Image is of Rixi Moncada of the LIBRE Party voting in the election.
On November 30th, Hondurans voted to choose their next President, as well as deputies to the Congress, councillors, and other candidates. Like all elections in Latin America, the looming shadow of American intervention will be a major factor in deciding the winner. In this election, that intervention has been fairly naked, with Trump literally stating who he wishes to win (the far-right nationalist guy, Nasry Asfura). Asfura has said that if he does not win, American funding to the country will dry up - a clear threat - and Trump has additionally pardoned the former Honduran president and US ally Juan Orlando Hernández, imprisoned for smuggling cocaine into the US.
The other candidates in this election are Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party, who is essentially running on the same platform as Asfura with some differences (such differences would inevitably vanish if he were to win); and Rixi Moncada of the progressive (self-described as democratic socialist) LIBRE Party. The narrative about this election is - try not to yawn - the neverending battle of democracy against communism. This narrative is obviously very important to uphold in the current environment of accelerated aggression against Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, and others.
Who is going to win? As of me writing this sentence, the results have not yet been fully reported. However, there has been something of a scandal in regards to a plot - with recorded voices, though those guilty plead AI tampering - to show the best possible preliminary results for the right wing, so as to manipulate the narrative and morale of the population. The idea, is presumably, that if LIBRE were to win, the fascists could say “How did LIBRE go from 20% of the vote (which is what the preliminary results showed) to a victory?! It must be communist meddling!”
Of course, it’s entirely possible that LIBRE won’t win anyway, or get particularly close. We shall see how things turn out very shortly.
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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.
PressTV
Imagine being born under genocidal conditions, seeing those around you starve, get sick and die. Imagine understanding that those responsible for such tragedy lives quite literally next door, people call it “israel”.
Still, after all these experiences, the guy decided to actually help “israel” in exchange for getting killed last or for some horrible “luxury apartment” in Dubai or some shit.
kapos are nothing new
Alhamdulillah
“The killing of agent Yasser Abu Shabab
At the hands of the men of God in Rafah
God is the greatest and all praise is due to God”
https://t.me/emsekamel/293
“Your names will be written in the trash bins of history
You who abandoned your patriotism and morals, and fell into the swamp of baseness and betrayal.
This is the end of everyone who sold their conscience, denied their values, and abandoned the children of their people in the darkest circumstances.
History is merciless… and Yasser Abu Shabab will be recorded as an unforgettable and indelible example of treachery.”
Statement issued by the Al-Tarabin tribe in the Gaza Strip
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
The Al-Tarabin tribe in the Gaza Strip affirms that its members have always stood with their people and their just cause, and that they have never and will never be a cover for any of the merchants of discord or collaborators with the occupation, no matter how some try to drag the tribe’s name into paths that have no connection to its morals or history.
While the tribe follows what happened in Rafah in recent days, it stresses that the killing of Yasser Abu Shabab by the resistance represented, for the sons of Al-Tarabin, the end of a dark chapter that does not reflect the tribe’s history or its firm positions. The tribe considers that the blood of this person — who betrayed his people’s covenant and was involved in collaboration with the occupation — has closed a shameful chapter that the tribe worked to cleanse with its own hands and clear stance.
The Al-Tarabin tribe declares that its position today is full alignment with the resistance of our people in all its factions, standing with the people of Gaza against the aggression, and affirms its rejection of any attempt to exploit the tribe’s name or its members in forming militias or groups that work for the occupation or serve its projects.
The tribe also calls on the members of all families and tribes to adhere to unity of ranks, reject anyone who tries to tamper with the national and social fabric, and affirm that there is no place in Gaza for treason or collaborators, and that our people are united behind their resistance until they achieve their full rights.
And God is the grantor of success.
Al-Tarabin Tribe - Gaza Strip
https://t.me/emsekamel/305