Bulletins and News Discussion from October 14th to October 20th, 2024 - Paper Tigers
Bulletins and News Discussion from October 14th to October 20th, 2024 - Paper Tigers
Image is a frame taken from this video of Iranian missiles raining down on Israel without interception due to a weak and depleted air defense system after a year of war and genocide.
Mao, 1956:
Now U.S. imperialism is quite powerful, but in reality it isn't. It is very weak politically because it is divorced from the masses of the people and is disliked by everybody and by the American people too. In appearance it is very powerful but in reality it is nothing to be afraid of, it is a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain. I believe the United States is nothing but a paper tiger.
When we say U.S. imperialism is a paper tiger, we are speaking in terms of strategy. Regarding it as a whole, we must despise it. But regarding each part, we must take it seriously. It has claws and fangs. We have to destroy it piecemeal. For instance, if it has ten fangs, knock off one the first time, and there will be nine left, knock off another, and there will be eight left. When all the fangs are gone, it will still have claws. If we deal with it step by step and in earnest, we will certainly succeed in the end.
Strategically, we must utterly despise U.S. imperialism. Tactically, we must take it seriously. In struggling against it, we must take each battle, each encounter, seriously. At present, the United States is powerful, but when looked at in a broader perspective, as a whole and from a long-term viewpoint, it has no popular support, its policies are disliked by the people, because it oppresses and exploits them. For this reason, the tiger is doomed. Therefore, it is nothing to be afraid of and can be despised. But today the United States still has strength, turning out more than 100 million tons of steel a year and hitting out everywhere. That is why we must continue to wage struggles against it, fight it with all our might and wrest one position after another from it. And that takes time.
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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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Israel is claiming that maybe they got Sinwar
Sinwar will forever be a legend. October 7th was one of the most momentous events in Palestinian history, and will be remembered
as the beginning of the end for the Zionist entity. Glory to all the martyrs.If true, it hardly matters. Sad, yes. Its bizarre to see Zionists cheer this as they haven't learned that they can't just kill their way out of their problems
They've got many of the big name leaders... The resistance continues. They're gonna need to pick a new scary faced brown guy to blame everything on.
Came across the pictures of the body on X, looks exactly like him but I'll wait for further info before standing behind any claim as of now. Tragedy but not like it'll stop the resistance, just a slight moral boost for the zionazis who'll celebrate as they seem to have not learned that killing resistance leaders will never kill the resistance, nothing will.
Not to be that guy, but it's "morale". Moral and Zionism don't belong in the same sentence.
That is true.
The world's most moral genocide.
Whatever moral boost to the zionazis is obviously outweighed by giving the resistance another martyred hero to add to the canon.
Zionazis seem to assume oppressed people are like them, ashamed of their dead and want to hide them when the opposite is true, they pay the ultimate price on the righteous path of resistance and are honored.
the armed groups are named after martyrs
There are images of his suspected dead body circulating, the images look like him and are NSFL.
Seems like they accidentally stumbled onto him while he was patrolling?
Probably a cover story, that would have to be incredibly unlikely
If your genocide rate approaches 10 percent of population, its not that unlikely
It’s not unlikely that the main military leader would be out on patrol?
Don't think it is, it's not a state after all. I doubt he commands deployments or some such. But additionally, i don't think the man of his caliber would sit behind in any case
Looks like he was above ground and fighting. I didn’t have sufficient respect, what a chad
Kinda wish he was hiding like the propaganda always said, but oh well. Gotta respect the man for going out that way I suppose.
People die as they live, always keep that in mind.
Please no.
This was inevitable. Nasrallah, Haniyeh, even Deif were/are all prepared for martyrdom in the struggle, as are their organizations
Israel will get the next person in line until the only person left on the planet is Netanyahu. Then he will finally be safe from corruption charges!
finally the last person on earth, Netanyahu breathes a sigh of relief - now he can relax. He feels the barrel of a gun press into his back. Bibi turns around - it's a second Bibi
Yedioth Ahronoth: Confirmation of Yahya Sinwar's death after conducting tests.
Edit -
We need to wait for confirmation from more official direct sources, as good as The Cradle has been. Ql Qassam, Hamas, Iran nothing as of yet. Al Jazeera hasn't confirmed either. Fog of war.