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.
Kings and General YouTube channel was pretty left leaning lib in its historical analysis and utilized materialism, but now it’s straight up just propaganda about contemporary conflicts.
Added to that fact they are currently covering the war in the pacific and the Pelleponisian war and it’s like the channel was just taken over be Robert Kagan.
Amazing how he has covered so many wars through history and yet points out Russias invasion of Ukraine is “illegal and unprovoked” every five minutes.
I never heard him refer to any of these other wars in history as such!
Love how people specifically point out that Russia’s invasion was illegal, as if every other country before has gotten a permit from the UN
It's kinda wild how they avoided contemporary conflicts up until the war in Ukraine, like they barely had a few WW2 videos but they're now producing like a weekly video on the War in Ukraine. And the tone is indeed very pro-Ukrainian, thumbnails will always show ukrainian soldiers painted positively, the video titles during the counteroffensive said the situation was "difficult" but during the russian advance on Avdiivka it is painted as a "Disaster", even though it's literally ongoing lmfao (and it could be a disaster, don't get me wrong on that). They also made videos on Putin and Prigozhin, rambling about possible coups, bad health of Putin, authoritarianism and shit like that, no different than your standard NYT article from these days.
It's heavily propagandized now, but I always had some issues with them. Perhaps the most important is that they don't seem to post sources anywhere, and while making history videos or producing any kind of historical content... you kinda need to, you're under obligation. In some of their videos they would say "our sources mention.." but they never tell us who are these sources, I've seen that time and time again during their videos of the early Muslim conquests where every battle that is shown has them saying "We don't know much about this battle because our sources...", but where are they? Who are they?. This is ridiculously important, because without sources I can make the assumption that they're either straight up making shit up or stealing stuff from authors, none of which is good. And with sources available one can take a look at them and generate a discussion, sources are the backbone of any production and if we can't even look at them then we can't really make a critic. I don't know, I am studying to become an historian and literally the first thing I was taught was to work with sources and to properly give them credit when I'm making claims, like if I say "Marx defined primitive accumulation as.." and I don't say where I got that definition from, I'm not being an historian, I'm plagiarizing.
Also I saw them very active on
YT channel during the first days of the invasion, especially during his answer to Hasan's comment that he didn't think Russia will actually invade.
Kings and Generals sucks, more power to Historia Civilis and history being properly represented as tiny colored squares
Thanks for the Rec, I need pulp history and maps in my life.