Image is of Elon Musk giving the Nazi salute a week or so ago.
I didn’t really want to keep spotlighting American domestic events as I had assumed that shit would calm down pretty quickly, but it appears that the Trump administration, including Musk, are determined to bring down the empire from the inside.
One of the most important lessons of ruling a country - and especially an empire - is to never, ever believe your own propaganda; and yet now we have neo-Nazi failsons disrupting parts of the imperial apparatus and causing general government mayhem because they actually seem to believe in libertarianism; that the state and the capitalists are somehow in opposition, rather than working in lockstep to maximise profit and boost American hegemony around the world.
I’m not so optimistic as to believe that a national collapse is FOUR DAYS AWAY, like those weird anti-China cranks often speculate - the US has at least a decade or two left even under these conditions. But consider the damage being inflicted in these past couple weeks, and extrapolate that over the next four years. Does any living American political figure possess the competency to halt - or even meaningfully slow - the already ongoing decline? And could they achieve power (or even be allowed to do so) after Trump’s term is done?
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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.
CW ableism
1 in 10,000?
my older brother was diagnosed with autism as a toddler in 2003. my mom went to a support group with other autistic kids/parents IN A SMALL TOWN OF 7,000 PEOPLE. was our town the blueprint for the 3g GMO chemtrail BPA red40 flouride vaccines or whatever?
can someone pls JFK RFK. i have a feeling that man’s gonna tell trump my ADHD meds cause testicular cancer and make your penis inside out and trump will ban them the next day without a second thought
Half a billion dollars in USAID funding was allocated for coup efforts in Venezuela in 2017-2019, much of which filled the pockets of the Guaido opposition and other fraudsters, including NGOs. Through money laundering operations like NGO, Venezuelan opposition figures working with Guaido have been able to purchase high-end condominiums in Madrid, Miami and Bogotá, in cooperation with Colombian paramilitaries.
CW: SA, child prostitution
“You’ve never been with a daddy?”
The public prosecutor’s office found that this message was sent to a child prostitute by a portuguese Far-Right local MP before asking the boy’s age, to which he said 15. After having sex with the boy he paid him 20 euros. He tried for a second encounter but was rejected.
This one is far more serious than the national MP that was stealing bags from airports and selling them on Vinted.com that was revealed a few weeks ago, especially from a party where members call LGBT people “pedophiles”.
I’d like to think it would have some electoral repercussions since this type of criminality is not the usual scandals the far-right here get caught up in, but we’ll see.
Lula criticizes Trump and says Gaza should be governed by Palestinians.
Brazilian president condemns US proposal, reaffirms support for the creation of a Palestinian state and denounces forced displacement as a violation of human rights.
“The US participated in encouraging everything Israel did in the Gaza Strip. So it doesn’t make sense to meet with the president of Israel and say: 'we’re going to occupy Gaza, we’re going to recover Gaza, we’re going to live in Gaza. And where are the Palestinians going to go, where are they going to live? What is their country?” said Lula in an interview with radio stations in Minas Gerais.
Lula also said that the destruction in Gaza amounts to genocide, holding the United States directly responsible for financing the Israeli offensive.
“What happened in Gaza was a genocide, and I honestly don’t know if the United States, which is part of all this, would be the country to try to take care of Gaza,” he said.
“It’s the Palestinians who have to take care of Gaza. What they need is reparations for everything that was destroyed, so that they can rebuild their homes, hospitals, schools, and live in dignity with respect.”
“The US has been sold as the symbol of world democracy, it has set itself up as the judge of the planet. A fable of money is spent on weapons every day. You can’t suddenly change now from the country that sold the idea of peace to the country that sells the idea of provocation, of disagreement,” he said.
Lula’s speech reinforces his position of confrontation with Trump on human rights issues. The Brazilian president had already criticized the Republican in the past for his policy of mass deportation of Brazilian immigrants.
Lula also said something like the US or Elon Musk, should stop trying to interfer with Venezuela or Brazil but I couldn’t find a good transcript of this interview.
Just a few years back, the former Trump administration was distributing hundreds of millions of dollars towards destabilization and foreign coups through the State Department and USAID. We watched them do it to Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela. As Senator, Marco Rubio spent years citing reports, think tanks, propaganda outlets, human rights orgs and opposition activists which are all bankrolled by USAID. He himself helped determine the destination of those funds. His friends are all recipients.
During Trump’s last administration, he sent his VP to Colombia to personally deliver USAID supplies and to pledge additional funds to the Washington-appointed fake leader of Venezuela. Marco Rubio was key to the USAID money laundering pyramid scheme. 2019—Trump tripled ‘democracy aid’ to Venezuela (USAID). Trump tripled USAID funds to the Venezuelan opposition in 2019 after it learned about the widely reported corruption scandal involving large sums directed to Guaido’s people by the Trump administration. Trump spent $24 million dollars to ‘promote free press’ in Venezuela in 2017 and 2018 alone.
And the latest Racist-Libs-Making-Shit-Up-To-Feel-Better news for the week is:
After Trump’s remarks on Gaza, some in Dearborn, Michigan ‘think we screwed up’
Just a small update (or large in geopolitical meaning) on US military action around México and El Salvador. The US Coast Guard and Military planes that flew to El Salvador over Mexican airspace were not deportation flights as previously thought (the exact same US Coast Guard plane was used in deportation flights previously and photographed doing so by the Coast Guard themselves at the time, which is why deportation flights were suspected), these planes were actually part of a rescue operation/mission to look for a missing member of the US Coast Guard that fell overboard while operating off of the coast of Guatemala.
Therefore, there is no current deal between El Salvador and the USA with regards to deportations and housing “violent gang members” in jails, despite hints at it by Rubio. Also, the use of Mexican airspace for this rescue operation was an exceptional case, and given that US military deportation flights to Guatemala still avoid México’s airspace, I think it’s safe to say that Mexico will not allow the US military to use their airspace in future, outside of this rescue mission.
However, US reconnaissance flights are continuing on the border, and with plans designate the Sinaloa Cartel as a foreign terrorist organisation, these flights near their strongholds, and Mexican National Guard deployments there, start to make more sense.
Coast Guard Searching Eastern Pacific for Missing Service Member, USNI News, 6 February 2025
A spokesperson for Netanyahu’s party just tried to defend the plan to deport Gazans to Jordan and Egypt by comparing it to the establishment of the state of Israel after WW2. Literally comparing themselves to the Nazis
Was on BBC NewsHour so no link
Today’s news and combat footage from Kursk oblast and the Donbass.
Russian defenders repelled a large Kiev regime attack in Kursk oblast, destroying another eight tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles, an armored personnel carrier, and 30 other armored vehicles (videos included): https://southfront.press/ukrainian-columns-on-fire-another-kyivs-counteroffensive-turned-into-disaster/
More combat footage of Russian drones destroying Kiev regime armored vehicles in Kursk oblast today: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/02/06/1032457.html
A report revealed that before its liberation, Kiev regime troops massacred four civilian men in the basement of a shelter in the Donetsk People’s Republic settlement of Novogrodovka: https://sputnikglobe.com/20250205/refugee-describes-horrors-of-civilian-executions-in-dpr-by-ukrainian-forces-1121536951.html
Coogan spared lengthy driving ban to film The Trip: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g9vp24z6qo
The treats must flow
It’s so cool how the state has so successfully created a mechanism to shield the rich from consequences that they managed to create an entire class of failsons who believe they’d do even better without that mechanism.
Greenland’s Siumut Party Calls for Referendum on Independence Ahead of Elections
Greenland’s social democratic Siumut party has altered its strategy on independence, abandoning its prior stance of awaiting a statehood commission’s findings to instead push for a referendum during the next government term. Chairman Erik Jensen announced the shift ahead of March 11 elections, aiming to activate Section 21 of Greenland’s 2009 Self-Rule Act. This would force negotiations with Denmark on independence terms, followed by a referendum. If approved, Denmark’s parliament would have to vote on sovereignty. Should talks fail, Greenland retains the right to unilaterally declare independence at any time under international law.
The move follows internal pressure from Siumut members, including MPs Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam and Kuno Fencker, who urged immediate action. The party’s coalition partner, Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA), criticized the decision. IA’s member of Danish parliament Aaja Chemnitz warned that simultaneous commission work and negotiations could weaken Greenland’s position and criticised the announcement from taking attention from pressing issues during the ongoing campaign. Prime Minister Múte B. Egede (IA) has not commented on the announcement yet.
Key challenges loom. Greenland relies on an annual Danish block grant for a third of its public revenue, a contentious issue given Denmark’s likely reluctance to continue subsidies post-independence. The transfers to Greenland has been a recurring grievance for Danish reactionaries for decades as it tickles their racism as well as class hatred. A similar dispute sank the Faroe Islands’ independence talks in the 2000s when the Danish government refused to continue funding for now than two years post independence.
Pro-independence advocates hope to retain ties to Denmark through a compact of free association and continued funding for a period. In addition to a challenging geography and small population Greenland has a shortage of skilled workers, requiring foreign support for healthcare, education, and administration.
Greenland’s government has stated their intent to join America’s NATO pact. However an independent Greenland would not be able to fulfil Washington’s demands for aggressive military posturing against Russia so the continued presence of foreign troops is a given.
Increased calls for Greenlandic independence has made Denmark’s other colony reconsider relations to the metropol. In the Faroe Islands, the traditionally unionist Sambandsflokkurrin party has called for expanded autonomy, including increased control over foreign policy and is working on getting their own WTO delegation.
- Source: DR (state media), February 6th 2025
Ukraine update from a sicko that still reads daily map updates:
3/4 of the big Russian winter battles have been wrapped up. Velika Novosilka, Kurakhove and Toretsk are now done, with Chasov Yar probably wrapping up before the end of this month. Well what’s next? The big spring/summer battle will probably be the Pokrovsk-Myrnograd urban agglomeration, which seems to be heading towards the classic Russian maneuver of advancing towards the flanks, then making a quick dash to a village close to the last supply line of the city, putting the city into a semi-encirclement before starting to squeeze out Ukrainian units from the city by entering it before the encirclement really closes.
Other interesting developments are happening in the Oskol front near Kupiansk and the western sector of the Pokrovsk advancement. Russia has achieved a quite remarkable breakthrough on the Oskol front, establishing a good bridgehead on the western bank of the Oskol River, and now advancing fairly quickly due to the dire state of the AFU on that front. Another bridgehead was established closer to the Russian border a few days ago, and there are reports that there’s a quite significant Russian grouping on the Belgorod-Kharkov border that might dash to Velkyi Burluk against barely armed Ukrainian border guards very soon.
The western sector of the Pokrovsk front is just 3 km from the borders of Dnipro Oblast. Crossing an imaginary border on a map is not really a major accomplishment, but it is still a bit symbolic and it would be the first time since the start of the war that Russia has a meaningful presence in Dnipro, after driving through a few times during the chaos of the first two weeks of the war. The way I see it, the war is not a decisive victory without at least a small presence in Dnipro, so entering that Oblast is at least a moral victory.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says that the freezing of USAID funds has plunged entire NGOs, media outlets and journalism (🤣) around the world into chaos. They readily pronounce that much of the world’s “journalism” is paid for by Washington’s dollars.
“In Ukraine, 9 out of 10 media outlets rely on USAID funding” USAID programs funds US interest media in more than 30 countries The agency funds at least 6,200 journalists, 707 “news outlets” and 279 media-sector “civil society organizations”. Any sovereign country has already prohibited this.
The best part is that RSF’s director came out, pearls clutched, to say that the foreign aid industry IS in fact very much in line with U.S. interests.
