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One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain't worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.

Because one day, the prisoners of a concentration camp paraglided over a wall.


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Israel-Palestine Conflict

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 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.


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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 99 points 1 month ago

I’m at my grandfathers house and it always reminds me how I’ll never be as cool as him. He has a few pictures of him with Jacobo Arbenz and talks fondly about the time he met che Guevara during his time in Guatemala.

[-] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean tbf not like anyone on this site is cooler than him, either. That’s so cool you have him as your grandpa though.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

Any cool anecdotes about the Arbenz years?

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

Quite a few. He has a journal that he wrote in during that time going into greater detail. He does aggressively challenge anyone who claims Arbenz was a Marxist and insists that he was more of a Democratic-Socialist sympathetic to Marxist principles.

My grandfather was and still is a Marxist. He talks about how Communism was in a weird place during the Arbenz presidency. Many were receptive to its ideas but still weren’t fully sold on it. This left the Communist movement too small to really make a huge impact.

He claims that Arbenz being more of a Democratic-Socialist is ultimately what did him in and compares his downfall to Allende in Chile: two well-meaning people who were too soft and did too little too soon to prevent the reactionary elements from getting their way.

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

That seems pretty accurate to what I've read as well. But it makes it even worse that the US couldn't even tolerate a Democratic-Socialist. It reminds me of them calling Kamala a communist in current conservative discourse. They don't care. Anything slightly to the left of them is a danger and must be stopped. The ratchet must only be turned right, never left, even a little.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you get a chance please preserve those journals and see if you can publish them in some fashion. That kind of first-hand account is absolutely vital to historians. People five hundred years from now will start crying for joy if they find a well preserved first person document like that.

[-] CredibleBattery@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i think you're cool as hell too

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

You're one degree of separation from Che that's pretty cool.

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