It's completely insane to me that the Israelis actually released the video of Sinwar's death, along with a bunch of details that confirmed that he died fighting until his last breath on the front lines. Do they not understand how that looks?
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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:
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English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
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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.
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It's the same reason they release ghoulish videos from their soldiers. They don't see a problem with it. Israelis generally love them in fact. Fascists can't understand how others perceive them it seems. Atleast they don't care.
former home affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo is beanposting about being stripped of his Order of Australia honours:
"With wars underway around the world, and more likely to break out, possibly in the Pacific, with rising intolerance and anger in public debate, with many people struggling to make ends meet, and many other problems besides, being stripped of my official honour does not amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world," he said.
followed by the maddening unreality of western rhetoric:
“It’s regrettable that force and violence sometimes have to be used, but when you’ve got someone who is so determined to pursue the annihilation of another group of people sometimes it just comes down to that,” he said.
"There is simply no point in rushing to peace if all that just simply happens is the next cadre comes through, who are as well trained and have thought about how they want to continue the campaign.”
death to israel, death to australia, death to the western colonial project forever and ever amen
🇵🇸 | Yahya Sinwar’s narration of a saying by Imam Ali (as), he said:
“I have well remembered this saying from Imam Ali: There are 2 days in a person's life: a day when death is not your destiny, and a day when death is your destiny. On the first day, no one can harm you, and on the second day, no one can save you."
One of those days is when the IOF bombed his house when he was not home during the Sword of al-Quds in 2021. That's where the famous picture of him sitting on a chair cross-legged came from.
a more "positive" video. As good as we are going to get from the humanitarian disaster that is the war in Ukraine I guess. Ukrainian women confront military recruiters trying to kidnap men for the war and load them into a white van, and almost tip it over, before the recruiters flee and the van is pelted with a few rocks.
Can't believe we're at the stage of trying to kidnap men into unmarked vans to continue the war. It's comically evil. The acts of bravery by the women trying to prevent the kidnapping of their sons, husbands, fathers and brothers gives me just a tiny bit of hope though. Humanity is not dead, not yet at least.
The western puppet state was abducting people in white vans over a year ago, It's understandable that Ukrainians have had enough
Just watched footage of some of the Ukrainian infantry retreats from Kursk. It consists of dozens of infantrymen running through open fields while being bombed by drones and motars. It's like a scene from a movie. Somehow, some of them survived. Hell on earth...
This war is a damn meat grinder
git on now git
Zelensky is threatening NATO that he'll cook up some nukes.
Might be the quickest way for NATO to drop Ukraine like a hot potato if that happens. No one wants a nuclear armed Ukraine.
Cuba: A massive march in solidarity with Palestine took place in Havana, to condemn the genocide of the Israeli government against the Palestinian people for the past year. This demonstration is also being replicated in Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.
I went to sleep right after work. Has there been any official statements from the resistance around Sinwar?
Has Hamas released a statment on Yahya Sinwar's supposed death?
Venezuela To Demand Reparations From Spain for Colonial Plunder - Telesur English
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Colonization was a barbaric event that the Europeans continue to endorse and claim as a civilizing process. On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that his country would demand reparations from Spain for the looting, plundering, and enslavement of Indigenous peoples.
“Venezuela, together with a group of Latin American countries, wants to make a profound claim for Spain to pay reparations for the theft, the looting of our lands, and the slavery and suffering endured by our Indigenous and African ancestors,” he said.
“532 years ago, the process of resistance against colonialism and slavery began. Colonialism left a legacy of nazism and fascism. None of the colonizers, however, have apologized so far,” Maduro said.
“They hide behind the ideology of denialism. From Spain, this barbaric event is endorsed and claimed as a civilizing process,” the Bolivarian leader added and emphasized that the invasion of Indigenous peoples by the Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus was a criminal and abusive act.
During the “Con Maduro +” TV program, the Venezuelan president also reaffirmed his support for Caribbean countries that have agreed to request billions of pounds in reparations from the UK for the slave trade.
Previously, during her address to the UN General Assembly in September, Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley said her country had joined the “growing chorus calling for the immediate proclamation of a second decade” to complete the unfinished work and address the issue of reparations for colonialism.
Recently, Mexico also reminded Spain that it is still waiting for an apology for the crimes committed during colonialism.
What will it take for Venezuela to get any of that reparation?
WHY WOULD ISRAEL RELEASE THAT VIDEO OF HIM THROWING A STICK AT THE DRONE
This is like releasing footage of Che shouting "Shoot coward, you will only kill a man" right before his death. They've released the exact footage you should not release when a leader dies a hero's death.
That clip is gonna be stuck in my brain for a long time. It and the burning hospital tents have had me feeling something strongly tonight.
I have hardly been able to stop thinking about the Sinwar video.
They are such cruel little bullies at heart they thought the video of a man suffering was funny, so they shared it in mockery. They cannot understand caring so deeply for a cause they would die for it
Aparrently a 20-something 4 star general leaked it on Telegram thinking it would make him look weak, not the IOF itself.
Absolute dumbass
They are fucking dumb. They think showing this serve as a lesson for any other Palestinian/Other Nationality that attempts to attack Israel. The thing is that this will 100% be used as propaganda, both politically and religiously.
They think showing this serve as a lesson
Maybe, if the lesson is "if you can no longer fight with your right arm, use your left."
I wanna see them backpedal and say that aktually the footage was not him.
I'll repost what I said earlier
Fascists always confuse strength with weakness and bravery with fear. They see him as frenzied and delirious as he dies, pathetically wasting his last moments in a failed attempt to lash out against anything. We see him battling against blood loss and pain and literally defying death to try to hurt the entity in his last moments knowing it would be one less drone they can use against his people. They see his failure and we see his resolve.
He knows he's dead. He may as well destroy as many drones as possible going out. An Incredible man. Also great post... Totally correct about fascists. Their inversion of good and evil is what drives their whole world. An Israeli will look at the video and see weakness. Then they will make a tik tok dance wearing Palestinians underwear. They have no basis in truth
As Sacco and Vanzetti declared before execution
The taking of our lives – lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler – all! That last moment belongs to us – that agony is our triumph.”
Vietnam and China To Stretch Bilateral Cooperation - Telesur English
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Vietnam’s Prime Minister and Chinese one are met to implement the “six plus” guideline which includes greater political confidence, cooperation in defence and security, deeper collaboration, a stronger social base, closer multilateral coordination, and better control and resolution of disagreements.
China seeks to strengthen its development collaboration with Vietnam by implementing a plan that will generate synergies between the Belt and Road initiative and Vietnam’s strategy of Two Corridors and One Economic Circle, according to statements by the Chinese Prime Minister, Li Qiang.
Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang began an official visit to Vietnam on Saturday, at the invitation of his counterpart Pham Minh Chinh. During his visit, Li highlighted the long friendship between both countries and how, in recent years, bilateral relations have developed positively thanks to the leadership of their leaders.
Since the beginning of this year, China and Vietnam have had high-level exchanges and have achieved successful cooperation in several areas, thus starting to build a community of shared future. Li highlighted the importance that China attaches to its relations with Vietnam, expressing China’s willingness to strengthen traditional friendship, improve strategic communication and deepen mutual cooperation.
Tran Thanh Man, for his part, congratulated China on its recent development achievements and expressed confidence that under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and Xi Jinping, the country will make significant progress in its modernization process. Vietnam considers China a strategic priority in its foreign policy based in the two countries leaders which exchanges at all levels and in all areas will be strengthened, traditional friendship deepened, political confidence consolidated and mutual cooperation strengthened.
National Assembly of Vietnam seeks to strengthen ties with the Chinese National People’s Assembly in order to share experiences in building the socialist rule of law and foster friendship between both peoples, thus promoting a strategic community of shared future, According to the information of Thanh Man.
This is excellent news. I do not know enough about the region to truly say how big a step this is. However I know relations have been strained. If they can be strengthened between two AES countries it is only positive.
This news is already a few months old, but it's still very funny to see how stupid Milei is. Last year, or earlier this year, Milei visited Brazil to meet Bolsonaro and receive a medal that basically said he was very sexy, cool and impossible to kill (it's much worse than that, actually). And so far he hasn't met with Lula da Silva, the president of Argentina's most important regional ally and trading partner.
So, since Milei hasn't met with Lula da Silva, what was Brazil's plan? I remember reading in some media that Brazil had three plans: the first was for Milei to basically become Macri 2.0 (normal, boring neoliberal) and be respectful of Brazil and China. The second was that Milei would continue to be an idiot, but would beg for money and help behind the scenes, and the third was that Brazil and China would not talk to Milei at all and would instead talk to the Argentine congress and governors.
Lula decided to go for the third option, invited Axel Kicillof (a left-wing Peronist, former Minister of the Economy and currently Governor of Buenos Aires, and probably a much better candidate than Sergio Massa) to the Presidential Palace and gave him the treatment of a foreign head of state (which Macron also did with Lula da Silva when Lula was running for president in 2022. Macron hates Bolsonaro very much because Bolsonaro said Macron's wife was ugly and old, and France has interests in Brazil and especially in the sale of nuclear material and arms to Brazil). Kicillof basically did what Milei had to do, meanwhile Milei was calling the wife of Spain's prime minister a criminal to own the Zurdos on Instagram and posting AI generating lions while screaming "Libertad Carajo!!"
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