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.
It’s never been more over for the UK:
Treasury asking ministers to draw up billions of pounds of infrastructure cuts
It’s never been more over for the Euros:
Germany expects economy to shrink after cutting 2024 forecast
Incredible how ideological entrenchment (neoliberalism) + a currency war from the US (Ukraine war) accelerated the destruction of the future of the UK and continental Europe in just a few short years.
Europeans who have been laughing at how Americans don’t have healthcare and social welfare are going to have to seriously think about migrating there over the next decade and get used to what it feels like to live without basic welfare guarantees.
This is why I really need to move Clara Mattei’s The Capital Order up on my reading list. I suspect these austerity cuts are not truly necessary, but are just a major offensive launched against the working class in the class war (which is, by understanding, the thesis of Mattei’s book).
Yeah, I really recommend it if you want some good in-depth historical analysis on how austerity, neoliberalism, anti-communism and fascism all links together into a coherent whole. It's definitely laid out more like a thesis-turned-book rather than something more pop-politics, but I never found it that hard to understand, the arguments and chapters are all laid out very well
seems interesting, what made you want to read the book in the first place?
It filled a lot of gap for Lenin’s Imperialism for me, with historical accounts and data to back them up. It’s an academic book afterall.
I’ve heard a lot of good things and have listened to a talk she gave. Seems to be a excellent breakdown of fascism and its ties to austerity.
IIRC, the architect of UK austerity, George Osbourne, was writing about how we needed to cut government spending well before the financial crisis. Possibly while the government was still posting surpluses (which it has not done since austerity began lollol)
One of those is not like the other
it's the UK, their state security apparatus isn't immune to austerity cuts the way the US's is
Yeah I guess I’m used to the US where defense spending goes up no matter what, year after year, with nearly unanimous votes
No mention of German energy costs increasing by 50% after the Nordstream sabotage, curious.
Me wondering why my energy heavy industry is collapsing after destroying my own energy sources.
Quick pour more of your economy into the burn pit of
!
UK burning money in Ukraine while internally collapsing is so funny. Starmer actually pledged loyalty to Ukraine before he pledged loyalty to his own country.
The starvation will continue until the economy fattens.
I like to read the comments on those articles, I shouldn't because it damages my brain. But I'm fascinated by how deranged they are. Ever since I was young I've been fascinated and horrified by how right wing and conspiracy-minded pretty much all comment sections are. Like in the FT article you have manty people calling Merkel a communist, boring. But I got a chuckle when one was challenged and they respond by literally saying that Germany's not far off from having the means of production owned by a classless society, and that's the problem.
In roughly 1.3 million years, the small orange star Gliese 710 will pass within 1/6 of a light-year from our sun. The interaction of the two stars' gravitational fields will disturb the orbits of countless billions of objects in the Oort cloud, a hypothesized outer shell of asteroidal/cometary-type bodies left over from the dawn of the solar system, ranging in size from dust grains to possibly planet-sized worlds. If the Oort cloud actually exists, there will be an increased risk of cometary impacts in the inner solar system for several million years hence as those asteroidal/cometary bodies are flung sunwards en masse towards Earth and our sister rocky worlds.
And on the day that a comet impacts Earth which originated from that interstellar gravitational interaction, the morning headline in German newspapers will be demands to arrest leftists for causing that cometary impact, and handwringing about how it will affect inflation rates.
Cannot imagine how cursed the future would have to be for Germany to exist in 1.3 million years
Oof. I didn't know thst. I hlpe whlever is arlund then is able to defend themselves.
Sometimes you get heavy bombardment
Nemesis eat your heart out
Hmm maybe even more neoliberalism will help
i've tried nothing and i'm all out of ideas. Tighten the belt again.