Bulletins and News Discussion from April 15th to April 21st, 2024 - Between The Darkness And The Dawn, There Rises A Red Star
Bulletins and News Discussion from April 15th to April 21st, 2024 - Between The Darkness And The Dawn, There Rises A Red Star
Image is of Iranian missiles flying over the Knesset, the Israeli parliament building in Jerusalem.
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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.
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I love the liberal “we just don’t know” fence-sitting that somehow always sides with State Department narratives. Is there a unicorn hiding in my gaping asshole? There’s no evidence for it, but there’s also no evidence against it. You must respect my lived truth!
This is literally the sort of reasoning that she would have made fun of theists for using to argue for god's existence or for creationism.
Rebecca Watson, while having good and correct points about the toxic masculinity and lack of intersectionality within the new atheist movement, was always piss poor at actually arguing for a rational, political, atheism or understanding a real philosophical grounding for atheism outside of skepticism and (and I hate saying this) scientism. She is a good science communicator, but as soon as she steps outside of that sphere her reasoning is usually dodgy and her ability to parse bullshit from quality is poor. It is such a shame that so many in the movement were grifters, but expecting anything good or anybody good to really arise from American internet-driven culture-movements is a fool's game.
Internet atheism (and honestly Western atheism in general) doesn't fundamentally understand what religion is, let along its role within human society. And given that it lacks these two understandings, there ought to have been no real expectation that Internet atheism would be anything more that myopic skepticism.
anything born of the internet is fundamentally incompatible with reality since its completely divorced from it.
She is a good science communicator, but as soon as she steps outside of that sphere her reasoning is usually dodgy and her ability to parse bullshit from quality is poor.
Her actual reasoning in the referenced video isn't too bad, TBH. But the conclusion (and summary) should just have been, "Like many other conspiracy theories, Havana syndrome has been neither proved nor disproved, and has more plausible explanations. It is probably best to apply Occam's razor." That really shouldn't be hard for someone who is even just a "good science communicator."
Idk how she is now, I should clarify that I am just referencing how she was nearly a decade ago. My guess would be that internet punditry has fried her brain like so many before her.
Liberalism is bad for your brain, folks
The CIA literally said they found no evidence of weaponry used which upset the agents to the point they sued the government for discrimination because their disability claims were rejected lol
So unless I’m a victim of propaganda and they’re playing 6D chess here to make the Russians think we’re stupid, it seems like they’re embarrassed and don’t want to keep talking about this
Watson is the epitome of the "I fucking love science" libs who just shrug whenever anything challenges the hegemony of their class. Green brothers as well.