Image is Israeli interceptors trying and failing to intercept missiles over their cities.
Israel just carried out a widespread bombing of Iran, which has killed a number of senior officials inside Iran (though it seems the leadership is more-or-less intact) as well as a number of civilians. Important facilities have been targeted, but the amount of damage is unknown so far (note that many important Iranian facilities are deep underground, making them both hard to damage but also hard to determine if they are damaged from just satellite imagery, so reports of damage will be he-said-she-said).
It appears the attack took Iran by surprise, given that a residential block was targeted that contained some senior officials - if one saw an attack coming, one would imagine they’d be in bunkers. Nonetheless, like the rest of the Resistance Axis, I suspect that Iran has adapted their military structures to be resistant to decapitation strikes by ensuring that replacement figures are ready to take the place of killed officials.
Iran has delivered a massive missile barrage in response to Israeli aggression, even though Israel is continuing to bomb Iran. Iran is now aware of the location of many important Israeli sites, including secret nuclear sites, due to their recent intelligence haul, giving them a distinct edge.
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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.
Jeremy Corbyn states a new party is coming: https://hexbear.net/post/5268316?scrollToComments=false
Per Haaretz, the Israeli government has forbidden airlines from carrying Israeli citizens abroad on their “rescue” flights to bring back Israeli tourists. Obviously there’s immense demand to flee a sinking ship, and they’re barring the exits. https://xcancel.com/i/status/1934314561282142323
NEW: US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz sails for the Middle East
Source: Channel 12
I hope I’m not making you think of yet another thing to worry about. I hope I don’t have conspiracy theory brain but it’s weird to me how there’s been no news about bird flu in the US for - I dunno - ~2 weeks? It’s hard (if not impossible) for me to think everything is hunky-dory.
Iran is under attack which means Israel will likely be under attack soon as well
Al Jazeera
Huge turnout at a second Dutch protest seeking gov’t action against Israel
An estimated 100,000 demonstrators in the Netherlands donned red clothing and marched to protest the Dutch government’s policy toward Israel. Protesters walked a 5km (3-mile) loop around the centre of The Hague to symbolically create the red line they say the government has failed to draw to halt Israel’s campaign in Gaza. “I don’t want to be complicit in these horrendous crimes happening there, and I want to speak out,” protester Marin Koning said.
The protest sent a “clear signal”, according to Marjon Rozema of Amnesty International Netherlands. Dutch officials must “act now, at both the national and international level, to increase the pressure on the Israeli government,” she said in a statement.
Israel is still getting to high Iran officials
The intelligence chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Kazemi, and his deputy were killed in Israel’s attacks on Tehran on Sunday, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency said.
I keep hearing that the Iranian Army will participate in the bombing tonight alongside the IRGC, what does that entail?
Yesterday was the largest single day protest in American history. Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels.
Based on hundreds of crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don’t have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6m people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. Even when you correct for population, No Kings was still the biggest. Nearly 2% of the adult US population turned out to protest.
Assassinations, Violence and Increasing Turmoil: America in Unrest
Over the last several days, global attention has understandably been focused on the Israeli aggression in the Middle East but events domestically in America have continued to unravel. Among the notable events that many may have missed: Two days ago, U.S. Senator for California Alex Padilla stormed a speaking event by DHS Secretary Noem and was arrested by Federal agents.
This provoked Governor Newsom to call the Trump Administration tyrannical and this came on the heels of the Governor sharing the “California Republic” State flag, move many took as possibly a warning to Washington.
In a bizarre series of late night legal actions, a Federal judge first ruled the President Trump had unlawfully federalized the California National Guard and ordered its return back to Governor Newsom’s control just for said ruling to be vacated temporarily by another Federal Judge in defense of Trump’s actions.
On the basis of the injunction, President Trump then signaled a willingness to expand the use of Federalization orders to other National Guards as well as the possible deployment of U.S. Marines to other cities. This was met by fury by multiple Democratic Governors.
Yesterday, U.S. Marines were deployed for the first time to Los Angeles where they conducted their first arrest of a protester. Governor Newsom has continued to rail against the use of active duty U.S. Military forces being used in a policing role.
Finally, today in Minnesota the majority leader of the State House (The chief legislative body of Minnesota) was asssassinated along with her Husband by a former appointee of the Governor. In the suspect’s car was found many materials pertaining to the “No Kings” Protests currently sweeping the nation, suggesting a political linkage between the event and the movement. Of note, the assassinated legislator had recently been the deciding vote in abolishing State funding for healthcare for illegal immigrants; this is notable given the Anti-ICE element of the current protests.
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The Weizmann Institute, Israel’s most prominent scientific center affiliated with the IDF, was completely destroyed in yesterday’s Iranian missile attack on Rehovot
I can’t shake the feeling that Israel/US/Russia/China are all operating on the basis of super tight deadlines. It feels like they all believe WW3 is right around the corner, which means it probably is.
Trump vetoed Israeli plan to kill Iran’s supreme leader, US officials say
They said the Israelis reported that they had an opportunity to kill the top Iranian leader, but Trump waved them off of the plan.
Bullshit?
Israeli Foreign Minister: France had offered to participate in our attacks on Iran.
Via Al Jazeera:
Israelis shocked by number of missile hits despite defence systems:
Meron Rapoport, editor of Israeli news site The Local Call, said the Israeli public was taken aback by the number of Iranian missiles that breached the country’s advanced defence systems.
Now may be an incredibly important time to remind everybody that Cuban troops defeating apartheid South African forces was a pivotal turning point and beginning of decline for the apartheid regime. The defeat of South African troops and demoralization of supporters of apartheid was a critical wake up call that they were not actually the invincible force they portrayed themselves to be.
IRGC source says they have not used any of their advanced technologies so far. These are coming.
