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
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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.
"but what do you expect people like AOC to do? The Democratic Party is a broad party with a lot of views"
Oh uh... I don't know... Maybe not support genocide enablers like Biden or Harris? Resign from the Party in complete disgust and at the very least run as an independent from now on?
Is it really that hard to support the people being massacred these days? Do we have to show them the video of that Palestinian father carrying the headless body of his son? Or the rescuers shoving off bits of what once was a human being off a wall?
I don't know how these people sleep at night. And I don't mean the Pelosi-like ghouls, these people don't sleep naturally, they get drugged up and that's it. Or maybe they stay awake 24/7 because they're not human at this point. I mean the people who once showed glimpses of empathy like AOC... I just don't get it, have they lost their humanity? And for what? For cheap political points? For improved relations with Zionists? Do they not know Zionists will, sooner or later, suffer an historic defeat that will completely destroy their genocidal colonial project and they will be forever remembered as traitors and collaborationists? Do they not want to be in the correct side of history?
Do they not lose their fucking mind over all this? I know I'm losing mine... Does they not get moved by all this? I know I do...
And let's just say for a minute that people like her and other social imperialists are "forced to act this way by the current circumstances", that they have no other alternative to "play nice", that, in a way, they're victims too. Nah, fuck off, History and people remember those who stood up for those who are in desperate need of help, pathetic spineless Quislings will be seen with complete disgust by the future generations. We have such examples here, our friend John Brown fought to free human beings from slavery against all odds, perhaps an impossible task, yet he was willing to sacrifice everything for such noble cause. We shall celebrate him until the end of times. Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire to protest this genocide, giving everything away for people he never personally knew and never will. We shall celebrate him until the end of times. And you tell me she can't protest because "party cohesion" or some shit? What does she even fear, to be expelled from the pro-Genocide Party? Is that too much of a price to pay? I would wear that proudly as a badge of honor.
Feels like we're reaching a History defining moment. History called, she wants to know where everyone stands. They didn't skip the call, they answered, but instead of choosing the way of peace, dialogue and humanism (the very least you could do) which could have prevented so much pain and misery, they answered and insisted with the way of destruction, of annihilation, of barbarism, so typical of western culture. But History is wise, and she will remember. When their time comes, which will be our time, we too have to remember what they said and what they have done in such moments, memory is important, without there will be no proper Justice.
Organize. Agitate. Don't let them win. Reject Doomerism. Remember who you are fighting for.
—Aimé Césaire
Césaire was a powerful writer. His "Discourse on Colonialism" is a must read for everyone.
I'd be fine with shutting up and slightly improving other things, it ultimately doesn't matter one way or the other, still better than 99% of them. But whitewashing it? That's active support, fuck the high horse the rides on.