After 15 months of genocide - and resistance to it - the Israeli regime realized that they could not win a military victory against Hamas, and were forced to sign a humiliating ceasefire in order to get their hostages returned.
With much of Syria under the control of Al-Qaeda, and an increasing level of covert infiltration into Lebanon, the crisis in the Middle East is not over, and we may still be in its beginning stages, as the center of hegemony continues its gradual shift away from the United States. Their navy, once considered the best in the world, is likely also not very happy about their ships and aircraft carriers being forced to retreat by Yemen, one of the poorest countries; and all eyes are on Iran, who has, over the last year and a half, demonstrated a newfound confidence and strength to directly strike Israel.
The recovery for Gaza will take, at a minimum, decades; it could indeed never fully recovery to even how it was before, considering it is not in Israel's interests to see their concentration camps recover. But Hamas has proven to be steadfast and the tunnel network has proven its resilience, despite facing some of the most powerful conventional bombing in history. This shows that Palestine's liberation is a when, not an if; and hopefully a much sooner "when" than expected before October 7th.
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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.
I can tell you're all excited about inauguration shitposting and so as a treat I will not remove all these not newsworthy posts. Get it out of your system now as tomorrow we will be back to our usual schedule of mod tyranny. Also, everyone shitposting now had better be thinking about what useful content they can bring to the thread later in the week.
edit: I encourage those shitposting on this blessed day to join the imperialism book club
Excuse me, this community is very serious. We would never spend 2+ weeks memeing about a mercenary coup in Russia and comparing it's leader to a brand of potato chips.
(Satire)
Exclusive Hexbear news on the UN: Security Council to hold 98420th meeting "The situation in the Hexbear news thread", it is expected a sanctions regime to be adopted against the mod tyranny.
Is reacting to the inauguration, a newsworthy event, not legitimate content?
reacting with shitposts and emojis is not, no. I'm not sure it's officially codified, but newsmega Civility and NormsTM call for top level posts to be somewhat substantive, with shitposting relegated to responses to top level posts. also, american electoralism is generally frowned upon (hence the electoralism sub being distinct from the newscomm).
discussion, analysis and reaction of trump v2 policies is absolutely good for the newsmega, especially as they pertain to geopolitics. dragging the first lady for looking like she's going to steal the washington monument is not.
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Lmao he's signing an executive order to get out of the WHO. America is gonna be cooked by the avian flu
Fascists and speedrunning their own collapse. Name a more iconic duo.
Meanwhile Israel is doing Kristallnacht in the west bank again
Israeli settlers are setting the West Bank on fire.
https://xcancel.com/JehadAbusalim/status/1881446705629216962#m
lol even AOC calling out her fellow TLA
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fr6heyt6oo8ee1.png
The thing that really pisses me off about Trump and makes me unable to laugh is the fact that no matter what clown car shit happens, nothing causes this government to shake. Give me some fucking fracturing already ffs so everyone can stop pretending the US is a serious country
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted today to advance S. 5, the Laken Riley Act, teeing the bill up for a final vote on Monday. The first immigration bill of the new Congress, the proposed law would require the government to detain people who pose no risk to their communities. Under the bill, individuals would be mandatorily locked up – potentially for years – because at some point in their lives, perhaps decades ago, they were accused of nonviolent offenses like shoplifting.
Retroactive internment camps are coming. A lot of lives are going to be profoundly negatively affected by this administration.
I have warned before the election that many people will regret not voting for the Democrats. In spite of everything, Trump is going to be 10 times worse than Biden. The next 4 years are going to be hell and the Democrats might still come back anyway when people have had enough of Trump.
Don't worry, 12 Democratic senators (including darlings like John Fetterman, Mark Kelly, and Mark Warner) voted for it.
Thank u blue MAGA, very cool
I'd rather the mask be ripped off than let Dems do their charade. This country needs to fail to be reborn.
Trump is going to be worse (long term at least) than Biden/Harris but the Democrats were doing everything they could to let Trump win. My cope is that the possibility of the Democrats winning was always just an illusion or at least a delay of the inevitable
Trump just said that 700 000 Ukrainians have been killed during the war, along with "almost a million" Russians.
Finally we get a realistic number on Ukrainian casualties, and it's from Trump talking casually with news reporters in the Oval Office while signing executive orders! Also says that Zelensky wants to "make a deal".
Trump is talking so candidly with reporters, it's quite weird to watch. Also he thinks tarrifs are the answer to everything. There's a problem? Just solve it with tarrifs on your opponent!
He just signed an executive order to withdraw from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
He just signed an executive order to withdraw from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
haha, even North Korea is a member of the WHO.
China won't sell tiktok? Put a 10, 20, 50, even 100% tariff on them.
lmao trump is threatening spain because he thinks they're a BRICS nation
Could it also be related to this? Spain's PM Sanchez floats ban on non-EU citizens buying properties
Our postings on XHS are waking some people up to Elon's bullshit:
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I see more and more comments like these, especially with the Nazi salute making the rounds
Trump called them "hostages", as if they were taken hostage by the prision system.
Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday.
The group includes unaccompanied minors awaiting reunification with their families in the U.S. as well as Afghans at risk of Taliban retribution because they fought for the former U.S.-backed Afghan government, said Shawn VanDiver, head of the #AfghanEvac coalition of U.S. veterans and advocacy groups and the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Full pardons or commuted sentences for every January 6th conviction, even the violent ones. Real "Andrew Johnson’s Proclamations" vibes out here
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021/
https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/geoffrey-rathgeb-aung-unhappy-is-the-land-that-needs-heroes
some take on myanmar from leftcom friendos. Don't think i got more that it is a clusterfuck, but at least, i think, i can sort of see what acting rebels want. Seems they'll arrive at confederation sooner or later, considering.
(as we don't have lots of sources on myanmar, some comrades some time ago were interested)
