Image is of a Hezbollah missile attack on a military camp west of Jenin.

The situation between Hezbollah and Israel is rapidly escalating, with massive bombing campaigns on southern Lebanon by Israel predominantly on civilians (as the tunnels in South Lebanon are mostly unreachable to the Zionists, just like in Gaza), while Hezbollah and its allies respond with missile attacks predominantly on Israeli military facilities. Israel is spreading an evacuation order to the residents of southern Lebanese villages while also bombing their routes of escape and civilian infrastructure, similar to a terror tactic used widely in Gaza.

Northern Israel is currently under military censorship to hide their losses, so we get very little information other than what the Resistance provides and what videos and images get through the censors.

I don’t know if Israel will dare a ground incursion soon, but it seems fairly likely in the coming days or weeks.

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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.

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.netMEnglish
    14·
    8 hours ago

    Говорит Шестиугольный Медведь!

    Сообщение Совинформбюро!

    Hi!

    I’m here to publish the list of proposals, made both by the mod team in internal discussions and from proposals made by users last week, to be voted on by the news heads.

    The process will be quite simple. Below this comment will be a series of comments from me.

    They will follow the format of…

    <Proposal Comment>

    • geordi-yes YES VOTE

    • geordi-no NO VOTE

    If you agree with the proposal, upvote the comment with geordi-yes YES VOTE. If you disagree with the proposal, upvote the comment with geordi-no NO VOTE.

    The voting margin to pass a proposal as approved shall be with a minimum floor of 36 upvotes, based on the rounded rough average of megathread upvotes of popular comments divided in half. Should a proposal be passed but prove to be controversial by also receiving a no vote of at least 26 votes, the proposal shall be tabled and reworked for presentation at a future megathread should the need arise.

    Additionally, the floor will still be open to new proposals with a caveat that the minimum floor for acceptance for deliberation by the council of news mods shall be 31 upvotes. This is just in case someone is struck by the lightning of inspiration and wants to bring up an idea to shape the comm in a better direction.

    The polls are now open.

    Semper post, news hogs.

    Edit: P.S, I know some of the proposals are kinda scuffed looking, if they pass I’ll format them so they look like the others on the rule sidebar. chalk it up to my laziness lol

    Edit 2: P.P.S Pig poop balls.

    The voting period shall last until the megathread is locked.

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    46 minutes ago

    Otherwise mid article that tells us nothing new, interesting, or important except for the last paragraph:
    https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202409/1320119.shtml

    Multiple aerial bombs exploded around the camp of China’s 22nd batch of peacekeeping troops in Lebanon on Thursday. The shockwaves and debris from the explosions damaged some facilities in the camp, but fortunately no one was injured, China Central Television reported on Saturday. The troops were in the midst of their daily peak physical training at the time of the explosions, and the bombing took place just 730 meters away from the camp, the report said.

  • xiaohongshu [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    32 minutes ago

    Gabriel Rockhill: Western Marxism, Imperialism, Slavoj Zizek, Stalin, USSR, China, Deng Xiaoping

    This is such an important addition to the doomerism/bloomerism discourse that has been going on in the news mega that failed to capture how Marxism works.

    Marxism is about embracing contradictions. Trying to pretend as though History has ended and that historical changes no longer occur, or thinking that Socialism will fall out of the sky and Imperialism will wither away by itself without exacting its revenge through counter-revolutions - neither of which is a solution towards perceiving and understanding History as an objective process.

    News are just data points. Marxism is the tool that enables us to “see” the contradictions and the interactions of historical forces, and through which material analysis could be made.

    Marxism is seeing the world in contradictions rather than just black and white, good and evil.

  • very_poggers_gay [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    20·
    3 hours ago

    From EyesOnSouth:

    “Hezbollah unveils Kader 1 ballistic missile. The Resistance said that “at 6:30 am” it struck the Mossad command center in the neighborhoods of Tel Aviv. This cmd center is responsible for the pagers-radios terrorist attack & the assassination of Resistance leaders, Hezbollah said”

    western and zionist sources say it was intercepted though. Power to the Resistance isntrael

  • mushroom [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    41·
    5 hours ago

    this is not exactly headline news to most, but the US Forest Service will not be hiring any seasonal employees at all next year, except for firefighters, due to budget constraints. the forest service employs thousands of seasonal workers across the country in trails, maintenance, archaeology, natural resource management and science positions, etc. without seasonals it’ll be a hell of a lot harder to keep the millions of acres of forest service land well maintained - especially considering that many non-fire seasonals are called in to help fight the fires in one way or another when they begin, and since so much FS land can hardly be called “well maintained” already. i have to imagine this will also put a strain on the national park service and other land management agencies who’ll have to deal with thousands of applicants to a far fewer number of jobs - not to mention the seasonals at those agencies who’ll be looking at this and seeing that their departments could be making the same decisions a few years down the road.

    as always, congress can spend billions at the drop of a hat for bombing children across the planet, but breaks out the fucking abacus when it comes to hiring people who actually do useful and decent work. wonder how long before they just decide to straight up sell entire forest service ranger districts to timber companies or ranchers. can’t be too long, at this rate!

  • Al_Sham [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    70·
    6 hours ago

    In June I wrote: “I suspect thay sometime between July and September the US-israeli zionist forces in occupied Palestine will begin a massive operation in Lebanon against Hezbollah. … If I’m wrong about this I’ll eat my shoe.”

    Well, yesterday Hezbollah launched the most rockets in a single day since 2006 and on Monday the zionosts killed the most Lebanese in a single day since 2006. No shoe eating.

    Khalil Nasrallah clarifies the change:

    America officially announces sending more SS stormtroopers to the region.

    I don’t think most English speakers realize how absolutely screwed the zionist entity is at the moment. Hezbollah has expanded the circle of fire to include Haifa which means that between 25-35% of the entire industrial capacity of the entity is now under threat. Even if they don’t strike the factories it is enough to stop them from receiving raw materials and having workers run the machines. Haifa also houses their oil refineries 😈🚀💥🔥

    The occupiers have no choice now. They must invade with a ground operation in the next 6 months and they will subsequently be eviscerated by the Soldiers of God Insha’Allah.

    Iraq is also about to become a major player in the support front in the coming weeks and months. The new fatwa from His Eminence Sayyed Ali Sistani is a game changer. For those who don’t understand why, as a Grand Marja, it was his fatwa in 2014 that enabled the creation of the Hashd al Shabi to defeat Daesh. A hundred million Shia Muslims are now religiously obligated to engage in “every possible effort to stop this barbaric aggression and defend the people of Lebanon”. It is difficult to understate the importance of this.

    Prepare for a barrage of horrific nazi war crimes from the atlanto-zionists and an equal magnitude of bravery, resilience, and strategic/tactical ingenuity from the resistance. The war for the Liberation of Palestine and all of West Asia is now happening. It will be a long and brutal one.

    Pray for peace for the martyrs, a quick recovery to the wounded, and a triumphant victory for the Resistance.