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.
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 still Palestine, though we will switch next week to a new country.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly (biweekly?) 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.
I woke up a little while ago and because it was only a few minutes after the top of the hour - I turned on the tv news. In the space of ~3 minutes as listened to MSNBC and then CNN in the background - I heard the phrase “humanitarian pause(s)” a bunch of times. I think at least five times. It’s like asking a serial killer to allow humanitarian pause to aid his human targets trying to hide from him. The killer will probably say no. And even if he says yes - he’s still going to kill them anyway.
British politicians on the news this morning inventing lies to justify explicitly bombing hospitals, all while wearing poppies. And people wonder why I won’t wear those fucking things.
some details on the new russian AWACS:
What is the peculiarity of the new tactics of interaction between the latest Russian air defense systems and AWACS?
The plane has become lighter and flies further. It finds, identifies and tracks air, ground and sea targets.
Unlike its predecessor, it is capable of tracking up to 300 air targets simultaneously.
A-50U can see an enemy bomber 650 km away, and a cruise missile – 215 km away.
The flying radar has acquired a new flight and navigation system, improved electronics with an increased level of performance. Now the plane can see small drones at great distances.
All information collected about targets is instantly transmitted to command posts. Simply put, the A-50U issues target designation for the “Triumph” (S-400), after which the air defense system launches.
The aircraft tracks the target during missile flight until the active homing head is turned on. Therefore, the probability of hitting the target is absolute.
In addition to pairing with the Typhoon, the A-50U can simultaneously control an entire aviation regiment.
Moreover, the Western military elite is frightened by the prospect of combat interaction between the modernized cruise radar and other formidable Russian weapons - the MiG-31 Kinzhal carrier, Su-57 long-range ballistic missiles, the latest Russian Okhotnik UAV, and so on.
