Image is of protestors in Nigeria in 2024.
As I'm sure everybody is aware by now, Trump's accusation that Nigerian armed groups are unfairly persecuting Christians in the country is a rather bizarre lie, seeking a justification to go in, to quote Trump, "guns-a-blazing". Whether this is likely to actually occur or is merely a threat, who can really say nowadays? But Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province are targeting people in Nigeria fairly indiscriminately; insomuch that there is a target, it is farmers whose land is being raided and taken in resource conflicts, and their religious affiliation is not usually questioned by those groups before they are pillaged and/or murdered from what I can tell.
The President of Nigeria, Tinubu, has no small responsibility for this state of affairs - enacting IMF "reforms" which have exacerbated hunger, poverty, and unemployment in the service of Western financial institutions. Those who have protested against this state of affairs have faced repression by state security forces. Meanwhile, Tinubu allegedly has strong connections to the DEA, paying large amounts of money to avoid a trial for his actions; the DEA released this statement: “We oppose the full… release of the DEA’s Bola Tinubu heroin trafficking investigation records,” which is certainly not concerning at all - followed by “While Nigerians have a right to be informed about what their government is up to, they do not have a right to know what their president is up to.”
It must be a shame for him that such a loyal subject of empire is facing such scrutiny, and it likely has everything to do with Nigeria's inexorably growing connections to China (just like pretty much every country on the planet), especially in relation to Nigeria's massive mineral deposits. It could also perhaps be retribution for Nigeria's failure to adequately oppose the growing independence of the Sahel.
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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.
AfD leader says Poland as great a threat to Germany as Russia. What the https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/11/12/leader-of-far-right-afd-suggests-poland-as-great-a-threat-to-germany-as-russia/
He's wrong of course. Poland is not as great a threat as Russia, it's actually a way bigger threat to Germany than Russia.
Russia keeps asking for a thorough investigation into the Nordstream terrorist attack. Poland keeps justifying the attack and defending the (alleged) perpetrators. Their FM even celebrated it on Twitter and thanked the USA for it. Poland lobbied hard against Nordstream from the very start. Why? Because Poland is an aggressive competitor whose long term strategy is replacing Germany as the EU's industrial powerhouse.
Russia doesn't view Germany as a competitor in the same way Poland does. Russia has much more global interests and is not interested in these European power struggles. For decades Russia always had a symbiotic relationship with Germany, subsidizing German industry with cheap energy. Destroying German energy supplies is tantamout to destroying German industry. And who benefits? USA of course but also Poland. Not Russia.
The AfD are fascist scum but they are also politically savvy. They are not wrong to point at how Poland is damaging German interests. They will absolutely win support with this from people who are sick and tired of this German government acting against German national interests to please their Washington masters. I don't think people here realize just how popular the AfD is in Germany, simply because it is often the only real opposition to the "Systemparteien" (establishment parties).
The more that the establishment continues to destroy Germany's economy for the sake of this insane anti-Russia crusade that is being now waged by the European elites, the more ground the AfD will gain from disaffected German citizens. Despite the overwhelming propaganda in the establishment media a lot of Germans are not stupid and they can see that the current government's policies are actively hurting the German economy.
The German left needs to undercut this maneuver by the far right by coming out clearly in favor of a much more transparent Nordstream investigation, and pushing back strongly against continuing down this suicidal path of confrontation with Russia! Else we are just giving the far right a free win when we allow them to monopolize the "sane" (in the eyes of many Germans) position of standing up for German interests against the insane, warmongering EU elites.
The german left has abandoned anything resembling not glazing azov nazis because they didnt want to get called "Putinversteher". Both Poland and Denmark essentially did an act of war against Germany, so detrimental to its populace, it pales astronomically in comparison to every "islamist terror attack" that are supposedly gravest danger to judeo-western values. Given that Confederation will likely rule Poland in the future once Ukraine buckles and another mass flight takes place...Things will be very interesting.
They are the largest party now btw.
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Polish state fucking around shaking hands with German reactionaries to own the Russians again, surely this has never gone wrong in the past in very predictable ways.
Kind of funny how their minds work, most of them just hate Russia because they think that Russia = USSR and therefore Russia is the Communist enemy. Hitler attacked Poland so they must be the bad guys, even as Poland would probably (I'm assuming based on how most of the EU is reacting) like to ally with the AfD to purge the undesirables. And most politicians in Poland probably also think that Russia = USSR = bad guys as well!!
There are so many weird and funny dinamics happening all over the place, I'm assuming because all our brains are shutting down due to microplastics & because of the long tradition of Nazism among the fellow whites!
Poles are Slavs so ofc Nazis hate them.
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