Image is from the January 2023 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. Over 50 heads of state and 600 CEOs attended.

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Imagine a terrifying world where we are all ruled by monsters of every stripe. And not hot ones like werewolves, but instead decaying zombies and mummies who are both insensitive to, and actively benefit from the immense suffering they cause on a daily basis. The top echelon of society, filled with profit-seeking, bloodsucking vampires. And the worst of it is that they repeat on a daily basis that what they are doing is not only just, but there is no other possible way to do it.

Pretty spooky, right? What if I told you that this world... was our own?

Happy Halloween!

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.

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 Lebanon! 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.

This week's first 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.

  • the_kid
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    1 year ago

    China supports peace conference on Palestine to push ‘two-state solution’

    Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has expressed support for a broad and authoritative peace conference on Palestine as soon as possible.

    The goal? To push for a “two-state solution”, Wang said in a call with his Omani counterpart, Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement.

    :chinese-foreign-policy:

    • SoyViking [he/him]
      ·
      1 year ago

      The two-state solution is a good example of crackpot realism. Nobody really wants a two state solution and the fascist ideology of the zionist entity as well as zionist land theft makes the formation and peaceful coexistence of two separate viable states impossible. A two state solution doesn't even offer solutions to problems with discrimination of Palestinians living inside the zionist entity or the right of return for refugees. Yet, a two-state solution is talked about as being the sensible opinion that everybody agrees on. The idea of a free secular multiethnic Palestine, which is what most Palestinians wants, is never given any serious consideration. We can only do the impossible.

    • mkultrawide [any]
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      1 year ago

      Both Hamas and Fatah call for a two-state solution. China isn't going to come into Palestine and say "Thanks guys but we know better than you." That's just how they do foreign policy.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
        ·
        1 year ago

        It is worth noting at least that the PFLP, which is essentially the Communist Party of Palestine, call for a one-state solution as they recognize the genocidal contradiction in the continued existence of the Israeli state alongside a free Palestine and see the only path forward for their homeland is the complete liquidation of of Israel to set the foundations for a free and equal People's democracy where Jews and Arabs can live alongside one another without ethnic discrimination or oppression.

        It's of course also worth noting that PFLP know that there's a time and place for such rhetoric in relation to the current conditions they find themselves in

        • mkultrawide [any]
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          1 year ago

          There's a difference between us talking amongst ourselves about what we think should happen, and how a government should approach the situation in its official statements. Disregarding that actual Palestinians want in your official statements because you "know better" is just a form of national chauvinism.