There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account.
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.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly update is here.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
Resources For Understanding The War
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.
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 ~ 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
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.
Last week's discussion post.
Went to the local library to pick up a book for my wife. Israel flag hung in the window. Went to a local administrative building to pick up some paperwork. Israel flag on a massive pole outside, replacing the Ukraine flag.
How should I feel as an Arab guy in the West at this point? Both my home countries, Lebanon and Syria were bombed by these scum in the last 24 hours. The apartheid state is currently doing an active genocide in a country where my ancestors probably farmed, lived and traded. I feel defeated and completely lost, I feel like any hope of living a dignified life here as an Arab is gone.
Zelenskkkyy_crying.jpeg.webp.png.gifThere are days I wished I lived in a first world country, with proper access to electricity, education, where the cost of living, inequality and salaries aren't so bad. Where people are more accepting of LGBT issues.
Then there are weeks like this one, where we all get reminded how superficial the Wests support of human rights and acceptance is, how satanically racist they are, how their humanism is all a facade. At least in South Africa, with all our problems, the government doesn't cheer on this nonsense, we have some dignity.
the other part of this is if you're from the first world and want to get away from such a blood-thirsty society, where can you even go? the only places with better living standards are some western european countries which are just as/even more demonic. it's pretty hard to move somewhere with lower living standards than you're used to.
If you're well-off in a tier 1 Chinese city, life is pretty good. It might be better if you were in a similar socioeconomic class in the West, but not by enough to matter.
I’ve seriously considered it, some stuff like work/life balance and air quality seems worse, but close enough to the US probably
immigration in China just seems kind of hard, I think you can never become a citizen and permanent residency is really hard to get? plus learning the language and finding work will also be tough.
Insanely hard in the mainland, but easier to shortcut through Hong Kong. It's probably easier if you have a job at a Chinese company with offices in the US.
does it help with immigration at all if I complete a degree at a Chinese uni? I guess the only other option is marriage, lol
No idea, but I imagine a PhD would help lol
Frankly, I think "living standards" are only important when it comes to things like clean running water, penicillin and functional supply lines.
Like, a lot of "development" like high rises and 6 lane roads are deeply unpleasant. If you can rely on being fed and healthy, rural areas are a lot more pleasant, especially if they've got a dense town center.
I mostly agree, but something like work/life balance is pretty important imo. compare the US’s average PTO of 10 vs the 20-30 in some euro countries and that’s a reason to move by itself.
The "developing world" has more PTO than the US too.
I’ve never really looked into moving to South American countries, maybe I should
Ugh. I'm beginning to worry when some of my neighbors start this shit. Fortunately I live in a densely populated Arab neighborhood, so I'm sure there is trepidation the Zionist supporters are feeling.
I feel that you have permission to feel weary but do your best to feel strong. As much as propaganda has demoralized those of us who do not support the Zionists, there is still a large segment of the world who know the settlers are occupying a settlement that does not belong to them. Solidarity is the best that we can offer each other right now. Stay strong. Stay safe.