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 was all for Palestine until they rudely interrupted my music festival next to the world’s largest concentration camp, forcing me to fly back to JFK in economy. They have left me no choice but to advocate for genocide.
Genuinely impressed by how mind-bogglingly stupid the average westerner is. Feed the westerner any propaganda slop and he’ll eat it with a massive smile on his face while thanking his master. The allegedly propagandized asiatic Russian and the dumb bloodthirsty Arab already knows that most state news is fake and shouldn’t be trusted, but the westerner can’t even form an opinion without eating some slop first. You know as an Arab dude with a fucking family here in the West, it’s getting harder and harder to live with such a hostile racist society. I’ve discussed with my wife if it’s perhaps smarter to just cut loose the “privileges” of the West and move back into the Arab World and raise our future kids there. I’m close to the edge, I can’t tolerate life here anymore.
Russians, Chinese, Arabs all know that most media is fake.
Oh look, who has the US been lining up to fight?
They don’t accept the lie because they’re stupid, they accept the lie because it hurts less than accepting that they are not the heroes of this story.
Just wanna say a big fuck you to all the people that said the work Palestine Action were doing in the UK was useless and pointless adventurism or purely aesthetic.
Elbit Systems reduced their ammunition production by 75% in the last few years, and halved their drone production. All of this was happening in the UK and while it’s probably only in the hundreds of thousands of 20mm - 40mm rounds and hundreds of drones these are still resources that have been deprived of Israel in this conflict.
Every single person that took part in those weapons factory attacks is a fucking hero in my eyes.
Imagine it’s 1943, you’re a well off gentile European with the ability to move anywhere in the world. You decide to attend an open-air accordion music concert within earshot of the Warsaw ghetto under the nazi banner. In between each insipid oom-pah song you can hear the wailing of sick, starving, dying Jews suffering at the hands of the SS. You sit there, still smiling, vibing, dancing, enjoying the music.
You absolutely, 100% deserve death. You’re reveling in human suffering.
You attend a music concert at an intentional community within earshot of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the main business that community makes industrial equipment used by Germany’s weapons manufacturers.*
The main economic business run by the kibbutz where rave was held is a laser manufacturing business whose main customers are Israeli defense manufacturers.
r/worldnews creatures seeing a cartoonishly fake dead baby story and immediately going WE HAVE TO KILL ALL THEIR BABIES is just maximally chilling
the west’s full to the brim with temporarily embarrassed dirlewangers
My hitler particle greiger counter is screaming
Yeah my
just completely broke since Saturday.
Incubator babies 2.0
Q. Where did Hamas get the weaponry for this unprovoked attack?!?!?
Now that’s metal
If you don’t like Hamas having to shoot off unguided rockets, potentially killing civilians with them, then the solution is to give Hamas guided missiles.
There are 6649 comments on this thread and yet my comments don’t get 6649 upbears.
Curious.
I’m not even joking, one strategy I’ve told to some to “get informed” is to not watch the news and they’ve switched to a pro-palestine perspective within hours
One thing the Palestine situation has revealed is the pure, vapid emptiness of liberal ideology. I’ll bet you everything I own that every one of these universities putting out their genocide-supporting statements have some sort of land acknowledgement on their website.
It’s all virtue signaling. If indigenous Americans rose up and tried to take back their land, you’d see them change their tune real fuckin’ quick. They’d be shitting their pants over the brown savages coming to kill them and behead their precious white babies. They would demand concentration camps.
Modern liberal ideology is just conformism. It is a cynical weaponization of actual beliefs against anything revolutionary. It’s so-called “beliefs” can be twisted to mean anything at any time.
The current thing that creeps me out is how many live interviews on American tv news feature so-and-so from the Yada Yada Institute for Peace. And they are just as much of a hawk as the Israeli generals. The only difference is the think tankers just use a lot euphemisms for death and destruction.
The Henry Kissinger institute for peace.
Augusto Pinochet Center for Democracy
Milton Friedman Institute for the Study of Poverty
That doesn’t exist already?
I prefer to remain ignorant if it does
I fucking love hexbear
They called what China was doing a genocide. They called Russia doing military actions a genocide. They threw the term genocide around willy-nilly. Now that there’s an actual genocide going on, it’s not genocide, it’s Israel’s right to defend itself.
say the line, Sartre!
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past
lmao definitely not a sign of intense demoralization
There has only been some tit for tat exchanges of fire with Hezbollah with both sides giving it like 2 percent how have you already lost a commander
death to every IDF member
Israeli Dead Force
Peak mental health culture is mayo libs being well enough to spend the first half of the week posting a ton of Zionist propaganda and vapid calls for peace and love in Israel and Palestine on Instagram, then “taking a break from social media to do self care” when Israel turns the dial up on their war crimes
“Please be kind to the Jews, they’re hurting right now. They feel threatened by an attack on an apartheid regime thousands of miles away. What do you mean insinuating that all Jews support apartheid and genocide is antisemitic?”
A former friend of mine shared a series of posts about not falling for propaganda, followed by something about Hamas beheading babies, then some bullshit about “staying silent about antisemitic attacks is how we get the next holocaust”, before announcing that they are signing out of Instagram for mental health reasons… I can only hope they reflect on how outrageously dumb their story spamming was
it’s beyond parody
They’re not even Jewish are they?
as far as I ever knew, no 😐
