Image is of a crowd protesting in Athens.
Last week, on Friday, hundreds of thousands of Greeks poured into the streets to strike and protest on the second anniversary of the deadliest train crash in Greek history, in which 57 people died when a passenger train collided with a freight train. On this February 28th, public transportation was virtually halted, with train drivers, air traffic controllers, and seafarers taking part in a 24 hour strike - alongside other professions like lawyers, teachers, and doctors.
The train crash is emblematic of the decay of state institutions brought about from austerity being forced on Greece in the aftermath of the 2008 Great Recession, in which the IMF and the EU (particularly Germany) plundered the country and forced privatization. While Greece has somewhat recovered from the dire straits it was in during the early 2010s, the consequences of neoliberalism are very clearly ongoing. Mitsotakis’ right-wing government has still not even successfully implemented the necessary safety procedures two years on, and so far, nobody has been convicted nor punished for their role in the accident. The austerity measures were deeply unpopular inside Greece and yet the government did not respond to, or ignored, democratic outcry.
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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.
Exclusive: US and Ukraine prepare to sign minerals deal on Tuesday, sources say
President Donald Trump has told his advisers that he wants to announce the agreement in his address to Congress Tuesday evening, three of the sources said, cautioning that the deal had yet to be signed and the situation could change.
Apparently he wants to sign it sometime in the next ~5 hours?
Another one
BREAKING: The Supreme Court just weakened the Clean Water Act’s limitations on raw sewage discharge into our water in a 5-4 ruling.
Owning the libs by making everyone drink more doo doo water
The United States has withdrawn from the board of the U.N.'s hard-negotiated climate damage fund, dedicated to helping poor and vulnerable nations cope with climate change-fuelled disasters
The withdrawal is “effective immediately”
As of January 23, wealthy countries had pledged $741 million to the fund, according to U.N. data, with the United States putting up $17.5 million. It is unclear if it will now honour that pledge.
$17.5 million dollars and they are still withdrawing.
Petro wins, US military deportation flights suspended
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-deportation-flights-paused-cost-c37c577a
jdpon chuck joins the crusade against the dollar
Leftist podcasters taking piss out of calling z-man dictator do be annoying, how the fuck a person outlawing political parties he don’t like (including (chuddy) communists) (and pro russian is not fucking excuse, they are parties not militant movements, allegedly democracy allows for parties being elected who pursue different foreign policy), arresting them on treason if they criticize him, and extending his rule by pure fiat is not a dictator. And american prestige honestly citing 57 percent approval rating is just lmao.
I already said this a couple of weeks ago, but it’s funny how libs made fun of former President Yoon of South Korea for trying to do back in December what Zelenskyy has been successfully doing for the last 3 years.
Yet libs have no problem with Z-man doing it.
Liberal’s Advocate: Z not holding elections is way less entertaining than the circus around the Yoon coup attempt. Even here, people are way more interested in the Yoon coup because it was such a mess, I remember looking through the pile of jokes about it when it was happening. Z not holding elections is just boring, I barely see anyone talking about it, let alone making jokes.
Trump vs Zelensky is like a switch triggered in people’s brains and because it’s Trump being mean to him that means Z-man is good. Fucking brainrot. It’s happening everywhere. I even see “leftists” defending british military because JD Vance said we haven’t been to war in 30 years. This shit causes people to turn off their brains or reveal deeply held nationalist thoughts.
real ww1 war credits moment (i.e. that everyone is extremely full of shit)
You mean there are no honest and good sides in the inter-imperialist struggle for securing colonies and supremacy, and that the only way out is revolutionary socialism? If only anyone had written a book about this about 107 years ago…
Sounds like a tankie, sorry, i will vote for my genocide-supporting socdem party
While JD Vance was factually wrong in saying that the British military hasn’t been at war for 30-40 years (they were involved in Iraq and Afghanistan), his underlying point was correct in that European armies are woefully unprepared, inadequate, understaffed and ill equipped for a war without US support, and thus no one takes European claims of “20k peacekeepers” seriously. The Gulf war and bombing of Yugoslavia should have been the warning signs for Europe. Iraq should have been their red line. But no, we are now here 22 years after Iraq and Europe has no plan, no sovereign project.
UK libs: “How dare they suggest Britain hasn’t been to war? We’ve bombed several countries full of Slavic, brown, and Irish people who were unequipped to fight back.”
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Ukraine continues to be a litmus test for leftists even after three years
Marvel and Harry Potter brain. There are good guys, and bad guys. We’re always the good guys.
Russia has made a big breakthrough in Kursk. According to multiple Ukrainian sources, from various telegrams, war mappers and the Kyiv Post, the Ukrainians are effectively operationally encircled in Sudzha. Russia has taken complete control of one of the two main supply roads, and the other supply road is under complete Russian fire control. Air strikes from the Ukrainian Air Force over the past few weeks, including F-16s armed with GBU-39 small diameter glide bombs, were not enough to break the siege. The Ukrainians, of course, are blaming this on a new brigade of North Korean troops.
Blue on the maps is Ukrainian occupied territory.
How the Kursk front looked like a week ago, for comparison:
1-trump says stupid shit
2-the stocks go down
3-buy low
4-backpedals
5-the stocks go back up, they sell.
6-profit
It do be like that. Very rational much efficiency
Trump puts new limits on Elon Musk; Tells Cabinet he has no authority to fire workers - Politico
President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet in person on Thursday to deliver a message: You’re in charge of your departments, not Elon Musk.
According to two administration officials, Trump told top members of his administration that Musk was empowered to make recommendations to the departments but not to issue unilateral decisions on staffing and policy. Musk was also in the room.
The meeting followed a series of mass firings and threats to government workers from the billionaire Tesla founder, who helms the Department of Government Efficiency, that created broad uncertainty across the federal government and its workforce.
IDOGE’s actions have faced ferocious resistance in court and criticism from Democratic lawmakers and some Republicans.
The Trump-Elon split
Canadian oil is partially exempt from the US tariffs, will be tariffed at 10% (current tariff is 0%), instead of at 25% like everything else.
All Canadian energy is going to be 10%. I can only hope that in New England this is going to be the year where we
regional energy conglomerate CEOs. Our prices are a cluster fuck because of inept government management (thanks “transition” fuel and “free market” energy) and the fact that our regional energy conglomerates are monopolies that have captured all regulation, to the point where they are freely admitting they haven’t done proper maintenance and also that money is gone so they need to raise the rates to do maintenance. Obviously the YoY profit keeps coming.
Communists in Sri Lanka are really stuck in the debt trap from the previous gov
