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.
Israeli forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says (Full interview)
She says the Palestinians treated them humanely, gave them water when they needed, tried to calm them down when they seemed frightened. "Their goal was to kidnap us to Gaza. Not to murder us."
They waited for the police response to arrive to the kibbutz and she says the police started the gun battle.
She says one of the "terrorists" (her words, translated of course) decided to surrender, took her with him, when they got outside she said there were Israelis dead all over the grass; the interviewer asks if the Palestinians did it and she says no, it was the crossfire. She says the police undoubtedly shot them, or at least some of them, themselves. "They eliminated everyone, including the hostages, because there was a very very heavy crossfire."
She says they fired two tank rounds into the small kibbutz home they were all in, killing everyone inside including the hostages, after she was released.
With all of the friendly fire incidents, the clear video we have of IOF troops being completely unprofessional and panicking from even rocks being thrown... I think in the fullness of time it will turn out that a huge proportion of the dead Israelis from the Flood were killed by police, IOF, or settlers. As this woman pointed out - the Resistance weren't trying to murder people, they were trying to capture hostages for leverage.
edit: video was made private and re-uploaded or something, can now be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi-ESUGUUMk
When American POWs said they were treated humanely by North Koreans, the US government said they got brainwashed and threatened to suspend their citizenship and charge them for treason unless they rescinded their confessions.
Later on, the US would be exposed for experimenting on their own citizens as well as other westerners in their MKULTRA mind control bullshit.
Some of the veterans who rescinded their confession walked back on their rescission later on when the war became forgotten to say, “yeah I didn’t get mistreated.”
Burchett also said that Vietnamese prisons for American POWs were like a European resort. He got grilled for “making light” of the situation, but even his critics acknowledged that he was correct in reporting that American POWs weren’t mistreated systemically
You don't exactly want to tell the people wading through mud that they could be living it up as a POW
Wasn't just MKULTRA mind control, but even just shit like intentionally exposing a bunch of random people at a health clinic to radiation to see what it would do on an unsuspecting population.
True, but I was specifically mentioning MKULTRA because the accusation that North Korea brainwashed the POWs into saying stuff with some communist black magic. It’s why the US started its mind control and supernatural nonsense experiments because they heard rumors of the communists doing the same
That can't be true, I watched Deer Hunter so I know for a fact that American POWs were forced to play russian roulette in Vietnam
The video went private you wouldn't happen to have another source?
hmm, i don't have one to hand right now but it was on the electronic intifada's channel
Thanks, I think it's this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi-ESUGUUMk
that's the one
Video is private. Was it public earlier?
This one I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi-ESUGUUMk
Yes, it was public to begin with on the electronic intifada's channel