Image is of a protest in San Diego against ICE.
On January 7th, 37-year-old Renee Good was murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. While a considerable amount of the discussion online has been about the direction her wheels were turning and things like that, truthfully, I think it’s just fundamentally bad to shoot a person to death with a gun if you happen to be a state mercenary enforcing an incredibly racist federal policy, regardless of the circumstances.
The murder has since prompted a wave of vigils and protests, not only in Minneapolis, but also in virtually every major city in the country. The demands are justice for Good in particular, and the abolition of ICE in general, to avenge its many victims. The Trump administration has done all they can to inflame the situation, designating Good a “domestic terrorist” and saying that the agent who shot her will be immune from prosecution.
Protests and resistance to this administration’s policies have, encouragingly, had an element of international solidarity - not only are flags from countries throughout Latin America (and also Palestine) present, but speakers in protests have even been actively condemning the recent imperialist actions against Venezuela. For it is, of course, one joint struggle. The imperial boomerang always returns - and in the modern day, it returns rapidly.
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The Zionist Entity'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.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
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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Sgt. @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net on the US military assets needed to execute different types of strikes on Iran. This builds off of their earlier post last week.
@CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net in a subthread on the state of things in eastern Syria with the SDF and SAA
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i miss the 72T news roundups so much tbh, idk why but calling him commisar 72T made me think of those lol
yes, it appears he has ascended to become one of the immortals. his weekly newsmega posts are an echo of his presence
or maybe he’s been reincarnated as another username on these threads
i thought he just wasnt online very much anymore, would be funny if ive been reading 72T comments and not realizing it lol
Recovering from his astonishment, the prefect asked if there were any worthy men in Taichou to whom he could look for instruction. Big Stick said, “After you arrive, remember to call on Manjushri and Samantabhadra.” The prefect asked, “Where can I find these two bodhisattvas?” And Big Stick said, “When you see them, you won’t recognize them. When you recognize them, you won’t see them. If you want to see them, don’t take their appearances into account. Manjushri is living incognito as Cold Mountain at Kuoching Temple. And Samantabhadra is disguised as Pickup. They dress like paupers and act like lunatics. They run errands and tend the stove in the monastery kitchen.” Big Stick then said goodbye, and Lu-ch’iu Yin began his journey.
posts like this make me proud to shitpost
Pin this post. If you don’t… you are a wrecker.
On US military buildup in the Middle East against Iran: it has started now, an additional 12x F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft have been forward deployed to Jordan, and logistics flights involving C-17 Globemaster III aircraft have taken place towards both the Middle East and Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian ocean known for hosting US Air Force strategic bombers. No bombers have been deployed as of now. This brings the total amount of F-15Es up to 36.
As for the rumours on an aircraft Carrier Strike Group (CSG), the USS Abraham Lincoln CSG is now confirmed to be on its way to the Middle East/West Asia, redirected from the South China Sea. It transited the Strait of Malacca today. It is probably a week away from being operational in the region.
As for the capabilities this brings, the F-15Es are often used for the Defensive Counter Air (DCA) mission, as they can carry up to 42 APKWS laser guided rockets each, in addition to 4x AIM-120 AMRAAM and 4x AIM-9 Sidewinder series air to air missiles. This allows a single F-15E to shoot down up to 50 targets (cruise missiles andone way attack drones) without needing to reload on the ground. F-15Es can also carry up to 5 AGM-158 JASSM series stealth cruise missiles each, which have a range in excess of 500 nautical miles. They can also be used as “bomb trucks” in scenarios where air superiority has been achieved (like Syria currently), carrying large amounts of guided bombs for a tactical fighter. However, it must be noted that aircraft with external weapons stores rarely sortie with a maximum loadout, due to the drag penalty.
F-15E with 42x APKWS, 4x AIM-120 AMRAAM and 4x AIM-9X Sidewinder;
F-15E with 5x AGM-158 JASSM, one on the centerline barley visible:
The USS Abraham Lincoln’s air wing does operate both F-35C 5th generation stealth aircraft and EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft equipped with the latest AN/ALQ-249 Next Generation Jammer - Mid Band (NGJ-MB) pods, which are used to suppress and destroy air defence systems, enabling overflight of airspace by other aircraft. The F-35C can also carry out strikes of it’s own with guided bombs, up to 2x 2000lb bombs each for stealthy bunker buster/penetrator missions that the F-117 previously performed. The F/A-18s that make up the majority of the air wing can also be escorted to carry out deep strikes, or be used to carry stand-off weapons, such as glide bombs and cruise missiles.
Looks like Syria will be reunified* by the 99% ISIS gangsters. See? If you just wear a nice suit you can get your Wahhabist hellhole with approval from the West.
*Certain territories currently being occupied by a certain genocide-loving country do not count.
It seems the conflict in Syria isn’t pausing any time soon. I am not going to link things as quite a bit of it is graphic. But the context here is twofold.
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The internet is awash with claims, photos and claimed audio of massacres by the SDF targeting syrian arab tribes in Hasakah. The counterclaims I’ve seen don’t even seek disprove that there were killings, only claiming instead that the numbers were inflated. I’m trying to look for more kurdish / SDF reactions to this state of affairs but the SDF media game doesn’t seem to be on top of this. Meanwhile the syrian arabs will directly name the Baggara tribes as the targets and, together with protests in Damascus, the tribes announced a general mobilization towards Hasakah and the STG is sending the army behind them. Note how that’s how every STG offensive past the Euphrates went.
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It’s reported that the SDF is also making their own moves, reasserting control over Shaddadi, south of Hasakah against tribal forces. Can’t say if that’s against local tribes or forces from elsewhere and I don’t think its possible to make that distinction at this point. Abdi made a pronouncement where it sounds like the SDF’s interpretation of the agreement is that Hasakah remains their territory while they seek to retreat from Raqqa and Deir Ezzor. On this SDF media was clear, there are supposed to be amendments to every point of the agreement but I’m starting to think the (unsigned) agreement just straight up didn’t determine what the military situation of Hasakah should be (though it apparently called for Kobani to disarm their heavy weaponry). So both sides seem to be heading for another confrontation.
From what I’ve seen the sentiment in pro STG places is that since the killed are part of the syrian arab majority nobody in the west will care, the government must act and that doing so risks intervention by US/Israel like in the south. I haven’t found pro SDF or Kurdish reactions yet, seems the Kurds are still coming to grips with their relationship towards Israel and the losses the SDF has suffered. I’ve found people signal boosting Abdi’s statements but not a whole lot of reactions to it, people seem too focused on the feeling that the US sided with Jolani.
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Do people/theoryheads know general lag of pondering the orb of last year in marxist publications? There were interesting details about increasing correlation between net printed debt/private firms profit, i wonder if it will (a) hold (b) explain q3 growth. Sometime after q4 final in spring i assume?
May this put an end to the notion of “leftist” support for the project
I think understanding this tweet thread is essential in understanding racial dynamics across the Straits and foreign policy wrt to China.
China’s minority policy actually looks closer to Singapore’s model than people in the West like to admit.
In both systems:
- minority groups have explicit protections baked into state policy,
- quotas exist (education, housing, representation) that disproportionately benefit minorities,
- and the state actively monitors citizens for extremism or chauvinism, not just separatism.
What’s often missed is who Singapore identified early on as its biggest long-term risk: Chinese chauvinism from the majority population. That insight is underrated.
Singapore understood that in a multiethnic society where one group is numerically and economically dominant, the main destabilising force isn’t minorities asserting identity, it’s actually the majority turning dominance into entitlement. So the system was designed to restrain the majority as much as protect minorities.
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The uncomfortable takeaway is this: states that actually govern multiethnic societies seriously tend to fear the majority’s excesses more than minority identity… because historically, that’s what breaks countries.
One thing I try to do with my posts is explain the political and economic dynamics in SEA through the experience of the peoples and movements in the region. Obviously cultural translation can never be fully accurate, and so by very nature I tend to over emphasize certain aspects (that are also my own biases) so that foreign readers can better understand the context and practice of the Political Economy in SEA. But to refer to history, the Straits of Melaka have always historically been the cosmopolitan crossroads of various civilizations throughout millenia. This makes it a bit easier in one regard, as obviously through colonialism, we have been exposed to ‘Western civilisation’, but also complicates the picture as pre-existing forms of production and civilisation were remolded and reconfigured in the slow march toward global Capitalism.
thread continues
Another user replied:
Deng was an avid student of Mr.LKY and I think his Singapore visit affected him more than his American or Japanese ones. People liked to have takes on what he is… a revisionist, a capitalist roader etc etc but one thing is that he won’t let ideology cloud his judgement and had the humility to learn.
And the OP:
Yes. Around that period Beijing decisively pulled back “Voice of the Malayan Revolution” in Southeast Asia, something LKY had warned was extraordinarily destabilising. China also took SG seriously as a governing model (and not just a dog of the west) thereafter.
If China were to restart SEA focused psyops today, the region would be aflame within weeks. Our societies are far more fragile than outsiders assume and ethnic mobilisation scales extremely fast. Colonialism has left deep scars which ideological purity cannot solve.
Malaysia’s recognition of the PRC, the second non-communist country in ASEAN, in 1974 stipulated cutting off support of the MCP (Malayan Communist Party, which was minimal at best after the 1950s). The MCP ultimately dissolved in 1989 after waging decades of guerilla warfare without progress, ending the Communist movement in humility as dialectical development continues apace in the new century.
People love disparaging China about their foreign policy, but this key mutual recognition helped fully develop relations with ASEAN later on, while helping stabilizing ethnic relations back at home (and directly benefiting Chinese people in SEA!). No communist here is ever calling for increased Chinese intervention, which will be incredibly self-destructive.
The ruling classes in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, all recognise the enormous task of uniting multi-ethnic societies plagued by centuries of colonialism. They do not want a repeat of neo-colonial dynamics that had lead to the fall of countries like Burma, Lebanon, Syria, South Africa, Nigeria, among others. Sectarianism, settler-colonialism, and ethnic/racial chauvinism in the Global South enables the continuous looting and pillaging through accumulation. This lesson isn’t taken likely for many movements in Nusantara, where imperialist subterfuge takes on multiple forms, both in antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradiction to pre-existing class structures.
In another thread:
Another user says:
China figured out that a stable, paying customer who is not fighting in his own home is a more lucrative one. The “forever revolution” model is quietly put away no doubt.
OP replied:
Yes thankfully it is, which is why Indonesia and Malaysia are such good friends with China leaving SG in the dust
China realised the limits of Han chauvinism propaganda, focused instead on making their country strong and now everyone wants to “be more Chinese”
We must now ask how is it possible that the most industrialized Islamic country lies in Southeast Asia? The largest Muslim trade unions (and organizations) are also here. This isn’t a coincidence, and one might ask, how will this characterize the struggle in the future? Indonesia has already overtaken Brazil, and is going to soon eclipse France and the UK in manufacturing value added (following neoclassical accounting nonetheless!).
I think discourse around Chinese foreign policy can not ignore the region that it directly neighbours. I think a comparative study of Latin America/USA vis-a-vis SEA/China can easily reveal who has been a net positive for their respective neighbours.
RIP to the “SDF.” I hope it was worth it
“The Syrian interim government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have reached an agreement to immediately halt fighting and begin integrating SDF-controlled areas into state institutions, according to state media.”
Yesterday in space — Artemis 2 has made it to launch pad after a 12 hour crawl. A static fuel test will be performed by the end of the month to assess mission readiness. There is so set launch date for the mission currently, but the first launch window is February 6th. The mission will launch 4 astronauts in a free return trajectory around to the moon, which would be the first time since 1972 that humans have orbited the moon.
Factory explosion in China’s Inner Mongolia region kills 2 and hospitalizes 66
BEIJING (AP) — An explosion at a factory in China’s Inner Mongolia region killed two people and left 66 others hospitalized on Sunday.
China’s official news agency Xinhua said the blast, which sent heavy plumes of smoke into the sky, occurred at a plant of Baogang United Steel in the city of Baotou at around 3 p.m local time and caused tremors in the surrounding areas. The report also said three of those hospitalized suffered serious injuries, and five people remained missing.
Rescue crews rushed to the scene and authorities are still investigating the cause of the blast, the agency said.
Please send vibes/prayers/whatever’s best to my lil old kitty cat. She’s spending a couple days at the hospital for kidney disease treatment. From diagnosis to now went way too quick, and we couldn’t stand the alternative to treatment and palliative care. Hoping to get an opportunity to spoil her once more - for whatever amount of time.
Jolani has taken oil fields back from the
USKurds.If Assad would have done this 10 years ago he could have saved Syria’s economy. He probably would have been nuked for it though, so I guess it doesn’t matter. Still, it stings to see how easy it was, which means the US must be complete done with their proxies.
China’s fight against corruption is a battle we can’t afford to lose, Xi Jinping warns SCMP
President tells China’s top anti-graft watchdog that corruption is a ‘stumbling block’ that is hampering the country’s development
Chinese President Xi Jinping has said there must be no room for corrupt elements to hide as he warned that the problem was a threat to the country’s development.
On Monday, he told a plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) – China’s top anti-corruption body – that the country had made notable progress last year, but the issue remained a “major struggle”.
“Corruption is a stumbling block and obstacle to the development of the [Communist] party and the country, and the fight against corruption is a major struggle that we cannot afford to lose,” he said, according to state news agency Xinhua.
“Currently, the situation in the fight against corruption remains grave and complex … We must maintain a high-pressure stance without wavering, resolutely punishing corruption wherever it exists, eliminating all forms of graft, and leaving no place for corrupt elements to hide.”
Xi also urged officials to come up with new methods to discover, identify and tackle all types of corruption.
This year will see a major overhaul of local governments across the country, and Xi said the party “must deploy cadres who are truly loyal, reliable, consistent and responsible”.
