One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain’t worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.
Because one day, the prisoners of a concentration camp paraglided over a wall.
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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.
Hezbollah released a video about the drone strikes in Tel Aviv. No POV though.
New official Al-Qassam Brigades logo dropped:
Exceptionally clean just dropped. Not sure whether it’s a new clip but it’s a good one so fuck it
“O Lord they killed the women and kids…”
“O Lord, so accept [this act] from us, O Lord.”
“Allah is the greatest and glory to Allah and Islam!”Laith Marouf from Free Palestine TV hosting a 1 hour interview of Palestinian-Canadian communist Khaled Barakat.
What is this I keep seeing about Russia wanting to put DPRK soldiers in Ukraine. Is there any truth to that, or is it just the West spreading Fake News because the DPRK is sending observers to the front?
New UN OHCHR report on Israeli war crimes against Palestinians
cw sexual violence
Some truly awful stuff in this report, massremoved, sexual torture, terrible dehumanization.
Acts of sexual violence documented by the Commission were motivated by extreme hatred towards and a desire to dehumanize the Palestinian people.
India not even doing the bare minimum by signing an angry letter:
https://xcancel.com/suhasinih/status/1845109853280505901“And at the same time have a new government once we elect uh select uh once Lebanon selects a president.”
“President Javier Milei’s government has unveiled a plan to privatize Argentina’s national highway system. The administration wants to shift road management from the state-owned Corredores Viales to private companies”
oooh godspeed made new album
So this week I’ve been dealing with a fucking $$ettler KKKolonialist virus that was trying to colonize my body and commit genocide on all of my body cells. Thankfully the Resistance (my immune system) fought them off. However, since I am left a coughing mess afterwards, and am still in pain, who’s to say the virus really lost? Maybe causing me immense pain after the infection was the virus’s true goal all along, and my immune system didn’t actually win despite purging the virus from my body.
Anyways back to the point, has there been any major news since then? Are Israeli ground troops still getting torn up in Lebanon?
Almost out of a movie: Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, visited south Beirut today and met with the crowd. Amid a reported blockade by the IDF on Iranian planes coming into Beirut, Ghalibaf, former Air Force commander, flew the plane into Beirut himself.
Group chat is saying Israel is invading Syria, anyone else see anything?
It’s never been more over for the UK:
Treasury asking ministers to draw up billions of pounds of infrastructure cuts
Ministers are being asked to draw up billions of pounds in cuts to infrastructure projects over the next 18 months despite Rachel Reeves pledging to invest more to grow the economy, the Guardian has learned.
Members of the cabinet have been asked to model cuts to their investment plans of up to 10% of their annual capital spending as part of this month’s spending review, government sources said.
The demands would mean big projects such as hospital improvements, road building and defence projects being slowed down or stopped altogether as the government looks for ways to repair what they say is a £22bn black hole in the public finances.
Economists warn that such cuts to capital spending could end up damaging the economy and Britain’s creaking public infrastructure.
It’s never been more over for the Euros:
Germany expects economy to shrink after cutting 2024 forecast
Germany is facing its first two-year recession since the early 2000s, as the government downgraded its growth forecast for 2024, predicting a contraction of 0.2 per cent.
“The situation is not satisfactory,” Robert Habeck, economy minister, said on Wednesday. “Since 2018, the German economy has not been growing strongly any more.”
Just a few months ago he had forecast the economy would grow by 0.3 per cent this year.
Germany has been battered by high interest rates, inflation and an increasingly uncertain geopolitical environment, which has suppressed consumer demand and investment activity.
Some companies, complaining of high labour and energy costs, a big tax burden and political turbulence, are considering locating some of their production to cheaper countries.
At the same time, consumer spending remains depressed, despite an increase in real wages and falling inflation. The government’s earlier forecast had expected a more robust rebound in consumer demand.
Political instability is also taking its toll on sentiment. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition is riven by policy conflicts and the rise of populist parties on the far right and far left is undermining business confidence.
Incredible how ideological entrenchment (neoliberalism) + a currency war from the US (Ukraine war) accelerated the destruction of the future of the UK and continental Europe in just a few short years.
Europeans who have been laughing at how Americans don’t have healthcare and social welfare are going to have to seriously think about migrating there over the next decade and get used to what it feels like to live without basic welfare guarantees.