Links and Stuff
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
The last Ukraine/Russia conflict megathread.
For full transparency and accountability and all that, here is my source list.
Many of these might be not great, some might even be bad. But hey, you gotta get your Dipshittery and Cope from somewhere. If any of them are like, really bad and reactionary, then let me know and I'll cut it off. Laughing at awful news is one thing but I don't wanna get clogged up with opinion pieces that are just straight up harmful. I know a few that are (The Saker for example) but I am only using their Ukraine War pieces, nothing else.
I always want more news from underrepresented areas - so, basically, not the US. If you have any good (or even just meh!) sources for Europe, Canada I guess, Central + South America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania + Pacific, and any other place I'm forgetting, then let me know. And in English, unless there's a translate function on the website.
If you have any decent blogs that you know of, or explicitly left-leaning media sites, then let me know too.
As the list expands, I might not be able to include all of them due to time constraints - I am just one person with one brain - but just having a list would be useful.
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Blogs/small media sites, etc:
Signing off for now.
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I don't know what he uses for RSS but you can try feeder.co I use the chrome plugin for free.
I use Feedly, as they have way (if you pay for it) to filter topics by things like 'Geopolitics' or 'Foreign Policy' or by country, or even just mentions of a particular word in either the title or body of the media posts. That latter one is really helpful if I wanna investigate specific things - it's how I created the comment on what different sites were saying about if there's going to be a recession.
I used to literally just go through each individual headline but when I added a bunch more sources, that become infeasible and needed a way to cut it down. The filters leave out about 5% because nothing's perfect I guess, so I also manually set it up using the aforementioned mentions feature for key countries like Russia, Ukraine, China, and other countries.
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awesome, thanks