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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 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. - 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.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
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.
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.
a warning to hexbear: many people from the brazilian left are increasingly opposed to lula due to how fernando haddad policies are neoliberal, due to campos neto (the bolsonaro appointed central bank leader) still being there, due to the partial privatization (capitalization) of petrobras being left alone with their own pro-“market” CEO, due to his approximation to macron and critique of maduro, and due to their inability to counter the fascist bolsonaro far right and rally the population like evo and maduro did against the gusanos from their own countries (instead with the right wing sector in PT appointing some military and right ministers since the start of the govenrment and “dialogue”) . i only support lula now due to the fact bolsonaro may return. neocon propaganda is huge here and local political aristocracies and bourgoesies are supporting an impeachment call propaganda or the return of bolsonaro, and i actually fear that a lot with the coming of milei in argentina.
please be critical in the support of lula. im an anti-nato anarchist but i side with marxist-leninists who are nato-opposed, anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist. i`m fully opposed to the americanophile, anti-latin american left anarchist and post-anarchist infiltration in our movements as most brazilian anarchists are and had my own dark experience in a online anarchist organization (lunaria in discord) which was hijacked by them. for our liberation from the empire!
Lula da Silva is much better than Bolsonaro, there’s no comparison. I believe he’s much better than Boric and Biden (Biden is not left-wing, he’s a liberal), especially in his foreign policy. But he’s still a pragmatic socdem and not a radical socialist, so you can expect him to continue with the neoliberal things that have plagued Brazil and South America since the 80s and 90s. At least he has reduced the rate of the deforestation of the Amazon, promotes Latin American integration with CELAC and has really close relations with China and Xi.
I believe that even Hugo Chávez had to sign a document saying that he would not abolish private property and change many of the neoliberal reforms. He even went to Wall Street to talk to investors. After the failure of the 2002 coup against him, he became more radical, but Chávez and Maduro are still the moderates within the Bolivarist movement.
I don’t think Bolsonaro will come back, they’ll probably try another neoliberal ghoul after Bolsonaro is arrested or exiled. Iirc the right in Brazil only won one election after the election of Lula da Silva in 2002. And they only won because Lula was in prison. They can’t win presidential elections under normal conditions, so they keep trying to do it with coups. Like in Bolivia.
Besides, I doubt that Milei will finish his government, he is very unpopular among the working class in Argentina. And when the crisis gets worse there, the right in Latin America will say that he wasn’t a true liberal.
Yeah I think people sometimes forget that Lula and AMLO are demsocs. They are much better than average politicians but they are not revolutionaries they are not anti-capitalists they are Capital’s way of ceding to the demands of the working class to lower revolutionary potential.
has brazil/colombia seen bolivia/ecuador/themselves 🤣, like, lately?
They want people to vote twice? What? They want to run a survey asking people what policies they support so that they can claim that the opposition party supports all the things that the people support and claim that Maduro doesn’t support those things?
I was confused by that too. As I understand it. Gustavo Petro proposed to Maduro and the opposition leader that if, say, Maduro won, he would grant amnesty to the opposition and not arrest or persecute them. And if the opposition wins, they will grant amnesty to the Bolivaristas and won’t change many of the social reforms that the PSUV has made in 26 years of rule.
And they want the Venezuelan people to vote to show that Maduro voters and opposition voters agree on this and that there will be no political violence in Venezuela after the election. And that would put pressure on the US to remove the sanctions because Venezuela would be seen as a “real” democracy or whatever.
Petro called it the “Democratic Pact”. Recently, the opposition in Venezuela has been openly anti-communist and promoted that it would arrest Maduro and the Bolivaristas if the opposition won the elections. And Maduro reacted by repressing the opposition, which resulted in more sanctions from the US. Petro, and Lula, I suppose, want a guarantee that the opposition won’t persecute the Bolivaristas and will let them participate in the elections freely if the opposition wins. And the same goes for the Bolivaristas, should they win.
What does petro think? that the anti-communists will obey a piece of paper when they get power? When have anti-communists ever followed the rule of law or previous agreements?
I think this has less to do with anti-communists/liberals. It’s more of an argument for the US to remove its sanctions. If Maduro and the opposition sign this document, the US will be in a very bad diplomatic position, as it will be seen as not complying with its own agreements, since all the US asked for was elections and the participation of opposition candidates.
If Maduro wins this election (which the US agreed it’s free and fair), the US will have no strong argument for sanctioning Venezuela. And that would be a political, economic and ideological victory for Maduro and the leftists of Latin America. And even if the US imposes sanctions again, Latin American countries, Spain and Norway will still trade with Venezuela, because there will no longer be the notion that Venezuela is a dictatorship and that Maduro is a dictator.
Furthermore, I doubt that the UN and EU sanctions will continue, even if Maduro wins. Removing the sanctions on travel and oil would really improve Venezuela’s economy. This deal is very strange, but let’s also remember that the Bolivarians are the majority of Venezuela’s army and population. If a right-wing government wins, the situation will be similar to that of Nicaragua during the 1990s until 2005. The Sandinistas held enormous political power within society and the armed forces, but followed the agreement to allow the neoliberals to rule, but under a leash.
This lasted until the Sandinistas won the presidential elections in 2005. At first, they kept all the agreements with the US and even with Taiwan. The US even trained the Nicaraguan armed forces and sold them weapons. Then the US, under Biden, decided to get really aggressive with Nicaragua when China offered them to build their own canal. Ortega cut off all relations with Taiwan and the US.
Whatever they’re doing, Petro and Lula are well-known negotiators and know how diplomacy works and how to deal with the US. Petro negotiated the end of the conflict with the FARCS, and Lula had the whole nuclear deal with Iran and was behind the resolution of the Venezuela-US crisis of 2006/7. Lula asked Bush to tell Condoleezza Rice to stop antagonizing Venezuela and let the Venezuelans solve the problem themselves. Bush listened to Lula and, in the end, Chávez and the opposition reached an agreement and recognized that Chávez won the 2006 elections.