There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account.
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.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly 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.
I'm gonna post a page from Tyler Shipley's Canada in the World on Israel, I highly recommend this book to my Canadian comrades.
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Indeed, there is much to learned about colonialism and capitalism in the transition from the late 1930s, when the leaders of the Western world conspired to facilitate the extermination of European Jews, to the late 1940s, when those same leaders effectively gave permission for conditional Jewish entry into the club of white, colonial nations. Abigail Bakan theo- rizes this transition, noting a confluence of factors in the postwar era that contributed to this. First, within Jewish communities, the hitherto marginal ideology of Zionism that called for the creation of Israel along European colonial lines in Palestine suddenly possessed great currency, given the conscious failure of the Western world to prevent the Holocaust." Second, that complicity in the Holocaust was rooted in Western states' desire to prevent significant Jewish immigration; the creation of Israel provided a kind of moral redemption for the West even while it solved their "Jewish Problem" by funnelling immigration elsewhere. Third, the emerging Cold War made it politically valuable to have a controllable ally in the Middle East, a geostrategic fact that would grow in importance as movements for pan-Arab nationalism coalesced in the 1950s.Finally, and perhaps most important, postwar Zionism embodied the ideals of European colonialism, which were still deeply rooted (and, indeed, foundational in settler societies like the US and Canada); the "new jew" was aggressive, masculine and willing to enslave and exploit a lesser race in order to build a capitalist enclave. In that sense, the ticket to modern whiteness was precisely the project to create, in Palestinians, a backwards, uncivilized people worthy of colonial occupation, debase- ment and ethnic cleansing." The archetypal colonizer, Winston Churchill expressed his support for the Zionist project precisely by framing it in terms of racial and colonial hierarchies:
For Jews to be white, they had to take up the White Man's Burden, Israel was that project. Israel would be a settler capitalist state par exe lence, modelling itself after the Anglo-American conquests of North America, the exclusionary settler regimes in South Africa and Australia, and even the Nazi apparatus that had sought the complete destruction of European Jewry." Israel did all this during a period when the thrust of history seemed to point in the opposite direction, towards at least formal decolonization if not outright anti-colonial revolution.