Here is today's update!

Apologies, this one is smaller than usual, as I'm gonna be very busy over the next few days. It's the same amount of headlines, just not as much quoted from them.

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Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Add to the above list if you can, thank you.


Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins


Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.

Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)

Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.

Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.

On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.


Yesterday's discussion post.


  • solidarity_forever [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Very true, but that is an ideological narrative that capitalists at the top are just using to enforce the reproduction of labor. Capitalists see labor as nothing more than Oxen. These are the stories they tell to the cattle.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Capitalists generally aren't opposed to abortion. No shortage of pro-life Republicans back in the 70s and 80s, back when getting women into the workforce was considered Business Smart.

      Democrats were the original pro-life guys - and continue to host lots of pro-life diehards - back before Clinton and Bush Jr put a bow on White Flight. Republicans inherited it when they got all-in on Midwestern Evangelicalism. The belief isn't really compatible with the AnCap Libertarianism that dominated the Goldwater Era.

      • solidarity_forever [comrade/them]
        ·
        2 years ago

        What about Peter Thiel? He's out there picking primary winners for the republicans, airdropping tens of millions of dollars on candidates. Where do his candidates fall on the abortion question?

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
          ·
          2 years ago

          Where do his candidates fall on the abortion question?

          Thiel's strategy for a candidate appears to be

          • Buy Donald Trump's endorsement
          • Spend $10M telling primary voters about the endorsement
          • Watch Dems put up the largest turd in the state as the opposition and just kinda laugh softly
          • Run an ad that's just Tim Ryan and Hillary Clinton getting into the back of a stretch limo together, with a collapsed washing machine factory green screened into the background

          If I had to guess, I'd say that Silicon Valley vampire couldn't give two shits one way or another. But I also suspect he's got a White Nationalist streak wide enough for him to be sympathetic to the "Not enough white blonde teenage hotties in my area code!" plea from his incel fan base. So he's not against overturning Roe if it means more war-orphans from Ukraine getting pregnant.