Image is of Joseph Robinette Biden, who has stepped down and will not run against Trump in the 2024 election.


In the aftermath of Trump surviving an assassination attempt, many professional opinion-havers are now talking about the scourge of “political violence” that has overtaken, or will soon overtake America, and how we must not let chaos rule. This is, of course, patently absurd. The American government and its allies have been the greatest force of political violence on the planet since the beginning of colonialism, and the foundations of the country are made of corpses. Today, America commits political violence by forcing Ukrainians into the maw of Russian artillery instead of trying to reach a peaceful settlement, which Russia has repeatedly expressed interest in and offered Ukraine relatively favourable terms. They supply Israel with endless weaponry to destroy entire cities and populations, while Biden supporters insist that somehow things could be worse than daily massacres and mass starvation.

In May 1945, French police fired on protestors, causing retaliatory attacks on French settlers, killing about a hundred. In response, the French murdered 45,000 Algerians in a little under two months, in a frenzy of political violence called the Sétif and Guelma massacre. As the massacre was being completed, the International Court of Justice was established. It goes without saying that Algeria never benefited from the ICJ, and the War of Independence from 1954 to 1962 was made inevitable. Over a million Algerians were killed before France could bear the fighting no longer and gave up, and Algeria won itself a state. Comparisons to the ongoing war of independence and genocide in Palestine are obvious.

While the means of colonial violence have evolved over the centuries, the basic structure of it has not. As in Algeria, Vietnam, and Cuba, resistance groups in and around Palestine are fighting for a world with less political violence. The American government would drown every city in the developing world in blood to prevent peace.


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The Country of the Week is Algeria! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.

Please check out the HexAtlas!

The bulletins site is here!
The RSS feed is here.
Last week’s thread is here.

Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli 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 Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA daily-ish 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 (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
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.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

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.
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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    Excerpt from the address by President of Burkina Faso Captain Ibrahim Traoré to the active forces of the nation, Ouagadougou, July 11, 2024

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    "Imperialists have their own vision of the world, which I will explain to you.

    For them, the world is summarized in a triangle, which you will see in most of their symbols.

    You may not understand, but for them, the world is a triangle.

    At the top of this triangle is the ‘Empire of Good,’ and they believe they are this empire.

    It represents prosperity and everything positive, and they believe they have the right to all happiness and wealth in this world. They think it’s their right to impose their worldview and way of life.

    That’s why, during the conquest, they came to our lands, claiming to have ‘discovered’ them, because they saw us as mere savages with nothing in common with them.

    They called us ‘indigenous,’ believing they have all the rights and that the world should function according to their wishes.

    To illustrate, just look at their movies. They’ve brainwashed their people into believing they’re superior and entitled to everything.

    In these films, the villains are almost always Russians, South Americans, or Blacks portrayed as drug dealers, pimps, or human traffickers. Recently, Arabs have been cast as terrorists.

    This reveals exactly how they perceive the world.

    On the economic front, who among us hasn’t labeled Chinese products as ‘cheap goods’? But today, I can tell you we were wrong.

    China has advanced technology, and most countries source their goods there, rebrand them, and sell them back to us as their own.

    Look around: those in the construction industry will confirm that their equipment is now mostly Chinese. The transport sector will say the same.

    They lied to us.

    During our travels over the past 20 months, we’ve seen businesses and factories worldwide and realized it all leads back to China.

    Yet their propaganda made us despise Chinese products and believe that quality only comes from them.

    To better understand, let’s go back in time.

    Read about the Tsars, Mongol conquests, Persian, Turkish, and Ottoman empires. You will understand why the world is the way it is.

    At the base of the triangle, there are two empires: the Empire of Evil and the Empire of Slaves. The Empire of Evil includes the groups I mentioned earlier.

    According to the imperialists, the Empire of Evil must disappear as it embodies the devil.

    This was communicated to their people, especially during the 1980s, with the collapse of Russia under President Gorbachev, orchestrated by President Ronald Reagan.

    Three main strategies caught our attention.

    First, they asked Saudi Arabia to lower oil prices from $35 to $7 to collapse the Russian economy.

    Second, they armed the Taliban (who were received by President Ronald Reagan at the White House) with CIA-supplied Stinger surface-to-air missiles to fight the Russians, then later pretended to fight the Taliban themselves. Go figure!

    Third, they bluffed with the Star Wars project (Strategic Defense Initiative), leading Gorbachev to create the Paulus Project, which weakened Russia.

    After Russia’s collapse, those who claimed to be the ‘Empire of Good’ started to gloat until Vladimir Putin and his team came to revive Russia.

    The ‘Empire of Evil’ (according to them) has suffered greatly.

    Look at Iran today, facing all possible sanctions.

    Look at how they label certain peoples.

    Through their propaganda, they can make you hate or love a people. They are masters of communication, using every possible channel to manipulate.

    Look at the wars that are raging. They invented them for their own interests.

    And finally, the Empire of Slaves, according to them, is Africa and some nations of South America.

    In their minds, Africa belongs to them—our lands, our riches are theirs.

    They cannot conceive of Africans emancipating themselves, lifting their heads above water, and standing up to them.

    For this reason, they stereotype Africans as easy to manipulate and driven by emotions.

    They will always find an African to fight against his own brother, and it has always been this way.

    Through their communication, they have led you to hate your own skin color.

    In our cultures, and in many cultures in Burkina Faso, mourning was symbolized by the color blue. When a woman lost her husband, she wore blue garments to mourn for a certain period.

    They came and told you that black symbolizes mourning, the devil, mediocrity, and everything negative. Unfortunately, we accepted this so much that now, when we mourn, we wear black.

    We need to wake up.

    This is their stereotype: they are the Empire of Good, others are the Empire of Evil, and we are the Empire of Slaves.

    This is the imperialist worldview.

    You need to understand this.

    Now, I want to address certain intellectuals who keep preaching for the imperialists. Do they ignore this part of history? I am not making anything up; it has been declassified.

    You can find everything I said in libraries or online. Have these intellectuals not read it? Do they not know the history of this world?

    Perhaps it is dishonesty or a few dollars that lead them to always preach for the imperialists.

    Our intellectuals must always strive to raise awareness in our people, our masses, so they understand where they come from and how they are viewed by the imperialists."

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