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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.
Golani reconnaissance battalion commander, David Cohen, to his soldiers:
Everyone you face is an enemy - recognize a figure, open fire, annihilate, and move on. Don't get confused in this regard
https://xcancel.com/Wollybon/status/1908049529674277085?t=mTp_GOKuX27IOlh14lL4qw&s=19
To remind all you newsheads to go out and touch some grass this weekend, here's young future chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz and current acting finance minister/vice-chancellor Robert Habeck in their 30s.
The passage of time - and bourgeois power struggles - really are terrible things.
LOL. The stock market is taking an absolute nosedive. I guess I should "short" something, or whatever.
The nosedive is already well underway, it's a little too late to short now.
Better to just buy the dip!
i was thinking about buying some SQQQ but nah too risky.
there is also UVIX, also gambling. American markets have some wild ETFs anyone can buy.
2008 all over again?
US bombs civilians celebrating Eid al-Fitr in Yemen.
https://xcancel.com/Ahmed_hassan_za/status/1908311960745127977
They will never sink our ships again.
again...
again...
again....
March for Palestine in DC today
I'm on the bus and ready to represent Hexbear
Texting from the bus rn too, see you soon in spirit 
Nice 
Let's both stay safe and try not to get tear gassed, on a lighter note if you get hungry there's a pretty good pho place right there and there was this nice dispensary I used the bathroom in last time
maybe comrade trump can overachieve, huh
What Trump did with the tariffs is very similar to what Modi did in 2016, quote from an article on it below. I thought shutting down USAID was thoughtless but this is much more significant.
How can anybody be so indifferent to people’s suffering as the Modi government was in decreeing demonetisation? The answer lies in its desire for “shock and awe”, and the belief that the more people suffer, the more they would feel convinced that the government could not be inflicting so much suffering on them unless it was indeed serving some higher purpose. The combination of ignorance, arrogance and the desire for “shock and awe” on the part of a government can be quite lethal, as the Indian people have learned to their great cost.
https://www.newsclick.in/demonetisation-been-utter-failure-all-fronts
in the irrelevant shenanigans news: bitcoin been rock steady (within 5 percent), i truly don't understand cryptobros.
to more news like about tariffs: https://www.techpowerup.com/335012/us-exempts-semiconductors-from-taiwan-tariffs-but-chip-making-equipment-remains-on-the-list
Don't forget there's now much more money in Crypto ETFs than a year ago (or two). Most of these ETFs will have a large Bitcoin share.
As long as the people behind those funds don't pull their money, why should it go down?
Personally, I would always keep some XMR around - it basically only goes up AND you can buy drugs with it. What a world, huh!
It's a non-governmental fiat currency that's completely untethered from material reality. Tariffs would initially have negligible impact on it until material demands on buttcoin owners pressure them to liquidate their assets to maintain personal solvency
What do you think would cause them to sell?
The true believers see it as a "store of value" so now they get to prove themselves right so-to-speak. I think they want it to be like gold and counter the market, but I don't see institutions springing for that. It just has no reason to move up or down just yet, the way I see it. Definitely not an expert.
If tariffs are perceived as strengthening the dollar (trump commited to the bit case), due to hopes of reshoring (actually due to money flow into treasuries as safe space, but whatever), the gold should drop (which it did) and bitcoin as well. If they are perceived as induced recession out of nowhere (trump the mad king bit), dollar is garbage store of value thus gold/bitcoin should increase. Neither happened with bitcoin.
If there are margin calls of trader bros (wall st bets most reckless traders, with natural affinity to crypto), then they should sell off to cover the margins, also didn't happen.
Basically this is calamity on par with covid lockdowns (in financial market sense, not that trump barking is same threat as novel coronavirus), and they don't give a shit. So just weird.
Defense for Children International has received the autopsy of 17-year-old Palestinian-Brazilian dual national Walid Ahmad, the first child to die in Israeli prisons. Ahmad reportedly likely died from starvation, dehydration, and infections due to prolonged malnutrition and medical neglect.
"first child to die in Israeli prisons"
Maybe Her Honor the judge would be better served by enlisting President G. U. Tine
reverse extraterritoriality (intraterritoriality?), truly bold innovations coming from the state department now
Death to America
I cannot stress this enough,
Wanna say it in Farsi, to make it enough?
MARG BAR AMRIIKA! 
Today’s videos from Russia’s special military operation.
Another collection of recent Russian drone strikes on Kiev regime military equipment: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--Russian-FPV-drone-destroys-Ukrainian-Armed-Forces-logistics!:0
Russian drone destroys a Kiev regime T-72 tank in Kharkov oblast: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/04/03/1204268.html
Surrendered Ukrainian soldier states that Western mercenaries would shoot them if they tried retreating: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--THE-MERCENARIES-WERE-RIGHT-BEHIND-US!!:3
US airstrikes continue on Yemen for the 21st night in a row, with two airstrikes reported in Saada Governorate, around an area known to contain underground facilities, east of Saada city.
Two statements by the Yemeni Armed Forces earlier today:
No ballistic missiles at Israel, just a long range Sayyad one way attack drone, called 'Yaffa" for this operation. The Shark F360 drone is a mix of a quadcopter and winged drone, to allow for vertical takeoff and landing. It's a pretty small fully electric drone about 1.75m long, with a wingspan of 3.6m. Wonder how one got into Yemen in the first place. Mossad or CIA agents?
The B-2s are operating in Yemen now, and we have uncensored satellite imagery of weapons loading taking place on the B-2s. I've updated my post on it here, with the uncensored imagery.
Anyone have any reading on South Sudan? Both on the current situation and generally. Seems like they’re headed into a civil war, and I haven’t seen any coverage on it, not even here which is odd.
Al Jazeera has been covering it. I think collectively we're a little light on Africa coverage.
The short of it is the paramilitary rapid support forces have been fighting the Sudanese government after the long-time president/dictator Bashir got replaced by an IMF-backed technocrat who then got replaced by the military; the civil war is mainly a result of divisions in the military over support for Bashir. N plus one had a really good writeup on the leadup to the current conflict in 2019.
Is this the same thing as the current situation in South Sudan?
If the Dems had a backbone, part of their Project 2029 platform would be threatening to do the full Venezuela on El Salvador unless they throw this guy into his own prison.
You are making the mistake of thinking that USian Dems are opposed to USian Reps and their policies.
If Dems were 'nice' they would install a social democrat and provide Dollar aid and let them create their own jobs program. But they aren't nice.
That would not be good for the northern triangle. Bukele would be replaced with yet another right-winger because his actions on crime and immigrants are very popular.
Go full Venezuela and it creates a migrant crisis in Guatemala and Honduras. Before you know it there are now three conservatives worse than Buekele in control of each country in the region.
New banger from the armed wing of the PFLP
CW- dead Palestinians, adult and children
translation
🔴 Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades: — Delusional are those who thinks we are defeated... Resistance is not terrorism... — Notes: 0:00 - Treachery. Terrorism. Killing innocents. 0:05 - This world shamelessly crushes justice. 0:07 - However, deluded are those who think... 0:18 - ...that we can be defeated. 0:20 - Resistance is not terrorism. 0:21 - Resistance. Not compromise. No retreat. No surrender. 0:29 - And we will certainly be victorious.
https://t.me/PalestineResist/75835
found it on telegram, streamable link is 'still uploading'
Damn should be fixed
NYT: U.S. Strikes in Yemen Burning Through Munitions With Limited Success
President Trump said this week that Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen have been “decimated by the relentless strikes” that he ordered beginning on March 15.
But that’s not what Pentagon and military officials are privately telling Congress and allied countries.
In closed briefings in recent days, Pentagon officials have acknowledged that there has been only limited success in destroying the Houthis’ vast, largely underground arsenal of missiles, drones and launchers, according to congressional aides and allies.
The officials briefed on confidential damage assessments say the bombing is consistently heavier than strikes conducted by the Biden administration, and much bigger than what the Defense Department has publicly described.
But Houthi fighters, known for their resiliency, have reinforced many of their bunkers and other targeted sites, frustrating the Americans’ ability to disrupt the militia’s missile attacks against commercial ships in the Red Sea, according to three congressional and allied officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters.
In just three weeks, the Pentagon has used $200 million worth of munitions, in addition to the immense operational and personnel costs to deploy two aircraft carriers, additional B-2 bombers and fighter jets, as well as Patriot and THAAD air defenses to the Middle East, the officials said.
The total cost could be well over $1 billion by next week, and the Pentagon might soon need to request supplemental funds from Congress, one U.S. official said.
So many precision munitions are being used, especially advanced long-range ones, that some Pentagon contingency planners are growing concerned about overall Navy stocks and implications for any situation in which the United States would have to ward off an attempted invasion of Taiwan by China.
The U.S. strikes, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth named Operation Rough Rider after the troops Theodore Roosevelt led in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, likely could continue for six months, officials said.
A senior Pentagon official late Thursday pushed back on the assessments described by the congressional and allied officials.
The senior official, also speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters, said the airstrikes had exceeded their goal in the campaign’s initial phase, disrupting senior Houthi leaders’ ability to communicate, limiting the group’s response to a handful of ineffective counter strikes, and setting the conditions for subsequent phases, which he declined to discuss. “We’re on track,” the official said.
Someone is lying here to the NYT about how this bombing campaign is actually going. Based on what @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net has been reporting, specifically on the latest and greatest bunker busters being dropped from B-2s, I suspect it's Trump/Pentagon officials, but there's money and political implications to all of this. Depleting US munitions means more money for defense contractors. All I can say for sure is that Yemen continues to learn why Americans don't have healthcare.
The thing with the munitions is someone at CNN heard from a DoD official that F-18s were launching cruise missiles, and then incorrectly made the assumption that these were JASSM cruise missiles, while in reality they are SLAM-ER cruise missiles. There been no pictures of F-18s with JASSM missiles equipped, and such a long range missile from an air launched platform makes little sense given that the Carrier Strike Group is around 800km from Yemen at most times.
Yes the US Navy has been using a ton of long range precision weapons for this campaign to minimise risk, and yes they are quite expensive. Each AGM-154C JSOW 1000lb shaped charge glide bomb (the most commonly used weapon, with some F-18s launching 4 per sortie) costs $720K (130km range), each modernised AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER ATA cruise missile costs between $1.5-3 million (270km range), each GBU-53/B Stormreaker 250lb glide bomb costs $220K (110km range against stationary targets, 75km range against moving targets), each Tomahawk cruise missile costs $2 million. Each AGM-88E AARGM HARM fired by an EA-18G Growler to suppress or destroy a SAM site in Yemen costs $870K (148 km range).
The big cost though, is the B-2 deployment. Each GBU-57 MOP bomb is around $20 million (yes that's the actual cost, that's not a typo) once factoring in the total program research cost (each bomb costs $3.5 million just to build). Cost per flight hour is around $200k in today's money per B-2. Given the B-2s have started missions on the early morning hours of April 1st, this explains the ballooning costs. The deployment of a second aircraft carrier is also significant.
EA-18G Growler armed with AGM-88E AARGMs:
F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet armed with GBU-53/B Stormreakers:
F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets armed with AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER ATA cruise missiles, in the air and on the carrier:
F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet armed with AGM-154C JSOWs:
