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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The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador expressed his gratitude to the president, presidents and prime ministers of Latin America and the Caribbean for their solidarity for the attack on the Mexican embassy in Ecuador.
AMLO: The lawsuit filed before the International Court includes the expulsion of Ecuador from the United Nations Organization as long as it does not offer a public apology and that there is no repetition of this shameful act that violates international law"
It should be recalled that the Ecuadorian police entered the Mexican Embassy and took Jorge Glas, who requested asylum in Mexico and is accused of embezzlement, that is, of taking resources from the treasury.
The CELAC Summit began on Tuesday and was led by the President of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, who recognized that Mexico has always provided support to migrants and criticized the actions of #Ecuador, which is currently led by Daniel Noboa.
Colombia's leader, Gustavo Petro, said that what happened in Quito unleashed a "global unease" to which we must pay attention because the lives of our people are at stake.
Gustavo Petro: "Capitalism refuses to be overthrown."
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro also condemned the "assault on the diplomatic headquarters" and expressed his solidarity with Mexico.
The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro denounced that the United States Government has not complied with the agreements signed, particularly with the lifting of the illegal coercive measures imposed against the country.
The violent incident at the Mexican diplomatic legation in the Ecuadorian capital "is unacceptable," said Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva launched the People's Land program to counteract the unequal land distribution process in the country.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel assured that ignoring the assault on the Mexican embassy in Ecuador would represent a serious precedent.
Looks like ecuador will at least get isolated in most of the americas
Mexico has always provided support to migrants
If sending the national guard to beat up migrants counts as support
Also Maduro said he was going to cut relations with ecuador in support which means its now 3 countries that have cut relations with Quito
Im still Not sure if Ecuador will really get suspended from the UN
I would love if they did get suspended from the UN and then that was used as precedent to expel israel for blowing up Iran's embassy.
How has the Ecuadorean regime reacted to the blowback from the embassy assault? What about the Ecuadorean public?
How has the Ecuadorean regime reacted to the blowback from the embassy assault?
Noboa:
"In a complex and difficult situation that the country is going through, I have taken exceptional decisions to protect security, the rule of law and the dignity of a people who reject any kind of impunity for criminals, delinquents, corrupt people or narco-terrorists," Noboa said in a letter released on Monday afternoon.
He cited that the Caracas Agreement, the Montevideo Convention and the Vienna Convention prohibit granting asylum to those convicted of serious crimes "or [if] there is an imminent risk of flight, as happened to us before, and would again mock the Ecuadorian people".
Noboa said he hopes to "resolve any differences" with the "brotherly people of Mexico", whose government has broken diplomatic relations with Ecuador, and criticized Ecuadorian oppositionists who have called for international measures against the country.
"Some opposition politicians have asked Mexico to declare war against us and the international community to sanction us economically, committing a betrayal of the country never seen before," said the president.
What about the Ecuadorean public?
The opposition, mostly left-wing Correistas, control congress called for the president's impeachment.
I doubt that this will go ahead because an impeachment has already taken place recently and Daniel Noboa was elected to govern on an interim basis for just two years, until new elections are held for a new president who will stay in power for four years.