Bulletins and News Discussion from October 23rd to October 29th, 2023 - Tunnel Vision
Bulletins and News Discussion from October 23rd to October 29th, 2023 - Tunnel Vision
Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.
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.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
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.
The Country of the Week is still Palestine, though we will switch next week to a new country.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly (biweekly?) 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.
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If Israel wants to weaken the diplomatic arm of the United States because they aren't explicitly in favor of total genocide then be my guest
So crazy that 1/3rd of the UN is Muslim countries when 1/3rd of the world's population is Muslim. Thank you Israel for pointing this out.
The UN should just kick israel out
Israel is a rogue state.
Rules based international order? It does not give a fuck, and nor does the US or any of its supporters. All of them are rogue.
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If Twitter was around at the time of King Leopold II and the other inbred ghoulish colonialist monarchs, the talking points would generally be indistinguishable. Israel and Zionism isn't some unique, never-before-seen evil, they're just an anachronistic settler-colonial project that still survives in the present day (but not for much longer). The settler-colonist atrocities of centuries past were pretty similar to what Israel is doing in Gaza. Multiple countries used concentration camps in their colonial possessions before they were made infamous by Nazi Germany. Off the top of my head, Italy used them in Libya and Britain used them in South Africa.
It's also why it's such an easy, slam-dunk litmus test for most serious leftists: do you oppose the shit that the European powers were doing in Africa, the Americas, and Asia? Easy question, so it's a useful way to discover and ditch the shitty people who get it wrong.
Claims there is anti-Jewish sentiment while expressing anti-Islamic sentiment.
There's no equivalency for Zionists, any more than Americans or Nazis or any other fascist state would consider themselves equivalent to any of the "lesser people" of the world.
It's theater. The last time Israel complied with the UN was the partition back in the 40s. The ambassador is playing for the audience back home and for sympathetic allies in the Eurosphere. They have no intention of complying with international law. Instead this is an opportunity for propaganda theater.
This is a spoilt toddler having a tantrum and throwing his toys out of the pram, not a real country doing serious diplomacy. This is not going to make normal people more sympathetic to the zionists.