I really did not have George Abdallah, just freed legendary PFLP Lebanese freedom fighter, giving Greta a shoutout in his first interview just out of 40 years in French prison, comparing her positively to the millions of Arabs and specifically Egyptians who sit by and watch Gaza starve to death with no action whatsoever, on my bingo card but hey it's 2025 baby anything goes now. https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/1948786824807100514#m
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Image (source here) is of a section of the Yarlung Zangbo river, which forms the deepest canyon on the planet.
The idea of doing any sort of general preamble for China is a little absurd given how ubiquitous they are in economics and politics, so I'm just going to hop right in to a recent news item of interest: China is working on the construction of an enormous new hydropower project in Tibet (@[email protected] had brought this up just before the last news mega ended).
This project (consisting of, I believe, five dams) will be overall three times larger than the Three Gorges Dam, will cost $167 billion, and will supply 70 GW (by itself more power than several significant countries generate). There are, of course, meaningful concerns regarding concerning environmental damage, but helping to avert catastrophic climate change seems worth it. The news coming out of the clean energy sector of China has getting only more encouraging over the last few years, even as the fully neoliberalized Europe and America descend into climate skepticism and refuse to adequately fund projects that could avert the worst of climate change.
Geopolitically, given recent India-China tensions (for example, sending Pakistan the equipment to shoot down Indian jets, as well as run-of-the-mill border tensions) one expects India to not receive the news very well, as the river upon which the dam is being constructed proceeds to flow into Arunachal Pradesh. But from what I understand of the Indian hydrological situation (which is, admittedly, not much), I don't think enough of the water in India comes from the river for China to hypothetically cause any kind of water shortages in India - the monsoons seem to supply plenty of freshwater all by themselves. Nonetheless, as with all Chinese news, wild fearmongering abounds.
Last week's thread is here.
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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.
Thailand is using old ass M48A5 "Patton" during the clashes with Cambodia
Meanwhile, Cambodia has a healthy amount of T-55s in their inventory. It's two old foes from the "Cold War" facing each other once again lmfao.
On Thursday (24), Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro confirmed that US oil company Chevron had received authorization from the White House to continue extracting oil in Venezuelan territory. According to the president, the information was passed on by Donald Trump's administration to the Minister of Petroleum and Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez.
The news had been published by the Wall Street Journal. According to the publication, the agreement was signed after the exchange of 252 Venezuelans who were in El Salvador and 10 Americans who were imprisoned in Venezuela for participating in coup plans in the Caribbean country.
According to the Venezuelan president, work is already underway for the US company to resume operations in the country's oil wells. “As we have always said to all international companies, they are welcome to work in Venezuela. During these months, while the blackmail continued, Venezuela's oil activity grew by 12%, without the need for licenses. There are already working groups in place to ensure that Chevron can return to its duties and work on a legal basis; it is welcome in Venezuela,” President Maduro said.
- Telegram
So what benefit does Venezuela get from having Chevron operate within their borders, rather than just having their nationalised oil sector extract their own resources?
Capital, machinery, engineers?
Well, then, looks like it's Venezuela's NEP time (I hope the sanctions are going to be repealed but, maybe that NEP is a dream after all)
https://youtube.com/shorts/GfiEHCX0mB0
Luna Oi making a video on Thailand and Cambodia conflict soon. Here's a short until then
Some people have said this is another war in the proxy wars that the US wants to cause to de-stabilize China, similar to India-Pakistan.
I disagree, I think these conflicts are more about the fact that international multilateral order has been gutted, and countries are seeing more green lights to carry out their bourgeois wars. I would not be surprised if more conflict sparks in for example Greece vs Turkey, or Venezuela vs Guyana and the such when countries realize the US is more and more hand tied in its imperialist projects and will not be the stabilizing hand it was in its unipolar moment.
Additionally, thinking that all of these wars are masterminded by the US is defeatist nonsense, the US is barely able to scrape by in Ukraine and Israel, how is it gonna be so powerful to suddenly be puppet master to every single border war on Earth.
100% agree. This is what a truly "multipolar" world order looks like. India/Pakistan and this are only a taste of what's on the horizon in the coming years.
This. America is a dying lion, and now the younger are coming for their piece of flesh
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
This is the most non-news news story I'll post in here, but every day The Economist posts a like news roundup thing in the morning that I usually read. They have a weekly crossword for the weekend edition, and you can "win" it by emailing them your answers and they'll "randomly" post three of these winners next week. Today they posted the winners of last week's crossword, and one of the three is Leo Varadkar, on and off right wing Taoiseach (basically the PM) of Ireland since 2017. So I guess that's what he's doing with his life now that he retired from politics?
Put that on his Wikipedia page
The fuck is this utopian socialism sthtick.
“The Smurfian society is an archetypal corporatist society, meaning that each Smurf that is identified represents a social function.”
WTF? Is this some archaic definition of corporatism?
One nameless Smurf realises he can play the system by making promises he can’t keep to each of his potential voters, and wins. But once elected, he rules as an autocrat, installing an oppressive regime marshalled by Hefty Smurf and forcing the other Smurfs to build him a palace. The book was translated into Dutch as De Smurführer.
Guardian:
communism?
Some pictures posted online and a screenshot from al mayadeen live of Communist Lebanese revolutionary Georges Abdallah returning to Beirut today after 41 years in French prisons.
Here's what he said when interviewed upon arrival.
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah:
Our Resistance is rooted in this land & cannot be uprooted. It is not weak, it is strong, & its leaders are its Martyrs. We must rally around the Resistance today more than ever before.
The Martyrs of the Resistance are the foundational base of any liberation movement. The Resistance is rooted in this land. So long as there is Resistance, there is return. The Resistance is not weak, it is strong through its Martyrs. The Resistance is weak only when its leaders are collaborators, but our Resistance is led by Martyrs.
The Resistance in Palestine must intensify. & it is a disgrace to history for Arabs to stand by & watch the suffering of the people of Palestine & Gaza. It is a disgrace that a young woman from Sweden, Greta, takes the sea to come to Gaza while millions of Egyptians sit idly by & say “God will bless the Palestinians in heaven.” Bring heaven to them now! Act!
Just metres away from the Kaaba of Prophet Muhammad, the children of Palestine are dying of hunger & Egypt’s soldiers are just watching! Where are the men & women of Egypt? If just a million people marched to Gaza’s border, the genocide would end. Just the bare minimum of dignity, especially compared to the mobilisations in Europe.
that lebanon-communist flag with the white line offset from centre is very pleasing
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: — Georges Abdallah... Free.
https://t.me/PalestineResist/80423
Some context: https://youtu.be/YkBZOskQu44
His family had asked for people not to celebrate in order to respect the martyrs. So instead Hezbollah, who offered up so many martyrs, threw a huge celebration for him.
https://xcancel.com/mayadeenlebanon/status/1948726852832362943
Georges Abdallah has been freed and is on a flight to beirut
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