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On October 9th, Daniel Chapo won the Mozambique general election with about 70% of the vote. Chapo is the head of FRELIMO, the Marxist-Leninist party of Mozambique's liberation, which fought an internal anti-communist resistance called RENAMO which was backed by Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa; Frelimo won in 1975. However, as the USSR fell, Frelimo began to allow elections inside Mozambique, and has ruled the country with significant majorities in each election ever since.

The main opposition party inside Mozambique is Podemos, which is led by Venancio Mondlane, a former member of Renamo and trained inside the USA. He alleges that his polling figures predicted a majority win for him, not Frelimo, and has accused Chapo of electoral fraud. There have been the usual slogans about how they yearn for freedom. The EU, of course, "witnessed irregularities." As @WilsonWilson@hexbear.net has pointed out, Mozambique has massive undeveloped gas fields and is outsourcing the development process to France, Norway, the UK, and the USA, while mysterious Islamist groups have popped up to cause chaos in the exact regions which have the gas, slowing the process of actually developing those gas fields. Overall, it appears to be a cookie-cutter colour revolution attempt by the imperial core designed to install a comprador for cheaper resources. Its proximity to BRICS+ member South Africa may also be significant, noting the colour revolution in Bangladesh earlier this year exerting influence near India and China.

Protestors have been battling against the police and government since late October, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries as well as massive disruption, as the government has intermittently blocked access to the internet and social media. As of today, calm appears to be returning, with border crossings beginning to reopen.


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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:

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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.
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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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[–] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 18 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

'Record number' of resistance drone attacks target Israel in November

About 1,300 drones were launched against Israel between 1 and 13 November in at least 40 different attacks from the different factions of the Resistance Axis, according to a report by Israel's Channel 12 News.

Noting that drone attacks have become "a routine matter," the Hebrew broadcaster said the army recorded a rate of 3.3 drone attacks per day since the end of October. This is a marked spike from the rate of 2.77 daily attacks in October and 2 per day in September when Tel Aviv expanded its war against Lebanon.

Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has launched daily drone attacks against Israel for the past several weeks, sparking chaos in the northern city of Haifa and reaching targets as far as 145 kilometers deep.

[–] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 12 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

How many people were saying Hezbollah has been defeated after the pager terrorist attacks and the martyrdom of Sayyed Nasrallah?

Almost like the "defeatists" were wrong again.... Almost.

[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 11 points 45 minutes ago

The Scourge of Peepee-poopooitis has truly ravaged through Hezbollah and we are now in a competition to see whether Russia, China, or Hezbollah will collapse first

[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 23 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (5 children)

America is so cooked

Trump expected to select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/14/robert-f-kennedy-jr-trump-hhs-secretary-pick-00188617

Edit: Also rumors that Gorka will be tapped lmao

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 12 points 46 minutes ago

he's appointing all the wackiest chapo characters, patriots are in control

[–] newmou@hexbear.net 3 points 8 minutes ago

MR CHAPO DO YOU LIKE YOUR HEALTH?!

[–] jack@hexbear.net 15 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Do you think Republican donors are going to restrain these more wacko picks to focus on their traditional ghouls? They don't want to see the train immediately derail before they can loot the federal government.

[–] kittin@hexbear.net 15 points 1 hour ago

I think the play is to appoint loud morons who will act as rage bait while they loot the federal government

[–] miz@hexbear.net 1 points 23 minutes ago
[–] scarcity_of_the_self@hexbear.net 1 points 5 minutes ago

Am I misunderstanding the arrangement or is it kind of fucked up of The Onion to try to get Sandy Hook families to use the recovery fund for acquiring InfoWars? Do they really not have the money?

[–] randomquery@hexbear.net 22 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

An update on the dutch education protests (mentioned here by @Beetle@hexbear.net ): In the end student unions and the youth wings of the socialist party and the communist party said they would go anyway to the protest. The police (that yesterday said they couldn't guarantee the safety) said today that they will facilitate the protest so there was no ban. The labor unions still asked people not to go. In the end around 3-4k people gathered (mostly students and some university employees), which I think was very good given the circumstances. Some universities decided to host local protest on campuses (but as far as I can tell those were small). The university staff and unions are calling for another protest on the 25th of November.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2544475-toch-studentenprotest-in-utrecht-ondanks-oproep-van-de-gemeente-om-weg-te-blijven

[–] Beetle@hexbear.net 11 points 1 hour ago

Thanks for tagging me! The student unions did a great job honestly. I think they were under a lot of pressure and there was a chance the protest would be deemed illegal and police would get violent. I’m glad that didn’t happen. Also there was a lot of solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle. A small light compared to the news of extreme police violence from yesterday’s protest against genocide in Amsterdam.

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 36 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

Biden got cured of Dementia after Trump won?

[–] Halloweenbean@hexbear.net 7 points 1 hour ago

Dark Brandon was not a meme, it was a warning.

[–] MaxOS@hexbear.net 25 points 2 hours ago

Grandpa Joe, we lost the election!

[–] companero@hexbear.net 23 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

It's probably not far-fetched to say "happy = more brain chemicals = improvement in dementia symptoms".

I guess the question is: why is Biden so happy?

[–] newmou@hexbear.net 23 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I mean he’s probably like “you fuckers pushed me out of the election and then you lost, how’s that going for ya? Lmao”

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 10 points 1 hour ago

"they bought it haha biden-troll "

[–] theother2020@hexbear.net 18 points 2 hours ago

He is the second happiest person. Now I’m wondering who she voted for.

hillary-apartment

[–] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 35 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

The Cradle article about "Israel's weird abduction of a Lebanese sea captain" where German peacekeepers assisted in the crime.

It brings up some important history of previous incidences:

Tel Aviv's use of such covert raids is nothing new. In April this year, an Israeli death squad infiltrated Lebanon to target a currency exchanger, Hussein Srour, who they accused of transferring funds from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) into Gaza. The squad lured Srour to a villa in Beit Mery, Mount Lebanon, where they kidnapped, tortured, interrogated, and ultimately executed him – all while recording the gruesome act for their superiors in Israel.

In 2006, during Israel's month-long July war on Lebanon, occupation forces raided Baalbek and thought they had captured the late Hezbollah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah, only to discover it was a case of mistaken identity. Instead, the Israelis discovered they had apprehended a plasterer sharing the same name in a failed operation that quickly became the subject of ridicule. They released him soon after.

...

The Israeli Mossad has also carried out kidnappings beyond Lebanon's borders. In October 2021, they abducted a retired IRGC officer in Damascus, seizing him while he was strolling near the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital. He was transported to Tel Aviv for interrogation and later released in South Africa.

At the time, Mossad was actively seeking information on missing Israeli pilot Ron Arad, whose plane was shot down over Lebanon in 1986. Then-Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett later admitted that the Syrian abduction operation had yielded no new information, though the Iranian general was suspected of holding crucial knowledge.

In yet another shadowy episode, Israeli intelligence operatives kidnapped a Lebanese agricultural engineer in Cambodia, suspecting him of having ties to Hezbollah. Again, after intense and clearly fruitless interrogations, he was eventually released in Thailand.

[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 18 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

It really does prove that you can be given the most advanced panopticon and supreme surveillance state apparatus on the planet but if the people running it are completely incompetent dullards who pop out of the womb and are instantly promoted to vice-admiral, it doesn't really matter.

It's why the whole "We actually knew Hamas was going to attack, we just didn't do anything about it because we just, uh, didn't wanna" is such a hilarious story, because I guarantee that all Sinwar had to do was send messages to Obeida via a cell phone he knew was being tapped about how he was gonna turn Hamas into a thinktank for the advocacy of a Palestinian state by 2070 and these gullible morons in a base in the Gaza envelope were just like "Finally, we knew those cowards would give up. Time to send half our soldiers on holiday to Morocco," and now they're just trying to cover their own asses so they don't get fired. I'm not a Sun Tzu guy but he went hard when he said:

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

Especially given that I'm pretty sure Sinwar learned Hebrew so he could read and analyze Mossad operations and learn how to counter Israel, and he survived for over a year in one of the most bombed areas in human history.

But all this stuff is phrased in the most intimidating way possible for regular people, like: "Using our bleeding-edge cyberintelligence capabilities and intelligence gathering using top artificial intelligence algorithms..." so they're just like, well fuck, Palestinian opposition is hopeless I guess, when it's demonstrably not

[–] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 8 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

But all this stuff is phrased in the most intimidating way possible for regular people, like: "Using our bleeding-edge cyberintelligence capabilities and intelligence gathering using top artificial intelligence algorithms..." so they're just like, well fuck, Palestinian opposition is hopeless I guess, when it's demonstrably not

I think about this every day. I am quite sure that almost nowhere on earth is subjected to a more comprehensive aerial and sigint surveillance campaign than the tiny area that is South Lebanon at this moment. NATO is running AWACS 24/7 off the coast. And yet, the fighters are able to operate and carry out successful operations. Hiding in the mountains and foothills and delivering death to the child-killing occupation army.

All the tech in the world and the gluttonous imperialists still get dunked on daily.

[–] niph@hexbear.net 7 points 1 hour ago

Western intelligence has been hampered for decades by an obsession with more tech and more data, to the detriment of quality analysis. Just a bunch of spreadsheet nerds with no brain for context or application

[–] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago

Lebanon vs UK for scale.

[–] SoloboiNanook@hexbear.net 18 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Yearning for mossed to capture me and release me in a south east asian country without me actually having to pay for a ticket

[–] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 7 points 1 hour ago

I dont think so. Those people have permanent damage from torture.

[–] WilsonWilson@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago

Waking up in a bathtub full of ice sans liver somewhere in Madagascar

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 36 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Thinking back on that anti-war rally that had Tulsi as it's keynote speaker, and feeling very justified at my criticism of the people who supported that (I'm trying to be nice here since I know there's at least a few people here who supported it at the time).

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 26 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 3 points 45 minutes ago

how many places in Europe are gonna flood before london gets what's coming to it

Death to America

[–] Halloweenbean@hexbear.net 38 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Our big sweaty Boi is killing gender affirming care, get your checkups by the end of the year I guess.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 24 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

And even when he is gone and it is the blue team's turn on the presidency again it will take a hundred Stonewall riots to make the libs bring it back.

[–] Halloweenbean@hexbear.net 22 points 2 hours ago

Trump wishes for a stonewall riot so he can ban all pride marches.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 21 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

the missing ingredient is an international worker's movement and I am doubtful of any concessions without it

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