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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.

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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 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.
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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

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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.


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[–] LoveYourself@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago

New at the Samidoun website: The assassination of Nour al-Bitawi and Hikmat Abdel-Nabi: Targeting the liberated prisoners and the resistance

https://ift.tt/1BLz4S0

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] pocodemiel@hexbear.net 1 points 1 minute ago

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.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 26 points 3 hours ago

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/overwhelming-majority-norways-largest-trade-union-votes-for-boycott-of-israel/

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

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 37 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

IT'S OVER AND HE SAID NOTHING

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 40 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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?

fell-for-it-again-award

Truly, all of us deserve this badge

[–] whatdoiputhere12@hexbear.net 25 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

oooaaaaaaauhhh

man made us all wait just to say he's taking a trip to Istanbul

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 22 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Chat was literally saying "wait no don't go" at the end lmao

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 35 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

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

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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.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

feels like a nothingburger tbh?

[–] companero@hexbear.net 21 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 21 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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.

[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 35 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (6 children)
[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

One comment got me lol:

No wonder the 3 day special military operation has taken 3 years with this timekeeping

[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

maybe he crossed to many conrners on the way no he doesnt fit door ?

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[–] whatdoiputhere12@hexbear.net 12 points 6 hours ago

putin is lucky it's a saturday monke-rage

[–] whatdoiputhere12@hexbear.net 13 points 6 hours ago

man i wish youtube had the option to auto translate chat

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

music is fire - if jazz versions of US songs is any indication - fuckr got smothed over again.. Minsk 3 and then the hole rerun- like its not declaration of war music is it ? - Maybe he just wants to wish us a good night ..

Edit : music is HORRIBLE , wtf Putin..

What if its just about the Music - Putin really liked this record - thought of a way to show it everyone ..

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[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago

Putin has started speaking now.

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[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 55 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

I want to extend my congratulations to both Pakistan and India for Winning this War decisively.

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 1 points 15 minutes ago

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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[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 37 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (13 children)

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.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 19 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 10 points 6 hours ago

sounds like the set up to a cheesy 80s action movie

[–] refolde@hexbear.net 25 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 19 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 13 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 16 points 6 hours ago

Thats why Gabe was at vday

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Kanye announcing new song "Thank Stalin"

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 10 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 hours ago

dont think its started lmao

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 5 points 6 hours ago

Hasn't started yet, an hour and a half behind schedule now.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 hours ago

STILL waiting lmfao

[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

anybody got a livestream - the last one i watche live was worth it (Empire of Lies - stuff started will he was stil talking) it might be a traditional declaration of war - to keep the wierd western fake Offer & constructions of Reality at bay. As west is/will ask for their 30 day Ceasfire+ (or else)

Edit: or its Putin falling for it again... he could fall for it again - ukraine shooting into (now) russia and you Putin go like - "mi mi mi my minsk three" - "do laws and treaties have no meaning ?" - for 8 years or so until the relapse is over.

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[–] ziggurter@hexbear.net 38 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

I made up a term: "Ethanic Kleiner". And his fans are simply "Ethanic Kleiners".

If that doesn't count enough as news, the zionist astroturfing on reddit-logo seems to have ramped up again for some reason, the past few days. Maybe zionists getting desperate due to the seeming spat between Trump and Netangotyou?

[–] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago

I hope this percolates far enough that Hasan ends up using it like how I'm pretty sure genocide Joe started here and somehow made it mainstream.

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 21 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
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