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Bulletins and News Discussion from September 8th to September 14th, 2025 - Reconciliation, Resets, and Really Cool Parades
(hexbear.net)
Analysis and images of the parades is all over the internet and in the last megathread; for the China-India stuff I recommend this article, as well as the Tricontinental in general.
Image is from @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net's comment in the last megathread.
Last week was the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2, and on such an occasion, China put on quite an impressive military parade, especially in comparison to the rather drab and corporate parade that the USA recently had. In attendance were many world leaders, including Putin, Kim Jong Un, and a very happy-looking Lukashenko.
This took place shortly after the SCO summit in Tianjin, in which Modi was notably in attendance. That one of the world's most powerful fascists was in attendance in China near the anniversary of the World Antifascist War is obviously pretty ironic. Regardless, the mood was still relatively positive; for example, Xi announced the acceleration of the creation of the SCO development bank, and Indian-Chinese relations are once again in the thaw cycle of their long-term cyclical pattern, with direct flights resumed and links expanded. The fact that there is this much projected optimism from China about a Global South which is being increasingly tariffed, infiltrated, starved, looted, bombed, invaded, and massacred in the hundreds of thousands by rabid imperialist dogs is perhaps a little tone-deaf, but buoying up the SCO is better than doing nothing at all, I suppose.
Any astute Geopolitics Understander can tell you that this is certainly not India joining the side of the Global South, but instead a move somewhat forced upon them as they seek to balance both sides for their own gain. As Trump amps up pressure on India via tariffs, it is natural that India would seek leverage, and there is much that India gains: industrial development, increased intra-regional trade, and scientific knowledge from a China which has, in numerous fields, now pulled ahead of the USA. India is also facing numerous internal crises, ranging from run-of-the-mill capitalist incompetence and corruption, to worsening conditions for farmers, to the ravaging impacts of climate change, and increasing their links with China is a way to vent off a little of that pressure and protect Modi's regime.
Last week's thread is here.
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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.
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Just because western journalists aren't slobbering at the chance to overthrow another non-west-aligned government publicly doesn't mean there isn't stuff happening behind the scenes. And this is how the narrative always goes with color revolutions, that it can't be a color revolution because people are actually angry. That's how it always is, in every single color revolution, that is what it is by definition. People have legitimate grievances, and CIA assets exploit that in order to cause chaos to overthrow the government. The whole storming parliament, attacking politicians' residences, etc. is something we've seen in every color revolution ever since even the 1956 one in Hungary. We saw this same thing in Ukraine 2014. We saw it in Bolivia in 2019 (they entered Evo's house and killed his dog, and attacked politicians). There have been interviews with CIA assets who were at the 1989 Tienanmen protests who said they wanted to cause casualties. Some protestors or whoever dying is the exact thing the US wants. I wouldn't be surprised if some oblivious young people were goaded into storming the parliament and getting themselves killed. Even the "January 6th" shenanigans in the Washington, DC involved protestors being let into the Congress and the idiot Ashley Babbitt tried to get into the chamber room and got shot, which was used by idiot right-wingers as a rallying cry.
Agreed, the way the media talks about it sets off my bullshit detectors. All the exact same headlines just calling it a "Gen Z" protest and being as vague as possible on the politics involved.
Somewhat related, but I've noticed an increasing weponisation/rallying of "Gen Z" by the right-wing that seems almost forced.
Thats fair since its how things went. Its called 'Gen z' protest because the instagram page that promoted the protest is called 'Gen.z' and its name is 'Gen z' protest that supposed to mostly include 18-28 yr old
And there is no politics because there isn't any. It started because students wanted access to social media and the government's inability to manage the protest lead to the chaos yesterday. I feel like cops are really trigger happy here, just because its rubber bullets doesn't mean its not dangerous.
I see, that makes sense. Thanks. I assumed there was politics involved because another comment mention that communist iconography was vandalised? Can we be sure this protest hasn't been hijacked by the right?
The communist iconography that was vandalised might be the current ruling party's flag and icon.
And the protest is over to hijacked anymore. There is not much left to destroy or to support.
The power vacuum could be fillied by the independent candidates that rejected party politics due to its ineffectiveness. Everything related to the old system has been torched.
Geez, so much happened so fast, it sounds like. Thank you for keeping us informed. It's really hard to know what's happening otherwise because sometimes the media can give conflicting information.
Yeah just took 5 violent hrs for the government to collapse. No one could have expected it either. Knew today was going to be bloody but damn never seen such power of people.
Don't even know if even national media let alone a foreign media can really give today's event a justice. The target were all political elites and even the local media hasn't given proper coverage. Most of the reporting is done through fb pages and independent media house.
There was also a recent trend on social media that overlapped with the ban called 'Nepo Kids' where people share politicians children living in absolute luxury in the west, their lifestyle and products they wear like luxury watch, shoes, etc. That also promoted the anti corruption view in the gen z protest. Living such life with government worker salary is just impossible so just an open question of where did their money came from.
That same thing has been happening in the Philippines. That's interesting.
Do you have any idea what kind of broader material reality could've provoked people to get to this point? I find it hard to wrap my head around a social media ban causing a government to collapse.
Social media got banned. When students started protest, government response cause 19 death with +300 injured.
people were always sick with the political system here. But this is unique due to just how unpolitical it was. Having any affiliation with the major party meant you were looked on with suspicion and distrust. Student Unions member/leader resigned from their post to take part today to not appear like they were affiliated with any party.
Yes but the current government was formed with the coalition party (NC) aligned with US and India and a communist party (UML) friendly with China. UML had control over finance and the NC over foreign relationship.
Now there is no party left to take power. Every major parties and politician are being targeted with no any plan. Don't think its something any foreign power want, be it be China, India or US.
Also the communist party is communist in name only, there is no ideological conviction behind it any more. Don't feel any involvement of foreign power anywhere in the ground. The dissatisfaction has been simmering among the public for a long long time and it finally exploded today.
What about the Maoists?
They were sidelined by Marxists-Leninist party a year ago. For detailed info
What were the economic policies of these admins even like? I see apparently Nepal has 43% of its workforce employed in agriculture, you'd think a communist government would battle against this in every way possible.
I genuinely have no clue. The whole system is a mess that i have been mostly dissociating with the entire thing. I have tried to understand the heads and tails of the system but it feels like the highest form of liberal democracy. Only the face change, everything remains intact. Even though most parties got 'communist' or 'socialist' in their name and a communist flag, don't think there is any real ideological, economic or political commitment from any party except maybe few. I just know one communist party that will be considered communist here.
My head ached just from reading the wikipedia history of these so called communist parties as well.
The revolutionary maoists?
Its Nepal Workers Peasant Party
This sounds like it will be a warning to future communist parties on the importance of actually being communist and keeping ideological consistency. I'm no expert on Nepalese politics, but it looks like whatever made them contradict their values and stay in power in the parliamentarian liberal government (and abandon land reform?) will now mean that the inevitable failure of that government will be associated with them, destroying the left and ruining the name of communists and socialists. It's so depressing.
I'm kind of worried the same thing will happen to China. They're in more of a position to change direction, but who knows if they have the will to due to the liberals they've been letting in their communist party, too.
yes thats exactly what happened. The left is removed from the National governance, even though it was present only in name. But its not all over, there are communist parties still around which had not managed to gain much support due to the sheer dominance of the former three big parties. Maybe now that the entire landscape is shifted, they will rise to the occasion. Well, that is what i hope. But even the concept of 'political party' has been frowned upon here and independent candidates were rising in recent time.
the CPC's not going to get voted out and replaced with a bunch of liberals
a liberal electoral system turns parties revisionist; we need a proper DOTP one party state
You just need some liberals to gain power within the party, and do some shitty liberal policies to make that party lose legitimacy is all I'm saying. When you stop helping people, you have to worry about color revolutions, not just voting. From the summary someone made of Nepal history, their communist parties stopped their armed struggle for change and land reform, and accepted the liberal parliament system not because they had to, but just because they wanted to. They gave up, which to me signals liberals in the party, or some sort of lack of ideological consistency that then led up to this moment, where now we have communist and socialist parties in name only.
But ya, it helps that China has better tools to shift direction because they aren't just relying on a liberal electoral system to do anything. I still worry about their small imagination about what they can do to help people stemming from a similar problem of liberals in the party though, but that's from being exposed to many xhs posts lol.
XHS posts are a critical nutritional component for any hexbear user, but it's also possible to take dangerously large doses that can lead to various unpleasant side-effects, like calling state owned enterprises and international trade neoliberalism