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Image is from the January 2023 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. Over 50 heads of state and 600 CEOs attended.


holding flashlight under face

Imagine a terrifying world where we are all ruled by monsters of every stripe. And not hot ones like werewolves, but instead decaying zombies and mummies who are both insensitive to, and actively benefit from the immense suffering they cause on a daily basis. The top echelon of society, filled with profit-seeking, bloodsucking vampires. And the worst of it is that they repeat on a daily basis that what they are doing is not only just, but there is no other possible way to do it.

Pretty spooky, right? What if I told you that this world... was our own?

Happy Halloween!


Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.

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.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.


The Country of the Week is Lebanon! 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.

This week's first 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.


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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Jewish fascist uses the terms monster and Nazi but not to accurately describe himself.

Former Israeli minister calls for ‘erasure’ of Gaza

Galit Distel Atbaryan, a member of parliament from Prime Minister Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party, has tweeted that Israel’s divided politicians should unite and instead erase “all of Gaza from the face of the earth”.

Distel Atbaryan, who was public diplomacy minister until mid-October, and was previously information minister, wrote the incendiary tweet after she said she viewed footage of Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7.

The politician added that “Gazan monsters” had the option of heading to Egypt or dying, and said that there should be “fire and smoke on the heads of Nazis” in the occupied West Bank.

-Al Jazeera

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[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

BBC had an MSF doctor on and asked her about what's happening in Gaza, pretty brutal, CW: discussion of violence against children

t.me/DDGeopolitics/90419

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Brian Berletic and his circles are pushing the idea that the US is actively trying to provoke Iran, and wants this to turn into a conflict that they can present Iran as the aggressor in. They're citiing a think tank paper where the strategy put forward would be to use Israel as a proxy to incite Iran into a conflict.

https://jermwarfare.com/conversations/brian-berletic-on-the-foundations-of-the-israel-gaza-conflict

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Hezbollah's 'Ridwan' Special Forces posted a cryptic message on Telegram:

وَٱسْتَمِعْ يَوْمَ يُنَادِ ٱلْمُنَادِ مِن مَّكَانٍۢ قَرِيبٍ

'And listen! On that Day the caller will call out from a near place."

It is an excerpt from the Quran.

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[-] star_wraith@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Anyone know of any good articles or otherwise detailed explanations of why the one-state solution is the only correct solution, and how ethnostates like Israel do not in fact have a “right to exist”?

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago
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[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Israeli strikes near Indonesian hospital in gaza, just moments ago, source is aljazeera

[-] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Good new Ian Welsh post: Notes On The Structure Of American Imperial Collapse (State of the World 2023, #1)

China is more dominant than the US was in its prime. (Well maybe not in 1946.)

Now this sort of thing is a leading indicator. Countries who were dominant are able to control more of the world’s resources than they deserve for some time after they lose their dominance.

Be clear, the US has LOST its dominance already. It’s all over except for the shooting. It doesn’t look or feel like that because of generations of accumulation and because the dollar is used for most world trade.

This time it’s going to happen faster, because the US has abused its central position in financial networks in ways other countries, like Russia and China won’t tolerate.

Nothing that new for my knowledgable hexbear comrades, but I found Welsh’s writing to be a useful bridge for well meaning lib friends to get a bit more of a materialist view of the world

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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

altAn ooze enhanced super giant rat wearing a Hamas headband and a Chinese emperor ceremonial headdress throws a fireball at the police headquarters in 1 Police Plaza, NYC. Two items of text say “THE WEST IS NEXT,” and “UNLIMITED GENOCIDE ON THE 1st WORLD.”

There’s also a picture of Eric Adams giving a presentation about the rat population in NYC with the text “OUR DAY IS COMING.”

Finally there’s a picture of a weird green ooze spilling onto a Manhattan street from the underground, a picture that’s been circulating around the Internet today. Edited in there is a rat and Mr. Resetti from the video game Animal Crossing.

By slammer on blueSSkkky bird-mad

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

Islamic Resistance in Iraq announce attacking a vital israeli target on the coast of the Dead Sea on Thursday morning in response to the massacres in Gaza

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago
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[-] buh@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

when is Nasrallah's speech and are there plans to stream it on live.hexbear.net

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Israel current diplomatic situation:

Broke Diplomatic Relations: Bolivia, Bahrain

Recalled diplomats: Chile, Colombia and Jordan

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago
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[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

NEWSMEGA UNDER 4K

HEXBEAR COLLAPSE IMMINENT

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[-] Eldungeon2@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago
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[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

Do Hamas and Hezbollah have any real reason to play ball with the "pause" Biden is proposing? My thought is that the Ghouls in DC know that Hamas and/or Hezbollah will ignore any ceasefire without meaningful concessions and will use that as PR. "See? We declared timeout and they still attacked. That means genocide is okay now."

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[-] Commiejones@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

How do you become the religious leader of a guerrilla resistance army and not learn how to write a speech? Man did the dude repeat himself and go off on tangents and meander through. I get the feeling that a few minutes afterwards he said "Ah Fuck. I forgot to talk about [thing that was really important]"

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[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

Can't wait for the blockbuster, many teasers from Hezbollah and Iranians so far, and they look fire

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago
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[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

I'm not a US law expert, but it sounds like Biden is going to hide a federal crackdown on anti-Israel speech on campus behind threatening college with Title VI, forcing them to do the dirty work themselves.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I edited this so it's the entire update.

What did we learn from the IDF's Daniel Hagari?

A few moments ago we heard from IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari who was giving the Israeli military’s daily press briefing. Here’s a summary of what he said:

  • Israeli fighter jets attacked the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza, resulting in senior commander Ibrahim Biari being killed

  • Several other Hamas members who were with the commander in the building and underground were also killed

  • The attack also caused the collapse of Hamas’s underground infrastructure – the purpose of this infrastructure was to carry out terrorist activities against the Israeli forces

  • Hagari said Hamas continues to use the civilian population as shields intentionally "and in a very cruel and brutal manner"

  • Hagari repeated the IDF’s call for people in the north of Gaza to head south

 

As a reminder, the BBC is not able to immediately verify most battlefield claims

- BBC

Rant - the BBC update page is fucking shit.

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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

Saw a video of an alt-righter harrassing Dan Crenshaw for supporting Ukraine. It was very telling how Dan would smugly chuckle off being called a war monger or caring more about Ukraine than domestic issues, but getting called a dwarf was what caused him to snap.

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[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

https://archive.ph/PWzd2

Insulting propaganda and whitewashing from the nyt

The aircraft are MQ-9 Reapers operated by U.S. Special Operations

The unarmed surveillance flights are not supporting Israeli military operations on the ground, according to the Defense Department officials. Two officials said the goal was to assist in locating hostages, monitor for signs of life and pass potential leads to the Israel Defense Forces.

What a joke.

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[-] mechwarrior2@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/santacruz/comments/17l325v/to_the_woman_near_westlake_trick_or_treating_with/

To the woman near Westlake trick or treating with three boys dressed as Russian Z and Wagner soldiers: go to hell

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[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 1 year ago

"Dropping an anti personnel grenade on manned forces in Beit Hanoun" 1st of November 2023

https://streamable.com/vcw6fv

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

Hezbollah has announced their new gaming console, it would seem

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

In less than a week, we went from "let's turn Gaza into Dresden" to "let's turn Gaza into Hiroshima."

The deranged Zionist libertarian is back: https://nitter.cz/moshefeiglin/status/1719605249806135439

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