Image is of a protest in San Diego against ICE.
On January 7th, 37-year-old Renee Good was murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. While a considerable amount of the discussion online has been about the direction her wheels were turning and things like that, truthfully, I think it's just fundamentally bad to shoot a person to death with a gun if you happen to be a state mercenary enforcing an incredibly racist federal policy, regardless of the circumstances.
The murder has since prompted a wave of vigils and protests, not only in Minneapolis, but also in virtually every major city in the country. The demands are justice for Good in particular, and the abolition of ICE in general, to avenge its many victims. The Trump administration has done all they can to inflame the situation, designating Good a "domestic terrorist" and saying that the agent who shot her will be immune from prosecution.
Protests and resistance to this administration's policies have, encouragingly, had an element of international solidarity - not only are flags from countries throughout Latin America (and also Palestine) present, but speakers in protests have even been actively condemning the recent imperialist actions against Venezuela. For it is, of course, one joint struggle. The imperial boomerang always returns - and in the modern day, it returns rapidly.
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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.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
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.
Seems attitudes in the EU are shifting regarding the Americans. Likely to be diplomatic bluster at the moment, but real conversations are happening. And such measures would be popular with European electorates, who are broadly opposed to the United States at this moment. Per https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-europe-greenland-threat-military-defense-allies/
brutal for the EU that they have been supporting terrorism and racism against the largest Arctic power for years now. Both Canada and Denmark could have easily made a deal with Russia to cut the US out of the Arctic if they weren't locked into this bullshit Ukraine War. They've trapped themselves in a corner and Creepy Donald is coming for them.
Isn't it just? If I were to believe that the AmeriKKKans have been playing 3d chess with this I would say the arctic has been the motivator even for ukraine all along. It all fits so neatly when it was used to push Sweden and Finland into the arms of the DCA and all the nordic countries into rabid hate and fear of Russia.
It's all bluster from a yapping tied up little dog. I'll give it an ounce of credit the moment it materializes into anything from the vassals who've consistently talked big (remember tariffs?) then immediately folded. Until such time as they take one concrete step that isn't whispering, public statements, and letters to the editor it's all just an empty pressure and publicity campaign.
If Trump doesn't forget about Greenland it is only a matter of time before some EU countries start pressuring Denmark behind the scenes to make concessions.
Like when they tried to appease Nazi Germany with territory.
What are these people even talking about? What "security"? The security of austerity? The security of getting fucked in all the possible ways?
One surely cannot do without the ~~Mafia's~~ Empire's "protection"!
The security to not buy Russian oil.
They have already been checkmated.
Declaring war on Russia like a pack of rabid animals means that they have no alternative. It is brutal vassal ship under the USA, with no hope of a different deal.
If Trump seizes Greenland the discourse among Europe's elites will immediately change into 'I hope our stubborn refusal over American Greenland doesn't jeopardize our relationship with our Allies'.
Talking about the long time US territory Greenland is a Russian distraction, it is what Putin wants
Thankfully our European highly democratic European elected representatives in democratic Europe, can make decisions on behalf of us uneducated and unprepared citizens without telling us about it. I love European democracy, the garden within the jungle.
/s just in case