Image is of Trump's initial set of reciprocal tariffs. Source is CNN and Reuters.
It's difficult to keep up with the news around the tariffs; they get instated, then dropped, then reinstated... for example, on Friday, Trump said that certain electronics like smartphones would be exempt, causing markets to rally a great deal, but now the Commerce Secretary has said that they might not be exempt? The state of play right now, if you haven't been keeping up this week, is that the US recently announced a 90-day global pause on implementing the tariffs he had planned (that is, 25% on certain Canadian and Mexican goods, and at least 10% on every other nation) but nonetheless increased tariffs on China to 145%.
Meanwhile, China has been - quite remarkably - standing their ground, increasing tariffs on the US to 125%, and putting restrictions on rare earths. Xi Jinping has been in Vietnam and has made statements against a tariff war there, saying that it would have no winners. Meanwhile, a Chinese spokesperson has essentially said that China can endure the tariff war due to the increasing demand from its domestic market in combination with its growing economic ties with other countries.
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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.
Haha it's funny that clashes with my own view which is the attack on the towers were planned and executed by Al-Qaeda, and that it was known about by the Cheney cabal and various intel agency and allowed to happen for there 'new pearl harbour' needed as casus bellis for the wars, like you said.
But I also believe that WTC7 was 'controlled demolition'(maybe not in the traditional sense) , with the CIA office contained there, all the documents burned up including records that would be able to trace billion/trillions in embezzled money
and proof like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZqP8moItcc this BBC newscasts talking about how WTC7 aka the Solomon Brothers Building has collapsed, 20 minutes before it did, you can see the intact building behind her
There are other videos out there of similar incongruity's
And the fact that no skyscraper(which people forget wtc7 was, it just looked small in comparison to 1&2, it would be the tallest building in many countries) before or since as collapsed due to just fire and not being hit by a plane which it wasn't, but yeah idk enough about the physics to know if the speed of collapse etc proves it, basically vibes based analysis lol
Hey sometimes vibes based is all we got. I'll finish the video; it sure seems like they're saying "collapsed" a lot. Weird. Didn't know there was a cia office in 7 also.
just one more source posting it to have in my history more than anything: this awesomely old-school website has a download of a ABC live interview with Giuliani where he says
again before the actual collapse, although I suppose it could be argued a veteran fire fighter could tell when a structure is fire damaged enough to collapse(even if this was an unprecedented even i.e a skyscraper)
https://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/wtc_giuliani.html
Yeah there's lots of circumstantial evidence floating around, like the well timed shorting of the airline industry which by themselves can be written off as coincidence but taking the totality sure makes it seem that there a lot more went on behind scenes than the 'official story'
I'll guess we'll never know for sure, unless there's a worldwide communist revolution and the only way Cheney can get his next heart transplant is too give up the goods on the whole shebang lol
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: