There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly update is here.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
Resources For Understanding The War
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.
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.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
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
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.
Last week's discussion post.
For those who were politically aware in 2001, How does the current media reporting on Muslims compare to post-9/11?
In the 00s it was more acceptable to just be outright bigoted. Caricatures of muslims like Achmed the Dead terrorist were common. The whole feel was very similar to how present day people are racist to east asians because "ccp bad". I remember people saying that it wouldn't be a huge loss if the whole middle east were "turned to glass". People just generally saw other races as incapable of being understood and therefore less human.
Today it's more of a hoity toity staring down your nose at their lack of morals. Every incident of dehumanizing other races has to come with a "they deserve it because..." asterisk. It's why western govts are so focused on media campaigns that otherize people from one another, because if they didn't then the kneejerk moral highgroundedness of libs would go more to the actual underdog and not the one the state fabricates.
There was also a big Christian Crusade element, with Bush himself using biblical language and a general understanding that we were at war with all Muslim people.
Slightly less bloodthirsty by virtue of actually having Palestinians on to comment even a little bit from time to time
Surprisingly no framing of the protests in the Arab world in support of Palestine as celebrating the attack on Israel. Still a bit cringe, especially early on, because they did the whole "Pro-Palestine = Anti-semitism" trope.
EDIT: Just remembered they did report how "Death to American and Israel" was chanted in some of the protests, which will undeniably cause antagonism towards Muslims even though they are justified in feeling that way.
Honestly pretty mild. Post-9/11 was insane. I was verging on political awareness/the start of a path toward the left, and got completely consumed and derailed by propaganda at the time.
I've tried looking for media from that era and it's very difficult to find anything.
DVD was getting popular and the only way people were recording programs was through vhs. Which recording through vhs then digitizing is still a laborious process, but then everyone’s new TVs came with a dvd player meaning no real way to capture media from network television. Then it was DVR, but idk many people doing the DVR to computer file thing.
I feel that back then, the mood was more "this whole thing is too complicated, let's just glass the middle east" whereas now it's more "this whole thing is too complicated, let's support our allies in glassing the middle east". Just the smallest layer of abstraction.
People were murdering Sikhs because they thought they were Muslim. We are no where near those levels.
9-11 struck completely unexpectedly right in the heart of the empire. The Al-Aqsa Flood took place in a faraway colony where we were already used to seeing the colonised resist. The satanically racist west has reacted in a deeply revolting way but it doesn't have the same amount of paranoia to it as 9-11 had. Although white people were killed they were killed somewhere on the outskirts of the western garden and unlike 9-11 where they were telling you that Al Qaeda could strike anywhere, no westoids are afraid that the Hamas hanggliders are going to show up and ruin their brunch.
Without a shadow of a doubt worse. The fact you have largely Arab reporters pushing back (and getting canned in the process) is a huge improvement from 2001. And this is comparing the media in a vacuum. It's not considering the fact that alternate sources of news (ie social media) didn't exist back then so everyone followed MSM or the fact that there's opposition now. There were no protests in 2001. Protests only started to happen in 2003, almost two years later. I was so surprised that they've already retracted the Hamas-butchering-babies lie. If this were 2001, that bullshit would've stayed on the air for half a year, and if you weren't subscribed to some socialist newspaper where you were able to read an article by Parenti debunking the lie, you would've never known until years later.
post 9/11 you could not find an american who wasn't baying for Muslim blood
The mask was way farther off in the early 00s. Now the calls for genocide are called out for what they are even though nobody is stopping it, whereas then the rhetoric was slightly more couched in nuance but way more common and there was no pushback.