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.
Worth reading the comments by the regulars over there, there is little reason to believe this with a straight face.
TL;DR analysis from latest corporate earnings reveals little volume growth, just a price increase i.e inflation not real consumption(economic) growth
Michael thanks for pointing out that annualized is not annual which is why I removed my Facebook comment on your site. Nonetheless, the point I made in that comment stands. So turning to annual figures, NIPA Table 1.15 shows nominal GDP rose by 6.3% over the year. Table 1.16 showed real growth of 2.9% implying an inflation rate of 3.4% though Table 1.19 yields only 3.2%.
I have investigated over 20 large US corporation who have reported their Q3 earnings. This includes Exxon today, but I omit Amazon because it does not provide volume figures. The average price increase is around 6% but no corporation I have looked at, whether it is Procter & Gamble, or General Motors or Coca Cola have had volume growth year on year in the USA. (These price increases are not out of line with Adobe’s 5.3% average price increase for digital (e-commerce) sales during Q3. https://www.eseller365.com/adobe-digital-price-index-september-2023/#)
Contrary to the lack of volume growth or even falls by the major corporations, the annual US GDP volume or real GDP growth according to the BEA, is between 2.9% and 3.1%. Thus the discrepancy is at least 3%, and if we assume that if the largest corporations have a volume decline, this decline would be greater for the smaller corporations, it therefore permits a discrepancy of 4%. And this discrepancy remains even when allowing for the annual 1.5% addition from inventories and the trade balance (Table 1.12), Admittedly this reduces the discrepancy down to 2.5% which is within spitting distance of the growth rate of 2.9% recorded by the BEA itself, meaning that growth is cancelled out and at best the ‘resilient’ US economy has moved sideways. This is consistent with the tax data issued by the Congressional Budget Office. Once again it highlights the question of deflators. It was once said that the Chinese data was bad, but the US data is worse, distorted by deflated deflators and inflated adjustments.