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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.
I absolutely have critiques of Hudson (just off the top of my head, he’s reflexively anti-Stalin and he’s not very revolutionary in his views; and not sure if I even want to know the takes of an 85 year old guy on current social issues) but I think @shipwreck@hexbear.net said it best with “He’s the only Trot I trust.”
I just find it very difficult to take the work of somebody who’s been in all these American financial institutions and is like “Hey, here’s how they do things and how American imperialism ticks along from my perspective on the inside. The CIA’s bought my books so they clearly think I’ve got their strategy down” and just dismiss that viewpoint.
That being said, I like a lot of Roderic Day’s work too and it’s influenced my thinking (hello, if you’re reading this!) so I hate to see my besties fighting
Whatever the insinuation was, it’s important to point out that Hudson is not anti-semitic (the accusation is wild).
If you follow his works of the history of debt, there is a lot of calling out anti-semitism in medieval Europe and giving me completely useless trivia like “did you know when Jews were expelled from England by Edward I under the excuse of “usury”, Christian bankers like the Lombardians and the Cahorsins [Italian and French bankers] that had recently arrived in England were the ones charging exorbitant usury rates that had outcompeted and even drove down the interest rates the Jewish bankers charged. So the expulsion of the Jews by saying it was due to “usury” alone clearly does not stand, it had components of anti-semitic hatred.”
It is also important to note that Hudson worked closely with the late David Graeber, whose Debt: the First 5000 Years (one of the authoritative works on the subject of money and debt, which Roderic should read) was based on the research from Harvard Peabody Museum led by Hudson, focusing more on the anthropology side while Hudson’s works focused on the economic history. They actually had a collaboration project going until Graeber’s unexpected death in 2020.
It’s funny that if you take Roderic at face value, he seems to suggest that he’s the one who knows all this stuff and Hudson is just some kind of crank who knows nothing about capitalism and Marxism.
China Mieville’s book October is very good. A very readable account of (part of) the revolution.
Actually Trotsky’s book about the revolution is pretty good too, at least the part of it I read.