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.
United States President Donald Trump assures that Israel will hand over Gaza to the U.S. at the end of the conflict. He says that the Palestinian people will be relocated to “safer and more beautiful” places.
- Telesur English
The United States claims Panama has complied with Trump’s wishes, and that American vessels are passing through the Panama canal without paying tolls, but Panama denies, and says nothing has changed
- Telegram
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Islamist reactionaries demolish the house of Bangladesh founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Completely planned. Certainly done by BNP and Jamaat fundamentalists.
Looks like the Wiki page on Jamaat Bangladesh has been edited to show their ideology as “moderate” even though they collaborated with Pakistan during the genocide.
spoiler
Before
After
2024 was a great year for these Muslim Brotherhood allied parties.
Burkina Faso:
Agrarian and land reorganisation: Towards a takeover by the State
machine translated excerpts
On behalf of the Ministry of the Economy and Finance, the Council adopted a draft law on the agrarian and land reorganization in Burkina Faso. The purpose of the bill is to ensure that land management is improved and that the state can assert its leadership on the issue, says Economic and Finance Minister Dr Aboubakar NACANABO. “Through this bill, it is planned that the land will now belong to the State,” he argues.
Among the innovations of the bill, there is the possibility of a long-term lease ranging from 18 to 99 years in the context of agricultural production, the recognition of customary rights, the impossibility for an alien to own a title to rural land.
Update on military action on the US - México border/deportation flights situation: México gives more concessions to the USA, Belize accepts a US military aircraft directly, first removal/deportation flights to Guantanamo Bay, India and potentially El Salvador, Colombia continues to send their own military planes for repatriation flights, more flights to Guatemala.
Detailed update.
Starting with México, there were a number of key developments. Firstly, a United States Coast Guard C-130J, carrying out a potential deportation flight to El Salvador from San Diego, utilised Mexican airspace. Then afterwards, a United States Airforce C-130J from Florida, flew over Mexican airspace while on a flight to El Salvador. This could be to do with the proposed deal for El Salvador to house “dangerous migrants and gang members” that are deported from the USA, including those that have acquired US citizenship. This also means that US military aircraft flying to other countries have now made use of Mexican airspace.
The C-17 deportation flights to Guatemala haven’t made use of Mexican airspace yet, so the deals with Guatemala and EL Salvador are likely seperate in this regard. Guatemala also reportedly signed a new deal with regards to accepting deportations from the US of citizens from other countries. There has been a new bunch of civilian aircraft likely chartered for this purpose, that have made flights to Guatemala from the USA.
Belize accepted a US Navy Boeing C-40A transport aircraft which landed there after departing San Diego, so they too allow US military planes to land there, and not to just use their airspace.
The first flight of migrants to Guantanamo bay took place, apparently only 10-20 of the “most dangerous migrants”, whatever that means, were moved there onboard a US military C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft.
India of all countries recieved their first deportation flight from the United States, a US military C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft took a multi legged journey there.
Circling back to México, we got a breakdown of where the 10 000 México National Guard troops are set to deploy to. Interesting to note is that the areas that saw the most US reconnaissance and signals intelligence flights nearby, namely Baja California and Sonora, are seeing the most troops. To me this suggests some unofficial Intel sharing, and that the US are going to try use the Mexican National Guard to go after cartel strongholds.
The breakdown
Countries that have allowed the United States to conduct suspected deportation flights to them directly using US military aircraft:
- Guatemala.
- Ecuador.
- Honduras.
- Perú.
- Belize.
- El Salvador.
- India.
Countries that allow the United States to use their airspace to conduct suspected deportations using US military aircraft to other countries, but have not accepted US military deportation flights themselves:
- Costa Rica.
- Nicaragua.
- México.
Countries that put up resistance to deportation flights using US military aircraft and turned them away ( and use their own military planes for repatriating their citizens), however the United States says that they will accept military deportation flights in future (no such flights have taken place as of 5 February 2025):
- Colombia.
Overall it’s quite a depressing update, to be honest I really didn’t want to make it, but I feel as if I had to, otherwise this information just sits in aviation geek or chud circles with brainless losers cheering it on.
Lmao America boycotting the G20. Basically giving hegemony to China on a platter
I will NOT attend the G20 summit in Johannesburg.
South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote “solidarity, equality, & sustainability.” In other words: DEI and climate change.
My job is to advance America’s national interests, not waste taxpayer money or coddle anti-Americanism.
Cows Have Been Infected With a Second Form of Bird Flu (NYT)Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form of bird flu that is distinct from the version that has been spreading through herds over the last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Wednesday.
The finding indicates that the virus, known as H5N1, has spilled from birds into cows at least twice — leading to these two sets of infections — and that it could continue to do so. It also suggests that the virus may pose a persistent risk to cows and to the people who work closely with them.
Before last year, scientists did not know that cows were susceptible to this type of influenza.
“This is not what anyone wanted to see,” said Louise Moncla, an evolutionary biologist who studies avian influenza at the University of Pennsylvania. “We need to now consider the possibility that cows are more broadly susceptible to these viruses than we initially thought.”
Popular resistance is growing to the Kiev regime military’s conscription campaign. Plus, some combat footage.
Ukrainians have started blowing up Kiev regime military conscription offices in Pavlograd and Rovno. In another incident, a man with a hunting rifle shot and killed a conscription officer in Poltava oblast. An IED strike killed another in Kharkov: https://southfront.press/war-against-mobilisation-gains-momentum-in-ukraine/
Civilians captured and beat a Kiev regime conscription officer (18+ video): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--Zelensky-Gestapo-bastard-is-captured-by:3
Russian anti-tank mine destroys US-built “Bradley” infantry fighting vehicle (video): https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/02/05/1030079.html
Russian drone strikes British-built Challenger 2 tank (video): https://www.rt.com/russia/612228-ukrainian-challenger-tank-drone/
Anyone here ever heard of DIILS? some DoD thing I’ve never heard of but sounds bullshit
Friend of mine has an interview to do remote work for a tribal government and at first it sounded amazing because they’d be working with a tribe instead of some fuckin corpo, but then I just found out they work with the DoD through this DIILS shit, so there’s no way this isn’t some fucked up warcrime shit, right?
Milei is continuing to ape Trump, including the transphobia:
AP: Argentina’s president bans gender-affirming care for people under age 18
@Torenico@hexbear.net Is this something that Milei can do unilaterally? The article mentions a 2012 law establishing protections.
It’s so fucking funny that the cia is being declawed and yet trump is posturing to project American imperialism simultaneously like they are so fucking stupid and lost. It’s like they have the instincts of the Israeli right but imagine if the Israeli right decided the mossad was bad but for incoherent reasons and fucked it over leading to them fucking themselves over
Guatemala gives Rubio a second deportation deal for migrants being sent home from the US - AP
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo said Wednesday his country will accept migrants from other countries who are being deported from the United States, the second deportation deal that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reached during a Central America trip that has been focused mainly on immigration.
Under the agreement announced by Arévalo, the deportees would be returned to their home countries at U.S. expense. “We have agreed to increase by 40% the number of flights of deportees both of our nationality as well as deportees from other nationalities,” Arévalo said at a news conference with Rubio.
Previously, including under the Biden administration, Guatemala had been accepting on average seven to eight flights of its citizens from the U.S. per week. Under President Donald Trump it’s also been one of the countries that have had migrants returned on U.S. military planes. El Salvador announced a similar but broader agreement on Monday. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said his country would accept U.S. deportees of any nationality, including American citizens and legal residents who are imprisoned for violent crimes.
Both Trump and Rubio acknowledged the legal uncertainty of sending Americans to another country for imprisonment. “I’m just saying if we had a legal right to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat,” Trump told reporters Tuesday in the Oval Office. “I don’t know if we do or not, we’re looking at that right now.” Rubio called it a very generous offer but said there were “obviously legalities involved. We have a Constitution.”
Immigration, a Trump administration priority, has been the major focus of Rubio’s first foreign trip as America’s top diplomat, a five-country tour spanning Panama, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic. The agreements with El Salvador and Guatemala potentially help the Trump administration address what has always been a key sticking point in immigration enforcement since not everyone in the U.S. illegally can be easily sent back home. Venezuela, for example, has been a major source of migrants coming to the U.S. in recent years, but rarely can the U.S. deport Venezuelans back to their home country. But the U.S. already has a robust network set up to send people to several Central American countries.
Guatemala will expand its capacity to receive not just Guatemalans, but also migrants from other countries who will then be repatriated to their home countries. The details still need to be worked out. “However, the permanent answer to immigration is to bring development so that no one has to leave the country,” Arévalo said. To that end, a high-level Guatemalan delegation, including from the private sector, will travel to Washington in the coming weeks. Arévalo also announced the formation of a new border security force that will patrol Guatemala’s borders with Honduras and El Salvador. The force will be made up of police and soldiers and will combat transnational crime of all kinds, he said.
Rubio’s trip has been dogged by the administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, including a late Tuesday order abruptly pulling almost all agency staffers off the job. After the news conference with Guatemala’s president, Rubio headed directly to the U.S. Embassy, where staffers and their families who were unsure of their futures gathered to hear from their new boss. The meet-and-greet event was closed to the press, as was an earlier similar event in El Salvador. Both Guatemala and El Salvador have significant USAID missions. In Panama on Sunday before the shut down announcement, Rubio’s embassy event had been open to journalists.
From there Rubio wrapped up his Guatemala stop by visiting a local migration facility near an air force base where deportees are processed for integration back into their home communities. Under the measures announced Wednesday by Guatemala’s president, the number of deportees is expected to rise by as much as 40%. The program has been supported by the U.S. State Department and Department of Homeland Security. Rubio also got a briefing on Guatemala’s counternarcotics efforts, including the interception of at least four shipments of fentanyl precursors since late November totaling 127.5 kilograms (280 pounds), enough to produce more than 114 million doses of the drug.
Rubio, who has offered exemptions to Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign assistance, has signed waivers to allow funding for both programs to continue, officials said. “This is an example of foreign aid that’s in our national interest. That’s why I’ve issued a waiver for these programs. That’s why these programs are coming back online. And they will be functioning because it’s a way of showing to the American people this is the kind of foreign aid that’s aligned with our foreign policy, with our national interest,” Rubio said.
Rubio also spoke Wednesday with Mexican Foreign Secretary Juan Ramón de la Fuente to discuss ways to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, fight fentanyl and transnational criminal organizations and end illegal immigration, according to a State Department statement.
@MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net any info on planes going to Guatemala?
I am starting to wonder if the last 24 hours is actually good for Palestinian liberation. Trump’s proposal for Gaza has been viewed in such negative terms by EVERYONE across the globe, since I don’t think he will be able to implement it, I think it only further isolates Israel and makes them even more of a pariah.
I haven’t been posting because frankly there’s too much, but the abductions, beatings, and killings have continued of any minority from supposed alawites and assadists to supposed queer people. While the zionist president travels the region, his merry men continue their rampage across Syria
So are the liberals going to take up arms against the trump dictatorship or not? Today seems like a good day to do just that, if you wait they get stronger and
who am i fucking kidding.
