Image is from this article, of protestors in Mexico tearing down a steel fence.
While military, economic, and covert pressure on Venezuela and nearby countries in South America proper continues to mount, a similar process is occurring against Mexico, currently under the leadership of the very popular Sheinbaum, who has generally followed the footsteps of AMLO in terms of policies.
While figures in the Trump administration have made statements to the effect of wishing to bomb Mexican territory, internal pressure within Mexico is rather hard to generate when the government is doing generally positive things for people. As such, protests - comically denoted “Gen Z protests” despite young people being a vanishingly small proportion - have arisen in Mexico, very obviously astroturfed by pro-US and anti-Sheinbaum interests. The first protest, on November 15th, gathered less than 20,000 people, while the second, on November 20th, gathered perhaps 200. Article headlines suggesting that Mexico was “on the verge of collapse” have proven rather sensational and wishcast-y.
While it’s easy to poke fun at these farces (I certainly am), it’s important to keep in mind that soft coups have long been part of the American strategy in Latin America, and with unlimited money and many resources to throw at a project, even incompetent forces can eventually create enough chaos that it can make the ruling president or party feel forced to resign. Such eventualities are certainly not inevitable, and even weak states can provide enough resistance to force the US to try a hard coup instead, with outright bombing campaigns and covert military operations. Cuba has provided perhaps the best example in the western hemisphere of how such plots can be subverted with enough national support (e.g. the hundreds of times the CIA tried to kill/maim Castro, plus the Bay of Pigs debacle), but you do have to be willing to take extraordinary measures to do this - the sorts of measures figures like Chile’s Allende did not take in the 1970s, and the measures Venezuela’s Maduro appears to be taking right now. We shall see what path Sheinbaum takes.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. 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.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
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.
“In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Hezbollah’s Message to His Holiness, the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV
Your Holiness, The Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV — with utmost respect,
Greetings and peace be upon you,
To begin, we express our full welcome and deep appreciation for your honorable presence and your visit to Lebanon — this beautiful country, blessed by God with its unique geographic location and harmonious religious diversity. This diversity, embodied in a shared life and broad consensus, is essential to the stability of its political system and the security of its nation.
Your predecessor, Pope John Paul II, once declared that Lebanon is “not merely a nation, but a message.” Indeed, Lebanon — with its rich mosaic — represents a civilizational bridge between the followers of the two heavenly messages, Christianity and Islam, and among all religious, cultural, and secular traditions across the world.
When human beings are placed at the center of concern for all faiths — and even for secular ideological systems — one can truly hope for the possibility of achieving lasting peace and security.
We read in your guidance and messages a firm commitment to human rights and the imperative to respect and protect them. These rights, however, extend beyond the individual to the broader sphere of peoples and nations.
The conflicts taking place across the world today stem, in large part, from the refusal of some actors — leaders, parties, groups, or states — to acknowledge or respect the rights of others, whether due to differences in religion, race, language, or interests.
It is no secret that the erosion of respect for human rights by certain entities fuels greed, domination, and the use of force instead of justice.
The tragedy witnessed in Gaza over the past two years — and still ongoing — is the result of the Zionist occupiers stripping the Palestinian people of their rights to their land, homeland, and self-determination, as well as the international system’s failure to embrace justice as the basis for resolving the long-standing conflict between an indigenous people and an occupying force.
Similarly, the suffering of the Lebanese people — caused by the Zionist occupation of parts of our land and its continuous aggressions and threats to our security and stability — reflects the enemy’s ambition to control our waters, land, and gas resources, and to impose political, security, and expansionist conditions without limit.
There is no doubt that the Zionist occupation receives — regrettably — unconditional support from major powers that share its ambitions to dominate our region and exploit its resources, with no regard for the rights of our people.
What the “Israeli” enemy has committed in Gaza against the Palestinian people is an act of genocide; and what it continues to commit in Lebanon is an ongoing and condemned aggression.
We, in Hezbollah, seize the opportunity of your blessed visit to reiterate our commitment to shared coexistence, consensual democracy, internal security and stability, and the protection of national sovereignty. We stand alongside our army and our people in confronting any aggression or occupation targeting our land and our nation.
We also hold firmly to our legitimate right to reject foreign interference aimed at imposing tutelage on our country, undermining our national decision-making, and usurping the constitutional authority of our institutions.
If our religious conviction affirms that the followers of Jesus Christ — peace be upon him — are messengers of love, justice, and human dignity, then we rely on your principled stance in rejecting the oppression and aggression inflicted upon Lebanon by the Zionist invaders and their supporters.
This is the message we deliver to Your Holiness during this visit, in which you express your care, affection, and solidarity with all Lebanese. We wish you comfort and safety during your stay, praying to Almighty God to grant justice, security, and relief to the oppressed across the world.
With our sincerest regards,
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