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    "80 comments",
    "A reminder that as the US continues to threaten countries around the world, fedposting is to be very much avoided (even with qualifiers like “in Minecraft”) and comments containing it will be removed.",
    "here",
    "here",
    "Last week’s thread is here.",
    "The Imperialism Reading Group is here.",
    "Please check out the RedAtlas!",
    "The bulletins site is here.",
    "The RSS feed is here.",
    "If you have evidence of Zionist crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.",
    "UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.",
    "English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account.",
    "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.",
    "English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.",
    "English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two.",
    "Telegram here.",
    "Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.",
    "Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists",
    "Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict",
    "youtube channel",
    "Moon of Alabama",
    "Understanding War",
    "Saker",
    "Alexander Mercouris",
    "Simplicius",
    "Patrick Lancaster",
    "videos",
    "t.me/aleksandr_skif",
    "t.me/Slavyangrad",
    "t.me/s/levigodman",
    "t.me/patricklancasternewstoday",
    "t.me/gonzowarr",
    "t.me/rybar",
    "t.me/epoddubny",
    "t.me/boris_rozhin",
    "t.me/mod_russia_en",
    "t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses",
    "discord.gg/projectowl",
    "t.me/ice_inii",
    "@IbnRiad.",
    "@EyesOnSouth."
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  "textContent": "submitted by SeventyTwoTrillion to news\n75 points | 80 comments\n\n\nA reminder that as the US continues to threaten countries around the world, fedposting is to be very much avoided (even with qualifiers like “in Minecraft”) and comments containing it will be removed.\n\nImage (of a Jamaat e-Islami campaign rally) and much of the information below is sourced from here and here.\n\n* * *\n\nIn 2024, the government of Sheikh Hasina, leader of the Awami League, was overthrown in a student-led protest movement which was boosted by US interests. In the interim, Nobel laureate and dyed-in-the-wool neoliberal Muhammad Yunus was made president, and introduced a series of economic and political reforms (e.g. IMF packages and banking sector restructuring) which have sidelined the working class and aligned the country with US financial interests. Regardless of anybody’s personal feelings towards Hasina (who did indeed make many mistakes and caused many deaths), it is now very clear that the reason why Hasina was overthrown was not due to a humanitarian, anti-authoritarian impulse, but because Bangladesh had at least some measure of sovereignty while she was in power, as she accepted Chinese infrastructure investments. Certainly, the US is perfectly comfortable with genocidal dictators if they are allied with US interests.\n\nLast week, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party won over two thirds of parliamentary seats - the Awami League was banned from participating at all, and worker-aligned parties were either disallowed or decided to withdraw from participating due to repression. I haven’t personally been able to nail down what exact economic/foreign policies they want to introduce, but because of what Yunus has set up in the interim, it might not matter that much - the economic stage has been set such that no matter what party took power, they would have to accept a fait accompli. As Vijay Prashad put it, the competition between the parties is reduced to “which faction will administer austerity”?\n\nOne of the many upsetting aspects of this election was that the student movement that helped overthrown Hasina have been forced into irrelevance, despite their legitimate grievances. The “Gen Z” protestors, displeased by the prospect of being ruled by the BNP about as much as the Awami League, found themselves with odd bedfellows, and allied with the now-opposition party (the hardline Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami). They are now in a tough bind, lacking much of the necessary left-wing organization to assert a genuine political project.\n\nThis is an instructive moment for many people who are desperate for better conditions in countries that are economically struggling, including Iran with its recent protests. If your country has sovereignty from the US, you walk a very dangerous tightrope - how do you organize for better conditions in such a way that it cannot be co-opted by the US to overthrow your government and put something even more terrible in its wake? Shortly after a jubilant revolutionary moment, you are left without influence, power, or even media representation, and now yet further under the repression of Western imperialism. This is one of the many problems that the population of the non-NATO world will need to find ways to overcome.\n\n* * *\n\nLast week’s thread is here.\nThe Imperialism Reading Group is here.\n\nPlease check out the RedAtlas!\n\nThe bulletins site is here. _Currently_ not used.\nThe RSS feed is here. Also _currently_ not used.\n\nThe Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine\n\nIf you have evidence of Zionist crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so. 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.\nEnglish-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.\nEnglish-language twitter account that collates news.\nArab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.\nEnglish-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.\nEnglish-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.\nEnglish-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.\nMirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.\n\nRussia-Ukraine Conflict\n\nExamples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists\nExamples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict\n**Sources:** Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.\nMoon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.\nUnderstanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.\nAlexander 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.\nSimplicius, 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.\nOn the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.\nUnedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.\n**Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:** Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.\nt.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.\nt.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.\nt.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.\nt.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.\nt.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.\nt.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.\nt.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.\nt.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.\nt.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.\nt.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.\n**Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:** Almost every Western media outlet.\ndiscord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.\nt.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.\n—",
  "title": "Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 16th to February 22nd, 2026 - The Neoliberal Fait Accompli of Muhammad Yunus - COTW: Bangladesh"
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