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Image is of the Preah Vihear Temple on the Cambodian border. Image sourced from the UNESCO World Heritage website.
Over the last few days, Thailand and Cambodia entered into a heightened stage of conflict due to a long-running border dispute. Like many problems on this planet, Europeans are ultimately to blame - specifically France. Certain sections of the border drawn up by France about a century ago were not fully agreed upon by both sides, with the ownership of some Khmer temples being the most visible points of disagreement.
Despite interventions in favor of Cambodia in the 1960s and later 2010s by the ICJ - one of the mainly mostly useless global institutions that liberals periodically disown - the border conflict has simmered at a generally low level. Of the two countries, Thailand is significantly more militarily and economically powerful.
Last Wednesday, a Thai soldier lost his leg by stepping on a landmine, prompting a rapid escalation between Cambodia and Thailand that has since resulted in dozens of deaths and tens of thousands displaced. Cambodia was willing to come to the negotiating table fairly quickly, but Thailand was more hesitant. International pressure on the two countries by Malaysia, China, and the United States eventually forced Thailand to the table, and they have recently agreed to an immediate ceasefire courtesy of ASEAN.
Notably, Trump refused to hold trade talks with either country until they agreed to peace, which suggests that he really wants a Nobel Peace Prize - which he seems a shoe-in for given that he's met the two most important requirements that several Nobel Peace Prize recipients have needed to meet in the past, which are: 1) start at least one war, and 2) accelerate the genocide of millions of people as billions more people watch on. His policies vis-a-vis ICE creating a domestic terror regime only further increase his chances of winning the prize.
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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.
Regular people: let's take the kids somewhere fun for the day and do some enriching activities
israeli settlers: let's take our kids out to go attack aid trucks bringing food to people being starved and bombed.
This isnt the first video I have seen where the settlers have clearly brought their young children...
"If not for collapsing labor force participation since April, unemployment would've climbed to 4.9% [yesterday] instead of 4.25%."
Lol are Americans having their own tangping (lying down) culture as well now?
This is how they’re counting unemployment in China btw. If you’re not looking for jobs, you’re not part of the statistics!
That is how OECD countries count unemployment since sometime after history was won.
Is tangping like Hikkikomori? I don't know what the term means.
Not exactly, it means you give up having a career altogether because of economic outlook, rather than it being a social stance.
As you know, many Chinese youth go to the cities to look for jobs, hoping to earn enough money to settle down and raise a family.
Now, those who already saw there isn’t any hope, simply move back to the provincial towns/villages and live with their parents and stop working altogether. Don’t have to pay for rent and food. Minimize your consumption and spending, don’t go on travels, don’t waste any unnecessary money, and practically spend all the days idling (and instead surfing the internet and play video games).
As the slogan says: 停止进步就是最好的进步 (stop improving yourself is the best form of self-improvement)
Actually, it’s not exactly a bad idea if you can get used to living extremely frugal, although it’s obviously bad for the national economy as a whole since they’re idling labor who can be contributing to the country.
If not for line going down, line would have gone up!
one of the many great "up and to the right" graphs that neoliberalism has brought us
It’s “self-imposed fiscal drag” lol with Trump laying off Federal workers and gutting public institutions.
This is why I simply don’t believe in the “re-industrialization through tariffs” strategy. If you want to play protectionism, you have to expand your domestic workforce in the industrial and scientific base, increase spending to raise the wages of your own workers to compensate for the loss of supply through imports. The absence of an industrial policy shows that this is not a serious attempt at that.
It looks more like finance capital looking to harvest the exporting countries and its own people. And I’m would not be surprised at all if in the end, they manage to replicate the 2008 GFC again, when finance capital went unpunished while millions of people lost their jobs and homes as they could not afford to pay off their debt any further.
I'm sure those people who stopped participating in the labor force simply ceased to exist.
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You literally cannot make this shit up
Israel is a nazi state but I think in this case is just a coincidence
To be clear I don’t think it was a dog whistle I just thought it was chefs kiss in how ironic it all is like the universe is winking at us
They are dabbing on us
Full Statement from Hamas' Abu Obeida:
“The Qassam Brigades are ready to deal positively and respond to any request from the Red Cross to bring food and medicine to enemy captives.
We stipulate for this acceptance the natural and permanent opening of humanitarian corridors for the passage of food and medicine for all our people in all areas of the Gaza Strip, and the cessation of all forms of enemy aerial sorties during the times of receiving parcels for the captives.
Al-Qassam Brigades do not intentionally starve the captives. They eat what our fighters and all our people eat, and they will not receive any special privilege in light of the crime of starvation and siege.”
Shit or get off the pot, Satanyahu. Dragging the war on forever isn't going to happen with the hostages starving to death, they are the last bit of leverage Hamas should have now. At this point they might as well go Hannibal Directive, but they don't. This is making me think people like Hersh saying Satanyahu is dragging the war on for political expediency are correct.
London underground yesterday:
Persian leopard managed to escape its enclosure, attacks and kills israeli settler zookeeper 36 year old Uriel Nuri at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo.
The leopard is ok 👍
It literally ate his face. The simulation is melting down.
Wow, that's pretty antisemitic mr. kitty
You are no Daniel, and I'm not lion.
The slammer post about this will go so hard
Were they able to harvest his cum in time?
Hell yeah, this is why I'm a cat person lmao
Good kitty
Damn, even big cats are Hamas
the leopard is an Iranian sleeper agent mashallah
Unlimited support for the protracted felid's war against empire.
The Russian Tsars did a great deal that was bad. They robbed and enslaved the people. They waged wars and seized territories in the interests of landowners. But they did one thing that was good – they amassed an enormous state, all the way to Kamchatka. We have inherited that state. And, for the first time, we, the Bolsheviks, have consolidated and strengthened that state as a united and indivisible state, not in the interests of the landowners and the capitalists, but for the benefit of the workers, of all the peoples that make up that state. We have united the state in such a way that if any part were isolated from the common socialist state, it would not only inflict harm on the latter but would be unable to exist independently and would inevitably fall under foreign subjugation.
~ Stalin, The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933-1949
90,000 people marched across the Sydney harbour bridge for Palestine, 40,000 more than the organisers expected.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-03/pro-palestinian-march-sydney-melbourne-august-3/105605280
The Leader 🥰
While at the rally in Naarm, the cops totally shut down the bridge the rally was going to cross, even after releasing a statement about how it would dissrupt emergency services haha yes
Age article from today https://archive.md/PPbFk
I missed this one and I'm so sad I couldn't be there.