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
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.
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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?
Declaring wars has been out of style for decades. Nowadays you just start bombing and everything floats in this quasi-space where everything (and nothing) is possible and everybody writes strongly-worded letters to each other and sets up red lines that exist in quantum superpositions of existence and non-existence, broken and unbroken.
So, with that said, I reckon the US will start bombing West Africa and just not talk about it, ever, because nobody in the media will give a shit. It'll be like how the US bombed (and/or helped bomb) Yemen for a decade and it was one of those conflicts where once a year, you got a patronizing NYT article headlined like "In This Forgotten War, There is Both Hunger and Hope" (they literally do this with Sudan) and no other coverage. And so everybody was/is baffled why Yemen is so pissed off at the West not knowing that hundreds of thousands of people have been killed by Western-backed forces, and so they just start doing body language analysis on Abdul-Malik al-Houthi to try and explain shit, just like Roman haruspexes.
So we'll have US forces dropping JDAMs on Nigerien government buildings and hospitals but the media will be too busy asking Karoline Leavitt about Trump's tweets
So, with that said, I reckon the US will start bombing West Africa and just not talk about it
They have been for a while, they provide targetting and intelligence and get Nigeria to press the button
According to The Intercept US drones were secretly involved in the Rann IDP bombing in 2017 which killed more than 160 civilians, many of them children. The attack also left nine MSF aid workers dead and had seriously wounded 120 other individuals.
US surveillance and intelligence gathering operations have often been deployed in and around Nigeria since 2014, ostensibly to search for children kidnapped by terrorists.
But in the Raan incident, a surveillance plane reportedly circled around the IDP camp which housed 43,000 people before a jet arrived and bombed the area twice, also killing the tens of displaced civilians sheltering there.
"We had to do defensive strikes on Syria in order to defend our troops that are illegally occupying Syria" is good example. There is no war, we are just bombing a foreign country!
that hundreds of thousands of people have been killed by Western-backed forces
The US & Saudi coalition was enforcing a starvation blockade on Yemen, making sure that NOTHING can get it. I wonder why they are so angry?
Iran. Starting it would actually win him points from liberals. Then afterwards he can complain that the IRGC never would have taken Brooklyn if he was still president.
when Iran sinks an aircraft carrier, we're gonna get the Trump version of that Bush photo where he's being told about the 9/11 attacks, and I cannot fucking wait. it's probably gonna be a photo of Trump looking shocked in his golf cart next to a 114-year-old guy who owns all the orphan-crushing factories in Kansas
gonna be a photo of Trump looking shocked in his golf cart next to a 114-year-old guy who owns all the orphan-crushing factories in Kansas
What is most surprising about the original image is that Bush wasn't on a golf cart with the orphan-crusher magnate.
When Iran sinks an aircraft carrier
You people are beyond delusional. Call me when they aren't too busy having their PR man wax poetic about destroying america for the billionth time. They still can't figure out how to make nukes so they have to make up some bullshit excuse about how they won't do it because of religion.
Iran will not exist in 10 years.
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Ethiopia for real this time. Blinken balked at a no-flyzone. AFRICOM is cooking up something in the Horn.
I think it'll be
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The girl reading this 😍
Venezuela.