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One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain’t worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.

Because one day, the prisoners of a concentration camp paraglided over a wall.

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Israel-Palestine Conflict

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:

UNRWA 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.
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.

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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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.

  • WilsonWilson [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 days ago

    rewatching vids of oct 7 reminded me of something I was thinking when it happened. Hamas was putting video out within a few hours of Al-Aqsa Flood start and I suspect they had crews on motorcycles collecting go-pro sd cards and porting them back into Gaza where Hamas propaganda warriors would edit and upload almost in real time. Like it wasn’t just an add-on but a significant part of the operation. They were putting out video, info graphics and other related stuff in order to dominate the narrative as soon as possible. This might be the first time the term ‘keyboard warrior’ was a real thing and they were likely targeted by IOF in the subsequent bombing campaign. o7 to all the people behind the line.

  • Torenico [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Happy October 7th. Violence against the colonial settler and it’s regime is justified and it’s the only way to achieve liberation. “Israel” deserved October 7th.

    The actions during that day will bring about the elimination of zionism. It has set in motion the events that will lead to it’s downfall. Such entity cannot exist for much longer in this state.

    I would like to spare a moment to wish suffering upon those who will swim across oceans of blood to vote for rabid zionist Harris. For Trump voters I have nothing to say other than they don’t play pretend. But liberals? They will vote for their shit candidate thinking they’ve done enough good for the people they’re massacring. They will step over the bodies of thousands to feel good. When our time comes…

    A warm salute to all comrades engaged in this noble fight against “israeli” and “american” genociders. Especially to our comrades in the Middle East who are in direct danger. Much love!

  • ziggurter [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Live stream announcement from Al-Quassam Brigades on YouTube, happening right now: https://www.youtube.com/live/B21OJIb66-U

    EDIT: It repeats.

    EDIT: Interesting. They call the Oct 7 action “preemptive”. I can’t recall exactly how this has been documented over the last year, but I suspect this means Hamas had good intel telling them that Israel’s escalation of the genocide that’s happening over the last year was going to happen anyway. We should perhaps work on analyzing this and making it clear where/if true. On some level we’ve, of course, known that Israel was just looking for an excuse to flatten Gaza. But solid evidence of that that we could shove in liberals’ faces would be pretty cool. It undermines the “but, but, but was it WORTH IT?!” argument.

    EDIT: LOL. I posted and stickied this in /r/BreadTube. Then I cross-posted it to /r/Palestine, who removed it, citing “Reddit’s Content Policy, Reddiquette, and Moderator Code of Conduct”. Sorry, but: fucking cowards! (They also removed a video of a rally by Jill Stein, Worker’s Strike Back, and Abandon Harris about opposing electoral support for genocide, but w/e.)

  • NoLeftLeftWhereILive [none/use name, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 days ago

    In Finland news the government is going to privatize water next

    There was a citizens initiative to counter this in 2021, but as is to be expected it made no difference. There is now a new initiative (essentially a "please don’t do this) up, but looks like we are getting privatized water next.

    The EU citizen’s initiatives are the biggest scam in optics imo. Finns love them, they are doing so much democracy by signing them. eu-cool

  • Mog_Pharou [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I’m smack in the middle of the hurricane’s path, and I know there are good normal people here, but I just feel a sense of giddy excitement that the reactionary fucks that make up the bulk of this cursed population are going to feel 1/1000th of the hardship that we force on Gaza every single day. Florida deserves this.

  • Torenico [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 days ago

    My University held a student’s assembly today and decided: The University is now taken and partially managed by it’s students until Wednesday, when the action will be temporarily suspended because we will hold a protest. However, if the Argentinian Congress fails to overturn milei’s veto on education funding, a new assembly will be celebrated to decide on the next action. An indefinite occupation of the premises is not out of the question. We joined our efforts with the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Buenos Aires and other institutions that have carried out similar actions. This can become a big snowball very quickly.

    Wherever this ends, it’s valuable experience. Even if we don’t achieve political victories, let it be known that we can work together and we can act in solidarity with one another. That’s a big win, because we can find the ways to transform the material reality in capitalism, and that is, to me, the way to bring it down.

    • IceWallowCum [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Is this based on some previous experience? My org is growing inside universities and I’d love to read about this and discuss it with everyone

      Please keep us updated!

      • Torenico [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        10 days ago

        Yes, this is all based on previous experiences. I can recall at least two big instances where universities were taken by it’s students, one was around 2012 and the last big one was in 2018. The latter lasted for about one month. We have people who have been around in 2018 so they have some experience.

        It requires quite the organizational effort. There are people who will literally live in the premises, so they need food, some spare clothes, water, meds and everywhere you can imagine. The building must be maintained, cleaned and there needs to be people literally running some basic security because you never know who’s going in and out, especially now when you have insane reactionaries on the other side who absolutely despise everything we do. There are students backed by political parties who will be taken part of the occupation, so they can get their resources from them. But there are also volunteers and independent students who don’t have the same support frameworks, so donations are a must.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          10 days ago

          I’m trying to think of any useful advice based on stuff I’ve done in the us and the biggetst one I can think of is: toilets are a strategic resource and should be maintained at all costs.

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Honestly I didn’t expect to see storms like Milton until the late 2020s

    Really messing with my pre-2035 timetable for getting out of here

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 days ago

    In a story on the Ukraine - Russia front that was missed with everything going on in the Middle East, video has emerged of a Russian stealth 5th generation Su-57 fighter jet shooting down its own friendly partnered S-70 stealth drone at high altitude, after it lost control of the drone, to prevent technology from the drone falling into enemy hands. This occurred relatively deep inside Ukrainian territory, around the city of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk Oblast. Videos emerged of some of the wreckage of the S-70 drone on the ground.

    While it is obviously not good that Russia lost one of their handful of stealth partner drones, this incident reveals some key information and battlefield firsts. Russia, now with visual evidence, has become the first nation to deploy 5th generation stealth aircraft over highly contested enemy airspace. The stealth capabilities of the Su-57 are very real. It went undetected by Ukrainian air defence systems, including the US manufactured Patriot system, and the remaining Soviet/Russian S-300 systems Ukraine has, while over 20km inside Ukrainian airspace (when measured at the frontlines of the conflict, much further inside Ukraine if measured from 1991 borders) at high altitudes that these systems should have no issue covering. Western copium about the Su-57 not being a true 5th generation stealth aircraft, based off of images of outdated prototypes, has now been disproven by actual evidence.

    This also really brings to the forefront two other realities: Ukraine’s air defence is very degraded, and Russian commanders are confident that the Su-57s stealth capabilities are enough to carry out deep strikes without being detected with regards the current state of Ukrainian air defence. I have already talked about the stealth one two punch that the Su-57 offers with its stealth cruise missiles in the Kh-69 before, and how this enables Russia to effectively extend the range of these cruise missiles and strike deep inside Ukrainian territory. The most obvious example of this has been the strikes against energy infrastructure using the Kh-69 cruise missile.

    Editing to say: Key takeaways from this? Ukraine should be very glad that Russia only have a handful of Su-57 aircraft and S-70 drones, if they had the same amount of these aircraft as the USA has F-22s, the aerial campaign against Ukraine would look very different. Secondly, Iran should be worried about their air defence capabilities against stealth aircraft. The backbone of Iran’s air defence is the Russian S-300PMU2 system (NATO name: SA-20B), and locally produced variants of it. We already know that Israeli stealth aircraft in the US made F-35 can bypass the Syrian S-300PM (NATO name: SA-10B) air defence systems with some effort, but still with relative ease. With Iran currently having the most advanced S-300 systems, even more advanced than the S-300PMU (NATO name: SA-10C) systems Ukraine has, some might think that they would do better against stealth aircraft. But that is quite a gamble to take when a lot of the radar technology in the more advanced variant of the system Iran has is simply an evolution of older systems, systems which have now proven to be incapable of detecting both Russian and US made stealth aircraft. Iran ideally needs S-400 systems soon to adequately deter the stealth threat.

    • sisatici [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      10 days ago

      What is the purpose of stealth drones anyway? They are supposed to be cheap enough to make losses acceptable. You might as well just use stealth aircraft if you want to you stealth technology