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 still Palestine, though we will switch next week to a new country.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly (biweekly?) 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.
Some developments in Argentina regarding the elections:
First, look at this video of Milei talking, he looks super unwell lmfao. He looks neurotic, out of pace, probably even drugged? He’s kinda like that, sometimes, but this case in particular makes it a lot scarier. It’s not looking good for this fash, turns out an entire life of hate takes a huge toll on your mind and body. May he die soon.
Second, some reconfiguration facing the elections, and they’re both good and bad. The main opposition coalition, the neolib Juntos por el Cambio, is suffering from internal conflict. This is due to that fact that the main figure in the coalition, former president Mauricio Macri, forced a deal between his candidate Patricia Bullrich and Milei and he called all JxC voters to choose Milei in the second round, citing that “We cannot allow Kirchnerism to win again” (Even though Kirchnerism is weak at this stage). That’s the bad thing: It could give Milei enough votes to close the 6% gap and hand him the presidency. But the good thing is that the coalition is crumbling. Not only they had a terrible election, but now this alliance with Milei has not been agreed upon by all parties involved. Some elements, including neoliberals, called it a treason and ordered not to vote for either candidate, others like the Unión Cívica Radical (which was, way back in the day, a social democrat party like the SPD, now turned semi neoliberal) are trying to break away from JxC and have called their people to vote for Massa. This last part is cool because if Milei is defeated in the second round and JxC enters a period of crisis and possibly destruction, oh that’ll be good.
Longer clip from that interview you posted. He sure looks like he’s having a total mental breakdown, it’d be sad if he wasn’t evil
Here’s him, during the same interview, looking at a photo of one of his deceased dogs, well I think that dog is dead I dunno. His attention completely shifts away from the interview at that point. I know the guy absolutely loves his dogs, in older interviews he said that if he would have one day remaining on earth, he would spend it with his dogs and his sister (he almost slipped and said “my wife”, when he’s not married nor has a partner). This is where it gets weird: Milei’s relation with his sister is interesting, she’s always seen next to him, she has a leading role in his campaign as some sort of advisor (even though we barely heard her talk) and, rumours say that shes a medium, that Milei is able to communicate with his dead dogs through her.
The man is unwell, for moral reasons he cannot be president. He’s just not fit for the job, he’ll die of rage or something two months into office.
His reaction to a photo of his dog is one of the few times I’ve seen him act like a genuine human being, I too would be emotional if I’m shown a picture of one of my dogs who died years ago, but the way he stares at the photo, completely oblivious to what the host is saying… that raises an alarm. He loses it completely there.
Milei is alienating his own voters because even they believe in something even if it’s ludicrous libertarian shit. Like dude hasn’t won anything yet and is already selling out his own convictions to some discontent centrists and even to fucking trots apparently (who rightfully flipped him off lol)
That rotating city background really accentuates his slow but inevitable descent towards madness.