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
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.
So if Sinwar was killed in a strike on Gaza, does that mean the talking point of Hamas’ leaders hiding in Qatar is complete hasbara?
Probably fed shit, still interesting
It took Israel over a year since Oct 7th to kill Sinwar within a tiny strip of land requiring intelligence from all the western countries.
WTH is going on in Chile
if the reports are true: Yahya Sinwar, Z"l – I owe a great debt to you if we meet after life.
Report: Bridgewater Place owner files for bankruptcy
The owner of Bridgewater Place in downtown Grand Rapids has filed for bankruptcy, Crain’s Grand Rapids Business reports.
Crain’s reports that Hertz Properties Group, the owner of Bridgewater Place, has asked for bankruptcy protection in Israeli Court.
Bridgewater Place is located at 333 Bridge Street along US-131. The 17-story building has the name “Varnum” on it and it is connected to River House Condos.
Hertz Properties Group used bonds traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange to finance the purchase of Bridgewater and 10 other office properties located throughout the U.S., according to Crain’s. It reports that as the company deals with financial issues spurred by a post-pandemic drop in the real estate market, the bondholders are seeking repayment
If it’s true he’s dead, an absolute hero and a symbol for the resistance shines brighter than ever; after life spent in hiding he’s now out in the open and adding more fire to the hearts of the fighters.
If it’s a lie, then this might be the best possible scenario for an “if you come for the king you best not miss.”
“Israel” bombs north Gaza shelter killing over a dozen displaced Palestinians | The Cradle
“Tel Aviv’s” forces, under the so-called ‘General’s Plan,’ recently launched an operation to expel the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who remain in northern Gaza and turn the entirety of the area into a military zone.
Generalplan OstGeneralplan CoastCW Possible dead child Zionazi soldiers are documented hovering over a child they shot in Al-Aroub camp, #AlKhalil after they obstructed medical crews from reaching him.
Two other children have also been wounded by zionist bullets in the camp.
is this real? Was Sinwar strapped with mentos?
https://t.me/TulkaremNet/63247
⭕⭕⬅️نحن الجيل الذي عايش فترة ارتقاء الشيخين احمد ياسين وعبدالعزيز الرنتيسي وكان بين اغتيالهما ٤٠ يوما فقط ، وبعد ٢٠ عاماً من اغتيالهما نفذت حماس اكبر هجوم في تاريخ القضية الفلسطينية يوم ٧ اكتوبر وسحقت فرق جيش الاحتلال في غلاف غزة خلال اقل من ٦ ساعات .
نحن نعايش ايضا في هذه الفترة ارتقاء الشيخين اسماعيل هنيه ويحيى السنوار، ونحن مأمنون وعندنا كل اليقين، ان حماس التي قويت أكثر بعد ارتقاء الياسين والرنتيسي، ستكون أقوى وأشد عوداً وصلابة بعد ارتقاء هنيه والسنوار .
The NYC Mayor Eric Adams corruption story is so dumb annd funny and somehow just keeps getting funnier. He’s been fundraising to pay for his legal defense (lol) and has basically run out of money to keep his legal defense going (lmao). A ton of his team for his regular job as mayor resigned and now he’s short staffed there too.
I was mad bored at work today and inspired by his stupidity so I wrote a joke article about the Eric Adams corruption charges as if he was a governor in the Ottoman Empire during the 1600s in case anybody wants a laugh
Nothing is true about the supposed martyrdom of Yahya Sinwar or any other leader until or unless Al Qassam provides an official statement.
Did we learn Nothing this past year!?!
For the past few days, Russia and Syria have been carrying out a significant aerial bombardment campaign against NATO-backed HTS militants in the occupied northwestern regions of Syria near Idlib.
Image below is of an HTS underground communications center in rural Idlib getting destroyed. It’s from Mohammad Dabaa’s telegram channel.
Gold reached another new high $2700/ounce It was $1200 an ounce a year before the pandemic. And $250 an ounce in 2003 before the endless wars.
