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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.
I don't think he understands what he is implying either. Roderic day is a bit of a clown from what I have seen of him. Maybe he does good work occasionally but I've never seen it and can't be bothered looking through the below average ranting to find any hidden gems.
The 2 quotes have nothing to do with each other one is shipwreck doing analysis which may or may not be influenced by Hudson's writing. The other is a mediocre takedown of Hudson as a person without any real analysis of his actual opinions. I don't really see how the second post is even "actualy anti-capitalist" its just "antihudson"
Just look at redsails. I find his Twitter often super difficult to parse (I'm also unsure what these two have to do with one another), and he's abrasive, but his work on redsails is really some of the best articles and collections relevant to current events and arguments. He's not some clown. If you just ask him, I'm sure he will answer about how they're related, and based on his track record, it'll likely be at least worth your time to understand
Maybe he is a smart guy and maybe he has read a ton of theory but I feel that he jumps to conclusions without laying his ground work. He follows that with poor responses to criticism and petty bickering with anyone who disagrees with him. He spends lots of effort to tell people he thinks their ideas are wrong without addressing the ideas themselves and why they are or are not wrong. In my limited exposure to him I have come to see him as a show boater and I get the distinct impression he thinks that he is far more intelligent than he is.
I have read some stuff and it feels like he decides what he wants and then makes up the reasoning and arguments after. That's bad dialectics.
Marx started with the most basic idea and expounded bit by bit, then he put each layer on top of that and made sure it was all lined up before moving on to the next one. This is why the first few chapters of Kapital are so hard, not because they are complex but because they are so stupidly simple it is like watching paint dry but if you don't start at the beginning and work with those stupidly simple ideas you aren't building on a solid foundation. If you don't make sure everything is lining up as you go your gonna realize shit isn't square.
The specific Roderic Day that really bothered me failed at this. Early on he makes a statement as if it is axiomatic and it didn't sit right with me. I reread it again because maybe I misunderstood and it still rang false. He didn't reference where the idea came from or even explain it he just expect me to take it as "truth." I tried to push past that and before I'm even through the opening I realize he is hanging part or the entirety of his thesis on that point that he just pulled out of his ass that doesn't resonate with what I know.