Image is of many Hamas soldiers supervising the handing over of Israeli hostages to cars heading out of the Gaza Strip.

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.


Last week’s thread is here. The Imperialism Reading Group is here.

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The bulletins site is here. Currently not used.
The RSS feed is here. Also currently not used.

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 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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    I can tell you’re all excited about inauguration shitposting and so as a treat I will not remove all these not newsworthy posts. Get it out of your system now as tomorrow we will be back to our usual schedule of mod tyranny. Also, everyone shitposting now had better be thinking about what useful content they can bring to the thread later in the week.

    edit: I encourage those shitposting on this blessed day to join the imperialism book club

    Edit 2: it is now tomorrow. mod tyranny is back on the menu

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    HEAR YEA

    HEAR YEA

    I, the resident town crier am here to screm at the top of my lungs at the crack of dawn that the 72T Imperialist Book Club has kicked off and people are dropping their analysis’ like it’s hot

    CLICK HERE AND LET YOUR BRAIN FEAST ON THIS MOST SUMPTUOUS KNOWLEDGE SO THAT IT CAN GROW BIG AND STRONG LIKE THE FICTICIOUS HORSE!

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    IGNORE THE FACT IT IS THE 20TH AND GO READ YHROUGJ THE THRED

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    The News Megathread Imperialism Reading Group: Week 2 - January 20th to January 26th, 2025

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    Anyone here have interesting sources on economic calculation, planned economy, and “cybernetic” planning? I’ve noticed these issues have been completely sidelined even by some leftwing communists, so I was interested in various perspectives. Also notice how far the “economic calculation problem” has slipped from the mainstream - the unquestioned process of “economy” is no longer just unquestioned, it is now completely unacknowledged. We have the “most advanced AI” but we do not dare to even think about tackling the economy. The economy exists outside the purview of even “AGI”.

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    Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says she will talk with Brazilian President Lula da Silva about a joint Latin American response to the expansionist policies of Donald Trump, who is threatening to seize the Panama Canal and is trying to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. Asked about a joint statement in the face of Trump’s expansionist threats and new migration policy, Sheinbaum said there was “unity” in Latin America.

    “I’ve had several phone calls in recent days, I’ve spoken to [Guatemalan President Bernardo] Arévalo, there was a meeting of the foreign ministers of different Latin American and Caribbean countries and in recent days we’re going to speak to President Lula,” Sheinbaum said at her daily press conference.

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    The Russian Air Force appears to be conducting preparations for another large scale air raid/long range air attack soon. Strategic bomber aircraft such as the Tu-95M (carries the Kh-101 long range cruise missile) and Tu-22M (carries the Kh-32/22 supersonic high altitude cruise missile) have been repositioned at Engels-2 airbase, and transport aircraft such as the IL-76 are making deliveries of presumably ordinance to these air bases. Russian MiG-31K aircraft (carries the Kinzhal ALBM) and the Su-57 stealth aircraft (carries the Kh-69 stealth cruise missile), along with the Black Sea Naval fleet (ships that launch Kalibr cruise missiles) are also conducting practice/training missions. Geran-2/Shahed-136 drone activity has also increased. All this activity has occurred in the last week or so. This is all indicative of a Russian strike happening soon, the only thing that’s missing is a Ukrainian/USA directly assisted ATACMS attack on Russian soil.

    The sources for this information, as per usual, are compiled from Ukrainian and Russian air raid channels. AMK Mapping on Twitter and telegram does of good job of compiling these sources into English language posts.

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    https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-01-06/the-energy-outlook-europe-s-summer-to-bring-worries-about-next-winter-s-gas

    https://archive.is/0fiV3

    Europe’s Summer Will Bring Worries About Next Winter’s Gas

    The reasons are twofold. First, Ukraine – understandably — didn’t renew at the end of 2024 a transit contract that allowed its archenemy Russia to ship gas into Europe via its pipelines. Russia doesn’t sell as much gas into Europe as it once did, but Moscow has remained an important supplier for countries including Slovakia, Austria, Italy, Czechia and Hungary. The loss of that Russian gas will force Europe to rely more heavily on other sources, such as US liquefied natural gas and its own storage.

    Definitely not because US asked Ukraine to not renew.

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    Hey, news nerds, take a break from all the crazy stuff happening and hear about a little scandal from the world of Go.

    A big international tournament, the LG Cup, just finished. The finals consisted of three games between Korean player Byun Sang-il and the famous Chinese player Ke Jie, who is #3 in the world, and has held the #1 spot before.

    A rule was introduced about two weeks before the tournament to penalize players for placing a captured stone on the table instead of a bowl, where they can be more easily seen by the opponent, and which matters for keeping track of the score. In the Chinese ruleset, you don’t keep track of captures, so Chinese players aren’t used to being attentive to them. Korean players have complained about Chinese players “hiding” their stones, causing them to miscount the game, which is why the rule was made.

    In game 2 of the finals, Ke Jie set a stone on the table, and his opponent called a ref, and he was penalized two points, which is substantial in pro game. However, Ke Jie made up the difference and was winning, until… he left another stone on the table. His opponent called a ref while he was up getting a drink of water, and this time the penalty was forfeiting the game.

    Look at this nerd:

    Ke Jie had won the first match, and he was ahead in the second, but his opponent won the third (actually, Ke Jie lost game 3 by the same rule, but he was far behind and may have done it intentionally). This little technicality decided the entire tournament. Rules are rules, but it’s a very bullshit way to win, and it’s very unsportsmanlike to put the trophy and prize money above the integrity of the game. People are pissed.

    The good news is, you probably don’t care about go, so you don’t have to worry about this! You may now return to your regularly scheduled hellworld.

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    Can you imagine if China decides to carry out a massive deportation of I don’t know, mongolian people just because they don’t like foreigners? Can you imagine the reaction of the entire West after hearing a CCP official say stuff like “We have to go after the illegal aliens who commited crimes but there will be collateral deportations as well as the people who surround our targets will also be arrested” or “I don’t care if a person is born in the US and is granted citizenship, if their parents are illegal immigrants they’re out”?

    We’re being fed shit about Xinjiang while the US helps “Israel” carry out a genocide and are preparing for a potential genocide at home too, and the outrage? and the resistance from the so called “enlightened peoples” that don’t live “out there in the jungle”?

    This pathetic fucking wretched beast that is the Westrern World cannot die soon enough omg. We have to go this insanely painful process before it finally succums to it’s own wounds. Yeah, the West is literally killing itself because they’re too afraid of some people who want to share the same spaces as them, literally the most insecure people in History. It’s not that China or the evil Easterners are besieging the West with warships and imposing horrible blockades and genocides, no, the West is literally suicidal for no good reason lmao.

    What a shitload of fuck.