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
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.
i get the suspicion but iirc they got out of jail with a jury trial, i feel like that would be very hard to set up to fake. I’ll leave whether what they’re doing is effective or not up to others I don’t feel like I know enough to weigh in on it
Nobody I know and work with in the radical left would say it’s a good idea to post on social media “look at this vandalism we did” but Pal Action does that. How do they consistently get away with ignoring opsec that every other left group has to follow or get instantly blown up by the feds?
It smells fucking rancid. Something is off.
I dont disagree it’s weird, last time we had this discussion here people were speculating that they just do it because they live in the UK and they’re hyper surveilled anyways but that just seems like defeatism anyways, there are ways to combat gait recognition and what not. I’m willing to buy they could be betting on people constantly doing jury nullification even if it’s kinda dumb but directly fighting the state like that has historically led to them blowing your brains out when you’re in your sleep yet I havent heard any news of mysterious activist deaths in britian, I can’t work out what the deal is either because I also dont see a ton of copy cats so it’s not like if this is a psyop that it seems to be working to get people to incriminate themselves much
Actually the only person with any sense pointed out that they broadcast occupations where the only way they’re removed is by force (arrest) and that those occupations aren’t the only actions they take. Zed just seems a bit psyop-happy
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Assasinations create martyrs. Much easier to discredit or ignore
Not really. Ferguson leadership were slaughtered en masse and nobody cared
“En masse” there were a half dozen. It was the most obvious since Hampton, but it’s clearly fallen out of favor
but why? it was extremely effective and it’s only been 10 years since then, what changed?
They just broadcasted their vandalism of the insurers of Elbit Systems where they broke glass and spray painted and nobody there was arrested. Why did they rat on themselves?
I’m asking for facts and you’re asking me hypotheticals. It’s going to take a bit more for me to conclude they’re Feds or puppets
I’m not telling you to conclude they are feds, just to have a reasonable skepticism why they are treated differently and with kid gloves than literally every other group.
I don’t know what other groups you’re talking about, I literally posted here apparently calling out the US version for pointless sectarianism which should bolster the fed argument. I was just asking for facts. When people said PSL was funded by Goldman Sachs, I looked into that and realized it was bullshit. Idk what double standards you’ve seen, but they haven’t come from me.
Treated differently by the British government, not by us.
The British government handles this group with kid gloves and consistently lets them off the hook even though they are blatantly breaking the law and waving it in everyone’s face. Nobody else does that or gets that treatment.
See I had the opposite impression. Jury nullification cases are exceedingly rare historically. The fact that a left vandal club is consistently getting jury nullification trials adds to my suspicion, it doesn’t detract from it. Another odd anomaly where this group is treated differently than every other leftist group for some inexplicable reason.
Usually imperialist nations are extremely serious when it comes to prosecuting anyone who gets in the way of wars. Sedition, treason, terrorism charges all get thrown around. For some reason though never for these folks.
Richard Medhurst was arrested in the UK for literally just posting news and commentary, and is being charged under terrorism laws. But the people actually breaking into MIC facilities get off Scott free? It’s weird
i think those just stop oil people also recently got off scott free but those people really set off my psyop alarms so that probably doesnt help pal action’s case in the slightest lol
Didn’t some PSL activists get off in 2020? I think it was Denver. Are they federales as well?
i hadnt heard about that but I also wasnt a communist at the time so I wasnt plugged into the socialist news enviroment (also, i actually have seen fed accusations being thrown at PSL on this very site before lol). regardless I dont actually think pal action are feds at this time, there’s just some shift going on that I can’t figure out, either they have picked up on a weakness of the british state that is easily exploitable or they are useful to the feds in some way and I think we need to watch closely to figure it out. or some other 3rd thing I havent thought of lol