The imperial core is continuing the process of self-cannibalization as the interimperial wars between Europe and the US over resource and territorial control continue. Greenland, populated with less than a hundred thousand heavily exploited people, is the newest territory to fall under Trump’s gaze. The main draw is the mineral resources present there, of which it boasts nickel, copper, cobalt, and platinum, and much more than remains unexplored under the ice. But the ice is melting, and profit must be made. There is an additional element of wanting Arctic territory to counter Chinese and especially Russian interests and aims; Russia is increasingly eyeing the northern Arctic route as an alternative to more vulnerable routes through the Suez Canal or around Africa, and is investing heavily in icebreakers for that purpose.
However, even if Europe possessed the desire to resist American annexations - and they absolutely do not, at the end of the day - they do not even have the ability. Denmark may, to a lesser or greater extent, make angry sounds and talk about national honour or some such, but their military would be trampled underfoot by even the New York Police Department, let alone a concerted military effort by the US. If Trump wants Greenland, he will have it. This will naturally increase the grumbling in Europe about reconsidering the Transatlantic alliance, and that grumbling may, in the medium-term future, as the American Empire continues its decline, lead to meaningful results. But in the short term, Europe shall have to bear whatever Trump throws at them, for they obviously cannot now ally with Russia, who was the natural counterweight to American interests for decades before 2022.
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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.
TikTok ban is going through on Sunday.
The lack of desire to win in the dems is just staggering. Why would they let the ban take place after the election?
They are such loyal stooges of the empire it really beggars belief.
So is Trump really pressuring Netanyahu into this supposed ceasefire? Trump was the harm reduction candidate all along huh
Biden is an ideologically committed Zionist. Trump just wants to look like a good negotiator. He was always more likely to actually put pressure on Israel.
Having the Central Bank “finance” deficits by simply issuing debt to them was the common practice in the west till 1980s. This “central bank independence” is nonsense. It is just a way to transfer the responsibility for austerity to someone else.
It should be seen in a different way. Strain on the external sector due to sanctions and the war forced the Government to deficit spend as the economy went to a recession due to shrinking tax revenues.
This happened in the West too in 2008, when economic collapse resulted in tax revenues going down and unemployment benefits to go up. “Automatic stablizers”. If anything, the lack of discretionary spending on recovery in Syria didn’t help the economy recover once the war subsided.
The exchange rate depreciation resulted in passthrough inflation. This wasn’t the fault of Syrian Government, sanctions were responsible for it. You can look at Iranian Rial and see the same thing when Trump ramped up sanctions.
I also recently finished reading International Brigade Against Apartheid by Ronnie Kasrils and this other book, the title of which would certainly give off some
vibes at a first glance by Steven Friedman, published just in November 2023. Despite the otherwise problematic title, the author of the latter gave an interview on CII Radio live and on Newzroom Afrika last year, discussing the launch of his newest book that reads like the South African counterpart to Blackshirts and Reds and he speaks just like George Galloway and Norman Finkelstein.The first book is a collection of war stories and the numerous campaigns against the Apartheid South African regime, more in-depth details of guerilla operations, organized calls of boycott throughout the world, the development of various solidarity movements and a closer examination of the Apartheid government’s politics, both internal/domestic and international. While the intent of this book is not necessarily to draw parallels between one former and one current Apartheid entity, many of the actions, goals and the words of the participants of Apartheid has matched exactly with those of piSSrael today. Of course, the Apartheid South Africa’s ambitions of a “genocide against most of the continent in self-defence” fell flat.
The second book is a bit more challenging to write a brief description of, lol still editing and writing about the 2nd book
Duma Boko became president of Botswana 2 months ago and he has very promptly demanded that the Americans halt operations in the Thebephatshwa Airbase. In 2019, the EFF also stated that the base presents a direct security threat to South Africa, being less than 400 kilometers away from Gauteng and that an attack would be casus belli for South Africa to engage in conflict with Botswana again. 20 million people live within this 400-kilometer radius with the bulk of them in Gauteng.
Of course, post-Apartheid South Africa and Botswana have maintained generally good relations apart from that one time they undermined the beginnings of academic boycotts against piSSrael. It would take a coup for the relations between the two to go sideways which would create an immediate parallel to the Euromaidan coup over a decade ago.
The Palestinian football team Burj al Luq-Luq has also landed in Cape Town last week and recently, the Palestine Solidarity Alliance scaled the Diamond Building in Johannesburg, hoisting a large Palestinian flag to the building’s eastern side antenna.
Death to NATO, Death to AmeriKKKa, Death to piSSrael
Botswana was a darling of the west for a very long time. Often upheld as the “good” african nation in contrast to the corrupt and “bad” africa which does not just forget about its past and pulls themselves up by the bootstraps. This will be interesting. Its also of note that Tswana people are the primary ethnic group in the north west state and apartheid south africa wanted to give the tswana banustan to botswana back in the 90s.
Btw the IMF has an online library where you can download a bunch of their analysis (analyses?) of various regions of the world. Presumably you can learn a lot about how the vampires all think, and where they see potential faultlines in the financial empire of the United States. Same with the world bank, which has a quarterly commodities forecast which talks about the potential price developments in wheat, oil and others.
This is not to encourage people to take their word as gospel, but it’s probably a decent idea to know how these specific institutions looks upon the world, since their ideology is so dominant among the ruling elites of the world.
Trump wants to keep creating redundant bureaucracies. What is CBP for? Who does he think pays the import tariffs, it’s not China. China gets fiat money, U.S. gets real goods.
Trump is the highest ranking asset of the CPC.
Trust the plan. Patriots are in control.
As the saying goes, “Only Trump can surrender America to China.”
simply the greatest geopolitical strategist who’s ever livedSomething something, evangelical chinese father who thinks Trump is sent by God to punish the United States
Some news from occupied Palestine.
The Zionist regime admitted that yesterday Palestinian resistance fighters eliminated five more Zionist occupation troops in northern Gaza: https://southfront.press/israeli-army-takes-in-more-losses-in-gaza-as-ceasefire-nears/
Yemen fired another hypersonic Palestine-2 ballistic missile at the Zionist “Defense Ministry” headquarters in Tel Aviv: https://thecradle.co/articles/undeterred-by-us-led-war-yemen-targets-israel-three-times-in-12-hours
Zionist genocidal attacks massacred over 50 civilians in Gaza, including an attack on Gaza City’s Shujaiya neighborhood that killed 11 people. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/01/14/740875/Israel-kills-50-Palestinians-Gaza-strikes
Special bonus video, a US activist correctly called out Blinken for being a brutal war criminal: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/01/14/977470.html
South Korean president arrested by anti-corruption investigators after weekslong showdown - CNN
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested for questioning, according to the country’s anti corruption agency, in the latest chapter of a weekslong political saga that began with the embattled president’s shock martial law decree last month. Yoon left his residential compound with investigators in a motorcade Wednesday morning and was taken into custody – the first time such an action has been taken against a sitting president in South Korea.
Yoon is wanted for questioning in multiple investigations related to his short-lived declaration, including over accusations of leading an insurrection – a crime punishable by life imprisonment or even the death penalty. The embattled president has been holed up in his fortified residence for weeks surrounded by his Presidential Security Service team, evading arrest as he faces several probes and an impeachment trial.
The Corruption Investigation Office (CIO), which is working with police and the defense ministry to investigate Yoon, first attempted to detain him earlier this month, but it failed after an hours-long showdown in which soldiers and members of the presidential security detail blocked some 80 police and investigators from approaching the presidential compound.
Following his arrest, Yoon released a pre-recorded video message Wednesday in which he again dismissed the investigations into him as “illegal” and said “the law is all broken in this country.” “As a president who must protect the constitution and legal system of the Republic of Korea, responding to these illegal and invalid procedures is not an acknowledgment of them, but in the hopes of preventing unsavory bloodshed,” he said.
The warrant allows investigators to hold Yoon for up to 48 hours. The CIO would need to apply for an arrest warrant within that period to detain him further. Groups of supporters and opponents of Yoon were both at the scene Wednesday, with videos from Reuters and CNN affiliate YTN showing demonstrators pulling up in buses and gathering in the streets around Yoon’s compound, despite sub-zero conditions.
Some demonstrators could be heard chanting “resign,” “your time is up” and “take responsibility,” while supporters of the embattled president chanted “invalid impeachment,” “free ROK, hurrah!” and “we won!” The crowds were accompanied by lines of uniformed police, and a combination of police buses and protester buses remained outside the residence, blockading the street.
A YTN video showed a large sign on the back of one bus that read “Insurrection Department – Yoon Suk Yeol” in Korean – a slogan typical of anti-Yoon protests since the president launched his martial law decree last month. A court approved a warrant to detain the president earlier this month after Yoon, a former prosecutor, refused to answer three summonses by investigators in recent weeks asking for his cooperation, according to the CIO.
I made a perfect declaration of martial law and they arrested me for it!!
“invalid impeachment!”Execute him
Do nothing
win
✋😐🤚 pure kino from dprk
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of course we have emoji, why did i doubt
Several Russian media outlets are reporting that two Brazilian mercenary groups were destroyed in Kursk. According to reports, the surviving mercenaries are trying to contact Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) by satellite for help evacuating the area.
The Russian government estimates that there are 241 Brazilian mercenaries fighting with Ukraine, most of whom are former Brazilian military or police officers. In 2016, Civil Police in the Southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul discovered that members of the fascist Azov militia were recruiting members of illegal Brazilian Neo-nazi groups in 11 cities to fight for right wing militias in Donbas.
Of course they are from the Brazilian south
Is this where Bolsonaro supporters live?
Yes, but I think parts of the big cities and most of the border cities are Lulista and Trabalhismo strongholds (This is like Brazilian Peronism, social democracy but a bit more radical) or at least tend to vote for leftists. Bolsonaro’s strongholds are in the central states of Brazil and in the small towns in the southeast that tend to vote for conservative candidates. The left tends to do well in the northeast, the Amazonian states, Rio de Janeiro and Brazil’s southernmost state.
before the invention of standard maoist english, there was the brazilian state of Santa Catareich
It’s where a lot of German descendants live.
korean dude running the cornerstore is convinced Yoon is gonna get executed. how accurate do newsheads think that assessment is?
im going to get a second opinion asking a bodega kitty
is the kitty a korean immigrant as well?
no :(
well that’s ok i bet they’re still soft and nice
Today’s news and videos from the Donbass.
Russian forces liberated the western Donetsk People’s Republic settlement of Neskuchnoye (southwest of Kiev-occupied Velikaya Novosyolka) and the northern DPR settlement of Terny (northeast of Kiev-occupied Krasny Liman): https://sputnikglobe.com/20250114/russian-army-liberates-neskuchnoye-and-terny-settlements-in-donbass-1121427446.html
Russian air defenses shot down six US-supplied “ATACMS” missiles and eight British-supplied “Storm Shadow” cruise missiles over the past 24 hours: https://sputnikglobe.com/20250114/ukraine-loses-over-1600-soldiers-in-battles-as-russia-liberates-two-settlements-1121427183.html
Russian self-propelled howitzer in action (video): https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/mat.mp4?_=3
Looks like they got his ass
Is it finally Yoon-over?
It’s over for President Incel
Millions must have sex
ladies and gentlemen…… we got him
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Welcome to the first week of the Imperialism Reading Group!
This will be a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. How many chapters or pages we will cover per week will vary based on the density and difficulty of the book, but I’m generally aiming at 30 to 40 pages per week, which should take you about an hour or two.
The first book we will be covering is the foundation, the one and only, Lenin’s Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism. We will read two chapters per week starting from this week, meaning that we will finish reading in mid-to-late February. Unless a better suggestion is made, we will then cover Michael Hudson’s Super Imperialism, and continue with various books from there.
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This week, we will be reading Chapter 1: Concentration of Production and Monopolies, and Chapter 2: Banks and their New Role.
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Authorities in the Republic of Korea (ROK) are attempting to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol for the second time over his brief declaration of martial law in December. Up to 1,000 police officers have been deployed, currently attempting to enter Yoon’s residence.
