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Image is a frame taken from this video of Iranian missiles raining down on Israel without interception due to a weak and depleted air defense system after a year of war and genocide.


Mao, 1956:

Now U.S. imperialism is quite powerful, but in reality it isn't. It is very weak politically because it is divorced from the masses of the people and is disliked by everybody and by the American people too. In appearance it is very powerful but in reality it is nothing to be afraid of, it is a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain. I believe the United States is nothing but a paper tiger.

When we say U.S. imperialism is a paper tiger, we are speaking in terms of strategy. Regarding it as a whole, we must despise it. But regarding each part, we must take it seriously. It has claws and fangs. We have to destroy it piecemeal. For instance, if it has ten fangs, knock off one the first time, and there will be nine left, knock off another, and there will be eight left. When all the fangs are gone, it will still have claws. If we deal with it step by step and in earnest, we will certainly succeed in the end.

Strategically, we must utterly despise U.S. imperialism. Tactically, we must take it seriously. In struggling against it, we must take each battle, each encounter, seriously. At present, the United States is powerful, but when looked at in a broader perspective, as a whole and from a long-term viewpoint, it has no popular support, its policies are disliked by the people, because it oppresses and exploits them. For this reason, the tiger is doomed. Therefore, it is nothing to be afraid of and can be despised. But today the United States still has strength, turning out more than 100 million tons of steel a year and hitting out everywhere. That is why we must continue to wage struggles against it, fight it with all our might and wrest one position after another from it. And that takes time.


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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. 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.


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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 62 points 2 months ago

Are you enjoying the show?

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[-] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 62 points 2 months ago

America should just follow indonesia mask off approach and just have kamala be the vice president of trump or vice versa.

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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 62 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The war against Putin's Asiatic hordes is fought on many fronts. In Copenhagen, a Liberal Party alderman has proposed to annul the Russian embassy's right to use 23 public owned parking spaces as a way of harassing diplomatic staff and to virtue signal the car brain credentials of the local Liberal Party. The proposal has however been shot down by Denmark's Moderate Party-controlled ministry of foreign affairs, citing diplomatic considerations.

[-] Zascoco@hexbear.net 61 points 2 months ago

https://al24news.com/en/algeria-mauritania-armies-sign-cooperation-protocol/

Algeria and mauritania sign military cooperation protocol. Interesting to note that at the same time morocco bombed mauritanian civilians in the liberated territories of western Sahara and just recently unveiled a drone developed with the help of the entity. Morocco took the habit since normalization to bomb civilians from other nations in western Sahara as a response.

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 61 points 2 months ago
[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

From the thread body text:

Now U.S. imperialism is quite powerful, but in reality it isn't. It is very weak politically because it is divorced from the masses of the people and is disliked by everybody and by the American people too.

Is this true? I thought last we checked the average amerikkkan was big into genocide and such. Would be nice to see a bit of humanity from them. Was the perception different in the 50s?

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Some news from Gaza, Kursk, and Odessa.

Palestinian resistance forces released more recent combat footage from Gaza, showing RPG, mortar and IED strikes: https://southfront.press/israeli-army-loses-two-more-soldiers-to-palestinian-tank-hunters-in-gaza/

Russian forces inflicted serious losses on Kiev regime invaders in Kursk oblast over the past 24 hours: https://sputnikglobe.com/20241020/ukraine-loses-over-310-soldiers-in-kursk-region-in-24-hours---russian-defense-ministry-1120607795.html

Someone (possibly an anti-fascist partisan) shot to death Gennady Beybutyan near Odessa, a local oligarch involved in the Kiev regime’s military conscription. He led the so-called “Law Enforcement Assistance Unit” that attacked accused draft evaders: https://www.rt.com/russia/605990-ukraine-murdered-help-draft-officers/

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 61 points 2 months ago

Brazilian President Lula da Silva falls in the bathroom of the presidential palace and is taken to the Syrian Lebanese Hospital. The President of the Republic hit his head and, on medical advice, canceled his trip to Russia for the BRICS summit.

Lula's doctor says the president had head trauma, “but everything is fine”. In an interview with CNN, Dr. Roberto Kalil said that CT and MRI scans had been carried out, which showed a small amount of bleeding in the front of Lula's head. He will be under observation for the next few days.

Lula was treated at the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital with a cut on the back of his head; doctors recommend avoiding long trips, but he can keep to his normal schedule. Foreign Minister to lead Brazilian delegation to Russia during BRICS summit Mauro Vieira, who was already going to be part of the delegation, was appointed to head it after Lula canceled his trip to Kazan.

I have seen some people saying this was probably an excuse, so Lula wouldn't have to meet with Putin and anger too much the US. But anyway, I am glad Lula is doing alright.

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[-] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 61 points 2 months ago

Spoilering for doomerism

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Is it me or have the Dems just gone totally mask-off in recent months? Like they were obviously complicit in the genocide before, but they seem to just be fully onboard with genocide and war with Iran now. I guess this is just more posturing for the election, sort of like how they approach the border issue now.

And you know what? Maybe it'll pay off for them. It seems we're in a period of this sort of resignation to barbarism now. Maybe people will embrace fascism with woke characteristics. I certainly have no faith in my fellow Americans. Sure, maybe some polls show opposition to Israel, and there were (emphasis on were) some impressive protests, but what did they accomplish in the end? Americans don't think that deeply about these things anyway. If it does come to war with Iran, you know most Americans will fall in line like the bloodthirsty little hicks they are. They are an eternally pissed off people who love to feel vicariously badass by blowing up those damn Muzzzlums. You certainly won't see any mass protests against an Iran war. Even liberals accept the idea of Iran as being the ultimate bad guy, or a henchman of Putler's Russia. It'll be 2003 all over again - first as tragedy, then as farce, then as farce, then as farce, then as farce....

Plus maybe it'd shake off the malaise that seems to have set it.

Everything is so fucked. I guess this is history, though. Entire peoples can just be wiped out, unjust wars are waged and framed as heroic adventures, and in a thousand years none of it will fucking matter.

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[-] LargePenis@hexbear.net 60 points 2 months ago

Hey fellow multipolarity enjoyer. Have you received your 500₽ BRICS voucher card?

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[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 60 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Today (16th October) is the 60th anniversary of the first successful test of a nuclear bomb by China

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202410/16/WS670f6f65a310f1265a1c7ed2.html

(Article is about the reopening of a museum to commemorate China's success in missile and satellite technology)

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 60 points 2 months ago

Venezuela To Demand Reparations From Spain for Colonial Plunder - Telesur English

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Colonization was a barbaric event that the Europeans continue to endorse and claim as a civilizing process. On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that his country would demand reparations from Spain for the looting, plundering, and enslavement of Indigenous peoples.

“Venezuela, together with a group of Latin American countries, wants to make a profound claim for Spain to pay reparations for the theft, the looting of our lands, and the slavery and suffering endured by our Indigenous and African ancestors,” he said.

“532 years ago, the process of resistance against colonialism and slavery began. Colonialism left a legacy of nazism and fascism. None of the colonizers, however, have apologized so far,” Maduro said.

“They hide behind the ideology of denialism. From Spain, this barbaric event is endorsed and claimed as a civilizing process,” the Bolivarian leader added and emphasized that the invasion of Indigenous peoples by the Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus was a criminal and abusive act.

During the “Con Maduro +” TV program, the Venezuelan president also reaffirmed his support for Caribbean countries that have agreed to request billions of pounds in reparations from the UK for the slave trade.

Previously, during her address to the UN General Assembly in September, Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley said her country had joined the “growing chorus calling for the immediate proclamation of a second decade” to complete the unfinished work and address the issue of reparations for colonialism.

Recently, Mexico also reminded Spain that it is still waiting for an apology for the crimes committed during colonialism.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 60 points 2 months ago

North Korea is now effectively joining the war against Ukraine, Zelensky said. "The DPRK is actively joining the war on the side of the Russian Federation. According to the GUR, Russia has plans for the fall and winter that take into account support from the DPRK," he said.

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[-] plinky@hexbear.net 59 points 2 months ago

Apparently nyc dsa are going through it again shrug-outta-hecks

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 59 points 2 months ago

Update with information from the fedshit I posted before. Might be iffy info tbh but the rumour mill is churning and this is the closest to possibly-correct information I've found on what might be happening out there.

🇰🇷❌🇰🇵❗️ — South Korean forces on Yeonpyeong Island have been placed on alert as unusual movements have been detected at North Korean coastal artillery positions.

➡️ There has also been a sudden withdrawal of Chinese fishing boats from the waters near the island.

➡️ Days ago, South Korean media reported that, exactly as reported by North Korean State Media KCNA, as of 8:00 PM on the 13th, it had switched eight artillery brigades in forward areas to a “fire standby” posture.

➡️ These eight artillery brigades were ordered to be fully armed, and it is known that over 700 170mm long-range artillery pieces, 240mm multiple rocket launchers, 300mm multiple rocket launchers, and the North Korean version of the KTSSM (tactical surface-to-surface guided weapon) “Hwasong-11Ra” are deployed.

➡️ This means that 700 long-range artillery pieces and multiple rocket launchers are armed and aimed at our military and key facilities, and can be used immediately if necessary.

➡️ On this day, North Korea’s coastal artillery was also captured in the open in the West Sea border area.

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[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 59 points 2 months ago

Should Zelensky's government be afraid of far-right groups?

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20241011-should-zelensky-s-government-be-afraid-of-far-right-groups | archive link - https://archive.is/9C6qS

newsmega stay winning, 2.5 years after feb 2022 we have mainstream news reporting on the factional infighting of the ukrainian government and the influence of far right nationalists as a barrier to peace. I guess that famous video of zelensky getting sandbagged by ukrainian nationalists back in 2019/2020 when he was trying to get ukrainian militias to stop firing into the donbass actually was important after all.

it's very clear how much the story of ukraine as a western proxy aligns with the story of afghanistan as a western proxy in the 1980s. in both cases, far right marginal/not dominant elements of society are materially supported by the west with military gear/$/trianing, their message is amplified through western soft power and media channels, and they become the de facto government of the proxy. they hop in the driver's seat of the proxy in a non-democratic way, and proceed to use the proxy as a whole as a battering ram against the western enemy while placing no value on the health of the people or country of the proxy.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 59 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I guess Khaled Mashal is the new leader of Hamas. Any opinion on this guy?

Wikipedia Page

Khaled Mashal is a Palestinian politician who served as chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from 1996 until May 2017, where he was succeeded by Ismail Haniyeh. He has also covered duties as the de facto leader of Hamas twice, from July 2024 until August 2024 and from August 2024, after both leaders was assassinated/killed by Israel. He was regarded as one of the most prominent leaders of Hamas since the death of Ahmed Yassin, alongside Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar

Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during the 1967 Six-Day War forced Mashal's family to flee and he has since then lived in other parts of the Arab world in exile. For that reason, he was considered part of Hamas' "external leadership". After the founding of Hamas in the wake of the First Intifada against the Israeli occupation in 1987, Mashal became the leader of the Kuwaiti branch of the organization.

Under his leadership, Hamas secured a surprise majority of the seats in the Palestinian legislative election in 2006. He does not believe that there is a contradiction between Hamas' and religious diversity He views the goal of Hamas to be to "end the Zionist occupation; to liberate the land and the holy places; to reclaim Palestinian rights; to secure the return of the refugees to their nation, lands, and homes; and to reclaim Jerusalem." Mashal wants the future Palestinian state to be one that "is open to the world, far from fanaticism, and one that promotes tolerance and accepts all.

Mashal believes that peace with Israel requires two things: that the Palestinian refugees that fled from, or were expelled by, Israeli forces in the 1948 Israeli War of Independence in which the Jewish State was established are allowed to return and that Israel withdraws from the territories it occupied in the 1967 war. Israel has said it would never agree to let all of the refugees return. In a meeting with former U.S. president Jimmy Carter in 2008, Mashal clarified that any agreement with Israel would have to be ratified with the Palestinian people in a referendum. Mashal later suggested a 10-year-truce (hudna) if Israel withdrew to the 1967 border. He considered this a proof of recognition: "We have offered a truce if Israel withdraws to the 1967 borders, a truce of 10 years as a proof of recognition".

Mashal was a vocal critic of the Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, often refusing to follow directives issued by the PA regarding ceasefires with Israel. Mashal was considered a key force behind this policy, along with Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. However, Mashal did attend Arafat's funeral, in Cairo on 12 November 2004.

Seems like a moderate tbh. And most Westerns will ignore what he said about being against fanaticism and being pro-tolerance, and will continue to accuse Hamas of attempting to create an Islamic state in Palestine that will kill all christians and jews.

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[-] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 58 points 2 months ago

former home affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo is beanposting about being stripped of his Order of Australia honours:

"With wars underway around the world, and more likely to break out, possibly in the Pacific, with rising intolerance and anger in public debate, with many people struggling to make ends meet, and many other problems besides, being stripped of my official honour does not amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world," he said.

followed by the maddening unreality of western rhetoric:

“It’s regrettable that force and violence sometimes have to be used, but when you’ve got someone who is so determined to pursue the annihilation of another group of people sometimes it just comes down to that,” he said.

"There is simply no point in rushing to peace if all that just simply happens is the next cadre comes through, who are as well trained and have thought about how they want to continue the campaign.”

death to israel, death to australia, death to the western colonial project forever and ever amen

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[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 58 points 2 months ago

Zelensky is threatening NATO that he'll cook up some nukes.

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[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 58 points 2 months ago

The UN envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, has privately proposed the partition of the territory between Morocco and the Polisario Front as a solution to the dispute.

He has also said in the UN Security Council that "the time has come for Morocco to explain and detail its proposal for autonomy."

According to De Mistura, the partition "could allow for the creation of an independent state in the southern part, and the integration of the rest of the territory as part of Morocco, with its sovereignty over it internationally recognized."

One more partitioning a country into to parts, it will work this time trust me

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