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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.

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.
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.

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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists

Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

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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.


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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago

Rybar playing down analysis suggesting that Russia intends to provide intelligence and recon to the resistance, instead suggesting that it's just for fighting IS militants.

🇮🇱🇮🇷 🇷🇺 🇸🇾 The French publication Intelligence Online reports, based on intelligence sources, that the Russian authorities will soon transfer nine Forpost-M UAVs to the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. This has raised concerns among Israeli intelligence services, who fear that these reconnaissance drones could be used to assist Hezbollah and Iran against Israel.

📌 The transfer of drones to Syria aligns with the current situation, which goes beyond the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There are other factors to consider: the increased activity of Islamic State militants and the near expulsion of Wagner PMC detachments from Syria. This requires the establishment of departmental units to replace them.

Given the strongholds supervised by Wagner in Syria, it is necessary to maintain air control over them, especially in light of the intensification of IS militants (source (https://t.me/rybar/53406)).

However, Hezbollah, Iran, and proxy formations do not necessarily require Russian drones. The Iranians already possess the knowledge and technology to target artillery and missiles at their desired objectives.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the United States of “directing” Israel’s attack on Gaza.

“America is a definite accomplice of criminals,” said Khamenei during a speech in Tehran. “The United States is in some way directing the crime that is being committed in Gaza.”

Khamenei added the hands of Americans are “tainted with the blood of the oppressed, children, patients, women and others”.

Mr. Khamenei, America yearns for freedom

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Trying to think of things as absurd as framing what’s going on in Israel as the “Israel Hamas war”

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (7 children)

— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 BREAKING: 'Within 24 hours, we will move to expand the attack from the ground, sea and air' - Gallant

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Pentagon spokesman to Al Jazeera: We are not part of any ground operation carried out by #Israel

The Washington Post, citing officials: US administration officials have become very concerned about the potential repercussions of a full-scale ground attack.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (15 children)

The next in line:

Czech and Austrian leaders to visit Israel Wednesday

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer will visit Israel in a show of solidarity, both countries’ governments have said.

The leaders will hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog, they said.

Nehammer will also meet with the family of an Austrian-Israeli national who is currently being held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Austrian government said in a statement.
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

🇮🇱📣| BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Announcement Summary:

🔺 "We have set two goals for the war: overthrowing Hamas and returning the kidnapped."

🔺" We are preparing for a wild entry, and I will not specify when or how."

🔺"All Hamas members deserve to die; Inside and outside Gaza, above and below the ground."

🔺 "The failure will be investigated thoroughly, and everyone will have to provide answers, including me. But all this will happen later."

🔺 "The lives of 1,400 (Israelis) were eliminated, and this is like a shower of arrows on our hearts. The government will hold days of mourning for the terrible disaster."

🔺 “When we enter Gaza, we will take the full price from the killers of Hamas.”

🔸 Ahlul Haqq News Network 🔸

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I know attention has shifted but is there anything going on in Ukraine? I get the impression the offensive has stalled out and there's another Bakhmut-esque grind in the north east, does anyone have anything else?

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is what one of the hospitals in Gaza is going through right now: https://nitter.cz/EyesOnSouth1/status/1716575626050605332

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

The Sources of American Power

It's rather telling that commentary on American (and Russian) Power focuses on the military while commentary on Chinese Power focuses on economics and infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

I must be depressed again or maybe just tired, I hate myself and my lack of music ability.. but like two weeks ago I was feeling like I made it. I'm frustrated by the lack of gigs and my last jam session performance wasn't as good as I was hoping. I was also a little eepy tired guy than too.

It's just painful to get washed out by white kid 19 year olds, i dont know what to do. Its either persevere and get good or i start putting all my time and energy into something else.

Music is fucking hard and to come from where I came from and to pull it off I think in hindsight is amazing. It actually is objectively impressive to do what I've done so far. It's still not enough but fuck

If I stop being a musician look out the rest of the world.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

After coming in second in the elections, Javier Milei and his party are already on full damage control and boy, it is not looking good. He kinda fucked up during his campaign, he had a super hostile tone against the other neoliberal members of the opposition calling them "useless and traitors, just like the Kirchnerists". Now, less than 24 hours after his defeat and with the second round coming in shortly, he realized he is in need of votes if he wants to beat Massa (6% gap between the two). And as he explores restoring links with the neoliberals, he did what nobody expected: He extended his hand and offered an alliance to the Left.

He said earlier this morning that he is willing to offer the "Ministry of Human Capital" to the leftists because "they know a lot about this issue", claiming that "I don't care what they think of the Labor Theory of Value". He's playing the "pragmatic" and heavily "technocratic" role, utter desperation? Why would you offer a ministry to your arch nemesis lmfao. This doesn't look good, of course this will never happen as leftists, contrary to ancaps, liberals and fascists, do have basic principles. But this will resonate badly among hardcore Milei voters, this kinda looks suicidal to me. So much from the "We will never give an inch to our enemies" candidate smh my head.

So, Anarcho-Capitalist-Fascist-Trotskyist current is being born?

Other ancaps are completely losing it as well. They're already doing an internal purge and two prominent party members are being signalled and attacked for being guilty of making them lose votes. One is ancap candidate for Mayor of Buenos Aires (an extremely important position, he got third position and is out of the race), Ramiro Marra, a complete dork and worth for nothing man-child who almost cried on live TV because a children's tv show once said the Spaniards were the bad ones during the Conquista and during the May Revolution of 1810 (he holds dual citizenship) and who was seeing gifting dollar bills to people during the last day of the campaign. He works in the "financial industry" and was once (or still is?) a finance youtuber, you know, a wannabe Wall Street Bull or something. Then there's Lilia Lemoine, a flat-earth cosplayer of 42 years of age that is key to Milei as she's the literal link between incel anime avatar losers and his campaign. She was posted here some days ago in the old Mega, doing cosplay of some anime character I don't even know and people here were, rightfully so, lamenting it. She's under attack for saying stupid shit like "Men should be able to renounce paternity like women are allowed to abort" and for acting like a dumbass during the entire election cycle. It is interesting because she gets the most vicious attacks from her supporters because she's a woman, and mysoginy is inherent to all right wing movements. Unfortunately she will join her party's as a member of the lower chamber.

(All wiki links are in Spanish because none of these losers have their own english page).

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bibi is simply waiting for Steiner's army to get in position before commencing the ground invasion

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A chart heavy article about the Chinese economy

https://www.ianwelsh.net/china-is-transitioning-economically-and-so-far-succesfully/

I didn't know Chinese gdp was so real estate heavy or that local governments had so much budgetary control in China

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

https://streamable.com/e21rsp

Hamas released footage of one of their vehicle kills yesterday with an atgm. Israel did not admit this loss and have kept secrecy about their losses last night.

EDIT: This footage is from the 8th, not last night. Unreleased footage from earlier apparently.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

PFLP

https://streamable.com/m1i6tl

These 120mm mortar things make a serious boom when they launch.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

#Palestine / #Israel 🇵🇸🇮🇱: Communist "Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine" (#DFLP) released a photo with the message “Death ambushes await you” from #Gaza.

The photo shows a fighter with a 12.7mm AM-50 Sayyad anti-materiel sniper rifle; originally made by #Iran 🇮🇷.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1716080480708120974

That is a very serious gun.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Love how the new speaker has the most placeholder name of anyone to hold the office so far

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

There is quite literally a dril post for everything

Edit: this is fake I was bamboozled

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

JIHAD NOW
JIHAD NOW
JIHAD NOW
JIHAD NOW
JIHAD NOW
JIHAD NOW

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:

The duty of the nation and supporters of Palestine is to escalate the struggle against the forces of aggression.

The primary duty of all forces supporting the right of the Palestinian people and opposing the genocidal war against them is to intensify their struggle against the countries involved in the aggression and war against our people. This comes in light of escalating genocidal crimes and the cutting off of all communications with Gaza in an attempt to hide the massive and egregious crimes committed by the enemy against unarmed women, children, and the elderly.

It is inconceivable, after the fall of about 8,000 martyrs, tens of thousands injured, and the displacement of one and a half million Palestinians in Gaza, along with daily genocidal crimes, that the international and Arab response would be at this level. The UN General Assembly's statements have been weak, the European Union's stance is hostile and supports the continuation of genocide, and the positions of the United States and Britain are fully involved in the criminal war against our people.

This aggressive alliance will not be dismantled by timid positions or half-hearted stances, but requires an escalation of serious revolutionary action against all these forces, primarily the United States and the other forces of the aggression alliance. Their embassies and bases remain active and present in Arab countries and around the world, untouched by even the minimum amount of protest.

The Front expresses its deep appreciation for every act of solidarity. Still, the scale of zionist crimes against our people requires much more. The magnitude of the massacre and genocidal war should shake the world and mobilize all Arab, friendly forces, and supporters of freedom worldwide.

The Front calls for escalating the struggle and focusing on the embassies of the countries of the aggression alliance and its supporters, considering America as the spearhead of this aggression. They should realize the consequences of their actions and their clear complicity in the killing our children and in the massacres and genocidal war against our people.

Providing justifications and excuses to lower the level of revolutionary and solidarity action to symbolic and formal levels is a stab in the back of Palestine and its people, and will comfort the aggression alliance to give it space to continue crimes against our people. The Front reaffirms its previous call for a mass flood towards the embassies, interests, and bases of the aggression forces and a greater role for solidarity parties and forces in escalating the struggle against the alliance of enemies worldwide.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

October 28, 2023

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