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.
Bourgeois electoralism in theory: People will vote for the candidates that represents them best and get a ruling class reflecting their views!
Bourgeois electoralism in practice: Every major political leader has a negative approval rating. Politicians are universally despised.
The UK is fuuuuuucccckkkkkeeeedddd we're getting Farage next election I can feel it in my bones.
Either Starmer goes or we get Farage. That's how it is. Only possible chance of this not happening is if Andy Burnham is given the leadership, he's not a real leftist but he's a popular socdem and genuinely sincere in caring about people unlike Starmer. He'd beat him, but I don't think Starmer will ever step down, he's the type of tyrant that will stay until forced out.
The UK will get whoever the oligarchs who runs the media decides they should have.
Love democracy, people who everybody hates make laws nobody except rich people wants. Not a single favorability point.
people said that this would be the death of the labour party but i don't think anybody thought the cycle of 'soc dems ruling as tories and killing their careers' would last 5 minutes tops
Except there's nothing to kick him out early is there? Labour has a big majority in the house so they could cruise along being deeply unpopular for 4 years, unless there's something I'm missing
There's a chance some of his minions might smell blood in the water and try to take over but obviously they'd be equally awful. Still kind of want it to happen so I don't have to see his luncheon meat easter island head looking ass and hear his stupid voice on the telly constantly though
We'll have to see if usa thinks they are done for via: if greens will start getting infiltrated by baerbock style atlanticists, then labour is fucked
Just incredible. What has Starmer even done that the public now hates him so much? Yes, he is horrible and me and everyone here have hated him since he backstabbed Corbyn (or earlier), but why has the British public turned on him so quickly? He’s only been in power for like what, 2 Trusses?
People just realised that they elected the Tories again
One door says Labour. There's Tories behind it when you open it.
Another door says lib dems. There's Tories behind it when you open it.
A third door says Reform/UKIP/
. There's Tories behind it when you open it.
A fourth door says Tories. There's Tories behind it when you open it.
This is one of the most advanced and praiseworthy democracies ever known to humanity.
Some welfare cuts happened early in the reign, innit. I forget the details but they call him Sir Kid Starver.
....Daveyyyy!
He won because the Tory voters stayed home or voted Reform, not because he was popular. Going back on bunch of things he promised and getting rid of the winter field allowance for seniors has basically tanked his popularity, plus all the little corruption scandals like receiving $100K in "free clothing".
I thought all the Starmer corruption was at the scale of "he received two shitty suits from a billionaire, and he and his party all received tickets to see Taylor Swift in London"