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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 @[email protected] 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.
Wapo - https://archive.is/nI1sw
NYT - https://archive.is/rV4As
And politico - https://archive.is/lMrbi
All articles from the last day or so saying how azover it really is
Now, I’ll believe a major foreign policy change from trump when I see it, but setting aside that uncertainty, it is notable that the liberal corporate media has switched gears to defeatism/realism like this. Too bad they didn’t do that when the population of ukraine was 10m people higher, but here we are.
What a contrast here
A few days ago a new Chinese built port was inaugurated by xi
In an opinion article in the El Peruano state newspaper, Xi said the Chancay project would generate $4.5 billion in annual revenues, create more than 8,000 direct jobs and reduce the logistics costs of the Peru-China route by 20%.
China’s main motivation for developing the megaport, according to Ocharan, was access to neighboring Brazil, where a new railway line is planned to carry Brazilian exports such as soybeans and iron ore to the port.
The rail project is estimated to cost $3.5 billion, according to Mario de las Casas, corporate affairs manager at Cosco Shipping Chancay Peru.
And then this, Blinken announcing that the US is contributing to a new rail line in lima
Which is actually caltrain selling lima some 40 year old diesel train parts for $6m
Definitely a deal worthy of rocking in the free world
Cope cages have spread to China
Map of sites struck in Ukraine yesterday:
Seems like the air defenses of the AFU are almost completely non-existent at this point.
It has been widely speculated whether Trump’s administration will be a lunatics clown show that has no concept of foreign policy or regular bloodthirsty neocons itching to start war on every continent.
Does the sudden uptick in support for Ukraine mean that the state have no trust in Trump and are trying to wrap things up before he comes?
Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles
Big development. Russia previously drew a very clear red line about this.
Speaking in St Petersburg, President Putin sent a clear warning to the West: don’t allow Ukraine to use your long-range missiles to strike Russian territory.
Moscow, he said, would view that as the “direct participation” of Nato countries in the war in Ukraine.
“It would substantially change the very essence, the nature of the conflict,” the Kremlin leader continued.
“This will mean that Nato countries, the USA and European states, are fighting with Russia.”
He claimed that, for missile launches into Russia, Ukraine would require data from Western satellites and that only servicemen from Nato member states would be able to “input flight missions into these missile systems”.
Elon Musk responds to Brazlian First Lady Rosângela da Silva, who criticized him at the social G-20. “They will lose the next election”, said Musk. Janja spoke out against the billionaire. “Fuck you, Elon Musk,” she said.
Since the Amsterdam maccabi hooligan event, Israel has been trying really hard to influence the narrative put out by media and politicians. The ministry of Diaspora has put out a document detailing supposed ties between Palestinian liberation activist groups and Hamas (lol). They also claim that these liberation groups preplanned the attacks on hooligans, and their proof is literally just a call for people to come join their protest during the match.
These ‘allegations’ would be funny if we did not have a right extremist government that is receptive to them.
Here is Minister Amichai Chikli outlining these conspiracies himself: https://x.com/amichaichikli/status/1856397777548284273
OK so US presidents can start wars out of spite before leaving office so who do you think Trump will start a war against before he leaves?
So what do you think Trump’s policy towards Ukraine will be? Will he continue with aid, but in a limited capacity? Will he cut off all aid? Will he give much more aid than the Democrats and become a total supporter of Ukraine? While Trump, from what I remember, said he was going to push for a peace treaty, that was during the campaign. Now that he is the President things will change. I believe the MIC made a lot of money in Ukraine, and they go the chance to test some stuff against Russian stuff. I believe he will attempt to continue the war a bit longer, until he gets a peace deal where he can been seen as in a good position.
In the Amazon, US President Joe Biden signed the document that creates the International Day of Conservation and also stipulated the resources that will be allocated to the Amazon Fund.
“At first, I thought I was fighting to save the rubber tappers. Then I realized I was fighting to save the Atlantic Forest and the rainforest, and then I realized I was fighting for humanity. (…) Today, I’m proud to be here.” - Joe Biden
Directly from the Amazon, US President Joe Biden authorized Ukraine to use long-range missiles against Russian territory. These missiles are highly destructive and are supplied by the US. Previously, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, had suggested that if this were to happen, he might use nuclear weapons in response.
The US and their dogs allowing Ukraine to strike Russian territory with long-range missiles doesn’t change anything. Russia under Putin are committed to deescalation until the Ukraine war is wrapped up, and Ukraine’s biggest issues are in Ukraine itself. Hitting an oil refinery in Rostov won’t stop Russian advances in Donetsk. Those strikes might affect Russian supply lines a bit, but Russia has a lot of options with different paths to take to reach the front.
8 die in knife rampage as China suffers second mass killing in a week
Police say 21-year-old held after attack at college where he had studied had failed his exams and was angry about low pay as factory intern
Uh-huh, what up deng. And btw “the desire to succeed in exams” actually shows the fucked payscale in china
Israel Evicts Bedouin Village to Build Jewish-Only Town - Telesur English
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There has been a 400 percent increase in the issuance of demolition orders, Zionist Minister Ben Gvir confirmed. In order to avoid covering the expenses, about 300 residents of the Arab Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, in the Negev desert, destroyed their own homes on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Israeli Police and the Land Authority demolished the only remaining structure, the mosque, with the aim of clearing the area to build a Jewish-only town.
“The destruction of Umm al-Hiran to make way for the settlement of Dror is part of a systematic population replacement program in the Negev, intended to uproot nearly 10,000 people in 14 villages and replace them with almost 20 new Jewish colonies, sometimes on the same land,” the Regional Council of Unrecognized Bedouin Villages (RCUV) said today following this forced evacuation.
After a legal battle lasting over 20 years, this is the fourth Bedouin village destroyed by the Israeli government in 2024, and in December, the same is expected to happen to Ras Jaraba, a community in the Negev with over 500 residents and under judicial eviction orders since July 2023.
Already in 2017, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Adalah) reported that the community replacing Al-Hiran would be open only to “Jewish Israeli citizens or permanent residents who observe the Torah and commandments according to the values of Orthodox Judaism.”
An RCUV spokesperson, Nati Yefet, indicated that around a hundred police officers, accompanied by seven bulldozers, entered the village at around 3:30 a.m. Three residents, like many today resettled in the 12th neighborhood of the nearby town of Hura, were detained for nine hours. At the same time, the mosque was demolished.
“There is justice, and there is justice! A mosque and illegal buildings constructed in the village of Umm al-Hiran, in the Negev, were destroyed this morning by government tractors,” celebrated National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, a settler and avowed racist who oversees police forces, today on X.
“Since the beginning of the year, there has been a 400 percent increase in the issuance of demolition orders: Proud to lead a strong policy of destroying illegal houses in the Negev!” added Ben Gvir, who was convicted in 2007 for supporting a terrorist organization and incitement to racism.
Israel does not recognize, nor show on its maps, 36 semi-nomadic Bedouin villages that predate the establishment of this state in 1948. Only eleven have been recognized in the last two decades, but human rights organizations report they lack any basic infrastructure like water, electricity, or roads.
The Zionist government aims for some 350,000 Bedouins to abandon their agricultural lifestyle in the Negev and live in limited, impoverished urban areas. At least 190,000 Bedouins have already been forced to do so.
The government’s ‘Population Replacement’ program in the Negev seeks to displace around 9,000 Arab Bedouins from 14 villages and replace them with a similar number of Jewish settlements. Despite comprising nearly 40 percent of the Negev’s population, Bedouins have access to less than 10 percent of agricultural areas and less than 4 percent of the land.
“The destruction of Umm al-Hiran this morning exemplifies the face of institutionalized racism in its most extreme form. The triumphant statements by the Israel Land Authority are a punch to the gut, although, unfortunately, we expect nothing better from Ben Gvir, the Minister of National Security. It is incomprehensible that a government authority would openly boast about its discriminatory policies,” RCUV stated.
