After 15 months of genocide - and resistance to it - the Israeli regime realized that they could not win a military victory against Hamas, and were forced to sign a humiliating ceasefire in order to get their hostages returned.
With much of Syria under the control of Al-Qaeda, and an increasing level of covert infiltration into Lebanon, the crisis in the Middle East is not over, and we may still be in its beginning stages, as the center of hegemony continues its gradual shift away from the United States. Their navy, once considered the best in the world, is likely also not very happy about their ships and aircraft carriers being forced to retreat by Yemen, one of the poorest countries; and all eyes are on Iran, who has, over the last year and a half, demonstrated a newfound confidence and strength to directly strike Israel.
The recovery for Gaza will take, at a minimum, decades; it could indeed never fully recovery to even how it was before, considering it is not in Israel’s interests to see their concentration camps recover. But Hamas has proven to be steadfast and the tunnel network has proven its resilience, despite facing some of the most powerful conventional bombing in history. This shows that Palestine’s liberation is a when, not an if; and hopefully a much sooner “when” than expected before October 7th.
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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.
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As predicted, the city of Goma in the DRC fell overnight. The were mass surrenders of the Congolese Army, and South African and UN peacekeepers are just holding key areas such as the airport, probably going to evacuate soon if they haven’t already, with Rwanda going to take control of the airport. The situation is bad.
Not going to happen any time soon, but it would be pretty funny if Trump was the reason why Colombia and Panama would reunify with Venezuela and recreate Gran Colombia, minus Ecuador.
Circus goes on tour! After knocking on all sorts of doors and shaking hands with every far-right bozo in Washington DC, the Edmundo González circus goes on tour, with scheduled stops hosted by US puppets in Peru and Ecuador
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The Guaido 2.0 saga continues
Last week, China’s ambassador to Colombia told EL TIEMPO: “As Foreign Minister Murillo said during his visit to China in October last year, we are at the best moment of our diplomatic relations between China and Colombia, which are now 45 years old.”
The government of Colombia informs that it has overcome the impasse with the government of the United States.
Luis G. Murillo and Colombia’s ambassador will travel to Washington for high-level meetings. Colombian deportees will be received in their home country.
“Official communiqué. The Government of Colombia informs that we have overcome the impasse with the government of the United States.
In this context, Foreign Minister Luis Alberto Murillo and Ambassador Daniel García Peña will travel to the city of Washington in the coming days to hold high-level meetings to follow up on the agreements resulting from the joint work that led to the exchange of diplomatic notes between the two governments.
We will continue to receive Colombians who return as deportees, guaranteeing them dignified conditions as citizens with rights. The Government of Colombia, under the directive of President Gustavo Petro, has arranged for the presidential plane to facilitate the return of the Colombian nationals who were to arrive in the country today in the morning on deportation flights.
Colombia ratifies that diplomatic channels of dialogue will be maintained to guarantee rights. The national interest and the dignity of our citizens. Thank you very much.”
Nvidia down ~8% in after hours trading, I’m thinking the bubble is finally about to burst in the morning, or at least the beginning of the burst
I’ve seen at least a few articles giving credit to DeepSeek
DeepSeek Shakes Up Stocks as Traders Fear for US Tech Leadership
Dow Jones Futures Fall As DeepSeek Threatens Nvidia; Meta, Tesla, Microsoft Earnings Due
Is DeepSeek about to cause a stock market crash?
Edit: Down 10% now
Latin America is going to go through hell for at least the next four years
If the Russians can managed to close this war out sometime soon, I predict anti-aircraft sales are going to be really good.
Well it seems that despite the brave face and fiery rhetoric from Colombia, they have completely folded on the key issue towards the United States, the issue of the freedom of navigation for US military aircraft in Colombia. United States military aircraft are allowed to fly into Colombia unrestricted, including to deport migrants, according to a statement from the White House. In exchange, the sanctions and tarrifs on Colombia are placed in reserve, and the visa restrictions will be lifted as soon as the first US plane lands. Colombian president Gustavo Petro reposted this statement on twitter, before quickly deleting the repost.
Axios News: Trump pausing Colombia tariffs after migrants deal, White House says, 27 January 2025
So now the question is what does this mean for México, will they also fold to the US and allow US military transport aircraft to fly deportation flights inside their airspace? Colombia only managed to resist for half a day, and got made an example of quickly. The warning is loud and clear. The United States is prepared to follow through on their threats. Trump is actually serious about this, or at least playing the part. México don’t really have many options here. I also think these kind of power moves will be very popular amongst the average US citizen, so there can be no reliance on any internal resistance to stop it.
seems like colombia folded?
https://xcancel.com/spectatorindex/status/1883720551207997521
smh condos in miami continue winning
Just remembered they’re still in space
As clansman in chief quickly realizes the instability of the status quo and goes for the genocide accelerator:
You’re talking about probably a million and a half people. And we just clean out that whole thing. Over the centuries it’s had many, many conflicts, that site. And I don’t know, something has to happen.
Some people were paying attention to the 1.5 million number. Out of 2.4 million 16 months ago.
One a more hopeful note, if what I read is true, and the Arab regimes are not that stable, things could escalate very quickly if he tries to use the finesse he’s bringing to his mandate.
