One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain't worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.
Because one day, the prisoners of a concentration camp paraglided over a wall.
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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 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.
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.
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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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.
In US electoral politics News, a new IPSOS poll has dropped. IPSOS polls are some of the most credible and unbiased globally, they were quite accurate in the recent South African elections and correctly predicted that Jacob Zuma's MK party would take a large share of the EFF vote.
Trump and Harris are locked in a tight race weeks before the election, ABC News/IPSOS polling, 13 October 2024
Interesting notes: Harris only has an advantage on abortion, protecting democracy and looking out for middle class interests. Trump has an advantage on every other issue, and his largest advantage on immigration. Harris has her lowest positive on the conflict in the middle east, and the highest amount of neither votes is also there. Harris' largest advantage is on abortion, which is the largest advantage of all the issues.
The fuck is protecting democracy, its literal drivel. Yes, i support democracy in that 12 randomly selected people should be able to throw bill gates into the lion pit, no i dont support democracy in which i select between two genocidal hyenas
Liberals operate on an incoherent belief soup and vibes, no thinking required
Most people probably connect it with January 6th and all of that, at least I think so given that Harris got a positive rating there. As for how Trump "protects democracy" from his supporters point of view: something about preventing radical leftist woke DEI democrats from controlling institutions.
Trump has the advantage on immigration? I hate America. They've done the same things materially, but his rhetoric is more racist and openly fascist about it, so of course he gets the points for that from the USAsian public 🙄
Immigration is Trump's biggest net positive issue, it's the area he has the largest advantage in actually, 10 percentage points up on Harris, 46% for Trump vs 36% for Harris. As a non American, I think it worked out this way: when the voters are faced with the choice between Harris imitating Trump 2016 rhetoric, or the real deal in Trump himself, they prefer the real deal over the imitation. It's why I feel the Democrat's pivot to the right is a poor strategy. Look at all of Harris' best issues according to the poll: abortion, democracy and protecting the middle class. These are all issues where she has not shifted rightwards. On all of her weak issues, it's where she's shifted right or tried to imitate Trump.
He's also "better at the economy" because every republican is just inherently "better at the economy", whatever that means.
Republicans are willing to run the "killing all poor" models, so they're better at the economy?
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
It's a shame they couldn't break it down by swing states because that's the only thing that matters in the end. It sounds like she's going to lose Michigan based on how little trust people place her in the conflict.
It's really not looking good for the Harris campaign nationally or on swing states from what I've seen. If she's in a statistical tie with Trump nationally, and with the Electoral College along with swing states tending to favour Republicans, it paints a poor picture.