Image is the famous photograph Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag, taken during the Battle of Berlin.
On Friday is May 9th, which is the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, which Russia, among other places, celebrates as the day when the Soviets defeated the Nazis. Naturally, one of the current hotspots of fascism in the world today, Ukraine, is essentially threatening that they might strike Russia or even Moscow itself during that timeframe. Any such strike would almost certainly be symbolic and not aimed at anything too important, as I doubt even Zelensky and his American handlers would actually want to kill a world leader, not least somebody like Xi Jinping. But I would not be surprised if they tried something nonetheless, if only to disrupt the event in some way and not actually kill anybody.
And, as we’re on this topic, @EllenKelly@hexbear.net has reminded me that Tuesday is the anniversary of the Nazis burning the Institut für Sexualwissenschaf in 1933, an early institute advocating for the rights of LGBT people, and which also provided early forms of gender-affirming surgeries, as well as hormone therapies. We are currently seeing a crackdown on LGBT rights throughout swathes of the imperial core (as well as countries in the periphery, to the extent that those rights existed there already), and this Nazi-inspired movement will be similarly defeated in the future.
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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.
Sweden is giving 20 million SEK (€1.83 million) to Radio Free Europe, hoping that other countries will donate as well.
Sweden lost its independence with Olaf Palme‘s assassination. Then they joined the EU and then gave up their 100+ year long commitment to „neutrality“.
their neutrality was a pretty open lie before that. it was swedish coal and steel that helped rearm the Nazi Wehrmacht
Why though? What benefit does keeping it around do for them?
they are jr. partners in imperialism. they made a bargain with the devil and hope that their master is only acting out temporarily. they desire the status quo because their ruling class felt it suited them.
I guess but it seems like a waste of money to put into the imperial project. Maybe it’s more effective than I thought.
Jup the euro vassal states think that a new biden will come and retvrn to pre-trump imperialism.
dumbass Swedish government went all in on NATO when Russia invaded now they’re in too deep
Idk, why do bread tubers keep waxing poetic about USAID, despite not pausing for a second when most of the highest recipients of aid are countries that we have either invaded or at least conducted numerous military operations in. Libs are gonna be libs.
The heck is a breadtuber anymore, by your measure? They all gave up on politics years ago
Basically anyone who does progressive to hardline leftist politics explainer videos, however the vast majority land to somewhere on the progressive to socdem side of things. I’ve gotten into a habit of cataloguing them and kinda hate-watching them as their overall quality has gotten worse.
Okay but I want like names though, because to me ‘Breatube’ is basically everyone who went to Lindsay Ellis’ wedding, and they all stopped doing what you describe in favor of easy media slop, turns out the right wing site doesn’t help propagate leftist content so well. So I genuinely don’t know who hexbear refers to anymore, does anyone really bother doing talking head videos about leftism? And are they really the types to beg for USAID?
I mean they are a part of it, and their abandonment of politics in general is pretty typical of what is going on. I am talking rn specifically about the channel the soy pill and I haven’t watched the Cody Showdy for awhile, so I can’t confirm, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he was bemoaning it.
They stopped in their political evolution once the big ads revenue came in. They are the Che Guevara shirt personified.
They didnt they are just libs who infiltrated and took control of the bernie mass movement to integrate social discontent americans back into the democratic hegemony. Sucking out social movements is the purpose of liberal/socdem/progressive capitalists.
Given that even the
of r/fauxmoi call themselves leftists now and wax about how malcom x was right about libs (somehow its lost to them that MAGA and Schumer arent the ones he was talking about) While condemning “idiot” PSL protestors for the brooklyn bridge thing.
“Please fund me, senpai!”
They need to reconstruct a “positive” american nationalism, where the USA is a benevolent force for good aka “captain america” and only embarrassed by outside “foreign” elements aka shield (“russiagate”)
I have seen people holler at Mon Mothma saying genocide but then get pissy when someone compares Ghormans being “relocated” to the Oceti Sakowin being “relocated”.
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