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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.


If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.


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.

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Links and Stuff


The bulletins site is down.

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists

Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

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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.


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[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

Ecuador’s pink tide candidate might lose tonight oh-shit

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Rybar's 13.00 October 15, 2023 sitrep

spoiler❗️🇮🇱🇵🇸 (https://qr.nspk.ru/BS1A0068ID10D33B9IBAQRQ4M9T0NIFN?type=01&bank=100000000008&crc=36CB) Aggravation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone

situation as of 13.00 October 15, 2023

🔻North direction:

▪️ Local authorities recommended that residents of Sderot and presumably Ashdod evacuate in the direction of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Eilat.

▪️ Israeli troops killed a Hamas militant in the area of Kibbutz Nir Am.

▪️ Palestinian forces launched rocket attacks on IDF forces east of Mefalsim, as well as on Sderot.

🔻Border with Lebanon:

▪️Hezbollah militants shelled the village of Shtula: three people were wounded, one was killed. The Nurit border post also came under fire - the group’s fighters even announced its capture, but in reality the facility continues to be controlled by the IDF. Arab sources mistook (https://t.me/LebUpdate/31879) the symbols of the Israeli Tsanhanim brigade for the Hezbollah flag in the video. The group also reported the defeat of the Merkava tank.

▪️ The IDF carried out retaliatory strikes on the Ayta al-Shab area, as well as Ramiya and Rmeish.

▪️ The Lebanese side announced the death of Hossein Kamal al-Masri, who died earlier after shelling by Israeli troops in the south of the country.

▪️ The IDF command issued a ban on visiting the four-kilometer border zone.

🔻 Gaza Strip:

▪️Israeli troops continue to launch mass attacks on the Gaza Strip: according to the IDF, as a result of one of the attacks on Khan Yunis, Bilala al-Kedru, the commander of the Nukhba detachment, who led the attacks on Nirim and Nir Oz, was eliminated .

▪️ Israeli authorities have given Gazans three more hours to evacuate to the south of the enclave.

▪️ There is deterioration in weather conditions in the region, which may affect the timing of the start of the IDF ground operation.

🔻 West Bank:

▪️Clashes between Palestinians and law enforcement officials continue. Violence erupted in Tulkarm, Tarqumiya, Nablus and Hebron, among others.

🔻 Political background:

▪️Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that the IDF’s actions in the Gaza Strip “went beyond self-defense.”

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Border with Gaza strip allegedly just minutes ago "Israel are preparing to enter"

https://streamable.com/w15ss0

Alleged, allegedly, supposedly, maybe, getting a strong fog of war feeling from posts at the moment.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

Israeli authorities ask all residents within 9km of the border with Lebanon to seek shelter

[–] batsforpeace@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Reuters - Polish PiS ahead but seen losing majority in election - exit poll

Just an exit poll, it says the lib/soc dem opposition and a lib/agrarian coalition should have enough seats to form government together. We'll see for sure on Monday or Tuesday but it's always nice to see signs that the libertarian alt-right party under performed. They got 6% in this exit poll, and were expecting 10-12%. They were basically going on TV and saying stuff like 'unlike these other politicians here, we promise you no handouts, welfare cuts and more privatization, might give you a tax break though!' lol, a very exotic campaign strategy.

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’m mostly fine with religion and people believing whatever shit, but when people start using their abrahamic texts like they’re historical accounts? I got a major problem

like dog I don’t give a shit about what a book passed down and re-edited countless times says about Israel and neither should you. I care about people who are existing right now

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[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (9 children)

wait are we actually going to reach 7 thousand

who the fuck did we sacrifice to keep the servers running

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[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In real current news, I'm watching the Chomsky Foucault debate. Here it is summarized

🤓 v foucault-shining

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.

It's from this 1980 article by James Baldwin

Notes on the House of Bondage | The Nation.

[Editor's note] In this piece (from the November 1, 1980, issue), Baldwin sheds light on the state of America by surveying the dispiriting array of candidates for the 1980 presidential race.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

https://streamable.com/203euj

🟡 #Hezbollah's Deputy SG Sheikh Naim Qassem in an address during a demonstration in Dahyeh in support of Palestine today:

"We in Hezbullah are participating in this war [to an extent], and we are closely and carefully monitoring the situation, for whenever the time arrives for us to act...we will."

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

Been unable to be near a pc or tv today I bet I've missed a lot...

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