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.
Today (16th October) is the 60th anniversary of the first successful test of a nuclear bomb by China
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202410/16/WS670f6f65a310f1265a1c7ed2.html
(Article is about the reopening of a museum to commemorate China’s success in missile and satellite technology)
US Politicians Are Pressuring Ukraine to Lower Draft Age to 18
A Ukrainian official said Tuesday that American politicians are pressuring Ukraine to lower the minimum age of conscription from 25 to 18 to make more young men available for combat.
“If this information has surfaced, I can confirm it: American politicians from both parties are putting pressure on President Zelensky to explain why there is no mobilization of those aged 18 to 25 in Ukraine. The argument of our partners is that when the US fought in Vietnam, people were drafted from the age of 19,” Serhiy Leshchenko, an advisor to President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, wrote on Telegram.
Not gonna look at polls, kamala will lose. They’ll blame Black/Hispanic people, men, Muslims, Jews, Jill Stein, and more, but the root cause will be the genocide in Palestine. If I’m wrong I’ll run a marathon with no training or something similar idk
Both campaigns have no energy. Boring election cycle
USAID officials take ‘daily meetings’ at Sde Teiman torture camp: US aid agency is led by Samantha Powers, a scholar of genocide who has refused to step down amid US support for genocide of Palestinians in Gaza | The Cradle
Hezbollah Daily Operations Update:
On Tuesday, 15/10/2024, the Islamic Resistance conducted 24 operations targeting Israeli troop movements, military bases, and occupied cities with precise missile barrages. Two Hermes 450 drones were also shot down.
Where is Punxsutawney Phil when you need him? Instead of these grotesque media campaigns, each swing state should just have 50/50 pagan ritual involving cute critters to decide the electoral winner.
At the rate she’s going, Kamala will next appear on Lex Friedman with special guest Jordan Peterson to discuss why men feel isolated. Then she’ll make a surprise appearance on Asmongold’s stream to react to Tyler Olivera while muttering “based” every time he suggests that immigrants should be culled.
Finally, she’ll clinch the undecided vote by attending a book signing with celebrated author and beloved feminist, JK Rowling.
Edit: I forgot her one-upping Trump by having Peter Thiel attend one of her rally’s.
Some combat footage and news from the Palestine, Lebanon, and Kursk fronts.
Palestinian resistance groups conducted more IED and RPG strikes on Zionist tanks and other armored vehicles in Gaza: https://southfront.press/in-video-izz-ad-din-al-qassam-brigades-show-their-recent-operations-in-gaza-strip/
In response to the Zionist regime’s genocidal attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, Hezbollah resistance forces launched two Qader-2 missiles at Tel Aviv: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/10/15/735334/Lebanon-Israel-Tel-Aviv-Hezbollah-Qader-2-missiles
Another precise Russian drone strike on a Kiev regime tank in Kursk oblast: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/fpv_WIDE:b
https://x.com/natesilver538/status/1846259437599907880
Nathanial Bronze calls it even just now with his prediction thingie
This is roughly a week after the betting market was dead even so there probably is a short lag due to Nate relying on polls, this doesn’t come as a shock to anyone but it is really not looking good for Kamala from here on out.
CW: animal abuse
So, today here in Brazil a case made headlines: a nine-year-old broke into a vet hospital, tortured and killed 23 animals… I don’t know what to say, this is one of the most brutal things I’ve read in a very long time, really fucked me up. How does this happen? How can a child be capable of such cruelty? Isn’t there some kind of innate empathy towards other mammals? What the fuck is going on inside that boy’s brain?
Man, jesus fucking christ… this world can be a very grim place sometimes
A collab between two of my favorites, Greg Stoker and Jon Elmer:
Failing on All Fronts: Israel Assaults Northern Gaza as Resistance Ramps Up Operations w/ Jon Elmer
By popular request we’re bringing on Jon Elmer of Electronic Intifada to talk about the overall situation in the Palestine/Lebanon battle-space and how the IOF will not be able to maintain its operations forever. Israel is also facing social and economic collapse, but we’re still a ways from that.
I definitely recommend watching/listening.
for demonrats thats basically a duel huh. She should just explode his head
The Last Supper: the Hezbullah’s drone attack is a response to the Pagers incident
The “New York Post” newspaper chose a mocking headline, “Beep Beep Boom!”, for the terrorist attack involving pagers. Users on the internet responded with a picture of Hezbullah’s drone and Whizz_Whizz_Boom hashtag where the whizz is the sound of drones.
Not sure if this is anything but I’m trying to book a flight and hotel, two separate companies, and I’m getting host errors (Cloudflare seems to be fine though?). Weird delays and failures in other websites too. In talking with people over the phone at these companies too they’re getting server/hosting errors as well. Just kind of weird
Edit: also some phone calls just not connecting…strange
The Harris campaign has released a 5 point agenda to “Create Opportunity for Black Men”, that, on the surface, appears to be an attempt to steady what I am sure are cratering polls, and cynically, seems to have been created so they have something to point to and blame black men for not supporting her if and when she loses. Among the highlights: legal weed and “protecting cryptocurrency” lmao
If this were a Trump platform, the liberal media would be screaming about him a racist for thinking what’s most important to black men is crypto and weed.
