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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.
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.
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.
The new Epstein files release by the House Oversight Committee is wild.
It contains 4 documents, labeled #1, #2, #4, #8.
Document #1 is Epstein's 50th birthday book. It has 248 pages. Women and children in photos are censored by a black bar. It contains some pretty clear references to child abuse. It contains letters from Trump, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz.
Document #2 is Epstein's last will and testament.
Document #4 is Epstein's 2007 non-prosecution agreement.
Document #8 is Epstein's address/phone book. It is labeled as "Epstein's Black Book" in the subpoena. It looks to be uncensored. Trump's name is circled in the book. Ehud Barak is circled. Alan Dershowitz is circled. A few other names as well.
The birthday book is definitely a new release. I am unsure if the other documents were already publicly available.
trueanon posted some notable pages from the book.
https://xcancel.com/TrueAnonPod/status/1965241965257363815#m (nsfw)
So where are documents #3, #5, #6, & #7 
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The documents are numbered according to the subpoena request linked on the same page. The subpoena is made by the House Oversight Committee. The subpoena says that Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of the Epstein Estate must provide the documents. The subpoena has 16 document requests. I'm not sure if the other requests were provided. You can see the list below.
e/// The implied reason that the Epstein Estate was subpoenaed by Democrats is that the FBI and other feds were refusing to release documents. Feds are probably withholding other documents.
update on previous comment. Things are also heating up in Nepal.
Death toll from yesterday's protest has risen to 19.
Home minister and Agriculture Minister has resigned. The protester has entered Prime Minister KP oli's residence, former PM and Maoist leader Prachanda and looks like the residence of another former PM and president of Nepali Congress Sher Bahadur Deuba is also targeted. The residence of Information Minister has also been burned down.
Everyone wants the current prime minister to step down.
updates :
- More ministers and government building has been targeted (Residence of Foreign Minister Arju Rana + a school where she is a chairperson, Former Minister of Home Affairs, Nepali Congress (NC) party office, CPN-UML party office, etc)
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The current government formed with the coalition between Nepali Congress (NC) and Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) is in risk of collapse
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Ministerial Quarters is being evacuated using helicopters.
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There is a call to target the only international airport in Kathmandu to prevent politicians from fleeing.
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The Nepali Congress general secretaries have called on PM Oli to resign and urged Nepali Congress President Deuba to recall all ministers from the Oli government. The two leaders warned that if Deuba does not heed their request, they will be forced to take action through other means to make a decision (related to number 2)
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Residence of President, current and two former Prime Minister has been burned and other politicians from NC and CPN-ULM party has also been targeted.
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Can hear gun fire and tear gas being used outside. fucking hell using tear gas in place surrounded by homes now.
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The airport is closed
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The only remaining Gautam Buddha International airport is also closed.
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Health Minister had resigned
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People have entered the Parliament building, which the govt tried to prevent yesterday leading to 16 death.
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The capital city Kathmandu seems to be out of control with protesters burning the gate of Singh Durbar, which include House of Representative and National Assembly
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Army are stationed inside Singh Durbar and have given warning shots after protesters breaches the gate. Several news pages have requested the people to not enter and damage the offices since they contain important documents and data.
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THE PRIME MINISTER HAS RESIGNED. okay now what, worst case Monarchist take power, best case? re-election? The Rastriya Swatantra Party? i guess left has died today in Nepal. People have managed to kick out most politicians and their hope lies in Balen Shah
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The end?
Smart of them to resign quickly over being forced to flee.
The protests have no organization. If the establishment flees, reactionaries would've likely taken over. They still might, given reelections, but the future opposition will have more leverage.
The only remaining group that want power seemed to be monarchist. But that because people wanted change and Royals were different than current system. Now that things have changed, so can't say for sure how popular they will be.
There is still many communist parties but they are all in local level and didnt have enough support like the big three to enter national level. The national level was a game between just three parties with recent rise in independent candidates over affiliated-candidates since people were tired of same dance. Now the two biggest parties are wiped out with the third one Maoist being not welcomed any more.
Kathmandu Today:
There were clashes between protestors and police all over Nepal ~~but no any death today~~. Currently two dead are reported
i guess there are hours when years happen. Our comrade in western hemisphere are certainly waking up in a surprise.
let it be known today Nepal had one voice "KP Chor, Desh Chod" - (KP oli is a thieve! KP oli leave country) and made it true. Gather enough Nepali together in a crowd, they would start chanting that. It was four months ago when i noticed that phenomenon. KP Oli and other ruling elite really thought nothing could have shaken his power. Hell, even i thought nothing much can be done.
I don't know what the future held, but tonight Nepal celebrates!
Parliament has been burned to the ground
color revolution.
not really. people are really angry with the massacre of children in yesterday's 'Gen z' protest organized against social media ban. There doesn't seem to be any good coverage of event in any western press either.
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.
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.
I just know one communist party that will be considered communist here.
The revolutionary maoists?
It looks like it is slowly starting, still a long way to go!
By one estimate, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Tesla will by the end of this year have collectively spent $560 billion on AI-related capital expenditures since the beginning of 2024 and have brought in just $35 billion in AI-related revenue.
P.s. Death to Israel & US & EU
Less than 4 years off from the 100th anniversary of the great depression
I wonder what new kind of horrors they will come up with to try to revert this
Progressive International reporting that the Global Sumud Flotilla, currently en route to break the siege of Gaza, has been struck in a drone attack off the coast of Tunis
Death to the Zionist entity
Link to a video from the Flotilla
The strike has been confirmed by the Global Sumud Flotilla
a parasite on the region
From their Telegram:
The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) confirms that one of the main boats, known as the “Family Boat” - that was carrying GSF Steering Committee members, was struck by what is suspected to be a drone. The boat was under the Portuguese flag and all passengers and crew are safe. An investigation is currently underway and when more information is available it will be released immediately.
Acts of aggression aimed at intimidating and derailing our mission will not deter us. Our peaceful mission to break the siege on Gaza and stand in solidarity with its people continues with determination and resolve.
fuck the zionist entity. it looks they have launched a new series of strikes inside iraq and syria.
Supreme Court lifts restrictions on ‘roving’ ICE raids in Los Angeles
The justices, who apparently divided 6-3 along ideological lines, put on hold a federal district judge’s order that reined in what critics called “roving” raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That judge had found the tactics were likely unconstitutional because agents were detaining people without probable cause at car washes, bus stops and Home Depot parking lots based on stereotypes.
The high court’s majority offered no explanation for its decision to grant the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to block the district judge’s order. However, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote separately in support of the decision, saying it was reasonable to briefly question people who meet multiple “common sense” criteria for possible illegal presence — including employment in day labor or construction, and limited English proficiency.
They’re not even bothering to workshop their bullshit explanations anymore
“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. “Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”
If you put this in a book people would say it was too on the nose
I had no idea about the Home Depot stereotype until I came on this site lol you never see that in Guatemala
“Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”
that'll show 'em
“Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I [sit idly by].”
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