A reminder that as the US continues to threaten countries around the world, fedposting is to be very much avoided (even with qualifiers like “in Minecraft”) and comments containing it will be removed.

Image is of Rixi Moncada of the LIBRE Party voting in the election.

On November 30th, Hondurans voted to choose their next President, as well as deputies to the Congress, councillors, and other candidates. Like all elections in Latin America, the looming shadow of American intervention will be a major factor in deciding the winner. In this election, that intervention has been fairly naked, with Trump literally stating who he wishes to win (the far-right nationalist guy, Nasry Asfura). Asfura has said that if he does not win, American funding to the country will dry up - a clear threat - and Trump has additionally pardoned the former Honduran president and US ally Juan Orlando Hernández, imprisoned for smuggling cocaine into the US.

The other candidates in this election are Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party, who is essentially running on the same platform as Asfura with some differences (such differences would inevitably vanish if he were to win); and Rixi Moncada of the progressive (self-described as democratic socialist) LIBRE Party. The narrative about this election is - try not to yawn - the neverending battle of democracy against communism. This narrative is obviously very important to uphold in the current environment of accelerated aggression against Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, and others.

Who is going to win? As of me writing this sentence, the results have not yet been fully reported. However, there has been something of a scandal in regards to a plot - with recorded voices, though those guilty plead AI tampering - to show the best possible preliminary results for the right wing, so as to manipulate the narrative and morale of the population. The idea, is presumably, that if LIBRE were to win, the fascists could say “How did LIBRE go from 20% of the vote (which is what the preliminary results showed) to a victory?! It must be communist meddling!”

Of course, it’s entirely possible that LIBRE won’t win anyway, or get particularly close. We shall see how things turn out very shortly.

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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine

If you have evidence of Zionist 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 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.

  • Tervell [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 day ago

    (cw: SA) (also side question, I remember there was some past discussion about whether abbreviations are fine in content warnings or things should be spelled out fully, was there a final policy decision on that?)

    https://xcancel.com/Alex_Oloyede2/status/1996725065832931553

    more

    Of over 500 Ukrainian orphans brought to Turkey under the “Childhood Without War Project”

    • 253 were involved in forms of seхual assaults, physical torture
    • two girls Nastya(15) & Ilona(16) were impregnated by Turkish staff
    • no arrests/ case covered up

    In 2022, when the conflict began, there were about 67,000 orphans, 3,500 in the frontline regions. 3,500 of these orphans would later be signed up for evacuation and relocation to foreign nations under Zelensky’s wife, Olena Zelenska. The task to carry out this project would be given to ‘Ruslan Shostak’, a Ukrainian businessman leading the ‘Childhood Without War Foundation’. 510 of these children from Dnepropetrovsk would be transferred to Turkey, many others to Germany, Poland and France. In march of 2024, two years after the transfer, an investigation was launched into the project.

    It was found out that 85 adults were involved in sexual assaults or forms of physical torture on over 250 children, with two below 17yo impregnated by Turkish cooks. In 2022, after the transfer to Turkey, funds would quickly run out and children would be transported from hotels to hotels – each in worser conditions. From the report of 7 children, “Money ran out and we were forced into labor & fundraising campaigns for money” According to the kids’ statements, teachers would give permission of outsiders to interact with students and turn a blind eye to adult-children relationships. A name was constant in my research, senior teacher Oleksandr Titov who was involved in physical abuse.

    In the case of 15yo Nastya who was impregnated by a 23yo would later explain that Titov threatened her to abort the child. “He called me and said, tell me if you are pregnant, we can solve this with a pill”* Nastya would return to Ukraine and have the child (2yo today). The second girl Ilona who was 16yo at the time would also be sent back to Ukraine under a vocational study cover up. She would have the child (1,5yo today). Ilona would sIіt her wrist 2months after giving birth, but was saved just in time. Investigation would secretly be ended in July 2025, with no one arrested, later exposed by independent journalists. The Director of the Boarding school, Svetlana would blame the girls for their problems. Titov would be demoted from Senior teacher to P.E. instructor.

    There are many other cases we might never find out about. This same problem was reported in Germany, and Ukraine talks about Russia removing kids from the grey zone. Why should Russia ever consider returning ethnic Russian kids back to Ukraine? This is the case we are met with.

    Source: Ukrainian journalists of Slidstvo.Info

    (seems like the original article might be these: https://www.slidstvo.info/news/ofis-ombudsmena-vstanovyv-porushennia-prav-ukrainskykh-ditey-u-turechchyni-ale-opryliudniuvaty-tse-ne-planuvav-lubinets/, https://www.slidstvo.info/news/pislia-evakuatsii-ukrainskykh-ditey-syrit-do-turechchyny-dvoie-nepovnolitnikh-divchat-povernulysia-vahitnymy-vid-turkiv/)