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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

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

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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[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 35 points 23 hours ago

What a contrast here

A few days ago a new Chinese built port was inaugurated by xi

In an opinion article in the El Peruano state newspaper, Xi said the Chancay project would generate $4.5 billion in annual revenues, create more than 8,000 direct jobs and reduce the logistics costs of the Peru-China route by 20%.

China's main motivation for developing the megaport, according to Ocharan, was access to neighboring Brazil, where a new railway line is planned to carry Brazilian exports such as soybeans and iron ore to the port.

The rail project is estimated to cost $3.5 billion, according to Mario de las Casas, corporate affairs manager at Cosco Shipping Chancay Peru.

And then this, Blinken announcing that the US is contributing to a new rail line in lima

Which is actually caltrain selling lima some 40 year old diesel train parts for $6m

Definitely a deal worthy of rocking in the free world

[-] griefstricken@lemmy.ml 20 points 22 hours ago

$6M dollars good lord that's like one of the fines they slap on megacorps these days that is literally like 1% die Blinken die

[-] scarcity_of_the_self@hexbear.net 21 points 22 hours ago

https://eng.belta.by/society/view/journalists-find-out-what-music-lukashenko-listens-to-in-his-car-163138-2024/

On the sidelines of the climate summit in Baku, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko told journalists whose songs he listens to in his car.

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 43 points 1 day ago

Wapo - https://archive.is/nI1sw

NYT - https://archive.is/rV4As

And politico - https://archive.is/lMrbi

All articles from the last day or so saying how azover it really is

Now, I'll believe a major foreign policy change from trump when I see it, but setting aside that uncertainty, it is notable that the liberal corporate media has switched gears to defeatism/realism like this. Too bad they didn't do that when the population of ukraine was 10m people higher, but here we are.

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 15 points 21 hours ago
[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 41 points 1 day ago

Elon Musk responds to Brazlian First Lady Rosângela da Silva, who criticized him at the social G-20. “They will lose the next election”, said Musk. Janja spoke out against the billionaire. “Fuck you, Elon Musk,” she said.

[-] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago
[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He's still furious because he tried Virtue Signaling to Brazilian Gusanos by pretending he cared about the accounts that were being banned on Twitter for promoting terrorism and Nazism. Then he got Twitter banned from Brazil, since it violated Brazilian law by removing its representative from Brazil, Elon attempted to make an Exposed of Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes (a conservative judge selected by a US puppet president who hates Bolsonaro because Bolsonaro decided to threaten this judge's life and violate the law), which didn't work, since Brazil had banned Twitter and why would anyone outside Brazil care about that. So he decided to show the accounts that were being banned, showing the full legal documents, which led to these extreme right-wing people being doxed to millions of people on Twitter, with their full name, identity and residence being shown.

The Brazilian Supreme Court confiscated all of Elon's bank accounts and assets in Brazil, since he hadn't paid his debt, and blocked Starlink. After that, Elon quietly complied with everything that Judge Alexandre de Moraes forced him to do and Twitter was unblocked. Elon claimed that he was not defeated, because he did it in the name of freedom of expression. Elon has become a big joke in Latin America, with many people laughing at the fact that this spoiled 50-year-old man has learned that countries other than the US have real laws that he needs to follow and that life isn't just “BAZINGA!” and "Alexandre de Moraes IS LE LORD VOLDEMORT BC HE IS BALD! EPIC BACON! 69!".

[-] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

Makes sense. Maybe he also feels like a sort of kingmaker since he helped get Trump elected

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 36 points 1 day ago

So what do you think Trump's policy towards Ukraine will be? Will he continue with aid, but in a limited capacity? Will he cut off all aid? Will he give much more aid than the Democrats and become a total supporter of Ukraine? While Trump, from what I remember, said he was going to push for a peace treaty, that was during the campaign. Now that he is the President things will change. I believe the MIC made a lot of money in Ukraine, and they go the chance to test some stuff against Russian stuff. I believe he will attempt to continue the war a bit longer, until he gets a peace deal where he can been seen as in a good position.

[-] Halloweenbean@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago

He is going to call in the debts so his budies can get a fire sale on everything Ukraine hasn't privatized yet.

[-] sisatici@hexbear.net 12 points 23 hours ago

My guess is that nothing will change. Maybe he says "negotiate peace ffs" while sending weapons

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

There would be probably some bipartisan weapon bills that send weapons to both israel and Ukraine.

The rhetoric would probably make some people feel good tho. As opposed to before which the rhetoric made another group of people feel good.

Some combat footage for today.

Russian drones continue annihilating Kiev regime military vehicles in Kursk oblast: https://news-pravda.com/world/2024/11/16/856512.html

Ukrainian soldiers follow Russian robot’s instructions and surrender: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--Ukies-encircled-near-Kurakhovo-are-being-urged-to-surrender!:4

Russian Kh-101 cruise missiles struck the Rovenskaya 330 electrical substation in Rovno oblast: https://news-pravda.com/world/2024/11/17/857634.html

[-] TalkingDuck@hexbear.net 49 points 1 day ago

It has been widely speculated whether Trump's administration will be a lunatics clown show that has no concept of foreign policy or regular bloodthirsty neocons itching to start war on every continent.

Does the sudden uptick in support for Ukraine mean that the state have no trust in Trump and are trying to wrap things up before he comes?

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

It could also be the opposite: making it so that Ukraine has more momentum and supplies so that Trump's impact will be delayed.

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 60 points 1 day ago

Cope cages have spread to China

[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 60 points 1 day ago

In retrospect calling these effective anti-drone shields "cope cages" is pretty funny after we realized they do work pretty well.

Kind of like the first warriors losing in a battle against the first people to use leather and bronze armor and calling it "cope robes" or something

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 43 points 1 day ago

"You and your cope sticks" - Me after my army got obliterated by pike-wielding landsknechts.

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Knight with a sword vs peasant army with their 2 meter long cope pole.

Yeah, I rather be the latter, i have more chance to survive and i might not get killed later by some stupid palace intrigue

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

Seethe screens

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 30 points 1 day ago

Real Warriors just Tank the Wound Cope Capes are for Losers Who Can't Deal With Stabs and Gashes

[-] Commiejones@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago

And then when you look past the internet slang meaning of "cope" to its proper meaning it makes sense again.

"To cope" is to find ways to deal with a unpleasant situation and unless otherwise stated it is assumed to be successful.

Best way to deal with (aka Cope) with drones appears to be to hide behind a chain link fence.

[-] Joever@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago

That's because people thought they were meant to counter javelins.

[-] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago

if it works, it works

[-] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

This makes a lot of sense on the ZTQ-15 since its already a light tank with pretty thin armour, it wouldn't be expected to hold up to modern ATGMs or APFSDS anyways, but this is a lightweight and cheap way to afford some drone protection.

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 61 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Map of sites struck in Ukraine yesterday:

Seems like the air defenses of the AFU are almost completely non-existent at this point.

[-] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

That appears to be... every site.

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

Holy smokes. How do they track so much to put it on the map?

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 7 points 21 hours ago

The exact trajectories are probably total bullshit, but the rough locations the missiles are taking off from and the sites they hit are public knowledge. I wouldn't draw too much from this other than the wide area of the strikes

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 46 points 1 day ago

In the Amazon, US President Joe Biden signed the document that creates the International Day of Conservation and also stipulated the resources that will be allocated to the Amazon Fund.

“At first, I thought I was fighting to save the rubber tappers. Then I realized I was fighting to save the Atlantic Forest and the rainforest, and then I realized I was fighting for humanity. (...) Today, I'm proud to be here.” - Joe Biden

Directly from the Amazon, US President Joe Biden authorized Ukraine to use long-range missiles against Russian territory. These missiles are highly destructive and are supplied by the US. Previously, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, had suggested that if this were to happen, he might use nuclear weapons in response.

[-] Commiejones@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago

Directly from the Amazon, US President Joe Biden authorized Ukraine to use long-range missiles against Russian territory.

What did he gain by holding off on this decision for so long? Why is he changing his mind now? He gained nothing by waiting. What changed his mind was that they finally broke him by being incessant. He made such an effort to say no to this one thing so now when he gave in its proof that Biden was a weak willed worm who will submit if you pester him long enough.

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think it's in response to last night's Russian aerial attack on Ukraine. Macron's latest statements today about wanting "to push Russia to stop fighting" and stating that "Putin doesn't want peace" due to this attack, point towards that reasoning. Rybar stated that it was one of the largest aerial assualts Russia has conducted since WW2. Hundreds of missiles and drones of all types were fired, and 20+ strategic bombers, including the Tu-95 and Tu-160, were deployed and launched cruise missiles. This is the first use of the Tu-160 in the Ukraine war. It was an escalatory strike by Russia against Ukrainian energy infrastructure in a manner that was not done before, even attacking substations and power lines connected to nuclear power plants, forcing them to reduce generation capacity to between 40-90% of maximum output. The USA/NATO will respond in turn with their own escalation, and decisions around long range weapons appear to be part of that.

It's important to note that Russia had the capability to carry out such a strike since day 1 of the war, but chose not to. The US and NATO also had the capability to use Ukraine to conduct long range strikes inside Russian territory using their weapons for quite some time, but also chose not to do so. A lot of the times in warfare, attacking is not about having the capability to perform an action, but about the potential consequences associated with that action. Russia has now decided to escalate from a position of strength with regards to how the war is going in Ukraine, with constant territorial gains. They clearly believe that they can survive the consequences of such an escalation, otherwise they wouldn't have carried out last night's attack. Russia can also escalate further in response to US/NATO escalation if Russia chooses to.

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[-] Beetle@hexbear.net 52 points 1 day ago

Since the Amsterdam maccabi hooligan event, Israel has been trying really hard to influence the narrative put out by media and politicians. The ministry of Diaspora has put out a document detailing supposed ties between Palestinian liberation activist groups and Hamas (lol). They also claim that these liberation groups preplanned the attacks on hooligans, and their proof is literally just a call for people to come join their protest during the match.

These ‘allegations’ would be funny if we did not have a right extremist government that is receptive to them.

Here is Minister Amichai Chikli outlining these conspiracies himself: https://x.com/amichaichikli/status/1856397777548284273

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3286907/8-die-knife-rampage-china-suffers-second-mass-killing-week

8 die in knife rampage as China suffers second mass killing in a week

Police say 21-year-old held after attack at college where he had studied had failed his exams and was angry about low pay as factory intern

Uh-huh, what up deng. And btw "the desire to succeed in exams" actually shows the fucked payscale in china

[-] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago

China stopped publishing the official youth unemployment rate last year when it hit the record high and then they started publishing again with a new metric that excludes college students(use your own judgement on why). It was fluctuating between 13-21% between 2022-2023 and is now back at 17.6%.

This was discussed in brief by Michael Roberts on his China's Third Plenun summary overall mostly positive data except in exactly this area, or you can read something like Sixth Tone's reporting

You can compare the World Bank data estimate here I picked some countries, also here they use other official sources.

Is it that bad? but it is about on par with the worst EU countries(Italy, Sweden, Spain), generally higher than the EU average and generally far higher than Japan and Korea.

US is listed at 10% but fuck if US data is reliable at all. For what is worth its getting worse for some countries too UK is nearing COVID high, US is highest since 2021 etc.

Obviously Chinese economic growth, poverty reduction and wage growth are all far higher so its not to say that "oh Chinese youth are afraid of living in the slums" or something, at all. But I wouldn't be surprised if the COVID era effects still being felt.

Even if the tide rises all boats there is social anxiety from being afraid of being left behind or taking the back seat. IMO understanding material conditions leads to things like crime is the most obvious thing surely, understanding why white cis male chuds do school shootings doesn't mean you approve it.

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Chinese youths live in the shadow of the reform era. Their expectations is shaped by that era, their parent’s expectations for their children too. Their failure to reach that expectation is now turned onto a moral and personal failure because the whole country doesn’t understand the reform era was an exception in modern chinese history, not a feature

Tbh, the change in not putting student in the data can be explained by multiple reasons: the main one is that student are “in training” therefore not “seeking employment”. The other is to control the data for political reason. There is no shame really in doing that, most governments change definitions for their datas and most organizations have the conclusions they want to see in the sheet before gathering datas (for example insurance companies)

[-] Hexboare@hexbear.net 8 points 23 hours ago

new metric that excludes college students(use your own judgement on why)

Because that's the standard approach and continuing to use the old measure was bizarre

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Tbh the examination problem is not getting better even after the educational ““reform””. (Knowing the Chinese Government, they don’t really have incentives to fix the problem)

The persistence in emphasizing on examination is stupid because it misses the deeper problems: job opportunities are not improving and inequality is still a problem.

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[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 55 points 1 day ago

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?

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

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