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It takes very little effort to find an article from Western state propaganda decrying Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas as authoritarian and rife with human rights abuses. This is the natural reaction the US has to any successful liberation movement. This fairly long report from Jason Cohen, a socialist who travelled to Nicaragua one week ago, should quell any suspicions.

He describes a country with high political consciousness among the masses, who are working to construct critical infrastructure for the country and their communities. There is a virtual education system that is free across the entire nation, which serves the dual goal of democratizing education and ensuring that those in rural areas or without much free time for university can still achieve degrees and a quality education; and these classes cover technical skills in the production of infrastructure and agriculture, but also political and ideological education in order to counter the fascist propaganda produced by imperialist nations abroad.

While Nicaragua is deeply invested in its nationality and national figures who led to their socialist revolution, such as Sandino, they are also immensely proud of their indigneous history, recognizing it as also part of their anti-colonial history which continues to the present day. Additionally, they honour the struggles of other nations on the continent, such as the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, as well as Castro in Cuba and Allende in Chile. Countries around the world are also celebrated and admired, such as Burkina Faso; during the Reagan administration, Nicaragua and Burkina Faso were comrades in arms, and now Traore is continuing the legacy of Sankara's anti-imperialism in the present. Perhaps most relevant today is their dedication towards Palestine, involving the creation of the Parque Palestina (shown in the post image), in which the Palestinian flag flies alongside the flag of Nicaragua. In July, Leila Khaled of the PFLP gave a speech in Nicaragua, in which the solidarity of the two nations was highlighted.


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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA daily-ish 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 (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
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.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

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.
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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[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 56 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

A week or so ago I told my comrades here that my University was holding democratic elections. The process lasted for the entire week and was pretty heated up, the incumbent peronists were seeking to hold their positions of power while the Trots ~~got along together and challenged them~~ went each one by themselves, divided their votes and lost. Out of six lists presented, three were ideologically aligned with Trotskyism.

Will they learn from their mistakes? No, of course they wont. Now I will have to suffer two more years of pure peronist sellouts. Great.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 56 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

James Earl Jones, actor of 'Star Wars' and voice of Darth Vader, dies at 93.

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[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 56 points 3 months ago (28 children)

alright chat what did i miss re: the debate? i was at work.

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[–] WilsonWilson@hexbear.net 56 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Stormfront banned russianwarfootage2. Again. Best way to win a war is simply not allow coverage of your defeat.

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[–] refolde@hexbear.net 56 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The responses I got earlier were much appreciated. I was feeling like shit and that was a whole bunch of baggage I needed to get off my chest.

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[–] buh@hexbear.net 56 points 3 months ago (3 children)
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[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 56 points 3 months ago (3 children)

UAF slams Russia by PRETENDING to be Nazis (They're actually wholesome minority loving people who will never bomb minorities)

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1ffs02e/ru_pov_ukrainian_soldiers_again_filmed_themselves/

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[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 55 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Thousands of protesters disrupt Land Forces defence expo in Melbourne's CBD

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/live-blog-land-forces-protest-melbourne-israel-gaza/104333922

One burning bin and they have $10 m worth of kitted out piggies and helicopters out in response. Biggest police response to planned protests since the 2000 World Economic Forum

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 55 points 3 months ago

Lula's government intends to confiscate land from arsonists, says Marina Silva.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's government is studying legal means to confiscate land from perpetrators of forest fires in the country, the Minister for the Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, said on Wednesday.

According to the minister, the studies are inspired by the law that allows confiscation against owners who exploit labor analogous to slavery on their land.

Marina did not give a deadline for the conclusion of these studies, nor did she say when a proposal along these lines might be ready, but she defended the need to toughen up the laws that provide for punishments for perpetrators of arson. Currently, she said, the maximum sentence is five years in prison.

“This year and last year there was a 60% drop in deforestation over the two years, but criminals, knowing that the forest is losing moisture and making an alliance with climate change, set fire to the forest in order to destroy the forest without having to clear it,” he said.

[–] notceps@hexbear.net 55 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Taking a short break from german news to bring UK news, apparently you gotta pay 11 quid next year to get a permit to enter the country. I'm sure this will not have any influence on the UKs tourism sector.

I mean really 11£? Like I know that someone in the government looked at the yearly numbers and thought they could raise like millions but it seems like a hurdle that will make people less likely to go to TERF island if they can't help it.

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[–] WilsonWilson@hexbear.net 54 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy has promised Ukraine 100 years of support. 1) He is lying. 2) So-called Ukraine will not last a quarter of that time. 3) The island called Britain is likely to sink in the next few years. Our hypersonic missiles will help if necessary," -Dmitry Medvedev

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[–] edge@hexbear.net 54 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Is there a collection anywhere of every anti-democratic lawsuit by the “Democratic” Party to keep third-parties off the ballot? At least going back to like 2016 anyway, because I’m sure they’ve been doing it longer than that.

It seems like they’ve done it every election in every important state or district in the past few elections so an aggregate would provide an interesting view.

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[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 53 points 3 months ago (2 children)

how many of you mf gonna miss???

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[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 53 points 3 months ago (5 children)
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[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 53 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

I was listening to CII Radio and Salaamedia on Monday. A guest speaker on the live radio mentioned the massacres are quite literally done just for fun (their words, not mine) and there has not been any clear objective than just wanton extermination. The rhetoric has also become much more bloodthirsty as well as self-sustaining, with the violence itself a catalyst. It was already bad enough a decade ago, but now it's much more directly hostile and slowly becoming more materially violent. Salaamedia even noted that in response to a journalist who escaped to South Africa and gave an interview on Newzroom Afrika, pro-"israeli" individuals were already screaming for her death because hostages. Even preschool aged children who were evacuated to South Africa for ICU are the targets of this violent sentiment.

It was even noted that if the South African government does not take any meaningful action against "israel", the Apartheid violence could slowly become normalized yet again. There is also the possibility of terrorism or targeted attacks against South African heads of state, and though while marginal at the moment, the chance isn't zero. Could there be an upsurge of anti-South African sentiment if say, the Diaper forces assault Ramallah, storm the South African embassy and destroy the Nelson Mandela Square to "send a message"?

The ICC/ICJ is still "on the fence" whether trapping over 2 million people into an area only slightly larger than municipal Johannesburg, starving them, destroying all infrastructure and services, further squeezing them into a critical mass of density, etc. constitutes a genocide. Likely because South Africa already questions the courts' legitimacy almost a decade ago and they're afraid to let it slip in their own words.

("Municipal Johannesburg" referring to the city and it's surrounding large/dense neighbourhoods, disregarding cities such as Soweto and Ekurhuleni that comprise the megacity as a whole. The municipality is almost the size of the Gaza Strip, however 6 million people live in it.)

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[–] outside_enjoyer@hexbear.net 53 points 3 months ago (4 children)

https://archive.ph/2024.09.13-152140/https://www.ft.com/content/eeb2b9c2-448c-4254-8ffe-7b6a433d45d6

"We feel like there is a mini energy crisis that no one is talking about,” a Greek government official said, ahead of the letter being sent to Brussels on Friday.

Why? Because to acknowledge the energy crisis is to acknowledge the death of German heavy industry. Euros are in for an extremely rude awakening, only to be delayed by the ECB putting rates through the floor. I think even the Greeks know this, otherwise a named official would've said the above quote.

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[–] PosadistInevitablity@hexbear.net 52 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Looking more and more likely that the West will start striking targets deep inside Russia.

The common refrain that “the west is forcing Ukraine to fight with a hand tied behind its back” is just so bizarre.

If both sides were to fight all out, Ukraine would be destroyed in an hour by a nuclear salvo. Are they just stupid?

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 54 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

the west is forcing Ukraine to fight with a hand tied behind its back

This is how the nazi stabbed in the back myth is developing for this conflict.

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 52 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Chilean President Gabriel Boric announced that he will push for the repeal of the Amnesty Law for human rights violations committed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).

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[–] destroyamerica@lemmygrad.ml 52 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

saw an interesting idea elsewhere, everyone's always nervous that Russian red lines will mean nuclear war, but for instance all this talk about long range missile strikes into russia, given that they will have to be used in conjunction with satellite data, what are the odds that russia blows up a nato satellite instead?

(i personally think the most likely decision is arming Ansar Allah and other enemies of the west openly with more advanced weaponry, but an interesting idea I hadn't seen brought up elsewhere before)

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[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 51 points 3 months ago

Elon absolutely fumbled by going all in on Trump.

[–] YoungSheldonAdelson@hexbear.net 51 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (15 children)

Quantum computing is pretty much vaporware at this point, right? Kamala says we need to keep up our investments in QC and AI to beat China, but as far as I know, QC has some serious fundamental barriers that we are not able to overcome right now, which prevents the technology from even being used for the things people want it to be used for. So what are we competing for?

I was reading IBM's roadmap for QC development and it could honestly be the RDI Star Citizen promises with how out of sight and reliant they are on the technology improving at an unrealistic pace.

Maybe I'm cynical and have an outside perspective but quantum computing is starting to look like one of those dead ends that everyone looks back on and feels a little embarrassed by the whole thing.

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