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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.


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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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[-] volcel_olive_oil@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago

im-doing-my-part "now I'm as far left as anyone could possibly be"

im-doing-my-part "there are no nazis in Ukraine"

im-doing-my-part "all Palestinians are nazis"

I'm having some mild mental whiplash

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[-] sisatici@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I miss ussr. Sure, they had many flaws but I can not focus on them for no country was devoted to decolonization as much as them. I can not blame China for not doing charity work by not supporting decolonization but also I have to arrive at a conclusion that ussr did it for charity work. It almost seem like they did it just for the sake of humanity. I will remember you fondly. I hope we can make you rest easy by finishing Palestinian liberation you started . soviet-heart my heroic soldier

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dude walks up to a Merkava. Plants a bomb on the side of it by hand. Runs away. Turns around and fires an RPG at it. Escapes into tunnels.

Literally playing Battlefield irl planting C4s on tanks to destroy them.

https://streamable.com/tfwfz5

Quite possibly the most remarkable piece of combat footage in the last 50 years.

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 73 points 1 year ago
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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

U.S. and European officials have begun quietly talking to the Ukrainian government about what possible peace negotiations with Russia might entail to end the war, according to one current senior U.S. official and one former senior U.S. official.

zelensky-pain its so joever ukkkraine bros

Cant wait for the coping "aktually giving away 1/5 of the country to russia is a win because Ruzzia wanted to annex all of ukraine" smuglord

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 73 points 1 year ago

The NYT confirms that in northern Gaza - an Israeli tank fired on that civilian vehicle driving away.

A Palestinian media worker, Youssef Al Saifi, has shared video showing an Israeli armored vehicle firing on what he said was a civilian vehicle today on a main road that links northern Gaza to the south. The New York Times has verified that the video was filmed this morning south of Gaza City on the Salah Al-Din Road. The road is one of two major routes used by Gazans to heed Israeli warnings and flee to the southern part of the enclave. The vehicle was traveling north when it encountered an Israeli position, and was hit as it was turning around.

When asked about the video at a morning briefing, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the chief spokesman for the Israeli military, said that he would not detail the location of Israeli forces. The New York Times has identified multiple armored vehicles at an Israeli military position at the location of the incident.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/30/world/israel-hamas-gaza-war-news/57ea9442-d83e-5f91-bb1f-4ca627216058?smid=url-share

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 73 points 1 year ago

Considering Israel trains a lot of US cops, its unsurprising they would shoot someone running away from behind.

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[-] DeDollarization@lemmygrad.ml 73 points 1 year ago

Nasrallah delivered a realistic and clarifying speech that set the new terms of engagement. High quality leadership as always.

This is what was needed and we can be sure this speech has psychologically eroded and confused the Zionists and their American masters.

His speech clearly explained how Hezbollah has been involved in the fight and that this fight today is driven by the SELF DETERMINATION of the Palestinian nation as represented by the Resistance Leadership, specifically Hamas.

His speech exposed the hypocrisy of Arab nations and Lebanese compradors begging Hezbollah not to act; showing how shameless and munafiqeen so called Arab leaders are.

He specifically identified the US as the cause of the massacres in Gaza and the region and, as a small non-state paramilitary threatened the United States of America! And revealed that Hezbollah has the capabilities to sink the American navy ships! Alhamdulillah

When he says "now is not the time for the knockout blow" is because the entity is bleeding out every day. Hamas is winning in Gaza. The occupation gets weaker every day. Unless the imperialists carry out a pre-emptive strike on Lebanon then Hamas will dictate when Hezbollah joins the fight. Its a long game and you have to understand these leaders are responsible for literally millions of people. This isn't a video game.

Liberation wars are paid in the blood of hundreds of thousands of martyrs. If or when escalation occurs then the massacres in Gaza these weeks will be only a small fraction of the pure blood spilled by the imperialists. If you have no skin in the game then it is beyond deplorable to be calling for escalation of a war.

May Allah grant victory to the Mujahideen and peace for the martyrs. Inshallah

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[-] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 72 points 1 year ago

I was thinking this morning about that bullshit Isreal was dishing out last week, saying Islamic Jihad was the one that accidentally bombed the hospital.

If Islamic Jihad truly had bombs that were that powerful, why would they simply STOP FUCKING USING THEM. Do these idiots really think they just used this one bomb, said 'oops we fired it wrong' then decided to not use the many other massive bombs they had to hit Isreal.

I don't know if this thought makes sense, but gaht damn you have to be a fucking idiot to think that was Islamic Jihad. So you're telling me they have what could be a massive military advantage and they're simply deciding not to use that military advantage right now. Fuck.

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[-] Kieselguhr@hexbear.net 72 points 1 year ago

Every civilian death is a tragedy.

When liberals are yelling about sanctioning Russia and sending weapons to Israel consider this:

  • In 20 months there were 9600 civilian fatalities in Ukraine according to the UN (1179 killed in the first month, I think this counts both sides)
  • In 3 weeks at least 8000 Palestinian civilians were murdered by the IOF

The civilian murder rate of Israel is 24x that of Russia.

Sorry for being vulgar, but the hypocrisy, the double standards in the mainstream discourse is... staggering to say the least. Spineless bastards.

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[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wtf is it with the lib idea that Hamas is some kind of corrupt, ruling gang that heavily exploits the civilians of Gaza as human shields just to stay in power? Do libs even hear themselves speaking? That doesn't make any fucking sense. Somehow they have this idea in their head that being in a leadership position of a resistance group inside a literal concentration camp is a cushy enough gig to warrant fighting an all out war with Israel solely to perpetuate their position.

The most charitable way I can interpret such a profoundly incorrect reading of Hamas is chalking it up to another consequence of the fact that the vast majority of liberals do not know even the absolute barest, most fundamental basics of Palestine's situation. They must think Gaza is just another Arab country on Israel's border and that it has a corrupt, antisemitic government with little popular support. As such, they've totally missed the fact that it is an open air concentration camp in the first place.

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[-] plinky@hexbear.net 72 points 1 year ago

Bernie panders

John settlerman

Genocide joe

Aloof scholtz

Emmanuel makkkron

Ursula "i was hiding from red army faction in london" leyen

Liz cracker warren

I got nothing for rishi sunakkk, need them maoist brains for this

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[-] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 72 points 1 year ago

https://t.me/PalestineResist/17927?single

Palestine TV correspondent Salman Al-Bashir throws his press vest and helmet to the ground live on air moments after his colleague Mohammad Abu Hatab was martyred in an IOF airstrike on his home in Khan Younis.

"These are simply symbolic items we wear. They don't protect any journalist. None of this does. We are simply victims live on air, sacrificing our souls one after the other. We go as martyrs only. It is only a matter of time.

Our colleague Mohammed Abu Hattab was here just half an hour ago before he was martyred with many of his family members."

At least 11 martyrs ascended in the strike, including Mohammed's wife, son, brother, and others.

Over 35 journalists have ascended to martyrdom as a result of IOF strikes on Gaza since October 7th.

Glory to the martyrs.

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 72 points 1 year ago

I love how Zionists can only point to 2 or 3 bullshit stories they cooked up but we have thousands of verifiably true instances of their brutality.

If western media dedicated as much time to every war crime Israel has ever done as they have to 40 trillion sautéed babies, the universe would die before they could wrap it up.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

— 🇰🇷/🇰🇵 JUST IN: North Korea will start arming Palestine and Iran-backed resistance axis militias - NIS

The National Intelligence Service of South Korea say they have credible evidence that DPRK Leader Kim Jong Un has ordered his government to begin providing support to the Palestinians.

According to NIS, he has also ordered officials to begin looking into the possibility of weapons shipments to resistance factions militias across the Middle East.

Based

I don't believe NIS on anything but you can 100% guarantee that I'm spreading this to pro palestine peoples. This is a very strong opportunity to get through to people who are currently ignoring media lies about palestine. They will be willing to re-evaluate their opinion of DPRK if they're in the mindset of rejecting propaganda. On top of that they're going to be very happy to have such support from them.

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[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He decidido llamar a consulta a nuestra embajadora en Israel. Si Israel no detiene la masacre del pueblo palestino no podemos estar allá.

I have decided to recall our ambassador to Israel. If Israel does not cease its massacre of the Palestinian people we are no longer able to remain there. Gustavo Petro

Colombia has withdrawn its ambassador to Israel

https://twitter.com/petrogustavo/status/1719505034348462235 https://nitter.net/petrogustavo/status/1719505034348462235#m

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[-] LargePenis@hexbear.net 71 points 1 year ago

Just noticed that next week marks the Kherson withdrawal one year anniversary. Literally nothing gamechanging has happened since then. Wagner took Bakhmut, which is the only notable city changing hands in a whole fucking year. We losers have been reading news for a whole year and if you show anyone a Ukraine War map from Nov 2022 and Nov 2023, the human eye can't see a difference other than the little Ukrainian death bulge near Robotyne. I wish I had learned Chinese or something instead of reading tweets about Wagner tactics in Soledar and Ukrainian leopard Ls in Urozhaine for an hour a day.

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[-] VHS@hexbear.net 71 points 1 year ago

i like the phrase "international ghouls-based order". it's both a halloween pun and something a Maoist would say

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[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 71 points 1 year ago
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[-] PosadistInevitablity@hexbear.net 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seeing Ukraine flag profiles say “Israeli tanks blowing up civilian cars is okay because they warned them to leave North Gaza” is maddening.

Their whole world view is decided by someone else for them.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 70 points 1 year ago

https://streamable.com/z6b6ci

Channel 13 journalist Zvi Yehezkeli admits Israel purposefully and premeditatedly murdered the family of Al Jazeera journalist Wael Dahdouh in Gaza:

  • "Generally we know the target. For example, today there was a target: the family of an Al Jazeera correspondent".
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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 70 points 1 year ago
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Graphic footage.

https://streamable.com/bopvf7

Drone attack on invading Israelis. They get mega owned.

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[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 70 points 1 year ago

the-doohickey cereal1 if the doohickey is so great then why isn't there doohickey 2???

idf-destroyer cereal2

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 70 points 1 year ago
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[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago
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[-] Sasuke@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago

born to run a podcast forced to lead hezbollah

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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago

Israeli exiles are gonna give Cubans a run for their money in terms of annoying exiles.

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[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago
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[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

They’re still doing it

According to Ukrainian military bloggers

michael-laugh

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[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

Difference in morale between IOF and Hamas fighters has to be immeasurable.

Hamas are fighting for their very existence, many of them have nothing to lose, their friends, families and livelihoods were wiped out by the IOF. There is no home to return to, nowhere to run, and the people who did this to you are the exact enemies you're fighting right now. At that point, what else are you gonna do except run at the tank and pray?

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[-] Trustmeitsnotabailou@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

Looks like Israel and the usa have stopped trying to control the narrative. R/worldnews is filled with pro palastinian comments now.

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[-] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Khamenei will not attack israel until Hasan states "IRAN WILL NEVER INVADE ISRAEL".

Just like how Putin attacked Ukraine after hasan said russia will never invade ukraine.

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Nasrallah:......and to the great Hexbear brigades, we thank you for coining such a power psychological weapon as 'Genocide Joe', truly they are our strongest allies" shocked-pikachu madeline-shock tails-what

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

r/combatfootge is on some 4th dimensional copium right now

Half the comments are desperately trying to find ways to furtively celebrate what is definitely the greatest combat footage of the 21st century so far, while the other half are going "guys guys remember Hamas bad and IDF super advanced greatest most moral army who are not owned"

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[-] Poogona@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

I helped some desperate guy who had just gotten out of prison get an Uber to a family member's house two counties over today (he didn't have a phone or email to do it himself with)

It was a very small thing but helping strangers feels good as hell when most of your time is spent wandering around in an alienated bubble

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[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

Opened Reddit while on the shitter. Really need to start taking my Switch Lite with me to poop instead of my phone because holy hell.

Like the algo's feeding me all these pro-Palestine posts with a good amount of upvotes, but woebegone ye tides if you actually open the thread and read the comments. Genocidal freaks everywhere, but even more both sides liberals.

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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

Not the greatest fan of the Resistance Cinematic Universe so far; while Iran Man 2 was a nice showing and Houtheye had that awesome moment when the superhero lands a missile with pinpoint accuracy from 2000 kilometers away, there's way too much dialogue compared to action. Guess that's what you get when you don't have the US military bankrolling you though

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[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

Via Middle East Observer Twitter:

️Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich:

There is no time to breathe. The direct cost of the war with #Gaza exceeds one billion shekels. #Israel's economy has entered a state of partial paralysis, due to the mass mobilization of reserve soldiers and the intense #Palestinian missile attacks.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

Lebanon announced that it will file a complaint with the Security Council due to Israel's use of white phosphorus in its attacks on southern Lebanon.

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

It really do be feeling like the working class is in support of Palestine. All I see now being zionists are the usual suspects.

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[-] sempersigh@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago
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[-] Comp4@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

He certainly was a controversial figure. But he knew how to make a good omelet

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