Bulletins and News Discussion from July 29th to August 4th, 2024 - Haters Stay Mad(uro) - COTW: Venezuela
Bulletins and News Discussion from July 29th to August 4th, 2024 - Haters Stay Mad(uro) - COTW: Venezuela
Image is of a colectivo: an armed group, usually operating in impoverished areas, which act to support and defend the socialist government of Venezuela. They are often derided as vigilante terrorist groups which prop up the government, because cops are only bad when they are socialist and not murdering minorities, I suppose.
Maduro's party, the PSUV, has won the election after a staggering amount of propaganda by the opposition, who said their polls suggested they were going to win and that Maduro's loss was inevitable. The reaction across Latin America is what one would expect. Left-leaning leaders are generally respecting the results and congratulating Maduro, while those on the right and/or are US puppets (such as in semirecently-couped Peru) are calling for recounts, or even that the election was illegitimate. The US itself is also unhappy about the results. We shall soon see if their unhappiness boils over into yet another coup attempt.
Personally, I think they should have ran Guaido again.
Thank you to @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net for the election coverage here, and everything else they do in the news megathread.
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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 daily-ish 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 (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.
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.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
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.
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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For the second time this year, the Royal Moroccan Navy will conduct several military exercises along the coast of Western Sahara, approximately 125 kilometres from the Canary Islands.
These exercises will begin in September and end at the end of December. During the hours in which these exercises are taking place, no fishing vessels will be allowed to fish in the area.
The part about fishing being banned is important to remember, because fishing is one of the most important food source for Sahrawis
Fucking hell. First they chase them away from the areas where their camels pastured, making them dependent on foreign food aid, and now this. Fuck Morocco, honestly.
Turns out they also do the zionist thing of kicking people out of their homes, https://spsrasd.info/en/2024/07/16/4247.html Arabic version has more details https://spsrasd.info/ar/2024/07/16/4247.html
Check the site it has more stuff https://spsrasd.info/en/depeches/categories/zones-occupees
One of my favorite professors in grad school, and a mentor of mine ever since did his doctoral thesis on the geography of the Sahrawi peoples based on the taste of camel's milk, and that's how I came to know about their situation. It opened my eyes to how food is a weapon of war, even under the guise of "aid" it erases local culture in favor of docility and in the case of the Sahrawi, settlement of nomadic peoples.
Thank you for the additional info, i'll check it once i'm not drunk.
It opened my eyes to how food is a weapon of war, even under the guise of "aid" it erases local culture in favor of docility and in the case of the Sahrawi, settlement of nomadic peoples.
Thomas Sankara talked about this subject, which I saw quoted on hexbear: https://xcancel.com/AgBioWorld/status/1375432265275224064
Yeah I'm familiar with the Sankara quote, it would be an improvement over traditional aid, but it's still a perspective I don't 100% agree with.
Plus, the Sahrawi are nomadic peoples, so they don't practice agriculture the way we normally think of it.
When will we get 🇲🇦🔥 emoji?
Seriously, marg bar Morocco.
Probably before we get 🇮🇱 🔥
Personally I’m not just against the idf or the “far right Zionists,” I want the state of Israel to be destroyed
Yes but there was already a struggle session around a burning Star of David, and it was decided that a foundational Isntreali paramilitary was suitable as a replacement on the still-recognisable blue and white flag of the zionist entity.
Relitigating a struggle session
who determined that? Was it put to a vote?
WhyEssEff if I recall, who does the emotes, but no it was not. There was a whole struggle session over it which you probably know about.
You wanna relitigate this, go antagonise the mods or make your own instance with a burning star of david.
Plenty of previous discussion is available on the topic but I cannot believe there is a group of hexbears doing the Japanese WWII Holdouts thing over this.
not sure this response was warranted, but I’m glad we’ve got the “if you don’t like it, leave” contingent re: the fascism flag
Pretty sure the general idea was that it was too close to antisemitism for hexbear dot net. Didn't want to give a vector for wreckers to make use of 'round these parts.
even entertaining the idea that its anti-semitic to burn the Israeli flag is giving in to Hasbara arguments and is throwing the axis of resistance under the bus to appease Liberal optics. It's bad. The more you argue it the more it makes you into a zionist-lite
I understand that. Nevertheless, the decision preempts possible future antisemitism in exactly the way the Israeli state desires: put the star of David on our flag/state/genocide as a shield
in all those discussions our side is correct and gets ignored by the zionist-lites who agree with zionist logic
"it was decided"
a couple mods folded to zionist logic, wow. i guess it's forever settled, we're abiding by zionist rules and framing