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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.


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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://streamable.com/iooarn

Hamas released 1 woman from Gaza with 2 young children, who were taken to Gaza on October 7. Nothing is known about any agreements yet. Negotiations regarding the hostages are being conducted through Egypt

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

this is probably fake news, a source on the ground told me they're actually sacrificing women and children to satan

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago

Israel prepares for possible ground assault in Gaza as war deaths mount | AP News

I really like AP's live update page. It seems to be free of sensationalistic bullshit and it's easy to get a link to a particular update. I gave up on Al Jazeera because there's no way to get a simple link to a particular update. They force you to use their social media bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 children)

On Monday, I set the comment Over/Under at 5250. Using a straight-line forecast, we are currently on track for 6200. Given the increasing sense that things are going to pop off after Friday prayer, I am upping the O/U to 7000 comments.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Xi Jinping: Two major countries should work together for progress

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https://twitter.com/MotulX22/status/1711401424784093512

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Apparently 6 Hezbollah fighters have been killed by Israeli shelling, and they're now gathering near the Golan Heights

link: https://twitter.com/Charles_Lister/status/1711450917369770278

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Newschads, what happens if the US runs out of conventional weapons between all their proxy wars? Will the US abandon some of its allies? Who gets priority?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Israel will always get priority, that much is clear. During the Yom Kippur War, the United States diverted a lot of weapons and ammunition from South Vietnam to Israel, leading to the former's defeat (which, granted, was only a matter of time). If this war in Israel expands into two or three fronts, if it lasts more than like a week or whatever, I fully expect the same to happen re: munitions to Ukraine.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (7 children)

anyody got a video of the storming of the IDF barracks ? or some inside on how they did it ?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (29 children)

Anyone know what the take in Rojava is on Palestine? Are they going to be massive opportunists that fuck over Palestinians by teaming up with Israel and the US if Syria gets dragged into this?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (3 children)

3,000 comments lets fuckin do it, today is a day of histroy lets-fucking-go

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Will the bombings get more intelligent if the US takes over command and intelligence for the Israeli army?

Are they likely to stop just indiscriminately bombing the crap out of everything and actually target military targets instead? Seems like Israel are honestly wasting a shit load of resources on mindlessly assaulting civilians and any competent leadership would get this toned down and focused on real targets of value rather than this chest beating shit they're doing.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (6 children)

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

The Palestinian resistance does not target children, and Western media outlets must ensure accuracy and not blindly side with the zionist narrative filled with lies and slanders.

We, in the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, firmly deny the fabricated allegations promoted by some Western media outlets, which unprofessionally adopt the zionist narrative full of lies and slanders against our Palestinian people and their resistance. The latest of these was the claim of killing children, beheading them, and targeting civilians. We consider this adoption and bias towards the zionist narrative without verification as nothing but a media downfall in an attempt to cover up the crimes of the occupation and its massacres committed day and night in Gaza.

These actions amount to war crimes and genocide by targeting civilians, cutting off electricity, water, food, and medical supplies.

The Palestinian resistance and Al-Qassam Brigades targeted the zionist military and security system in the Al-Aqsa Storm battle, which are legitimate targets. At the same time, they aimed to avoid civilians. Many field video clips witnessed this, and many settlers spoke about it with documented testimonies through the media.

The biased Western media outlets, which favor the zionist narrative, failed to mention the extent of zionist criminality against our people in the Gaza Strip, which completely wiped out entire neighborhoods, bombed residential buildings over the heads of their residents, leading to the killing of 950 Palestinian civilians so far, including 260 children and 230 women, all killed without prior warning.

This zionist crime can only be described as genocide and war crimes. We, therefore, call on these Western media outlets to be objective and professional in reporting and covering the events of the zionist aggression and not to blatantly and blindly adopt the zionist narrative.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (8 children)

The darkhorse of this conflict are the 2 million Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, they make up 21% of Israeli population

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I haven't seen anything about this, so might as well post it:

[GERMANY] Election Results for state elections in Bavaria and Hessen.

Bavaria:

Christian Social Union (Right Wing Opportunist) - 37,0% (-0,2%)

Free Voters Association (CSU for who doesn't like the CSU) - 15,8% (+4,2%)

Alternative for Germany (Fascists) - 14,6% (+4,2%)

Green Party/Alliance '90 (Neoliberal Warhawks) - 14,4% (-3,2%)

Social Democratic Party (As useless as the US Democrats) - 8,4% (-1,3%)

[Under the 5% clause, not represented in the state parliament]

Free Democratic Party (Libertarians) - 3,0% (-2,1%)

Ecological Democratic Party (Socially Conservative Socdems) - 1,8% (+0,2%)

Left Party (we're a mess) - 1,5% (-1,8%)

Bavarian Party (yes, separatist. They've been irrelevant since the 1950s) - 0,9% (-0,8%)

The Base (Vaccines scary, the party) - 0,9% (new)

Animal Protection Party (Hippies & sus people) - 0,5% (+0,2%)

The PARTY (radlibs mocking the political system) - 0,5% (+0,1%)

V-Partei³ ("Party for Change, Vegans and Vegetarians" says everything really) - 0,2% (-0,1%)

Party of the Humanists (Reddit, the Party) - 0,1% (+0,1%)

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