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 going to regret releasing that video of Sinwar.
wow insanely powerful final moments
Literal mythical final moments. Stuff from legend.
It’s like the end of a movie with a hero making a defiant, tragic last stand. Seven Samurai level stuff. Only this is real.
It feels weird to say it, but in say 50 years there will probably be Palestinian movies about the resistance and this will absolutely be the ending to one of them.
Or imagine it as the opening scene, the start of a new protagonist's story.
I can picture it in my mind. The protagonist in their refugee tent in Gaza, late at night, and as "normal" and quiet as it ever gets. Lights out. The camera's perspective is a slow zoom in on their upper face, because their lower face is blocked by the phone they're staring into, playing Sinwar's last defiance footage over and over, reflected in their glasses so that the audience knows what they're watching. Their anger having gone from loud and hot to calm and resolved. Their intelligent, patient mind focusing the rage as a rocket nozzle focuses the screaming firestorm of the combustion chamber into purpose and direction. No audio whatsoever, except for their slow breathing.
But then the camera cuts to the same scene but with someone else. Same expression. Same confidence of purpose. And another cut, same scene, someone else of the same mind. And again. And again. Quicker and quicker. And then back to our protagonist, and they look up from their phone. Then the opening title and credits.
I don't dream of being this powerful in my own cringe revolutionary fantasies and Sinwar actually did it.
For those of you who who do not want to actually see the video of a mortally wounded person:
the footage the IDF released is filmed from a drone, sent in to scout the ruins of a heavily damaged second floor apartment. after flying in the window, the drone searches while hovering just inside, eventually zeroing in on a man mostly obscured by the overstuffed parlour chair he has collapsed onto. at least one wound can be seen; an injury to his arm is causing blood to seep through his fatigues, staining the arm of the chair.
the wounded man makes ‘eye contact’ with the drone’s camera, before weakly picking up a scrap of metal or maybe rebar from his lap. he raises the piece of metal and throws it toward the drone, maintaining his gaze. the scrap metal is not thrown with enough force to reach the drone, but the operator swerves it backwards as a precaution. the drone stabilises, and refocuses on the wounded man, who maintains his gaze. the footage ends here.
also the pictures show him using a wire to close his wound
Stunning video. Can't imagine what was going through his head in that moment
"Come and get me you cowards."
I can't get the clip out of my head. Bravest people in the world
There's a video?
Even up until the end the iof cowards had to send a drone instead of facing a resistance fighter on his own, they only feel courage to kill when its a child or a woman I see. May he be remembered and honored.
So frightened by literal sticks and stones thrown at their stupid drones by a one armed man, that they resort to shelling the building.
I'm still reeling from the news he is gone.
But he is more powerful now than when he was alive because now he is an image. A man who fought his entire life against occupation and ethnic cleansing defying his oppressors until the very end. A thousand Sinwars will emerge to take his place, and they will continue where he left off.
One day, when the consensus among everyone is that this was a genocide and Palestine is free he will be called a hero by the same people who said he was a terrorist. They will say they were on his side the whole time.
Just ensured this man's face will grace t-shirts for generations
looking for a two-color posterization of him now so I can make a shirt
EDIT: I can't find shit, help me out fam
I'll go looking, though I think I'll mainly find images that I think have good potential/are easy to change and then you're gonna have to do the colorization yourself.
Here's one that's two-tone
Here's a beautiful painting you might be able to do something with
There's this mural, though I can't find other images of it
Here he is wearing a keffiyeh and the colors seem to work fine in high contrast
Another one and with a bunch of mics
Black and white with a classic pose
Wearing palestinian flag
thank you!
hey I found this today
There's a video from a drone of him throwing a piece of rebar at it, and a seperate close up picture of him after he died which I don't recommend looking for, it's not safe for viewing at all.
Fascists always confuse strength with weakness and bravery with fear. They see him as frenzied and delirious as he dies, pathetically wasting his last moments in a failed attempt to lash out against anything. We see him battling against blood loss and pain and literally defying death to try to hurt the entity in his last moments knowing it would be one less drone they can use against his people. They see his failure and we see his resolve.
It's what the chuds imagine themselves doing while fighting the imaginary hordes in their head.
I'm waiting for the desperate backpedal about how the footage was not him but just another badass Palestinian dude.
Went out as a true warrior and hero for his people: on the front lines, fighting their oppressors to the bitter end.
May he be immortalized and rewarded with a peace that he could never have in life.
