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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


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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.
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More telegram channels here for those interested.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

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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.
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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[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 48 points 4 months ago

peltier-laugh Good topic, love you news mega

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 48 points 4 months ago

After Democrats increase criticism of the anti-abortion policies defended by the Republican Party, Donald Trump changes his tone and says that, if elected, his government “will be great for women and their reproductive rights”.

An AP-NORC poll released in July showed that 61 percent of Americans approve of abortion rights in the country in any situation. Approval is higher among Democrats (83 %) and independents (57 %) than among Republicans (38 %) .

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 48 points 4 months ago

OAS anti-Venezuela voting.

Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines refused to participate Friday's session on Venezuela.

Saint Lucia & Trinidad and Tobago added footnotes stating they did not support the resolution, which they knew would be automatically adopted 'by conscensus'.

No one voted against the resolution because it was never put to a vote. It was adopted 'by consensus', meaning the adoption was allowed without unanimity. Recall that the July 31st OAS' resolution on Venezuela was put to a vote and failed: 11 abstentions and at least 4 absences.

The OAS is much more illegitimate than most people think. Members are refusing to attend foreign meddling meetings; resolutions are passing without agreement; and strong participation by observer states: Spain, Italy, France, UK, & Holy See—which are not states in the Americas.

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 48 points 4 months ago
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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 47 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asks the Pennsylvania court to have his name removed from the ballot and declares that he will support Donald Trump's candidacy for President of the United States.

Kennedy family condemns Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s support for Donald Trump's candidacy: “Our brother Bobby’s decision to support Trump is a betrayal of the values ​​our father and our family hold dear. It’s a sad ending to a sad story.”

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[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 47 points 4 months ago

Just got woken up by an earthquake 5.9M. The noise scared me shitless, for a brief second I thought like there was a hurricane going through my room

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[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 47 points 4 months ago

No surprise guest at all wtf

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[-] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 47 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I got a 2-week ban because Tw*tter's authentication glitched out on Firefox and they finally realized what I meant by telling the yellow-ribbons to "eat a cinderblock from my 20th floor balcony".

Also I have the day off today (20 August) because it's a national holiday. Some peepeepoopoo about the "BaltiKKKracker chain". Got the whole day to DDoS the Mossad, ISIS, Germany, Boers, etc. lmao

[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 47 points 4 months ago

If a regional war happens, what could peace look like? I can't imagine anything less than the recognition of a palestinian state, or the complete destruction of lebanon, gaza, and the west bank. But idk if the first would happen with nukes on the table

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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 47 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Danish government broadcaster DR reports that the Social Democratic-led right-wing regime plans to introduce "volunteer buses" in rural areas. This scheme is intended as a band-aid on a rural public transit system crippled by decades of economic mismanagement and austerity. Bus routes in the countryside and provincial towns have been discontinued, bus stops shut down, and remaining routes see reduced service, making life increasingly difficult for non-drivers outside big cities.

The scheme includes increased use of on-demand buses, which riders must book hours in advance, and notably contains no significant new investments in public transit. A recent report by regime-aligned technocrats hand-picked by the Liberal Party-controlled Ministry of Transportation declared "traditional" rural bus routes with paid drivers on low ridership routes "economically and environmentally unviable."

Instead, the regime seeks to address rural transit issues by no longer paying bus drivers on low-ridership routes. Under the proposed scheme, random people from the village, like the priest or shopkeeper, will volunteer to drive a minivan provided by the regional transit corporation. The Liberal Party-controlled Ministry of Transportation has refused to comment on how the removal of drivers' salaries will affect passenger fares or how unpaid volunteers will provide reliable and sufficient service.

Pro-regime outlets like DR present the scheme not as a refusal to provide necessary infrastructure but as a positive action to solve the "apolitical" problem of vanishing buses, uncritically echoing regime slogans about creating "a Denmark in better geographic balance" without addressing who caused the imbalance.

This scheme exemplifies how the neoliberal state shirks its responsibility to provide public services for the common good, offloading it onto individuals who lack the financial and organizational resources to offer a reliable, high-quality service.

Meanwhile, the regime is embarking on an aggressive military buildup, with spending ballooning to well over two percent of GDP. Earlier this year, the regime decided to increase the salaries and perks of the nation's unelected royal family. At least some functions of the state are still seen as viable.

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[-] DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 47 points 4 months ago

So Resistance News Network is blocked now on Telegram where i live

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 47 points 4 months ago

President Maduro declares two grassroots Chavista leaders, Mayauri Coromoto Silva Vilma and Cirila Isabel Gil, killed by fascist violence in the days following the election, as martyrs of the Bolivarian Revolution.

Venezuela's prosecutor previously reported that on August 2, PSUV member Cirila Isabel Gil was murdered in a hate crime, with multiple stab wounds and a stake driven into her chest in Callao, Bolivar state. The reason for her murder: She was a Chavista.

Mayauri Coromoto Silva Vilma, a grassroots leader of the PSUV, was shot dead in Turmero, Aragua state on August 5. She was head of a local Unidades de Batalla Hugo Chávez and municipal worker.

Twitter quickly became a platform for mercenaries and treasonous Venezuelans to advocate for a foreign military bombing campaign on Caracas.

The Blackwater mercenaries are probably still angry that the Silvercorp guys got arrested by fishermen

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 47 points 4 months ago

‘The police just killed my dad’: Paraguay lawmaker dies in drug raid shoot-out - South China Morning Post

A deadly police raid on a prominent Paraguayan congressman’s home has exposed a web of politics and organised crime

The killing on Monday of Eulalio “Lalo” Gomes, a 67-year-old rancher and lawmaker from Paraguay’s long-ruling Colorado party, also served as a grim reminder of the web of collusion between politicians’ families and organised crime in Paraguay, experts said.

Lalo Salamanca? walter-breakdown

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[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 47 points 4 months ago

BREAKING NEWS: MSM still hasn’t learned to not write like an 8th grade kid, doesn’t understand what “troll” means, and continues its unceasing adoration for the respectable fascists

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[-] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 46 points 4 months ago
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Some more news and videos from the front.

18 more Ukrainian soldiers surrendered to Russian Black Sea Fleet marines in Kursk oblast today: https://sputnikglobe.com/20240821/watch-black-sea-fleet-marines-capture-18-ukrainian-assault-fighters-in-kursk-region-1119857561.html

Odessan pulls gun on Kiev regime military men attempting to conscript him: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Odessa_man:9

Russian Mi-28 assault helicopter conducts strikes on enemy military equipment in Kursk oblast at night: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/night:13

Here is a helpful map showing Russian gains in the Donbass over the past month (in yellow): https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/21august2024_Ukraine_Donbass.jpg

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