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Image is of Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the leader of Ansarallah.


The death of Zionism has just massively accelerated.

previous preamble

BRICS has expanded to include Ethiopia, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Argentina is currently experiencing technical difficulties due to the election of the ancap clown Milei - once he's out of office, maybe they can try again.

I don't really have much to say about this one way or another. BRICS has, so far, made only nervous and small steps towards challenging US hegemony. This isn't really that unexpected, as only China and Russia are the real "true believers" in ending US hegemony (and even then, China's government either believes, or is pretending to believe, that reconciliation is still possible). Brazil, India, and South Africa are less enthralled by the concept of dethroning the US, most especially India, who had to make a firm decision in 2023 whether they were going to be on the side of America, or on the side of the Global South, and chose the former, strengthening their military relationship. They're still best of friends with Russia, but they are very obviously the sussy imposter of the BRICS group.

The prospects of BRICS are only really loosely correlated with the prospects of multipolarism, though. It's not a process that hinges on BRICS's successes or failures. It is coming because the contender states (in Desai's terminology) are irreversibly rising, and the US is irreversibly falling. If it will not be BRICS that leads, it will be a different organization. A better world is not only possible, but inevitable - unfortunately for the US.


I'm taking a week off the updates because I've been swamped lately, and also feel the need to reconfigure (and find new) sources. Needless to say that I've grown tired of Financial Times headlines, even if they do represent the actual views of the bourgeoisie.


The Country of the Week is Ethiopia! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.

The bulletins site is here!
The RSS feed is here.
Last week's thread is here.

Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA daily-ish 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 (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
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.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

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.
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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[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 65 points 9 months ago

Brasil has declared support for South Africa

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[-] SovietWaveGoddess@hexbear.net 64 points 9 months ago

the US state owned media is so unitedly pro israel that im seeing liberals come to the realization its all a farce

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[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 64 points 9 months ago

https://nitter.net/OrenZiv_/status/1743556457239367833

According to Israeli channel 12, the Israeli line of defense at the ICJ regarding the statements of Israeli officials about destroying Gaza, that were quoted in the appeal will be that: “Some of those quoted are not decision makers, the ones that are - didn’t mean what they said”

Your honour, the prime minister was being ironic

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 64 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Source: Resistance News Network telegram.

Member of Ansarallah political bureau, Ali Al-Qahoum:

The battle will exceed the imagination and expectations of the Americans and the British.

The war is open, and the Americans and the British will regret their aggression and pay a high price.

The Yemeni Armed Forces are responding to the American and British warships in the Red Sea.

A fierce war in the Red Sea, and we targeted American and British military sites and bases.

Same source:

The American-British enemy aggression on Yemen targets Al-Dailami Air Base north of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the vicinity of Hodeidah Airport, areas in the Zabid district, and the Kuhlan camp east of the city of Saada.

The American-British aggression on Yemen targeted the airport in the Abs District and the Taiz Airport in the Taiziyah District.

There were initial reports of a hit on an American ship in the Red Sea but I immediately did not believe this to be real, and it is seeming increasingly likely that it is indeed not real. Rumors about waves of missiles being fired by Yemen that I also have no idea if they are real or not, but am gradually siding on them not being real, or being overblown. Also rumors of attacks in Iraq that I have no idea about.

The only thing that we know for sure right now is that a) Western aircraft have bombed Yemen, and b) the Yemeni government is not particularly happy about that.

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago

Unlimited Drone strikes on the Anglo Axis

anglo-burn qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

[-] voight@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago

The Yemeni Houthis are using Stinger MANPADS against American aircraft from nowhere. — TopWar Military Review

Tonight, the armed forces of the United States, Great Britain and several other countries began a military operation against the Ansar Allah movement operating in Yemen, better known as the Houthis. Weapons are being used against military targets in Yemen. aviation air forces of the USA and Great Britain. The Yemeni Houthi command has already reported at least two enemy military aircraft shot down. Thus, it is reported that the US Armed Forces F-22 fighter was destroyed and that one of the British fighters involved in striking Yemen was shot down. The Houthis have their own air defense system, which is armed with both Soviet-made air defense systems left over from the Yemeni army and anti-aircraft missile systems transferred from Iran. However, another interesting nuance of the new conflict is already known - the Houthis are actively using Stinger MANPADS from nowhere against American aircraft. Naturally, the United States or other Western countries could not supply Stingers to the Houthis. Iran certainly cannot have such MANPADS in large quantities. Accordingly, speculation arises that the Houthis could have purchased MANPADS on the global arms market on their own, and the sellers could have been either directly from the Ukrainian military, or from countries or structures that purchased Stinger MANPADS from the Ukrainian military and decided to resell them. So the Pentagon should monitor more closely the fate of the weapons supplied to Ukraine, lest they then start shooting at American soldiers.

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[-] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago

UK life expectancy falls to lowest level in a decade

perhaps the anglos think that bombing the middle east will bring back their life expectancy

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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago
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[-] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago
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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago
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[-] WashedAnus@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The NASA mission to desecrate the moon with human remains had an oopsie.

Alternatively:

Hey NASA, how's privatization going?

Nasa Peregrine 1: moon lander suffering from ‘critical loss of propellant’

yea

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[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago

I watched some of the coverage of Israel's defense and somehow I missed this one

A lawyer representing Israel, Christopher Staker, told ICJ judges the arguments about Gaza are similar to those made in the Bosnian genocide case but the court did not order an end to military activity then.

https://nitter.cz/AJEnglish/status/1745789604626579945

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[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago

Mixed signals from US Congress on Biden air strikes

On the Democrat side, California representative Ro Khanna said: "The President needs to come to Congress before launching a strike against the Houthis in Yemen and involving us in another Middle East conflict. That is Article 1 of the Constitution. I will stand up for that regardless of whether a Democrat or Republican is in the White House."

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[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago
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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago

I don't think the US has calculated how this looks to fence sitters on the Palestine issue.

The "both sides should get along" crowd are still part of the no-war crowd even if their stance is wishy washy. These attacks on Yemen demonstrate one thing and one thing only, that the US is more concerned with shipping lanes than actually alive human being in Gaza.

Framing it this way will flip more people to fully supporting Palestine, and more interestingly also opposing the US itself.

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[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Claims to take a break because there's no news

213 comments in less than a day

jesus-christ What the fuck are you nerds talking about

Now I've got to scroll through and read about all this "nothing" because I'm a little piggy who lives for slop.

[-] Gimasag@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago
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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago

The Danish minister of finance has deviated from his usual austerity and announced that there is in fact a part of the public sector, outside of the police and the military, that the succdem-led right-wing government wants to spend more money on.

That is the monarchy.

Following tomorrow's change of monarch, the government is planning to increase funding for the royals. The reason given is that now they will need separate courts for both the queen emeritus, the new king and for his wife the queen-consort. It is also claimed that they need to spend more money on "communication". The poor things only receive USD 15 million a year today, in addition to having free use of a range of state-owned palaces, a royal yacht operated by the navy as well as the free use of military aircraft. Who can survive on that?

In addition to giving the royals more money the government is planning to assume more of their expenses by making the state responsible for paying the interior upkeep of state-owned palaces that has been carried out at the royals' expense until now.

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[-] star_wraith@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago

I’m an atheist but tonight I’m praying to whatever-might-be-out-there to grant Ansarallah a glorious victory over the evil empire.

Death to America.

[-] voight@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Chinese shipping giant COSCO to stop visiting Israeli ports

Chinese state-owned shipping giant COSCO Shipping has stopped visiting Israeli ports. The company, the fourth largest container shipping line in the world, makes up about 11% of world trade.

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[-] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago

The Red Sea attacks are throwing supply chains into chaos — but US oil exports appear to be benefiting from them

The ongoing attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea by Iran-backed Houthi rebels are causing chaos for the world's supply chains — but American oil exports appear to be benefiting from them.

That's because international demand has shifted to ample US shale oil supply — which is the "safer and cheaper way to procure supply, especially for EU customers," Robert Yawger, the executive director for energy futures at Mizuho Securities USA, wrote in a note on Thursday, per MarketWatch.

Due to the attacks, many ships are rerouting from the Red Sea — which connects to the Suez Canal, a vital trade link between Asia and Europe — to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, but this makes journeys longer and more expensive.

So, many buyers appear to be simply purchasing oil from the US instead of the Middle East. US petroleum exports rose by 35% on-week to nearly 5.3 million barrels a day for the week ended December 29, according to the US Energy Information Administration. This is the first time US exports have spiked since the Houthi started their Red Sea attacks in mid November.

Yawger expects US petroleum exports to hold above the 5 million barrels a day level in the coming weeks amid intensifying geopolitical tensions.

The US has spearheaded a multinational operation to protect shipping lanes around the Red Sea, but many shipping companies are still avoiding the region and are warning of major disruptions to their schedules.

For oil consumers at least, there's a simple solution to the problem, wrote Yawger.

"Forget about the Houthis/Iranian menace in the Red Sea," he wrote. "You don't need a US Navy escort from danger — just a nice, clean two- to- four-week round-trip journey to the US."

Interesting, so now europe is even more dependent on the US than before

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago

Fetterman turning the racism dial up

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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago

I'm sick of people claiming that Ansarallah is arbitrarily targeting ships in the Red Sea, but I don't have the energy to check every positive strike and check every boat that is still transiting the Red Sea.

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[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago

Flying on a Boeing. Wish me luck!

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[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago

Someone tell this stupid cracker if it’s going to be another 10 years of carpet bombing civilians in the not-a-war police action and a few condemnations here and there or if the US starts desecrating the bottom of the Red Sea with their expensive MIC grifts

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[-] ItsPequod@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

A twitter purge begins

Kinda surprised it's taken this long for outright suspending the dissenters

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[-] KittyBobo@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago

I have actually day dreamed about going under the crawspace of this building and digging my own little bunker down there and connect power and internet to it and just live down there rent free like a moleman.

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[-] Huldra@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago

Disgusting swedish state media reporter made sure to point out that "It's an election year" in South Africa when talking about the ICJ case.

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[-] ChapoKrautHaus@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago

Genocide Joe really starting a third war? I can't believe it.

Death to America.

[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago

Ok i didnt want to make a dunk tank post for some random shit with no likes but i has to share this somewhere

This might be my favorite false equivalency ive ever seen?

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[-] volcel_olive_oil@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago

I look at the news

🔃

America has started a new war in the middle east

thought-side-r-1stairsthought-side-r-2joever

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[-] Zrc@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago

unlimited genocide on western ships

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago
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[-] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago

Seen a couple comments here about how Yemen is legally within it's rights within it's naval territory, could anybody source and explain it for me

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[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago

Zionists have a new deprived obsession: they go through social media of murdered Gazan journalists and UNRWA workers in search of posts expressing support for Hamas/PIJ. The implication here is that supporting Hamas/PIJ automatically revokes your civilian status

https://nitter.net/HillelNeuer/status/1744883114042658902

https://nitter.net/mishtal/status/1745092827632005387

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[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago

I just opened a fourth front in my toilet

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[-] italktothewind@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago
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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago

90% of the judges on the "International Court of Justice" are white side-eye-1

I swear to god these mfs are dressed like they're about to condemn the Catholic slaughter of the Huguenots

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[-] buh@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago

Afrikaner techie digs tunnels under Las Vegas, everyone calls him an innovator. Jews dig tunnels under NYC, and everyone loses their minds 🙄

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