Israel trying to pass the hospital bombing off as Palestine doing it is utterly disgusting and guarantees Netanyahu a spot in the deepest pit of Hell for all eternity, obviously, but do not forget that
a) the only reason why Westerners will believe it is because they want to believe it - they are not being brainwashed and this is not some masterful propaganda being weaved around us to turn kind-hearted people into monsters,
b) no Westerner opinions matter at all. In most Western countries there is no real anti-Israel option to vote for even if they did realize that Israel was a giant factory for crimes against humanity, and Westerners protesting against things in general almost never achieves anything (tens of millions protested for BLM in 2020 and not only did the situation not change, it got worse), and
c) the people whose opinions do matter (both the people in the region, and the leaders who aren’t already Zionist compradors) already know that Israel is full of shit and that they just murdered nearly a thousand civilians in a single bomb attack.
It is despair-inducing to think that the genocidal Zionist entity is so brazenly, so smugly getting away with bullshitting this away into a cloud of confusion, as they release their metaphorical squid ink just like they did with the stupid babies story, but the propaganda and the media narrative that they are creating isn’t what matters. It cannot address the fundamental contradictions ripping the country, the region, and the world apart any more than masterfully-applied makeup can fix a stab wound. It can merely obfuscate.
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.
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! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly update isn’t coming because I’m sick and too focussed on the collapse of the Zionist entity.
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.
Last week’s discussion post.
-1 MORALE
[Impossible: Failure] — You are submerged deep within the milieu of news cycles and chauvinism, and you are drowning. Air. You need air. It burns at the corners of your eyes and claws at your throat. Everything hurts. If this is the way it’s going to be, you don’t know if you can keep going.
— How could you, when everything is so terrible?
[Challenging: Success] — A world away, further than any place you’ll ever go, a young boy sits outside a crumbling, concrete apartment block. Sea spray and smoke swirl through the air together, salty and acrid, coating the world in a shade grayer than usual. He sits and stares up at the sky, at the planes carrying missiles overhead, and he listens for the sounds of catching powders and marching footsteps. He sits with two million siblings. None of them may make it to tomorrow. The sufficiently old and sufficiently able take to the streets. The shelters and tunnels curling beneath them like veins tremble against the tension.
— Have they given up?
— No. They haven’t. And that means neither can you.This is art, please don’t stop.
Just started playing disco yesterday, it’s one of the very few games that can still charm me and keep me hooked for hours without even thinking about stopping, I felt like a child again playing it
so two days ago was the 40th anniversary of the murder of Comrade Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and many other comrades at the hands of the ultra-left renegade and traitor Bernard Coard, who was his deputy PM, in a coup that would doom the revolutionary Grenadan government to being dismantled by the American imperialist regime and cause the death of hundreds of Grenadan and Cuban comrades.
On October 19, 1983, Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and 15 members of his cabinet were executed following a palace coup orchestrated by his deputy Bernard Coard. Their bodies have never been found.
He came to power in March 1979, when “the New Jewel Movement successfully led a coup against the authoritarian government of Eric Gairy,” the African Stream recalled.
“Bishop was installed as the prime minister, and his administration implemented a series of socialist reforms, including land redistribution, education expansion, and healthcare improvements,” it added.
WASHINGTON ENCOURAGES CONSPIRACY
Due to public policies such as the above, the Bishop administration was viewed with suspicion by the United States, which also did not look favorably on the independent foreign policy that Grenada was implementing.
“On June 5, 1983, Bishop spoke to a room that burst at the seams at Hunter College in New York City. The audience was predominantly Africans in America, who had flocked to hear the Grenadian leader speak about how the U.S. government was plotting to destabilize and destroy the revolution in Grenada because it feared African sovereignty and independence,” the African Stream highlighted.
Supported by Washington, a counterrevolutionary movement staged a coup d’état in 1983 and planned the assassination of the revolutionary leader.
“Bishop was arrested and assassinated during a coup by a faction the New Jewel Movement, led by Bernard Coard. The internal conflict led to his violent death, and opened the door for violent U.S. military occupation,” the African Stream recalled.
Taking advantage of the chaos generated by this assassination, Washington and its Caribbean allies decided to intervene militarily on the island through the “Urgent Fury” operation. Before this happened, however, the U.S. used various means to destabilize the Bishop administration.
ECONOMIC ATTACKS
The United States government froze Grenada’s international credits. In addition, U.S. President Ronald Regan harshly criticized Bishop for establishing cooperation with Cuba.
When the invasion occurred in 1983, over 780 Cuban doctors, engineers and professionals were working in this Caribbean country.
SUPPORT FOR THE OPPOSITION
The U.S. high command never hid its intention to invade Granada. Before consummating the invasion, however, attacks became customary. In June 1980, for example, right-wing terrorists exploded a bomb during a march of Bishop’s New Jewel Movement, killing three women.
Knowing and encouraging the violent practices of the opposition, the U.S. reiterated the need to end the government so that “a new Cuba would not be established in the Caribbean.”
GRENADA IS STIGMATIZED
President Reagan assured that Grenada was a danger to American security and to the world due to Cuban participation in the construction of an international airport, which Washington presented as a Russian air base in the Caribbean. The purpose of this infrastructure, however, was to serve the promotion of tourism in Grenada.
While I’m paraphrasing it, I always think about the quote that Grenada was especially dangerous because they spoke English
There’s an interesting one [detail] that we saw very recently in a secret report from the State Department. I want to tell you about this one so you can reflect on it. That secret report made this point: That Grenada is different than Cuba and Nicaragua, and the Grenada revolution is, in one sense, “even worse,” using their language “than the Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions, because the people of Grenada and the leadership of Grenada speak English, and therefore can communicate directly with the people of the United States.”
I can see from your applause, sisters and brothers, that you agree with the report, but I want to tell you what that same report also said. It said: “That [this] also makes us [Grenada] very dangerous. The people of Grenada and the leadership of Grenada are predominantly black.” They said that “95% of our [Grenada’s] population is black.” and they have correct statistics. And if we have 95% of predominantly African origin of our country, then “we can have a dangerous appeal to 30,000,000 black people in the United States.”
Most believable Zionist propaganda:
While the leaders of Hamas are living luxurious lives enjoying good lives, they ask you to sacrifice yourselves and your children.
Hamas doesn’t care for the Palestinians.
Courtesy of this Israeli genius
I AM LAUGHING MY ASS OFF HOLY SHIT LMAO
China’s been rapidly deleveraging from their property sector: direct and indirect contributions from the property sector went from 30% of GDP in 2020 to 23% of GDP in 2023.
is that good or bad?
It’s sacrificing short-term easy growth for longer term stability. Over-reliance on property gets you an economy like Japan. Really strong performance for a while… Then nothing.
yeah but Japan’s overreliance on property also gave us Yakuza 0 so it’s hard to say whether it was good or bad
So Finland is currently debating if they should ban fascist and communist symbols, as one does. The ML party put out a statement (in finnish) that was pretty good all things considered, but what really got me was the end bit:
Regardless of the legality of open communist activity, communists must relentlessly defend the rights of the working class and all the oppressed and spread awareness of their interests and social status. Communists must not make concessions or compromises in order to be subservient to the rising fascism and right-wing tendencies.
The ban on communist symbols must be opposed. A legal, open communist party is the most effective way of promoting the working class class struggle and the struggle against other oppressions. The resistance must also be public.
Restricting the activities of communists has historically been a sign of a move towards fascism, and is always followed by a reduction of many other democratic rights, as well as an encroachment on the rights of workers and other oppressed people. All communists, leftists and democrats must stand together against this development.
The Communist Workers Party, together with other communist groups, will organise a demonstration/demonstrations against the banning of communist symbols. This will most probably take place at the end of October. In addition, the Communist Labour Party, together with the Finnish Communist Party, will make a statement on the subject, which will be published earlier.
emphasis mine. The Communist Labour Party is ML and the Finnish Communist Party was eurocommunist, but they’ve had solid line on Palestine and China which the ML party considers to be capitalist. What gets me that the smaller ML party fucking hates the communist party, but they are willing to work together on this atleast
Nazi shithole
If we assume every atrocity accusation against communism is true, should not we also ban English, French, American and Belgian flags cause they caused even more atrocities that communists and fascists combined?
i must sadly report that we have no :belgium-cool: emoji 😔anyways, yeah all of those should be banned for being white supremacist symbols like a certain other flag
WHERE DID YOU GET THE CHOCOLATE, BELGIUM? WHERE DID YOU GET THE FUCKING CHOCOLATE?!
