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.
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/11/israel-hamas-war-updates-gaza-attack/#link-SIA4LEH6CVAGFEXIJ4556IMXRI
You may have to expand the article it autoscrolls to. It's buried in the text because apparently the president blatantly lying and then being corrected instantly by his own admin isn't very newsworthy
So he just lied or had a dementia moment. On camera. In front of the whole world. How the fuck is he leading the empire?
Lying is one of the primary jobs of an American president
Yeah but it's usually revealed that they lied years later, not within half an hour by their own administration. You usually have to at least display some competency when dishing out the imperial propaganda. This is even worse than Bush and Cheney with how blatant it is. Not even a major idiot like Trump got rebuked by his own administration this quick with regards to war crimes. Even Trump kept it together when bombing Syria.
This has happened several times in Bidens presidency. He says some shit and then the WH corrects him. This is more serious than usual though.
When are they going to pull a Nancy Reagan and stop giving him full control? Has it happened already. He's clearly incompetent on the mental side, this is not good for managing the empire.
I'm 99% sure we're already there. The ghouls (minus Kamala lol) are making all the decisions. Biden can barely read a fucking teleprompter
And he has the inside track to be president through 2028…
Yeah probably. Imagine Biden's wife sitting down with all the administration ghouls and making the big decisions.
One of the first days of the Russia-Ukraine war he said that Putin should be overthrown and the White House had to hurriedly tweet that he didn't mean it
Yes but if you notice this lie you're antisemitic
Yeah the propaganda is stronger than ever. All that research the CIA did on brainwashing clearly worked. And the best part of the propaganda system, what makes it so good and unique, is that it's a walled garden with the illusion of freedom. Technically nothing is outright banned, but if you start asking the wrong questions...
you don't have to brainwash people to believe something which would materially benefit them.
That's the other part of the equation which makes the system so good. Most westerners know, on some subconscious level, that their current standard of living is tied to the existing imperial world order. They may be poor or exploited at home, but at least they don't live in x bad country where it's much worse. If that world order gets disrupted and their countries global standing changes, it could have a big negative impact on their standard of living, under the current capitalist system. It's the LBJ quote about convincing the lowest white man he's better than anyone else, but in a global level. That's why so many radlibs have stopped supporting Palestinians, real world politics with real world consequences are scary to them.
I typed this out at 3am on the toilet, I hope it's coherent.
it is. back when i was a turbo lib/leaning libertarian i came to this conclusion on my own and was such a bitter husk that i basically said "fuck them". and this was after i had a taste of the carceral system. it was a contradiction i held in my head because i was also drifting leftward but it wasn't until i discovered marxism that everything clicked.
hollow empty western socialism without marxist analysis is like a mental roadblock
Promoting genocide is the most important job of the president.
Of course, but they usually aren't debunked by their own administration and spokesperson within minutes of promoting war crimes and genocide
He's basically Reagan at this point
"A few ~~months~~ minutes ago I told the American people ~~I did not trade arms for hostages~~ I saw pictures of decapitated babies. My heart and my best intentions tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not."
No chance, he can't even do scripted speeches with a teleprompter and dish out the imperial propaganda correctly. His brain is half pudding by now, at least.
I'm pretty sure seven eight nine in that image.
I think it's a combination of age and that he's always been prone to going off the handle or having gaffes, even when much younger. He did so that whole spoech in the 1980s where he said that if Israel didn't exist, the US would need to create it to serve its interests in the region, and I remember he admitted something about Syria in the early 2010s.
he's also just a serial liar and plagiarist, making shut up is just what he's naturally inclined to do
Yeah he does do that, remember the whole cornpop thing? Likes to make stuff up at random
He ran for president in the 80s, too. Ended up having to end his campaign after it was discovered that he had plagiarized in law school and given a stump speech on the campaign trail that was completely, 100%, copied from a British politician, including naming the british politician's family members in the speech. Oh yeah, likes to claim he got arrested in south africa at a protest for the release of Nelson Mandela. He's always been a dumb liar.
I remember Biden said that he marched from Robben Island to Soweto in one day for Mandela, the only problem with that is those locations are on opposite sides of the country lol. Like over 1600km/1000 miles apart. I know it's a long walk to freedom but Christ, not that long
He also bragged he was in the "top half" of his class, I.e just above average lol, and even that was a lie lmao
Yeah. I think it's telling that Biden got elected when he did. They saw that Republicans could get their brazen fucking wacko asshole elected and figured it was a winning strategy so it was clearly Biden's time. All his ranting that Democrats should be "tough on crime" and that we should proudly Israel the Middle East and that he is essentially proud of his misogyny and his support of his openly racist buddies (e.g. Strom Thurmond) over the years...they weren't a bug, but a feature.
America lies about this shit all the time. Remember yellow cake uranium? Iraqi WMDs? They do this constantly.
Headline (I imagine): Biden confirms seeing pictures of babies getting killed
Text: the Whitehouse denies that Biden saw pictures of babies getting killed
And then the "rusha china 1984 brainwash" people slurp this all up immediately
No one will care because your average US citizen seems to have been successfully MK-ULTRAed. They hear certain trigger words on the TV (terrorist, killing babies, right to self defence), and they want to glass the middle east.
Oh my god, he literally didn’t see any pictures of it but there is no other way to interpret his words as saying that he definitely saw pictures of beheaded babies with his own eyes. What a goddamn liar.
Never thought Sleepy Joe was actually a Sleepy Joe, yet here we are.
Says man who was VP and proudly helped carry out what became the on camera sodomization via bayonet of Gaddafi