Image is of a Hezbollah missile attack on a military camp west of Jenin.
The situation between Hezbollah and Israel is rapidly escalating, with massive bombing campaigns on southern Lebanon by Israel predominantly on civilians (as the tunnels in South Lebanon are mostly unreachable to the Zionists, just like in Gaza), while Hezbollah and its allies respond with missile attacks predominantly on Israeli military facilities. Israel is spreading an evacuation order to the residents of southern Lebanese villages while also bombing their routes of escape and civilian infrastructure, similar to a terror tactic used widely in Gaza.
Northern Israel is currently under military censorship to hide their losses, so we get very little information other than what the Resistance provides and what videos and images get through the censors.
I don’t know if Israel will dare a ground incursion soon, but it seems fairly likely in the coming days or weeks.
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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 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.
I don’t see how anyone believes this is possible though. You can’t return to tradition without halving the labour force of society and that’s never happening under capitalism. While the flip-side of this is that the more women are unequal in work the more they need to work to have the same stuff. They will get less free time, less holiday and less time for being potentially available to form relations with men if conditions are oppressive to them.
I do. I think the people that are attracted to making music are generally more left leaning people compared to the people that are attracted to taking part in or doing commentary about combat sports. I can’t quantify that as anything more than a general vibe I get though.
they do not understand how capitalism actually functions so none of this enters their brains. they are liberals. they believe that merely getting enough of the population to agree that a certain course of action should be done is sufficient to make that course of action occur in real life, hence why they get so hung up on the whole “the woke left are brainwashing children in order to prevent that consensus, we need to spread our values better so that a large majority agrees with us!” but that isn’t really how politics works. they literally don’t even conceive that it might be impossible for the reasons you state, because what they think is “well it was possible 100 years ago so if we simply reverse every single policy done since then (except the ones that I personally like) then we can retvrn to tradition.”
the most honest ones also tend to be the most outright fascist as they are able to see that a reversal of society like that would require a cataclysmic societal rupture, the genocide of tens of millions of people or limited nuclear war or a dozen other things.
Yes, you’ve accurately depicted an important contradiction. Fascists don’t do dialectical materialism though. Anyway, the only complete resolution to this sexual contradiction is communist social relations, so even though fascism cannot resolve this contradiction, it’s the best option the ruling classes (bourgeoisie, men) have to retain power.
The thing I’m wondering is whether we should be highlighting it as a means of trying to get through to some of the people being pulled into this stuff. I can’t really decide whether it’s a good thing to highlight or not. I don’t even know if a meaningful conversation about it is even possible either, a lot of the people going on about this stuff are barely coherent and I don’t think they even know what they want other than the vague male supremacy vibe they have going on. I don’t think many of them can articulate exactly what they want in terms of policy or social design, except the ultra religious that want literally 1940s wife at home social relations but they’re never going to be realistic about the economic feasibility of that.
Yeah you can try to point this out to people with reactionary socialist tendencies like solarpunks, but for those so lost in the sauce of unprincipled reaction, it’s kind of useless. You’re not breaking that deadly combination of vibes based logic and reactionary class interests.
The American/imperial electorate is brain poisoned by generations of propaganda that undermines any actual understanding of politics.