Image is from this article, showing a march by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela Youth. The preamble's information came from a few sources, such as here, here, and here.
Over the last few weeks, pressure on Venezuela from the US has mounted as their newest proxy, Gonzalez, lost the election to Maduro. The Trump administration now alleges that Maduro is the mastermind behind the "Cartel of Suns," raised the bounty on Maduro's head from $25 million to $50 million, and is working to deploy troops and naval assets to the region.
While I would not consider myself an expert, I believe an explicit boots-on-the-ground campaign by the US in Venezuela would be, at best, implausible, though the administration has not explicitly denied it (and even if it did deny it, denials by the US are merely confirmations that are being delayed). What seems much more likely is an intensification of a subversive campaign against Venezuela which seeks to further isolate it, with intelligence from the US given to whatever groups and individuals exist inside the country. There are certainly some parallels in regard to recent US belligerence towards Mexico, with both countries being implicitly or explicitly threatened with military force under the guise of "preventing drug trafficking" - and, of course, spreading drugs is one of America's greatest specialities.
Will this work? I don't know, though I am optimistic about Venezuela's chances. The Venezuelan government does seem to be taking this threat with a refreshing degree of seriousness - with over 4 million militia members being activated across the country as of August 18th, as well as a call from Maduro to the armed forces to be on high alert. The socialist youth of Venezuela are being mobilized in defense of the revolution.
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Israel's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. 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.
brian berletic's vid on indonesia confirms the presence of USAID / ford foundation backed groups in the protests.
it's pretty obvious to anybody who has been following color revolutions for a while that there are definite imperialist forces moving in the protests. especially in recent years, SEA has been a hot-bed of color revolution forces that the US has been building to destabilize the region in a new arab spring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqgOn94c23M
video link
I don't think you could find a single social movement in the world over the past century that hasn't had some level of interference by international capital. It's a bit silly to go all the way to comparing it to a "colour revolution" on that basis. I'm not sure what running defence for a right-wing anti-communist government whose pigs literally ran over and murdered people is supposed to achieve here, are we meant to defend Indonesia's government for being part of BRICS? Does that also apply to the UAE?
Personally I'm on the side of the people standing up to a corrupt government that murdered over a million people, many of them communists, within living memory and still venerates the perpetrators. I'm not convinced that a "new Arab spring" would go like the last one either given that western states are in a way weaker position than they were in 2011 and there's generally far more anti-American sentiment amongst the global south masses now.
Color revolution doesn't always mean the government is "good," but if the western influence successfully installs their people in charge the people you are standing with are likely gonna be in a similar or worse position than before. Hopefully there is a legitimate movement that can outmaneuver the NGO politicians and the government
I don't think the state is seriously challenged by these protests yet anyway. They're pretty much just waiting it out. Seems to be the pattern with these global south uprisings that you have a few days or weeks of street action, some buildings get burned, and if the popular unrest is extreme enough then you might see a resignation or a backing-down from an unpopular policy but nothing will fundamentally change. I wonder what's preventing the burgeoning proletariat from getting organised for power instead of producing this cycle of chaos and disappointment; where are the Bolsheviks in all of this? The same pattern occurs in Nigeria, Kenya, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka (they did get a relatively left-leaning elected government eventually I guess), Indonesia, and so on... Is it just the strength of modern counter-revolutionary propaganda?
Keeping their heads down because they were all murdered last time and that lives in the mind of every single organiser there today.
From what I have been told by people more in the know than me, there are still plenty of comrades in Indo unions
But I shouldnt pretend people almost don't exist if they're not posting on everything on meta haha (🥲)
I think it is that strength of counter-revolutionary propaganda plus the trauma of the failed movements of the past making people think communist methods are a combination of inherently unable to be successful or too dangerous to try.
At this point in history we've reached a point of global anti communist consciousness where most people default to thinking communism is failed and that any successes of nominally communist modern states aren't due to communism, or those states aren't really communist.
Thats also happening in the global north, usually the protests get hijacked by libs and watered down. See BLM.
This reminds me that I recently overheard two americans libs reinvent general strikes and "what if we could cover the loss of wages that protesting people endure in longer protests". You really have to start on zero.
you might enjoy reading if we burn (vincent bevins, also wrote the jakata method), about leaderless protest movements in the oast decade being highjacked by fascists
https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/vincent-bevins/pdf-epub-if-we-burn-the-mass-protest-decade-and-the-missing-revolution-download/
the liberal invents the strike fund from first principles lmao. we are so cooked
I never defended prabowo for anything, im just reporting the confirmation of what imperialist forces are doing in the protests.
With china successfully winning over the middle countries through practice - even the right wing forces - its going to take the us installing ideologically committed compradors to create backwards forces to chinas progress. These global south countries are middle forces, and even despite domestic conservatism or liberalism we should support their right to self determination, not US backed regime change.
Its entirely possible that like in Chile for instance, the uprisings lead to progressive conditions, but for that to be the case thered need to be an organized left to institutionalize those advances.
Yes as usual there are legitimate grievances by the public which are being manipulated by western NGOs and the like.
I saw a comment complaining about leftists downplaying the grievances and blaming it all on the West as if the people don't have a reason to be angry, which I think is probably because most leftists just assume it's obvious that there are real grievances and what needs a spotlight is the widely unknown chicanery.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: