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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Maduro praises Lula after president says he won't question Venezuelan justice
After the diplomatic crisis with Brazil, the Venezuelan president said that the interview was “a point in Lula's favor”. The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, said on Monday (11) that the Brazilian head of state, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), made a “wise reflection” when he said that he could not question the Venezuelan Supreme Court.
“I saw [Lula's statements] this morning, I thought it was very good. I agree with Lula. Each country has to find a way to resolve its issues, its conflicts, its problems. Brazil with its institutions and its national, sovereign dynamic, and Venezuela with our institutions and our sovereign dynamic too,” said the Chavista.
Maduro said he thought the Brazilian president's speech was “wise”. “I think it was a wise reflection by Lula, I could say: point in favor of Lula,” he praised.
“I don't have the right to question the Supreme Court of another country, because I don't want any country to question my Supreme Court, even when it makes mistakes. Even when it does as it did with me, not allowing me to be a candidate in 2018,” said the Brazilian president.
Wasn't Lula the one who vetoed Venezuela being in BRICS. I'm so confused by what's going on over there.
Brazil will be the leader of BRICS next year (Russia is the current leader), Maduro still wants to join and maintain good relations with Brazil due to possible new attacks from the US' new goverment. Brazil will probably not veto Venezuela again, as they have nothing to gain from another veto (there will be no elections in Brazil or Venezuela next year). Besides, I read somewhere (I think it was in Brazil de Fato or Telesur) that Maduro was speficially attacking Brazilians diplomats (a right-wing diplomat that works in Russia and, not even joking, met with Brazilian-Japanese V-Tubers in a Brazilian funded event) and not Lula or the Workers' Party, I doubt this and Nicaragua's bad relations with Brazil would have lasted long.
Ah makes sense. Is Brazil not friendly with Venezuela? Do they use the same standard communist bad language as the US so an association with them hurts Lula's re-election?
Is Brazil not friendly with Venezuela?
Currently? Yes, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia are friendly towards Venezuela.
Do they use the same standard communist bad language as the US so an association with them hurts Lula's re-election?
Yes, Lula generally needs the support of liberals in Congress and to elect some of his allies. Liberals really don't like Venezuela and generally badmouth it or simply refuse to do anything to help it. Conservatives and the far right are supported by the MSM narrative that Venezuela is an evil communist dictatorship, and conservatives have the opportunity to say that Lula and the left are like Bolsonaro and the far right, because Bolsonaro was friends with the Saudis.
And they think Venezuela is a brutal regime like the Saudis, so in this way they portray Lula as a radical like Bolsonaro and present themselves as moderates (they're not, they want to destroy the public schools and the health system). They even say idiotic things like they used to say on Fox News, Castrochavismo. They say Lulapetismo, they want to destroy Lula's image and the image of the Workers' Party before the public. Before Venezuela, they used to talk about Cuba and Fidel Castro. But I feel that, in recent years, no one is talking about Venezuela anymore, probably because the US has stopped thinking much about it after it failed so many times to remove Maduro from power.
Lula be like:
"I stand with any national leader in their fight against American political interference and far-right coups"
I don't have the right to question the Supreme Court of another country, because I don't want any country to question my Supreme Court, even when it makes mistakes. Even when it does as it did with me, not allowing me to be a candidate in 2018Fucking civility pilled loser. Like yeah lula is better than bolosnaro but god what a fucking liberal.
I guess this talking is a way Lula found to appease both Venezuela and the Brazilian Supreme Court (They are not good people, but the Congress and Senate, who are under far-right control, keep attacking and annoying the Supreme Court which leads to the Supreme Court sometimes doing good things for the wrong motives, like fucking with Bolsonaro and protecting minorities).
But he’ll sink the brics application? Brazilians pls explain
Brazil will be the leader of BRICS next year (Russia is the current leader), Maduro still wants to join and maintain good relations with Brazil due to possible new attacks from the US' new goverment. Brazil will probably not veto Venezuela again, as they have nothing to gain from another veto (there will be no elections in Brazil or Venezuela next year).
Was Lula’s electoral position so fraught that something as small as Venezuela entering brics could sink him?
Not him (Lula himself is popular, but he struggles to give this popularity to his own party and allies), his political allies (party coalition, the Liberals that usually support Lula and vote for him, really hate Venezuela due to the MSM being Pro-US)