Thank you to @carpoftruth@hexbear.net for covering my position as Supreme Dictator of the Goddamn News while I was moving and getting set up in my new home in a top secret Kremlin-funded bunker five hundred feet below the ground. Our regularly scheduled programming returns this week.
On October 9th, Daniel Chapo won the Mozambique general election with about 70% of the vote. Chapo is the head of FRELIMO, the Marxist-Leninist party of Mozambique’s liberation, which fought an internal anti-communist resistance called RENAMO which was backed by Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa; Frelimo won in 1975. However, as the USSR fell, Frelimo began to allow elections inside Mozambique, and has ruled the country with significant majorities in each election ever since.
The main opposition party inside Mozambique is Podemos, which is led by Venancio Mondlane, a former member of Renamo and trained inside the USA. He alleges that his polling figures predicted a majority win for him, not Frelimo, and has accused Chapo of electoral fraud. There have been the usual slogans about how they yearn for freedom. The EU, of course, “witnessed irregularities.” As @WilsonWilson@hexbear.net has pointed out, Mozambique has massive undeveloped gas fields and is outsourcing the development process to France, Norway, the UK, and the USA, while mysterious Islamist groups have popped up to cause chaos in the exact regions which have the gas, slowing the process of actually developing those gas fields. Overall, it appears to be a cookie-cutter colour revolution attempt by the imperial core designed to install a comprador for cheaper resources. Its proximity to BRICS+ member South Africa may also be significant, noting the colour revolution in Bangladesh earlier this year exerting influence near India and China.
Protestors have been battling against the police and government since late October, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries as well as massive disruption, as the government has intermittently blocked access to the internet and social media. As of today, calm appears to be returning, with border crossings beginning to reopen.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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.
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.
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.
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.
these are the people that lecture you about anti-semitism and racism
Lmao Germany who ostensibly “has rules” against this domestically and then votes against at the UN
The mask falls for a moment.
Australia has also started passing laws about neonazis in an extremely superficial way
Rules-based international nazism
Obligatory Klanada voting no.
Extra painful when Canadian PM Trudeau, who gave a nazi war criminal a standing ovation in parliament last year, jumps at every opportunity to condemn antisemitism if even a single zionist gets their feelings hurt but won’t say shit about zionists killing dozens of Palestinians and Lebanese every day
I notice that The Netherlands voted no…
It’s their pogrom genes
US sides with the usual suspects but Israel breaks from them. It’s basically West vs the rest + Isreal
israel can’t openly endorse Nazism as it would undercut the entire narrative about the necessity of their existence
This is also effectively a “do you like Russia” resolution in real politik, which Israel is still trying to cling onto a relationship with to prevent the full on alignment happening between Russia and Iran
Absurd world we live in when the entirety of the “post” axis powers of Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Finland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Croatia all voted down on combating the glorification of nazism, neo-nazism, and other fascist practices.
The ‘Against’ vote from western countries like Spain/ Canada/ Ireland/ Netherlands/ Germany etc. is also likely due to the Russia-Ukraine war. The recent chain of ‘Against’ started in 2022. Before that those countries would all vote ‘Abstain’ and the only ones who vote against were USA and Ukraine.
Small islands being on the team is always funny
the fuck slovakia reasoning, don’t they have sympathetic to russia socdem with conservative brainworms?
the small islands are basically neocolonies with no foreign power independence at all
I love that they do this vote in the UN all the time. I hate that you can watch the return of fascism over the last few years. It’d be nice to make it into a animated Gif.
Damn. Wasn’t it just like the U.S. and Israel against the rest of the world in the last one (a couple years go)?
The NYT asks - Why Was There a Broad Drop-Off in Democratic Turnout in 2024? (archive)
Gaza - not mentioned, even though they talk about Harris getting fewer votes than Biden in Dearborn. Grocery prices - not mentioned. Are you better off than you were four years ago? Not mentioned.
Some analysts point out that Ms. Harris was simply the latest political casualty of a postpandemic global trend favoring challengers, no matter the incumbents’ politics, in places like Japan, South Africa, South Korea and Britain.
Mexico? Not mentioned, because then they’d have to point out that incumbent parties that have actually done something to help people out of poverty tend to win reelection.
Mexico? Not mentioned, because then they’d have to point out that incumbent parties that have actually done something to help people out of poverty tend to win reelection.
They’d also have to admit that latino men apparently have no problem with voting for a woman as head of state. She just needs to not run on a platform of fucking over the working class.
it must be such a sick job to get paid six figures to write fictional newspaper articles that dont have to have any connection to reality
Death to America
Grocery prices - not mentioned.
It’s so funny that you called this out because right now there’s a post on the front page of the NY Times scaremongering about how “aktchually, Trump’s tariffs will make grocery prices go up (not like the imaginary ‘price gouging’ you’ve been imagining!)”
Some analysts point out that Ms. Harris was simply the latest political casualty of a postpandemic global trend favoring challengers
Fuck off
Sometimes, after a life-altering, traumatic, global pandemic, the masses just dislike their current leaders. It just, like, happens I guess.
Turns out when you can’t mention all the awful neoliberal policies that actually made her lose, you really only have “she was unlikable” and blaming minorites
India also was reelected (i mean hard to remember 1 bln people country right)
i think china reelected the CPC too - unless i majorly missed some news in 2023
I kinda skipping china/russia/turkey (for libness of argument sake)
its also a harder argument to make. we all know the chinese communist party is responsive to people’s concerns, that they ‘have constituents’.
and we are also not naive enough to think that its a monolithic hivemind, that there’s no politicking or factioneering within it.
if we are to say that the incumbents were rewarded in china’s national government, we have to make a much more complicated analysis than just pointing to mexico and saying - yo, this government keeps getting rewarded like they actually are more progressive than FDR.
Tbf in case of India, Modi lost his majority and vote share.
Did they get in a coalition? I thought they squeaked by small majority
Yes the Government is only holding together because of the coalition.
BJP lost, coalition won.
The descent of many libs into “it was rigged” is predictable, fascinating and very very funny. The latest I have seen is that Starlink was interfering with vote counts because Elon told Joe Rogan he had an app that gave him a prediction of the election 4 hours before the polls closed
too lazy to make a post but
on amerikkkan celebrities, beacons of virtue.Imagine donating to campaign to fight fascism (together with 700 mln dark money, but putting that aside), and they pay katy perry cool 1 million for appearance
They basically spend 3x the amount Trump did just so Trump can tweet this:
https://xcancel.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1855404088734945765I am very surprised that the Democrats, who fought a hard and valiant fight in the 2020 Presidential Election, raising a record amount of money, didn’t have lots of $’s left over. Now they are being squeezed by vendors and others. Whatever we can do to help them during this difficult period, I would strongly recommend we, as a Party and for the sake of desperately needed UNITY, do. We have a lot of money left over in that our biggest asset in the campaign was “Earned Media,” and that doesn’t cost very much. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
His posting abilities are flowing back
Spending money to advertise your message across the nation to energize voters? No. Let’s blow it all on concerts. Amazing strategy.
That last line, this was the Pod Johns!
scrap Alanis Morissette
get scrapped by the big wet boy worse than Hillary did
Ironic
At least some lanyards got to have a party which is good for them. It’s still better than blowing the money trying to tell moderate republican unicorns that K-dolf is racist enough for them to vote for her.
disgusting husks of human beings, absolutely perversion from top to bottom in that department of anything resembling morality
are you client maxxxing rn, hexbears? I’m my kitty’s client
But more in meganews vibecheck, do you think old musky boy will try to reign in trumpo re:china? or be accelerationist, like tim apple, with bans?
China’s electric cars blow Tesla out of the water. He will probably support China tariffs/bans in exchange for even more subsidies
On one hand, he has a giant factory in China, on the other hand his biggest competitor is chinese.
He will lobby for Trump to compensate him for his lost china factories by giving him seized factories in Mexico. And by seized I mean annexed
Generally speaking, there is the public show and what actually happens.
Everyone involved at a certain level knows what’s up.
if you are in president’s ear, china market might seem like small potatoes compared to idk, monopoly on solar/defence/evs
Both. He’ll encourage Trump to go after China HARD, but gain some kind of exception to the tariffs, bans, etc.
Hail to the king, baby
all roads lead to china
Until you learn that china is controlled by three mafia clans, who were bought out by the british in the 1800s, who in turn are controlled by genoan/venetian cartel
is this the snyder cut nerds keep talking about?
Professor David Miller unearthing the global network of zionist organizations involved in the “Combat Antisemitism Movement” to justify the genocide of Palestine and propaganda that will “reach millions through digital campaigns, influencer partnerships, and an innovation lab.” Here is a selection of just some of the over 850 organizations involved.
Indigenous coalition for Israel
Canada loves wokewashing their support for fascism, perfect example is them saying two-spirit people were victims of Communism on black ribbon day (fascist
holiday celebrated in )I did not know of this Black Ribbon Day. Clown shit.
german parliament enacts “anti-antisemitism” law effectively banning pro-palestinian speech
article text
The text was ready just in time for November 9. After all, the “traffic light” parties and the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag wanted to use the opportunity to misuse the commemoration of the Reichspogromnacht for a comprehensive attack on freedom of opinion, freedom of assembly, artistic freedom and academic freedom. Nothing else is behind the resolution with the misleading title “Never again is now: Protecting, preserving and strengthening Jewish life in Germany”.
The pamphlet, which is to be passed by the Bundestag this Thursday, has nothing to do with the fight against anti-Semitism. After all, what use is it to Jews if the Bundestag is eloquently happy about the “diversity of Jewish life”, but at the same time deliberately harasses them with the most stupid distortion possible: by equating the state of Israel and their religious community. This is exactly what happens in the resolution, which is emphatically based on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism, which defames criticism of Israeli policy as “anti-Semitic”. Rejection of war and genocide or opposition to the illegal occupation policy thus fall outside the spectrum of permissible opinions. A great “diversity” that is being celebrated.
However, other groups are the main target of the resolution. “In recent months, the alarming extent of anti-Semitism based on immigration from the countries of North Africa and the Middle East has become clear,” the text states. In addition, there is also an “increase in Israel-related and left-wing anti-imperialist anti-Semitism”. The solution to this? Ampel and the CDU are calling for “loopholes in the law to be closed and repressive options to be consistently exploited”. This applies “in particular to criminal law as well as residence, asylum and citizenship law”.
The addressees of these remarks march in uniformed beatings squads, sit in courtrooms and offices. Dog-whistle politics is the term used when enemy images are named in disguise and released for firing. The resolution may not have the force of law, but it is a signal to the representatives of the “raison d’état” to strike without inhibition when they encounter supposed “anti-Semites” with the wrong religion, the wrong origin or the wrong - because anti-imperialist - convictions. The Springer newspaper “Welt” rightly hopes that this will lead to “a considerable toughening of the approach towards all those who agitate against Israel or against Jews”. Anyone following the brutal police attacks on Palestine solidarity camps and demonstrations that are already taking place can easily imagine what will happen next.
But it is not only on the streets and in the immigration authorities that the “pace” is being stepped up. The resolution calls for further bans on associations against “extremist organizations”. The internationally active BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) is explicitly mentioned. “Anti-Semitic behavior” at universities should be punished by “appropriate means”. These include: “the application of domiciliary rights, exclusion from classes or studies and even de-registration”. Funding for art and culture will only be available after an attitude test. Anyone who leans too far out of the window here with criticism - for example of German involvement in the genocide in Gaza - will quickly be out.
According to the will of the traffic-light-coalition and CDU, already severely restricted debating chambers will soon be closed completely. This is also attracting criticism from the middle classes. In the “Berliner Zeitung” newspaper, Olaf Zimmermann, Managing Director of the German Cultural Council, spoke out “against an obligation to make a statement when applying for cultural funding”. Deutschlandfunk radio reported on confidential discussions with members of the Bundestag who had “followed the work on this resolution with grave misgivings, in some cases horror”. They had felt under pressure from pro-Israeli lobby organizations and the Israeli embassy, among others, and were afraid of “being defamed as anti-Semites and Israel haters by the Bild newspaper”.
The consequences of the resolution should therefore come as no surprise to anyone. Especially not for those who are hardened enough to push ahead with the reactionary-militaristic restructuring of the state under the title “Never again is now”.
i know this is a somewhat older article but the ramifications for german anti-zionism are terrifying and should be brought to international attention.
i thought that ukrainian ultras turning against europe and doing terrorism there was a bit of a silly, far fetched scenario but trump’s second? dumbest son seems be manifesting this shit before our eyes. this isn’t salting the wound its pure acid
the fascist state that put (iirc) an 11-year-old on their publicly available “kill list” will definitely not put him on any private lists for this
An 11 yo???
my bad, she was 13 [audio clip of Liz saying “clip that”]
Jesus fucking Christ.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
IDK the difference is that Trump Jr. is close to imperial power, whereas that (pre-)teen was not. Politics doesn’t care about the powerless, and (especially with overwhelming fascist influence) will trample them like ants.
Imagine if an Ukrainian terrorist kills Trump, and then he get fucking JD Vance as president because Zelensky couldn’t control his guys.
No couch is safe
It’s so cool how best hope for peace is trump and failsons pettiness here, while in gaza it’s exactly the opposite
No humanity in that family
What happens in 38 days? Is Trump Jr. just calendarically illiterate, or…?
No Christmas presents
Dec 20. No Solstice presents!
Good. America has the ultimate trump card to force zelenksi the dumbfuck and the eu dipshits into negotiations with russia, it can simply unilaterally pull american backing out of the war and leave the euros to NOT be able to keep it going.
Julie Alli (host speaker of Salaamedia) now openly refers to it as “Nazi israel” in addition to the “Zionist Apartheid entity” and she even doubled down since this morning while interviewing the coordinator for the Palestine Solidarity Committe Prof. Usuf Chikte. He also on live radio stated that if Zionists don’t want to be called Nazis, then they should not be Nazis.
I should start putting these interviews on TankieTube
As stated in my post in selfcrit, I’m staying on the site to host the news megathreads and will keep posting as normal.
I already completely made up my mind. My post there wasn’t to try and get people to beg for me to return, it was just to be transparent about why I felt like I was a subpar moderator in light of recent events and therefore why I left. I’m the only mod on self_improvement so I can’t just leave (literally, the site UI doesn’t allow zero moderators AFAIK) so once we’ve sorted that out, I will no longer be a part of the mod team and I’ve already left the mod chat.
Being a mod is annoying as hell so I can’t blame you. But in all seriousness the news mega is the best part of this site so I’m very happy you’re continuing to host.
I completely avoided the drama and don’t have any interest in it. But the news megas are great and I appreciate you running them. Stay cool
me: what drama?
Ditto. Like 99% of my participation in Hexbear is here, in the news mega threads. Things seem(ed) fine to me.
I’ve never been anything but satisfied with the way the news threads has been modded. And the work you do hosting the news mega is really impressive and highly appreciated.
No one is posting there because they assume you did it so we would beg, they are posting there to let you know no one here thinks you were a subpar moderator. Your choice though.
Thank you for your service. I’m sure you’ll be more valuable to the community as a news head than as a bouncer.
Iranian bank cards now operational in Russian ATMs
Iranian citizens are now able to withdraw cash using their Shetab payment system cards in Russia, marking the first phase of integration between Iran’s Shetab and Russia’s Mir payment networks, Iran’s embassy in Moscow announced on November 11.
Lmao
https://xcancel.com/CallaWalsh
^a comrade going to jail for 60 days for the elbit thingy in new hampshire. Seamus has an interview but its paywalled.
Anyways
to brave comrade
why are they doing this? 🧠
Do they truly want to pre align to trump out of civility? What kinda brainworms are here?
At the risk of posting the same thing again, I am now fully on board with the punishment theory.
Libs are extremely vindictive when minorities aren’t behaving as the good, subservient roles that white liberals expect them to be. They are supposed to embellish the progressiveness of white liberals, not to stand up for themselves. The libs now want to punish the Latinos that they perceive to be voting for Trump and cost Harris the election.
It’s so the Democrats can run on “Compared to Biden/Harris, Trump’s border policy wasn’t effective enough” in 2028 and win another 12 Republican voters
you terminally online leftists don’t understand democracy. kamala ran on a ‘save democracy platform’. she lost. therefore the only democratic action the party can take is to do what the people want and support president biden in his bid to implement trump’s agenda.
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It’s called a “mandate”, sweaty.
As part of the peaceful transition of power it’s critical that the Biden administration uses the next 2 months to align the executive branch with Trump’s vision so that he can hit the ground running day 1
Its astonishing, do they not hate the guy? do they truly hate immigrants? what is reasoning here? Nobody would notice if they didn’t do it. Nobody will notice they did do it, except for thousands of immigrants getting the door
Biden lost his stutter as soon as he lost, old superpredator Joe is back.
Biden 4 year seance of healing the soul of the nation, results:
paleocon nativism is back
his brain broke and reknit itself in also paleocon nativism shape
its 1870s motherfuckers
Biden is competing with Obama for deporter-in-chief status.
I’m really going to miss this emote
Don’t worry: Genocide Joe’s corpse (either the literal one or KKKopmala again) will run in 2028 and we can resurrect the emoji, too.
There’s no longer a (close) election for which to pretend. Not that he was pretending much before, having enacted the fascist anti-immigration bill via executive order that Congress refused to (so as to avoid giving him credit).
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