Image of destruction in Mandalay, Myanmar, from Al Jazeera.
As if the ongoing civil war wasn’t enough, Myanmar has now been struck by a very powerful earthquake, resulting in 2000 deaths and thousands more injured as of the time of writing. Estimates are that the death toll could reach 10,000. Infrastructure like roads and bridges are damaged, and the hospitals are overwhelmed. The earthquake struck during Eid prayers, resulting in even higher casualties as several mosques collapsed. 20 million people already required humanitarian assistance in Myanmar, and now the situation there will be even worse. International rescue teams have rushed into the country, and aid is being raised, though with USAID experiencing the… changes that it is, the United States will be of even more limited help than usual. So far, China has sent $14 million, while USAID has supplied $2 million. In Thailand, the death toll seems considerably lower, though there has still been significant damage; a skyscraper under construction collapsed in Bangkok.
Myanmar is located very close to the boundary between the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates. In particular, the country is divided in two by the north-south oriented Sagaing fault. This fault is typically strike-slip; that is, each side of the fault moves horizontally past each other. The earthquake’s depth was 10 kilometers, which is pretty shallow, and its proximity to the surface amplified the felt force of the earthquake. Additionally, the soft soil in this region tends to further amplify seismic waves through a process called liquefaction. Combine all this with the lackluster building codes due to many years of impoverishment and civil wars, and this explains why the death toll, and the expense to the country in general to repair damage, will probably be extremely high.
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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.
Trump is calling it Liberation day because he’s going to liberate the rest of the world from America’s boot
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He also moved the announcement to after the markets close tomorrow. Booooo.
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Remember in the 70s, when the capitalists bought the working class’ bargaining power in exchange for purchase power?
well
btw if you want to melt the anti-globalist pro trump supporter`s ‘‘brains’’, Scott Bessent used to work for Soros fund management
in more ukraine news, an in-depth and personal article about the grim situation for ukrainians press ganged into the military via busification
so brutal, what an awful situation to be forcibly mobilized by a failed state
Wow, this was a great read, and extremely dark and harrowing. It’s troubling that these stories are totally absent from the majority of Western media. This war should have never started 😔
This was incredibly grim
full-scale
first goddamn sentence!
the nation is united like a clenched fist
Literally as soon as they handed me a loaded gun I’d frag every officer or recruiter or whatever in sight. They’ve already consigned me to death, I’ll have it on my terms thanks, and I think I’d like the company of my most patriotic countrymen for the occasion.
I guess the US backed “left wing” Rojava have agreed to integrate into the genocidal terrorist regime controlling Syria. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/11/uone-m11.html
I’m embarrassed for ever thinking they were cool.
Incredible headline
Whilst countries like Poland and the Baltic States cautioned against getting too close to Moscow – and increased their own defence spending – Berlin under former Chancellor Angela Merkel believed in doing business.
Germany imagined it was delivering democratisation by osmosis. But Russia took the cash and invaded Ukraine anyway.
Yeah I guess all that cash they ran off with must be why the company that managed Nordstream is going bankrupt and is going to be bought by Americans, who blew the damn thing up in the first place. But I guess those damn Russians just hate peace, remind me who ruined the peace talks trying to prevent the war? oh yeah it was the germans.
I’m no history expert, but…
Funny they’re showcasing a PzH2000… it had a TERRIBLE combat record in Ukraine. Germany planned to sell like 100 of these pieces of shit to Ukraine, a bunch arrived and began combat trials. But soon after entering combat they had to be shipped back to Germany to replace their cannons as they suffered immense wear due to constant use – the thing is that the germans never planned to have this vehicle fire dozens upon dozens of times each day in high intensity conflicts, far from it actually, so the cannons wore down. It couldn’t even compete with soviet/russian made field artillery or SPGs… it’s useless.
The expectation that it would only fire five times a day in order to maintain its accuracy is… Terribly optimistic.
This is the same bundeswehr that has a 1/3rd readiness rate on their leopard 2s, and they want to fight a war?
The “problem” (I hesitate to use the word because open warfare fucking sucks) is that the West has been thoroughly brain poisoned by not having seen an actual open, peer level conflict in 3/4 of a century. Since WW2 the West has only ever conceived of war in terms of abstracts or fighting against barely equipped targets.
Five rounds a day for artillery makes perfect sense when your artillerymen are spending 80% of the war bored and jacking off, maybe called up once a day to bombard a small village. The idea of needing to desperately bombard a position for hours to drive a determined and equipped force back is literally beyond the Western mind most of the time.
Too late the Mud Wizard has already claimed the land.
UN Secretary-General Calls for Urgent Action in South Sudan Amid Rising Violence - Telesur English
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On Friday morning, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres raised alarms about what he described as a “dramatic and dire situation” in South Sudan. The country has seen an increase in violent clashes that are severely affecting civilians. Notably, on Wednesday night, First Vice President Riek Machar was placed under house arrest, further escalating tensions.
Guterres urged the political leaders of South Sudan to honor their commitments to peace, emphasizing the need to “fully restore the government of national unity” and implement the promises made in the peace agreement. He highlighted that this agreement is the only legal framework for ensuring peaceful, free, and fair elections scheduled for December 2026.
The African Union (AU) is collaborating with the UN to address the crisis. Guterres expressed full support for the AU’s initiative to deploy a panel of wise individuals and acknowledged the efforts of Kenya’s Special Envoy, President William Ruto. “We will be working in close cooperation with the AU,” he stated.
In a heartfelt message directed at South Sudan’s leaders, Guterres implored them to “put down the weapons” and prioritize the well-being of all citizens in South Sudan. Both Salva Kiir, the current president, and Riek Machar, who is currently detained, are historical figures who played pivotal roles in securing South Sudan’s independence from Sudan in 2011.
However, analysts note that despite their collaboration, there is a significant rift between them. Their longstanding feud has intensified over time as Machar awaits his opportunity to assume the presidency while Kiir remains firmly in power.
Apparently the al Qaeda government ruling Syria has an unofficial flag that’s different than the one under Assad.
So Apple decided that the 3 month old government that let Israel overrun parts of the country and barely controls the rest deserve to have their unofficial flag replace the old flag for the emoji.
Meanwhile the government that has controlled all of Afghanistan for 4 years with an official flag isn’t represented, instead it’s still the flag of a government that hasn’t existed for 4 years.
Anyway, Unicode really needs to add a way to specify the time period of the flag. I think the country code + zero width joiner + year with zero width joiners between each number could work.
Huh that’s interesting cause I remember the syria flag changing almost right after the
government collapsed. Didn’t realize Afghanistan also had a flag change, which makes sense. Guess this is good confirmation to normies how inauthentic the overthrow of Assad was.I think the Communist flag of Afghanistan was used in flag encyclopedias mostly until the establishment of the western puppet government. So I guess you need a direct puppet government to get your flag recognized.
let’s look at wikipedia and … huh, their secondary flag is the flag of the al-Nusra front
nothing to see here
Myanmar’s military junta updates the death toll from the country’s biggest earthquake in decades. There are 2,056 dead, 3,900 injured, more than 270 missing and hundreds homeless. The World Health Organization says that the country’s health system has collapsed and rescue teams are struggling to operate in the devastated country, with no roads, bridges or communications.
Elderly people, monks, babies and hundreds of other patients are being treated in parking lots, under makeshift tents. The capital’s main hospital has only 1,000 beds for use.
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accelerationism is a path of serenitythe sheep will scatter
the flute plays
TSLA up 5%! Very real coherent system.
They’re probably gambling that Tesla might get special privileges wrt to tariffs
March for Palestine in DC today
I’m on the bus and ready to represent Hexbear
How is help for earthquake even provided when they have like 5 statelets
