Image is a snapshot taken from the recent Hezbollah video "Our Mountains, Our Treasures", showcasing their extensive underground fortifications, supply lines, and weaponry.
iran can't keep doing this to me, they've gotta respond soon, right? I'm gonna run out of analysis about countries soon, oh god
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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 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. - 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.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
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.
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.
Palestinians facing a genocide had zero obligation to make murals of George Floyd or even send tips to protestors, they still did it.
Meanwhile those same protestors would later throw Gaza and Palestinians/Muslims under the bus the moment kamala becomes the candidate.
That's how they're repaid.
There is no solidarity to build with the lumpen proletariats of the US.
It’s not the same people.
The militant core of the first wave of George Floyd riots has basically zero overlap with the comprador classes who ingratiate themselves with the DNC. The latter group coopted the movement in the media while police squashed it on the ground.
Yeah, it's the difference between the original BLM leadership who were assassinated and the grifters who act like they're the national leadership now
I'm sorry but who was assassinated?
Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi are still alive. They just quit
Could've sworn there were a bunch of BLM leaders whose remains were found in burned out cars that the cops obviously killed but I could be wrong, my brain is pretty broken at this point
Ferguson organizers. 2 or 3 of them
Pretty clear that they’re referring to street leaders rather than blm the org
Who were they? I was unaware that BLM leaders of any kind were assassinated
From older comments: 6 big Ferguson organizers died or "committed suicide" pretty quickly after their protests started to die down. This includes two people shot and burned in their cars, one shot infront of the Ohio Statehouse, one who was hanged in a park, and one who had a heart attack on a bus. The police investigated a few of these and never came up with anything.
basically almost all of the original organizers were killed by police, or in other suspicious circumstances like being found dead in burned cars with gunshot wounds.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/puzzling-number-men-tied-ferguson-protests-have-died-n984261
I'm seeing the same people that supported the first wave of George Floyd protests support kamala. There is no solidarity to build between minority communities in the US. It makes me physically ill to say this, but the people with kamala right now are the same people with BLM then.
one settler, one bullet
8 million settlers one
In the usa, the lumpenproletariat is the only one that didn't cheer for genocide. The proletariat in usa is labor aristocrats.
I've seen people from both of those groups. I just expected the LP to understand solidarity better than the regular labor aristocracy
There's great friction for any kind of organization towards radical political change, especially so in an imperialist country, and double especially so for the lumpenproletariat which is definitionally disorganized.
What you’re saying is true yet no matter how much I intellectually understand the people around me deserve to suffer, I’d still be sad if it happened. How do I process this?
It's human to feel this. Disappointment with the people around you with a hint of apathy (don't cry too much for them) is how I do it.
That's a safe emotional barrier, though I worry that it would be a lack of empathy on my part, masquerading as revolutionary defeatism.
Don't make me lathe Arab lives matter chants into existence.