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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 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. - 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.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
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.
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 keep reading takes from Jason Hickel and feeling conflicted about agreeing with Jackson Hinkle until I realize it’s Jason Hickel who is always based.
so glad I am not alone
Literally every time for me.
Yeah my reaction was: wow the patsocs are getting kinda daring with the co-optation of leftist discourse.
one of them needs to change their name
If we are making demands why not
I feel like when I first encountered him on Monthly Review years ago he was much less ideologically aligned with communists (more just soc-dem and degrowth with some flavor orlf anti-colonialism) and has just been getting cooler and cooler. This one really got me almost tearing up at seeing him be completely correct and writing it so well
I think some people tend to misinterpret the latest offensive against China (as in, the one since at least 2018 when the Ughyur genocide accusations revved up) as one of a political battle, which is also the general framing of the conflict from the American side. Like, they think that the fundamental battle between the US and China is a battle of ideologies, or unipolarity vs multipolarity, or "freedom" vs "authoritarianism". But really, this is all fundamentally economic in nature, and the political reasons are merely used to justify and excuse those economic decisions.
China being socialist isn't really the problem for the West, as the post says, it's about having economic sovereignty. It's the strong thread that binds the whole anti-US alliance together - China, Russia, Iran, the DPRK, Cuba, Venezuela, etc - despite their very different histories and ideologies and religions. They all want economic sovereignty. China wasn't a major problem for the West for decades despite being socialist because they didn't pose an economic threat to imperialism until relatively recently. The fact that China's recent economic ascendancy just so happens to coincide with a new propaganda campaign seeking to ignite a new ideological Cold War between American capitalism and Chinese socialism is, well, not actually a coincidence.
So when I see analyses that come at the situation taking the American assumptions without question, it's frustrating, especially from left-wingers who should know better. So this is a good piece to explain the global situation, and why us communists believe what we believe despite Iran and Russia not being socialist.
Based and Hickel-pilled.
He's been nailing it the last year (and more)