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.
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.
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.
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.
Russians, Chinese, Arabs all know that most media is fake.
Oh look, who has the US been lining up to fight?
reminder that netanyahu is from the suburbs of Philadelphia. the leader of a country which is home to a people who are putatively indigenous to the levant and claim to have been there for thousands of years has a favorite cheesesteak place
Death to America
Israel 🤝 Ukraine
Calling the people you subjugate animals or “orcs”
Banners reading “Genocide Gaza” and “Victory looks like zero people in Gaza” hang in Tel Aviv.
Seeing libs accuse Russia and China of genocide in Ukraine and Xinjiang respectively was one thing, but seeing libs accuse Palestine of committing genocide in Israel is just fucking horrific and monstrous.
I’m starting to think the western liberal tendency of calling all acts of violence they dislike genocide is a form of soft Holocaust denial. They’ve all seen the way outright Holocaust deniers are rightfully shunned and near universally derided. Now these disgusting opportunists call everything they dislike a genocide because they’ve gotten it in their heads that using the word genocide means no one is allowed to disagree with them.
In doing so, they continuously trivialize the Holocaust by implying the problem with Holocaust denial is that it is merely the denial of a claimed genocide and not because there exists a massive amount of irrefutable historical evidence demonstrating this totally unparalleled evil actually happened.
You forgot to mention SOS Cuba where they also accused the Cuban government of genocide.
Yemen! An actual, textbook genocide committed by the US and Saudi, in plain view of the whole world, without any attempt at secrecy or discretion, and NO ONE CARES. It’s utterly maddening.
very awesome that NBC just uncritically reported that hamas is beheading babies just 10 minutes ago on air even though literally nothing like that has been confirmed whatsoever
Zero evidence for this so far. Even an IDF person has said in interview that they have no evidence.
Q. Where did Hamas get the weaponry for this unprovoked attack?!?!?
Now that’s metal
Saudi Arabia has ended normalisation talks with Israel
Thank god. Literal least they could do
God fucking damn it, just received some information that might change my support of the Palestinian cause. Apparently, Hamas terrorist militants are leaving delicious pies outside of Israeli homes, and when the settlers inside follow the visibly wafting scent to the pies, these despicable antisemitic murderers drop anvils, which makes a long whistle as it falls to the ground despite only being 20 feet above. When the anvil falls on their head, it leaves a human-shaped hole in the ground from where the settler was crushed into the earth. They then sit upright, and three tiny birds then fly in circles around the heads of the innocent Israelis. These acts should be met with universal condemnation.
I heard from a reputable source that Hamas have been turning one-way road signs 180 degrees. Fender benders galore. This is a 9/11 against cars.
Hi guys, I am lurking here for sometimes. I don’t know much about political theories, but the comments in worldnews gives me :yuck: most of the time. i love reading your takes, it gives me lots of ideas for researching and reading.
congrats for 5k comments, this is the highest activity i have seen here.
take care you you all. this will probably be my first and last comment.
From another old timer lurker.
I’m an honorary lurker in the sense that my posts are so bad I probably should be lurking
Spread the word about this community to those who support Palestine, I was going insane before finding this place. Knew about Hasbara and Manufacture of Consent before thanks to Chomsky but having a place like here helps me blow off steam.
We love our lurkers folks
The Governments of Spain and Ireland both officially protested against the decision by the European Union to block and suspend all financial aid funding to Palestine. Belgium was also not too happy about it but I can’t find confirmation that they protested it in an official capacity.
Putin compares ‘unacceptable’ Gaza siege to Nazi blockade of Leningrad
Come on Putin, be a Chad for once.
Impossible
