Bulletins and News Discussion from April 15th to April 21st, 2024 - Between The Darkness And The Dawn, There Rises A Red Star
Bulletins and News Discussion from April 15th to April 21st, 2024 - Between The Darkness And The Dawn, There Rises A Red Star
Image is of Iranian missiles flying over the Knesset, the Israeli parliament building in Jerusalem.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
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.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
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.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
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 Telegram Channels:
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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A village that Azerbaijan has wiped from the face of the Earth:
https://nitter.poast.org/301arm/status/1781403456722346439When the Armenian's ethnically cleansed the region in the 1990's, they partially dismantled most Azeri villages so that the victims couldn't return.
So it's good that it's happening again thirty years later?
No. What part of it is good in your opinion?
Aren't Azerbaijanis taking back land that was stolen?
depends when you think history started. Karabakh was always majority Armenian (something like 95% in the early 1900s) and the Soviet Central Committee even voted to give it to Armenia at one point, but Stalin inexplicably intervened and left it with Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan spent 70 years trying to reduce the Armenian population and bring in settlers, but by 1990 the Armenian population was still like 75%. the USSR breaks up and Karabakh votes for independence from Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan doesn't accept it, Armenia and Azerbaijan go to war. Armenia basically won and took over the entire region and yeah, removed the Azerbaijani population.
Where can I read more about this? I'm new to this conflict and genuinely don't know which side to support.
this documentary is a good place to start, it was made by a team of Armenian and Azerbaijani journalists
Thank you!!
I don't think there's a side to support here.
Is this not settlerism? There should be a side
I'm a little more inclined to support Armenia than Azerbaijan because of Azerbaijan getting arms from Israel but Armenia's leadership seems to pick the exact wrong thing to do in every political situation, up to and including forging ties with the United States while surrounded with anti-US powers like Iran and Russia, and seems generally hellbent on self-destruction.
I am generally not a person who is like "well, both sides are bad and the workers of these countries need to rise up to form an international proletariat revolutionary various other buzzwords chungus force to overthrow the bourgeoisie!! not hamas nor the IDF!! not Tehran nor Tel Aviv!!! not Ukraine nor Russia!!!!" in most geopolitical conflicts because it's the leftist equivalent of saying "thoughts and prayers" most of the time, but in Armenia-Azerbaijan and also in Sudan and a couple of other places, I just have to throw in the towel
It really is astounding how much the Armenian leadership is hellbent on making every decision that will result in Armenia ceasing to exist
It sounds like Armenia and Armenians are having a certified Kurd moment.
Awful governments making deals with the west that they must know will only end in them getting thrown under the bus (like everyone else), while their neighbors are either minding their own business or are actively hostile towards them.
Genuinely feel sorry for them (both). Their leadership is hellbent on making the shittiest deals and setting up problems for their people.
What? The Armenians committed an ethnic cleansing?
E: well I'll be damned, I didn't know the Armenians committed a genocide against the Azerbaijanis.
At least it's mostly populations relocating back and forth rather than waves of wholesale murder.
Yeah true,
Death to Armenia
I'ma be honest: I know nothing about Armenia. I just thought it was funny how it kinda looks like "America"
Considering that someone (Turkey) actually tried to achieve death to Armenia, it's fucked to say that.
I did not know this :( I joked irresponsibly
Yeah. Advocating for genocide. Funny "joke".