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.


  • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
    hexagon
    ·
    1 year ago

    Gaza continues to strike Tel Aviv, the airport, and various other towns in Israel with missiles. They must have had tens of thousands of the things built up.

    • 420stalin69
      ·
      1 year ago

      tfw Gaza has a better MIC supply chain than NATO even under near complete blockade

    • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
      ·
      1 year ago

      Amazing that Israel has been surgically striking all of their infrastructures for days and they still manage to do this

      (or maybe Israel is just hurling bombs at them without care, idk)

      • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
        hexagon
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        there's hundreds of miles of tunnels under Gaza that Hamas uses to store the ammunition and rockets; the bombing that Israel is doing might be impacting them somewhat but 99% of the damage is purely to civilians with no military purpose. literally just terrorist attacks, in the most literal meaning of the word "terrorist", without even the hypothetical purpose of maybe catching a "terrorist" or two in the blast radius as was the typical justification of US strikes in their previous wars

      • InappropriateEmote [comrade/them, undecided]
        ·
        1 year ago

        (or maybe Israel is just hurling bombs at them without care, idk)

        I don't know either, but from everything we've seen, it's definitely that. It's collective punishment. The goal is to flatten whatever they can, whatever is there, kill any and as many civilians that happen to be below the falling bombs and white phosphorus. If they hit Hamas, that's no doubt a huge bonus, sure, but they're mostly just lashing out, punishing anyone within reach for the utter humiliation they just endured. The bullies were just bloodied in a way they thought they never could be, and now they're flailing through their bloody, snotty tears because that's all a bully can do when they're finally put in their place.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
        ·
        1 year ago

        Word. How the hell are they still able to move and launch rockets? Where is Israel's vaunted surveillance? I can't believe this. I would have thought Israel would be locating every group moving rockets and taking them out with counter-battery fire. Paper fucking tigers.

        • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
          ·
          1 year ago

          On Telegram in earlier bomb raids (that is before this one) it was reported multiple times that the air force is randomly dropping bombs to agricultural lands. My bet is that they don't even bother with surveillance. Hamas does something and they reply with random raids so for the domestic crowds (most of whom doesn't care either) it looks like they're actually fighting Hamas, arms industry is kept alive and they project force. Probably that's why they didn't even thought that people would break out from Gaza.