Image is a snapshot taken from the recent Hezbollah video “Our Mountains, Our Treasures”, showcasing their extensive underground fortifications, supply lines, and weaponry.

iran can’t keep doing this to me, they’ve gotta respond soon, right? I’m gonna run out of analysis about countries soon, oh god

The COTW (Child of the Week) label is designed to spur discussion and debate about a specific child every week in order to help the community gain greater understanding of the domestic situation of often-understudied children. If you’ve wanted to talk about the child or share your experiences, but have never found a relevant place to do so, now is your chance! However, don’t worry - this is still a general news megathread where you can post about ongoing events from any child.

The Child of the Week is Hassan LargePenis! He is chad-and-cuck rater and general commenter @LargePenis@hexbear.net’s son, born over a month ago. @Greenleaf@hexbear.net recommended I have him as the COTW for a week and I finally got around to it.

Please check out the HexAtlas!

The bulletins site is here!
The RSS feed is here.
Last week’s thread is here.

Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

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.

      • RomCom1989 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        10·
        3 months ago

        Jesus,posting isn’t praxis

        Just because people can get radicalized through the internet,that doesn’t mean posting by itself is some revolutionary act

        At most,it’s another medium through which to spread the ideology,but is no where near anything actually impactful in the real world if it’s not accompanied by boots on the ground stuff

          • newmou [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            9·
            3 months ago

            I think the thing you’re missing is that there are three paths, and you’re describing only two: building proper theory before doing praxis, and pushing praxis without building the proper theory first. Sounds like you’re saying we’ve been spending too much time with the latter and should concentrate on the former so as to maximize the latter come time. The thing is, neither of those are right, because they must proceed in tandem, and according to a mass line of simultaneously achieving goals of the masses and your own localized proletariat. And importantly, through solving the mass line needs of your local proletariat, honing your understanding of the praxis needed, and any theory shortcomings, that would serve the broader population. Once many groups in different places are doing that, there becomes revolutionary coalescence

          • RomCom1989 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
            4·
            3 months ago

            I understand where you’re coming from,but random internet posters pontificating online is nothing like the discussions going on between radical revolutionaries in the previous century, especially considering that the America of today and the Europe of then are two radically different settings, with a giant chasm separating the material conditions and the degree of radicalization from then to the material conditions and radicalization of now

            I mean,don’t get me wrong,it’s getting there,but to want to put a pause on direct action so we can navel gaze and comb over every imperfection isn’t exactly a winning strategy

              • mkultrawide [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
                6·
                3 months ago

                I’m going to try and give you some grace, but you are testing my patience at this point.

                1. It has been correctly identified that this sort of protest is not getting results.

                2. It has been correctly identified that it’s not getting results because there is no organizational power behind these protests that can meaningfully threaten any existing power structures.

                3. The next step is to then determine how to build that organizational power and then set about building it. Dwelling on #1 or #2 stops being productive and becomes an egotistical exercise in spiking the football on comrades who are upset about a genocide.

                  • RomCom1989 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
                    4·
                    3 months ago

                    No,they do,but I’m in the same boat as you are and I disagree with the premise

                    I certainly sympathize with this way of viewing things,but it seems a bit undeveloped on account of you being so young

                    Still,maybe you’re right and this way of viewing things will be more effective in the future,but even I,as a fellow young’un myself,I find it to be a erroneous way of viewing things