Image is of many Hamas soldiers supervising the handing over of Israeli hostages to cars heading out of the Gaza Strip.

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

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

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.

  • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says she will talk with Brazilian President Lula da Silva about a joint Latin American response to the expansionist policies of Donald Trump, who is threatening to seize the Panama Canal and is trying to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. Asked about a joint statement in the face of Trump’s expansionist threats and new migration policy, Sheinbaum said there was “unity” in Latin America.

    “I’ve had several phone calls in recent days, I’ve spoken to [Guatemalan President Bernardo] Arévalo, there was a meeting of the foreign ministers of different Latin American and Caribbean countries and in recent days we’re going to speak to President Lula,” Sheinbaum said at her daily press conference.

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      • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        This is probably due to the border between Guatemala and Mexico, but I doubt that Arévalo can do anything serious to help even if he really wanted to. Claudia also spoke to Xiomara Castro and Gustavo Petro about this issue, since Xiomara will be handing over her position as leader of CELAC to Petro in March. We’ll see what Mexico, Colombia and Brazil do, but I think it’s good that they refused to recognize Edmundo Gonzalez, and sent diplomats to Maduro’s inauguration. But I still think they should have recognized Maduro’s re-election, I understand that Lula and Petro don’t have a majority in congress and that the media attack them daily for the most idiotic reasons, but at least Mexico could have recognized Maduro.

      • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        Article in Spanish

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        The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced this Wednesday that she will call her counterpart from Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and affirmed that “there is unity” in Latin America in the face of Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

        “I have several calls these days, I spoke with President (Bernardo) Arévalo (of Guatemala), there was a meeting of the foreign ministers of the different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, in these days we are going to speak with President Lula and there is unity in Latin America, that is important,” she said in her daily conference.

        The Mexican ruler did not detail the topics she will discuss with Lula, but announced the call after being questioned by the press about Mexico’s communication with Latin America in the face of the new presidency of Donald Trump in the United States.

        “I know that sometimes you want there to be a particular statement, but our fundamental objective is the welfare of the people of Mexico, that is the responsibility of the president, and of course we communicate with all the governments of the world and, particularly, of Latin America,” she replied.

        Sheinbaum has affirmed that her government is “ready” to receive Mexicans deported from the United States, where they represent almost half of the nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants, but has announced that Mexico will return migrants affected by Trump’s restrictions to their countries of origin.

        “We are working on it and at the same time we are in communication with Latin American governments and there are things in which we obviously do not agree, but our interest is the defense of Mexicans,” she said.

        The President revealed that she has discussed the issue with her Honduran counterpart, Xiomara Castro, who in March will hand over the pro tempore presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to the Colombian President, Gustavo Petro.

        The Mexican government has talked with other Latin American countries to directly receive migrants deported by the United States instead of expelling them first to Mexican territory. “I am focused with the team, obviously, in the interest of Mexico, then our interest is, obviously, the agreement with the United States on different issues, that there is already a communication, there are things in which we do not agree, but at this moment that is the essential interest,” Sheinbaum sentenced.