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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:

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.


  • Torenico [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    After coming in second in the elections, Javier Milei and his party are already on full damage control and boy, it is not looking good. He kinda fucked up during his campaign, he had a super hostile tone against the other neoliberal members of the opposition calling them "useless and traitors, just like the Kirchnerists". Now, less than 24 hours after his defeat and with the second round coming in shortly, he realized he is in need of votes if he wants to beat Massa (6% gap between the two). And as he explores restoring links with the neoliberals, he did what nobody expected: He extended his hand and offered an alliance to the Left.

    He said earlier this morning that he is willing to offer the "Ministry of Human Capital" to the leftists because "they know a lot about this issue", claiming that "I don't care what they think of the Labor Theory of Value". He's playing the "pragmatic" and heavily "technocratic" role, utter desperation? Why would you offer a ministry to your arch nemesis lmfao. This doesn't look good, of course this will never happen as leftists, contrary to ancaps, liberals and fascists, do have basic principles. But this will resonate badly among hardcore Milei voters, this kinda looks suicidal to me. So much from the "We will never give an inch to our enemies" candidate smh my head.

    So, Anarcho-Capitalist-Fascist-Trotskyist current is being born?

    Other ancaps are completely losing it as well. They're already doing an internal purge and two prominent party members are being signalled and attacked for being guilty of making them lose votes. One is ancap candidate for Mayor of Buenos Aires (an extremely important position, he got third position and is out of the race), Ramiro Marra, a complete dork and worth for nothing man-child who almost cried on live TV because a children's tv show once said the Spaniards were the bad ones during the Conquista and during the May Revolution of 1810 (he holds dual citizenship) and who was seeing gifting dollar bills to people during the last day of the campaign. He works in the "financial industry" and was once (or still is?) a finance youtuber, you know, a wannabe Wall Street Bull or something. Then there's Lilia Lemoine, a flat-earth cosplayer of 42 years of age that is key to Milei as she's the literal link between incel anime avatar losers and his campaign. She was posted here some days ago in the old Mega, doing cosplay of some anime character I don't even know and people here were, rightfully so, lamenting it. She's under attack for saying stupid shit like "Men should be able to renounce paternity like women are allowed to abort" and for acting like a dumbass during the entire election cycle. It is interesting because she gets the most vicious attacks from her supporters because she's a woman, and mysoginy is inherent to all right wing movements. Unfortunately she will join her party's as a member of the lower chamber.

    (All wiki links are in Spanish because none of these losers have their own english page).