Image is of protestors in Nigeria in 2024.
As I’m sure everybody is aware by now, Trump’s accusation that Nigerian armed groups are unfairly persecuting Christians in the country is a rather bizarre lie, seeking a justification to go in, to quote Trump, “guns-a-blazing”. Whether this is likely to actually occur or is merely a threat, who can really say nowadays? But Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province are targeting people in Nigeria fairly indiscriminately; insomuch that there is a target, it is farmers whose land is being raided and taken in resource conflicts, and their religious affiliation is not usually questioned by those groups before they are pillaged and/or murdered from what I can tell.
The President of Nigeria, Tinubu, has no small responsibility for this state of affairs - enacting IMF “reforms” which have exacerbated hunger, poverty, and unemployment in the service of Western financial institutions. Those who have protested against this state of affairs have faced repression by state security forces. Meanwhile, Tinubu allegedly has strong connections to the DEA, paying large amounts of money to avoid a trial for his actions; the DEA released this statement: “We oppose the full… release of the DEA’s Bola Tinubu heroin trafficking investigation records,” which is certainly not concerning at all - followed by “While Nigerians have a right to be informed about what their government is up to, they do not have a right to know what their president is up to.”
It must be a shame for him that such a loyal subject of empire is facing such scrutiny, and it likely has everything to do with Nigeria’s inexorably growing connections to China (just like pretty much every country on the planet), especially in relation to Nigeria’s massive mineral deposits. It could also perhaps be retribution for Nigeria’s failure to adequately oppose the growing independence of the Sahel.
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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.
@LargePenis@hexbear.net on results of Iraqi elections, building on his post about Iraqi electoral parties last week
@MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net, @Torenico@hexbear.net @darkcalling@hexbear.net in a subthread about the strength of the American naval buildup versus Venezuelan defences
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Brussel, Belgium.
An arab-descent woman arrived at the hospital bleeding. She was having a miscarriage. The racist staff refused to take her seriously, sent her back home, then when she refused to leave, called the cops. She was in a cell for a few hours. She was ordered by the cops to clean her own blood. Then a slightly-less-dumb police women ended up identifying what was happening to her and send her to the hospital.
What the fuck
Cops here are fucking bastards. They entered my home without a warrant, pushed my mum to the ground and gave her a ticket for “rebellion”. And I’m white so i can’t imagine how they threat minorities.
That’s horrific.
yea fanon talked about the mediteranean syndrom 50 years ago and we’re still at that -_-
i swear I’m scared for my wife
Kyev, Ukraine
One Zelansky handman got caught red-handed racketeering subcontractors for the national energy agency.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/timur-mindich-zelenskys-close-associate-113308399.html
The Nazi Chihuahua entity of Estonia has formally opened the piSSreali embassy yesterday morning, with the foreign ministry essentially having rolled out the red carpet for the Nazi lovebirds yet again.
deeply unserious reddit-brained “country”
Estonia also threatened China to stop supporting Russia or else they can’t have good relations with Estonia 😂
Let me think, who would i rather have good relations with, a long time dependable ally, military superpower and largest country in the world with the biggest raw material wealth, or an American military base masquerading as a country whose entire population and economy is less than a tier 4 Chinese city… Hmm…
Less than a chinese city and falling, especially since a good chunk is literally the russian minority they segregate.
Not only segregate but also deport for failing arbitrary language tests that probably half of Estonian youth can’t even pass nowadays.
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Military experts warn security hole in most AI chatbots can sow chaos
Current and former military officers are warning that adversaries are likely to exploit a natural flaw in artificial intelligence chatbots to inject instructions for stealing files, distorting public opinion or otherwise betraying trusted users.
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The vulnerability to such “prompt injection attacks” exists because large language models, the backbone of chatbots that digest hordes of user text to generate responses, cannot distinguish between malicious and trusted user instructions. “The AI is not smart enough to understand that it has an injection inside, so it carries out something it’s not supposed to do,” Liav Caspi, a former member of the Israel Defense Forces cyberwarfare unit, told Defense News. In effect, “an enemy has been able to turn somebody from the inside to do what they want,” such as deleting records or biasing decisions, according to Caspi, who co-founded Legit Security, which recently spotted one such security hole in Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot. “It’s like having a spy in your ranks,” he said.
Former military officials say that, with greater reliance on chatbots and hackers backed by China, Russia and other nations already instructing Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Copilot to create malware and fake personas, a prompt injection that orders the bots themselves to copy files or spread lies looms near. Microsoft’s annual digital defense report, released last month, for the first time said, “AI systems themselves have become high-value targets, with adversaries amping up use of methods like prompt injection.” What’s more, the problem of prompt injection has no easy solution, OpenAI and security researchers say. An attack simply involves hiding malicious instructions — sometimes in white or tiny text — in a chatbot or content that the chatbot reads, such as a blog post or PDF. For example, a security researcher demonstrated a prompt injection attack against OpenAI’s new AI-based browser, ChatGPT Atlas, in which the chatbot responded, “Trust No AI,” when a user asked for an analysis of a Google Docs file about horses that concealed malicious commands. Also, last month, a researcher tipped Microsoft off to a prompt injection vulnerability in Copilot that may have allowed attackers to trick the chatbot into stealing sensitive data, including emails. In an emailed statement, Microsoft said its security team continuously tries hacking Copilot to find any prompt injection vulnerabilities, blocks users who try to exploit any found and monitors for abnormal chatbot behavior, among other tactics. “Microsoft ensures its generative AI systems remain resilient against evolving threats for all our customers, including defense and national security,” the statement said.
Responding publicly to criticism on X, Dane Stuckey, OpenAI’s chief information security officer, wrote that “prompt injection remains a frontier, unsolved security problem, and our adversaries will spend significant time and resources to find ways to make ChatGPT agent fall for these attacks.” Along the same lines, Caspi said, “You cannot prevent the prompt injection [fully], but you need to limit the impact.” He advised that organizations limit an AI assistant’s access to sensitive data and limit the user’s access to other organizational data. For instance, the Army has awarded contracts worth at least $11 million to deploy Ask Sage, a tool that lets users restrict which Army data Microsoft Azure OpenAI, Gemini and other AI models can access to run queries and tasks. Ask Sage also isolates Army data from user prompts and external data sources. Caspi, who is not an Army contractor, likened a prompt injection attack against an organization running Ask Sage to a lockdown situation where “you’ve got this insider, but it’s sitting in one room, and it can’t leave the room or carry out sensitive information.” Andre Slonopas, a Virginia Army National Guard member and former Army cyber and information operations officer, uses Ask Sage and voiced confidence in the Army’s defensive AI tools, if not those of nuclear power plants or manufacturing entities, largely in rural, poorer areas.
The Virginia National Guard joined with essential services, such as power utilities, to help defend their networks against AI-powered cyberattacks, as part of a September simulation, given that service disruptions can jeopardize military preparations. Typically, an adversary encrypts its network traffic to evade detection, but, for the sake of an experiment, organizers did not encrypt the AI offender’s traffic because “we wanted the blue team [of humans] to see exactly what the AI was doing,” Slonopas said. “The blue team was absolutely defeated,” despite being able to watch the AI scanning its networks, creating fake usernames to gain unauthorized access and executing instructions to defeat the team’s systems. “Whether the AI is doing prompt injection, spoofing or maybe even some sort of a brute force attack, the speed of AI is so unbelievably immense that simply human beings cannot counter it,” and, therefore, “you have to make cybersecurity AI more accessible and more affordable,” Slonopas said. “If a water utility has to pay, say, $30,000 for a defensive AI license, well, it will amplify one person to be like 40″ or dozens of personnel, he said. In response to questions, Army Cyber Command spokesperson Kyle Alvarez said in an emailed statement, “Due to the current lapse in appropriations, ARCYBER was unable to accept or respond to any media engagements or requests.”
Army contractors, too, are under attack from state-affiliated AI. “China is using offensive AI like nobody else,” said Nicolas Chaillan, the founder of Ask Sage and a former U.S. Air Force and Space Force chief software officer. “We see so many attacks coming after us,” all of which the company has stopped, Chaillan added. A military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the geopolitical sensitivity of the matter, said that China does “appear” to be the most skilled in offensive AI. However, the official added, AI spoofing and translation allow the United States, China, Iran, other countries, hacktivists and financial cybercriminals to masquerade as one another. For example, the official said, “Right now, with ChatGPT, I can program in Chinese. I don’t speak Chinese, but because of the ChatGPT capabilities that I have, I can do that.”
HIMARS Could Take Five Years to Arrive, Yet Hungary Revives Purchase Talks
Negotiations for Hungarian HIMARS systems are underway again, following previous delays linked to political disagreements with Washington
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Hungary has entered negotiations with the United States to purchase the M142 HIMARS and accompanying munitions. The procurement, however, is expected to take between three and five years to complete due to the high global demand for the system. The country’s Defense Minister, Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky, confirmed that discussions have been held with representatives of the White House as part of Hungary’s 10-year military modernization program. While the Minister did not disclose the exact number of launchers or missiles Hungary intends to acquire, earlier reports from 2023 suggested a potential purchase of 20-24 HIMARS launchers and around 100 missiles valued at approximately $765 million. The overall project, however, is likely to be much larger, as it includes not only weapons and ammunition but also the development of new infrastructure and training of personnel. Hungarian journalists cited a possible total figure of 1.2 trillion forints (about $3.2 billion), though Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky declined to confirm this estimate. He emphasized that the final amount would be comprehensive and could only be determined after detailed consultations with the U.S. side. Even after the U.S. congressional approval, the Minister noted, the process would remain long and complicated.
The move would make Hungary another of Ukraine’s neighbors to operate the HIMARS systems, joining Poland and Romania. The decision aligns with broader regional trends in strengthening NATO’s eastern flank with advanced long-range precision strike capabilities. It also reflects the absence of a mass-produced European alternative, a gap that countries such as France are only beginning to address. At the same time, the potential acquisition carries a political dimension. Reports indicate that Hungary had previously explored purchasing the HIMARS in 2023, but the deal collapsed amid strained relations with Washington and Budapest’s refusal to support certain NATO decisions. Hungarian officials later tried to downplay the matter, suggesting no real intention to buy the system. Now, however, the situation has shifted. Hungary has revived discussions on the HIMARS procurement, possibly linked to its broader ambitions to obtain tactical ballistic missile systems. The timeline of three to five years mentioned by the Defense Minister appears realistic, especially considering that Estonia had to wait around three years for its deliveries and even began exploring the South Korean K239 Chunmoo system as an interim alternative. The HIMARS system, manufactured by Lockheed Martin, recently reached its 750th unit milestone. Its combat effectiveness, demonstrated in Ukraine, has only increased global interest. As production scales up, the United States continues to expand its munitions portfolio for the HIMARS, from smaller 120 mm rockets comparable to the BM-21 Grad system to advanced Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM).
aren’t these 100% jammed by Russia now
Today, November 11, 2025, marks the 70th anniversary of the 1955 Brazilian coup d’état (also known as the “Preventative Coup” or “counter-coup” of November 11). General Henrique Teixeira Lott, the Minister of War, primary goal was to ensure that the democratically elected president, Juscelino Kubitschek, and vice president, João Goulart, could take office, which was being threatened by conservative forces and the then-acting president, Carlos Luz.
General Lott’s forces seized control in a swift, largely bloodless operation, leading to the impeachment of Carlos Luz by the Brazilian Congress and the interim assumption of the presidency by Senate President Nereu Ramos, until Kubitschek and Goulart were inaugurated on January 31, 1956.
Carlos Lacerda was a key figure in the civilian far-right movement that was attempting to prevent the inauguration of President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek (JK) and Vice-President João Goulart. Lacerda used his platform (especially his newspaper Tribuna da Imprensa) to argue against the legitimacy of the election results. He and others in the National Democratic Union (UDN) party claimed the election was fraudulent and that the elected candidates were linked to communism and Peronism, advocating for a “state of emergency” or a military coup to prevent their inauguration.
As part of Lott’s military operation, troops occupied strategic locations, including the offices of the newspaper Tribuna da Imprensa and the headquarters of the “Clube da Lanterna”, a group of Lacerda’s political allies. With the failure of the attempt to block JK’s inauguration and the success of Lott’s countercoup, Lacerda decided to go into exile, choosing to live in Batista’s Cuba for a period.
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Huh weird, this night I dreamed there was a coup being carried out in Brasil. Two actually, at the same time (not sure why).
Where is this energy for murdered Christians in Palestine?
They are brown so muslim by default. I had a teacher once who ranted to my syrian & iraqi classmates how they must never have seen a church and the concept of Christendom would have been difficult to comprehend.
There’s two kind of christians. There’s the ones who believe in issah / jesus and there the americans.
The US and the West doesn’t give a shit about christians in the global south, which is why they allowed Indonesia invade East Timor and massacre the catholic and protestant majority that lives there.
They dont even care about Christians that dont tout the empire’s line in the global north.
They’re the wrong color.
An NYC councilwoman is inviting Satanyahu to visit NYC on the same day as Mamdani’s inauguration.
Please Zohran, if you actually do it I’ll never doubt you again.
Netanyahu won’t touch a single street of NYC if he does go, he will have to be helicoptered from roof to roof. Touching a New York street would be the biggest window of opportunity for him to be shot by someone since the beginning of the war.
mamdani goes to rikers the day before his inauguration
“luigi, we have one last job for you”
Yeah exactly. The space between car and building in NYC is an enormous security risk. They will helicopter him from building to building and he won’t touch the ground floor at all. Mossad will be in the building lobby and if a single whiff of cops coming for him occurred then he’d be whisked up to the roof and gone.
Even if someone genuinely tried to arrest him in a hypothetical trip I don’t think they would succeed.
The one time Hexbear wants the NYPD to have a S-300 battery
an S300 battery for a helicopter flying in a city is an overkill, a manpad would be more than enough because helicopters are already death traps
Yea I don’t think he will try anything, nor should he this early. Just some threats from the podium would be good this time.
I don’t think it makes any difference whether mamdani arrests him immediatly on day 1 or on day 500, the consequences and costs are going to be exactly the same so he might as well do it as soon as possible
Hoping so too, but is there a law that says he can do it? Not that it will come into play, but are there cops who would carry out that order if given? Unfortunately by saying he would arrest Netanyahu, he’s opened himself up to this exact calling of his bluff. Here’s the context where he said he would follow the law and not arrest Netanyahu if it was not legal.
tfw the democrat who said they’d do something principled but backs down once they realize it might take some political will beyond posting
I am sure its one more compromise until we tots are doing people’s republic of new york, this is like totally the biggest leftist victory since 1945 guys!!
Yeah it’s not happening, the mayor of New York can’t just order someone’s arrest on an international warrant issued by an authority the US doesn’t recognize, or order anybody’s arrest period. Mamdani can’t enter into obligations on behalf of the US. If he could that would mean giving a mayor the power to represent the country in foreign affairs, or to put it another way, handing over national sovereignty to NYC. Obviously, there is no legal framework for this. The only even remotely plausible path is for the NYC DA (who is not Mamdani) to indict Satanyahu for crimes that occurred within the jurisdiction of NYC, and have a NYC judge issue a warrant, two things that are not going to happen, because of the elephant in the room: diplomatic immunity. If Mamdani ordered Satanyahu’s arrest he would essentially be leading NYC as a rogue city attempting to exercise the powers of a state - legally speaking, rebelling against the authority of the federal government. He would be serving his head to Trump on a golden platter, with the latter’s DOJ indicting him on multiple capital offenses.
If he touches Satanyahu he will be at the very least spending the rest of his life in federal prison, if he doesn’t just get JFK’d (legally! after being sentenced to death)
TLDR: Attempting to arrest Satanyahu could end up with Mamdani being executed by firing squad
he could get the nypd to issue an arrest warrant for an unrelated crime
yes this is cope
Unfortunately that would require the conservatives to be right and for him to be the second coming of Mao
serious response
He would have to get the DA to charge Netanyahu for a crime that occurred in the jurisdiction of NYC, convince a judge to issue a warrant, and ignore diplomatic immunity to have a municipal PD usurp the authority of the national government to arrest a foreign head of state. Most likely would not end well for him, unless NYC has secret nukes, in which case, glory to the People’s Republic of New York
He’s reappointing Jessica Tisch as police commissioner, I have a feeling he isn’t gonna do this.
I mean it was called the Manhattan Project for a reason
The problem here is we are thinking of The Crime but sure this man has been involved in numerous other crimes. Or at least, some sort of of probable cause could be found. You don’t need to prove anything to arrest someone, just have a little bit.
Even arresting him for j walking or loitering or a case of mistaken identity because he fit a description for another person would make mamdani a hero around the world.
The next important question becomes: who is the deputy mayor?
Heads of state have diplomatic immunity
See chart under “in the united States” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity which is he? And what about he people he’s with?
(I know I will be wrong)
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Cuba Thanks French Aid After Hurricane Melissa - Telesur English
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Authorities informed that 76,789 homes have been affected. On Sunday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel thanked French President Emmanuel Macron for his “solidarity and cooperation” with the victims in the eastern region of the island who were severely impacted by Hurricane Melissa last week.
During a phone conversation with Macron, Diaz-Canel expressed his gratitude for his solidarity with the victims of Hurricane Melissa. He explained to Macron the main damages suffered and the recovery efforts underway to repair the damage.
Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez also thanked Macron for the help offered to the affected Cubans. President Diaz-Canel warned this week, in a preliminary assessment, that the damage is “extensive and normalization will still take time.”
Santiago de Cuba, Granma, Holguin, Guantanamo, and Las Tunas are the provinces gradually recovering from the widespread damage caused by Melissa, including disruptions to electricity, telecommunications, drinking water supply and agriculture.
“Several governments, UN agencies and programs, friends and fellow Cubans are sending donations for those affected and to support recovery efforts in eastern Cuba after Hurricane Melissa. Thank you all for your solidarity.”
Among the most serious damages are 76,789 homes that have been affected, 4,743 of which have completely collapsed and 10,311 are partially damaged. Another 12,056 homes lost their roofs and 47,753 suffered partial damage to their roofs.
A total of 1,312,000 people were sheltered, more than 69,870 are being assisted in state institutions and 933,000 are staying with family or friends. As of last Friday more than 54,000 people were still in shelters.
On Oct. 29, Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane, crossing the eastern tip of the island for approximately seven hours, bringing strong winds of up to 200 kilometers per hour, torrential rains, and a severe storm surge that also caused widespread flooding.
I’m glad france collaborate with cuba. I know some parts of france were suffering from lack of doctors and were in talk with cuba to allow some doctors to immigrate.
The French state is allergic to not abandon its rural areas.
The Iraqi Parliamentary Elections are officially over since a few hours ago. Very civilised and calm occasion, probably the best elections since elections became a thing in Iraq after the American invasion and occupation. Clear increase in the number of voters despite Muqtada Al Sadr’s countless tantrums and subsequent boycott of the election, with his 1+ million potential loyal voters not showing up today.
Let’s quickly talk results. Final results will be announced tomorrow at 6 PM Baghdad time, but we already have strong indications from exit polls, dumbass election officials who have leaked way too much, and initial calculations by people that I respect in the Iraqi political world. Full breakdown of the results probably coming by the end of the week but no promises. If the names and numbers are confusing, please click on my profile and check my earlier breakdown of the elections.
Biggest winners:
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PM Mohammed Al Sudani and his coalition. Sudani’s gang have by all indications achieved a historical performance in this election. They seem to have a very strong performance in Baghdad, Basra and surprisingly Nineveh as well. They are set to have 50+ seats at the moment and Sudani looks to be the guy that will be tasked to form the new government. More on this point after the official results, but Sudani’s victory comes as a result of a Sunni-Shia middle-class coalition of people that we as Internet freaks would refer to as “I just wanna grill” people. The rise of the griller is a new phenomenon in Iraq, it will be very interesting to talk more about this soon.
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Kurdistani Democratic Party. All that talk about Kurds finally getting tired of the Barzani eternal oligarchy was just talk. The KDP has burst through the 1 million votes barrier and will position themselves as the primary senior partner in Sudani’s upcoming ruling coalitions, alongside Halbusi’s Sunni-led Taqaddum
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Nouri Al Maliki’s State of the Law. The shit that just won’t flush. He is the living proof of “time heals everything”. Most Iraqis wanted him hung in Tahrir Square after the ISIS disaster, but somehow people forget and he seems to have secured more seats than last time, enough to make him a pain in the ass when it’s time to form a government.
Biggest losers:
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PMU-aligned parties except Sadiqoun. Horrible performance by both Kataeb Hezbollah’s Huquq, and Badr, two of the three big PMU-related parties. Anti-resistance propaganda by American-backed media has definitely left an effect in people’s mind which directly affects their vote and leads to the creation of something like the “I just wanna grill” societal class. PMU parties in Iraq also seem uniquely bad at developing a strong base of loyalty and support, which leads to many situations where they display clear incompetence compared to the disciplined and popular Hezbollah and Ansarallah.
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Muqtada Al Sadr. He lost the elections despite his boycott. He wanted to tank the credibility and the participation rate in the elections, but that drastically failed today with how positive the whole atmosphere around the elections has been. He’s truly the worst gambler of the all time, can’t believe he once again maneuvered himself and his followers into a stupid ass position that makes him look like a loser cult leader again.
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Kurdish opposition. It was a little bit of a now or never for most Kurdish opposition parties, but early results shows that they’re sadly cooked like the kids would say. Iraqi Kurds just seem incapable of even considering the idea of voting for another guy or party.
The real nerd breakdown coming soon inshallah chat.
Saddening to see resistance parties get burnt. What’s the sentiment in the country regarding the Zionist entity? What’s it gonna take to remobilize the streets?
How free and fair are these elections? Could there be widespread fraud or is it a very open and regulated process? Is there just a lot of foreign-sponsored propaganda driving support for the various blocs? It seems from your analysis that things are slowly getting a bit less sectarian, which on its own is probably a good thing, but that this is occurring in the direction the propaganda press is pushing. In other words people are tired of conflict along the lines that are drawn, and the easiest way to negate that seems to be to just vote the way media tells them. From a leftist perspective, maybe all this sectarian conflict has to die down so that political divisions along class lines can resurface. That this negation can emerge simply from the establishment asserting itself is actually convenient.
From my observations, the Iraqi election process is as fair as it gets with the state of democracy across the world. Every nation that tries a fair democratic process is plagued by similar issues when it comes to propaganda by outside actors and widespread media manipulation. The main sources of media manipulation and propaganda when it comes to Iraq are the US and Iran, with both pushing in pretty much opposite directions. The US continuously pushes in the direction of secular liberalism through its media tools, and Iran pushes for more religious Shia nationalism and pro-resistance interests. Things are definitely getting a little less sectarian, as evidenced by the victory of PM Sudani’s party in Nineveh, Arabs voting for the Kurdish PUK in Kirkuk because they like the governor, and Sunni-led Taqaddum dominating western Baghdad. I definitely agree with the idea of sectarianism needing to die before divisions across class lines emerge and solidify. The resistance shot themselves in the foot with committing themselves to a more sectarian program, which seems to have alienated a large portion of middle class Shia voters who are annoyed with disruptions to daily life by armed PMU groups and are generally happy with the current progress under PM Sudani. I think that the results in general indicate that a large section of society are moving towards voting for economic interests rather than sectarian interests.
Seems like the revolutionary drought in the middle east seems to be persistent for the future, well at least the Gulf states didn’t score THAT big of a victory.
It has never been so dry. The more revolutionary pro-resistance parties self-sabotaged by committing to a more sectarian program, and they lacked the discipline that Hezbollah for example display when dealing with other sects in society. Communists are more committed to a general secular program rather than any revolutionary program, which leads to weird alliances with Adnan Al Zurfi’s more pro-US gang that includes even zionist freaks. It’s not looking good, but it’s a damaged society from the atrocities of Saddam Hussein and later the Americans and ISIS. It will take time.
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Bridge at Sichuan hydroelectric plant collapses after landslide
No casualties reported, the bridge was closed yesterday when survey made clear that it was unsafe.
Meanwhile in Amerikkka: Bridge just collapses with cars and people on it. This is normal. We know our infrastructure is failing but no money for it because no invest in things, only profit now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuangjiangkou_Dam
I think this is the dam in question. Started 2013, under construction til (planned) 2027… the hell happened here?
I know the memes of AmeriKKKa bad are funny but that’s a major fuckup for any nation on earth, and China will endure very minimal intl. scrutiny of this event thanks compared to most nationstates right now (at least in the anglo-euro axis)
Has China published their new 5 year plan or what?
I think the full one won’t be out until the spring
Statement from the Sudanese Communist Party on the massacres by Rapid Support Forces in Bara and El Fasher
Our Party stands clearly and decisively against the horri-fying massacres being com-mitted against civilians in the cities of El Fasher and Bara, as well as in other areas of Kordofan and Darfur; a stance that does not hold any ambiguity or require further justification.
The Rapid Support Forces continue to perpetrate systematic violence against unarmed civilians: field executions, arbitrary arrests, looting and destruction of property, mass displacement, and forcing residents to flee … and more, as documented and confirmed by reports from the United Nations, human rights organisations, and the media. This hellish, systematic violence is the result of all the wars our country has endured, marked by barbarity and the failure to bring perpetrators to justice. Impunity has never been an exception; rather, it is a central reason for the recurrence of these crimes. The ongoing absence of accountability has recreated an environment that allows the return of war crimes and genocide against the populations of cities and villages as soon as the regime’s forces retreat, as seen in Bara and El Fasher.
What we witness today is an extension of a policy entrenched since the first Darfur massacres. Therefore, confronting these crimes requires immediate and firm accountability for all those responsible for issuing and exe-cuting orders. We also emphasise that the failure to secure unarmed civilians, and the withdrawal of the army from the steadfast city of El Fasher for months in the face of the Jan- jaweed militia, is an irresponsible act deserving condemnation and accountability. The primary and most important duty of the army is to protect citizens and the home- land, not to protect itself. We, in the Sudanese Com-mmunist Party, always affirm that what is happening is not merely a military struggle for power; rather, it represents a complex scene of conflict between the parasitic wings of capitalism within the country over power and resources. These forces have amassed their wealth and privileges through corruption and the exploitation of power to loot resources, using armed conflict and terrorism to reinforce their dominance.
The war is, at the same time, a regional/international/imperi-alist scheme aimed at weakening the Sudanese state and creating conditions for disintegration and division to deplete the capabili- ties of the people, the wealth of the country, and violate national sovereignty. This political and eco-nomic dimension (local, regional, and international) of the conflict places a double responsibility on the international community to intervene immediately to stop this war and these massacres. We in the Sudanese Commu-nist Party call on the peoples of the world, and their democratic organ-isations, foremost among them the communist and labor parties, as well as human rights organisations and the conscience of the entire world, for international solidarity with the Sudanese people who are suffering alone and steadfastly in the face of a brutal war entering its third year without a horizon for resolution or end.
We call for popular movements around the world in the streets, through writing in newspapers, on social media, or other means for the immediate cessation of the war in Sudan and solidarity with our people. We also call for transform -ing “soft statements” and formal appeals into practical steps to protect civilians, open humanitar-ian corridors for the population, deliver aid, and conduct neutral and independent investigations into all war crimes in our country. The criticisms and condemnations issued by international and human rights institutions must be followed by concrete actions: imposing political, economic, and diplomatic sanctions on the perpetrators of violations, banning the export of weapons and logistical support to the criminals, and referring the crimes to independent international and local judicial mechanisms.
We also demand:
- An immediate ceasefire, the declaration of a humanitarian truce, and a complete opening of humanitarian corridors to El Fasher and other areas of Darfur, Bara, and all of North and South Kordofan, ensuring the protection of aid convoys.
- A quick, independent, and trans-parent international investiga-tion into war crimes, and holding accountable all who committed, ordered, or contributed to these crimes.
- Urgent action from the peoples of the world, its democratic forces, and human rights organ-isations to pressure states and international bodies to halt any support or political or military complicity with the parties responsible for the violations. At the same time, we call on the vanguard of our people, the forces of mass mobilisation, and democratic forces to unite their ranks, escalate peaceful mass struggle, and develop political initiatives aimed at stopping the war, seizing power from the de facto governments in Port Sudan and Nyala, and returning to the path of the revolution to build a civil democratic state that safe-guards human rights and achieves social justice.
• We will not allow the testimonies of the victims to be buried in statements that merely express sympathy without follow-up.
Blood cries out for justice, demanding real protection and accountability.
• Stop the killing. Open the corridors for aid. Bring the perpetrators to justice. • Justice for the victims — and freedom and peace for the people of Sudan.
Political Bureau
Sudanese Communist Party
Published in the Workers Weekly Guardian on November 10th issue #2170 (Paper of the Communist Party of Australia)
Sorry for any formatting problems or typos. I manually typed it up.
do you know if the SCP has an armed wing?
Its part of the National Consensus Forces, which do not have an armed wing, but vaguely support the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). Allegedly the Sudan Revolutionary Front which rules “New Sudan” has an ML wing.
So no the SCP doesnt and hasnt for quite a while.
appreciate it!
no sweat!
Not from the top of my head, no . I could ask around? I tried to look it up but search engines are useless now
yeah that’s why i asked, i pull my hair out looking for anything niche these days so i just ask people if they have the resource on hand lol
Al Jazeera: Russia says Ukrainian-British plot to hijack hypersonic missile foiled
Russia has thwarted a Ukrainian-British plan to hijack a MiG-31 jet equipped with a hypersonic missile and to use it to carry out a false flag attack on a major NATO airbase, the country’s state security service reported.
The FSB, Russia’s domestic intelligence agency, said in a statement carried by state media on Tuesday that the alleged operation was directed by the main intelligence directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence and “its UK handlers”.
By “hijack,” they mean bribe the pilot to do it, for the record.
An FSB official claimed that British-founded group Bellingcat – which is branded as “undesirable” by the Russian government – was involved in the operation or was used as a cover or intermediary, according to the state-run TASS news agency.
(Interesting that they call out Bellingcat directly, lol)
It sounds fantastical at first glance, but ask yourself what Russia gains from reporting this. Basically nothing. Nobody in the West will bat an eye at this. They just get a tiny bit of deniability if another similar plot were to succeed.
They keep trying to bribe Russian pilots and the Russians keep faking them out and trying to use it to root out Ukrainian/CIA assets within Russia with the Russians triumphantly trumpeting each time this happens. I suspect if the Russians are smart all their pilots are at this point under heavy state surveillance in case any of them might actually be tempted by these things.
I couldn’t see the brits hijacking anything, proxy or not. James Bond only exists in front of a movie camera. But a half-assed bribe? Now that’s plausible.
Waiting for the plot to the Clint Eastwood film Firefox to happen where a Neuralink soviet jet gets stolen by some imperialist fuck.
