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.
Democrats: israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, so we must protect her, arm her, and recognize her right to bomb Palestinian children living in tents!
Also Democrats: A vote for Trump, is a vote to end American democracy! Vote for us to save our democracy, our most important institution!
58% of israelis: I’d definitely vote for Trump if I could
Imagine being a Ukraine supporter right now and watching America completely forget about Ukraine and focus on Israel.
Looks like the “tankies” were once again proven to be correct when we said that this conflict wasn’t about freedumb.
https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-moving-to-blow-up-cross-border-roads-seoul-says/a-70483720
it seems the DPRK is cutting all roads to the south. Some are saying this precludes invasion but why would you blow up the roads leading to the place you’re invading? Seems to be a defensive measure.
Former IRGC Gen. Mohsen Rezaee on X:
After facing a wave of assassinations, Hezbollah has revived its military organization. Now Hezbollah’s war machine has started and difficult days are ahead for the Zionists.
Official Hezbollah Telegram Statement issued by the Islamic Resistance Operations Room regarding the operation yesterday against the Golani brigade facility in Haifa:
We had previously warned that the “Israeli” enemy’s aggression against our honorable people in all parts of resilient Lebanon would make Haifa and other areas, with respect to the resistance’s missiles and drones, akin to Kiryat Shmona, Metula, and other settlements on the border with Lebanon. We accompanied this warning with information from our drones, the “Hudhud,” regarding “sensitive” “Israeli” military targets and “vital” “Israeli” facilities in occupied Palestine, especially in the occupied city of Haifa. We made it clear to this enemy that the Islamic Resistance sees and hears where it least expects.
The “Israeli” enemy gambled that the Islamic Resistance would not be able to carry out its threat after the despicable security operations and assassinations of its noble leaders, foremost among them our highest and holiest martyr, His Eminence the Secretary-General Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (may his noble secret be sanctified). The enemy did not heed our warnings and continued its aggression against our honorable people, committing heinous massacres against women and children, especially in Beirut and the southern suburbs.
After everything that transpired, the decision of the Islamic Resistance leadership was to discipline this enemy and show some of what it is capable of at any time and in any place it chooses, covertly or overtly. The target was one of the camps of the elite “Golani” brigade in Binyamina, south of the occupied city of Haifa, unknown to many settlers.
In a sophisticated and complex operation, the missile force of the Islamic Resistance launched dozens of missiles towards various targets in Nahariya and Acre to overwhelm “Israeli” air defense systems. Simultaneously, the air force of the Islamic Resistance launched diverse swarms of drones, some used for the first time, towards different areas in Acre and Haifa. The advanced drones managed to penetrate “Israeli” air defense radars without detection and reached their target in a training camp for the “Golani” brigade in the Binyamina area south of the occupied city of Haifa, exploding in the rooms where dozens of “Israeli” officers and soldiers were preparing to participate in the assault on Lebanon, including senior officers, resulting in the killing and injuring of scores.
The Islamic Resistance has pledged to the most honorable and pure of people that it will remain their protective shield and will not allow this cowardly enemy to single them out. It renews its promise to its highest and holiest martyr that it will continue to defend the beloved land of Lebanon according to the field plans personally prepared with the martyr leaders. It warns the enemy that what it witnessed today in southern Haifa is but a small taste of what awaits if it decides to continue its aggression against our noble and beloved people.
UNIFIL angrily tweets at the IOF:
https://xcancel.com/UNIFIL_/status/1845470755015762208https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1845622848817127439
Cannot possibly stress this enough: DEATH TO ISRAEL
dunno if anyone saw but noahpinion finally outed himself as the bloodthirsty ghoul he is on twt recently
Any people here that have a left wing analysis of the Nixon shock and how Trump might eventually institute his own price controls to own the libs?
“I plan on having a Republican in my cabinet,” Harris said, repeating a promise she has made before. “You asked me, what’s the difference between Joe Biden and me. Well, that will be one of the differences. I’m going to have a Republican because I don’t, I don’t feel burdened by letting pride get in the way of a good idea."
“Trump and the Republicans want a christo-fascist ethnostate. Vote for me so we can have a bipartisan fascist ethnostate”
I saw a comment on the TrueAnon sub that said “if any of you youngsters are around in 50 years when the U.S. admits it blew up the Nordstream, let them know we knew.”
We’re basically at this point with the Iraq weapons of mass destruction narrative. I marched; we knew. The lib friend I marched with doesn’t give a shit anymore. (He’s wealthy.)
The 2k ton bombs that Israel dropped on Lebanon were made by the US. US bombs killed Hassan Nasrallah. I don’t see the distinction between the US funding and making the weapons for the genocide(s) (and probably (definitely?) having US troops in IOF) versus having an actually declared war against Palestine/Lebanon/etc (which the US doesn’t even do anymore anyway).
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 Faculty of Psychology 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.