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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.


If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.


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.


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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (7 children)

My dad is on his usual incessant news watching and its funny see just how all over the place the reporting on the 'Hamas harming babies' story is. One channel has pulled back entirely just claiming that Hamas were killing and burning people indiscriminately. Another says that Biliken did indeed see pictures of babies, but they were "filled with bullets or burned". And now yet another channel is reporting that there are pictures of beheaded babies. Like, on the one hand I guess the American propaganda machine doesn't need to do much anymore since there are still many who eat all this shit up, but on the other how is it that they can't get the story straight? I'm sure they still want to convince those who are on the fence about this. Yet they can't even decide on how to kill babies in a way that will draw the most outrage.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Started researching origins of Israel/Palestine beginning in the Bronze Ages til present to dunk on everyone with their shitty takes. I am and never have been a big history person, but I've more or less gone through the Bronze Ages - 1940's and figured out surrounding context for myself, just need to flesh out my notes. I'd love suggestions on what to study that could be important to getting an advanced grasp on the relations over the years, from any time period. Plsthx

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Norman Finklestein is pretty good whenever he isn't ranting about trans people

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm glad I live in an area with a strong leftist presence that actually goes against the pro-NATO narrative. It's part of why I've spent most of my time here and not on Reddit. Some parts of the West are more open to leftism than others, but NATO countries in particular have the biggest uphill battle with how strongly tied they are to the current world order.

That doesn't mean leftists shouldn't continue to fight the good fight, but they also shouldn't expect a revolution or sudden shift in their lifetime. It will require many generations of leftists but it will pay off.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Feel like I've had some kind of breakthrough on how the US propaganda system works and that most westerners have been successfully MK-ULTRAed to respond to certain triggers at like 3am while literally shitposting on the toilet.

A real glasses-off glasses-on moment.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago

"Come on bro, when did I ever lied to you?"

Said the IDF, known for lying to you.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To play arm-chair strategist for a sec: if Hezbollah joins the war, my guess is they'd attack after the anticipated invasion of Gaza is well underway. Idea being to ensnare (a sizable chunk of) the IDF in the south before levying the second punch from the north.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Narrativewise , Israels genocide is gonna get more apparent any day that passes from the "40 baby atrocity propaganda blitz" while israel produces industrial scale massacres on the altar of its injured ego. Now to "Change the picture" of Bombenholocaust on victims that cant even escape , israel needs to go in with groundforces . But "Going in" is a extremly high gamble. Bakmuth was 100.000 inhabitans , and it consumed the armour and ordinance of a middle sized nation.

Gaza is 2 million , the IDF, whos army just failed in the most spectacular way to even patrol the KZ fence.. , might just be devoured in it.. especially given the advances in dronewar smallarms etc.. So loose face (not go in & do scared revengebombing on children ) or go in and be devoured in this City..

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

here's a fun fact about gaza 🥰

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Haven’t seen anything definitive but feeling seems to be that ground invasion is indeed going to happen now. Otherwise what are the evacuation order and huge troop movements for?And with the deadlines given, it does seem like today is probably the day. Only thing I could see delaying it would be logistics. Seems like troops and armor still mustering at the border. Maybe they’ll push it off another day or two, but sure seems like it could start at any time.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I'm honestly still in shock that we haven't seen Hezbollah engage with Israeli. This is the weakest it's ever been, how is this not the time to strike?

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

UN has moved its operations. Can't say the same for the 1.1million civilians they told to move though.

UN people seem pissed.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Protests are spreading and the Lebanon front in heating up, the Americans are losing control of the situation

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago

China should just attack Japan too if the US is willing to wage war over Zhonghua Taibei. Might as well take two emperor-worshipping war criminal bourgeois democracies out at once.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I really wish a F-35 get shot down or blown up before it takes off for kicks and laughs, really miss that feeling when that Global Hawk got shot down over Hormuz in 2019.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Umayyads should not have stopped at Pyrenees

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hamas airborne division fancam set to LMFAO party rock

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (5 children)

A gas pipeline (and some kind of data cable) that runs between Finland and Estonia was apparently damaged, possibly "sabotaged". No one knows shit, but investigations are ongoing. As usual the warhawks have already blamed the Russians. https://yle.fi/a/74-20054419

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Was looking at Felix's twitter, and saw this pro-Palestine march in Jordan demanding the border with the West Bank be opened.

https://nitter.net/ToryFibs/status/1711807480991224009#m

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Martyr Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades spokesman, Abu Obeida:


In response to the enemy’s crime of displacing our people and forcing them to flee their homes in several areas of the Gaza Strip, we give the residents of the occupied city of Asqalan a deadline to leave it before five o’clock this evening, you have been warned.

What are they about to unleash jfc

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago

The Jalameh checkpoint in Jenin has been set on fire and resistance fighters there are claiming responsibility.

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