Image is Israeli interceptors trying and failing to intercept missiles over their cities.
Israel just carried out a widespread bombing of Iran, which has killed a number of senior officials inside Iran (though it seems the leadership is more-or-less intact) as well as a number of civilians. Important facilities have been targeted, but the amount of damage is unknown so far (note that many important Iranian facilities are deep underground, making them both hard to damage but also hard to determine if they are damaged from just satellite imagery, so reports of damage will be he-said-she-said).
It appears the attack took Iran by surprise, given that a residential block was targeted that contained some senior officials - if one saw an attack coming, one would imagine they'd be in bunkers. Nonetheless, like the rest of the Resistance Axis, I suspect that Iran has adapted their military structures to be resistant to decapitation strikes by ensuring that replacement figures are ready to take the place of killed officials.
Iran has delivered a massive missile barrage in response to Israeli aggression, even though Israel is continuing to bomb Iran. Iran is now aware of the location of many important Israeli sites, including secret nuclear sites, due to their recent intelligence haul, giving them a distinct edge.
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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.
How public is information regarding missile production in the USA? Do we know which factories where make which missile type? THAAD? Patriot? If anti-war activists are looking for a pressure point, I think I know one if we can figure them out. Please only post legal public info no fedposting ty
Look into what Palestine Action do in the UK and how they gather intelligence. You can scout facilities out, keep an eye on what goes in and out, and figure out which companies are working with which. Enough people doing this for long enough and working together could gather a lot of information on the arms production network within the US. The arms manufacturers themselves are usually hard targets and have insurance, but their insurers, suppliers, cleaners, etc etc are not, and it's often easier for them to cancel a contract rather than facing being targeted by an anti-arms trade campaign. Do this consistently for long enough, and it starts to become materially harder for arms firms to conduct their business - fewer companies will work with them, security costs go up, etc.
Found one anyway.
So there are either multiple factories here, or they're expanding one big one they have to make multiple missile types. Looking it up on Apple Maps it seems pretty small and desolate minus a bunch of factory/warehouse-like buildings from satellite images I'm seeing.
Edit: oh yeah, the other post with the maps is better and has the factories in East Camden listed out, seemingly. There are multiple factories here. I guess it makes sense since this place only seems to have a university, weapons manufacturing, and seemingly little else. Not sure how many weapons manufacturing company towns there are in rural US, but yeah.
They have a big factory in Brighton (in England) which local campaigners have been fighting to get shut down for years. An extension was denied a few months ago. However, that's a large city with a notably active "leftist" scene. Pressure campaigning can work but it has to come from the local community to be truly effective, and if it's a small town where the best jobs are all in the arms sector then that can be very difficult.
Overall, as an outside observer (so my assessment may be flawed), one of the big issues facing US anti-arms campaigning is that so much of the production is in these small towns far from any major population centre. It seems to make the kind of direct-action-and-community-pressure campaigning that has been effective in the UK (and other parts of Europe) much more difficult to pull off. However I'm sure that there must still be some facilities closer to large cities, and perhaps more importantly, all the other firms which support the arms trade (insurance, logistics, suppliers, etc) will have branches across the country. Palestine Action, in addition to directly targeting arms factories, have also extensively targeted these kinds of firms, and have been able to get a number of them to stop working with Elbit and other arms manufacturers.
SM-3 interceptors, the kind used by Israel, can only be produced in very small quantities. The US produced 71 in 2023.
It's not the same missile, Israel use their own version called Arrow 3. But it gives an idea.
Found this posted here last year
map of the main companies and subcontractors on US DoD contracts for weapons/platforms/etc that isra*l is using in Palestine and elsewhere.
https://xcancel.com/squarecoats1/status/1857783112324841626