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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BREAKING: An actionist broke in to Kongsberg Gruppens weapons factory in Norway and destroyed multiple engine parts for Israel's F-35 fighter jets:
https://nitter.poast.org/Pal_action/status/1781719987729604922Fuck yeah!
17 days in jail. Holy shit. If this had taken place in the U.S., the dude would undoubtedly be in a black site or on track for life in prison right now, if not already dead. (Ah. Though it occurs to me that may not be a whole sentence, and he might just be out on bail or whatever the equivalent is there.)
actionist
Have we actually gotten to the point where we need to use this instead of "activist" because too many fucking liberals on the sidewalks who are not, in fact, active at all have been labeled with the latter? I'm sickened. But I also do like the term.
The British state tried to give Palestinian Action activists doing the same in the UK decades of prison time. All have been acquitted so far. Palestine Action's legal defense (which you can donate to if you're inclined) is legitimately good for its activists. Not sure if this guy had legal support from them, or just got a very light sentence (considering the viciousness of the state), but great to see either way.
I’m curious. What was the PA’s defense that got them acquitted?
There's an in depth write up here.
But, after the court absurdly ruled out several appeals to international law, the two that were very successful were that:
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Other actions over years or decades have failed to make the UK abide by its own agreements, laws, and arms licensing rules. Therefore this was the only way to essentially try to force compliance with those laws and regulations.
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The idea of assumed consent. This is a little more complicated, but basically Elbit does not own the buildings or sites, they lease them (in part for legal protection), so the primary harmed party when it came to criminal damage was the companies that own the buildings and sites. The argument was then to demonstrate that those companies did not willingly allow Elbit run a business that violates or avoids international and UK law and regulation (because even if they did, they wouldn't want to admit that) and if they had known they would have agreed that Elbit should not and could not operate on their sites.
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17 days in jail in nicer conditions than a significant portion of Americans live in lol
Fucking finally. E: Oh it happened some weeks ago.
There’s been a sharp increase in these types of incidents lately. 3 different artillery shell factories have had fires or explosions within like a 2 week period.
Keep up the good work comrades
Oh hell yes. The F-35 has massive logistics train problems, even smashing a few parts is a real blow to the whole same map alliance.
God damn. I wonder how feasible this is in the US. Are production sites just guarded less in European countries compared to the US? I can’t imagine sneaking past a gate at an American plant without some out of shape guard spraying you. The only alternative I can think of is getting a group together and join some tour and sneak out