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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.

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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    7 months ago

    By what warped logic can a viciously anti-communist theocratic dictatorship that crushed left-wing parties, banned trade unions, and brutally murdered and disappeared thousands of Iranian left partisans and activists—the true anti-imperialists of Iran—be possibly considered a bastion of anti-imperialism and resistance?

    Changing historical and material conditions can place reactionary states into progressive roles.

    See: ww2, the damned British empire and that absolute asshole Winston Churchill.

    More than four decades of the dominance of “political Islam” under the absolute rule of the Supreme Leader (the supposed “representative of God on Earth”) along with three decades of neoliberal programs have shaped Iran’s economy in accordance with the Washington Consensus and the interests of Western imperialism.

    I guess they asked for the sanctions to shape their economy in accordance to Washington's consensus and the interests of Western imperialism.

    This has meant that the balance of political forces in Iran has been tilted in favor of a powerful finance-commercial capitalist class whose interests are tied in with those of global capitalism, and it remains the regime’s crucial center of balance—the two being utterly co-dependent.

    It is for these reasons that any ostensibly progressive act or alliance on the part of the Iranian regime—including its recent joining of what was the BRICS group—should be looked at through the prism of realpolitik as opposed to taken as somehow representing genuine anti-imperialist intent on its part.

    Changing historical and material conditions is pushing reactionary states into progressive roles, whether they want to or not.

    To defend the Iranian state as a force for anti-imperialism is, at best, naive—and, at worst, deliberately relegates the brutal repression, crushing poverty, and socioeconomic misery suffered by the people of Iran as inconsequential or unworthy of consideration.

    Please lecture Stalin's grave about how he deliberately relegates the brutal repression, crushing poverty, and socioeconomic misery suffered by the peoples of the western allied states as inconsequential or unworthy of consideration.

    It is also an affront to Iran’s left and progressive forces who continue to struggle valiantly to bring about the transition of their country from a situation of dictatorship to one where a national democratic transformation is possible.

    The struggles for democracy, human rights, social justice, and against dictatorship go hand in hand with those for peace, sovereignty, and against imperialism. They are interdependent and inseparable.

    I really do with them the best of luck with regards to their situation.

    That said, material results of crushing America's and Israel's chokehold on the region speak louder than any written word.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
      ·
      7 months ago

      More than four decades of the dominance of “political Islam” under the absolute rule of the Supreme Leader (the supposed “representative of God on Earth”) along with three decades of neoliberal programs have shaped Iran’s economy in accordance with the Washington Consensus and the interests of Western imperialism.

      This logic is so fucking stupid. Actually we have to regurgitate the US State Department line on Iran because Iran is pro-western! What the fuck ultras, you are completely incomprehensible