Links and Stuff
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
The last Ukraine/Russia conflict megathread.
"I will Veto the invitation to Finland and Sweden to become members of NATO." - President of Croatia Zoran Milanovic.
If one of these fucking states decides to block Swedens NATO application for some random realpolitik reason I might actually buy their flag as a bit, funniest way for this shit to be struck down.
The dude have issues with ethnic Croat in Bosnia treat as second class his reason
Just wanna say @SeventyTwoTrillion this news roundup is incredible work and very valuable. Should be continued forever.
Legit doing better journalism than most so called journalists
Yes. This should be something maintained as a "leftist news roundup". It adds useful value to the left and should be spread around as a way to get people to come to Hexbear. How often do you see "so if I shouldn't be getting my info from liberal media where should I be getting it from?" asked by baby leftists? I see it a lot. Getting people to confidently answer that question with "Hexbear" is a solid source for site growth. Of course the other half of this equation is getting Hexbear users to speak about Hexbear offsite.
also we should probably try to consolidate some of the other ml Lemmys I think... by that I mean absorb them because this one is superior.
We have :gold-communist:
Showerthought: Medals and ribbons were basically gameification schemes before the internet.
I'm hoping the "second half" of its value comes a year+ down the line, when, as this project continues, we will have a giant "database" of news sources from which countries can be searched and daily trends can be tracked. Imagine Wikipedia's "On This Day", at least for events during and since 2022, but for leftists.
I guess it's kinda... not necessarily contradictory, but something this granular is, in my mind, opposed to the way of treating history as determined by large-scale, long-lasting trends and forces, with fluidity over the years and then sudden ruptures. But every data set needs data points, and I wanna create those data points for others to analyse as a data set.
As a preteen who had just read 1984 and was new to the internet, I started a notebook writing down headlines about the Iraq invasion. My goal was to track changes in the narrative. I only committed for a couple weeks and the notebook is long lost. I consider this a much much better version of that idea
Edit: someone with free access to a printer please make hardcopies for the future...
I don't know how you can read all of this shit. I read a few sentences of any of the articles you quote and I'm so appalled by the detachment from any relatable reality that I feel my cognitive abilities just starting to shut down. There's no consideration at all for any working class concerns.
Comrade reads it so we don't have to. They are shielding us from the brainworms.
Perpetual :rat-salute: to comrade @SeventyTwoTrillion for all of his efforts
The European Union has allocated €8 million to Moldova for “support of independent media”.
:jesus-cleanse:
oh ok, i guess the invasion of transnistria is actually planned i guess
amazing how they are willing to give so much money to media outlets that could say anything!
Such confidence that the marketplace of ideas will just happen to generate advantageous coverage of events.
Libs love giving trillions of dollars to “independent” media
Prediction: Johnson is gonna contract Chinese firms to build these plants (they are apparently really good and cost beneficial), and Labour would be like TORY TRUSTING THE CHINESE WITH OUR ENERGY SUPPLY!!! CHINA BAD!!!
Recently I went through a lot of pro Russian social media and seeing Ukrainian soldiers selling their NATO equipment to the LPR/DPR militia, the exchange suppose to be in USD, but the militia offer them ruble instead, the Ukrainian complaining but there's not much they could do. Wonder if there's any credibility in that, and it would kind of explain how they go through their stock so fast.
Y’all hearing about this retired sexpest Canadian Lieutenant-General allegedly captured sneaking out of Azovstal in a pipe?
Not sure if true or not yet, but this guy did resign from his post and disappear into Ukraine, even Canadian officials admit that.
He also resigned from his post on 4/5/2022, well after the rapid encirclement of Mariupol. He must have been embedded with them BEFORE he resigned, acting in an official capacity. Then once he was trapped the told him to resign I’m guessing.
Certainly explains the 8 helicopter rescue attempts.
sexpest Canadian Lieutenant-General allegedly captured sneaking out of Azovstal in a pipe?
:libertarian-approaching: in more ways than one this time :data-laughing:
Credit to @ThomasMuentzner for the tagline: The End of the End of History
For full transparency and accountability and all that, here is my source list.
Many of these might be not great, some might even be bad. But hey, you gotta get your Dipshittery and Cope from somewhere. If any of them are like, really bad and reactionary, then let me know and I'll cut it off. Laughing at awful news is one thing but I don't wanna get clogged up with opinion pieces that are just straight up harmful. I know a few that are (The Saker for example) but I am only using their Ukraine War pieces, nothing else.
I always want more news from underrepresented areas - so, basically, not the US. If you have any good (or even just meh!) sources for Europe, Canada I guess, Central + South America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania + Pacific, and any other place I'm forgetting, then let me know. And in English, unless there's a translate function on the website.
If you have any decent blogs that you know of, or explicitly left-leaning media sites, then let me know too.
As the list expands, I might not be able to include all of them due to time constraints - I am just one person with one brain - but just having a list would be useful.
List
News:
- ABC
- Africanews
- AllAfrica
- Al Jazeera
- Asia News
- Associated Press
- BBC News
- Bilaterals
- Black Agenda Report
- Bloomberg
- Business Insider
- CBS
- Channel News Asia
- Climate Home News
- CNBC
- CNN
- Common Dreams
- EIA
- Euronews
- EU Reporter
- France24
- Forbes
- Fortune
- IndiaTV
- Inquirer
- Inside Climate News
- Hellenic Shipping News
- Huffpost
- Jacobin
- Morning Star
- Multipolarista
- NBC
- New Eastern Outlook
- News24 Africa
- Newsweek
- NPR
- NYT
- OilPrice
- Politico
- Popular Resistance
- Responsible Statecraft
- Reuters
- RT
- ScienceDaily
- Sixth Tone
- South China Morning Post
- Sustainability News
- TASS
- Telegraph
- TeleSUR
- The Atlantic
- The Economist (I'm sorry Lenin)
- The Diplomat
- The Guardian
- The Intercept
- The Seattle Times
- Wall Street Journal
- Washington Post
- Yahoo News
Blogs/small media sites, etc:
- Capital As Power
- Doomberg
- Moon of Alabama
- Naked Capitalism
- FiveThirtyEight
- The Saker
- Michael Hudson
- Michael Roberts (thenextrecession)
Signing off for now.
I don't know what he uses for RSS but you can try feeder.co I use the chrome plugin for free.
I use Feedly, as they have way (if you pay for it) to filter topics by things like 'Geopolitics' or 'Foreign Policy' or by country, or even just mentions of a particular word in either the title or body of the media posts. That latter one is really helpful if I wanna investigate specific things - it's how I created the comment on what different sites were saying about if there's going to be a recession.
I used to literally just go through each individual headline but when I added a bunch more sources, that become infeasible and needed a way to cut it down. The filters leave out about 5% because nothing's perfect I guess, so I also manually set it up using the aforementioned mentions feature for key countries like Russia, Ukraine, China, and other countries.
Thanks for putting this out there. It's a good overview of just so much to comprehend
Looks like Ukraine is getting hammered with missile strikes today. Lviv, Kiev, Odessa, Nikolaev, Kharkiv, every major area is reporting more than a handful.
Seems like train stations, power plants, tunnels, bridges, etc are finally being hit
technically each of those missiles was ultimately destroyed and not re-usable. Adding those to the tally of Russian equipment destroyed by UKR :think-about-it:
