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.
South Korea’s President Yoon ousted as court upholds impeachment after martial law
According to Middle East Observer, Macron and President of Lebanon Joseph Aoun made a joint statement yesterday that Hezbollah were not responsible for the rockets fired from Lebanon and that Israel is breaching the ceasefire. I can’t find any English sources, I’m assuming it’s only in French right now (if true).
https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1907795746402746400
https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/1907795746402746400
The US deputy Middle East Envoy Morgan Ortagus arrived in Beirut today to basically tell Aoun to forcibly disarm Hezbollah or else. Lebanon was promised GCC money by the US in return for electing Aoun president and that money has failed to materialize entirely (shocker). Now they are saying Lebanon will only get the money if they “get tougher” on Hezbollah, and the UAE is specifically saying it won’t give Lebanon money without normalization with Israe. Basically the US, Israel, and the Zionst Cooperation Council are trying to restart the Lebanese Civil War.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-warn-lebanon-tougher-hezbollah-unlock-gulf-cash-sources-say
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/4/south-koreas-constitutional-court-removes-president-yoon-from-office yoon is gone in SK. pretty darkly funny that the biden white house defended this guy
The four ameriKKKan soldiers that were reported missing in Lithuania over a week ago have officially been confirmed dead, L rest in piss.
Death to ameriKKKa
A little news from the Sahel for today.
Malian Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop stated that, “For us, Ukraine is a terrorist state,” due to the Kiev regime’s funding and arming of terrorists in the Sahel: https://tass.com/world/1938401
Russia became the first country to recognize the Alliance of Sahel States: https://tass.com/world/1938437
News from gaza are fucking horrifying
Updated figures on US military movements to the Middle East region and the ongoing airlift operation. There has been a lot more cargo/transport aircraft, along with mid air refueling aircraft, that have made the trip since I last posted. A total of 85 transport/cargo aircraft, and 10 mid air refueling aircraft, have made trips over the last week to the ME region.
Glossary:
C-130 Hercules: small propeller driven transport aircraft, max cargo capacity of 42,000 lb (19,000 kg).
C-17 Globemaster III: Medium sized strategic airlift aircraft, max cargo capacity of 170,900 lb (77,519 kg).
C5-M Super Galaxy: Largest cargo aircraft in the USAF inventory, max cargo capacity of 281,000 lb (127,459 kg)
KC-46 Pegasus: mid air refueling aircraft, maximum amount of fuel available for transfer is 207,672 lb (94,198 kg).
KC-135 Stratotanker: mid air refueling aircraft, maximum amount of fuel available for transfer is 200,000 lb (90,719 kg)
A potential total of almost 15 million lbs (6.8 million kg) of cargo. A lot of the latest flights have been out of Fort Sill in the United States, home to the 31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade, who operate, train, and perform schooling on the Patriot and THAAD air defence systems. Not mentioned in this graphic is a C-17 flight to Diego Garcia from Yokota Air Base in Japan, home to both US forces and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, who operate E-2C Air Early Warning aircraft, and Patriot PAC-2 and PAC 3 air defence systems.
Apparently Vangaurd is emailing all their customers trying to convince them not to sellWhile little LIBERALS like you nerds were making memes, PATRIOTS like me knew our president wouldnt forget about us
Trump on Market Crash: Well, I mean, it is to be expected, this is a patient that was very sick. We inherited a terrible economy.
yea put them down!!US airstrikes continue on Yemen for the 20th night in a row, with airstrikes reported in Saada Governorate.
There has also been simultaneous Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon, Gaza and Idlib, Syria. A Hamas official and his family were reportedly killed in Lebanon, the strikes in Gaza are the most intense since the resumption of the genocide. Little information on Syria.
I’m expecting information on strikes in Yemen to be more sporadic now, since the latest Ansarallah advisory to Yemeni citizens not to discuss ongoing airstrikes, enacted yesterday.
Text reads: Warning…
Filming airstrikes serves the enemy.
Operational Security is very important. Do not serve the enemy in good faith.
Further messages said: We call on all our fellow citizens in Yemen to strictly prohibit photographing the airstrike locations and not to talk about them on social media. With co-operation, we protect the homeland.
So I think I will preemptively say this since some people have posted about Trumps whole trade war thing working.
So the big one…
“What if he’s right and industries will move to the US?”
It is extremely unlikely because of a few things:
‘You can only build a massive factory if you know those tariffs are here to stay.’
That means the USA will have to keep those tariffs for a long time. Building a large factory like one that can employ thousands of people takes several years, training those will again take years. We can look at the TSMC plants that were built in Japan took 3 years to build and get going. This means those tariffs that incentivize capitalists to move production have to do so because they know that those tariffs will be there for 10 years.
Even with a 50% tariff it will still be cheaper to import than to produce locally.
I feel like this one is self explanatory but like I’m sorry but the only way those factories come back is if the USA increases its prison population, aka its pool of slave labor, at least tenfold. Something which I doubt the USA can actually do, not because it lacks the capacity for cruelty but simply because it lacks the capacity with all the gutting of the government.
Once counter tariffs start the US’ own industries will get hit hard.
The US currently imports iron to turn it into steel, Iron imports are already part of those tariffs so now the cost per iron has gone up by 50%, making it more expensive to produce which cuts into profit margins which are further cut into because other nations will just tariff US steel back, essentially this hurts any industry that needs to import to start producing much more than the people in government probably think.
I mean effectively shutting down trade means that the US economy will have less goods in the economy per worker.
That means US workers will be effectively poorer even with a job in the absolute best case scenario that is not going to happen. Which once it starts to crystallize will get the hogs out and yelling about stuff and unless Trump does do some fascist grab of power, he’ll lose pathetically to some democrat called Chak Tham Greenly because Trump didn’t deliver the treats. Which means those tariffs are on a 4 year timer.
So with there being a 4 year timer most companies and capitalists will see the writing on the wall if Trump continues. What I think is that a lot of capitalists are currently deep in denial but that torpor will only stick around for so long, and as much as it pains capital to leave the current hegemon it’s not like capital always was centered around the USA at one point it was centered in London, capital will move and make it’s new nest somewhere else.
Edit: I should also add that the TSMC plant was ONE plant and not a total reorganization of their economy and again about a thousand people, magnitudes smaller than what Trump is trying, and with construction goods readily available and not being you know also tariffed.
I’m seeing some people say Vietnam just got really screwed. Is there anywhere I can read about this?
American Troops Threatens Danish Labour Laws
In Denmark the union 3F warns that an agreement between regimes of Copenhagen and Washington to establish American military bases in the Nordic hermit kingdom will lead to social dumping and underpayment by exempting the bases from Danish labour laws.
Under the deal, the U.S. military could outsource tasks like construction, cleaning, and catering without adhering to Danish wage and working conditions. 3F argues this violates International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions mandating that public contracts should align with local labor standards. They fear the agreement sets a harmful precedent, allowing foreign workers to be exploited under American anti-worker regulations, exacerbating existing issues of social dumping in Denmark.
FH, the national conference of trade unions, criticizes the deal as unfavorable to workers but deemed it too late to influence. The nation’s rubber-stamp parliament is set to pass the agreement on April 11.
Source:
- 3F advarer om social dumping på USA-baser, Arbejderen, April 2nd 2025
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/03/trump-laura-loomer-fire-national-security-council
incredible that conspiracists are the only firewall between war with iran
