Welcome to c/news! We aim to foster a book-club type environment for discussion and critical analysis of the news. Our policy objectives are:
To learn about and discuss meaningful news, analysis and perspectives from around the world, with a focus on news outside the Anglosphere and beyond what is normally seen in corporate media (e.g. anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist, Marxist, Indigenous, LGBTQ, people of colour).
To encourage community members to contribute commentary and for others to thoughtfully engage with this material.
To support healthy and good faith discussion as comrades, sharpening our analytical skills and helping one another better understand geopolitics.
We ask community members to appreciate the uncertainty inherent in critical analysis of current events, the need to constantly learn, and take part in the community with humility. None of us are the One True Leftist, not even you, the reader.
Newcomm and Newsmega Rules:
The Hexbear Code of Conduct and Terms of Service apply here.
Link titles: Please use informative link titles. Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed.
Content warnings: Posts on the newscomm and top-level replies on the newsmega should use content warnings appropriately. Please be thoughtful about wording and triggers when describing awful things in post titles.
Fake news: No fake news posts ever, including April 1st. Deliberate fake news posting is a bannable offense. If you mistakenly post fake news the mod team may ask you to delete/modify the post or we may delete it ourselves.
Link sources: All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. If you are citing a Twitter post as news, please include the Xcancel.com (or another Nitter instance) or at least strip out identifier information from the twitter link. There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance, such as Libredirect or archive them as you would any other reactionary source.
Archive sites: We highly encourage use of non-paywalled archive sites (i.e. archive.is, web.archive.org, ghostarchive.org) so that links are widely accessible to the community and so that reactionary sources don’t derive data/ad revenue from Hexbear users. If you see a link without an archive link, please archive it yourself and add it to the thread, ask the OP to fix it, or report to mods. Including text of articles in threads is welcome.
Low effort material: Avoid memes/jokes/shitposts in newscomm posts and top-level replies to the newsmega. This kind of content is OK in post replies and in newsmega sub-threads. We encourage the community to balance their contribution of low effort material with effort posts, links to real news/analysis, and meaningful engagement with material posted in the community.
American politics: Discussion and effort posts on the (potential) material impacts of American electoral politics is welcome, but the never-ending circus of American Politics© Brought to You by Mountain Dew™ is not welcome. This refers to polling, pundit reactions, electoral horse races, rumors of who might run, etc.
Electoralism: Please try to avoid struggle sessions about the value of voting/taking part in the electoral system in the West. c/electoralism is right over there.
AI Slop: Don't post AI generated content. Posts about AI race/chip wars/data centers are fine.
Update: The new flotilla, Freedom Flotilla - Thousand Madleens to Gaza & Conscience website and livestream:
From the Global Sumud Flotilla telegram:
👀 As we approach the high risk ‘orange zone’ we need eyes on the Flotilla ❗️
Witness provides protection.
Website link
GSF News.
lmao
he's about to go into a 3000-year history lesson on the levant
Would you like to see the documents? I brought copies with me. Read them if you’d like.
As recently as August 2025, 76% of israeli Jews still say there are no innocents in Gaza..
94% thought the use of force by the IOF was either appropriate or too little. Only 1.8% believed that they were using too much force, which is not the same as believing that the IOF operation is wrong.
https://web.archive.org/https://time.com/6333781/israel-hamas-poll-palestine/
Yup. Worth noting that the poll reported on in your link was from November 2023. It's been 22 months of genocide, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians killed in Gaza, millions more robbed of their futures, and israeli Jews still want more blood in late 2025. israel is a completely irredeemable society if you ask me.
I mean they are not just suddenly gaining a conscious after nearly a hundred years of dehumanizing and murdering Palestinians.
Thats why the foolish demands of isntreali and palastinian worker to „share“ the „land“ were always morally cowardly and unworkable.
They really libbed it up with that post
Critical support to all libs who put themselves on the line and decide to sail to break the siege on Gaza in small civilian vessels.
It's a lot more than I for example am doing, with my assumably nuanced understanding of geopolitics.
This isn't even liberalism, Putin is a piece of shit and a Zionist. He says things like this and does nothing to help. I think lightly mocking him for giving a nothing-speech is only fair.
I don't really think so, it's fair to laugh at this Russian liberal clown saying "this can't be solved without knowing what it is" while doing absolutely nothing to solve it.
Fair, I guess I just interpreted the laugh-reacts as “lolz evil Putler am I right” in the usual liberal sense, not in a super duper smart lefty way. But I might just be too cynical, these people are still doing gods work.
That's fair. I did too, but then I realized that my reaction was essentially identical so I'll give whoever manages the channel the benefit of the doubt.