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Israel trying to pass the hospital bombing off as Palestine doing it is utterly disgusting and guarantees Netanyahu a spot in the deepest pit of Hell for all eternity, obviously, but do not forget that

a) the only reason why Westerners will believe it is because they want to believe it - they are not being brainwashed and this is not some masterful propaganda being weaved around us to turn kind-hearted people into monsters,

b) no Westerner opinions matter at all. In most Western countries there is no real anti-Israel option to vote for even if they did realize that Israel was a giant factory for crimes against humanity, and Westerners protesting against things in general almost never achieves anything (tens of millions protested for BLM in 2020 and not only did the situation not change, it got worse), and

c) the people whose opinions do matter (both the people in the region, and the leaders who aren't already Zionist compradors) already know that Israel is full of shit and that they just murdered nearly a thousand civilians in a single bomb attack.

It is despair-inducing to think that the genocidal Zionist entity is so brazenly, so smugly getting away with bullshitting this away into a cloud of confusion, as they release their metaphorical squid ink just like they did with the stupid babies story, but the propaganda and the media narrative that they are creating isn't what matters. It cannot address the fundamental contradictions ripping the country, the region, and the world apart any more than masterfully-applied makeup can fix a stab wound. It can merely obfuscate.


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.

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! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants.


Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.

The weekly update isn't coming because I'm sick and too focussed on the collapse of the Zionist entity.

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.


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[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 51 points 1 year ago

https://nitter.net/heatherwritesss/status/1715004894502093292

thread is kinda long so I'm putting it in a spoiler

I have a very very bad feeling about what is going on within the US government at every level right now. It appears to be rapidly crumbling from the inside, and there furthermore appears to be no one to pick up the pieces 🧵

Look at how many incumbents are running unopposed in the local and state elections… here in Ventura County, two of our supervisors, one state assembly person, one state senator - all running unopposed. Many municipal seats appear to be heading to vacancy…

At the federal level, people are resigning left and right over how the US is handling foreign affairs. The Congress is in a state of complete dysfunction, senators are going on diplomatic trips and campaign walks instead of working…

and the executive; well I don’t even know what the hell is going on there. They are functionally doing nothing that NEEDS to be done. A group of unelected bureaucrats are running the country, that is very evident at this stage

Remember what I do as a “day job.” I research and write about public policy and am working in a graduate program in public administration. My classmates/colleagues have gone from professional and optimistic about what we are doing here…

…to jaded, snarky, and talking about how worthless elected and appointed public administrators are in a very brief period of time. One classmate, just yesterday - a man in his 40s who works full time in a prison - said “this all seems like a facade at this point.”

The hopelessness we hear about in the media - the rises in depression and suicide… it is caused by this state of crumble. It’s why people just don’t care anymore, about themselves, about what happens.

I believe next year will see a voter turnout lower than any point in American history. And that will be the least of our problems.

One of the few things I’m actually good at is connecting dots early on, and predicting where things are going south.

This is going to be bad

The government is run by people with money. No qualifications. No ethics. No understanding of how public policy even is supposed to work; of what good governance actually is about

This is a dark moment; I’m not sure many, even myself, recognize yet just how bleak it really is

Libs see this and weep because they think democracy is falling; we see this and cheer because the empire is collapsing. I hope she's right, death to Amerikkka.

[-] artificialset@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

happy to see this shithole country succumbing to its own rot

[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

it expelled so much energy trying to kill everything, it has broken itself. Perhaps in its effort to kill the soviet union, it permanently damaged itself.

[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 1 year ago

death to amerikkka folkkks, many people are saying it.

[-] edge@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

I have a very very bad feeling about what is going on within the Roman government at every level right now. It appears to be rapidly crumbling from the inside, and there furthermore appears to be no one to pick up the pieces 🧵

[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

lmao I want a time machine to be invented so we can back and give the romans twitter now.

[-] spectre@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

This format isn't readable in my app

[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I just use the PWA rip

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

The empire is collapsing which is good, but the process is going to really suck while it happens

[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

sicko-yes The ~~Roman~~ American Republic is collapsing

sicko-no The ~~Roman~~ American Empire will rise from the ashes

[-] JuryNullification@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The government is run by people with money. No qualifications. No ethics. No understanding of how public policy even is supposed to work; of what good governance actually is about

astronaut-2 astronaut-1

[-] pillow@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it might be worth pointing out that even if this is an accurate picture a tsar-toppling vibe in the bureaucracy is only really good for changing political forms; this kind of crisis of confidence in a bourgeois republic running on market autopilot already is I think not likely to lead to more than a fascist or right-libertarian mutation of the existing order

don't get your hopes up is I guess what I'm saying

[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

More so cheering on the multipolar order coming, don’t really think socialism is coming out of this lol

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