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On December 4th, Rwanda's Paul Kagame and the DRC's Felix Tshisekedi signed the Washington Accords for Peace and Prosperity (pictured above). Trump boasted that he was settling a war that had gone on for decades, and remarked, idiosyncratically, "[...] and now they’re going to spend a lot of time hugging, holding hands [...]"
A few days later, the M23 militia (backed by Rwanda) advanced into Uvira, a city near the DRC's eastern border with Burundi and a major commercial and strategic location in the region. Burundi, although a small country, is a significant ally to the DRC and has sent thousands of soldiers to aid them during conflicts; this offensive by M23 aims to cut off a direct route between the two, though they do still share quite a long border over Lake Tanganyika. Tens of thousands of civilians (possibly up to 200,000) fled as M23 approached.
Signed almost simultaneously with the Accords was a Strategic Partnership Agreement between the DRC and the United States, which effectively threw open its critical minerals in the east to American exploitation. These minerals include tin, tungsten, and tantalum, which is vital for many industries. The irony is that M23 has been taking territory in the eastern DRC in order to transport these very minerals to Rwanda and onwards to global supply chains. Signing the Accord was, therefore, a remarkably pointless endeavour for everybody involved. Burundi and the DRC have complained, calling for sanctions on Rwanda, and appeasing to Trump's pride, calling this a "slap in the face to the United States", though I doubt the US is ultimately all that bothered about it one way or another.
Last week's thread is here. The Imperialism Reading Group is here.
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The RSS feed is here. Also currently not used.
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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Hello and warm greetings to my fellow news mega enjoyers and to the wider hexbear, lemmygrad and lemmy.ml community,
I've been finding myself browsing the newsmega often and was often thinking of a way that would help me contextualize the discussions and news that I'm reading. I remembered an atlas I had in school that would show the location of industries and natural ressources (and more) and decided try to recreate a digital version similar to https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/. When I stumbled upon lemmy-js-client I found a fun way to display lemmy comments geographically, which I would like to share with you:
https://hex-atlas.netlify.app/
⚠️ Spoiler Tags are not implemented thus CWs are not hidden
Nexus Features:
- @SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net Bulletins
- Hexbear Reading List (Thank you @CARCOSA@hexbear.net for the suggestions)
- ProleWiki (Thank you Lemmygrad for maintaining this)
- Wikipedia/Natopedia
- Anarchist Library
I'm open for suggestions, but would like to continuously add new features:
- Mastodon.social (well documented)
- Marxists.org (will be difficult)
- ~~Moon of Alabama (looks easy)~~ (Thank you @someone@hexbear.net for pointing out the transphobia)
- Usability and performance improvements
- and maybe more cool features where the guiding ideas are: "IRL Victoria 3 UI" and a "cockpit for newsmega-enjoyers" (e.g. comparing regions and seeing commodity/capital flows, real-time 1% flight data, vessel data - to enjoy the ansar allah blockade, virgin chad ranking, etc.)
Basic usage:
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You can either search for a place or click on it. You'll see various scopes: provinces/territories, countries, intermediate regions, sub regions, continent. You can click also on these to change the scope. What it actually does is send it as a search query into lemmy and you see the search results to it (I built a fancy search page). IN the Fediverse Tab you can select the instances, sort types, and other settings from lemmy. On the Nexus Tab you have a similar behaviour, just for the various modules. You'll see the wiki of whatever is selected on the map :
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use query to search location by query e. g. brics and find discussions pertaining to the selected location.
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the query field can also be used to find and filter content by communities that are not listed
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on Mobile long press pictures to unblur it (not fully tested) on desktop hover with mouse
tldr: Attention [Pink]: Select an option [Purple] to reveal selected information [Yellow].
It's in a prototype stage so please keep in mind:
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It's mostly optimized for desktops. Sry comrades with old hardware - no optimization, yet :( @kota@hexbear.net post inspired me to look into this tho.
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Provinces/Territories: While I was doing manual edits to some regions I realized I'm doing something very political (duh). Following this, I'm looking for solutions to implement user defined regions (if there's interest from you) e.g. #fromTheRiverToTheSea #brics #udssr #whatever Comrade @SleeplessOne1917@lemmy.ml offered help, but I have only experience with front-end and am not sure how and what to propose. All my ideas are leveraging the current state of development and might be annoying to you. If you have experience, suggestions, etc. on how to make this work, feel free to start a discussion, reach out, etc.
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Provinces/Territories: If you want something particularly aggravating changed asap, feel free to start a discussion and vOtE! I'll update manually.
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Countries that span two continents are only displayed as belonging to one e.g. Russia - Europe (Dataset used: https://github.com/lukes/ISO-3166-Countries-with-Regional-Codes)
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Right now this project is exclusive to hexbear, lemmygrad, lemmy.ml and their federated instances. I have an inner conflict: Generally, fuck intellectual property and I would like to make it foss, but this would make it available for lib/chud content as well. Should I? Help me resolve this.
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Please consider this a tribute to this community, which I've been lurking and a member since the r/CTH days (nevar forget). I started web development not too long ago and am deeply inspired by dev titans among others:
Thank you and the mods and admins for making hexbear/lemmy what it is today.
Enjoy your weekend :)
(After I post this I will leave the computer for a while and wont be able to really check and respond for a few hours)
Death to fascism
Death to capitalism
Death to imperialism
Trans rights are human rights
EDIT: After some consideration I decided to make the code public under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE ( AGPL-3.0 license )
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Canadian MPs denied entry into West Bank after refusing to sign form acknowledging they are a threat to public safety
(www.cbc.ca)
: hey yeah so you want to go bear witness to our colonial dispossession operation, sure of course. First, just a minor thing, sign this form saying we can legally murder you
Further context from May of this year, when occupation forces shot at a similar Canadian delegation: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/israel-canadians-west-bank-shots-1.7540343
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39 countries have reached an EV sales share larger than 10% in 2025, a third of which are outside Europe. In 2019, there were only four countries that had reached this milestone, all within Europe. Notably, China reached over 50% EV sales share for the first time this year. Between January and October 2025, EVs have made up over a quarter of global new car sales, up from less than 3% in 2019.
Chinese EV exports are finding new markets outside the OECD. Since July 2023, non-OECD markets have been responsible for all the growth in Chinese EV exports, with Mexico, Brazil, UAE and Indonesia emerging as top destinations in 2025.
Several ASEAN countries now have among the highest EV sales penetration of any country in the world. Close to 40% of Viet Nam’s new car sales this year have been EVs, almost all of them battery electric vehicles made by local manufacturer VinFast. It is now gaining ground on regional leader Singapore, where the EV sales share has exceeded 40% of new car sales so far in 2025.
Due to their high levels of efficiency, electric vehicles are a powerful tool to reduce fossil fuel dependence. Whereas ICE vehicles waste around 80% of the energy in the fuel, EVs use close to 80% of the electricity they consume. This leads to large reductions in overall fossil fuel consumption even if a country’s electricity supply is heavily dependent on fossil generation.
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‘The antithesis to Nazi ideology’: how Pippi Longstocking was born to stand up to Hitler
(www.theguardian.com)
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So I was just cruising around on the ICJ website, seeing if there have been any updates to the v Israel cases 186, 192 and 196. (Not.) But I did find a bunch of documents that I don't recall before.
Most interestingly, in 196 (Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organizations and Third States in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory).
list of recent documents in ICJ 196 with links etc
27 August 2025, "Explanations provided further to the Court's request of 13 August 2025" from
- State of Israel (19 pgs)
- Volume II: Annexes (406 pgs, 35mb)
- State of Palestine (88 pgs)
- Table listing sources of information (326 pgs, 3mb)
(I am unable to find the request of Aug 13? I guess it was too boring to publish.)
On 8 September 2025 there are 3 additional documents, all "Comments further to the Court's request of 13 August 2025" from:
- United Nations (6 pgs)
- State of Israel (2 pgs)
- State of Palestine (60 pgs)
And what came of it so far is "Advisory Opinion of 22 October 2025"
- Summary (24 pgs)
- TLDR: "By ten votes to one" on 6 out of 6 points ... "AGAINST: Vice-President Sebutinde"
- Full version (71 pg)
- if that's not enough for you, there are various separate/dissenting/declarations/partials of individual judges on the advisory page
- Also UN Web TV (2hrs long in English and French)
Even though the ICJ is not really able/willing to to do much immediately about the israel situation, the documents are still important because they will likely form part of the global historical understanding. They're very official, not just now but going forward. And represent their respective nations.
I haven't read any of this thoroughly but when skimming "Explanations provided by the State of Israel" (Aug 27, 25) my eye landed on this for starters:
when you submit your conspiracy theory to court
(added line breaks for easier reading)
It is recalled, in this regard, that the question put to the Court anyway inquires only as to what the obligations of Israel are, and not whether or not Israel has abided by these obligations.^7^
- To this it may be added that the Court should in any event exercise great caution in considering the information presented to it in these proceedings, particularly given that disinformation and systematic propaganda concerning the situation in the Gaza Strip have pervaded the current hostilities.
Hamas’s calculated strategy of exploiting the sympathy of all those who care for the vulnerable has manifested itself not only in the systematic use of civilians as human shields, but also in the relentless dissemination of false information about the humanitarian situation to media outlets and international bodies.
Statements regarding Palestinian casualties – predominantly derived from Hamas-controlled sources – have therefore frequently required substantial downward revision after publication, with the UN on one occasion even reducing its published estimates of civilian fatalities by half.^8^
Similar misrepresentations by the UN occurred regarding Gaza’s humanitarian situation during March 2025, when “warnings” based on incomplete data from sources within Gaza—and disregarding significant information published by Israel—were presented as independent UN assessments and subsequently quoted as established fact.^9^
- Similarly, purportedly authentic images depicting civilian suffering have often been exposed as fabrications.^10^
Particularly troubling has been the exploitation of children suffering from pre-existing and chronic illnesses, whose photos were disseminated through various news media under glaring headlines of “famine”, without disclosing these details.^11^
Senior UN officials have been compelled to retract public statements concerning the humanitarian situation after these were proven false.^12^
Furthermore, reports warning of ‘imminent’ or unfolding humanitarian catastrophes have time and again been demonstrated to be inaccurate or even manipulated.^13^
Footnotes for the above:
7 Written Statement, para. 64.
8 The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) significantly revised data concerning aid that has entered Gaza: for instance, it initially reported, in real time, that only 11,355 aid trucks entered Gaza between May and September 2024, but later increased the number by over 60% to 18,796 aid trucks now showing on its online dashboard for that same period. This figure is still a far cry from the number of aid trucks that actually went in during that timeframe, which stands at no less than 29,955 (see real-time report: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Reported impact snapshot | Gaza Strip (9 October 2024), (9 October 2024), https://www.ochaopt.org/content/reported-impact-snapshot-gaza-strip-9-october. Online dashboard: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Gaza crossings: movement of people and goods (Incoming supplies between 7 October 2023 and 18 January 2025), https://www.ochaopt.org/data/crossings).
9 For instance, a publication by UNICEF on 10 March 2025 reported that severe water shortage for hundreds of thousands is expected, not taking into account the information publicly published by COGAT before and after such publication. This baseless statement was relied on as a UN official assessment just two days later, and considered as a fact by various international actors. See United Nations, Gaza power cut impacts safe water access for hundreds of thousands (10 March 2025), https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/03/1160961; COGAT, @cogatonline, X (formerly Twitter) (5:52 pm, 11 March 2025), https://x.com/cogatonline/status/1899518911563067488; Hamish Falconer MP, @HFalconerMP, X (formerly Twitter) (6:12 pm, 16 March 2025), https://x.com/HFalconerMP/status/1901335854494200116.
10 Recently, there has been an orchestrated campaign of alleged starvation by Hamas and its allies. To give one example, a German newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, recently showed that a photo of Gazans holding empty pots was staged, with the civilians posing in front of a photographer – not in a queue for food aid. See N. Freund, “Wie echt sind die Bilder aus Gaza?” Süddeutsche Zeitung (3 August 2025), https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/gaza-hunger-bilder-experten-propaganda-hamas-israel-li.3291720.
11 A recent article by the Free Press has uncovered that twelve individuals who were featured in viral photos actually suffered from serious, pre-existing health problems. In late July, the New York Times published a photo of 18-month-old boy, Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, for a story about hunger in Gaza. After details regarding al-Mutawaq’s condition came to light, the New York Times was forced to publish a correction to the story stating that he suffered from “pre-existing health problems affecting his brain and his muscle development”: see, respectively, “They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems.” The Free Press, (18 August 2025), https://www.thefp.com/p/they-became-symbols-for-gazan-starvation?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params=&tabid=a9deebd463e56e08&application_server_address=fgtehilacloud-14-me-west1.prod.fire.glass&popup=true&is_right_side_popup=false&start_with_session_counter=; “Gazans Are Dying of Starvation” The New York Times, (29 July 2025), https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/middleeast/gaza-starvation.html.
12 One noteworthy example is the statement by Tom Fletcher, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, who said on live television on 20 May 2025 that “there are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours” but was compelled to withdraw that statement as baseless. See “UN aid chief admits starving Gazan baby claim was amid ’desperation’ to let aid in” The Jerusalem Post, (30 May 2025), https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-856073.
13 This has notoriously been the case, for example, with regard to reports from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), on which see more at para. 48 below. Mention may also be made of the baseless claims made when Israel announced its intention to eliminate Hamas forces in the Rafah area
The Palestinian "Explanations" doesn't look like there is anything that's be new to anyone here, it is a calm overview, explanation, and evidence of the well-known horrors up til that point.
And their supporting Annexes, are exactly this loony toons. They have just printed off a bunch of X posts, internal chats telling each other they're doing good, and right wing media articles. The first Item is a WSJ article and it just goes from there. Here is overview of the PDF. The whole thing is like this:
If in the second image you thought "Oh, some words without pictures, maybe it's something serious": Zoom in and it's "U.S. Embassy Jerusalem, 'Ambassador Huckabee’s Interview with CBS News', (8 August 2025)". 14 pages long, apparently 41 minutes of a reporter chasing this guy around in circles.
For comparison, here is how Palestine's likewise document "Table listing sources of information" is presented:
1.5 weeks later (Sept 8, 25) each side submitted a response to the other. Palestine's response is 60 pages detailed refutation of Israel's arguments. Israel's is a scant 2 pages... because what could they say? It is just more whining.
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Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices Across the Economy
(www.thebignewsletter.com)
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Maria Machado, Nobel Peace Prize winner fractures spine in daring escape from Venezuela
(www.the-express.com)
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