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After 15 months of genocide - and resistance to it - the Israeli regime realized that they could not win a military victory against Hamas, and were forced to sign a humiliating ceasefire in order to get their hostages returned.
With much of Syria under the control of Al-Qaeda, and an increasing level of covert infiltration into Lebanon, the crisis in the Middle East is not over, and we may still be in its beginning stages, as the center of hegemony continues its gradual shift away from the United States. Their navy, once considered the best in the world, is likely also not very happy about their ships and aircraft carriers being forced to retreat by Yemen, one of the poorest countries; and all eyes are on Iran, who has, over the last year and a half, demonstrated a newfound confidence and strength to directly strike Israel.
The recovery for Gaza will take, at a minimum, decades; it could indeed never fully recovery to even how it was before, considering it is not in Israel's interests to see their concentration camps recover. But Hamas has proven to be steadfast and the tunnel network has proven its resilience, despite facing some of the most powerful conventional bombing in history. This shows that Palestine's liberation is a when, not an if; and hopefully a much sooner "when" than expected before October 7th.
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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.
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"U.S. Border Patrol agent killed in Vermont near Canada-U.S. border, say authorities"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-border-agent-shot-1.7436853
I am very suspicious of the extremely vague language in the article. Could this have been a friendly fire incident or something? No information whatsoever about the nature of the stop or the shooter.
Kinda funny that elon would have been sent to re-education camps by fucking uefa over this, that bastion of morality.
Also i wonder whatcha germans will do re: afd and musk proclivities
Trump will govern during the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympic Games. Remember, the world cup will take place in Canada, United States and Mexico at the same time, I can't wait to see Trump fuck this up.
White House deletes its Spanish-language website and its X account aimed at Spanish speakers.
- Donald Trump signs a decree withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement against climate change.
- Donald Trump signs an order withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO).
- Donald Trump declares a national emergency on the US southern border with Mexico. The US president is to order the deployment of armed forces to the region.
- Donald Trump says the United States doesn't need Latin America. Trump says that his government's relationship with Latin America “should be good, very good”. “They need us much more than we need them. We don't need them, they need us. Everyone needs us,” commented the American president.
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- Trump signs a rule suspending the Tik Tok blockade in the US in order to negotiate with the Chinese company.
- Trump signs a decree re-designating Cuba as a “state sponsor of terrorism”.
- Trump shows his opposition to the BRICS, but is wrong to think that Spain is part of the group led by Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa.
lol
- Trump signs an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The action, however, is only valid on US soil.
- President Donald Trump grants presidential pardons to approximately 1,500 people convicted of crimes related to the storming of the Capitol.
so, cartels are named as terrorist organizations, huh.
Claudia, bby, get a nuke
If they're going to be named a terrorist organization, they should start acting like one.
sir, a second 9/11 has hit the United Snakes
they should just place fentanyl circles around themselves, us cops like demons couldn't cross them. And then slowly push us cops with fentanyl mazes into dc for final purge 
Full pardons or commuted sentences for every January 6th conviction, even the violent ones. Real "Andrew Johnson’s Proclamations" vibes out here
some of these guys are full on militia leaders right?
Yep. Basically everyone he commuted vs pardoned is a militia leader
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Rhodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Meggs
etc
Yeah the proud boys leader is likely going to be free soon.
loathsome
lol even AOC calling out her fellow TLA
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fr6heyt6oo8ee1.png
If the most run of the mill soc dems like AOC is seeing it as heil hitler salute, no one is fooled by apartheid defense league.
Our postings on XHS are waking some people up to Elon's bullshit:
I see more and more comments like these, especially with the Nazi salute making the rounds
Today’s news from Russia’s special military operation.
Russian investigators discovered that Ukrainian Nazis and Western mercenaries massacred a group of elderly civilians (with their hands tied in the basement of a house) in the Kursk oblast settlement of Russkoye Porechnoye (18+): https://southfront.press/video-18-more-evidence-of-ukrainian-atrocities-in-russian-kursk-region-revealed/
A Kiev regime “HIMARS” rocket attack on a school in Bekhtery (in the liberated parts of Kherson oblast) killed two civilians this morning as students and teachers headed to classes: https://southfront.press/number-of-victims-of-ukrainian-terrorist-attacks-growing/
Russian forces recently captured a group of “Right Sector” Ukrainian Nazis (from the “Arey Battalion”) during the battle to liberate Plekhovo in Kursk oblast: https://southfront.press/ukrainian-nazis-who-murders-civilians-in-kursk-now-safe-and-sound-in-russian-captivity/
A Russian Lancet strike destroyed another US-built M109 self-propelled howitzer in Sumy oblast: https://www.rt.com/russia/611290-lancet-paladin-artillery-video/
Meanwhile Israel is doing Kristallnacht in the west bank again
Israeli settlers are setting the West Bank on fire.
https://xcancel.com/JehadAbusalim/status/1881446705629216962#m
Lmao he's signing an executive order to get out of the WHO. America is gonna be cooked by the avian flu
I have to get out of here
I have 2 years left, I don't think I will be fast enough. 
Fascists and speedrunning their own collapse. Name a more iconic duo.
The thing that really pisses me off about Trump and makes me unable to laugh is the fact that no matter what clown car shit happens, nothing causes this government to shake. Give me some fucking fracturing already ffs so everyone can stop pretending the US is a serious country
Early days yet.
With the climate changes crisis hitting the USA hard, it will be very insteresting to see Trump fail to handle theses crisis, besides the whole tarrifs thing.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted today to advance S. 5, the Laken Riley Act, teeing the bill up for a final vote on Monday. The first immigration bill of the new Congress, the proposed law would require the government to detain people who pose no risk to their communities. Under the bill, individuals would be mandatorily locked up – potentially for years – because at some point in their lives, perhaps decades ago, they were accused of nonviolent offenses like shoplifting.
Retroactive internment camps are coming. A lot of lives are going to be profoundly negatively affected by this administration.
Trump just said that 700 000 Ukrainians have been killed during the war, along with "almost a million" Russians.
Finally we get a realistic number on Ukrainian casualties, and it's from Trump talking casually with news reporters in the Oval Office while signing executive orders! Also says that Zelensky wants to "make a deal".
Trump is talking so candidly with reporters, it's quite weird to watch. Also he thinks tarrifs are the answer to everything. There's a problem? Just solve it with tarrifs on your opponent!
He just signed an executive order to withdraw from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
He just signed an executive order to withdraw from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
haha, even North Korea is a member of the WHO.
jesus christ how long has he been talking? like 8 hours?
China won't sell tiktok? Put a 10, 20, 50, even 100% tariff on them.
The fact that he actually said that lol.
I really am starting to believe he's stupid enough to do it. And that this timeline is fucked up enough that he might well get away with it.
If it works, it ain't stupid, and all that...
lmao trump is threatening spain because he thinks they're a BRICS nation
