Image is a map of the Western Sahara, sourced from this article in the Middle East Eye. Much of the information in the preamble also came from there, as well as this article.
November 6th marked the 50th anniversary of Morocco, under King Hassan II, beginning the invasion and occupation of much of the territory of the Western Sahara. Today, approximately 80% of the territory of the Western Sahara is controlled by Morocco, with the Polisario Front - the government of the Sahrawis - controlling the rest, hugging the border of Mauritania. Between them lies one of the longest walls and one of the largest minefields on the planet, of which construction began in the 1980s.
The legitimacy of Morocco’s control over the Western Sahara is one of those long-lasting diplomatic issues which ultimately doesn’t seem to matter very much in terms of on-the-ground realities, and reveals the eternal uselessness of the United Nations especially in regard to actually helping oppressed people. Up until about 2020, the US and certain other Western countries did not formally recognize Morocco as having sovereignty over the whole territory, but in terms of providing genuine opposition to Morocco, it seems that Algeria is the major player in the region. While American, European, and Moroccan corporations exploit the fisheries and phosphate minerals of the region, protected by their minefields (and claims of merely advancing the cause of renewable energy development, AKA greenwashing), Algeria provides what aid they can to support the displaced Sahrawi people, many of whom have been forced to live in refugee camps.
On October 31st, the US put forward a resolution in the UN Security Council which was adopted (Russia and China abstained) and provided major support to Morocco, urging the Polisario Front to adopt the 2007 “autonomy plan”, which would, despite its name, be synonymous with an end to their independence movement. Such a plan was met with much jubilation in Morocco, with King Mohammed VI remarking "From now on, there will be a before and an after October 31, 2025.” Such a date was also the catalyst for the PF intensifying their guerilla struggle against Morocco, as legal avenues for autonomy and basic human rights are running out as the imperialists grow more desperate.
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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.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
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.
All Posters are Beautiful, but not all posts are effort posts. DM me to feature effort posts in the newsmega/newscomm here (including your own posts)
@jack@hexbear.net on Venezuelan communes as actually existing socialism and a book by Chris Gilbert
Subthread on Chinese tourism in Japan between @Leegh@hexbear.net, @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net and several others.
These are the posts I come to Hexbear for, and its kind of crazy how hard they are to find. That Venezuela thread should have like 50 comments and have been on the front page but I never even saw it. These highlight posts are definitely something I hope continue.
I’m glad you find them useful. Please link more good posts and threads as you see them. Probably over winter holidays I will sort and consolidate notable posts in a separate index post.
maybe we could use the “best of hexbear” comm to catalogue them, afaik it’s not doing much otherwise and this seems like a good use
All Commenters Are Beautiful
Are comments abundantly bountiful?
All communists are based 🫡
When the Key Bridge in Baltimore got bonked, I set up news alerts because I fucking knew they were gonna do this. They originally quoted $1.7 billion and construction completed by late 2028. Just got revised to $5.2 billion and construction completed by late 2030.
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/key-bridge-rebuild-cost-increase-opening-timeline-delayed/69463952
I call it the Musk Construction Model, overpromise and never deliver.
you laugh, but this is exactly how the US regime buys loyalty from the labor aristocracy and petit bourgeois/(or just bourgeois) types. Instead of a social safety net, the state provides literal welfare for the less-rich, the government transfers wealth to the greediest piglets to wet their gullets and to allow a percentage of that money to “create jobs” while an inordinate amounts of cash provides an opulent standard of living for a few rich folks while everyone else is either held hostage by the grift, or “learns to live with the change”
The original bridge cost $141 million to build, about $743 million in 2024 dollars.
It did take about five years to build, but seven times the inflation-adjusted cost? We’re totally fucked as a nation if we can’t fix the rampant cost disease.
insha’Allah you never fix it
Isn’t this just par for the course for … checks notes … everything that gets built in North America?
Yeah. The union square garage in San Francisco took years and a $50 million “improvement project” to add metal paneling to the elevators and make the pay machines sound a chime when you pay
and make the pay machines sound a chime when you pay
That is awesome tho. Do they also have a huge lever that you pull when you pay?
Yes, I’m just sick of being lied to.
but brooooo free market efficiency broooo noooo you cant just use the government to build things, think about the efficiency brooooo
The US has no capability for infrastructure building anymore.
This is not new at all. Back in 2011, the (then) new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge had to be built by China. That’s nearly 15 years ago.
Yup, i remember when that happened and knew that they’d never build it back. amerika can’t build things anymore, can’t even maintain what they got really.
China would have replaced that bridge by now.
Telegram is on a banning spree: Resistance News Network, the largest english language Pro-Palestine telegram channel, has now been banned in the US after being banned in EU last year.
Follow this telegram to get mirrors for all the channels the zionist-american propaganda machine has been trying to erase.
The big pushback from Ukraine on the Trump peace plan is not against loss of territory, but against an audit of the tens of billions of dollars of disappeared western aid.
Trump is first pro life president
Chinese travellers cancel hundreds of thousands of trips to Japan amid rising tensions
Chinese travellers are estimated to have cancelled hundreds of thousands of tickets to fly to Japan amid reports of suspended visa processing and cultural exchanges as a diplomatic dispute over Japan’s stance on Taiwan continues.
Under pressure from business groups, Japan has sent a senior diplomat to Beijing in an attempt to calm tensions after Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, said her country could get involved militarily if China attempted to invade Taiwan. Her comments prompted fury from China’s government, which issued warnings against Chinese travellers and students going to Japan.
At least seven Chinese airlines, including the three state carriers, said they would offer free cancellations to travellers with flights booked to the country. One air travel analyst, Hanming Li, said departure data suggested about 500,000 flight tickets to Japan had been cancelled between 15 and 17 November.
China is the second largest source of tourists to Japan, and its students form the bulk of Japan’s international student cohort. Shares in Japanese retail and travel companies slumped on Monday in response to the measures. Li told the Guardian it was the largest mass cancellation of flights he had seen since early in the Covid pandemic but would probably have little impact on China’s domestic industry.
Go
wokefash, go broke, Japan.Over a dozen martyred in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain Al-Hilweh.
Death to America, death to Israel
☭ 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙜 𝙗𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙢𝙧𝙞𝙆𝙆𝙆𝙖, 𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙜 𝙗𝙖𝙧 𝙞𝙎𝙎𝙧𝙖𝙚𝙡 ☪☫
For what its worth, I think it is best to not repeat the zionist claims of assassination attempt. This is just the US-israel bombing a refugee camp. Plain and simple.
A hospital is a “hamas command center”, a primary school is a “Hezbollah weapons cache”, a Ramadan gathering is a “Houthi military drill”, and a refugee camp is a “Hamas training site”.
I believe it was the martyr Basil al Araj who pointed out the principle of not sharing the narratives of the enemies.
Anyway thanks for sharing the update. Free Palestine, glory to the martyrs, and death to israel.
Amended, thank you
☭ 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙜 𝙗𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙢𝙧𝙞𝙆𝙆𝙆𝙖, 𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙜 𝙗𝙖𝙧 𝙞𝙎𝙎𝙧𝙖𝙚𝙡 ☪☫
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2537779
Reporting 13 martyrs
إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ
15 per the cradle
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/46465
☭ 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙜 𝙗𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙢𝙧𝙞𝙆𝙆𝙆𝙖, 𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙜 𝙗𝙖𝙧 𝙞𝙎𝙎𝙧𝙖𝙚𝙡 ☪☫
MINT PRESS NEWS got
Orwelled off Instagram🚨Instagram has suspended our MintPress News account.
This is an attack on journalism and the Free Press. MintPress News is a leading 14 year old independent investigative news outlet exposing the architects of the US forever war machine. Our news outlet is run by me, Mnar Adley – a Palestinian American journalist and a survivor of Israeli occupation and apartheid.
We have an incredible team with the best investigative journalists and truth tellers from Alan MacLeod, Greg Stoker, Lowkey, Robert Inlakesh and Carlos Latuff and many more.
We had close to 300,000 followers on Instagram and we have close to 600,000 on Facebook. We don’t report on anything without receipts, citations and sources.
But we know that our journalism is a target by Meta whom we’ve exposed to have a close relationship with Israeli and US intelligence.
We’ve uncovered hundreds of veterans from Israel’s elite military unit 8200 working inside of Meta and managing content moderation. This is the same military unit that created NSOs Pegasus to spy on activists and was used by Saudi Arabia to track and kill Jamal Kashoggi.
And we can’t forget how Meta’s Israel policy chief Jordana Cutler takes direct orders from the state of Israel to target, censor and delete pro Palestine content on the platform – content that exposes Israeli apartheid and it’s crimes against humanity.
Meta did not tell us why we were suspended but luckily gave us an option to appeal but I’m not sure if that will give us our page back of about 300,000 followers. We will see what happens next.
Please pressure Meta and Zuck to get our page back .
Trump casually accepts the descriptor as a Fascist in a recent interview with zohran
Reporter: And I want to clarify your answer to Stephen Nelson. He asked about your comment calling the president a fascist.
Mamdani: both President Trump and I have been clear about our positions and our views.
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
Mamdani: I’ve spoken about -
Trump: That’s okay. You can just say yes. Okay. It’s easier. It’s easier than explaining it. I don’t mind.
Free West Sahara
Free ALL of Palestine
Free Hawaii
Free Puerto Rico
Free Kanaky
Free West Papua
Free Samoa
Free the Marianas
Free Guam
Free Okinawa
Free Kashmir
Free the Seven Sisters
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Free Yemen of Western & Gulf Imperialism
Eternal Victory to the Resistance
*list is not exhaustive
“you can help by expanding it”
Malvinas is a little weird on this list because the residents overwhelmingly want to be british, and the main issue is the maritime claims the UK derives from “owning” the islands.
Breaking News: British settlers want to remain British.
This picture combines some news with another piece of evidence that you can’t shame rightwingers with charges of hypocrisy. It is instead a point of pride for them!
Reactionaries don’t have beliefs, they have rhetoric
believing in sets of contradictory beliefs is kinda their whole thing y’know lol
:sartre-quote:
I’m going to Prague next year and am so tempted to act like some Americans do in China by telling the locals how poor and misfortunate they are to live in such an authoritarian system with no free speech.
the Polish president also submitted a motion to ban a small communist party in Poland in the last few days, they’re not in government
zohran has been spotted shaking hands and smiling with one of the world’s most notorious pedophiles and war criminals
Sometimes I like to browse
to see what divorced from reality looks like. It’s literally like browsing those flat earth sites.America gave Ukraine the best deal possible and the losers are still pretending that Ukraine isn’t losing the war. Either A: the war continues and Ukraine loses its sovereignty and becomes a desolate rump state. Or B: Ukraine takes the deal and maybe has a modest and painfully slow recovery. The one shot Ukraine had was pissed away when they listened to that repulsive clown, Johnson, in 2022. Ukraine in 2025 is literally Germany in 1944 desperately trying to negotiate a peace and hold onto their stolen territory while the Soviets are liberating Warsaw and the Allies are in Paris.
Yet redditors are still talking about “holding Russia accountable for war crimes” and crying over recognizing the Donbass and Crimea as if Zelensky is at the gates of Moscow or something. LOL
“Holding Russia accountable” How the fuck do you worthless neckbeards plan to do that without vaporizing your pitiful existence?
