Image is a snapshot taken from the recent Hezbollah video "Our Mountains, Our Treasures", showcasing their extensive underground fortifications, supply lines, and weaponry.

iran can't keep doing this to me, they've gotta respond soon, right? I'm gonna run out of analysis about countries soon, oh god

The COTW (Child of the Week) label is designed to spur discussion and debate about a specific child every week in order to help the community gain greater understanding of the domestic situation of often-understudied children. If you've wanted to talk about the child or share your experiences, but have never found a relevant place to do so, now is your chance! However, don't worry - this is still a general news megathread where you can post about ongoing events from any child.

The Child of the Week is Hassan LargePenis! He is chad-and-cuck rater and general commenter @LargePenis@hexbear.net's son, born over a month ago. @Greenleaf@hexbear.net recommended I have him as the COTW for a week and I finally got around to it.

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Israel-Palestine Conflict

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. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

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.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

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.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

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 Telegram Channels:

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.

  • Redcuban1959 [any]
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    3 months ago

    The Scottish Government announces that it is suspending all meetings with the Israeli government and its officials until there is "real progress" towards peace in Gaza.

    • jackmarxist [any]
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      3 months ago

      Why is the Scottish government meeting with Israelis anyways? Wouldn't that be a Union Government thing?

      • newacctidk [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        Scotland has its own international relations, they are limited but it is part of building autonomy for them. https://www.holyrood.com/inside-politics/view,talking-diplomatically-does-scotland-have-the-right-to-establish-its-own-foreign-relations

        “It seems to me that what James Cleverly did was a signature example of the way that unionist politicians in Westminster – and they tend to be Tories, but not always – talk down to the Scottish political class, when in doing so all they can do is increase people’s yearning for independence,” he says. “If a Scottish politician were to pop up in an EU country, there would be all manner of things that that EU person would be interested to take their opinions on. Imagine the position the UK diplomat would be put in if the conversation was unfolding nicely and then Ukraine came up. That’s a reserved subject so what would they do – slap the Scottish politician on the leg to stop them talking?”

        Under the SNP the Scottish Government has greatly expanded its network of pseudo-embassies, with bases in Beijing, Berlin, Copenhagen, Dublin, Ottawa, Paris and Washington DC. They come under the remit of Robertson, who, as cabinet secretary for external affairs and culture as well as the constitution, has responsibility for the government’s global affairs network and Scottish diaspora. Jack has railed against the extent to which Robertson uses visits to these offices to build international connections, telling the Scottish Affairs Committee in May that Cleverly’s guidance on diplomatic meetings “didn’t go down very well with old Air Miles Angus [Robertson] for a very good reason – that is because he took offence at us calling him out visiting governments and talking to them about matters we know are reserved: the constitution and foreign affairs”.

        Angus Robertson is constantly in trouble as Constitution Secretary. In fact on this exact news he has already been forced to recant https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/angus-robertson-humiliating-apology-save-33494701

        The British still hold their old attack dog's leash