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This week marks the one year anniversary of Honduras ceasing to recognize Taiwan and instead only recognizing China. Over that time period, China and Honduras have gone through several rounds of negotiating a free trade agreement, with trade expanding. Additionally, they have just signed a $275 million cooperation agreement, providing education infrastructure for Honduras.
The other major news piece relevant to Honduras is the battle against Prospera, a US-based crypto libertarian firm that sought to buy a private island in order to create an ancap paradise, in which Bitcoin would be legal tender. In 2022, Honduras killed the island’s special status that made the deal possible, and so Prospera is seeking $11 billion in compensation.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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.
imagine being Buttigieg right now.
> get told by Obama to drop out in 2020 in exchange for a cushy cabinet appointment where you do nothing
> be told you can be in the spotlight and run next time
> deaths by car at an all time high
> East Palestine train derailment happens and poisons an entire town
> Boeing planes start unraveling in mid-air
> a major bridge gets rammed into and collapses
> all US infrastructure starts collapsing and annihilates any chance you have at being president
In an interview with Israel today, Donald Trump calls for an end to the war in Gaza: "You have to end your war. You have to do it. We have to reach peace. We cannot allow this to continue. Israel has to be very careful, because you lose a lot of the world. You are losing a lot of support.’
Meanwhile, Fetterman:
Use this one weird trick to get liberals to think and care about material conditions.
Very cool protesters have locked themselves to the side of the USNS Harvey Milk to prevent its departure to Gaza.
https://twitter.com/hyphy_republic/status/1773806950561816812
For the next four months I’ll be studying a subject called “Economy of Historians” in my University. Turns out the professor is a Marxist gigachad and his classes are four hours long, the first two hours we see general economic theory, from Smith to Keynes, Marx and all economic systems. The last two hours it’s just him reading through Das Kapital chapter by chapter, line by line.
This is the evil political indoctrination milei was talking about. HELL YEAH.
By the end of this period I’ll be the biggest Marxist around here, so you better buckle up, liberals.
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It’s extremely frustrating to hear politicians demonizing Nicaragua for “eroding human rights” and then praise fucking Bukele for being tough on crime.
Charges dropped against Ontario pigs that killed toddler
They were pursuing a father that kidnapped his kid, they knew the kid was in the vehicle, and the opened fire anyway and killed both of them. Of course the charges were dropped. KKKlanada cops are just as bad as anywhere else
Biden is walking back the sanctions on the individual settlers
They’re calling him the most spineless man to ever live
All seven of them. LMFAO. Shocking!
Anyone have a link to the article this tweet includes a screenshot of? I can’t seem to find it. It’d be nice ammo.
Awesome. Thank you!
It was a fun little research/search engine skill challenge. The key was translating the author’s name into Hebrew and then searching for that.
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George Santos, former US congressman, has announced that he will run again, only this time as an independent. He justifies it by saying that he can’t remain in the Republican Party, because of “what has been demonstrated in the House of Representatives”.
Please let him win again, it will be so fucking funny.
Have you seen that when Genocide Joe is giving a speech and a group of protestors yell things like “Genocide Joe! How many dead kids is enough for you?” to interrupt the rally… the pro-Genocide Joe crowd begins to chant “Four more years!”?
Are they asking for four more years of genocide?
Regardless of this, I know History will be the final judge here. And History will not be kind to them.
Some Zionist with a “NUKE GAZA NOW” sign getting owned in the marketplace of ideas:
https://twitter.com/gfunkposting/status/1773724461553885373In totally unrelated news, China has now made it easier to get permanent residence in the country.
If I spoke Chinese…
