Image is from the January 2023 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. Over 50 heads of state and 600 CEOs attended.
holding flashlight under face
Imagine a terrifying world where we are all ruled by monsters of every stripe. And not hot ones like werewolves, but instead decaying zombies and mummies who are both insensitive to, and actively benefit from the immense suffering they cause on a daily basis. The top echelon of society, filled with profit-seeking, bloodsucking vampires. And the worst of it is that they repeat on a daily basis that what they are doing is not only just, but there is no other possible way to do it.
Pretty spooky, right? What if I told you that this world… was our own?
Happy Halloween!
Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish 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 (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is Lebanon! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
This week’s first update is here.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
Resources For Understanding The War
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.
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.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
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
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.
Last week’s discussion post.
Shoot and cry bullshit about soldiers firing artillery day after day in Syria and getting fucked up from all the explosive blasts next to them
Instead, in case after case, the military treated the crews’ combat injuries as routine psychiatric disorders, if they treated them at all. Troops were told they had attention deficit disorder or depression. Many were given potent psychotropic drugs that made it hard to function and failed to provide much relief.
“I gave the Marine Corps everything,” he said. “And they spit me out with nothing. Damaged, damaged, very damaged.”
Damn dude, you mean the imperialist war machine doesn’t value human life? You thought you were on the team hey? Sucks to be wrong. Eat shit.
Pretty much all amerikkkan troops get like spinal compression syndrome from how much gear they have to carry around. Also entire units are casualties due to the like thing where a lot of oil fields were burnt and so there was like. Oil precipitation or something like that (it’s been a while so I forget)
owned lol
Death to America
New cuck n chad ranking. RUS vs UKR still gets the first row as I’m a man that respects traditions. The last row is a new addition, mostly covering non-world leaders who have been chads or cucks this week.
Gigachad Chad Neutral Beta (Fe)Male Virgin Cuck Lukashenko (Forever chad) Rybar (has upped the production quality and still has the GOAT maps) Putin (still chilling doing nothing) Zelensky (It’s so over for the Z-man, even Time Mag are doing hit pieces on him) Western attention span (crazy how quickly people stopped caring about Ukraine) Hamas, PIJ and the rest of the boys (keep rocking dudes) Hezbollah (being annoying in the north is good, but do something pls) Qatar and Kuwait (American colonies, but still wildly sympathetic to the cause when they could cuck like everyone else) International law libs (ackshually the rules say that genocide is ok) IDF losers (colonizer scum) The people of Gaza (more brave and faithful than any people in the world ever) Iraqi, Yemeni and Syrian resistance groups (being infinitely more useful than any Arab government) Erdogan (still the most confusing world leader, but had a nice speech last week) Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt (reaching levels of cucking for America that I haven’t seen before in life) Europe (the pro-Israel derangement by random Germans and Brits has been insane to see) Wael Al Dahdouh (bravest journalist in the world, still reporting after Israel killing his entire family) Hasan, Greta and other left-ish internet personalities that took a strong brave position when others cucked Piers Morgan (his quest for views and engagement has accidentally platformed great pro-Palestine voices Faris Al Hammadi (random Emirati sheikh that claimed that boycotting McDonalds and KFC is haram) Vivek Ramaswamy (being a republican nominee in 2023 is already cucked, but begging for genocide and calling Israel a sacred state when you’re literally Hindu sends you to cuck hall of fame) Just out of curiosity I looked at what Media Bias Fact Check says about the Electronic Intifada. They rated it Mostly Factual (4 out of 6).
A quote from the site:
… I would rate EI as mostly factual in reporting despite the use of excellent sourcing in most articles and left biased based on story selection and wording that sometimes amounts to propaganda such as this: No hope, no future, only revenge.
A factual search reveals they have not formally failed a fact check.
Overall, we rate Electronic Intifada Left biased based on strong pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli bias. We also rate them Mostly Factual in reporting, rather than High, due to a lack of transparency regarding funding, as well as strongly loaded emotional wording that may be misleading.Excuse me sweaty, you’re too emotional about genocide, we’ll have to deduct a star from your journalism score
— 🇰🇷/🇰🇵 JUST IN: North Korea will start arming Palestine and Iran-backed resistance axis militias - NIS
The National Intelligence Service of South Korea say they have credible evidence that DPRK Leader Kim Jong Un has ordered his government to begin providing support to the Palestinians.
According to NIS, he has also ordered officials to begin looking into the possibility of weapons shipments to resistance factions militias across the Middle East.
Based
I don’t believe NIS on anything but you can 100% guarantee that I’m spreading this to pro palestine peoples. This is a very strong opportunity to get through to people who are currently ignoring media lies about palestine. They will be willing to re-evaluate their opinion of DPRK if they’re in the mindset of rejecting propaganda. On top of that they’re going to be very happy to have such support from them.
I feel like they’ll reject the story as designed to discredit the Palestinians, but that’s fine because we can use this to further erode their trust in MSM. They’ll either accept the story as true and reevaluate their stance on the DPRK or they’ll reject the story as false and place even less trust in MSM. We can play up one interpretation over another based on the audience.
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates on his visit to Israel and Palestine - “There’s a word that come up all the time and it’s ‘complexity’ and it’s closely related adjective ‘complicated’… I assumed it would be hard to descern right from wrong to understand the morality at play [and the conflict]. But perhaps the most shocking thing was that I immediately understood.”
“You can’t behold evil and then return and not speak on it.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks about how an experience in Palestine illuminated the connections between the African American and Palestinian liberation struggles, and the moral responsibility to speak out.
There are 3 tweets and each as a video.
I don’t trust Coates, but hopefully some libs will listen to him. These are things the Black Church has constantly and consistently said for decades repackaged for white libs. The black church have upheld Palestinian solidarity remarkably consistently. Jeremiah Wright was called an antisemite for years for saying Jesus was a Palestinian, Israel was doing genocide and ethnic cleansing, and that AIPAC dominated US policy abroad.
Jeremiah Wright did nothing wrong. God Damn America!
we need a Jermiah Write emote
Tiananmen tank man stands in front of tank, tank drives around
“What a cruel display of authoritarianism! Literally George Foreman 1989!”Rachel Corrie stands in front of a bulldozer and gets crushed to death
“A shining beacon of democracy in the Middle East! Uncritical support to the freedom-loving Israelis!”Oh didn’t you know? Someone couldn’t find a newspaper article from two decades ago at the infancy of the internet so it’s fake news made up didn’t happen anti-semitism do you condemn hamass?!hn??b!h??!v?? 🤮
If tank man happened in the US they would be baying for blood demanding he be run over
DISRESPECTING OUR TROOPS
IIRC at the time of the Kent State Massacre, polls showed that a majority of Americans thought the National Guard was justified.
American politics somehow get even worse the further back you go. The pro-segregation people were absolutely insane and that’s in living memory
Yeah, one of them is currently the President
Anyone know of any good articles or otherwise detailed explanations of why the one-state solution is the only correct solution, and how ethnostates like Israel do not in fact have a “right to exist”?
The easiest explanation I can offer is that with the population demographics of the region Israel can either be democratic (meaning that the arab population massively changes the electoral and policies of the country) or it can be a jewish state. It can’t be both. There are too many arabs.
So for a 2 states solution you either have to:
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Do ethnic cleansing to get rid of arabs so you can have jewish state (and this will involve destroying the other state through colonialism and jewish lebensraum/manifest destiny)
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Do apartheid (not democratic or even capitalist-democratic, will still do jewish manifest destiny)
The 1 state solution is just
- Be democratic (not a jewish theocratic/ethnostate)
This will upset the people that want a jewish state of course, but they can go fuck themselves and everyone advocating for theocratic states of any kind is an idiot.
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The UK government and media rhetoric around anti-genocide and pro-Palestinian is getting more and more dangerous.
At first the protests were ‘upsetting’ and ‘insensitive’. But they continued to grow.
Then they escalated to being inherently anti-semetic, with anything as mild as displaying a Palestinian flag being called anti-semitism, as well as hyperfixating on the phrase “from the river to the sea”. Police have begun harassing people flying Palestinian flags in public, in their own homes, and ‘detaining’ people with clothing featuring it at public events.
The Home Secretary wrote to police forces saying "I would encourage police to consider whether chants such as: ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ should be understood as an expression of a violent desire to see Israel erased from the world. Behaviours that are legitimate in some circumstances, for example the waving of a Palestinian flag, may not be legitimate such as when intended to glorify acts of terrorism.”
The needle on the 76% of people who support an immediate ceasefire didn’t move, so the state and media escalated again.
Then the allegations became that they were inherently pro-Hamas, with numerous journalists and political guests stating without a shred of evidence that Hamas was present in the protests and were “handing out Hamas leaflets”. This tactic isn’t just a smear for publicity, because Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK it’s an attempt to create a framework to apply terror charges to peaceful protesters. Numerous labour politicians have openly called for all Palestinian solidarity protests to be banned outright.
Still, it hasn’t swayed opinion and the protests have continued and are growing.
So now the new framing is that the protests and protesters are being controlled by Iran. Half a million people at the London protest alone, apparently being directed by Iran. This isn’t just cranks on the extreme right channels like GBNews, this has been the framing from Sky News and the BBC this morning. This has been coming from people affiliated with the government, who are today holding an emergency COBRA meeting to discuss ‘the rising threat of terrorism’ associated with the reaction to the state’s support of genocide.
The head of the Metropolitan Police, Mark Rowley went on television and said “When you’ve got state threats from Iran, you’ve got terrorism being accelerated by the events and hate crime in communities. For Jewish communities, it’s now about a 14-fold increase in antisemitism in London, and for Muslim communities it’s nearly threefold. So this is really precarious. In the middle of it, we’ve got these big protests.” Both the BBC and Sky News matched government and police accusations of Iranian control and terror concerns with images of the peaceful marches.
The police have announced that 5 people have been charged with offences during this weekend’s marches. 5 out of what some are saying was 500,000 in London. And they haven’t released what those offences were apart from “assaulting a police officer” which is the go to bullshit charge for anyone suffering police aggression and “carrying an illegal placard” which is worth remembering that police also arrested people for holding up blank placards to protest the King’s coronation.
Obviously this is incredibly dangerous, but it’s also disgustingly Islamophobic, just as it would be to state that all British Jews are secretly controlled by Israel, while completely erasing the numerous Jewish peace activists and groups at the centre of these protests. And of course, it’s going completely unchallenged.
The good news is that it doesn’t seem to be working. The bad news is that they’re getting ever more desperate and so a much worse crackdown seems inevitable.
