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.

  • Awoo [she/her]
    ·
    1 year ago

    PFLP's take seems to be that all concessions and weakness signal to Israel a lack of opposition internationally, and this emboldens them to carry out their genocide. It is essential that absolutely concrete stances are taken with no weakness, anything less causes them to expand aggression by signalling that there are no repercussions for it.

    Anything less than calling for ceasefire makes things worse and actively harms palestine.

    🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:

    —

    Aligning with the American plan is treason. No discussions or solutions before stopping the aggression.

    The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine warns Arab and official Palestinian parties that participating in discussions of the American proposals for the future of Gaza fuels the American-zionist genocidal war against our people in Gaza.

    There can be no talk of any political horizon as long as the aggression continues against our people. The illusions of the American and “israeli” enemies of being able to eliminate the resistance and place Gaza or any liberated inch of Palestine under the guardianship of hostile parties will be brought down by our people with the steadfastness of their resistance and their supportive stance.

    The duty now is to adhere to a unified Palestinian and Arab position that rejects any political dialogue under aggression, affirms the refusal of the attack to uproot the Palestinian resistance, and rejects of the declared American goals of displacing the residents of Gaza and imposing the Deal of the Century by force of the war of extermination and with the cooperation of Arab and Palestinian parties.

    The Front calls for the manifestation of a clear and unified Palestinian position that rejects these plans and confronts them politically and diplomatically, and contributes to protecting our people in the face of the war of extermination.

    The Front also reiterates its warning to all parties that any concessions under the fire of aggression will contribute to feeding the appetite of the forces of aggression to expand the war of extermination against our people and increase its severity.

    Our people, with their resistance, unity, and steadfastness across the Palestinian territories, will bring down the American plan and snatch their victory from the jaws and claws of the forces of aggression. Any bet on the aggression will be a net loss for its owners.

    The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

    2.11.2023

    • mkultrawide [any]
      ·
      1 year ago

      Definitely the correct stance. The ceasefire should be unconditional. America and Israel can't be trusted to keep to any terms of an agreement.

      • Awoo [she/her]
        ·
        1 year ago

        It's not just that they can't be trusted it's also that anything less than calling for this indicates political weakness. Everyone wants a ceasefire, the people who are hedging and NOT calling for a ceasefire but instead for something weaker are doing so because they're politically weak, and signalling that weakness actually creates more genocide. Ambiguity is actually probably better than the positions people like Bernie have taken, because at least with ambiguity the possibility of a strong stance still exists.

        All israel see with this is "they're weak, we can get away with this, let's push ahead".

        • mkultrawide [any]
          ·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, I agree with all of that reasoning in the statement. I am just adding on that America and Israel can't be trusted to keep terms, anyways. Iran nukes deal, Minsk 2, Iran hostage money all over again.

      • ziggurter [he/him, comrade/them]
        ·
        1 year ago

        The ceasefire should be unconditional.

        ISRAEL must cease firing. If the liberation movement fires at them, they should either retreat or die.