Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish 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 (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.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is still Palestine, though we will switch next week to a new country.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly (biweekly?) 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.
One of his more overt dogwhistles featuring swastika like diagram. In case you're unfamiliar, kali yuga is also a favourite of nazis, "surf the kali yuga" essentially being a sort of "ride the zeitgeist" like statement among them which is part of the way they teach among themselves to be so esoteric and roll with the punches culturally. This usually features a Totenkopf
or Black Sun
Yes I believe he's a nazi.
Ug that’s horrible. I’m a yoga person and didn’t know about this gross appropriation.
Nah, I don't think he's a nazi, just dumb. He changes his entire world view every week. He has no real ideological theory. He just reads/watches a lot of junk and passes from one dumb idea to the next. If he were a nazi, I doubt he'd have had Bernie on (obviously fuck Bernie for his dogshit foreign policy, but he's Jewish and also what many people call a 'socialist' even if he isn't really a socialist).
Yeah that's my take on him too.
I like to call this "empty head what I think in the moment is all that is true" attitude Hyperliberalsim. Its like their belief in "right to have an opinion" and "right to freedom of expression" has morphed into "Whatever i feel in the moment is the truth." Its really common and really easy to see at the moment with people who trust the media on Ukraine but bash the media coverage of israel.
The fash are rather split over Israel, with some like Rogan critically supporting Palestinians. I get why patsocs would be pro-Palestine (they're faux anti-imperialist LaRouchites who want to funnel people with genuine anti-imperialist sentiment into reaction). I'm more curious about people like Rogan and this chick. They're not MAGA/Qanon because MAGA/Qanon come from Evangelical backgrounds who desire a state of Israel. Plus, Trump is an open and proud Zionist.
Does it just boil down to them really really really really hating Jews to the point they'll critically support Muslims? Maybe they sense the current zeitgeist and are jumping on the bandwagon early to not go down with the sinking ship? I feel like there's more at play here. People like Rogan aren't fully independent actors, so the question becomes what goals are the people behind Rogan et al trying to accomplish.
No it's not about jews it's about white supremacy. They're part of the crowd that believes in an impending race war. They support ethnic conflict as a base for raising white-consciousness. When you translate our theory about class consciousness onto race you get what they're doing and why.
As for why their monetary backers support that, same reason they always have. It splits up the working class along ethnic divisions instead of class ones and creates groups they can easily hyper-exploit. That and some among those rich fucks genuinely believe in the master race nonsense they tout, it's something you can start believing in when you're the ones at the very very top of power, a justification for that power as natural.
That makes a lot of sense. Overall, it's curious how this issue is something the fash are completely split on while the broad left, including radlibs and liberal progressives, is almost completely united over support of Palestine. I mean, even Vaush is pro-Palestine.