makes sense if you agree with Aimé Césaire's argument that fascism is colonialism turned inwards to the metropole.
What the empire does in Ukraine it will do to itself soon enough
The American populace is not even 50% as fascist as the Ukrainian populace. We have a ton of people of color here, immigrants, urban populace that hates the government but can't do anything about it. Ukraine doesn't have any of that. Everybody who was anti-Nazi left years ago, either to Russia or to Europe.
To be clear, this is mostly the fault of American psychological operations, propaganda and the putting into power rightwing elements in Ukraine. It's not something unique to the Ukrainian character, just a reality of Operation Aerodynamic and the Maidan. It's more acute there, but ultimately, they are a pawn of the real imperialists.
fuck off. 62% of Ukrainians believe that life was better under socialism. The current Nazi régime is a minority composed of Galicians and diasporites imposing its will on the country and tyrannizing its own population for being "moscals" or "bydlo". It only managed to come to power through a undemocratic coup conducted externally BY YOUR GOVERNMENT! but i guess the people of eastern Europe are supposedly just so stupid and subhuman as to automatically turn into Hitlerites... might as well call every syrian or Iraqi daesh.....
meanwhile the US is a settler colonial state built on genocide and slavery with Himmler and co. talking openly how inspired they were by the american experiment. no need to talk about that though apparently
your poll is from 2010. Run that in 2025 and it will be like 5%
If that were true, Zelenski would not have to cancel elections. If that were true, the Nazi goons would not have to beat people to death in the streets. If that were true, the west would have to sponsor the dehumanization of what's left of the Ukrainian proletariat. If that were true, people wouldn't have to be press ganged into the military. If that were true, there would be no need for this war.
This war isn't to get Ukraine under control, Ukraine is well under control for 11 years. This war is to tie up and damage Russia.
Zelensky's replacement would be a further right banderite, he's scared of losing power to political rivals like Zaluzhnyi and Poroshenko who are even more fascistic than he is. He's the leftward limit in that godforsaken place.
The Nazi Goons conscripting people at gunpoint is because the only people left to use for their meatgrinder are men who are rational and value their own lives over the "nation". They're not ideologically opposed to the war for the most part, they're opposed to themselves dying in it.
The goal of this war is to entrench the grip of the US empire on the Eurasian landmass. Russias liberal government is currently temporarily opposed to this motion due to the countries national bourgeoisie having certain interests. The second collaboration with the west becomes more advantageous for them its stance will flip, as is being clearly demonstrated by Jolanis visit to Moscow.
Also, the people who voted for Zelenski voted for 2019 Zelenski, not 2025 Zelenski. Also, he was the most left-wing legal option. Please look up which political parties happen to be banned in Ukraine. Again, is every Syrian a Salafi just due to Nusra now running the place?
The more adequate comparison would have been Italy. The empire literally used salami tactics „invented“ by Indonesia elsewhere.
100%. The massive mobilization of ICE, its giant budget, etc, is a way for Trump and co to have a fascist paramilitary arm operating directly under the purview of the executive, without all the strings attached with going through the FBI or the DoD or CIA. ICE are basically the Brownshirts, the internal police force answerable directly to the executive, given broad and vague powers and vast hardware to directly carry out their will.
It truly is except USAmericans have no Russia to denazify them by force. I do believe that Trump will be the vehicle for the ruling class to obtain their domestic fascist militias in preparation for the mass climate change migration (the current migratory corridors will look minuscule compared to 5-20 years down the line). Once the fascist thugs become part of the American civil society it will be impossible for any progressive reformer from within the system to take them out.
To add to that. I do think that the american ruling elite is preparing to get rid of its „sickly“ „excess“ population and reduce wages.
but excess population helps but downward pressure on wages
Killing union leaders/organizers does as well. They once used the mafia for roughing up „demanding“ workers.
I'm certain they're going to use ICE to patrol polling stations to "stop illegals from voting" i.e. stop non-white people from voting.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: