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.
Update For Both The Week Beginning October 9th and October 16th, Kinda
We're (mostly) back on track after the Israel war derailed me. To keep this manageable, for you and me (this takes me more cumulative hours every week than I would like to admit), I've had to substantially limit my criteria of what to include, and also keep things to headlines for this week. This actually wasn't that hard - I'm not sure if all the journalists covering Israel were usually the really productive ones covering exciting events elsewhere or what, but honestly not a ton has happened in the last two weeks. A few elections here and there, the BRI summit, a broken pipeline, and other such things, but not many flashy events outside of Israel.
I have also substantially cut down on the reporting on Israel in the update. Thankfully the list of sources I've curated is now of sufficient quality that I wasn't wading through endless takes like "Israel might be bad, but Hamas is even worse!" and "Over 1000 Israelis brutally murdered by terrorists, also there's a few thousand deceased Palestinians, but that's not important here and they deserve it actually." While an update consisting of a thousand dipshittery articles would be pretty funny in any other circumstance, I don't want their rotten sewage in my updates in this case. And, honestly, I didn't fancy having like 50 headlines slowly showing the number of dead Palestinian children and destroyed buildings increasing as the days went by. Nonetheless there's still a pretty decent number of pieces there, from October 7th all the way to decades in the future to today.
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Global
The transcript of the latest Geopolitical Economy Hour: Multipolarity: China, Russia, Israel, India, and the difficult birth of a new world. Both some hope and doom in there.MH
Copper producers warn of lack of mines to meet demand for metalFT
China launches Global AI Governance Initiative, offering an open approach in contrast to US blockadeGT
China elected to UN Human Rights Council as Russia’s bid is rejectedSCMP
Belt and Road summit: Xi pledges investment, promises to open Chinese marketsPW
China marks decade of belt and road with white paper declaring redoubled commitment to help developing countriesSCMP
China to unveil new maritime cooperation initiative at belt and road summitSCMP
Financial problems still loom large as IMF downgrades global growth forecastWSWS
World Bank controversy sends loss and damage talks into overtimeCCN
Low, middle income countries have deficits in infrastructure, but high risk of destruction from disastersMB
Europe:
US-EU summit yields call for balanced approach to China, urging ‘constructive and stable relations’SCMP
No progress made on youth empowerment in Europe since 2018, report findsEuractiv
Experts: Stockpiling may be EU’s blind spot in critical raw materials debateEuractiv
EU’s Full Gas Storage Doesn’t Eliminate Supply RisksNC
Sabotage suspected in Baltic pipeline leakRT
Finland says subsea pipeline damage appears to be deliberateBNE
Bosnia likely to end deal with Chinese consortium on Tuzla 7 coal plant constructionBNE
Bulgarian doctors sound alarm as paediatric health care collapsesEuractiv
Nearly 80% of Czechs do not trust PM: surveyEuractiv
BarMar hydrogen pipeline project ‘dead on arrival’, French experts sayEuractiv
Germany headed for deeper recession, IMF saysDW
Scholz’s coalition suffers defeat in mid-term state electionsEuractiv
Hungarian banks introduce voluntary rate capsBNE
Ireland lays out plans for €100-billion sovereign wealth fundEuractiv
Italy to earmark €12 billion for mega Sicily bridge projectEuractiv
Dutch take measures to reduce grid stressEuractiv
Poland’s PiS rocked by top generals resigning days before electionBNE
Volkswagen and Umicore pick Poland for site of €1.7bn EV battery component factory[BNE[(https://archive.ph/dNTvI)
Portuguese PM wants action by European socialists on Slovak election winnersEuractiv
Slovakia's election result is about declining living standards, not just UkraineJacobin String of resignations forces Slovenian PM to rethink strategyBNE
French winegrowers protest cheap imports destroy crates at the Spanish borderEuractiv
Catalonia’s Aragonès calls for ‘Scotland-style’ referendumEuractiv
Major Swedish study to search for long-COVID ‘blind spot’Euractiv
Ukraine to spend at least 21.6 pct of GDP on defense in 2024PD
Ukraine’s grain exports fall by a third, despite rises in seaborne exportsBNE
Western Asia:
Azerbaijan-Iran normalization on the horizonEN
Fears linger in Armenia of Azerbaijani invasionEN
Armenia refuses to take part in CIS summit and CSTO military drills in KyrgyzstanBNE
Azerbaijan's president emphasises Georgia's role in Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talksBNE
Georgia's ruling party fails to remove presidentEN
US Breaks Its Deal with Iran… AgainAW
Iran Confirms End of UN Restrictions on Missile ProgramsTS
Iran begins rationing foreign currency for trade and industry sectorsBNE
China’s Middle East envoy’s tour of region heightens focus on Beijing’s influence over IranSCMP
Turkish lira hits new all-time lowRT
Qatar supplies gas to Europe, vying with US to replace Russia supplyEuractiv
Israel's Western allies have done everything possible to criminalize nonviolent resistanceJacobin
Netanyahu’s Humiliating Reality Check: Israel’s ‘Invincible’ Army Falls ShortMPN
Chris Hedges: Palestinians Speak the Language of Violence Israel Taught ThemMPN
It’s not a Hamas-Israeli conflict: It’s an Israeli war against every PalestinianMR
We must refuse to apologize for Palestinian humanityRNN
Here’s What You Need To Know About Gaza’s History (w/ Norman Finkelstein)SP
Statement of the PFLP on the Al-Aqsa Flood battleRC
Stop the war! End the occupation! Free Palestine*removed externally hosted image*
Free PalestineRC The International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity Expresses its Solidarity with the Palestinian PeopleResumen
China’s Two-Pronged Response to War in the Middle East: Officially Stay Neutral, Unofficially Blame U.S./IsraelCGS
Conflict between Israel and Hamas puts China’s approach to Middle East to the testSCMP
Maduro Condemns Israeli Aggression Against PalestineTS
French left in turmoil after Mélenchon’s party reacts to Hamas attacksEuractiv
Evo in favor of Hamas' actions in IsraelMP
Communist Party of Israel and Hadash: “Netanyahu’s fascist government bears full responsibility for the dangerous escalation”MR
US opposes peace as Israel ethnically cleanses Palestinians, waging war on ‘entire nation’ of GazaGPE
The Palestinian people are already free: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2023)MR
Central Asia:
Death toll from earthquakes in Afghanistan rises to 2,445CGTN
Afghan caretaker govt to build houses for quake-affected familiesCGTN
U.S. sanctions cast pall over post-quake reconstruction in AfghanistanPD
Taliban commission first section of major canal that could threaten water sufficiency of Central Asia neighboursBNE
Uzbekistan pursues mediation with Afghanistan over Qosh Tepa canalEN
China, Central Asia gear up for in-depth upgraded cooperation riding on BRI boons: expertGT
Uzbekistan, China aim to double bilateral trade to $20bnBNE
Kazakhstan remains central to Beijing’s plans for belt and road as China sets sights on EuropeSCMP
Kyrgyzstan: Billions spent on preventing revolutions, says security services chiefBNE
Pakistan's airline near collapse, heading for privatizationDW
IMF raises Russian GDP growth forecast by almost 50%RT To 2.2%.
‘All our drones come from China,’ Russian minister saysSCMP
Russia, Mongolia trade flourishing as Moscow turns east for new marketsBNE
Russian seaborne oil exports fall to lowest level since September 2022, but oil revenues surgeBNE
Russian farms take in 133.5mn tonnes of grain, on course for 135mn tonnes totalBNE
China and Russia supercharge trade with record grain order, bolstering food and energy security as Western pressure persistsSCMP
India Expected To Reject Russian Demand To Pay For Oil In Chinese YuanNC
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Eastern Asia and Oceania:
Chinese commerce minister meets U.S. congressional delegationCGTN Followed by the usual sanctions.
China struggling to wean itself off US dollar assets despite financial de-risking callsSCMP
China’s CPI remains flat in September; decline in factory prices narrowed: NBSGT
China’s September foreign trade hits new monthly high of 2023 as recovery gathers steamGT
China megacity to build US$30 billion hi-tech infrastructure cluster by 2026, and investors will be keySCMP
China adopts GM technology for corn, soybeans in major food security manoeuvreSCMP
China's bird-like drone breaks world record flight timeCGTN Just over 3 hours on one charge.
Promising results as Chinese vaccine trial sees African swine fever fatality rate fall to zeroSCMP
Taiwan reports 13th straight month of export order decline, world economy blamedSCMP Taiwan’s exports rise for first time in 13 months amid huge AI chip demand, mainland China trade uptickSCMP
Taiwan launches first locally made weather satellite with ‘groundbreaking’ navigation systemSCMP
Taiwan president says ‘peace is the only option’, as Tsai Ing-wen eyes legacySCMP
Samsung profits at 8-year low, but hope is in sightEN
Jakarta-Bandung HSR, landmark BRI project, starts official operationGT
Russian FM visits DPRKPD
China joins mission to test seas, marine life around Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant for radioactive contentSCMP
Landslide defeat for Labour in New Zealand electionWSWS
Defeat of Australian Labor’s Voice referendum highlights massive class divideWSWS
Myanmar junta accused of deadly attack on refugee campDW
Africa:
Remove trade barriers to increase per capita income, IMF tells African leadersBilaterals
Project to create the largest database on the African genomeAN
Algeria "postpones" its mediation in NigerAN
Cameroon: Toll rises to at least 27 dead and 50 injured in floodsAN
Chad: Police arrest "around fifty" opposition activistsAN
Fuel prices surge in Congo amidst protests and economic strugglesAN
DRC President Inaugurates New Chinese-Built Hydropower PlantCGS
China, Ethiopia establish all-weather strategic partnershipCGTN
Somalia rejects Ethiopia's call for negotiations on Red Sea accessBNE
Gabon junta leader turns down presidential salaryAN
Free speech: Is Gambia sliding back into dictatorship?DW
Kenya officially joins Pan African Payments and Settlement System (PAPSS)BNE
Kenyans demand compensation for British army blaze ahead of king's visitAN
Liberia: Cost of living and development, big election issues amid voter fatigueAN
Liberia's tight election spurs run-off expectationsAN
Libya: UN concerned by clashes and telecoms blackout in BenghaziAN
Namibia to Advance Energy Infrastructure, New SubstationsTS
French army has begun its withdrawal from NigerAN
Escape attempt by ousted president Mohamed Bazoum foiled, says militaryAN
France and Nigeria hold joint naval exercises in Gulf of GuineaAN
Russian energy giants Gazprom and Rosatom offer to help end South Africa energy crisisBNE
Hundreds at Nissan South Africa to lose jobs after deal with Russian partner collapses over Ukraine warBNE
Sudan: Number of families suffering from hunger almost doublesAN
Sudan's economy in limbo, warns IMFAN
Uganda: Nile Basin Countries Convene to Address ChallengesTS
Australia’s IonicRe upbeat over Uganda mining licence approval for Makuutu rare earths projectBNE
Zimbabwe's main opposition CCC calls for 'revolution' after 15 members expelled from parliamentBNE
North America:
A pension plan proposal is sparking separatism in CanadaJacobin
Biden Announces Huge Hydrogen Investment. How Much Will It Help The Climate?ICN
The United States has lost its charm, maybe forever, to China’s brightest studentsSCMP
Latin America:
Argentina election: from peso to dollar?MR
Perhaps a little unfair to MMTers, I doubt any of them would object to the historical fact that increasing money printing raises inflation (and they would argue that those economies were/are doing something else wrong I would imagine); nonetheless it is essentially true that the whole premise would only really work if you're a major economy, particularly if you hold the global reserve currency. In the current global system, most countries cannot do MMT.
Blue dollar plummets in ArgentinaMP
China and Argentina to Expand Swap Agreement by 6.5 BillionTS
Brazil to unfreeze $700mn for building of major Mozambican dam after seven-year hiatusBNE
Amazonian rivers in Brazil hit by severe droughtMP
Cuban Government Joins Global War on Cash By Banning All Cash Payments for GasolineNC
Protests in Guatemala Continue for Ninth Consecutive DayTS
Guyana Incited by US to Enter into Conflict with VenezuelaResumen
US to ease sanctions on Venezuelan oil exports on promise of freer presidential electionBNE
OFAC Announces Venezuela Sanctions ReliefResumen
Panamanians To Protest Against Mining ContractTS
Drought hitting Chaco region concerns Paraguayan authoritiesMP
Kenya court puts Haiti deployment on temporary holdAN
The UN is Blessing the U.S. Using Kenyan Black-Face to Disguise its Illegal Intervention into HaitiHL
The UN-Blessed MSS Could be the First Step Toward a Decade-Long U.S. Military Occupation of HaitiHL
UN Security Council renews Haiti sanctions regimeCGTN
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War:
Russia, China Unite Against US EmpireNC
Biden demands $100 billion for wars in Ukraine, Israel and planned conflict with Iran and ChinaWSWS
US to deploy additional air defense systems near IsraelRT
US has enough weapons for both Israel and Ukraine – PentagonRT Are you sure about that?
EU facing ‘huge shortage’ of ammunition – mediaRT
Ukrainian forces on defensive as “counteroffensive” ends in failure, mass casualtiesWSWS
Volodymyr Zelenskyy seeks to shore up western support for Ukraine amid Israel-Hamas warFT
Zelensky visits NATO headquarters to secure military assistanceGT
Training of Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets underway: reportPD
Chinese and Saudi navies launch joint counterterrorism exercise against backdrop of Israel-Hamas warSCMP
China PLA stationed up to 6 warships in Middle East over past week amid rising tensions from Israel-Gaza war: reportsSCMP
China will have over 1,000 nuclear weapons by 2030, exceeding US predictions, Pentagon report on PLA expansion saysSCMP
Could China surprise enemies with weapon that lies in wait on the seabed?SCMP
China drives away Philippine navy ship in waters near Huangyan IslandCGTN
US secures Marshall Islands military deal, keeps China at bay in strategically vital Pacific regionSCMP
Oil sanctions are a spent cannonBNE
US imposes first punishments for ignoring Russian oil price cap sanctionsBNE
Russia and Kyrgyzstan Set up Joint Air Defense SystemTS
Labour:
Australian dairy industry workers strike across multiple companies and sitesWSWS
Record-Setting Strike Moves Kaiser the Old-Fashioned WayLN
500,000 Quebec public sector workers vote massively in favor of unlimited, province-wide strikeWSWS
Left and Right:
The World in Economic Depression: A Marxist Analysis of CrisisTC
So, Global or International Development: Why Not Both? Marx in the Field, Planetary Immanent Development, and Centering Political Economy in Development StudiesDE
Why Haven’t the Protest Movements of Our Time Succeeded?CA
How rich nations continue to systematically exploit the Global SouthGL
The fight against apartheid was an international struggleJacobin
The global socialist planning of BaghdadJacobin
French Communists want alternative to Mélenchon-driven left coalitionEuractiv
lmfao.
LGBTQIA:
Content Warning - this section is not usually good news.
Philadelphia Becomes Sanctuary City for Gender-Affirming CareAdvocate
California Judge Halts School Policy Outing Trans Students for NowAdvocate
Ron DeSantis's Anti-LGBTQ+ Crusade Fails Again as Florida Can't Enforce Drag BanAdvocate
LGBTQ+ Groups Denied Registration Even After Supreme Court Decision in EswatiniAdvocate
Uganda's anti-gay law jeopardises progress in the fight against AIDSAN
Climate:
In New Zealand, Increasingly Severe Crackdowns on Environmental Protesters Fail to Deter Climate ActivistsICN
Research by Public Health Experts Shows ‘Damning’ Evidence on the Harms of FrackingICN
Nearly half of all plants threatened with extinction, says new reportAN
One million coal jobs face the axe globally by 2050CCN
Saudi Arabia, Russia urge World Bank to keep funding fossil fuelsCCN
Vessel Strikes on Whales Are Increasing With Warming. Can the Shipping Industry Slow Down to Spare Them?ICN
Glacial lake outburst floods are a growing threat to hydropower plantsMB
World may have crossed solar power 'tipping point', says studyBNE In a good way.
How capitalism killed nutritionMR
I Love My Trans Comrades!
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His chain of comments is linked at the bottom of the post text, but yeah I think it could be more prominent.
Maybe we need to find a way to automate running articles through ChatGPT to summarize.