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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 bulletins site is here. Currently not used.
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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Big Pharma Is Making Mexico Sick. Medicine and Supply Shortages Are Rampant.
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Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxide
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NY Times’ David Brooks Said There’s Too Much Focus on Jeffrey Epstein. Here He Is Hanging With Epstein.
(theintercept.com)
cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/14470
The Epstein story? Count him in.
In November, in the wake of the release of tens of thousands of new documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, New York Times columnist David Brooks announced his intention to sit this one out.
In a column titled “The Epstein Story? Count Me Out,” Brooks, a mainstay of the anti-Trump center-right, dismissed the furor over Epstein as an extension of QAnon, the far-right conspiracy cult that emerged during the first Trump administration and centered around increasingly deranged myths around a pedophile cabal that supposedly ran the world. The case was like catnip to QAnon types, Brooks argued, because it revealed that a powerful, well-connected financier really was engaged in sex-trafficking.
Brooks didn’t mention that he had not only met Epstein in the past, but also attended a dinner alongside the infamous sex trafficker in 2011.
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The connection was only revealed Thursday when photos of Brooks at an event with Epstein emerged as part of a release of a new tranche of documents by the Democratic members of the House Committee on Oversight, which has been investigating the Epstein saga and has access to reams of documents handed over by the estate of the late pedophile.
It was not immediately clear when or where the event took place, but a spokesperson for the Times told The Intercept that it was a “widely-attended dinner” in 2011 that Brooks attended in the normal course of his journalistic duties. Brooks did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“As a journalist, David Brooks regularly attends events to speak with noted and important business leaders to inform his columns, which is exactly what happened at this 2011 event,” Times spokesperson Danielle Rhoades Ha wrote. “Mr. Brooks had no contact with him before or after this single attendance at a widely-attended dinner.”
David Brooks at a 2011 dinner that Jeffrey Epstein attended. Photo: House Oversight Committee
Brooks is not the first Timesman to appear prominently in the recent disclosures around Epstein. In November, when the GOP-controlled Oversight Committee dumped thousands of documents gleaned from an email inbox belonging to Epstein, it revealed new depths to the relationship between Epstein and Landon Thomas Jr., a former Times reporter who was fired in 2018 after it emerged that he’d solicited a donation to a charity from Epstein. Thomas, a business reporter, appeared in numerous emails with Epstein in which Epstein teased information he said he had regarding Donald Trump. Those tips were not made public, and neither Thomas nor the Times have commented on why he did not appear to have reported them out.
Thursday’s release of documents also included a number of photos of prominent thinkers and political operatives known to be in Epstein’s orbit in later years, including the leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky and the right-wing provocateur and erstwhile Trump confidant Steven K. Bannon.
The photos came out just a day ahead of the deadline for the release of the so-called Epstein Files by the Department of Justice, which is mandated by congressional Epstein Files Act to drop documents related to its investigations into Epstein on Friday.
“The Epstein case is precious to the QAnon types because here, in fact, was a part of the American elite that really was running a sex abuse ring,” Brooks wrote in his November column. “So, of course, they leap to the conclusion that Epstein was a typical member of the American establishment, not an outlier. It’s grooming and sex trafficking all the way down.”
A spokesperson for the Democratic members of the Oversight Committee did not immediately respond to a request for clarification about the details of the photos, but according to Politico, the Epstein estate provided the images without context after a subpoena.
The post NY Times’ David Brooks Said There’s Too Much Focus on Jeffrey Epstein. Here He Is Hanging With Epstein. appeared first on The Intercept.
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