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 @[email protected]’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.
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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.
Whoop whoop whoop, mod tyranny alert
I understand that everyone had a big day yesterday and surely there will be more excitement to follow as the kirk killing is digested by the news cycle. However, the newsmega is meant to have an international focus. Please keep top level replies on the newsmega to more substantive issues or at least more substantive posts about the impact of Kirk’s death.
For example, trump doing some crazy executive order citing the kirk killing - newsmega worthy. An effort post rounding up the story and how it may impact real policy on America or elsewhere - newsmega worthy. On the other hand, loser US pundit tears, subreddit drama, and low effort memes belong elsewhere on the site, such as the kirk megathread. You don’t even have to leave the news comm, but it doesn’t belong in the international newsmega.
I’m not going to go back and delete low effort or off topic posts in this thread, but please follow the above authoritarian 1984 diktat in the future as a gesture of respect to Kirk’s steadfast defence of free speech, including centering the voices of people of lead (this is the woke term for bullets).
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
Huge tide of civil disobedience as pro-Palestinian protestors took the streets of Madrid and forced the shutdown of the last section of the Spanish Vuelta Ciclista as a protest against the presence of the Isn’treali team.
This is a very significant event: a mass of above 100k protestors (by gvt estimates) flooded the streets without any organization overtly coordinating, since protests today weren’t allowed due to the Vuelta Ciclista. This is a total victory of class struggle against Zionism, and is the first time since the 15-M/occupy movement days that such an act of civil disobedience takes place in the capital of Spain.
The goal of the protest is mainly to force the big unions to declare a general strike for Palestine, and the Sindicato de Estudiantes (students union) has already summoned an education strike on October 2nd, two days before the next big protests which will take place on the 4th of October on a state-wide event.
This day followed the example of the Italian harbour strikes, and the previous big protests against la Vuelta Ciclista in Euskal Herria. Free Palestine from the river to the sea!
The reaction of some people to the video (Hasan Piker especially) actually has me wondering a few things, as far as “worst things to see on the internet” it ranks a solid 5/10 in terms of bloodiness, even those ghoulish “Killing in self-defense/heroes shoot robbers” snuff films they allow on Youtube are more visceral and distressing than Kirk getting domed
I can’t come to any other conclusion than the realization that the vast majority of people have no fuckin clue what has taken place in Gaza, and by that I mean they can’t actually visualize what’s happening to Gaza, I think we here on Hexbear because of our access to direct and Arabic news sources have seen things the vast majority of the western left has not
I always wondered why so many “leftist” commentators, podcasters, streamers still have this unspoken hesitation and almost unconscious need to abstract the Gaza genocide, while spaces like TikTok inexplicably have the same serious attitude we here on Hexbear have despite TikTok being filled with right-wingers, and it hit me, people on Hexbear and TikTok HAVE SEEN the videos; the burning people, the kids without faces, the babies hanging dead off rebar. The worst that many of the politics Andies have seen are smoke clouds in the distance, people covered in dust, or the New York Times x-rays
The fuckin commentariat haven’t seen shit, they either avoid those videos on purpose or most likely they rely on dry articles, journalistic reports and stats to form an opinion, no wonder when I watch their vids they sound sociopathic to me, I saw a kid missing their face and they’re just reading an article, the disconnect is enormous
This whole time I thought most of the left was on the same page concerning the visual knowledge of the atrocities, but if people are fainting over a video of a single gunshot wound, then wtf do people really know about what’s happening in Gaza?
No one should ever be shot in the neck while hosting an event titled “Prove Me Wrong” and lecturing people about how guns are good and all gun deaths are worth it. It would be like taking a Gadsden flag to a rally and being trampled to death. That is also not funny.
There is no way that the shooter is a leftist. When they find the shooter, they are gonna look at his google search history and find stuff like “who is the president?” and “what is politics??”
Having your own Wikipedia article is our generation’s equivalent of going to Valhalla. It’s the same as the trump shooter, people just want to be the main character.
Spain Will Formalize its Arms Embargo on Israel
Spain continues to lead opposition to Israel among European states. Not a high bar to clear, but credit where it’s due to the extent that it is.
“I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”
-Charlie Kirk
I had to look up the dead fascist because, being non USian, I didn’t know much about him. For anyone else who’s out of the loop, here is some important context: apparently, today the world lost
- an influential propagandist who pushed all kinds of hate and fascist ideology: incited millions of his followers on many platforms to commit racist, anti-LGBTQI+ and genderbased violence and to support such policy, spread deadly misinformation around vaccinations, covid and climate change
- the leader of a large and multipronged reactionary propaganda organization focusing on students with even an arm in the UK, spreading the same fascist ideology
- a powerful politician and ally to Trump who tried to prepare a coup and might have become a contender in the next elections
Did I miss anything important?
/c/news mod: No more news on Charlie Kirk. This is an international news mega.
MEP: I’m about to ruin this mod’s whole career.
https://twitter.com/DropSiteNews/status/1966239228108390670🇪🇺 The European Parliament rejected a request for a moment of silence to honor slain U.S. conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. The initiative was proposed by right-wing MEP Charlie Weimers, who described Kirk as a ‘loving father and patriot’ and sought to symbolize that free speech cannot be extinguished. However, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola denied the request, explaining that minutes of silence are solely her prerogative and are only held at the opening of plenary sessions, which had already passed earlier in the week. When Weimers tried to yield his remaining speaking time to observe the silence, Vice President Katarina Barley interrupted, triggering protests including desk banging and shouting from right-wing MEPs in the chamber. All requests for a moment of silence were denied, eliciting a strong backlash among some members.
Hope rises that shooter made a clean getaway
UK fuel tanker took off from Qatar, refueled Israeli fighter jets that were attacking Qatar then landed in Qatar.
Political violence is inexcusable. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to vote for concentration camps at the border and more funding for the police, nazis, and zionists.
Let’s go into more lighthearted news: Eurovision
Ireland is not participating in Eurovision if israel takes part
“In a statement released today, the broadcaster said that “it is RTÉ’s position that Ireland will not take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, if the participation of Israel goes ahead, and the final decision regarding Ireland’s participation will be made once the EBU’s decision is made”.
RTÉ Director General Kevin Bakhurst said that “RTÉ feels that Ireland’s participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza. RTÉ is also deeply concerned by the targeted killing of journalists in Gaza, the denial of access to international journalists to the territory, and the plight of the remaining hostages”.
Imagine dying in Utah
What were his last words? Spewing hate against trans people?
Shithead had it coming.
wont leave his house for 30 years.
