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.
I'm curious what restrictions the Zionists think exist on them that this would be a meaningful policy change, like, Israel could drop a thermonuclear warhead onto a refugee camp in Gaza and Biden would just be like "As we process and analyze the event that has occurred inside Gaza to see how many millions of Hamas terrorist militants have been killed, we need to remember the horrors of October 7th..."
every single time I've seen the Israeli government claim that Biden held them back from doing something, it was so fucking obvious that they needed to scapegoat to the Israeli population why they didn't perform an action that would have gotten their shit kicked in. Full on like "oh yeah, the reason why we didn't drop 50 nukes on Iran after that first attack in April is because, uh, Biden forced us not to do it, definitely not because if we did that, the rubble of the depopulated ruins of Tel Aviv would be bouncing from the rain of Iranian ballistic missiles for the next month."
It is critical that they NEVER suggest they have vulnerabilities or are in some way incapable, and events that so brazenly demonstrate that they are actually in a very vulnerable position (October 7th, both Iranian missile attacks, etc) either have the tragedy aspect of it dialed up to 11 so to as to prevent analysis of the fact that Israel is weak, or they demand that you ignore the evidence of your senses and all the videos of missiles slamming into airbases totally unimpeded by what is supposed to be the most well-defended airspace on the planet with a solid 30 fucking countries all pitching in in various ways and instead write headlines like "184% of Iranian missiles intercepted - what is next for the collapsing Iranian regime?" and "Here's what's next for Gaza, the West Bank, and South Lebanon once we've defeated the terrorists" as if they will ever defeat the Resistance and get to annex any more land. They're just inventing comfortable alternative realities about how surely everything will turn out fine and that they'll be riding ferris wheels in the futuristic city they'll build over Gaza, while their citizens get ready for the third scramble to the bunkers that day and they get another hourly "difficult event" alert. The delusional daydreams of the final days of empire.
The constraints on the IDF are as real as the "handcuffs" on the AFU
You could at least attempt to argue that Ukraine has been kinda fucked over by the West because they look like they're not rolling out their tanks and artillery and air defense and ammunition as quickly as they could hypothetically do it, but like, Israel has been dropping massive bombs onto refugee camps and hospitals and schools and using Western intelligence and has been given a blank check by Biden since hour 1 of the conflict, and the Israelis are still like "oh yeah, uh, the reason why we aren't doing as well as we'd like is because we need another 100 billion dollars and Biden just isn't giving that to us." To any serious observer of the conflict this line is obviously ridiculous, but they can't give the real reason (that the Resistance is fucking their military up) because it would only worsen the perception of the situation and weaken the rhetoric of "our enemies are both utterly weak and we can defeat them in a week but also an existential threat and so we need 10,000 MOABs right now please Mr Trump", so they just have to pretend that they're being stabbed in the back.
Third Reich shit. "Our military is awesome, our Tiger tanks definitely work 100% of the time, our soldiers are ubermensch, we're just being undermined by (insert country/population/ethnicity/political group here). No worries, we're definitely beating the USSR, there's no way we'll be pushed out of France, and our descendents will be attending the finest courses in race science throughout Greater Isr-- the Reich. Just some minor setbacks here and there on the border."
He's promising that that one shipment (out of many hundreds) of arms that was delayed slightly under GenoJoe will not happen again. As if his sheer incompetence won't cause more delays than that out-of-the-box. LMAO.