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.
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@cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml on the wretched state of the Green party in Germany
@weeb_lenin@hexbear.net on Honduran elections and Nasralla (not the cool one)
@jack@hexbear.net on ideological reasons for the American empire to target Venezuela
me on Seth Harp’s Fort Bragg book as well as the excellent Azov 9/11 article posted by @Tervell@hexbear.net .
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I put effort into this post and I wasn’t even stoned https://hexbear.net/comment/6723644
this is a great post, but I can’t help thinking about much greater it could have been if you were stoned
It would be 30% longer and 40% less coherent
thanks for flagging this one, I thought it was good as I read it but couldn’t find it again when I went to update the POTW comment
Norway wealth fund is going to vote for a human right inquiry at the Microsoft general assembly.
PressTV interviewed a 10-year old girl who was used as a human shield by the IOF in Jenin.
Compare how ECOWAS is reacting to the coup in Benin vs them pretending the coup in Guinea-Bassau isn’t even happening:
https://xcancel.com/africansinnews/status/1997763690406248791mfw the Nigerian Air Force would rather drop bombs on Beninese people than Boko Haram:
https://xcancel.com/marcus_herve/status/1997793728681890072The Thai Army has officially confirmed that clashes are taking place in several areas along the border with Cambodia. On December 8, 2025, the Thai Army’s Second Zone confirmed active clashes in Chong Ang Ma, Hill 677, Huai Ta Maria, Khana, and Prasat Ta Muen, locations that are between 10 and 30 km apart. Evacuations have been underway in Sa Kaeo province since 7 a.m. to ensure the safety of the civilian population.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is currently holding an emergency security meeting with senior military and security chiefs after a Thai soldier was killed and four others wounded. Protective measures in the rear, traffic control, and front-line support have been reinforced.
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New massive US spybase in Iraq.
The US has opened a massive 206,000m² consulate in Erbil, costing $796 million, cementing a long-term foothold in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region as Washington shifts its focus from Baghdad. With most personnel set to be based in Erbil as it withdraws from Baghdad.
Meanwhile, Akram Al Kaabi, head of Iraq’s Al-Nujaba Movement, warned that US Envoy Mark Savaya, of Iraqi origin, has been interfering in Iraqi affairs and is "rolling up his sleeves to steal the wealth of his country and put them in the hands of his American master.”
Al-Kaabi warned him while addressing the political leadership in Baghdad, stating: "Know that if you do not silence him, the Islamic Resistance will put a stone in his mouth and return him to his masters who enslaved him.”
US Deputy Secretary of State Michael Rigas framed the site as a platform to “advance the interests of the United States” despite repeated calls by Iraq’s leaders for US withdrawal.
-VPol news.
Ziorahn Mamdani telling people that they should not run away or resist ICE or do anything to “impede their investigation”.
The video is real on his profile.
HAHAHAH
https://archive.ph/ROeX0Britain’s nuclear submarine fleet ‘no longer fit for purpose’
Former Navy chief calls for ‘radical’ action to revive programme after catastrophic failures
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Britain is “no longer capable” of running a nuclear submarine programme after “catastrophic” failures pushed it to the brink, a former Navy chief has said. Rear Admiral Philip Mathias said the UK’s “silent service” was facing an “unprecedented” situation from which it was highly unlikely to recover without radical intervention. The former director of nuclear policy at the Ministry of Defence said delays in building new attack boats had reached record levels, while the duration of patrols for crews in nuclear-armed submarines had been driven up from 70 days during the Cold War to more than 200 days now. This had led to a “shockingly low availability” of submarines to “counter the Russian threat in the North Atlantic”, the retired submarine commander warned.
The admiral, who led the Trident value for money review in 2010, called for Britain to pull out of the multi-billion Aukus defence deal with America and Australia to build 12 new nuclear submarines. “The UK is no longer capable of managing a nuclear submarine programme,” he said. “Dreadnought is late, Astute class submarine delivery is getting later, there is a massive backlog in Astute class maintenance and refitting, which continues to get worse, and SSN-Aukus is a submarine which is not going to deliver what the UK or Australia needs in terms of capability or timescale.” “Performance across all aspects of the programme continues to get worse in every dimension. This is an unprecedented situation in the nuclear submarine age. It is a catastrophic failure of succession and leadership planning.” He added: “The public should be aware of the gross mismanagement of this hugely expensive and important programme. Our adversaries certainly will be, not least by counting our submarines alongside using satellite imagery and reading audit reports already in the public domain.”
The Navy’s fleet of Astute submarines is already facing significant problems, with many having been stuck in port for years. Out of the seven planned, six are in service. HMS Ambush is currently inactive, having spent 1,222 days – more than three years and four months – in port, according to defence analysts. Sister vessels Artful and Audacious are undergoing sluggish maintenance programmes, having both spent more than 950 days out of action. Astute and Anson are also in port. HMS Agamemnon, the sixth and penultimate vessel, entered service in September during a commissioning ceremony led by the King, with ministers hailing it a “truly remarkable manufacturing feat”. But Rear-Adml Mathias said: “The uncomfortable truth is that she took over 13 years to build – the longest-ever construction time for a submarine to be built for the Navy.”
Russia, meanwhile, continues to pressure the Navy, having ramped up its activity in UK waters by more than 30 per cent, John Healey, the Defence Secretary, has warned. Last week, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, said he was ready to go to war with Europe. The UK’s nuclear-armed submarine fleet is critical to defending the country and deterring Russia and other dangerous states from using weapons of mass destruction. The fleet of four Vanguard stealth boats carries Britain’s nuclear missiles, with one vessel always patrolling the seas at any time. Each of the submarines can carry up to 16 Trident 2 D5 60 ton ballistic missiles armed with up to eight individual warheads, the combined destructive power of which dwarfs the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in the Second World War and would wipe out millions of people. However, the boats have faced problems during launch tests issues in the past. In 2016, one of the 44ft Tridents fired from HMS Vengeance veered off course and reportedly self-destructed. Then at Port Canaveral, Florida, on Jan 30 last year, a missile launched from HMS Vanguard misfired and landed back in the sea.
In his critique, Rear-Adml Mathias said Britain’s next generation of nuclear weapon boats, the Dreadnought class, should be the “last class of nuclear-powered submarines that the UK builds”. He said the Aukus programme should be “cancelled now”, with the money instead spent on better “cost-effective” ways of delivering the same capability but with cheaper tech, like aerial drones or smaller unmanned submarines. The naval commander pointed towards historic cuts in defence spending, repeated changes to how nuclear submarine programmes are delivered and a “huge failure” to manage key personnel as contributing factors to the decline. But he also criticised the role of industry giants for delays to programmes and added that not a single one of the UK’s 23 decommissioned nuclear boats had been dismantled since the first, HMS Dreadnought, left service in 1980.
“This is an utter disgrace and brings into question whether Britain is responsible enough to own nuclear submarines,” he said, adding the details he raised were all publicly available and probably known by Russia. A defence source insisted the “right people were in the right place” to continue to oversee Britain’s nuclear programme. The Ministry of Defence said it was committed to delivering the next generation of nuclear submarines, and that the Dreadnought programme remained on track. It added that it was committed to the safe disposal of old boats and was a responsible nuclear operator, meeting the highest standards of safety, security and environmental protection for the current projects in Devonport and Rosyth and through planning for a future disposal capability in the UK. A spokesman added: “We are unwavering in our commitment to renewing and maintaining the nuclear deterrent underlined by the biggest sustained investment into defence spending since the end of the Cold War. “The Strategic Defence Review made clear the need for sustained investment across the Defence Nuclear Enterprise. This will see delivery of the most powerful attack submarines ever operated by the Royal Navy and the investment of £15bn this Parliament into our sovereign warhead programme.”
Saudi Arabia and UAE are tuning up to have their own proxy war in Yemens Hadhramaut Region (the Incense Road) . The UAE - Backed “Southern Transitional Council” has Opened a Offensive into the Hadhraumaut Region and has kicked out the Saudi Backed forces of the 1 Military District or “National Shield Forces” from the central road hub city of Sayoum. This Supriseattack was rather succesfull and has Split the Saudi Backed Territory in 2 Parts, forcing Saudi Arabian Regular Army Forces to Pouring into Hadramout from the North to save their Proxy.
Paris, France
Louis Sarkozy, the son of the other sarcozy, propose to remove all rules of the road, speed limits, road signage and red lights. “People do not respect them anyway”
Sarcozies, first time was a tragedy, second time’s a farce
I wonder if it has something to do with the rumored french intervention operation in Niger via Benin, France send a warship to Porto-Novo not that long ago.
Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry are dating. Making it “Instagram Official.”
Does this make Trudeau Canada’s JFK?
China’s Long March 12A reusable space launch vehicle is scheduled to launch sometime this month, after a successful static fire test.
They have a chance to mog their private SpaceX wannabe, Landspace, who launched their own reusable rocket a few days ago, and failed to recover it.
Pope Leo has urged Donald Trump not to attempt to overthrow the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, using military force, and to instead seek dialogue.
Trump’s administration has been considering its options as it steps up its campaign against Maduro, who it accuses of links to the illegal drug trade. The country’s authoritarian leader has denied the accusations.
The US has gathered its biggest military presence in the Caribbean since the 1989 invasion of Panama, and launched 21 strikes on suspected drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, killing at least 83 people.
Trump reportedly gave Maduro an ultimatum to immediately relinquish power during a recent call, but the Venezuelan leader declined, demanding a “global amnesty” for himself and allies.
Speaking to reporters onboard the papal flight as he returned from his first overseas trip as pope to Turkey and Lebanon, Leo said the Catholic church was “trying to find a way to calm the situation” because “in these situations it is the people who suffer, not the authorities”.
“On the one hand, it seems there has been a telephone conversation between the two presidents,” he added. “On the other hand, there is this danger, this possibility, that there could be an action, an operation, including an invasion of Venezuelan territory.”
Leo said that if the US wanted to bring about change in Venezuela then it should not use military force, but instead “seek dialogue, including economic pressure”.
The Chicago-born pontiff was elected in May after the death of Pope Francis. During the flight, he also criticised anti-migrant activists who stoke “fears” of Islam and said cooperation between Christians and Muslims in Lebanon should be an example for Europe and the US.
The main purpose of his six-day trip, during which he met a host of religious and political leaders, was to urge peace amid heightened tensions in the Middle East. At the start of the visit, he said a world war was being fought “piecemeal” and was endangering the future of humanity.
Leo also spoke publicly for the first time about what it was like to have been picked to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. He said that during the secret conclave he began to realise that he might be chosen.
“I resigned myself to the fact when I saw how things were going – I said, ‘This could be a reality’,” Leo, 70, added. “I took a deep breath. I said, ‘Here we go, Lord, you’re in charge and you lead the way’.”
He also discussed plans for future foreign trips, and said Africa could be next, including Algeria.
