One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain't worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.
Because one day, the prisoners of a concentration camp paraglided over a wall.
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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 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.
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.
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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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.
Castro, famous for [checks notes] trying to sell Cubans shoes?
He might be thinking about the Che Guavara silk screen shirts, which I'm pretty sure Castro never saw a penny of profit from
Ah yes ol' Fidel was quite the salesman, he came up with the che shirt doncha know
Is Obama just assuming Black men are misogynists?
Shit is comical. He wants people who experienced jim crow apartheid to be enthusiastic about an administration supporting an apartheid state committing a genocide. Again I ask when has this shit worked? It backfired with the deplorables shit. Even kamala must be facepalming
3 of the 6 prez candidates on the Calif ballot are women
You're right Obama. You convinced me to vote for Jill Stein or Claudia de La Cruz
Ummm aaaahhhh don't boo, vote! Not like that!
but it's :kamala-drone: now
Why is Obama praising Trump
Obamna probably wants to get the cursed Gusano vote (they will never vote for a democrat btw) or he is just dumb and mixed up Maduro, Ortega with Fidel Castro bc ebil gommunist dictatot
Reminds me of when he went to South America and said “I always love the history lesson I get when I come here” in response to leftist leaders discussing U.S. relations with their countries.
He’s also one to talk about word salad and talking for too long. The guy clearly loves to hear himself talk and thinks everything he says is gold.
What a piece of work this guy, huh
Hopefully he succumbs to a stroke or some sort of degenerative disease. Would be really nice for him to struggle with basic things, for several years
Funny thing is kamala herself doesn't act like this. Said black men aren't a monolith and she wanted to earn the votes. I obviously don't fuck with her but that sounds more sensible than this stuff Obama is approaching at. Dems could be talking about how black unemployment reached a near all-time low within the last few years (i know... There are caveats there) or approach how the student loan could have helped black folks but they approach this by talking down on em especially by a dude who oversaw a massive loss of black wealth. This is mind boggling to me. I mean who is this for? And when has it ever worked? Not to mention said candidate is perpetrating a fucking genocide. Who is enthusiastic about that