Image is of protestors in Nigeria in 2024.
As I’m sure everybody is aware by now, Trump’s accusation that Nigerian armed groups are unfairly persecuting Christians in the country is a rather bizarre lie, seeking a justification to go in, to quote Trump, “guns-a-blazing”. Whether this is likely to actually occur or is merely a threat, who can really say nowadays? But Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province are targeting people in Nigeria fairly indiscriminately; insomuch that there is a target, it is farmers whose land is being raided and taken in resource conflicts, and their religious affiliation is not usually questioned by those groups before they are pillaged and/or murdered from what I can tell.
The President of Nigeria, Tinubu, has no small responsibility for this state of affairs - enacting IMF “reforms” which have exacerbated hunger, poverty, and unemployment in the service of Western financial institutions. Those who have protested against this state of affairs have faced repression by state security forces. Meanwhile, Tinubu allegedly has strong connections to the DEA, paying large amounts of money to avoid a trial for his actions; the DEA released this statement: “We oppose the full… release of the DEA’s Bola Tinubu heroin trafficking investigation records,” which is certainly not concerning at all - followed by “While Nigerians have a right to be informed about what their government is up to, they do not have a right to know what their president is up to.”
It must be a shame for him that such a loyal subject of empire is facing such scrutiny, and it likely has everything to do with Nigeria’s inexorably growing connections to China (just like pretty much every country on the planet), especially in relation to Nigeria’s massive mineral deposits. It could also perhaps be retribution for Nigeria’s failure to adequately oppose the growing independence of the Sahel.
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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.
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.
@LargePenis@hexbear.net with a full roundup as well as a summary of results of Iraqi elections, building on his post about Iraqi electoral parties last week
@MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net, @Torenico@hexbear.net @darkcalling@hexbear.net in a subthread about the strength of the American naval buildup versus Venezuelan defences
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Wikipedia: A sham election, or show election, is an election that is held purely for show; that is, without any significant political choice or real impact on the results of the election.
The 1929 and 1934 elections in Fascist Italy
The 1942 general election in Imperial Japan
Those in Nazi Germany, East Germany other than the election in 1990
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Those in Egypt under Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, Hosni Mubarak, and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Those in Bangladesh under Sheikh Hasina
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Those in Russia under Vladimir Putin
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Those in Venezuela under Nicolas Maduro (most notably in 2018 and 2024)
Those in Belarus after 1994 (most notably in 2020)
The 1991 and 2019 Kazakh presidential elections
Those in North Korea
The 1995 and 2002 presidential referendums in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
Those in Cuba since the Cuban Revolution.
The 2025 Tanzanian general election was decried by many as a sham election.
WTF even is this list? They focus on stuff like Cuba and ignore all the latam sham elections during the 1880s - 1980s (mostly under the junta control). And they consider Maduro elections fake but not Chavez? How tf are all of North Korea elections fake when South Korea has been a military dictatorship for most of it’s existance.
sham elections are elections in countries i don’t like. i am very intelligent
Alice Wong - disabled activist, author, founder of the Disability Visibility project, and co-founder of the Crips for eSims for Gaza - passed away today. She was doing incredible work.
"Alice Wong passed away on Friday, November 14th at UCSF Hospital due to an infection. She was 51 years old. Alice lived in San Francisco and grew up in Indiana.
Alice was the daughter to Henry and Bobby. The elder sister to Emily and Grace. The cat mom to Bert and Ernie, and a dear friend to many.
She will be remembered as being a fierce luminary in disability justice, a brilliant writer, editor and community organizer. Her work can be found at Disability Visibility Project.
As we mourn the incomprehensible loss of Alice, we share the words she gifted us with from her memoir, Year of the Tiger. “The real gift any person can give is a web of connective tissue. If we love fiercely, our ancestors live among and speak to us through these incandescent filaments glowing from the warmth of memories.”
We would like to invite her friends, community, and her many fans to contribute to Alice’s GoFundMe to continue the legacy of her work."
Image description: Alice Wong in 2023 on twitter saying that she cant wear an n95 and depends upon community masking. She was a long COVID activist. This is why we must always mask.Rest in power.
The invasion of the Presidential Palace in Mexico was planned. The “Generation Z” protesters brought a circular saw capable of cutting metal to cut through the protective fences, as well as gas masks and helmets. The “protesters” were also seen with swastikas, Nazi and fascist symbols, and One Piece flags. They spray-painted racist and anti-Semitic slogans on the walls outside the palace, such as “Jewish whore.”
I wake up, another psyop.Western news outlets are just saying “they’re against the cartels / lack of safety / corruption”. No mention of that graffiti or anything of course! It’s maddening.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-generation-z-protest-9b0a8b1461a1ec47cce696d25e04feb5
“Before EVIL GOMMUNISTS AMLO and Claudia there was no crime or cartel in Mexico!!!”
They came up now with a new word, it’s no longer the ghost of Castrochavismo, now they just talk about “Narcoterrorism” or whatever. Also, I find absolutly funny when Gusanos say theres more crime under left-wing goverments bc the left-wing goverments actually report all the corruption and crimes that happen inside the goverment, unlike the right-wing goverments who mostly hides all that.
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They used the One Piece flag in Nepal for a similar protest that successfully overthrew the government there.
Look at how they massacured my boy
They look really impoverished and oppressed /s
Aparently the jackass, Carlos Manzo they are trying to lionize was a hard liner against crime and called the Mexican Bukakke (the El Salvador jackass). Which is really fucking ironic given pirates go outside the law and they are copycatting very poorly the Indonesian One Piece protests.
Carlos Manzo
Lol he even was a member of the leftist ruling party just like Bukakke. Theres a bit of infighting within the right-wing in some south ameircan countries, some like bukele and want to be like him, others like bukele methods but hate bukele because he is Salvadoran and they are xenophobic.
I wonder what will happen to this people and their supporters when eventually the military (who already controls El Salvador, they just replaced the Arena Party with Bukele) removes Bukele from power and replaces him with one of them (Civic-Military dictatorships in latin america never end well for the civilian factions, the military really doesn’t want to share power with them as seen in the Uruguayan and Brazilian dictatorships).
I first remember seeing the one piece flag in Palestine shortly after October 7th. Then it really caught attention in Indonesia when their government tried cracking down on using its imagery.
I think it is Harry Potter for gen z libs because it’s been seen in protests that aren’t color revolutions like Morocco and Turkey. One Piece has become very popular and a lot of people, including right-wingers, see themselves as a group of badasses fighting back against the government because the larger message of the series goes right over their heads.
The type of people who use it seem to take pride in it not being left or right-wing, and that’s always a sure sign it’s a lib thing.
They probably raided so many of their kids’ bedrooms for those lmao
https://xcancel.com/AgenciaVNews/status/1990068323078361588
Maduro sung a part of “Imagine” by John Lennon in response to US aggression in the region.
I am the walrus
He was also using Google translate on his phone to say “no more crazy war” a week or two ago.
Venezuelan Special Forces are patrolling the streets of Caracas in preventive actions against saboteurs. On Saturday night (11/15), CORPOLEC (Corporación Eléctrica Nacional, S.A., often known by its abbreviation Corpoelec, is a fully integrated state power corporation of Venezuela) reported acts of sabotage against three transmission towers that were blown up. The Venezuelan government is treating the case of the three transmission towers that exploded in the municipality of Juan Antonio Sotillo as an act of internal sabotage, describing the action as having been carried out by “criminal agents supported by foreign powers.”
Bloomberg;
The US State Department said Sunday it plans to designate a Venezuelan drug cartel as a foreign terrorist organization and cited the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, as its leader
There’s a lot of talk about the US having a Suez or Vietnam moment. Will the US ever have a Gallipoli moment and which conflict would it most likely be?
trying and failing to fuck over
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(hopefully stumbling on the starting line so no one in the global south gets hurt)
They might fail, but I think they’ll be smart enough to back off before doing a Vietnam or Gallipoli moment.
The US armed forces has a doctrine almost solely built around “no take-backsies”, even their Afghanistan adventure was carefully orchestrated to ensure the corpses were mostly Afghani, even if that meant losing Kabul in the long run.
The Al-Majd organization responsible for the recent human trafficking and extortion of Palestinian refugees into South Africa recently, is allegedly owned by an Estonian who moved to Shitreal.
Source: Haaretz
Paywalled of course and the paywall removal portals aren’t breaking past it.
By all accounts, the attempted coup in Mexico has failed. Protesters tried to storm the Presidential Palace and clashed with police for approximately two hours, but now the situation appears to have calmed down.
- Telegram
Good to see they learned nothing with the 2023 coup attempt in Brazil lol. Claudia has 70% of approval btw.
So it’s like a Jan 6th moment?
As is tradition
Spain, former fascist state from 1939 to 1975, votes “no” to a resolution against glorification of Nazism. Fucking fascist shithole of a country.
The same Spain gave honorary citizenship to 170 descendants of the antifascist intl. brigades, just 12 days ago.
Like, this was a cabinet vote, based on a 2022 law of “Democratic Memory”. Such goofy ah “we’re not antifascist… but” shit going on at the UN
Spain has one of the stronger left traditions in Europe. The left there may have lost the civil war but was not really crushed unlike elsewhere, and it did not shrink as badly as a result of globalisation as other parts of the european left. Greece is arguably the European country with the strongest historical left, yet they’re also against on this vote.
It’s basically just the empire of nato vs rest of world.
Spain has roots of leftism but it’s pointless leftism. Praising the ones who lost the war while having total disregard for Latin American socialism, or Chinese and Soviet socialism. It’s purely a martyr thing, where the ones killed by the fascists are praised but no effort to ask why they lost is made.
The national myth is based on a mixture of imperialism in Latin America, and “reconquista” (islamophobia).
The only worthwhile leftist movements historically are the Abertzale left in Euskal Herria and a branch of Catalonian pro-independence leftism, there is nothing worthwhile in the rest of the country.
Yes but my general point is that the people themselves hold further left views because of this historical leftism and the inability of the right to fully pull out those roots. Condemn the Spanish state for sure, but I come into contact with Spaniards quite frequently and find them to be significantly more palatable and less reactionary than the UK population is. I put this down to stronger leftist activity, much like in Greece and Ireland which I am convinced have better populations for the same reason.
I mean yeah I get what you mean. I lived in Germany and at least a majority of leftists in Spain oppose military expenditure raises, unlike G*rmans whom are licking their lips at the thought of defunding healthcare to kill Russians.
is this the only thing the zionist entity breaks on?
they consider “أٓنٓا أُحِبُ حٓلِيبٓ الشُكُلٓاطٓةِ” to be fascist imagery and slogans
hey at least the Philippines votes yes… (haha we have no impact)
Still, we take those. Makes them better than the West, and I thought they usually go the way the US does lol.
Do you have the resolution text please? I could only find the one from 2021
https://docs.un.org/en/A/C.3/80/L.2
Generally if you enter the resolution id into google it usually comes up, in this case I searched for
A C.3 80 L.2Thanks for the tip and the link!
3·21 days agoYou can add the document symbol (resolution id) at the end of
undocs.org/ordocs.un.org/en/as seen in your link.Also see digitallibrary.un.org
ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘵. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.
it just me or are there way more against this time?
The nato block was abstaining previously, with the exception of the US and Ukraine mostly.
They seem to have switched to against, driven by the fact they can use the argument “this is russian propaganda against Ukraine”. People will believe that argument while this war is ongoing.
with the exception of the US and Ukraine mostly.
Yes, since 2012 IIRC. The resolution is always the same, but it keeps getting more no votes every year.
They’re obviously working behind the scenes to present a unified vote and using anti-russia sentiment and the “it’s propaganda” position to convince member states that they can do it without backlash.
The hidden history of Indigenous slavery in New England and beyond
Hexbear PostIt’s part of a hidden history of Native American enslavement – a surprising and overlooked story in the narrative of early America.
As colonial powers took over Native land in the 1600s, white settlers were also enslaving Native people. Some worked in New England. Others were sold overseas. And some, like Williams’ ancestors, were kidnapped and shipped to an isolated tropical island.
Who is Jeannette Jara, the communist leading Chile’s presidential election?
Hexbear PostThey have come to hear one of the frontrunners in Chile’s presidential race: Jeannette Jara.
A former labour minister, Jara is the nominee representing the leftist coalition in Sunday’s election.
But it is her membership in the Communist Party that makes her presidential bid historic. Not since Chile’s return to democracy in 1990 has a Communist candidate enjoyed such broad, mainstream support.
Chile votes for new president in communist vs far-right contest
Hexbear PostVote counting is under way in Chile’s presidential election with no clear winner expected, as more than 15 million voters cast ballots to decide whether the country stays on its current centre-left course or makes a sharp turn to the right.
A change from the previous elections is mandatory voting for registered voters.
The starkly divided frontrunners are Jeannette Jara, the 51-year-old governing coalition candidate from the Communist Party, and Jose Antonio Kast, 59, of the Republican Party who promises “drastic measures” to fight rising gang violence and deport undocumented immigrants.
Today’s referendum in Ecuador seeks to allow the U.S. regime to install military bases which are currently prohibited under the Constitution. The NO vote is currently leading by a large margin, 59.15% to 40.87% YES. Looks like a huge blow to the Noboa and Trump regimes. NO is leading on 4 of 4 referendum questions.
Resounding NO in the province of Manabí where the gringo military base was located (in Manta) before foreign forces and bases were banned under President Correa. The RC’s digital tracking produced estimates close to tonight’s actual results on the referendum. This same tracker had Luisa winning the April 13 election. The election was stolen and should have never been conceded to Noboa. Luisa & Correa were within their right to dispute the CNE result.
NO vote maintains over 60%, with counting nearing completion. Noboa recognizes his defeat across all four referendum questions.
https://t.me/PalestineResist/83570
Tomorrow is a UNSC resolution on a UN endorsed “multi-national” occupation of Gaza. The Palestinian resistance has denounced it.
We will see if Russia or China will veto.
spoiler
🇵🇸 Palestinian Resistance Factions: — In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
The Palestinian Resistance Factions in Gaza are monitoring ongoing efforts within the halls of the United Nations to pass the American draft resolution related to the deployment of international forces in Gaza. This resolution, under various titles, practically represents a new attempt to impose another form of occupation on our land and our people, and to legitimize foreign guardianship over the future of our national cause.
In light of this dangerous development, we, the Palestinian Resistance Factions, address a sincere and fraternal appeal to the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, its government and its people, to continue adhering to its principled positions supporting Palestine, and to maintain its firm rejection of any projects targeting the identity of Gaza and the right of our people to self-determination.
The historical position of Algeria, which has never abandoned Palestine, represents the true hope for our people in confronting this project, which seeks to impose a new occupation under international cover. The Palestinian people view Algeria as the authentic expression of the free popular Arab stance, capable of speaking the truth in the face of pressures and dictates.
We affirm that any foreign intervention in Gaza, regardless of its designation, is a violation of our national sovereignty and a continuation of the suffering of our people. The only path to achieving security and stability is ending the occupation, lifting the siege, and respecting the will and inalienable rights of our people.
The Palestinian Resistance Factions, while expressing confidence in the fraternal Algerian position, call upon all Arab and Islamic nations, and all free people of the world, to stand against this resolution, reject any form of guardianship or foreign intervention, and defend Gaza’s right to freedom, dignity, and independence.
Glory to the free peoples… and freedom for Palestine.
Sunday, 25 Jumada Al-Awwal 1447 AH, corresponding to November 16, 2025 AD.
