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.
https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/2011428703704867049#m
I think when we see Israel admitting to arming the riots, that they are trying to play to their own domestic politics.
Look at what we are able to do in other countries, this means we are in control.
It's kind of like a sociopath killing people - excerting control over others - to distract themselves from how out of control they feel about their own lives.
I think we are seeing Israeli society has fully believed every conspiracy about themselves - even the ones that they secretly control the world. The hubris and arrogance will lead them to very poor decisions.
Edit: yes I believe them when they say that stuff. I just mean they are very confident to be admitting to the sabotage. For years the narrative has been to describe Israeli sabotage as antisemitic nonsense conspiracy theory to cover up stinky brown Iranian incompetence.
Israeli society has been crafted that way. Every time critic of the entity is successfully isolated and ostracised using claims of anti-semitic conspiracy theories, it becomes even more vital to embrace that caricature and manifest it at the barrel of a gun.
It's quite perverse that self-fulfilling and self-hating ideology. Israel and Zionists really are the real anti-semites, they really did work overtime to create a Jewish ethnostate and merge the distinction between anti-zionism and anti-semitism and carve their religious symbols all over their victims. Nazis basically set up a scenario where their anti-semitic caricature comes true AND all the Jews get put in one volatile basket and out of the Nazis home nations AND they will be our forward outpost for imperialism in the Middle East and create casus belli for continued war and superprofits. It's win-win-win for anti-semitic white supremacist Nazis. America and Nazi Germany really did merge at the end of WW2, it cannot be overstated that Nazism won and got its way.
Evangelicals anti-semites are pretty open about being fine if things went either way with Israel. If it goes down in nuclear hellfire then its judgment day and christ will come again (plus lots of dead jews and muslims). If it doesn't go down in nuclear hellfire then it's an effective way to get rid of their own domestic jewish population that they hate while making superprofits.
It's fascinating how they make those claims out of one corner of their mouth, while out of the other corner they are simultaneously shouting, "AND IT'S TRUE!!!!" for da bragging rights.
Well they are actually doing that, they did provide hundreds of arms and explosives and starlink terminals and drones. They are constantly doing this shit. Doesn't mean they are "in control" but it does mean that there are elements of this protest that needs to be violently dispatched and rooted out as traitors, and the Iranian government is justified in doing so.
Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe certainly comes to mind