Image is the famous photograph Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag, taken during the Battle of Berlin.
On Friday is May 9th, which is the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, which Russia, among other places, celebrates as the day when the Soviets defeated the Nazis. Naturally, one of the current hotspots of fascism in the world today, Ukraine, is essentially threatening that they might strike Russia or even Moscow itself during that timeframe. Any such strike would almost certainly be symbolic and not aimed at anything too important, as I doubt even Zelensky and his American handlers would actually want to kill a world leader, not least somebody like Xi Jinping. But I would not be surprised if they tried something nonetheless, if only to disrupt the event in some way and not actually kill anybody.
And, as we’re on this topic, @EllenKelly@hexbear.net has reminded me that Tuesday is the anniversary of the Nazis burning the Institut für Sexualwissenschaf in 1933, an early institute advocating for the rights of LGBT people, and which also provided early forms of gender-affirming surgeries, as well as hormone therapies. We are currently seeing a crackdown on LGBT rights throughout swathes of the imperial core (as well as countries in the periphery, to the extent that those rights existed there already), and this Nazi-inspired movement will be similarly defeated in the future.
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-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.
🇺🇸🇮🇱 BREAKING: Trump cuts contact with Netanyahu, says Bibi & his allies “act arrogant” and try to manipulate him — IDF Radio reports.
Close associates of Trump told Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, that the President feels disrespected and manipulated by Netanyahu, and that there’s nothing he hates more than ‘appearing as easily manipulated’ in public.
(looks like he heard about the Laundry thing )
WE GOT THE BURGER POPE YEEHAAW
The Palestinian flag-adorned Al-Azhar Mosque in Cape Town’s District 6 near the city center had received a bomb threat, reportedly having originated from Miami. This also occurred after the conclusion of the Week4Palestine/Red Card Israel demonstrations in Johannesburg and Cape Town. - Salaamedia
Also in Cape Town, a Jewish author of the book Lost Property by the name of Megan Choritz was expelled from the Jewish Literary Festival for “harbouring extremist political views (
)” - wearing a Keffiyeh and being an active member of the SAJFP. She then set up a table outside the Holocaust Museum and was quickly subject to harassment by the police and antisemitic attacks from Zionists, with her stand even being trashed and chairs thrown across the road. Her assistant and another member of the SAJFP Jared Sacks was also assaulted, with the cops of course, doing nothing and just sit back as a Jewish activist is getting attacked by violent extremists in front of the Holocaust Museum. - SAJFP, News24And in what should arguably be the most damning and critical news of all, the comments of Channel 14’s producer Elad Barashi had very recently been brought to light, where he had made incitements of genocide against Gaza, a day or two after the most recent ICJ hearings concluded. The comments originated on 27 February 2025 in Hebrew and were apparently then deleted, either by Twitter moderation or by Elad himself once the reality set in on what he had typed. They have been already archived and translated during the first half of this week, with some traction on non-mainstream media. Channel 14 is also a very major mainstream outlet in ISISrael. Of course, we already know the genocidal intent, rhetoric and actions of the fascist ISISraeli entity and the near-total support for escalatory violence. But these most recent comments are …quite different.
CW!!! Disturbing Content, Racism, Nazism, Holocaust Inversion
Are you REALLY sure you want to view this?
Elad Barashi in his exact words, has advocated for a Holocaust in Gaza, “with gas chambers, concentration camps, boxcars, and more (ovens. He means ovens.)” He even spells out the word Holocaust, letter by letter. And yes, these words were actually said and posted. Already long before this filth was published, heads of state in ISISrael were using thinly-veiled Nazi terminology regarding Gaza, with the objective being an actual Final Solution. And now NetanSShatu’s favourite programme Channel 14, has put every single crime of humanity in Gaza into the exact same context as the Holocaust perpetrated by the Third Reich. This was just days before Ramadan marked the end of ceasefire and the refusal to accept anymore hostages or further progress on multistage ceasefire plan. As if a sign, even Hamas has already referred to ISISrael as a Nazi entity and as of the 27th of February 2025, ISISrael is very literally a Nazi state, in the fullest sense of the word and not at all hyperbolic. Even the people spamming “Release the hostages” and “Bring Them Home NOW” aren’t dissuaded. I confronted one and the response was not “Hamas propaganda” but “they deserve the gas chamber because 7 October”. We are literally at this point officially. The moment this kind of evil was posted and translated, 27 February 2025 completely nullifies 7 October 2023 in it’s entirety. An admission of Holocaust in the fullest extent of the word should be the most important and damning evidence. And of course, right at the anniversary of the Red Army’s holy crusade to send the vile Nazis in Berlin to the eternal hellfire. - CAIR, The New Arab, PressTV, Quds News Network, Archive of the original written in Hebrew
Here is also an image of the offending content translated into English
Harden your hearts, Al-Qassam and Ansar Allah
Indian news channels have adopted the brilliant strategy of creating as much panic as possible instead of trying to do the opposite.
So how fucked are we compared to any previous popes with this new guy? (we could have had karaoke Tagle if the vatican was based but noooo)
According to NATOpedia, this is what the new pope thinks about stuff:
Pope Leo XIV has opposed the ordination of women to the diaconate. As a bishop Prevost opposed the inclusion of curriculum regarding “teachings on gender in schools” in Peru, stating that the “promotion of gender ideology is confusing, because it seeks to create genders that don’t exist”. An acquaintance of Pope Leo XIV, Jesus Leon Angeles, noted that he cares for Venezuelan refugees in Peru.
Homosexuality
In 2012, Prevost lamented that popular culture fostered “sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel”, citing the “homosexual lifestyle” and “alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted children”.
He said some nice things about peace which is always welcome in these times and there is the anecdote of him telling Fujimori to fuck off but he definitely has some vile and bigoted views.
Latest statement by the Yemeni Armed Forces I missed a few days ago. I’d like to publicly apologise to @ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net, it turns out that Ansarallah (known as the Houthis in western media) did actually attack the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier just before the ceasefire, resulting in the loss of an F-18 Super Hornet. Not a direct shootdown, but still a loss caused as a result of an attack. I was wrong, they were right. So three losses as a result of Ansarallah/Houthi attacks.
The most interesting thing is the launch of a ballistic missile. From the latest satellite imagery, the Truman was not within typical Anti Ship Ballistic Missile (ASBM) range. So did Iran actually give Yemen their new longer range ASBM, the Qassem Basir? Such could be a distinct possibility, and explain this attack and the American response.
In response to this potential development a new Iranian ASBM with 1200km range being used to target the Truman, the USA have both de-escalated and escalated. They have de-escalated with Yemen directly, with a seperate peace/ceasefire/truce between the USA and Yemen alone, excluding Israel. However, the US has escalated with Iran, by sending four B-52H Stratofortress bombers to Diego Garcia, alongside the already 6 B-2 Spirit stealth bombers. This ups a potential JASSM cruise missile salvo from a maximum 96 missiles, to 176 missiles. (Each B-2 can carry sixteen JASSMs all internally, each B-52 twenty, twelve on external pylons, and eight internally). B-52s also give the US a nuclear standoff strike capability, each B-52 can carry twenty nuclear armed AGM-86 cruise missiles, for a total nuclear standoff volley of 80 AGM-86s. The B-2 cannot yet carry nuclear armed cruise missiles, only nuclear armed gravity bombs for stand in nuclear strikes.
Three AGM-86 nuclear armed cruise missiles on the external pylon of a B-52:
There are rumours that nuclear talks between the United States and Iran will resume on May 11th, but just rumours for now.
Next round of Iran-US nuclear talks likely to be in Oman at weekend - Reuters, May 6 2025
In the background of this, the US is also set to waive Saudi Arabian normalisation with Israel as a condition for a $100 billion arms agreement and civil nuclear program, with a potential US controlled backdoor for uranium enrichment. More on that here
The Pope not speaking in English is a sign that he’s only born in the US but in his heart and mind, he is Peruvian. He even only greeted Peru and in Spanish. Good for him.
Peruvians are saying that the new Pope is very anti-Sodalitium Christianae Vitae.
What is Sodalitium Christianae Vitae?
Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV), or Sodalitium of Christian Life was a Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right, a society of the Catholic Church. It was founded in Lima, Peru, by Luis Fernando Figari on 8 December 1971. It acquired its canonical form when Pope John Paul II gave his Pontifical approval on 8 July 1997.
The Sodalitium was composed of consecrated laymen and priests, called “Sodalits,” who lived in community as brothers and made commitments—not religious vows as such—of celibacy and obedience. There were accusations of brainwashing of young people, and of elitism, conservatism, and authoritarianism; and of sexual abuse by founder Luis Fernando Figari and other Sodalites. There were also allegations of right-wing and falangist activism by Figari in his youth.
On 14 January 2025, Pope Francis signed the decree suppressing the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae; the Sodalitium expressed deep sorrow and shame and requested forgiveness. The decree was formally implemented on 14 April 2025.
On the accusation of cover-up against Prevost, using as a source “La Verdad nos Hizo Libres” by Pedro Salinas, I open a thread, because those who join these accusations are playing the game of the Sodalitium and its allies.
He is accused of being an accessory after the fact for having prohibited an Augustinian priest from practicing the profession of ecclesiastical lawyer. This man was the defender of two victims of sexual abuse in the diocese of the Pope’s diocese. This priest, whose last name is Coronado, had a Vatican prohibition to exercise his profession (the reason is unknown) and a Vatican criminal accusation, but he is also a friend of several old guard sodalits since they shared classrooms at the University of Santo Toribio de Modrovejo.
The media diffusion of the “cover-up” came from different right-wing Catholic portals, all defenders of the Sodalitium. The interest of the Sodalitium in this issue: to accuse its main critics in Peru of being straw men (Prevost recommended the retirement of SCV Bishop Eguren).
As for the facts, the diocese of Chiclayo led by Prevost published a communiqué in 2024 stating that it was Prevost himself who brought the complaint of abuse before the relevant Vatican authorities; the case is still open at the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Thus, to accuse Prevost of being a cover-up is fallacious, since he took the denunciation to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, he only complied with not allowing an accused person prohibited from practicing his profession to practice it.
No Filipino pope means no Karaoke Sunday in the Vatican
me, coming up with examples to teach students the difference between the simple past and present perfect
The bishop of Chiclayo, Robert Prevost, suggested that former president Alberto Fujimori should ask for forgiveness directly from the families that were harmed by the crimes committed during his government, as a response to the request for forgiveness expressed by the former dictator, which for the religious authority was very generic.
Shining Path Pope
omfg hes a nevertrump republican lmfao
god please don’t turn all the American liberals catholic just because the new Pope will say something mildly critical of trump. I’ll have to hear about “popery” like its 1855 jfc
