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Bulletins and International News Discussion from September 29th to October 5th, 2025 - International Solidarity at the SMG - COTW: Ghana (hexbear.net)

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Image is of the Freedom Band performing at the end of the Second National Congress of the Socialist Movement of Ghana, sourced from this article. The same article contains most of the information used in the preamble below.

A little over a week ago, the Socialist Movement of Ghana concluded its second National Delegates Congress in Aburi, gathering 300 delegates from across the country. There, they deepened their commitment to the working class of Ghana and committed to intensifying political education and organization at the grassroots. The SMG itself decided to not electorally contest the 2024 elections in Ghana, but still presented a manifesto, and nonetheless managed to get two SMG members parliamentary seats in the National Democratic Congress.

Anyway, back to the National Delegates Congress: the delegates agreed that the Western imperialist system is now under a profound crisis, in which the likely future is a heightening of brutality, chaos, and resource plundering - a future which must be resisted and organized against.

To summarize their various statements and condemnations:

Inside Ghana: a commitment to women's rights, youth empowerment, and environmental protection.
A condemnation of the resource plundering of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by imperialist powers.
A salute to the people of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, in their campaign against outside imperial control in the Sahel.
A condemnation of Morocco's illegal occupation of the Western Sahara, and a call for the UN to identify the independence of the Sahwari people.
A strong condemnation of Israel's genocidal atrocities and massive terrorist operations against nearby countries, and support for Palestinian independence.
Support for the people of Haiti against outside imperial domination.
A call for the end of the blockade on Cuba and their removal from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
Solidarity with Maduro and the people of Venezuela against the United States.
A rejection of all imperialist aggression and sanctions against Iran.
A condemnation of NATO's decades-long military expansion eastwards towards Russia, especially as it has now resulted in massive devastation and risks a third world war.
And finally, a commitment to Pan Africanism and international solidarity with all oppressed peoples around the world.

A platform I think we all can agree to!

Last week's thread is here.
The Imperialism Reading Group is here.

Please check out the RedAtlas!

The bulletins site is here. Currently not used.
The RSS feed is here. Also currently not used.

The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine

If you have evidence of Zionist 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 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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[–] Tervell@hexbear.net 29 points 16 hours ago

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UAV Warfare Pushes U.S. to Spend Billions on Air-Defense Protection

U.S. plans to buy Coyote jet drones for over $5B to protect ships, bases, and critical sites from UAV attacks

The U.S. Department of War recently announced a contract with Raytheon for supply of their Coyote jet air-defense drones. The contract also covers mobile and fixed launchers as well as Ku‑band radars. The contract is valued at $5.039 billion. Deliveries are planned to be completed by 28 September 2033 i.e., over eight years. The exact quantity of equipment was not disclosed, but for that sum one could procure a very large number of Coyote interceptors. For context, the unit cost of the Coyote in the 2C variant is $125,000. So, if one imagines that the entire $5.039 billion were spent solely on interceptors, the U.S. could acquire about 40,317 units. Of course, this is only a hypothetical example, because a substantial share of the $5.039 billion will go toward launchers and radars. Still, even so, under this contract the U.S. will receive thousands of Coyote interceptors, which will certainly strengthen their readiness to repel massed drone attacks in a large war scenario for example, with China.

It's worth recalling that the U.S. currently produces about 100 Coyote interceptors per month, which means that, over eight years, they could produce only about 9,600 units assuming production capacity is not expanded, which it likely will be. Under the contract, Coyote interceptors will be supplied in two variants: a single-use version for physical interception of targets, and a reusable version that functions more as an ISR or as a carrier for auxiliary equipment such as EW systems. Also notable the U.S. Navy is experimenting with deploying Coyotes on their destroyers to bolster ship defense against aerial drones and probably on naval vessels generally. The U.S. has also tested mounting these drones on helicopters and even on Bradley IFVs. But that isn't the limit of possible employment. The U.S. is converting KC-135 air tankers into true flying aircraft carriers capable of launching drones directly in flight. It is quite likely that those launched drones will be Coyotes. This rapid expansion of Coyote use began only a few years ago and has accelerated despite the platform's relatively high cost for what’s considered a budget counter‑drone means. The reason is clear: Coyote has already proven itself in combat conditions, having intercepted 170 enemy targets.