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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 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. - 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.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
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.
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.
Three young women were prosecuted under terrorism charges for having paraglider imagery at the first big Gaza protest after October 7th in London. Obviously the whole thing was a deliberate test of new, increasingly vague anti-terror laws and designed to have a chilling effect on the protests by the state.
The whole thing was a mess though. Their legal defense was piss poor and they had changed their story from stating someone else must have put the images on their backs and placards, despite the fact this would be easily disprovable given the camera coverage and would actually throw other protesters under the bus and create an excuse for more paranoia and searching for the possibly really Hamas group doing it in the crowds etc. Pretty dreadful idea, a bit like doing it in the first place. Some of the evidence used that they had changed their story, was also based on what they'd said to the police during interviews, meaning they were daft enough to think they could talk their way out of it with the cops after being arrested.
They were found guilty and the judge gave them 12 month conditional discharge, meaning that the offense was considered very minor and that they'll receive no further punishment so long as conditions are met. I believe it was no further potential public order breaches or potentially inflammatory statements in person or online. In other words, go home and shut up for a year if you don't want more trouble.
To be clear, these were three women in their 20s who will now have a terrorism related conviction on their records which will absolutely make their lives much harder in everything from getting jobs to travelling. They will now be on every watchlist and spook database imaginable. This is going to fucking suck for them, our terror laws (and public order laws) are a bad fascist joke, and it was all over three pictures of a fucking paraglider.
As for the Novara Media angle, Aaron Bastani got criticism at the time for quote tweeting a post condemning the original picture and criticising using the imagery. I haven't seen any to suggest his or Novara Media's 'help for police' etc goes beyond this and talking about it a time when the entire national media was focussing on it. If police compelled them to hand over footage of the protests they held they'd almost certainly have no choice but to do so, but even that I'm skeptical of happening because a) I haven't seen anyone actually allege that and b) they're too small to do their own reporting, create their own footage etc so it all comes from what's already publicly available online (and in this case already plastered over ever newspaper and news channel in Britain).
Regardless, as a side note, this is a good reminder not to upload uncensored protest footage, especially if you're an ostensibly left news organization or YouTube channel that may have footage that isn't already out there.
If anyone needs context about Novara Media on general they're a left news website and online media channel that's... alright. They employ a number of self-described communist and socialist writers, have been reasonably successful in getting those people onto traditional television media to put forward an alternative viewpoint (usually very well, despite being their to be the token or focus of establishment ire).
But in doing so they're also bad for over focusing on whatever the 'discourse' in the British press is at the time, as happened with Bastani's tweet here and most of their bad takes come from staying within the bounds of what's acceptable to say in the media British media class. For example, they were pretty shit on Ukraine / Russia, especially early on when it came to simply not engaging with the recent history in Ukraine, NATO history etc. They still are, but have gotten more nuanced in a positive way since. Their closeness to the Corbyn movement at the time also gave them a lot of blind spots for platforming guests that absolutely weren't comrades or useful just because of their close proximity - crank and wrecker Paul Mason for one, although they have since been very critical of his mask-off NAFO Stan, wanna be intelligence asset schtick since, although it shouldn't have taken them so long to see exactly what he is.
They're mostly, whatever. Sorry if that was long.