Image is of a crowd protesting in Athens.
Last week, on Friday, hundreds of thousands of Greeks poured into the streets to strike and protest on the second anniversary of the deadliest train crash in Greek history, in which 57 people died when a passenger train collided with a freight train. On this February 28th, public transportation was virtually halted, with train drivers, air traffic controllers, and seafarers taking part in a 24 hour strike - alongside other professions like lawyers, teachers, and doctors.
The train crash is emblematic of the decay of state institutions brought about from austerity being forced on Greece in the aftermath of the 2008 Great Recession, in which the IMF and the EU (particularly Germany) plundered the country and forced privatization. While Greece has somewhat recovered from the dire straits it was in during the early 2010s, the consequences of neoliberalism are very clearly ongoing. Mitsotakis’ right-wing government has still not even successfully implemented the necessary safety procedures two years on, and so far, nobody has been convicted nor punished for their role in the accident. The austerity measures were deeply unpopular inside Greece and yet the government did not respond to, or ignored, democratic outcry.
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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.
we are in the cool zone now
Hilarious beyond belief, the new prime minister of Canada saying they “must protect our way of life, and our country” against the threat of American trade war and the threat of invasion
I’m not posting any more links or images, but at least a thousand people have been slaughtered by the Al-Nusra regime. Entire families shot in their homes including women and children, mass graves being dug, and homes are looted and burned. Baniyas has been victim to the latest wave of brutality. The silver lining to this very dark cloud is that the only thing these mercenaries like filming more than their crimes are the repeated ambushes the resistance has been launching.
Finally, the regime is backpedaling after the widespread coverage of their crimes, claiming that those who perpetrate atrocities will be punished. Obviously a lie, but I believe they’ve cracked down on filming in the last 12-18 hours to prevent witnesses
Is there any historical parallel to something as large and complex as the United States trying to run on its own momentum while all the essential bureaucrats and government funding are being purged on a whim? Because that’s the position we were in even before Trump decided to blow up the economy.
…is the JDPON Don meme real?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/04/meet-trumps-new-best-friend/
bernie panders has a take (extreme brainworms abound), including: russia had a movement towards democracy, russia annexed georgia, kids sent to re education camps (lmao), hacking infrastructure, putin is the richest person in the world (shades of stalin was wealthy). Simply extraordinary
Japanese jurist Yuji Iwasawa is now the new president of the ICJ, replacing Julia SSebutinde (RIP bozo,
) as of yesterday. Iwasawa seems to also be more critical of piSSrael and supportive of the legal case by South Africa, potentially bringing at least a marginal sense of legitimacy to the ICJ.Also about 2 weeks ago, the African Union has been granted permission to participate in the genocide case, of which South Africa is a founding member and a leading diplomatic power of.
While China has responded against Trump’s threats by saying it will fight any war, India has been very quiet. It is acquiescing to U.S. demands.
India is much more vulnerable to tariffs, with all the U.S. Private investments allowing it to run a trade deficit.
Musk for instance wants to provide Starlink to India. But the issue is, even if Starlink pays for the dishes in Dollars, the 2% of Indians who can afford Starlink will pay for it in Rupees.
This means for Starlink to realize profits in Dollars, it’ll have to be converted in forex markets, which could depreciate the Rupee and make essential imports (eg oil) more expensive, unless U.S. “investors” buy up more Indian stocks (“hot money flows”) with Dollars.
And there is also the issue of import tariffs being the only thing keeping many sectors in India competitive against foreign goods. Indian farmers can’t compete against US’ highly subsidized and mechanized agriculture sector.
Communists in Sri Lanka are really stuck in the debt trap from the previous gov
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kgndd62zlo man holding Palestinian flag climbs Big Ben tower
North Korean media have published photographs of the country’s first nuclear-powered submarine, armed with “guided missile nuclear weapons,” under construction. Thus, the DPRK is preparing to enter yet another elite club of powers.
- Telegram
https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-seeks-plan-possible-russia-sanctions-relief-sources-say-2025-03-03/ White House seeks plan for possible Russia sanctions relief, sources say
If true
Russia says it is open for economic cooperation. The Kremlin said last week that Russia had lots of rare earth metal deposits and was open to doing deals to develop them after Putin held out the possibility of such collaboration with the U.S.
Any formal economic deal with Moscow would likely require the U.S. to ease sanctions.
lmao Putin counter-offer against the Ukraine deal with Russia’s infinite undeveloped mineral land.
If Russia gives away the equivalent of what they’re getting in minerals from Ukraine it becomes hard to claim it’s about that.
There really aren’t any minerals in the first place except maybe some lithium, this whole notion of minerals was cooked up in the same way Afghanistans 3T was - to try and drum up support for a shitty war
Yeah, it’s just marketing. You can tell it by how they don’t talk about ukrainian titanium, which everyone knows about and instead wax vaguely about rare earths. I’m no industry insider, but from what I understand rare earths aren’t actually that rare. Mining and refining them is moreso about technological capacity. China’s rare earths supply comes from iron mining, which they do as part of their huge steel industry.
Mining and refining them is moreso about technological capacity
Economy of scale not technological capacity.
Essentially the problem is you have a yield of 84% iron 3% antimony for example. It only makes sense to use a nondestructive process to refine the antimony if you can make a profit on it, but with a 3% yield that is hard not only because of the small quantity, but it puts additional cost in refining out the iron later (or earlier). So sometimes you just say fuck it and only refine the iron.
The mine that the US just approved for antimony that’s an ecological disaster is a gold mine that’s like 2.5% antimony I think in terms of sampled yield.
And the best part is the idiots all the way at the top bought it hook line and sinker, now they’re trying to do some deal except the minerals don’t even exist! They’re just a carrot on a stick invented foe the benefit of the MIC
So Ukraine is losing the mineral rights and getting shot in the head (
), and so is Russia, in a sense. They’ll be signing their sublation. Great.
Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson on The EU Has LOST its Mind
transcript from Wolff:
Understand this—let me come at it from a slightly different angle. I think that the leaders of France, Germany, and England are in very, very deep difficulty at home as political leaders. All of them—the newly elected Merz in Germany, but also Macron, who was elected long ago by a fluke, and Starmer, who got in due to the wholesale withdrawal of British voters from the Conservative Party—are in deep trouble.
According to public polling, Merz is taking over a government that is basically a continuation of the Scholz government, with Scholz’s party as his partner, just as Merz was Scholz’s partner before. This is the same old, same old. These are politicians whose entire political careers have been as junior partners—I’m being polite here; a synonym would be “lackey”—of the United States.
Now, they have discovered that the United States, their backer, their liaison, their supporter, is abandoning them. As a result, they are headed for political collapse. They have no support anymore—their own people don’t want them, and the United States is less and less interested.
Take the absurd visits of Macron and Starmer to Washington last week. They were spoken to as if they were visiting cousins who couldn’t be rescheduled for a later time. Everything they had hoped for was denied, culminating in the Zelensky theater at the end of the week. These were demonstrations of absurdity.
What we’re witnessing here is the behavior of desperate politicians—snatching those 300 billion from the Russians when every major financial advisor has told them the obvious: they will pay a long-term price. No shaky government in the world will ever leave its money in Europe again after seeing what the Europeans are prepared to do with it. This is a bigger blow to Europe’s importance than anything related to Ukraine.
Why would you keep fighting a losing war? You have to be desperate to do that.
its falling apart
Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in southern Gaza after cutting off aid to the besieged enclave and reneging on the ceasefire deal.
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff “plans to return to the region in the coming days to work out either a way to extend phase one or advance to phase two”, a State Department spokesperson told Reuters.
“We don’t have an agreement on phase two,” said Sa’ar. “We demand total de- militarisation of Gaza, Hamas and Islamic Jihad out, and give us our hostages. If they agree to that we can implement tomorrow.”
Seems like the Palestinian people’s remaining hope is that Trump gets personally insulted by Netanyahu deciding to break the ceasefire.
This would never get asked, because the MSM is pro-Israel, but if I was a lib reporter trying to “hold Trump accountable” I would be asking why Ukraine is supposed to believe that Trump can hold Russia to a ceasefire agreement when he can’t manage to hold Israel to one. He will probably just blame it on Hamas, anyways, but still.
92 of the International Republican Institute’s destabilization programs in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela have been CANCELED following cuts to State Dept. and USAID grants. 175 of the Institute’s programs worldwide are now in limbo because they directly depend on NED funding.
Yet another open admission that the opposition activists, “political prisoners”, and US-bankrolled “religious groups” in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela exist only because of DEEP, LUCRATIVE and sometimes long-standing CONTRACTS.
Washington’s political and media mercenaries (see: “democracy activists”) have been making bank 🤑💰💳 in recent decades in Latin America. SecRubio’s friends in Latin America are desperately calling him to try to get their payments resumed. He probably had to change his number.
Another L for Narco "Nazi’ Rubio
