Come to think of it, Richard Nixon really did resign for no reason.
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The imperial core is continuing the process of self-cannibalization as the interimperial wars between Europe and the US over resource and territorial control continue. Greenland, populated with less than a hundred thousand heavily exploited people, is the newest territory to fall under Trump's gaze. The main draw is the mineral resources present there, of which it boasts nickel, copper, cobalt, and platinum, and much more than remains unexplored under the ice. But the ice is melting, and profit must be made. There is an additional element of wanting Arctic territory to counter Chinese and especially Russian interests and aims; Russia is increasingly eyeing the northern Arctic route as an alternative to more vulnerable routes through the Suez Canal or around Africa, and is investing heavily in icebreakers for that purpose.
However, even if Europe possessed the desire to resist American annexations - and they absolutely do not, at the end of the day - they do not even have the ability. Denmark may, to a lesser or greater extent, make angry sounds and talk about national honour or some such, but their military would be trampled underfoot by even the New York Police Department, let alone a concerted military effort by the US. If Trump wants Greenland, he will have it. This will naturally increase the grumbling in Europe about reconsidering the Transatlantic alliance, and that grumbling may, in the medium-term future, as the American Empire continues its decline, lead to meaningful results. But in the short term, Europe shall have to bear whatever Trump throws at them, for they obviously cannot now ally with Russia, who was the natural counterweight to American interests for decades before 2022.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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.
Elon Musk complains about China ban on X as Donald Trump prepares TikTok reprieve
Elon Musk has objected to a lack of reciprocity in the US-China tech relationship, a rare criticism from the billionaire on issues sensitive to Beijing after US president-elect Donald Trump prepared to offer a reprieve to TikTok on a ban in the US.
Musk, who has long sought to maintain close ties with Communist party officials in China, a core market and production centre for his electric car company Tesla, has for years assiduously tiptoed around Beijing’s hot-button issues in public.
But he said on Sunday that “something needs to change” after Trump said he would “most likely” extend a deadline for Chinese tech group ByteDance to divest from TikTok, which faced a ban under a US law that briefly forced it offline.
Musk said that while he opposed banning the short-form video app on free-speech grounds, “the current situation where TikTok is allowed to operate in America, but X is not allowed to operate in China is unbalanced”.
“Something needs to change,” he said in a post on X.
LMAO! What did I say about TikTok ban?
Chinese foreign ministry already responded:
Financial Times: Elon Musk on Sunday said it was unbalanced to allow TikTok to operate in the US and not allow his social media platform X to operate in China. He said something needs to change. Does China have any comment on that?
Mao Ning: The Chinese government manages the Internet in accordance with law. We welcome Internet companies across the world to operate in China as long as they abide by China’s laws and regulations and provide safe and reliable products and services.
China welcomes X lmao
To be fair I don’t think Twitter will be competitive there. I think the AI tech that Meta/Google have are far more valuable.
That has always been the case tho?? X, Meta, YT whatever were never banned from opperating in China in any official capacity, they were given a choice to operate if they followed Chinese laws and regulations regarding data storage and sharing, cencors etc and they chose not to. Simple as that. To frame this as "China welcomes X lmao" is really baiting, tho unsurprising
Ooh I fully agree with you lol. I’m just saying that Western capital can no longer contain themselves.
It is somewhat funny to look at charts in this article:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/20/full-employment-one-last-time-for-the-road/
And argue about biden numbers, while not noticing trump numbers (like read through it, period of 2014-2020 is just mysteriously missing). Likely it's all obama recovery continuing under trump, cause they didn't do that much differently aside from tax breaks, but it kinda shows why people might be nostalgic for 2019
Argentinian media be like: DO NOT MENTION THIS IS A PRISONER SWAP DO NOT MENTION THIS IS A PRISONER SWAP DO NOT MENTION THIS IS A PRISONER SWAP DO NOT MENTION THIS IS A PRISONER SWAP DO NOT MENTION THIS IS A PRISONER SWAP
Because once they do the whole "Hamas is super evil" narrative falls apart. It's insane because palestinian prisoners held FOR YEARS in "israeli" prisons under terrible conditions are not important and the only thing that matters here are the "israeli" people held by Hamas.
The only way Greenland could secede and remain independent is if they are given an atomic weapon. Yes, my campaign is "A Nuke for Nuuk"
Which Democratic politician will be the first to switch sides and join the Republicans? It will also be very funny to see Democrats criticizing Trump's handling of US domestic problems and foreign policies, when they themselves would be doing the same thing, only pretending to care about minorities and the working class.
the zionist ogre from Pennsylvania
Shrek with American characteristics
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I am so thankful for the ceasefire. Finally, the madness is over. It is not completely over but at least bombs have stopped.
so most likely thing seem to be destined to happen (also naks is truly sicko, going green with sna assistance, more like running red)
I mean they've served their purpose, of not allowing Assad's Syria to have access to their oil fields, to contribute to Syria's economic woes. Now that Assad is gone and his government has collapsed, what's the purpose of the US being there? The mission was accomplished. The Kurds got played again.
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tik tok is back for US users with this glazing lmao. so funny the Dems set this shit up. 170 million US users being told "trump saved the day!" by the app they like that was going to get removed
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Full speech, with English subtitles, from Abu Obeida, spokesperson of the Al-Qassam brigades, with the start of the ceasefire agreement.
Israel will release 1,890 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for 33 hostages held by the radical Hamas movement, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said.
Over 50 Palestinians per Israeli, and that’s a fraction of the Palestinians taken by the IOF… makes you wonder who was taking “hostages” all along
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Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell face police interview after pro-Palestinian rally: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clykrvp1g83o More public order offence fascism
Israeli minister Ben-Gvir quits Netanyahu’s coalition over Gaza ceasefire
Israeli minister along with his entire party have resigned from prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition over the Gaza ceasefire agreement.
Itamar Ben-Gvir and his “Jewish-power” party announced on Sunday that they are leaving the coalition “in light of the approval of the reckless agreement with the Hamas.”
The party called the ceasefire agreement a “capitulation to Hamas” and the renunciation of the Israeli regime’s so-called achievements since the start of the war.
Although Jewish power said it will not try to bring down Netanyahu’s cabinet, the departure of its ministers, especially Ben-Gvir, makes Netanyahu’s coalition >significantly weaker.
The party said it would be willing to return to Netanyahu’s coalition should the war eventually resume.
In a video posted to X, Ben-Gvir admitted that he and Bezalel Smotrich, another Israeli minister, used their political influence in order to prevent a ceasefire >agreement from moving forward.
“If this irresponsible agreement is approved and implemented, the Jewish power party will not be part of the government and will leave it,” he said.
Ben-Gvir also said humanitarian aid and fuel, electricity, and water must be “completely stopped” from entering the war-torn Palestinian enclave.
Ben-Gvir has been convicted of incitement to racism, destroying property, possessing a “terror” organization’s propaganda material, and supporting a terrorist >organization – the Israeli group Kahane Chai, which he joined when he was 16.
Israel was forced to accept a ceasefire deal with Hamas on Wednesday. The agreement has been set to take effect on Sunday 06:30 GMT.
Israel launched its brutal Gaza onslaught on October 7, 2023, after Hamas-led resistance groups carried out a historic operation against the usurping entity in >retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
Since October, the occupying regime has killed at least 46,788 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured nearly 110,450 others, in Gaza.
What a bunch of crybabies.
Itamar Ben-Gvir and his “Jewish-power” party
Huh what a funny name for a party 
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The USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) as part of it's carrier strike group, is the closest it's been to Yemen since the 21st of December. Highly likely we'll see an attack on Ansar Allah (known as the Houthis in mainstream western media) in Yemen before the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas goes into effect.
Update: The Carrier Strike Group has already come under attack within the last hour, according to the latest statement by the Yemeni Armed Forces, likely in self defence to try deter an upcoming attack.
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Supporters of South Korean President Yoon Seok-yul, who is accused of attempting to violently seize power, have caused a disturbance in the court that decided to remand the president in custody, the Yonhap news agency reported.
According to the agency, the angry crowd overcame police resistance and broke into the courthouse through the gate behind the building, and some of the president's supporters climbed over the fence. They began smashing windows and managed to get inside the building, where they also smashed glass and furniture with fire extinguishers and other improvised means, shouting "President Yoon Seok-yeol." Some also tried to find the judges who ordered his detention, threw plastic chairs at police officers, took away their shields and rubber batons and used them against the police themselves.
Other supporters of Yun Seok-yol tried to calm their comrades, convincing them that this was "not what the president wanted." The law enforcement reinforcements that soon arrived began arresting individual rioters, calling on those remaining in the building to leave immediately, and on everyone who was in court to disperse, ending the uncoordinated rally and other illegal actions.
The police in South Korea apparently only know how to beat up students and trade unionists; when it comes to incels and chuds, they always act as if they are defenseless against them.
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Resistance News Network Telegram Intense armed clashes between resistance fighters and “Palestinian Authority” Security Forces have renewed around #Jenin camp, after the resistance factions announced the PA's breach of the agreement and failure to withdraw snipers and security personnel from the area.
It's interesting Temu isn't being targeted, since it's well known that it tracks every little thing you do on your phone as soon as you download the app.
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