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.
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.
https://t.me/ArchivesandMirrors
Screenshot since telegram won’t let me take one on the device of their
violated local laws bs.
And you can’t VPN around it because your telegram account is attached to your phone number which geo-locks you.
Here is the RNN mirror link
Become ungovernable
They can’t even mention what law they broke. Deeply unserious.
🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP): —
We hold the American administration and the international community directly responsible for the zionist crime.
The treacherous zionist bombing of Gaza comes in the context of the occupation’s attempts to invent lies and resume aggression.
In a new violation of the ceasefire, the zionist enemy carried out a treacherous bombing this evening targeting civilian facilities, shelter centers, and displaced persons’ tents, leading to the killing and injury of dozens of martyrs, including children and women. This is a continuation of its fascist and racist nature, which does not hesitate to target civilians without accountability or oversight.
This aggression was not surprising; rather, it falls within the occupation’s policy of fabricating and inventing pretexts to resume its aggression and establish new realities on the ground.
The American administration and the international community bear direct responsibility for this treacherous zionist crime, especially as it came hours after the Security Council passed the so-called American draft resolution regarding Gaza, which provided political cover that encouraged the occupation to escalate.
From the very first moment, the occupation worked to blow up the agreement, waiting for the right moment to return to the killing machine. What happened this evening confirms that any commitment on its part to the agreement was never within its calculations.
We proudly mourn the martyrs of our people who fell in this treacherous bombing, and we affirm that their blood will remain fuel for the steadfastness and resistance of our people, no matter how much the crimes of the occupation escalate.
November 19, 2025
so is the play here just getting a cheap e-sim somewhere outside of the US/EU
Earlier this month Palestinian channel Amsak Ameel was completely erased from telegram. This group is “unbanning” such channels.
https://t.me/ArchivesandMirrors/6
I am once again asking people to stop falling for centralized social media platforms.
agreed, but what’s a good decentralized alternative to this that doesn’t suck?
You just gotta self host some kind of federated system ala Lemmy or Mastodon or one of the thousand others
And even then, one needs to be careful what hosting service and what domain name registrar one uses. Hosting in Country B to avoid Country A’s censorship won’t do anything if one uses a hosting provider with financial ties to Country A or a top level domain based in country A.
At the very least you need backups of everything to upload at a moments notice when it gets inevitably taken down.
Your audience you get on corporate platforms should be able to follow your content outside of it.