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Image is of the Cobre Panama open-pit copper mine, located 120 kilometers west of Panama City.


Canada is a prolific mining country, hosting many of the world's top mining corporations. Some of its extraction is local - for example, Saskatchewan is the world's largest producer of potash, a critical agricultural nutrient. Much of the extraction is abroad. Naturally, this means that Canada has cut a bloody, but often ignored, path through the global periphery, extracting minerals and causing environmental degradation.

A notable recent example is that of the Cobre Panama copper mine, which is owned by First Quantum Minerals, one of the largest mining companies in Canada. The company earned $10 billion in revenue in 2022, of which the Cobre Panama mine generated $1 billion. Protests in Panama about this mine have gone on for over a decade, urging for a greater share of the profits, protection of indigenous people, and stronger environmental protections. Canada has maintained a stoney silence (pun somewhat intended) on these movements.

On October 20th, the president of Panama, Cortizo, renewed the company's mining concession for 20 years, after a halt in production since the end of 2022 due to negotiations and reform. Everybody hated this. In October, protestors took to the streets in sufficient numbers that Cortizo was forced to halt new mining approvals, and announced a public referendum on whether the contract with First Quantum should be repealed. This was immediately cut down, but the government decided to invalidate the new concession anyway in late November, calling it unconstitutional, and closing down the mine.

First Quantum Minerals has lost about half its market value since October. Various international banks have said that Panama could lose its investment-grade credit rating next year due to the income hit - the mine generated 5% of its GDP. The international arbitration process which First Quantum has initiated against Panama could last years.

The book Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination handles Canada's role as an imperialist, anti-indigenous, extractive state throughout its history, and is on our geopolitical reading list.


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Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA daily-ish 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 (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
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.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

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.
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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[-] Melina@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago

I think now is the best time in all of human history to be alive

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

Europeans Negotiate the Conflict Behind Ukraine's Back: Lavrov

The Russian foreign affairs minister described the situation as an act of hypocrisy and cunning.

On Friday, Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that several European leaders have attempted over the past six months to negotiate with Moscow regarding the Ukrainian conflict without involving Kiev.

"Certain well-known Western leaders, particularly one, through three different channels, have sent signals for us to meet and discuss what to do about Ukraine and European security," he said during a press conference alongside his Belarusian counterpart, Sergey Aleinik.

Lavrov, who stated he neither wanted nor had the right to "mention names," described this situation as an act of hypocrisy and cunning.

Western politicians "have five Fridays every week and lie shamelessly. When they declared and continue to declare by inertia that they will not negotiate anything about Ukraine without Ukraine, this is nothing but hypocrisy," he noted.

The Russian diplomat indicated that the contacts were not direct leader-to-leader, despite politicians having "direct access" to their Moscow counterparts. "But these are the tricks we have observed over the last six months," he added.

"If someone is interested in ending attempts to ensure their security at the expense of others' security, ending attempts to restrict Russia's legitimate interests and the legitimate interests of Russians living in many countries on our continent, then welcome. We are always ready to seriously discuss these issues," Lavrov affirmed.

However, he ruled out Moscow being willing to negotiate with those who condition future contacts on Russia's defeat in Ukraine.

Russia has declared multiple times that it is open to negotiations with Ukraine and blames Kiev for rejecting dialogue under the decree of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, prohibiting any dialogue with President Vladimir Putin.

Lavrov also accuses the West, particularly the United Kingdom, of persuading Zelensky to reject the Istanbul Agreements reached between Russia and Ukraine in April 2022.

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

The Council of the Organization of American States approved the resolution proposed by the United States, which condemns the actions trying to block the transition of power in Guatemala.

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[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

idf-cool https://archive.is/BNY7Q idf-cool

(Additional words of satire have been grafted onto the article by me.)

Slimes of Isra-hell say

Army in response to white phosphorus report: IDF only uses legal weaponry

By herr EMANUEL von FABIAN

In response to a report by the Washington Post earlier today, which says the IDF used white phosphorus shells during an attack in southern Lebanon, the military says, “The IDF only uses legal weaponry.”

So did the nazis

“The main smoke shells used by the IDF do not contain white phosphorus. Similar to many Western armies, the IDF also has smoke shells that contain white phosphorus, which are legal according to international law, and the choice to use them is influenced by operational considerations and availability compared to alternatives,” the IDF says.

We don't use whisky pete, but we have a shitton of it and it's totally legal to use. But we don't use it, of course.

“These shells are intended for smokescreens, and not for an attack or ignition, and they are not legally defined as incendiary weapons,” it continues.

Smokescreen for burning civilians alive

The IDF says that under its existing procedures, white phosphorus shells are not to be used in urban areas, “except in certain exceptional cases.”

Which means they're totally used in urban areas

“These restrictions are in line with international law, and are even stricter than [the latter],” the IDF says.

Strictly pencil-whipping the legal mumbo-jumbo so it's in compliance on paper

The Washington Post report wrongly claims Israel pledged in 2013 to stop using white phosphorus, while in fact the military said it would limit the use, largely moving to use other means to create smokescreens for troops. However, it has reserved the right to use such shells in certain, undisclosed cases that have been approved by the Supreme Court (the uses were not detailed to the public for reasons of security).

The zionists do not lie except when they're caught mid-lie, then it is the whistle-blower that's lying. Zionists are always on the right side of history no matter what the truth is.

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