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.
Can you imagine if China decides to carry out a massive deportation of I don’t know, mongolian people just because they don’t like foreigners? Can you imagine the reaction of the entire West after hearing a CCP official say stuff like “We have to go after the illegal aliens who commited crimes but there will be collateral deportations as well as the people who surround our targets will also be arrested” or “I don’t care if a person is born in the US and is granted citizenship, if their parents are illegal immigrants they’re out”?
We’re being fed shit about Xinjiang while the US helps “Israel” carry out a genocide and are preparing for a potential genocide at home too, and the outrage? and the resistance from the so called “enlightened peoples” that don’t live “out there in the jungle”?
This pathetic fucking wretched beast that is the Westrern World cannot die soon enough omg. We have to go this insanely painful process before it finally succums to it’s own wounds. Yeah, the West is literally killing itself because they’re too afraid of some people who want to share the same spaces as them, literally the most insecure people in History. It’s not that China or the evil Easterners are besieging the West with warships and imposing horrible blockades and genocides, no, the West is literally suicidal for no good reason lmao.
What a shitload of fuck.
We’ve been through this at the state level a bunch of times already. The Republican state government passes a draconian anti immigrant law, the undocumented workers flee, crops rot, farmers complain, the law gets repealed. The only way the cycle might be different this time is - as some users have noted - they plan on replacing immigrant labor with prison labor and continue to expand the carceral system.
Although I don’t agree with the analysis entirely, this is a perfect example of the economic necessity of self-consumption that Prolekult used in defining Fascism.
Could you expand on that or link to further reading? Sounds interesting!
Here’s the link comrade Prolekult Video
The other person made the argument clear! I don’t have time to expand on my specific issues with it, but you can make up your own mind
Thanks!
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Fascism is an ouroboros that consumes itself. One of the primary ways that fascism resolves the contradictions of capitalism and staves off the entropic march of the falling rate of profit is by consuming the wealth of domestic vulnerable communities. Of course, we recognize that this is an only temporary solution as these issues are fundamental to capitalism but reactionaries either don’t know or don’t care. The effect is the same. Eventually the contradictions will tighten again, the capitalists will feel these same sort of pressures and will consume again and more. Until there is nothing left to devour but themselves.
At least that’s what I assume it is referencing, haven’t seen the video.
I’ve seen the Prolekult video on Fascism and I think you sum up the argument. From what I can remember (it’s been a while) from the video, Germany had a severe problem with its profitability of capital because so much it was fixed capital. An example I remember was how a given steel(?) factory had all of its equipment connected to the same single furnace. So the furnace had to be supplied with the same amount of fuel when running one piece of equipment vs all pieces. So even when production was scaled down, the fixed costs were still high.
A method of getting around the declining profitability due to fixed capital was Nazi Germany’s use of prison labor in concentration camps. But the prison labor, and nature of the genocide, was not sustainable. The human labor, the actual people, were worked to death. Labor was used up, consumed, faster than it could be replaced. There was no homeostasis for the system. This is the same critique of Rome’s slave mode of production, that it had no internal mechanism of self-reproduction. It required expansion to maintain.
It is crazy suicidal. Most people probably know about this but for those who don’t, southern states like Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and other are wholly dependent on the nearly free labor of “illegals”. I know first hand from just knowing a bunch of people affected that farms across the south are basically acting as the plantations of old, often times with the same slaver families still ruling them. Migrants are packed into hovels and paid nothing and have no food or heat. One person I know was picking blueberries and was paid 50 cents a basket and at most they could pick like 10 a day. A food truck would come once a day and him and a few other guys would save up to by a plate of tacos so each could get one. These people are powerless because their masters hold their passports and if they don’t have work they are in violation.
I always loved this meme from like 15 years ago for that reason.