There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account.
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.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly 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 asked this in a different thread, but I'll ask here too. How would a liberal or westerner define the term 'Zionism'?
I mean how would a liberal defend that term as not being racist/fascist? The UN once condemned Zionism--it then revoked that resolution years later. When it's pitched to Western audiences, what is meant by it? What is the messaging they say? Zionism isn't racism, it's...
Obviously we know what is meant by it--fascism, colonialism, etc. But I'm curious how it's been pitched over the decades.
99% of Americans who spout opinions about Palestine have no clue what “Zionism” means. They usually think it means to be vaguely “pro-Jewish” or maybe something about how “the Jewish people deserve to have a homeland”.
Reparations for the Holocaust, I guess.
I think that's a major part of it.
Zionism is the belief that, in order to defend themselves from persecution, the Jewish people need a homeland, and specifically this homeland must exist from reasons of 'history' and 'prophecy' in the land of 'Zion' which is specifically the land that was supposedly ruled by David, that of which 90 years ago was called Palestine.
Now, I generally don't think that having a homeland for Jewish people was generally a bad idea (though I am very wary of any form of ethno-nationalism), but if it was to happen it should have literally be taken as reparations from Germany, not as a literal invasion on an unrelated third party. It really gives away the game that Israel was always more of a project of the West to have a base of power in the Middle East than anything else. While they did take policy ideas from the USSR, there were many Zionist Russian Jews involved in the project, the USSR never used Israel to push for their preferred policy objectives for the region, while they have almost always been an outpost and completely aligned with U.S. and British interests.
It also doesn't help that most of the Old Testament, particularly anything having to do with Canaan and David, is likely completely made up bullshit that is completely unsupported by any archeological evidence, and was likely written as a result of the Babylonian exile, giving these people claims to lands that they had never ruled, to make them feel better about those areas they had lost.
"The Jews had it really bad during the Holocaust and that's why they deserve a homeland. Also that homeland is le only democracy in the middle east and much more civilised than the savage nonwhite jungle surrounding it."
"The... jungle in the desert?"
"SILENCE"