Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.
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.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
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, though we will switch next week to a new country.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly (biweekly?) 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.
Putin, the liberal, is pressing the nationalization button? I love it but why???
I think Putin is the coward centrist who couldn’t quite decide which way to go. There is the Mishustin-Belousov government that has a lot of socdem-like policies including deficit spending and nationalization etc., then you have the Siluanov-Nabiullina liberal faction who uses their financial instruments to undermine those efforts and pushing for privatization.
Having followed closely the Russian economy news for almost 2 years, it’s like going through rollercoaster on a daily basis. You can’t predict whether it’s good or bad news today, and I don’t even pretend to know what’s happening anymore.
The country is on the verge of an ideological split: it’s like “we like liberal capitalism, but without nationalization we can’t win the war!”
Anyhow, these efforts are good for socialists and labor activists because the state can no longer play the role of a neoliberal resource colony by selling raw materials to Western countries, they now have to rely on their own workers to build up their industries.
its actively trying to wrestle with the Specter of Communism
It's a bit of a long shot, but I hope China does tech transfers to Russia instead of just buying up raw materials.
I thought that Russia completely liberalized after 30 years, but I'm happy that I was proven wrong.
I hate to give Putin the credit here but he did stop the bleed and even renationalized certain key sectors, but that’s not saying much because so much had been privatized in the 1990s and there is still a lot of lingering corruption under Putin.
On the other hand, Ukraine is what Russia would have looked like if the privatization never stopped. Which is sad to think about considering that the Ukraine SSR had some of the world’s leading aviation, space, shipbuilding and various heavy industries. All those are gone now.
Russia has nationalized a lot under Putin. You're thinking of Yeltsin that sold things off.
Yeah clearly I don't know what I'm talking about. I thought Putin was the same.
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