After 15 months of genocide - and resistance to it - the Israeli regime realized that they could not win a military victory against Hamas, and were forced to sign a humiliating ceasefire in order to get their hostages returned.
With much of Syria under the control of Al-Qaeda, and an increasing level of covert infiltration into Lebanon, the crisis in the Middle East is not over, and we may still be in its beginning stages, as the center of hegemony continues its gradual shift away from the United States. Their navy, once considered the best in the world, is likely also not very happy about their ships and aircraft carriers being forced to retreat by Yemen, one of the poorest countries; and all eyes are on Iran, who has, over the last year and a half, demonstrated a newfound confidence and strength to directly strike Israel.
The recovery for Gaza will take, at a minimum, decades; it could indeed never fully recovery to even how it was before, considering it is not in Israel’s interests to see their concentration camps recover. But Hamas has proven to be steadfast and the tunnel network has proven its resilience, despite facing some of the most powerful conventional bombing in history. This shows that Palestine’s liberation is a when, not an if; and hopefully a much sooner “when” than expected before October 7th.
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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.
New Party Joins Crowded Field On Denmark’s Far Right
Denmark, long a bastion of far-right politics, may see a new fascist grouping enter its rubber-stamp parliament. The so-called “Citizens’ Party,” founded in August last year by MP Lars Boje Mathiesen, has secured the 20,000 voter endorsements needed for ballot access. A recent opinion poll places the party dangerously close to the 2 percent threshold required to gain parliamentary seats, with a projected 1.8 percent share of the vote.
Mathiesen, a former chairman of the now-collapsed New Right party, is notorious for his extremist views. After being expelled from his previous party only 30 days after being elected chairman—over demands for an exorbitant salary—he has been unwelcome in any other parties and has not been affiliated with any parliamentary group. Despite his toxic reputation, Mathiesen appears to have rallied disaffected supporters of Denmark’s other far-right factions, such as the Danish People’s Party.
The Citizens’ Party positions itself as a party with no ideology but embraces the hallmarks of the libertarian variant of standard contemporary European fascism, promising less government, more “direct democracy,” and reduced taxes on car owners. Mathiesen himself has expressed admiration for Donald Trump’s racist and reactionary politics, though he criticizes Trump’s embrace of tariffs. His past misogynistic remarks completes the picture of a vile and hateful reactionary.
The Nordic hermit kingdom has been steeped in reactionary politics for decades, with racist and reactionary ideologies becoming mainstream since the 1990s, a development pushed by a political elite eagerly fanning the flames of reaction to further their own ambitions.
Mathiesen’s demands for a post-election regime includes prosecuting current Social Democrat leader Mette Frederiksen for her unconstitutional culling of mink during the COVID pandemic—a promise that was also issued by the Liberal and Moderate parties leading up to the 2022 general election, only to be abandoned post-election to enable them to join a coalition with Frederiksen’s Social Democrats.
The poll hints at an unstable future for Denmark’s current regime. The parties forming the increasingly unpopular Social Democrat-led right-wing regime is poised to lose their majority, plunging from 50.1 percent of the vote in the last election to just 32.7 percent. Without the Citizens’ Party in parliament, a coalition of Social Democrats reaching across the aisle to centrist and moderate pro-democracy factions could still emerge, that is if the Social Democrats has any appetite for working with their traditional pro-democracy and centrist coalition partners, instead of seeking another right-wing constellation. However, if Mathiesen’s grouping crosses the threshold, a far-right coalition becomes increasingly likely, especially if the pro-democracy Alternative Party fails to clear the 2 percent barrier.
The mink farm thing pisses me off so much. THEY GOT COMPENSATED AND THE COMPENSATION WAS BASED ON THEIR OWN VALUATION OF THEIR FARMS. Farms which, incidentally, where all going bankrupt and/or heavily indebted because danish farmers can’t turn a profit no matter how much the state wipes their ass with subsidies and unpaid slavic labourers that get deported around paytime.
They got a golden ticket and cried about it. And then they vote for right wing parties because “each man is the master of his own destiny” and no handouts and so on. GOD I HATE FARMERS.
60% is farmland. 60% percent! And, once subsidies are accounted for, they barely matter for our GDP - At the very best it’s at 4.3% and that’s if you believe the farmer’s lobby!
If we turned 60% of Denmark into an IKEA then it would be able to do better than that and I bet the water reservoir would be less polluted too.
And it only employs 6.300 people! FUCK. They’re poisoning the land so 6.300 people can continue their fantasy of peasant ruggedness, despite the fact most of them only have the land because they were minor nobles who got it in the 17th century.
Oh but Denmark has always been a peasant nation- DIE. WHAT BESHITTED ARGUMENT IS THAT? And it’s meaningless! They’ve got Mærsk! Doesn’t that make them a maritime nation? They’ve got Novo Nordisk! Doesn’t that make them drug dealers? They’ve got Lego! Doesn’t that make them a nation of plastic Willy Wonka’s?
Mette Frederiksen is the worst thing to happen to Denmark closely followed by Lars Løkke and the fact they keep winning makes me want to do stochastic performance art.
I don’t trust the polling. Last time they weren’t doing too well either.
And that’s all you need to know about them. From there you can extrapolate everything else they believe
Playing the democracy games wondering where the “liquidate the motorists” policy is.
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