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Bulletins and International News Discussion from September 15th to September 21st, 2025 - Democracy By Discord - COTW: Nepal
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For more on the situation in Nepal, I recommend @MelianPretext@lemmygrad.ml's comment here.
Following a "anti-corruption" protest movement spurred by a social media ban (but with much deeper roots) in which dozens of protestors were killed by state forces, the government of KP Oli has been ousted, and an interim leader is currently in power as the country prepares for elections. Notably, events have been characterized as "Gen Z protests", and this leader was decided (at least partially) by a Discord vote. When a non-western government rapidly falls, it's wise to at least glance in the direction of the United States, and there are almost certainly elements of color revolution here. But, as always, it's more complicated than simple regime change - Nepal is a deeply troubled economy even as developing countries go.
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Despite winning 75% of the seats in parliament in 2017, the various communist parties have failed to unify towards forming a common agenda and solving the problems of the people. When the nominally united communist party split in 2021, infighting and opportunism eventually brought on the rightist politicians we see today.
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The Nepalese economy is not successful. Disasters are slow to be ameliorated, education and healthcare is underfunded, and poverty is fairly rampant. There have been significant developments made by the communist parties, such as electrification programs and some poverty reduction, but it has been insufficient.
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The petty bourgeois usually come from oppressed Hindu castes, and are frustrated by the domination of upper castes, and so are inspired by India's BJP. They essentially want a return to monarchy, under the guise of anti-corruption, and despite their relatively small numbers, are powerfully organized.
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Of the countries that aren't tiny islands, Nepal has the highest per capita rate of work migration, due to insufficient employment in Nepal. The jobs that Nepalese citizens receive overseas range from unpleasant to unbearable in both labour and wages, and this has generated rightful suspicion that the government cares more about foreign direct investors than their own citizens overseas.
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The government of KP Oli was close to the United States, and India's Modi has promoted the BJP in Nepal. Both countries have sought to exert influence over Nepal, though Prashad speculates that, if there is indeed a foreign mastermind at work, India is more likely to be the culprit behind these recent protests, in a gambit to use the chaos to promote/install a far right monarchist government.
I agree with Prashad that it seems unlikely that mere electoral changes will result in anything terribly productive, though whatever government emerges will inevitably hoist the banner of anti-corruption to try and legitimize themselves. We have seen the same breakdown of electoralism as a meaningful pathway to solve national problems all across the world, from the superpowers to the poorest states. Until a rupture occurs, greater surveillance, policing, and repression seems guaranteed.
Last week's thread is here.
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Israel'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.
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.
This happened on the 18th of September, it was posted here when it happened before details were known so I wanted to share it a little. No spoiler but CW for stalking and description of the shooting.
Deadly York County shootout that left three officers and suspect dead | Motive, how it happened
Authorities release names of 3 police officers killed in Pennsylvania shooting: Updates
The shooter was stalking a young woman who he briefly dated, went to the farm where her and her mother lived, and was waiting in ambush. They had put up a trail cam because the daughter's truck had been set on fire last month and they suspected the man, who had never been to the farm or invited there previously. They spotted him on the trail cam so they left and called the police.
The cops got there and swept the area and the surrounding fields with a drone, saw the house was unlocked so four of them went in and were immediately ambushed, leaving 3 dead and 1 wounded. The shooter fired at two sheriff's deputies in the street from the house, wounding one, then it sounds like he advanced on them and died in a shootout.
Guy definitely would've killed the woman and her mom if they'd been home or returned first. Guy killed dog in the basement.
This was all pretty depressing IMO. The district attorney correctly said this was caused by the scourge of domestic violence. Attorney general Pam Bondi called it an attack on our law enforcement, which whatever, fash is gonna fash. At the press conference Gov. Josh Shapiro said something about doing better for mental health for people who think picking up a gun is the answer - that bit really stuck in my craw. This is a typical line from politicians who don't want to grapple with gun violence, it is weasely in general but applying it to a DV situation was upsetting to me.
Also, spoiler because this sounds like 
spoiler
one jerkoff with a long gun inflicted 100% casualties on an assault team comprised of four veteran law enforcement officers, and 50% casualties on a two man security team.
He didn't even have an assault rifle-type of weapon and he owned them so hard? Crazy.
Sorry I was sparse on the details, yes the shooter had an AR-15 with a suppressor. It wasn't clear what the detectives who went into the house were armed with. It was also not clear how TaCtIcAl the entry was so I may have overstated things in my spoiler tagged bit above. The two officers in the street, one was a sheriff's deputy armed with a pistol, he was shot then got his rifle, and the other was a detective with a rifle.
Ah, that makes sense. I assumed that a long gun = a hunting rifle.
It is funny that there might be a government shutdown in ~10 days and it is barely being covered by the media. In short, health insurers have already revealed that the price for health insurance is going up by around ~15% next year. But that is only if Congress extends enhanced ACA subsidies, if not, health insurance for a lot of people on the ACA exchanges could go up by like 100%. The GOP House passed a government funding bill without those subsidies. The Senate Dems killed the bill (44-48) in the Senate. My guess is that House Republicans are just waiting for the Senate Dems to surrender?
Vietnam wins revived Intervision Song Contest
Video of the winning performance by Đức Phúc: https://youtu.be/U4xsmCKXFYY
The US was also supposed to participate but the artist VASSY, who is a citizen of both the US and Australia and was supposed to perform tonight was told by the Australian government that she was not allowed to go on stage.
I found YouTube links in your comment. Here are links to the same videos on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Link 1:
Link 2:
Dutch parliament wants to follow U.S. example and label Antifa a terrorist organization
Funny how I read like dozens and dozens of posts of americans/brits planning to seek refuge in the EU. Sweety, soon, there isnt going to be a place to run any more.
Sweety, soon, there isnt going to be a place to run any more.
Well, there is, probably too nonwhite for libs though.
Yeah but thats evuuul scary gommunism. So it doesnt count.
Europe is literally the continent that birthed fascism and countless other evils they've exported around the globe yet somehow they think they're better than everybody else and it could NEVER happen in their countries lmao
You see it time and time again, Trump got elected in 2016 and Europe guffawed. Since then there has been Boris Johnsons, Le Pens,AfD, Geert Wilders, Meloni, 100 million+ mini Hitlers on that subcontinent.
I wish 100 million + Stalins, to whoop their asses
‼️ Iran's Supreme National Security Council anmounces that Tehran will suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after Britain, France, and Germany pushed to reinstate UN sanctions, and the Security Council voted against permanently lifting them.
Pez got 
again
Was inevitable with snapback going through. The whole point of said co operation was to avoid snapback.
I guess there's some probability of a last minute deal before September 28, but both sides have now played their cards. Snapback going through currently, and Iran withdrawing from the IAEA framework deal currently. Europe wasn't satisfied with the the IAEA framework deal because it was a lot of promises with no concrete action. Iran was not able to offer anything concrete in the very short timeframe. So the chances are low.
Pez got
What would not trying have achieved?
a nuclear weapon
And now they can't do that if they decide to?
They should already be done with it if they were focusing on that and not sidelining it for their political gambles with the west
In like two weeks time he is going to try again. That factions should have been purged yesteryear.
Which one, the entire ruling class? Who signed the nuclear deal in the first place?
don’t mind me, just checking in on Albania’s new AI minister, that is set to have children 
albanian source (had to use google translate sorry)
New officials with AI?! Rama: Diella will have children, they will deal with civil matters
The Prime Minister spoke about the creation of new officials produced by Artificial Intelligence, whom he called “children of the Sun”. According to him, the use of advanced technology will bring more equality, transparency and efficiency in decision-making, as well as eliminate human influence in the evaluation of documents and offers in tenders. Rama added that this approach will also be extended to other sectors, including food safety and product control.
The Prime Minister spoke about the creation of new officials produced by Artificial Intelligence, whom he called “children of the Sun”.
The "AI Minister" is called Diella, which also means sun, so he's actually calling them "children of the AI minister" but the translation doesn't understand that and makes it sound extra cultish. This whole thing is literally just the government using chatgpt to sort and label proposals and putting a face to the online tools available to citizens. It's a PR stunt and it's working crazy well because people won't shut up about it.
Will the AI minister consult with Chuck Schumer’s imaginary friends also?
food safety
Albanian restaurants start serving glue on pizza
Maduro has consistently argued that his assassination would not lead to the "liberation" his enemies desire, but to a terrifying and uncontrollable escalation of conflict. In multiple speeches and interviews following the 2018 Drone Attack, he and his government have articulated a clear hypothesis: his removal by force would trigger a radicalization of the Bolivarian Revolution, far exceeding his own leadership in intensity. The core of this argument is a warning to his adversaries: I am the one holding back the floodgates. What comes after me will be much worse for you.
- Telegram
There was a video interview with Maduro in which he spoke about this in more detail, saying that if he had been assassinated, the moderates (civilians, trade unionists, intellectuals) and the “liberals” (the pro-government petty bourgeoisie and bourgeoisie) within the government would have lost power to the hardliners (the army and intelligence agencies), which would have led to a major repression of the opposition. That is probably what the United States wanted in order to justify an intervention in Venezuela with the support of Brazil and Colombia.
That is probably what the United States wanted in order to justify an intervention in Venezuela with the support of Brazil and Colombia.
That ship has certainly sailed. There's no way either of them would support these days.
That is probably what the United States wanted in order to justify an intervention in Venezuela with the support of Brazil and Colombia.
If Brazil militarily supports the U.S, if not intervene in Venezuela, like they did in Haiti, and same with Colombia, then damn them to hell!
Brazil's two biggest diplomatic failures were the coup in Haiti and the coup in Honduras (although in Honduras' case it was not really Lula's fault, as it was later revealed that Hillary Clinton did everything in her power to prevent Brazil and Mexico from reinstating Manuel Zelaya as president. And Lula helped President Manuel Zelaya escape from Honduras, he was rescued by his supporters and remained in the Brazilian embassy for four months until an agreement was reached with the Dominican Republic for his exile there).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
Funny how NATOpedia extensively lists and documents many of the regime change activities of the 20th century, and even some from 2000-2020 but then they mysteriously peter off and disappear. Did you know that the US was doing an average of one regime change operation per year for a century and then just stopped suddenly? How strange!
Liberals actually believe this.
Doesn't seem that bad to me, I would be very surprised if wikipedia listed Ukraine in "US regime change" and other than that, the list isn't missing anything egregious (maybe Iran, Pakistan?). I don't have that much knowledge about current events though, what do you have in mind?
Hong Kong (attempted), Syria (2024, successful), Belarus (attempted), Georgia (attempted), Pakistan (successful), Kazakhstan (attempted), Nepal (successful), Russia (attempted), Honduras (successful), Iran (attempted), Cuba (attempted), Indonesia, Serbia, Thailand, Haiti (successful)
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During World War II, the U.S. helped overthrow many Nazi German or Imperial Japanese puppet regimes.
Oh you think regime change is bad? That means you support the Nazis.
"overthrow" sounds better than "hire" in that situation
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