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.
Even things without microprocessors should be assumed to be potentially backdoored when from the west and evaluated for risk including in a systemic non-individual way. For example stuff such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) (non-US but they understand the principles very well now and have for decades)
Lots of tricks that can be played with resonance, lighting things up with radio frequencies. That kind of spying is one but also potentially causing failure of devices. Say get your enemy to buy a bunch then when combat comes, blast the right frequency from something you smuggled into a warehouse years ago, their infrastructure crumbles due to tiny failures that are hard to understand at first. Western book of dirty intelligence tricks is pretty sophisticated.
Also I'd like to point out that there is ZERO evidence that China has used hardware backdoors. They do hacking yes. But zero credible evidence they like the US undermine their industry by doing implants. These stories pop up from time to time about supermicro or whoever and cause this big stir in infosec and then without additional evidence beyond "CIA/NSA/FBI claim" they vanish. Why don't they publish the receipt? Where is the proof? Where are the independent experts who can confirm this? These stories then quietly slink away with the feds never mentioning them again. The point being to sew distrust in Chinese products and to keep people within the western ecosystem.
Often in front of Congress or the EU parliament or whatever intelligence ghouls or military will state that "Huawei is a national security threat" or similar. But this is vague and the truth they won't ever say in the spotlight is it's not a threat because of backdoors, it's a threat because it undermines western monopolies on hardware, first disclosures of security vulnerabilities, and so on which together enable the western empire of hackers to do NSA global surveillance, hacking, intelligence gathering and maintain primacy. Their national security threat is not being able to spy on others so they undermine confidence in Chinese tech to keep people on their backdoored tech, their tech that has NSA/FBI officers who know first about privately disclosed vulnerabilities that can be exploited before patching by western intelligence. Their tech that they can do mail interception on to install NSA hardware backdoors in because it comes from western shipping locations. They fear the Chinese do the same but there is zero proof and given the scrutiny China faces I tend to doubt they'd undermine their selling points displacing the west by doing such practices which would get them caught red-handed. Hacking is enough for China because they have no need or interest to spy on everyone all the time like the control-freak west. They do targeted operations.