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.
My University held a student’s assembly today and decided: The University is now taken and partially managed by it’s students until Wednesday, when the action will be temporarily suspended because we will hold a protest. However, if the Argentinian Congress fails to overturn milei’s veto on education funding, a new assembly will be celebrated to decide on the next action. An indefinite occupation of the premises is not out of the question. We joined our efforts with the Psychology Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires and other institutions that have carried out similar actions. This can become a big snowball very quickly.
Wherever this ends, it’s valuable experience. Even if we don’t achieve political victories, let it be known that we can work together and we can act in solidarity with one another. That’s a big win, because we can find the ways to transform the material reality in capitalism, and that is, to me, the way to bring it down.
That’s awesome!
Please take all my energy in your struggle to destroy
Time-lapse map showing the missile strikes on the Zionist entity since the beginning of the war:
https://xcancel.com/leb313shihin/status/1843435528227828067
🔴 Gaza 🟢 Lebanon 🟠 Iran 🟣 Yemen 🔵 Iraqrewatching vids of oct 7 reminded me of something I was thinking when it happened. Hamas was putting video out within a few hours of Al-Aqsa Flood start and I suspect they had crews on motorcycles collecting go-pro sd cards and porting them back into Gaza where Hamas propaganda warriors would edit and upload almost in real time. Like it wasn’t just an add-on but a significant part of the operation. They were putting out video, info graphics and other related stuff in order to dominate the narrative as soon as possible. This might be the first time the term ‘keyboard warrior’ was a real thing and they were likely targeted by IOF in the subsequent bombing campaign. o7 to all the people behind the line.
Honestly I didn’t expect to see storms like Milton until the late 2020s
Really messing with my pre-2035 timetable for getting out of here
The (20)20s are the new (20)30s
Happy October 7th. Violence against the colonial settler and it’s regime is justified and it’s the only way to achieve liberation. “Israel” deserved October 7th.
The actions during that day will bring about the elimination of zionism. It has set in motion the events that will lead to it’s downfall. Such entity cannot exist for much longer in this state.
I would like to spare a moment to wish suffering upon those who will swim across oceans of blood to vote for rabid zionist Harris. For Trump voters I have nothing to say other than they don’t play pretend. But liberals? They will vote for their shit candidate thinking they’ve done enough good for the people they’re massacring. They will step over the bodies of thousands to feel good. When our time comes…
A warm salute to all comrades engaged in this noble fight against “israeli” and “american” genociders. Especially to our comrades in the Middle East who are in direct danger. Much love!
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PIJ celebratory video of October 7th:
https://xcancel.com/TVFreePalestine/status/1843315374265339985I did a post about ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive that may be of interest to the newsheads here
Abu Milton has joined the Resistance. #meme
imagine getting taken out by a storm called ‘milton’
just embarrassing
I remember when hurricane katrina was God’s wrath for greater gay marriage approval in the country. Where did this energy go? Now apparently the jews are making the hurricanes with the illegal immigrants with their weather machines. I miss biblical rage against your political opponents. This is Allah’s doing. Allah sent this hurricane for the sins of the Great Satan.
Mandate of heaven lost
The hurricane is khaaammmas
Rant
I fucking hate liberals. I thought writing out my comment would make me feel better but it did the opposite.
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I saw mention of David Simon on Bluesky and I wondered what he had to say about Gaza and genocide. I found a tweet that is quite something. I had to read it a few times because he obfuscates. I’ve always thought it’s funny when something can be phrased simply but the person can’t do that. To me it’s a Freudian slip. They are so arrogant and obnoxious they convince themselves that confusing and muddled text makes their self-defined iron-clad case even stronger.
He refuses to mention any place or group by name. He avoids words like Gaza, Gazans, Israel, Israelis. I might be wrong but I don’t think even the UN does that when taking about a specific location with a specific war and not some abstract, theoretical debate club bullshit. He claims what’s happening in Gaza is not a genocide because there has been no intention by Israel to destroy or mass murder the populace.
Also - hypothetically - if somebody makes civilians suffer or targets them that guy is a war criminal. Obviously - that’s kind of weird. Israel isn’t just small bunch of guys in Gaza committing war crimes. In any case - he says they should be prosecuted fully. After that he pokes fun at people who in his opinion - intentionally or not - misuses the words genocide and war criminal.
He believes the silly people conflate horrific-but-oopsie mass death and suffering as genocide when he says that some undefined group might be war criminals.
If with intent, you attempt to mass murder a people by any means – starvation included – it is a genocide. But if the prosecution of a war results in human desperation without the intention of a belligerent to destroy or mass murder the populace, no. That said. If you are needlessly indifferent to the sufferings of civilians, or if you work to maximize or increase that suffering, or if you target civilians without regard for their status, I’d say you are a war criminal.
Few people are acknowledging that even war crimes, which should be prosecuted fully, are not genocides. They use the words interchangeably now as rhetoric.
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Ninja edit
Despite myself I kept looking around at his tweets. He also praised Israel’s pager terror attack. Because of course he did.
You can call it terror or you can it a war. But certainly, throwing rockets without regard to where they land is indiscriminate, as are, perhaps, many of the Israeli air sorties in reply. Civilians are at great risk. This business with the pagers, purchased for use by Hezbollah combatants and officials, is pretty damn discriminate as weapons systems go.
Israel: We are want to kill or expel every single person in gaza
Palestinians: israel is actively trying to kill or expel all of us
: you can’t just throw around the term “genocide” when there is no intention to mass murder or displace the populace!When the typical ignoramus idiot on the net says stuff that’s nonsense - I just ignore it. But Simon knows what Israel does and how they do it. He knows all that stuff in possibly minute detail. But he lies about everything. I’m certain he’s aware of the estimate made by the Lancet in July that ~186,000 or more Gazans were killed directly or indirectly by Israel. He can do math. He knows it’s possible if not probable that Israel killed ~10% of the population of Gaza which was 2.3 million pre genocide. And god only knows how many injured.
It’s kind of frightening to me that some liberals will defend Israel the US to their dying breath. Seriously - what would it take for them to admit they’re wrong?
these are indeed heady concepts david, with many balancing factors and tradeoffs. if only there were some objective measure we could use to compare this situation, like say number of civilians killed, number of hospitals/schools/pieces of civil infrastructure/places of worship destroyed, or number of journalists executed. if we had something like that we could begin to cut this gordian knot as posed by your incisive rhetoric, but alas
I’m tempted to learn if he has carefully defined and delineated what a journalism is in Gaza so he can downplay their murders. I’m sure my hunch is right and he’s snidely demoted them to being something like “citizen bloggers” or “Tiktokers” or “posters” or whatever. But maybe he’d even admit that their killings if intentional are war crimes that should be prosecuted. As if it’s hard to tell when Israel does targeted killing. Like when they merc paramedics who are driving down the road in their well-marked ambulance. Or they blow up a hospital.
He’d never admit to what it really comes down to. I bet if push comes to shove - he thinks of journalists or doctors or paramedics or any civilian getting maimed, injured or killed (in Lebanon and Gaza and perhaps in Iran soon) as little more than human shields.
yeah there’s no one who can say anodyne shit like that about gaza without intentionally doing so to cover and whitewash genocide. he clearly deserves to play a starring role in that
sequel. these big brain data driven academy addicts spout all their shit while ignoring the really obvious and objective metrics that can be used to actually analyze and compare these atrocities
Emoji material?
This would be a great sticker of just his head to use anytime Israel gets more money and weapons
The war is going badly. It’s time to double down and keep doing the same failed thing that has brought us here but harder
‘we must keep one by one-ing nato equipment to save ukraine. we have calculated that the optimal rate of equipment escalation is that of the 8 year rolling average production rate of US arms manufacturers. this complex alignment of military industrial strategy is a fortuitous coincidence’
is literally the cover image oh god
Some Donbass news.
Russian forces liberated the Donetsk People’s Republic town of Grodovka (northeast of Novogrodovka): https://sputnikglobe.com/20241007/russian-forces-take-control-over-dprs-grodovka-village---mod-1120458305.html
Russian marines liberated the Donetsk People’s Republic village of Zolotaya Niva (west of Ugledar): https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/niva.mp4?_=1
Shout out to Mike’s Weather Page on YouTube for those interested in digging deep into this and every other Florida storm. Think autistic train guy channel meets Florida Man sponsored by the biggest liquor store chain in the state.
I have proof that Putin was working with Hamas and personally responsible for October 7th
Coincidence? I THINK NOT
My 40-something year old cousin is going in for emergency surgery in St. Petersburg tomorrow morning, and his wife has decided to bunker down with their two kids and my uncle despite being in a mandatory evacuation zone. I don’t know his wife well enough to try and talk some sense into her about leaving my cousin in the hospital and booking it out of the Tampa area. Really kind of hoping this thing doesn’t make landfall near them.
Was just going to say, I don’t think there’s a hurricane headed for the Neva river
I did not know there is a St Petersburg in Florida! This comment was very confusing until I see Tampa. It is not the return of ghost of Kiev
My wife is in a similar situation with her family. She has an uncle and cousins who are in Tampa and are not evacuating. They have the means to do so, they just… aren’t.
It’s wild
Edit: I also know it’s easy to fall into blaming people for not leaving when they don’t have the money or ability to do so, but to the best of my knowledge that isn’t the case here. They are very securely upper middle class and recently moved to Florida. I think they just don’t understand the severity of it? Maybe I’m mistaken though. Idk. I hope somebody can get through with your family and they can be safe!!
The current track is smack dab in the middle of Tampa Bay, right over the top of them. Basically, any way it could go, that place is getting hit with part of it.
Sorry, to clarify, I meant the eyewall. I am hoping the eyewall makes landfall further south.
aren’t they predicting 10-15’ storm surge for Tampa, a city where 50% of the population lives <10’ above sea level…?!?
do you have any older relatives that might be closer to them that would be better received as a Voice of Reason?
They are currently on the edge of the mandatory evac zone. I checked GIS map after getting off the phone with my mom, and it looks like there house is ~20ft about sea level according to this map. My mom is apparently going to talk to my aunt, who is closer with my uncle that she is (this is my mother’s brother-in-law, her sister is dead) to see if she can convince my uncle to talk her into leaving. I know my cousin’s wife since I am godfather to one of their kids, although not super well, but she is pretty stubborn/tough. That’s come in well in the past because their other kid has a serious illness and my cousin is bipolar, but this is also the downside of being stubborn. I am thinking about texting her asking if she has an axe or hatchet to be able to break through the roof if necessary, if the water gets too high.
that sounds incredibly stressful and scary
personally don’t think your axe/hatchet text would be out of line and would be asking those questions myself, might be good to remind her what she’s going to need if it comes down to the worst
WSJ - U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack
Fed/cop back doors got exploited by Chinese hackers
Oh no, the poor piggy-spies! Anyway…
Leaving backdoors in software is akin to making a hole in a wall and covering it with wallpaper.
I like to say it’s akin to leaving a set of keys for your front door of your house underneath a pot plant, as some people do so that they can let others access their home while they’re away. All it takes for a thief to enter is to know where that set of keys are hidden, or to look under all of your pot plants.
Good thing I keep mine under a box that says not here
good analogy :)
Oh how the tables turn.
