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.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1845622848817127439
Cannot possibly stress this enough: DEATH TO ISRAEL
Palestinian Authority to attend BRICS summit, apply for membership (The Cradle, Aug 26, 2024)
Palestine’s ambassador in Moscow, Abdel Hafeez Nofal, said on 26 August that Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas had received an invitation from President Vladimir Putin to attend the upcoming BRICS summit.
“We received an invitation from President Putin to President Abbas, and he was invited to participate in the BRICS summit prior to the invitation [to visit Russia] … but we will see if the prime minister will participate,” Nofal said. “The most important thing is that we [Palestinian representatives] will participate in this event,” he added.
The ambassador said Abbas and Putin have a good relationship with one another and can meet at any time.
“After our first participation in the BRICS summit, we will send a request to join this association,” Nofal revealed.
He also said that Putin promised Abbas that the upcoming BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan, scheduled for October 2024, will include a session dedicated primarily to Palestine.
Old article, but with the BRICS summit in Russia approaching (22–24 Oct), I need to hear what (if anything) my fellow newsmega heads expect will come from this.
YT Live stream coverage of hurricane Milton. Seems to be done by a bunch of weather geeks. Something like 10 active tornado warnings out rn. Stay safe, folks
Abu Milton has joined the Resistance. #meme
MASSIVE COLLAPSES EVERYWHERE! Do they even have will left to fight?
- Defense Politics Aaasiaa
"The conference continued, although some planned sessions were cancelled while the venue’s staff dealt with the incident.
people should do significantly more of this, seems effective. 500 crickets costs like £2.50 and you can completely ruin an event.Even if an event continues afterwards the only takeaway anyone’s going to have and the only media impact is gonna be about the bugs.
Could do this to literally anything and it would consistently ruin events.
I present this graph without comment on why sanctions on russia failed
Hezbollah drone strike on IDF base
killsinjures 61 IDF troops (Sky News)Hezbollah footage: https://tankie.tube/w/qzRpLXMkRLuJLexieHHXVA
News from Argentina
Now 13 yo can legally do stonks
Lolbertarians and lowering legal age limits, name a better duo
Boo hoo hoo, nobody fucking cares (CW: cringe Zionist):
https://xcancel.com/SuppressedNws/status/1844362541293764801I’m watching the series “Big Love”. A scene made me sigh because it’s so much at lib efforts to downplay the genocide in Gaza and now the expanded war in Lebanon. Libs continue to demand people don’t trust their own eyes and trust lib rhetoric and nonsense instead. The libs are stuck because with each passing day the evidence piles up but they are heavily invested in their pretense so they sound crazier and crazier.
Bill Paxton plays a polygamist with three wives who is also named Bill. He’s an expert at hiding reality. People think he has only one wife. One of his employees confides something to him. She suspects his business partner and best friend to be a polygamist. This is a dangerous situation for Bill. The future of his friend’s family, his family, and their business could be at stake.
She must be convinced that what she knows to be true is wrong. They are sitting in his office. Bill calls her accurate accusations “unsavory”. Then stands up to show her the conversation is over and he shuts her down.
“But I know what I saw.”
“What you saw was an action. But you didn’t necessarily see the label you’re putting on it.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Exactly. There you are.”
Much strength to resistance against genocidal entity
In Finland news the government is going to privatize water next
There was a citizens initiative to counter this in 2021, but as is to be expected it made no difference. There is now a new initiative (essentially a "please don’t do this) up, but looks like we are getting privatized water next.
The EU citizen’s initiatives are the biggest scam in optics imo. Finns love them, they are doing so much democracy by signing them.
