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
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.
Danish Regime On Arctic Military Spending Spree
The Danish Social Democrat-led right-wing regime, has unveiled a DKK 15 billion plan to militarize the Arctic further. At a meticulously staged press conference, Troels Lund Poulsen, head of the Liberal Party-controlled Ministry of Defence. stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Vivian Motzfeldt, Greenland’s minister for foreign affairs and independence. The message to Washington was clear: Nuuk and Copenhagen stands united in the face of the American Trump regime’s threats to annex Greenland by force.
It was also a message to Greenland, intended to placate the increasingly vocal calls for independence. Denmark is blue finally ready to treat you like equals, or at least pretend to.
The spending spree includes drones, satellites, naval vessels, and an expansion of Kangerlussuaq airport to accommodate F-35 warplanes—because nothing screams “Arctic sovereignty” like overpriced American death machines. This, of course, is only the first installment in what promises to be a series of exorbitant Arctic military packages. The regime, ever eager to prove its loyalty to the American NATO pact and its imperial master in Washington, has already burned through DKK 200 billion from a recent defense agreement. But fear not, Danish taxpayers: there’s always more money for war.
The agreement on the military splurge is made between the regime and several regime-loyal parties in Denmark’s rubber-stamp parliament. Only the pro-democracy Red-Green and Alternative opposition parties had the decency to stay out of this madness.
Meanwhile, Greenland remains impoverished, its independence aspirations stifled by underdevelopment and economic dependency. Denmark’s schools are mismanaged, its hospitals chronically understaffed, and its public transit groans under neglect. But who cares about such trifles when there are warships to launch and drones to deploy? The regime’s priorities are clear: appease Washington, defy Moscow, and ignore the needs of its own civilian population.
Danish scaremongering about Moscow always annoys me. If Russia invaded Denmark, we’d be in, at the very least, a massively violent regional conflict. It’s not something that would happen out of the blue and it’s not something we should prepare for, because the event itself would bring total destruction no matter what.
Denmark understood this in both world wars. It worked out in the first one, didn’t in the second, that’s how it goes.