Trump says he'll meet with Putin as soon as possible to discuss an end to the Russia-Ukraine war. RapidResponse47 is a US government twitter account.
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Bulletins and News Discussion from May 12th to May 18th, 2025 - Nuclear War Averted (Hopefully)!
(hexbear.net)
Image is from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' recent article on Kashmir.
It looks like the spat between India and Pakistan could be dying down, due to a new ceasefire. As of the time of me writing this paragraph, it seems both sides want to maintain it (despite some reports of violations here and there).
Both sides have declared victory, which is completely expected given their mutual political parties and nationalist histories. It's a little harder to say which side has actually won, as both sides seem to have managed to shoot down aircraft and hit military bases. India has, in my opinion, had the more embarrassing moments, but international conflicts aren't cringe compilations. I feel no good-will towards Pakistan's comprador government, but it is at least nice to see Modi knocked down a few pegs. Regardless of the final technical victor, it's obvious that - if the ceasefire is maintained - who won are the hundreds of millions of people who won't have to live in fear of dying in nuclear hellfire.
This conflict is a good example of what multipolarity will truly entail. Countries that have been previously limited in their nationalist ambitions by American pressure will now take opportunities to revolt, sometimes against America itself, and sometimes against other countries in their regional neighbourhood. It's also why, as communists, our goals do not stop at multipolarity; it is merely the establishing act of a new era of agitation against peripheral and semi-peripheral capitalist countries that are forming powerful national bourgeoisie classes as the international American capitalists are forced away.
Last week's thread is here. The Imperialism Reading Group is here.
Please check out the RedAtlas!
The bulletins site is here. Currently not used.
The RSS feed is here. Also currently not used.
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.
I dunno if something changed with the algorithm or if there’s some sort of psyop going on, but a lot of my social media has been pushing Palestine lately. Like, where was this 14+ months ago? I’m mostly just taking psychic damage from it now.
I'm convinced (no evidence tho, maybe I'm being a lib) that the YT algorithm has been extremely supportive of Palestine and pro-china with me lately. Maybe China started to exert soft power in the US/CIA way? That would be a huge net benefit for the world ngl
It’s because someone realized Israhell did too much to be hidden away. Borell and Rubio, these ghouls acknowledge Israhell genocide in a way, of course the forces that once censored these events are now rewriting history to make sure they always been on the right side of it.
It's because Israel decided to occupy and invade more parts of Gaza last night.
Thats been going on constantly. Every few weeks they announced the expansion of their corridors.
The last 24 hours in Gaza the zionist enemy has killed 120+ martyrs. Every crime is worse than the last...
At least 120 Palestinians, most of them children, have been killed since dawn on Thursday in deadly Israeli attacks targeting crowded residential areas, tents, a clinic, and civilian gatherings across the Gaza Strip.
A whole group of orphans gathered at Al-Tawbah Mosque in Jabalia to receive orphan sponsorship money, and they were bombed! All the orphaned children and the association's staff were martyred.
(Journalist in Gaza Meqdad Jameel)
The aftermath... oh God
https://tiktokgenocide.com/uploads/horrible-israeli-massacre-at-al-tawba-health-clinic-and-mosque
I had a bad feeling that things were going to get way worse after Hamas gave up that last American hostage without getting anything in return.
It was a sign of goodwill but the empire knows no “good”, after all the Pequot helped the pilgrims survive the winter and earned extinction as their reward, they taught the same lesson again to the Christian Delawares of Ohio, and now after so many others, the people of gaza will be taught the same lesson. One must be ruthless when dealing with them.
Since this wasn't posted here yesterday. Samidoun statement on 77th year of al Nakba.
The Palestinian resistance has released some more recent combat footage from Gaza: https://southfront.press/hamas-shares-footage-of-two-deadly-attacks-on-israeli-troops-in-gaza/
Damn they got the Burj Khalifa lit up with the stars and stripes lol
It's so damn ugly
N64 textures
time to light up Mia Khalifa with the red banner of socialism
Getty Images: President Trump is greeted at Qasr al Watan, the UAE’s national palace, on Thursday.
Meanwhile in the PRC 🫡🇨🇳
Zhao Weiguo, former board chairman of Chinese semiconductor conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup, on Wednesday was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for multiple crimes, including embezzlement of national assets worth more than 470 million yuan (about $65 million), according to a court verdict.
the placard in front of the dock says {被|bèi}{告|gào}{人|rén} (defendant/the accused)
Another example of China’s oppressive authoritarianism. In the West, this wouldn’t even be considered a crime.
What congressperson or above hasn't gained at least $55 million from insider trading alone
Another certified people's daily banger
Scott Bessent is either a complete dipshit or a deep cover agent bent on destruction of the USA
Bessent Signals Dire Currency Deals For Exporters As U.S. Bonds Plunge To Severe Levels | Sean Foo
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On Nakba Day, we release the first English translation of Basil al-Araj’s essay “The Wounded Memory of the Nakba”. In harrowing detail, it describes several theaters of extermination during the Zionist colonization of Palestine in 1947-49.
https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/the-wounded-memory-of-the-nakba
Translated by Alex Jreisat, the text was generously provided by Safarjal Press, who in consultation with al-Araj’s family and friends have edited a full English translation of al-Araj’s I HAVE FOUND MY ANSWERS (2018), where this essay was first published in Arabic.
The individual performing heroic actions against the fascist regime in the UKKK has turned out to be a Ukrainian national
This next season of blowback teaser is getting ambitious
I see we have finally entered the Ukrainian terrorism saga that many of us predicted would happen at some point. 
fly a F16 into the Eiffel Tower 
thank god it was a White* man doing a cry for help for mental health and not a 
terrorist doing identity politics
Starmer is a huge Ukraine guy though, so is this an anti-Kiev Regime Ukrainian? Or just a personal gripe?
As @WeedReference420 points out, in the two part finale of Season 5 of The Simpsons, many individuals had many good reasons to shoot Mr. Burns.
For all we know, this guy was just extremely committed to a proletarian revolution against landlords. I had no idea Stormer even was a landlord, let alone where his properties were located. This person definitely did a bit of research and put some thought into it.
I mention his nationality because the UKKK has an obsession with the nationality and race of "offenders". Almost as if they believe that those things are determinants, with some identities being thought of as being particularly likely to commit certain crimes.
The UK was very keen to welcome in Ukrainian refugees while demonising refugees from the various countries decimated by UK bombs. Very recently, the Tory-Labour uniparty regime moved to block a "loophole" that allowed a Palestinian family to claim asylum in the UK, which is a right reserved only for the Ukrainians apparently. This was after the regime filed two "rigorous" appeals attempting to get the family subsequently deported. The action against Palestinian families comes against the background of the regime constantly making statements that anti-genocide protestors are dangerous, are threatening and are a risk to MP's safety. A very delightful little news story all-in-all. A treat, if you will.
ukraine isn't winning the war - maybe they're getting stabbed in the back by the UK
Could be someone worried that Keith's new hard man Mosleyite act is gonna see him deported and conscripted. Or possibly someone who lost a family member in the Kursk offensive that Starmer cooked up with Zelensky in one of their diplomatic coke binges. Or maybe someone Victoria Starmer hired because he won't stop cheating on her lmao
The thing about anything being done to Starmer at this point is he's so unpopular there's a Who Shot Mr Burns effect where everyone has a motive.
Praying for it to be a neonazi who thinks the Labour party are communists
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