Israel trying to pass the hospital bombing off as Palestine doing it is utterly disgusting and guarantees Netanyahu a spot in the deepest pit of Hell for all eternity, obviously, but do not forget that

a) the only reason why Westerners will believe it is because they want to believe it - they are not being brainwashed and this is not some masterful propaganda being weaved around us to turn kind-hearted people into monsters,

b) no Westerner opinions matter at all. In most Western countries there is no real anti-Israel option to vote for even if they did realize that Israel was a giant factory for crimes against humanity, and Westerners protesting against things in general almost never achieves anything (tens of millions protested for BLM in 2020 and not only did the situation not change, it got worse), and

c) the people whose opinions do matter (both the people in the region, and the leaders who aren't already Zionist compradors) already know that Israel is full of shit and that they just murdered nearly a thousand civilians in a single bomb attack.

It is despair-inducing to think that the genocidal Zionist entity is so brazenly, so smugly getting away with bullshitting this away into a cloud of confusion, as they release their metaphorical squid ink just like they did with the stupid babies story, but the propaganda and the media narrative that they are creating isn't what matters. It cannot address the fundamental contradictions ripping the country, the region, and the world apart any more than masterfully-applied makeup can fix a stab wound. It can merely obfuscate.


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.
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 still Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants.


Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.

The weekly update isn't coming because I'm sick and too focussed on the collapse of the Zionist entity.

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.


  • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    The angriest anti-Iraq war people I know are working class conservatives* of one stripe or another. In no small part because they love the troops and are disgusted that we sent troops to die on the basis of a blatant lie about WMDs.

    Plus, for all the other racism, killing a million people for oil is hard to justify. Especially when kids were caught as 'collateral damage'. Racists might not want immigrants in 'their' country but if they stay in 'their own' country, they might even be deserving of compassion. The same working class conservatives also seem to be sympathetic to Palestine because Israel's response echoes what the west did to Baghdad. You're right that people don't forget.

    This could be why the media was a lot vaguer e.g. when it came to Libya. In and out, and don't make a fuss. They realised their mistake with trying to come off too much as the good guys in Iraq. It's easy to backfire. But the shots already been fired and people don't like to be duped twice. Or in the words of a wise man, 'fool me once… I won't be fooled again'.

    (Russia/Ukraine was different because the media/politicians could fall back on a century or more of anti-Russian propaganda.)

    I've been reading Seymour Hersh's memoir. It's pretty good. He explains how he was able to get so many scoops: there are at least two types of official, those who are loyal to their country/station and those who are loyal to the government/party. Someone could be the most rabid general in prosecuting war but if they're loyal to the constitution and their soldiers, they will actively, if clandestinely, rebel against their orders. If that fails, they'll speak to any journalist who asks.

    This could bode well for Palestine because generals like this, if any are in play, aren't going to want to send their men against resistance groups who are so well organised and disciplined. Which is to say, it's not just ordinary people we can have faith in; we can also trust in a modicum of self preservation on behalf of the military, who will not be planning strategies and tactics on the basis of the propaganda version of intelligence.

    • Fishroot [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      The angriest anti-Iraq war people I know are working class conservatives* of one stripe or another. In no small part because they love the troops and are disgusted that we sent troops to die on the basis of a blatant lie about WMDs.

      I think it is easy to think that they can walk into Iraq and kill all the savages (tm) there but the appetite for bloodlust is decreasing when the local people who have a stake in their game fights back and the mood sours pretty fast when your troops comes back in body bags or with limbs missing.

      This is not so different from Soviet-afghan war or the Ukraine-Russian conflicts