Bulletins and News Discussion from November 11th to November 17th, 2024 - Chapo? Like, the President-elect of Mozambique? - COTW: Mozambique
Bulletins and News Discussion from November 11th to November 17th, 2024 - Chapo? Like, the President-elect of Mozambique? - COTW: Mozambique
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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 @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.
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First order of Austerity is gutting the Department of Education.
8 years after this goes through there will be a sizeable hitler youth hitting military recruitment age. Schools will be used to create fascists, focusing very closely on education is what happened in Ukraine post 2014 coup and I have wondered for quite a while now if that was being used as a testbed before exporting to the rest of the empire in the same way Chile was once used as a testbed for neoliberalism.
Do you have some source regarding the transformation of the education in Ukraine post 2014 ? What I found was banning of literature written by soviet and Russian authors.
Is there more ?
Quick minor digging: https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ukraine-celebrates-nazi-collaborator-stepan-banderas-birthday
Schools and universities have been instructed to hold classes on Bandera while the Ministry of Culture was told to stage exhibitions about him.
This is a pre-war 2019 article.
@Cowbee@hexbear.net was interested too. I will find more in a little while there was interesting video that showed some discussion and footage inside schools that I recall, it's just buried as hell behind mountains of war bullshit now.
The point is that schools are a major vector for creating whatever fucking population you want to create. Everything begins with the schools.
EDIT: Holy shit look at this thread - https://www.reddit.com/r/Ukrainian/comments/1aumter/help/
Interesting, appreciate you digging this up. It tracks historically with the "Hitler Youth," and other focuses on wielding education and early development groups to reinforce the superstructural aspects of society.
Reminds me of the "Girl Meets World" anti-Communist segment on Disney Channel, targeting children is an effective way of "planting seeds" for future gains for the class in control of education.
If I recall correctly they moved very very quickly in 2014 to change education. Consider how 8 years lines up basically perfectly with the war, an entire generation raised on a hastily thrown together ultranationalist education right as the war started. The most affected by it will have volunteered immediately at the start and are likely dead now.
My concern would be what they might have timed for 7-8 years after the education systems are changed.
Both horrifying and interesting. I'll try to dig in further and see what I can find, that brings an entirely new perspective to the table I hadn't thought of, thank you.
@qcop@hexbear.net @Cowbee@hexbear.net I found some ultra ghoul shit from the ultra ghouls themselves: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraines-education-sector-reforms-are-under-threat/
Atlantic Council complaining that the 2014 changes to education(by the coup government ministers) were "under threat" in 2020. This article also points to some laws worth looking at that would have occurred alongside the educational changes. Gives a little more direction for digging.
The reforms that are now in danger began in 2014 with a new Law on Higher Education.
Disgusting, thanks for sharing. I'll get to reading.
I found this pdf on the Law on Higher Education straight from a ukrainian official source https://dduvs.edu.ua/wp-content/uploads/files/ENG/2020/la.pdf.
I have not read it entirely because I couldn’t be bothered to read 100 pages of this however from a cursory glance it looks like the law is aiming to align their education system with the rest of the EU through the European Higher Education Area (meaning ETCS, bachelor, master etc.)
Of course it’s full of neoliberal ideology, but that’s what you’d expect from a EU law.
This Law sets forth the principal legal, organizational and financial foothold for operations of the higher education system, creates an environment to enhance cooperation between state authorities, businesses and higher education institutions on the principles of institutional autonomy for higher education, integration of education, science and industry intended to foster and promote competitive human capital for the country’s high technological and innovative development, individual self-fulfilment, and meeting the needs of the society, labour market and the State in skilled labour force.
facilitation of public-private partnership in the area of higher education;
I can see some good stuff like:
adequate government support to education and training of individuals with special education needs by creating free access to education experience and ensuring specialized learning and rehabilitation support;
All in all my guess is that these changes were done with a EU membership in sight in the next X years. I did not see clear mention on ultra-nationalist focused education, but rather a goal to raise a generation that would probably be culturally aligned with the EU, through education ties and way wore aligned with liberalism. However, it looks like the changes are not going smoothly and the atlantic council ghouls don’t like that.
In the end, I cannot speak as to how this impacted education in Ukraine since 2014 and whether they did some other stuff as I don’t know a single person that was still in school during this period in Ukraine.
They also started teaching war tactics from NATO training manuals to children in Ukrainian schools. They are indoctrinating an entire generation to become cannon fodder for NATO.
...share please
EDIT: Holy shit look at this thread - https://www.reddit.com/r/Ukrainian/comments/1aumter/help/
I'm from Odesa, in fact it is southern Ukraine but usually considered as eastern Ukraine. Initially I didn't like Bandera at all, actually I hate him and didn't like everybody who praised him. But after I carefully studied his biography I changed my mind about him.
After I "carefully studied" Mein Kampf, I found that Hitler wasn't that bad.
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Holy shit that thread
I'm from Odesa, in fact it is southern Ukraine but usually considered as eastern Ukraine. Initially I didn't like Bandera at all, actually I hate him and didn't like everybody who praised him. But after I carefully studied his biography I changed my mind about him. I didn't find anything really bad about him. He was person of that time and was real patriot. But he also did nothing great. In fact he was a looser and didn't achieve anything. So my view of him is slightly positive, as of Ukrainian patriot who was ready to gave his life for his country, as of philosopher of Ukrainian nation, but nothing more.
I hated Bandera until I learned he killed Polish and Jewish people
Thanks for your efforts, I'll look at the links you provided!
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Ahhh fuck there was A LOT more but digging it up is going to be hard. One of the main things I remember was Bandera being taught differently in their history lessons and some other parts about ww2 were changed.
I will dig.
Would be interested as well.
Where do I send my kid? Is a northeast, diverse, left leaning town with good schools shielded by any of this, or will this end public schools nationwide?
Blue states are going to be fine, red states are going to be the trouble.
I'm really not that familiiar with the US on the ground but at a guess I'd say Vermont and Massachusetts are least likely to start up a far right or christo-fash education if this goes through.
Florida's gonna be bad, as will the other states with either a heavy fash presence or a heavy religious one.
would be proudDeath to America
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