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Venezuela denounces Israel to the UN Security Council for the massacre in Khan Younis https://buff.ly/3QmHeCU

Nationalism in Sports 🔶️ The urgent drive for competition where energy and emotion are channeled into spectacle to inspire communities at large. 🔶️ We can seize the bread & circus realm and repurpose it. If the powers that be completely defund it, that would cause an accelerationist reaction we would want. If the mainstream media framed normal folk as extremists for playing ball or attending any recreational outdoors activity, it would blow up in the faces of journalists. 🔶️ Finally, it would greatly expand the reach of our people into something new giving off a life of it's own. Of course it requires a fairly holistic approach rather than explicit politicizing of a typically apolitical sphere. The great pay-off would be the general public suddenly participating side-by-side with nationalism incarnate.

Just over a month ago an episode of Law and Order aired wherein the Active Clubs made a cameo. As one would expect the inclusion was certainly not flattering, but it certainly could have been a lot worse. Thank you to the following for helping with the video: Wyoming AC Big Sky AC (Montana) Great Lakes AC (Michigan) Snake River Nationalists (Washington/Idaho) SocCal AC NorCal AC CentralCal AC Desert Dixie AC (Southern Utah) Atlas AC (Georgia) Southwest Florida AC Southern Oregon Nationalists Wasatch AC (Northern Utah) 📍In Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Get active, Get involved. https://greatplainsactiveclub.us Join the vetting chat today: https://t.me/Great_Plains_Active_Club

🎓 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 George Washington University asked DC police to help clear a policy-violating encampment on their private property. But "city officials in the police chief’s and mayor’s office told police to stand down and said that it would look bad publicly for police to disrupt a 'small number of peaceful protesters.'" https://www.nationalreview.com/news/d-c-police-reject-george-washington-universitys-request-to-clear-out-anti-israel-encampment/ 📎 Guy Benson

👮‍♂️ 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 1000+ Americans arrested over Israel criticism 🔶️ More than 1,000 people have been arrested at student-organized protests of Israel’s war effort in Gaza on university campuses across the country in the ten days since 108 were arrested at New York City’s Columbia University, a Spectrum News analysis of police data, university statements and media reports found. https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/education/2024/04/28/us-gaza-campus-protests-arrests

🪧 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Campus protest map showcasing about 80 protests, up from the 59 on the axios map from earlier. https://www.nytimes.com/article/pro-palestinian-encampments-protests.html 📎 Jennifer Schulze

📖 🌍 🔥 Western Africa at large is rapidly falling into a descent to failed, brutally authoritarian dictators and swathes of jihadist and non-state controlled anarchy. A large part of this is brutal regimes in the region rejecting governance and embracing self-serving corruption. - Nathan Ruser 🔶️ The Burkina Faso military summarily executed at least 223 civilians, including at least 56 children, in two villages on February 25, 2024, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. To date one of the worst war crimes ever conducted in the country. https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/04/25/burkina-faso-army-massacres-223-villagers

🇷🇺 🇺🇸 🌍 Thousands of former Wagner fighters are now answering to Moscow 🔶️ “The timing element is key here. Russia can give these countries what the U.S. cannot and immediately,” one of the U.S. officials said, referring to Moscow’s ability to use private fighters to provide under-the-table weapons and ammunition to newly formed military governments in Africa. “And a lot of the leaders of those countries are sick of the U.S. lecturing them about democracy.” 🔶️ Moscow’s use of the paramilitary fighters to spread its influence in Africa is already visible in Niger, one of the most important outposts in the war against terrorism. 🔶️ Meanwhile, in Chad, another country with a significant presence of former Wagner fighters, the Biden administration announced this week that it was withdrawing about 75 special operations forces who had been performing counterterrorism roles, at the request of the local government. 🔶️ The move was widely seen as another instance of Russia supplanting U.S. influence. 🔶️ Former Wagner fighters also remain active in Mali, Libya and Sudan, where they have contracts to provide security to unstable regimes. The U.S. has tried to counter Wagner’s presence in those nations and the Central African Republic, urging officials to distance themselves from Russia. 🔶️ In another country, Burkina Faso, as in Niger and Chad, former Wagner forces are now under firm control of the Africa Corps. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/28/wagner-fighters-russia-africa-00154595

🇷🇺 Politico, citing US intelligence: “The Russian Ministry of Defense has divided the remnants of the Wagner PMC into four different groups. One group operates as part of the Russian Guard and Russian military intelligence and continues to fight in Ukraine. Another group was named the Afrika Korps) or “Redoubt” and actually continues the activities of the original Wagner group. It is the Afrika Korps that is largely responsible for the recent decision to withdraw American troops from Niger and Chad, as well as for the significant change in Washington's policy in many African countries.

📖 🏴 🌍 The Islamic State’s Sahel Province (ISSP) has established itself as a destination for foreign fighters, raising its transnational threat risk to Northwest Africa and Europe. 🔶️ ISSP began resurging in the tri-border area of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger after the withdrawal of French forces in 2021 and an informal détente with al Qaeda's Sahelian affiliate (JNIM) since July 2023 has enabled ISSP to consolidate more control in the border region of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. 🔶️ The areas under ISSP control have become a destination for foreign fighters, increasing the transnational threat the group poses, especially to Europe. Moroccan security forces disrupted three IS cells facilitating foreign fighters’ travel to ISSP in Mali in October 2023 and January–February 🔶️ JNIM has used the détente to exploit the withdrawal of UN forces from northern Mali and the arrival of the Malian army and Wagner Group mercenaries in northern Mali. 🔶️ ISSP and JNIM recently fought in northeastern Mali for the first time since December 2023. This could signal an end to the informal détente and draw resources away from both groups’ other campaigns in adjacent areas of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger and toward each other. https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/africa-file-march-14-2024-foreign-fighters-and-jihadi-rivalry-in-the-sahel-somalia-backslides