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.
Russian liberal's experience living in London:
Russian libs are some of the nastiest, most racist people I've ever met, so I'm happy that she's unhappy
Translated. CW: racism, elitism, fatphobia
London. My God, how everything has become outrageously expensive! My eyes were popping out of my head. A small breakfast in Prada cafe (this is now in Harrods instead of Ladurée) - tea, a tiny mozzarella sandwich and a roast beef sandwich - 43 pounds!A modest and disgusting hotel near Victoria - 295 pounds a night. I moved to Royal Garden, it’s quite modest, the same 295 pounds. There were 200 before. The clothes are nothing to look at for less than £1000. A modest £50 lunch. One small ceviche £27. Uber to Gatwick £91. How ordinary Englishmen survive in this city is unclear. I dreamed of living in London. Thanks to Igor for giving me this opportunity for six months - he had a job there. With a heavy heart I walked through our favorite places in South Kensington. Our cafe, our butcher. The cafe is no longer there. The butcher is here.
Familiar restaurants have disappeared. But a bunch of new ones have appeared. In good places there is a full landing everywhere. This means there is a lot of money in the city. And I don’t have all of them, which is very tragic. You need money to minimally reduce your contacts with assholes and dregs: so that you don’t get knocked down on the platform by a nasty [slur for a fat person], so that you can ride and fly in comfort, so that the moron on the train doesn’t drop his fucking backpack on your head, well, that’s all...
I thought that the trials in America would end, and Zhenya would have to study for at least a year in London. And now I see that this year will cost a fortune, damn it.
London feels turbulent. Friends warned me to keep my bag with me at all times in front - they steal. iPhones are being pulled out. Crowds from the Middle East. The entire Royal Garden Hotel is inhabited by them. Demonstrations in support of Gaza in the city center. And the police are not screwing anyone.
I was trying to figure out if I still wanted to live in London? Without a lot of money, no, I don’t want to. A friend of mine tried to get hold of the doctor whom she paid 5,000 pounds for tests, but in vain. Medicine or not, or incredibly expensive. Living costs are crazy, and the quality of life is very low. With a typical middle-class salary, you can’t do your own hair or get a regular manicure. You can’t just have a snack in a cafe without a reason - 65 euros fly off the card. Transport is also expensive. It's sad, I really loved London in the 2000s. It's a shame it's so inaccessible now. It’s dangerous to go there with a child - he’ll get sick, who knows with what and how and where to treat him.
Hm damn things must be getting bad in london huh
Wall wall wall wall wall
(Yes the rest of it is bad too that part is just an awe inspiring lack of self awareness)
journalists deserve a little red terror. She thinks she is entitled to live like a queen just because she writes her dogshit thoughts for a rag some people call newspaper
Oh she’s a journalist? Gross.
I believe me and you have both (rightfully) ranted about western journalists deserving gulag and/or pit lol
The chief job of western Journalists is to take State Department press releases and run it through a thesaurus.
Uh, these are normal things to want to be able to do in a society? regular-ass people can get their hair or nails done here in Colombia. likewise going to cafés etc. London really is impossibly expensive for normal everyday things unless you're an oil prince
There’s nothing wrong with it, it’s that it’s ridiculous to put that in the same statement as “the quality of life is very low”.
I mean by that metric it's worse than any small pueblo I've been to in Colombia
like what do you think quality of life in a city means
Lady, did you get London confused with Dubai?
Russian nationalists at this point are actually less nasty than Russian libs, because all they care about is Russia being powerful, and accidentally end up stanning the USSR.
seriously. At least russian nationalists often have some understanding of geopolitics. Russian libs on the other hand are just slimy, smug fuckers who are always two minutes away from defending apartheid south africa or some other vile shit like that