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Image is of the breach in the tailings dam near Kitwe.


On February 18th, 50 million liters of acidic waste from a copper mine was accidentally released into the Kafue River after a tailings dam collapsed. The Kafue River stretches for a thousand miles across Zambia and a majority of the country - millions of people - rely on it, for both the economy and drinking water.

The results have already been catastrophic. The water supply for the city of Kitwe, home to 700,000 people, was completely shut off. As the wave of contamination moved downstream, a wave of death accompanied it as dead fish dotted the river surface. The government is dropping lime into the river to try and counteract the acid with an alkali and neutralize the water, but the tailings also contain toxic heavy metals that will undoubtably seep into the nearby environment and affect the area for years to come.

A considerable portion of the media attention to the accident has been devoted to the fact that the mine was Chinese-owned, as well as China's broader influence and investment in the region. Western anti-China propaganda aside, it has been clear to those in the know that these mines have been badly managed and needlessly dangerous for years now, and it is disappointing - to say the least - to see disasters of this magnitude occur from Chinese businesses. Hopefully this prompts a wave of investigations into China-owned mine managers all around the continent, who will then hopefully face real consequences for their actions.


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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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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

a-little-trolling Folks, did you hear about what the woke liberals did to my good friend Mr. Mistoffeless? It's just terrible.

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[-] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum has recognised the State of Palestine and also welcomed the ambassador.

Mexico also continues support South Africa's case in the ICJ against piSSrael even after the elections.

Death to ameriKKKa, Death to isnotreal

[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Canada claims China executed four of its citizens this year for "drug related offenses".

I am always highly sceptical of 'China bad" news. The identities of the victims have not been made public. Nor the specific charges or details of the alleged crimes.

However on the other hand, China does have the death penalty, and does not fuck around when it comes to drugs.

I haven't had time to look into this closer. Chat, what say you?

[-] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

A fresh take on the "my totally real girlfriend from Canada" bit.

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

the BBC quoted the Chinese Embassy in Canada regarding this, who stated something like 'the evidence was sufficent and sound'

for what thats worth

lol, going over seas? Buy a new phone, don't take drugs with you. Basic shit.

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[-] Rey_McSriff@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

My "There Is No Kill Switch on F-35s" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by my shirt

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[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Chuck Schumer's brother's law firm is pledging $40 million in free legal services to the Trump administration.

https://x.com/SilvermanJacob/status/1902858459244028032

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[-] LargePenis@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Ya Allah take every western leftist on Twitter and give us one Arab AMLO then one Arab Sheinbaum.

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[-] ziggurter@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

There is no kill switch on the Tesla Cybertruck.

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[-] edge@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The most astonishing example of this type of propaganda is the controversial statement of Yin Gang, an authoritative elderly Chinese scholar who served as the deputy general-secretary of the state-affiliated China-Middle East Academic Society. Lecturing the Chinese masses on TV that they should “look at the Middle East with apathetic eyes,” Yin blamed the Palestinians for “professionally selling tears to the world” and claimed that “according to my in-depth investigation, not even a single person died in the bombing of al-Ahli Arab Hospital.” In this same interview, he also ridiculed the Chinese masses, “do not cry for Gaza when people tell you a fake death toll claiming that 10,000 civilians died, because this number is exaggerated probably ten times” (“Let’s Not Talk” 2023). Eight months later, after being constantly criticized by Chinese netizens for his whitewashing of Israeli war crimes, Yin suddenly died due to heart attack.

lmao got what he deserved. I guess his blood flow wasn't exaggerated ten times.

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[-] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

US airstrikes continue against Yemen for the sixth night in a row, with the first strikes reported in Hodeidah Governorate.

Yemen has launched a ballistic missile towards Israel.

More US airstrikes in Saada Governorate.

Statement from the Yemeni Armed Forces at 22:00 UTC.

Al Masirah TV twitter

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[-] miz@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thousands flood Turkiye's streets protesting arrest of Istanbul mayor | The Cradle

The Turkish government has identified hundreds of social media accounts and has detained dozens of people for 'provocative posts' about the mayor's arrest

[-] randomquery@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Advertising again since it's starting soon (I guess that counts as news, right?): The Progressive International is organizing the people's academy. The first lecture is on the 5th of April. The academy includes bimonthly online lectures and an extensive reading list, and will go on until the end of the year. It looks pretty interesting and it's free. Feel free to register if you want to follow it (if people are curious here are the material for the introductory lecture).

[-] refolde@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

https://x.com/leb_now/status/1902453879813325146

Google translated:

A lynx attacks a number of Israeli soldiers on the Egyptian border, wounding them.

And in case you were wondering if Slammer already made a meme for it: here it is

Dunno if this story is true but it's funny and lifted my mood.

[-] Clippy@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago
[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Critical support for how much Trump has fucked up CIA operations, both in his first term and this one

[-] ziggurter@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This part is funny:

The sensitivity of the apparent top-secret CIA building in Virginia is a matter of debate, given that its existence was well-known to locals.

People have a really weird idea about how the CIA operates. They think the building itself will be cloaked, like some kind of Klingon warship? Installed deep underground with a camouflaged elevator, like in some kind of James Bond movie? Or that it won't be known it is some kind of government building? Reminds me of the interviews with ex-CIA-agents where they're like, "Oh, yeah. Everyone knew who we were, especially the foreign media we were influencing." Liberls' jaws drop. "You can't do that...!"

[-] miz@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

lmao Allen Dulles would have killed this guy two weeks ago

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Trump just announced a new American sixth-gen fighter, the F-47

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Judging from the current conduct of the Democratic Party, they'd need to lose two more midterms and another national election before they genuinely collapse as a political party

The anger from the base isn't enough, the DNC is ploughing through it and smirking the whole time

[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Never underestimate their incompetence

if they continue with their current conduct, they will never win another national election, even under rare covid-like crises

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[-] BlossomingAsp@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Hungary Banned Pride

While education and healthcare is in shambles, taking no action that would actually remedy the situation in the last 15 years, the Hungarian parliament proves, it can take swift action when their goal is restricting human rights.

Viktor Orbán, the PM of Hungary foreshadowed earlier this year, that the organizers of Budapest Pride should not waste time and money on this years event, as it is not going to happen.

Swiftly after this, the parliament voted on amending the constitution, to make it possible to restrict people's right to assemble under the pretense of protecting children's rights to "proper moral development". They also added that Hungary only recognizes 2 genders, male and female, delivering another blow to LGBTQIA+ rights in addition to the amendment years ago, which made it unconstitutional for same sex couples to have a family, by declaring that the father is always male and the mother is always female.

In another step to make sure the country is on the right path to become a theocracy, they referred to the bible to ensure that the "order of Biblical creation" is respected when considering legislation.

The amendments of the contstitution did not take effect yet, despite this the parliament proposed a bill on 17/03/2025 to restrict people's right to assembly, if an event would display or popularize same sex relations and trans identities. At almost record speed, the bill was voted on the next day. In addition to the ruling party, Fidesz, the far right wing Mi Hazánk, and right wing Jobbik, also voted in favor, amidst liberal politicians demonstrating against the bill, by playing the Russian anthem on speakers, distributing pictures of Orbán and Putin sharing a kiss, and causing chaos with smoke bombs.

That same evening on 18/03/2025, the bill was signed into law and went into effect the next day. There are only a few examples of Hungarian lawmakers doing their jobs in such a hurry, but it seems like causing suffering to marginalized people is such an important task that immediate action was necessary.

In previous elections, one of the opposition parties, Jobbik, who also supported the bill made alliances with other opposing parties that are liberal or moderately left wing. The sad reality of current Hungarian politics is that, while there are oppositin parties, that tend to the left, there is no real political challenger to the ruling parties conservative right wing ideologies.

The biggest opposition that Fidesz curently has is from Tisza, which is a party headed by Péter Magyar, who is a the ex-husband of the former Minister of Justice, Judit Varga, who resigned after a scandal involving the president granting pardon to a person aiding a convicted pedophile. He worked in positions tied to the government and in turn to Fidesz, before taking up the mantle of political activism after the aforementioned scandal.

While his party promises reforms, the end of corruption, closer ties with the EU and denouncing Russia, and restoration of human rights, he comes from the same ideological background az Fidesz politicians. More concerning is the fact that he does not take strong stances on more divisive matters, that would alienate his voters that he aims to Syphon from Fidesz, after absorbing nearly all voters of other opposing parties. For example, he only stated about the current legislation, that everybody's right to assembly would be restored, while failing to recognize that this affects certain marginalized groups disproportionately, or to highlight that protection of LGBTQIA+ communities and other marginalized groups will be an important responsibility of our next government.

Hungary is a small country, with very limited influence on international politics, however analyzing the shift to the right and its consequences, might give important insights into what's to come in other EU countries that have managed delay the complete takeover of their politics by the far right.

Please see below a proper article about the current legislation by one of the remaining independent media outlets of my country:

https://telex.hu/english/2025/03/19/hungarian-parliament-adopts-law-banning-pride

ADJ

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[-] sempersigh@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Wake up guys new shitty jet just dropped

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Have they figured out how to deal with rain yet?

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[-] glingorfel@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

47 lmao. this guy never gives it a rest

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[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Not exactly war news but Panama beating the US to reach the final after the Panama canal fuckery sure is something.

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