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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.
Last week's thread is here. The Imperialism Reading Group is here.
Please check out the RedAtlas!
The bulletins site is here. Currently not used.
The RSS feed is here. Also currently not used.
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.
Come on Don, you know ending a border dispute as difficult as this one is not the same as a ceasefire.
It would be easier to end the India-China dispute than this.
Checking in on the news mega - and what the hell someone tried to impersonate this account?
I honestly don’t know what happened but if the vibe’s wrong, it’s not me lol.
And in case anyone is wondering, long story short, laptop died together with hundreds of sources/references/links and pages and pages of notes I’ve written up. No backup on the cloud. Decided to touch grass and forget about the site. May or may not return as a regular. Meanwhile, I hope everyone has been doing well. The world hasn’t been kind lately and certainly hasn’t to me in many ways. Hang in there, everyone.
Edit: also in case anyone wants to hear my thoughts about the recent events, I wrote a long comment in this thread. May not be everyone’s cup of tea, and if so, just treat it as an entertaining read. Happy to be proven wrong.
Apparently the imposter was a coordinated effort, believe it or not. Good to have you back!
Decided to touch grass and forget about the site. May or may not return as a regular.
Your absence is definitely felt, I enjoy your high quality posting. 
And people were doubting me when I said i knew for a fact your copycat wasn't you.
And in case anyone is wondering, long story short, laptop died together with hundreds of sources/references/links and pages and pages of notes I’ve written up. No backup on the cloud. Decided to touch grass and forget about the site.
Also I completely feel this. I would and have lost my shit and gone robot mode comatose for weeks when I (multiple times) lost literal archives worth of information. (After frantically trying to remember what was lost and rediscover it in vain.) If you head out for good, we'll miss ya but good on you, best of luck, and so long and thanks for the ~~fish~~ writing you've done over the years
pissed my pants when I saw this comment
There were people claiming the other account was an imposter I think based on how they wrote lol
I thought it was Shipwreck pretending to be an imposter pretending to be Shipwreck.
Lmao incredible.
Hope you've been well, welcome back in whatever capacity you like. If you ever go to Xinjiang, we'd all love to hear how it went
I actually have distant relatives there and my parents went there in the early 2000s (before the Uyghur terrorism started). I’ve never been there but would be interesting to visit for once haha.
Welcome back. Sorry to hear about the laptop dying
New at the Samidoun website: The assassination of Nour al-Bitawi and Hikmat Abdel-Nabi: Targeting the liberated prisoners and the resistance
Need more posters
For months the site has not worked great for me, going back to before the urls were lost. Mostly it’s impossibly slow or won’t load at all. It seems to be working fine at the moment. (I’m mostly phone based) o7 to the people doing the work.
Norway’s Largest Trade Union Votes for Boycott of Israel
$22 billion value divestment from stocks the fund has and a complete trade ban
94% for, 6% against
IT'S OVER AND HE SAID NOTHING
Hexbear getting excited and worked up about the latest Putin speech only to be met with nothing of substance? How many times has it been now?
Truly, all of us deserve this badge
man made us all wait just to say he's taking a trip to Istanbul
Putin is gonna come back from Izmir with a fade
Putin's gonna do some medical tourism to Turkiye and come back with a hair transplant
Chat was literally saying "wait no don't go" at the end lmao
Putin has finally started speaking, coinciding with the possible launch of Geran-2/Shahed 136 one way attack drones on Ukraine.
RT has it live with English translation, you'll likely need a VPN for this if you live in NATOland
AMK Mapping, reporting on drone launches
Putin wants Russia to hold direct talks with Ukraine in Turkey again with regards to a ceasefire.
Speech over, that's it. An offer to negotiate in Istanbul directly with Ukraine again on May 15th, presumably. A rejection of the EU's plan for an unconditional 30 day ceasefire before any talks begin. War continues now.
feels like a nothingburger tbh?
The main thing is that he openly rejected the 30 day ceasefire demand, softening the blow by offering the immediate start of negotiations with no preconditions.
Depends on if Ukraine (with US approval) accept the offer to begin direct talks with Russia again or not. There haven't been direct talks in years. Also a rejection of the EU proposal of an immediate 30 day ceasefire.
Geran launches starting at the same time as the speech is also a confirmation that there is no plan to extend the May 8-10 ceasefire any further.
Putin also made strong suggestions that Russia would not tolerate a ceasefire where Ukraine is allowed to re-arm.
Otherwise, business as usual, war continues.
Putin statement livestream -Europa Univerallis 5 got announced
Edit: Putin won his war of attrition against my attention span.
One comment got me lol:
No wonder the 3 day special military operation has taken 3 years with this timekeeping
man i wish youtube had the option to auto translate chat
putin is lucky it's a saturday 
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I want to extend my congratulations to both Pakistan and India for Winning this War decisively.
🥰
It really is a lose-lose situation for everybody other than nuclear apocalypse accelerationists and cockroaches who would inherit the earth
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Putin is set to make an announcement in 15 minutes...
Nothing ever happens, or will things start happening again?
Seems to be running behind schedule, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov says that no questions will be allowed, Putin will just make a statement.
Putin is gonna announce a resolution to the Kashmir crisis - One oreshnik has been placed equidistant to each side along the line of contact and whoever gets to it first gets to nuke the other with no consequences
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