The United States claims Panama has complied with Trump's wishes, and that American vessels are passing through the Panama canal without paying tolls, but Panama denies, and says nothing has changed
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Bulletins and News Discussion from February 3rd to February 9th, 2025 - Fuhrer Failsons
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Image is of Elon Musk giving the Nazi salute a week or so ago.
I didn't really want to keep spotlighting American domestic events as I had assumed that shit would calm down pretty quickly, but it appears that the Trump administration, including Musk, are determined to bring down the empire from the inside.
One of the most important lessons of ruling a country - and especially an empire - is to never, ever believe your own propaganda; and yet now we have neo-Nazi failsons disrupting parts of the imperial apparatus and causing general government mayhem because they actually seem to believe in libertarianism; that the state and the capitalists are somehow in opposition, rather than working in lockstep to maximise profit and boost American hegemony around the world.
I'm not so optimistic as to believe that a national collapse is FOUR DAYS AWAY, like those weird anti-China cranks often speculate - the US has at least a decade or two left even under these conditions. But consider the damage being inflicted in these past couple weeks, and extrapolate that over the next four years. Does any living American political figure possess the competency to halt - or even meaningfully slow - the already ongoing decline? And could they achieve power (or even be allowed to do so) after Trump's term is done?
Last week's thread is here. The Imperialism Reading Group is here.
Please check out the HexAtlas!
The bulletins site is here. Currently not used.
The RSS feed is here. Also currently not used.
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.
Kinda goes with the theory that all these threats of annexation are just performative to make him look tough
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Islamist reactionaries demolish the house of Bangladesh founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Completely planned. Certainly done by BNP and Jamaat fundamentalists.
Looks like the Wiki page on Jamaat Bangladesh has been edited to show their ideology as "moderate" even though they collaborated with Pakistan during the genocide.
spoiler
Before 
After 
2024 was a great year for these Muslim Brotherhood allied parties.
Burkina Faso:
Agrarian and land reorganisation: Towards a takeover by the State
machine translated excerpts
On behalf of the Ministry of the Economy and Finance, the Council adopted a draft law on the agrarian and land reorganization in Burkina Faso. The purpose of the bill is to ensure that land management is improved and that the state can assert its leadership on the issue, says Economic and Finance Minister Dr Aboubakar NACANABO. “Through this bill, it is planned that the land will now belong to the State,” he argues.
Among the innovations of the bill, there is the possibility of a long-term lease ranging from 18 to 99 years in the context of agricultural production, the recognition of customary rights, the impossibility for an alien to own a title to rural land.
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Lmao America boycotting the G20. Basically giving hegemony to China on a platter
I will NOT attend the G20 summit in Johannesburg.
South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote “solidarity, equality, & sustainability.” In other words: DEI and climate change.
My job is to advance America’s national interests, not waste taxpayer money or coddle anti-Americanism.
This is retaliation for the ICJ against 
isn't it?
But go ahead and close yourself off to another major producer of platinum as well as Russia. Have fun.
Time for Xi to take center stage. 
Love being governed by such cruel and petty satanic racists.
South Africa is promoting climate change? Sloppy writing is par for the course for these ignoramuses
Nah donald is just waiting to carve out a piece of south africa for the boer republic of muskia
"South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote “solidarity, equality, & sustainability.” In other words: DEI and climate change." oh my fucking god this is so funny lmao. I can't focus on how evil it is because of its absurdity lmao
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"taxpayer" money is when DOGE pests mark up their account by $100t
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Update on military action on the US - México border/deportation flights situation: México gives more concessions to the USA, Belize accepts a US military aircraft directly, first removal/deportation flights to Guantanamo Bay, India and potentially El Salvador, Colombia continues to send their own military planes for repatriation flights, more flights to Guatemala.
Detailed update.
Starting with México, there were a number of key developments. Firstly, a United States Coast Guard C-130J, carrying out a potential deportation flight to El Salvador from San Diego, utilised Mexican airspace. Then afterwards, a United States Airforce C-130J from Florida, flew over Mexican airspace while on a flight to El Salvador. This could be to do with the proposed deal for El Salvador to house "dangerous migrants and gang members" that are deported from the USA, including those that have acquired US citizenship. This also means that US military aircraft flying to other countries have now made use of Mexican airspace.
The C-17 deportation flights to Guatemala haven't made use of Mexican airspace yet, so the deals with Guatemala and EL Salvador are likely seperate in this regard. Guatemala also reportedly signed a new deal with regards to accepting deportations from the US of citizens from other countries. There has been a new bunch of civilian aircraft likely chartered for this purpose, that have made flights to Guatemala from the USA.
Belize accepted a US Navy Boeing C-40A transport aircraft which landed there after departing San Diego, so they too allow US military planes to land there, and not to just use their airspace.
The first flight of migrants to Guantanamo bay took place, apparently only 10-20 of the "most dangerous migrants", whatever that means, were moved there onboard a US military C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft.
India of all countries recieved their first deportation flight from the United States, a US military C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft took a multi legged journey there.
Circling back to México, we got a breakdown of where the 10 000 México National Guard troops are set to deploy to. Interesting to note is that the areas that saw the most US reconnaissance and signals intelligence flights nearby, namely Baja California and Sonora, are seeing the most troops. To me this suggests some unofficial Intel sharing, and that the US are going to try use the Mexican National Guard to go after cartel strongholds.
The breakdown
Countries that have allowed the United States to conduct suspected deportation flights to them directly using US military aircraft:
- Guatemala.
- Ecuador.
- Honduras.
- Perú.
- Belize.
- El Salvador.
- India.
Countries that allow the United States to use their airspace to conduct suspected deportations using US military aircraft to other countries, but have not accepted US military deportation flights themselves:
- Costa Rica.
- Nicaragua.
- México.
Countries that put up resistance to deportation flights using US military aircraft and turned them away ( and use their own military planes for repatriating their citizens), however the United States says that they will accept military deportation flights in future (no such flights have taken place as of 5 February 2025):
- Colombia.
Overall it's quite a depressing update, to be honest I really didn't want to make it, but I feel as if I had to, otherwise this information just sits in aviation geek or chud circles with brainless losers cheering it on.
Latin American countries can not stand up to the US alone - only together they can.
Yeah, but the time to start preparing for that and forming those alliances was 8 years ago. Vijay Prashad even wrote about that back then. It truly seems as if many did not expect Trump to come back, and are just unprepared for the reality of the current moment.
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What is it about the flights being made with military planes that make them so special? They were accepted beforehand with civilian planes, right? I don't really understand it.
Well to fly your military aircraft over another countries sovereign/territorial airspace, you need usually to organise some sort of diplomatic agreement/deal with all the countries involved, as you are in effect carrying out a military mission using another country's territory. It's quite different from chartering a civilian airliner and flying it there from a diplomatic perspective. México has been refusing this permission for US military aircraft, (and still refusing in the case of C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft to Guatemala) since the first military deportation flights using US military aircraft started taking place. But now with the US military and Coast Guard flights to El Salvador, these aircraft were allowed to use Mexican airspace. So it seems as if some agreement was reached there.
It's significance is a matter of sovereignty over one's country and in diplomatic relations. Freedom of navigation in international waters/airspace, and over allied countries sovereign/territorial airspace and waters, is something that is very important to the United States. The US will go to war over freedom of navigation.
Cows Have Been Infected With a Second Form of Bird Flu (NYT)
Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form of bird flu that is distinct from the version that has been spreading through herds over the last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Wednesday.
The finding indicates that the virus, known as H5N1, has spilled from birds into cows at least twice — leading to these two sets of infections — and that it could continue to do so. It also suggests that the virus may pose a persistent risk to cows and to the people who work closely with them.
Before last year, scientists did not know that cows were susceptible to this type of influenza.
“This is not what anyone wanted to see,” said Louise Moncla, an evolutionary biologist who studies avian influenza at the University of Pennsylvania. “We need to now consider the possibility that cows are more broadly susceptible to these viruses than we initially thought.”
Apparently this is the same strain that put a 16yo in canada into intensive care for three weeks.
https://bsky.app/profile/canadahealthwatch.bsky.social/post/3lhie3dfr6c2m
Don't worry. The lesson the government learned from covid is to let the virus run its course and not do anything crazy like talk about it or ask anyone to do anything at all to protect themselves or their community.
Folks, we can't stop WINNING! They told me there's a new organism with the birds, AND - the cows. Our bIG beAUtiful AMERICAN heffers. This one is all American. What a patriot. Best orGASMs cum from AMERICAN heffers. So - they named it after ME. I get in. Not even a month later they're naming things that go in the history books after ME.
They call it the D1.1 - DONALD ONE dot WON because we won over the woke mind virus. Winning folks. Get used to it. You're going to see a lot more of it. And it is becauss of you all beautiful people and our wonderful farmers and freedom. Gotta thank them. I got a special treat for all you WINNERS. Talked to the BIG MAC myself.
the first Donald ONE dot WON McDonald's special. Dig in my patriots. We've earned it.
Vegans keep winning 
”This is not what anyone wanted to see”
Lmfao “this is the one thing we didn’t want to happen”
We specifically asked for this not to happen
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Popular resistance is growing to the Kiev regime military’s conscription campaign. Plus, some combat footage.
Ukrainians have started blowing up Kiev regime military conscription offices in Pavlograd and Rovno. In another incident, a man with a hunting rifle shot and killed a conscription officer in Poltava oblast. An IED strike killed another in Kharkov: https://southfront.press/war-against-mobilisation-gains-momentum-in-ukraine/
Civilians captured and beat a Kiev regime conscription officer (18+ video): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--Zelensky-Gestapo-bastard-is-captured-by:3
Russian anti-tank mine destroys US-built “Bradley” infantry fighting vehicle (video): https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/02/05/1030079.html
Russian drone strikes British-built Challenger 2 tank (video): https://www.rt.com/russia/612228-ukrainian-challenger-tank-drone/
Thanks for sharing. I sent some of this to some friends who still have a passing interest in the war. But that first comment on that southern article. 
Why are comment sections of any article always full of the world's most disgusting people.
a man with a hunting rifle shot and killed a conscription officer
lmao, rip bozo
Artyom Buccovich 
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It’s so fucking funny that the cia is being declawed and yet trump is posturing to project American imperialism simultaneously like they are so fucking stupid and lost. It’s like they have the instincts of the Israeli right but imagine if the Israeli right decided the mossad was bad but for incoherent reasons and fucked it over leading to them fucking themselves over
He thinks that the countries that support America do it out of awe and respect and not because the CIA took out literally every political actor who was not pro-America in those countries
A big problem that he is going to cause is that all the fucking CIA-aligned freaks in Europe are STILL going to be in power while the various intelligence agencies rebuild, unless Trump manages to mortally wound them, which I somehow doubt.
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Milei is continuing to ape Trump, including the transphobia:
AP: Argentina’s president bans gender-affirming care for people under age 18
@Torenico@hexbear.net Is this something that Milei can do unilaterally? The article mentions a 2012 law establishing protections.
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Anyone here ever heard of DIILS? some DoD thing I've never heard of but sounds bullshit
Friend of mine has an interview to do remote work for a tribal government and at first it sounded amazing because they'd be working with a tribe instead of some fuckin corpo, but then I just found out they work with the DoD through this DIILS shit, so there's no way this isn't some fucked up warcrime shit, right?
Never heard of it but from the page you linked it probably provides the dual purposes of justifying the USA's sins while chastising the sins of other countries.
Sounds spooky as hell
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I am starting to wonder if the last 24 hours is actually good for Palestinian liberation. Trump's proposal for Gaza has been viewed in such negative terms by EVERYONE across the globe, since I don't think he will be able to implement it, I think it only further isolates Israel and makes them even more of a pariah.
It made it very obvious and clear to everyone the intention is genocide. The libs can’t obscure it anymore
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His proposal to send US troops to Gaza read a lot more differently once you realize US troops were already at Gaza. Remember how the US build that "humanitarian" pier only for the IOF to use that pier as a staging ground to murder more Palestinians and how Palestinians who survived that cowardly attack said that some of the shooters were wearing uniforms that looked different from IOF uniforms? US troops, sheepdipped as independent mercenaries, also butchered Palestinians.
Once again, Trump just said the quiet part out loud.
Trump was always going to be the better hope for Palestinians for that reason. Biden/Harris would have continued the status quo. Trump might destroy it out of incompetence.
He’s also much more likely to change course on it if it becomes unpopular enough. He’s a Zionist insofar as he publicly supports Israel, but he genuinely does not care about what happens over there other than how it reflects on him. His ego would never allow him to get publicly dogwalked by Netanyahu like Biden did.
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