A reminder that as the US continues to threaten countries around the world, fedposting is to be very much avoided (even with qualifiers like “in Minecraft”) and comments containing it will be removed.

Image is of people passing through a road affected by landslides in Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the cyclone.

Over the last week, Sri Lanka has been hit by their worst national natural disaster since the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Over 2 million people (about 10% of the population) were affected; the death toll is currently climbing past 600; nearly a hundred thousand homes have been damaged or destroyed, transport infrastructure is heavily damaged; industry has been damaged; and farmland has been flooded. The cost of damage so far looks to be about $7 billion, which is more than the combined budget spent on healthcare and education in Sri Lanka.

While there is plenty to say meteorologically about how this yet another concerning escalation as a result of climate change (Sri Lanka does experience cyclones, but they are usually significantly weaker than this), it’s important to note that such disasters are, to at least a certain extent, able to warned about and their impacts somewhat mitigated. However, this requires both access to early detection and warning equipment, and an economy in which development is widespread - in this case, particularly in the construction of drainage systems and regulated construction, which has not generally occurred.

The IMF, on its 17th program with Sri Lanka, is doing its utmost to prevent such an economy from developing, as they instead promote reductions in public investment. On top of this, the rebuilding effort for Sri Lanka is already being planned and funded, and such donors include, of course, many Sri Lankan oligarchs, who will rebuild the damaged portions of the country yet further according to their visions, while sidelining the working class.

Perhaps neoliberalism’s decay into its eventual death occurring concurrently into the gradual intensification of climate change and renewed wars signifies the rise of the era of disaster capitalism.

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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine

If you have evidence of Zionist 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 the temporary Zionist entity. 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.

Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.

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.

  • InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    3 天前

    I did not meant to moralize but meant we should not to blame all of internal and systematic problem to US alone and recognize how liberal democracy was the reason for government failure

    There’s that word again. Blame. This is idealist mode of thought. Who is “to blame” doesn’t matter and is irrelevant. The US was in control of the revolt and thus it should have been opposed. Simple as. Now that the imperialists have their victory, Nepal has a long road of struggle ahead of it to even get back to where they previously were. More likely they will slide into more reaction, more IMF funding traps, more neoliberalism, more western propaganda, more western take-over of instutitions and more anti-China positions. This is how neocolonialism functions, the capture is slow at first and ideological and deeply rooted in the comprador class of society which holds a lot of cultural sway. You are too close to it to see it, you are refusing to look at the facts.

    Your “vibe” does not override the billions of dollars in receipts. I’m sorry. I’m a materialist not a vibist. The one who pays is the one in charge. The revolution was paid for, we have the receipts, and we know who was paid and who paid the money.

    The government’s main source of incompetence is letting these NGOs and infestations build-up to the extent that it did instead of going full Lukashenko and liquidating their little projects. THAT is what the people should have been in the street pushing for, kicking out the colonizers and destroying/expropriating their organizations. Instead this revolt did the opposite, going out on the streets on behalf of western social media and NGOs to encourage deeper penetration into Nepalese society.

    • xarm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      3 天前

      yeah I guess I am bad at explaining my point. The pressure in Nepal was building up for a long time and it exploded with that revolt.

      Well good luck to us then. Will be pretty funny if the the Juche party getting on top after this but probably not.

      • InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        3 天前

        You understand that next time you have to fight against the western NGOs and not with them right? And by government incompetence you don’t mean failure to liquidate these western spies and collaborators and break their comprador class into pieces like Lukashenko did, I’m guessing? Because if we’re doing an autopsy on how to prevent this tragic failure and defeat then that’s the lesson that should be taken. Decolonialism is not just a phrase. It requires excising certain elements of society from power, it means breaking colonial structures and organization apart. It means taking an axe to the patronage networks.

        China showed how to do this in Hong Kong. You suppress the “revolt” and its leaders and destroy all of their money networks. Insofar as the government should be “blamed” is for their failure to do these things. That is where their main error was.