I have pondered for a week about how I'm going to cover world events and especially this war in the long term, without losing my mind (and a significant amount of time on my behalf) staring into the abyss that is modern-day journalism.

My solution, so far, is what you can see. The update itself and the summary have performed a fusion dance, becoming a single entity (who even reads thousands of words almost every day just for news?). Only the headlines will be posted, except when a short excerpt from the article is particularly good at summarizing the article's contents (or when the article has a clickbaity headline). To save character space, all links to media will be archived, except for a few special cases like blogs (e.g. Michael Roberts, Naked Capitalism), instead of just the more MSM-y sites.

To the loyal people with attention spans of steel who have been here since the beginning, back when the war looked like it would be over before the first leaves started falling off the trees - yes, I agree, it does look frighteningly similar to what I initially did before the bulletins site was a thing. Just with a different categorization system. Time is a flat circle, after all.

Anyway:

November 21st's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!

November 22nd's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!

November 23rd's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!

November 25th's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!

November 26th's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!

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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists

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. I recommend their map more than the channel at this point, as an increasing subscriber count has greatly diminished their quality.

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. Beware of chuddery.

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 fairly brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. The Duran, of which he co-hosts, is where the chuddery really begins to spill out.

On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Telegram Channels

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

Pro-Russian

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ Gleb Bazov, banned from Twitter, referenced pretty heavily in what remains of pro-Russian Twitter.

https://t.me/asbmil ~ Now rebranded as Battlefield Insights, they do infrequent posts on the conflict.

https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.

https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.

https://t.me/riafan_everywhere ~ Think it's a government news org or Federal News Agency? Russian language.

https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Front news coverage. Russian langauge.

https://t.me/rybar ~ One of the really big pro-Russian (except when they're being pessismistic, which is often) telegram channels focussing on the war. Russian language.

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

Any Western media outlet that is even vaguely liberal (and quite a few conservative ones too).

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.

Last week's discussion post.

  • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The Ukraine Proxy Conflict

    RT: EU has ‘no right’ to Ukraine fatigue

    The European Union must cast aside all doubts about new anti-Russia sanctions and double down on slapping Moscow with new restrictions that would curb its missile industry, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said on Tuesday.

    Reuters: Ukraine promises shelters for its people as winter sets in

    Special "invincibility centres" will be set up around Ukraine to provide electricity, heat, water, internet, mobile phone connections and a pharmacy, free of charge and around the clock, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address on Tuesday.

    RT: UK to support Ukraine with retired weaponry

    According to the BBC and The Times, the shipment includes three former military Sea Kings, one of which has already been delivered to Ukraine. Wallace also noted that Britain would provide Ukraine with an additional 10,000 shells for unspecified artillery pieces.

    RT: CIA reveals plan for disgruntled Russians

    “We’re looking around the world for Russians who are as disgusted with that as we are,” Marlowe reportedly said, referring to the current events in Ukraine. “Because we’re open for business.”

    Analysis

    Retrospectives, History, and Theory

    Developing Economics: Beating around the Bush: Polycrisis, Overlapping Emergencies, and Capitalism

    It is in vogue nowadays to describe the multifaceted and intertwined crises of capitalism without referring to capitalism itself. Obscure jargon of ‘overlapping emergencies’ and ‘polycrisis’ are brought up to describe the complexity of the situation, and they serve, with or without intention, to conceal the culprit, namely the totality of capitalist relations. This short piece discusses the content, function, and limits of these evasive practices with concrete examples.

    Responsible Statecraft: Six reasons the Afghan government utterly collapsed during US withdrawal

    So what does the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction’s latest report conclude? It boils down the causes of the Afghan government’s collapse to six factors: (1) Kabul failed to recognize the U.S. would actually leave; (2) the decision to exclude the Afghan government from US-Taliban talks undermined it; (3) Kabul insisted that the Taliban be integrated into the Republic rather than create a new model altogether; (4) the Taliban wouldn’t compromise; (5) former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani “governed through a highly selective, narrow circle of loyalists” (read: yes men) which destabilized the government; and (6) Kabul was afflicted by centralization, corruption, and a legitimacy crisis.

    To be fair, the article does dunk on this a little bit and does talk about how the United States is responsible for these shortcomings, not Afghanistan, but it's very funny that at no point, that I'm aware of, has the United States ever officially been like "Yeah, we shouldn't have invaded Afghanistan in the first place" and is instead organizing its thinktanks to create Buzzfeed top ten lists for the reasons why Afghanistan's civilians simply didn't want freedom and democracy (with a little phrenology mixed in). Like, this only makes sense if you're such a cretin that you actually believe the "spreading freedom to the Middle East" bullshit and don't believe the very evident and obvious conclusion that it was basically just to enrich the MIC and try and get some minerals out of it.

    Outside the Imperial Core

    Monthly Review: Sporting values built on bloodied sand: Qatar 2022

    Monthly Review: Open veins of Africa bleeding heavily

    The ongoing plunder of Africa’s natural resources drained by capital flight is holding it back yet again. More African nations face protracted recessions amid mounting debt distress, rubbing salt into deep wounds from the past.

    Climate Change

    Naked Capitalism: COP27’s Loss and Damage Deal Isn’t a Win. It Committed Us To Devastation

    Megathread

    @ednice talking about Lula romping around Portugal, and being cool as usual in regards to the war (from @NerdyComrade)

    And also from NerdyComrade, the head of the WEF has come out in favour of multipolarism.

    @Teekeeus on the trade war between Europe and the United States - if the EU can get a spine, that is.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Special “invincibility centres” will be set up around Ukraine

      So that's what they call refugee camps today? The EU is going to get so happy when millions of cold and desperate Ukrainians flee westwards.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      the shipment includes three former military Sea Kings, one of which has already been delivered to Ukraine. Wallace also noted that Britain would provide Ukraine with an additional 10,000 shells for unspecified artillery pieces.

      So Terf Island is sending three second-hand helicopters, one of which they have already gifted to Kiev once, as well as a few days' worth of artillery shells? That is ... unimpressive.