Image is of Trudeau and Trump together at Mar-a-Lago in November 2024. Source is here.
The Liberals, headed by Trudeau, have not been doing so hot lately. Polls have been rather poor, showing the party far behind the Conservatives, and the Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland (an outspoken apologist for Ukrainian Nazis) resigned recently, with more MPs following her lead. Trump’s return to power has shaken the Canadian establishment due to his threats to impose massive tariffs on Mexico and Canada, which will have substantial economic consequences given that Canada sends most of its exports to the US, compounding the economic malaise that has affected most of the world over the last few years.
With all this bad news, there are rumors and reports that Trudeau will soon resign, ending his nine years of rule. His fall would be yet another casualty in the wave of incumbent parties falling across the imperial core, only to be replaced by more conservative parties that have very similar policies but wish to cast all blame and hardship onto minorities.
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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.
This news is so confusing. I have no idea what’s happening with Guai-dos and her arrest/protest/coup/hostage situation
Let me try to explain this better: Maria Corina Machado (far-right, zionist, pro-usa, racist, homophobic) has been the main US ally/puppet in Venezuela since the Bush administration. Her presidential candidate/puppet was a guy called Edmundo Gonzalez (Who is a moderate liberal who worked for Chávez during the brief period when Chávez was a socdem 1998-2001, Edmund was a diplomat in Spain and Honduras, and also promised that, if he won the elections, he would grant amnesty to Maduro and all the Chavistas, Machado didn’t like that). Maduro won the 2024 presidential elections, but Machado and Edmundo refused to recognize the results. Meanwhile, in secret, Edmundo negotiated a deal with Maduro and Spain to recognize the election results in exchange for asylum for Edmundo in Spain.
Machado continued to hide in Colombia and sometimes returned to Venezuela in an attempt to provoke riots, protests or a military uprising, but all failed. The CIA asked Edmundo to do something instead of staying in Spain. Machado started promoting this strange fake news that SOMETHING would happen on January 10th (today) and that somehow Edmundo would become president. Yesterday, she was holding a protest with around 3,000 to 5,000 people in Caracas. She was probably annoyed by the fact that nothing happened, there was no conflict, because the Chavistas ignored her, she got on her bike with her bodyguards and started driving away. Some police officers stopped her to check that everything was in order. A policeman posted a photo of her being stopped and someone on Facebook, who was pro-Machado, started spreading fake news that she had been arrested and was being tortured or something.
They probably did this in an attempt to win the sympathy of the international community or to persuade Brazil, Mexico and Colombia to withdraw their diplomats from recognizing Maduro’s inauguration. This didn’t work, Machado was seen as a weak leader who was easily arrested and probably died. She became desperate and recorded a video saying she was fine. The police literally let her go after talking to her and looking at her documents. Now, some people are spreading the fake news that she’s actually being forced to say this because the BRUTAL and EVIL chavista cops wouldn’t let her go.