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Image is from the Wikipedia article on the Sudanese Civil War.
Al-Fashir, the capital of North Darfur (a little east of that deep red zone in the west of the megathread map), is the last major holdout of the Sudanese government in that state, and is currently under siege by the RSF. Losing it would be a significant blow to the SAF, though given how the conflict lines are shaping up, it seems increasingly plausible that there will be a de facto - if not de jure - partition of Sudan, unless the military situation substantially changes. This is because the RSF have been pushed out of central Sudan, while the SAF are being pushed out of Western Sudan - although, the situation is pretty complex and has been known to change rapidly before.
As has been a constant feature of the Sudan Civil War - perhaps the single worst humanitarian crisis on the planet right now when measured by numbers - the civilian situation pales in comparison to the military situation, with hundreds of thousands of children dead from famine, and tens of millions of people experiencing extreme food insecurity.
Al-Fashir has been the destination of many thousands of refugees fleeing genocide, and food and aid supplies into the town are being explicitly blocked by the RSF, resulting in scenes similar to what is happening in Gaza right now. The big difference is that fleeing from major battle zones is at least somewhat of an option, though people are often caught and robbed or enslaved or trafficked while moving to neighbouring towns and cities - and these cities are often experiencing similar conditions to places that refugees are leaving.
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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.
Someone just gave the worst argument in favor of 1M1V of all time at the DSA Convention right now. It was so bad the entire room started booing them lmao.
They basically said that if you oppose 1M1V you support Jim Crow, Slavery and Apartheid. It was bizarre.
The dsa convention sounds fun lol
If you ask what is the 1M1V is this
Democracy Dies in Inbox: Detroit DSA’s Experience of 1M1V
The right wing dsa chapters have been pushing for it
Edit: lol yea the vote failed lol
I hate digital voting, I would always rather organise a ballot committee and count votes by hand during elections, it's especially frustraiting when voting in a meeting, we're all already here, lets just vote
Anywhere I can keep up to date on this stuff?
I'm planning on putting together a write up once convention ends on Sunday. Maybe while I'm sitting in the airport.
Good news everyone.
Everyone on chatgpt 
is shitting on OpenAI because of how shit gpt-5 is and because they removed all other models
The ai gf/bf subs are losing their shit.
Trump is talking about "swapping territories" during the Ukraine peace talks (NOT as part of a final deal).
Unironically Russia should say "you withdraw first" and then launch an offensive as soon as they do. Embrace the Rules Based Order.
Several million US-born teenagers have just appeared out of nowhere
spoiler
For the Trump administration, one bright spot in last week’s dismal US jobs report was that immigrants had it worst. Jobs held by foreign-born individuals fell by 237,000 year-on-year in July, while jobs for native-born Americans rose by nearly 2mn.
Labor secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer told Fox News: “While we could have seen better jobs numbers, right now we’re seeing American workers are being put first — native-born workers account for all of the job growth and that’s key.”
But is that really what’s happening? Here’s an interesting spot from UBS economists Jonathan Pingle and Alan Detmeister.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ household survey, America’s native-born population aged 16 and over has increased by 3mn in the last seven months. Overall population growth in the same period was 1.1mn.
This doesn’t make a whole heap of sense. Any increase in the 16-plus native-born population this year would imply either a higher US birth rate in 2009 or a sudden increase in Boomer longevity. But US birth rates have been trending steadily lower since 2006 while post-pandemic deaths are back on the long-term trend:
The BLS asks around 40,000 people each month whether they and members of their household were born in the US or elsewhere. It’s a self-reported measure whose results are not weighted.
There’s no follow-up question as to whether foreign-born respondents are in the US legally. Nevertheless, what appears to have happened is that people who’d previously identified as foreign-born have suddenly changed their minds. Amid the largest deportation operation in US history, a lot of US residents may have become less willing to tell a government employee with a clipboard about where they and their family are from.
https://www.ft.com/content/dfd8646f-8acf-4c48-90cb-670a0ee53b35
🟡🟢 Head of the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc, Hezbollah MP Haj Mohammed Raad: — I say: death before handing over the weapons—“they can go and pave the sea.” (Arabic idiom meaning “let them do the impossible”).
To say “hand over your weapons” is to say “hand over your honor.” Handing over the weapons is suicide, and we do not intend to commit suicide.
The issue is not about the weapons, but about dragging Lebanon into reconciliation with "israel."
The Americans and the “israelis” insist on a set timetable to implement what they dictated to the government, because time is not in their favor.
The decision to withdraw weapons exposes the arena to the enemy for tampering with internal stability, and the goal may be to turn it into an internal problem instead of a Lebanese-“israeli” problem.
We support extending the authority of the state and restricting arms to it when it is capable of repelling the occupation, forcing it to withdraw, and protecting the country.
I told those in power: if we hand over weapons, can you guarantee that the “israeli” won’t demand something else? He told me: “We’ll see when the time comes.”
I want security and stability, but under the government’s decision I can guarantee nothing, and it is the one that decided to open the door to internal tension.
We are keen on peace, but after this decision we do not know what guarantee there is for civil peace. The decision is dangerous—how can we guarantee its repercussions?
The master of the martyrs of the nation is a message and a divine blessing, and may God help us fulfill our pledge to him.
♦️ National Resistance Brigades (Martyr Omar Al-Qasim Forces): — We detonated a pre-prepared, highly explosive device targeting a wheeled zionist military bulldozer in the Abu Hadaf area, northeast of the city of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, resulting in a direct hit, on 07/08/2025.
The New York Times reports that Trump has ordered the Pentagon to draw up plans for military action against drug cartels classified as terrorist groups in Latin America. The newspaper says that incursions by the US armed forces could take place by land and sea. The report cites cartels in Mexico and Venezuela that have been classified as foreign terrorist groups by the US.
Can’t wait for the videos of cartels cutting up SEALs
There are already USian soldiers and mercenaries in Peru and Ecuador, it's only a matter of time before they get killed by these guys:
The Militarized Communist Party of Peru (Spanish: Militarizado Partido Comunista del Perú, MPCP) is a political party and militant group in Peru that follows Marxism–Leninism–Maoism and participates in the communist insurgency in Peru.
Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun (Spanish: Partido Comunista de Ecuador - Sol Rojo, PCE-SR), also known as Puka Inti (Quechua for "Red Sun") is a Marxist–Leninist–Maoist group in Ecuador.
In an audio message recorded by high-ranking party member Comrade Vilma, Vilma called on the party's militants to support China and Russia against "the United States and its NATO allies through the unjust fifth super-imperialist world war" and stated that Xi and the CCP had "never abandoned Maoism."
The Gonzalo - Xi synthesis we've all been waiting for has been achieved
I want to imagine the Raid, rather instead.
does this motherfucker really think he's gonna go to war with Mexico?
at some point we gotta believe the bullshit the man spouts cause all his sycophants can't seem to stop him
I can't think of a more insane war he could possibly start than with Mexico. China makes more sense. Death to America.
it's very stupid and has the most negative consequences of almost any act he could do.
yet it has precedent and popularity amongst the fascists. fascists are nothing if not inextricably drawn to creating their own private barbarossas
Hágalo real, cerdo hijueputa
Had a very good and detailed conversation with my friend President Putin. I thanked him for sharing the latest developments on Ukraine. We also reviewed the progress in our bilateral agenda, and reaffirmed our commitment to further deepen the India-Russia Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership. I look forward to hosting President Putin in India later this year.
⚫ Saraya Al-Quds: — Their freedom, a deal.. Or coffins that return; or may not return..
⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds: — We shelled a gathering of zionist enemy soldiers penetrating the vicinity of Al-Awda School east of Khan Younis with regular mortar shells (60 caliber). Alaqsa Flood
Forgot to post this yesterday when I saw no one else had.
Reuters: U.S. secures strategic transit corridor in Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal
Trump will be hosting Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to sign a peace treaty that will establish a long-proposed Zangezur Corridor through Armenia, connecting Azerbaijan to its exclave Nakhchivan (and thus Turkey). The corridor will fall under Armenian law but will be operated by the US through private military contractors and private corporations. It will also seemingly be right along the Iranian border, both effectively cutting off Iran from it's only land route to Russia and giving the US yet another area of operation from which it can attack and infiltrate Iran.
How long until America fights Iran to the last Armenian?
Armenia wouldn't fight Azerbaijan to prevent their own ethnic cleansing they're not going to fight Iran
It's more likely that Azerbaijan and possibly Turkey would be fighting if there is a ground war.
And so Armenia firmly falls into the us sphere. Iran was the last country that was sympathetic to the continuation of the armenian people.
They can attack through azerbaijan anyway, so that’s whatever, those are doggies of turkey/entity/nato anyway. armenians are hilarious tho, top-notch vassal politics. Hope iran gets 100 nukes tho
🔴 The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine mourns two of its commanders, Mohammed Khalil Washah (Abu Khalil), a member of the General Central Committee, and field commander Mufid Hassan Hussein.
Both were martyred yesterday in a treacherous zionist assassination operation on the road between Syria and Lebanon.
Abu Khalil, born in Gaza in 1954, joined the PFLP in 1973 and was imprisoned by "israel" for five years. Mufid Hassan Hussein, born in Yarmouk camp, Syria in 1973, originally from Safed, Palestine, joined the PFLP in 1990.
Glory to the martyrs.
🚨 Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza: — Daily Statistical Report on the Number of Martyrs and Injured due to the 'israeli' Aggression on the Gaza Strip
72 martyrs and 314 injuries arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours.
A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, as ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them until this moment.
The toll of the 'israeli' aggression has risen to 61,330 martyrs and 152,359 injuries since October 7, 2023. The total number of martyrs and injuries since March 18, 2025, until today is 9,824 martyrs and 40,318 injuries.
Among the martyrs of livelihood: The number of martyrs from aid incidents who arrived at hospitals during the past 24 hours was 16 martyrs and 250 injuries, bringing the total number of martyrs of livelihood who reached hospitals to 1,772 martyrs and over 12,249 injuries. Hospitals in the Gaza Strip recorded 4 new deaths due to famine and malnutrition during the past 24 hours.
Thus, the total number of victims of famine and malnutrition rises to 201 martyrs, including 98 children.
Ministry of Health August 8, 2025
Bloomberg: US and Russia Plan Truce Deal to Cement Putin’s Gains in Ukraine
Putin is demanding that Ukraine cede its entire eastern Donbas area to Russia as well as Crimea [...]
Russia would halt its offensive in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine along the current battlelines as part of the deal [...]
The agreement aims essentially to freeze the war and pave the way for a ceasefire and technical talks on a definitive peace settlement, the people said.
Seems like Bloomberg has been acting as a mouthpiece for the US State Department to steer the narrative on the peace deal.
I assume they are simply reporting the US's pie-in-the-sky terms. These would be completely unacceptable to Russia, especially if there's no demilitarization and neutrality guarantee.
These are great terms for the US, but terrible for Ukraine. Remember extremely early on in the war, when Ukraine almost signed a deal with Russia that was insanely better for them (loss of Crimea and no NATO guarantee, but they could join the EU), but Biden urgently sent Boris Johnson to Ukraine to tell them that they are not allowed to make a deal?
These are great terms for the US, but terrible for Ukraine.
I think anything but terrible terms for Ukraine have been out the window since 2014
when Ukraine almost signed a deal with Russia that was insanely better for them
Not really, some of those terms were just complete capitulation. Yes Ukraine would only lose control of separatist areas of Donetsk and Luhansk compared to now where more territory is under Russian control, but Ukraine would have been effectively demilitirised. Standing army of 50 000-100 000, and limits on Ukraine only being allowed 10 combat helicopters and missiles with a maximum range of 40km were the terms discussed, along with security guarantees that Russia itself could veto with NATO out of the picture.
Russia would dejure lose territory in this peace deal. This basically the us dream scenario, With the rest Donbass which is already destined to fall in a few months to russia as a boon. Crimea also has been annexed since 2014, this isnt an concession, as well.
The biggest "victory" which ukraine could get is losing the 4 oblasts (+crimea) and not being allowed to join NATO.
I can definitely see it happening on the territory side. Back at the start of these 2025 negotiations, the US offer was to freeze the conflict at the current frontlines, while Russia wanted to have complete control of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia, including territory still under the control of Ukraine . This was the impasse last time. For negotiations to resume, Russia will need to compromise more, so freezing the frontlines at Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, while asking for full control of Donetsk and Luhansk, could be such a compromise. I know I'm a broken record on this topic, but I've been saying for months that Russia giving up on the full capture of Kherson would be a likely compromise.
Though I wonder how a territory exchange will work. Luhansk is basically almost fully under Russian control, but Donetsk is not, Ukraine still control a significant chunk of the western part. And Russia don't control enough territory in Kharkiv to exchange with Ukraine for all of Donetsk on a 1:1 ratio, it would be a very lobsided exchange, Russia would be getting a lot more territory in Donetsk than Ukraine would be getting in Kharkiv.
India halts US arms purchases over Trump tariffs: Report | The Cradle
Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh’s trip to Washington, where he was set to announce the purchases, has been canceled
Palestinian factions condemn the “cabinet” plan to occupy Gaza and impose full “security control.”
⚫️ Palestinian Islamic Jihad treated the decision as a complete escalation of genocide, fearing more massacres. They described it as “Nazi-style terror" and held Arab and Western governments, alongside the U.S., responsible for enabling escalation. They stated the occupation torpedoed all exchange talks and “those betting on a settlement got slapped.” They vowed to continue resistance.
⚪️ The Mujahideen Movement stressed continuity, stating that this is the same ethnic cleansing war of the last ~2 years. They blamed full U.S. cover and global paralysis for the new plan. They also accuse the enemy of gambling with its own captives for Netanyahu’s personal agenda. They asserted that resistance weapons the people’s trust and called the Arab-Islamic street to mass mobilization.
⚔️ Popular Resistance Committees casted the plan as proof of the enemy’s political and battlefield failure. They issued a sharp red line: any foreign force stepping into Gaza will be treated as an occupying enemy. They affirmed that “the day after” is decided by Palestinians themselves and insisted that captives can only be freed through negotiations, as the army has already failed. Directed towards the Palestinian Authority, they urged them to end reliance on the U.S./‘international legitimacy,’ end division, and unite. They also called the region to general mobilization and to besiege U.S/zionist/Western embassies.
🟢 Hamas focused on Gaza City. They called the plans to occupy it and evacuate 1 million residents a war crime. They highlighted the linguistic gymnastics between “control” vs. “occupation” as a tacit admission of Geneva convention violations. Hamas stated that this move sacrifices the enemy’s captives and explains the occupation’s sudden walkout from near-final talks. Hamas showed real flexibility, even openness to a comprehensive all-for-all exchange that ends the war and lifts the siege. They blamed the U.S. for cover and arms and urged UN/ICJ/ICC to act. They warned any further invasion would be met with resistance.
Crypto comrades (I know youre out there)
I recently got into tracking charts for commodities in order to get a more complete picture for what is happening in the world of finance capital. Does anyone have a good explanation for this 20% Cryptocurrency expansion over the past month? What nefarious things are happening?
Basically the chart shows that the value of the combined total of all crypto currencies has increased about 30% since a low in mid June 2025 (after the 12 day war) which is 900 billion USD.
Bitcoin is also "worth" almost 120,000 US dollars now 😳
I've also seen people discuss that the US government is propping up the "tether" "stablecoin" because it pumps up the Cryptocurrency market. I dont even know where to look to find good analysis of it besides a Ben Norton video. Is there any good articles I can read more on this?
I'm trying to get a better understanding of this global AI-compute Genocide bubble that is sustaining the empire in the midst of what is clearly an enormous crisis of imperialism.
Crypto, like gold, is just a store of value. It’s the latest flashy version of gold, and a speculative asset that has little to no bearing to how the modern monetary system is run.
People run to crypto (and gold) because of the economic uncertainty at the moment, especially with Trump’s erratic behavior, so they try to park their money in some form of assets.
When the US runs into a recession, both gold and crypto will lose value, for the simple reason that people will convert their assets back into cash to sustain their livelihood. You’re not going to make money investing in crypto unless you can earn a profit with the capital gains tax paid and assuming the asset, which is highly speculative, will not lose value because the US will never enter a recession, which is impossible considering the instability of a capitalist economy.
