Image is from this article, of protestors in Mexico tearing down a steel fence.
While military, economic, and covert pressure on Venezuela and nearby countries in South America proper continues to mount, a similar process is occurring against Mexico, currently under the leadership of the very popular Sheinbaum, who has generally followed the footsteps of AMLO in terms of policies.
While figures in the Trump administration have made statements to the effect of wishing to bomb Mexican territory, internal pressure within Mexico is rather hard to generate when the government is doing generally positive things for people. As such, protests - comically denoted “Gen Z protests” despite young people being a vanishingly small proportion - have arisen in Mexico, very obviously astroturfed by pro-US and anti-Sheinbaum interests. The first protest, on November 15th, gathered less than 20,000 people, while the second, on November 20th, gathered perhaps 200. Article headlines suggesting that Mexico was “on the verge of collapse” have proven rather sensational and wishcast-y.
While it’s easy to poke fun at these farces (I certainly am), it’s important to keep in mind that soft coups have long been part of the American strategy in Latin America, and with unlimited money and many resources to throw at a project, even incompetent forces can eventually create enough chaos that it can make the ruling president or party feel forced to resign. Such eventualities are certainly not inevitable, and even weak states can provide enough resistance to force the US to try a hard coup instead, with outright bombing campaigns and covert military operations. Cuba has provided perhaps the best example in the western hemisphere of how such plots can be subverted with enough national support (e.g. the hundreds of times the CIA tried to kill/maim Castro, plus the Bay of Pigs debacle), but you do have to be willing to take extraordinary measures to do this - the sorts of measures figures like Chile’s Allende did not take in the 1970s, and the measures Venezuela’s Maduro appears to be taking right now. We shall see what path Sheinbaum takes.
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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.
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.
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It looks like everyone figured out that the Saudis are very good targets for scams. Easy come easy go.
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is reportedly running low on cash for new investments, due to several projects that are said to be in financial distress.
The article doesn’t mention the Saudi investment into Softbank - big investors into everything from WeWork to Nvidia. SoftBank just sold their Nvidia shares in order to give OpenAI $30 billion cash. But I guess that isn’t technically accounted as a loss yet. Despite the fact that the initial Saudi cash at the start of the Saudi-Softbank relationship was specifically for a Softbank investment into the tech company that we all know and love, WeWork.
Imperialists malding that Russia begins with an R instead of an H:
https://xcancel.com/CSIS/status/1993409503325548891China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea (CRINK) are increasingly cooperating to challenge the U.S. and global governance. New charts show how China and Russia anchor CRINK cooperation and how the war in Ukraine has accelerated CRINK alignment.
What is it with the notable increase in even radlib racism against Indians/Pakistanis so recently? Why does it smell like manifacturing consent for something. I am aware that it has always been quite normalized, but rhetoric has exploded recently and even lib spaces have an "askhually 👆 🥸 " moment
Heavy rain floods Gaza’s displacement camps, threatening tens of thousands amid disease spread and collapsing health services, as urgent calls rally for international action.
Trouble in the Balkans, it seems like a potential new source of discord
Average US news outlet:
Anyways, lets see how it went last time:
spoiler
Welp
Edit: two NG were shot condition unknown.One suspect in custody and another suspect shot (unclear if there’s actually two suspects could be someone shot in the crossfire)Edit 2:
both deadEdit 3: nvm
Edit 4: okay shooter acted alone both the NG are in critical condition so seem like dead given the description i heard of blood gushing out of one of their mouths
Several people shot in Washington, DC, including at least one National Guardsman - CNN
Several people were shot in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, including at least one member of the US National Guard, according to a source familiar with the early reports and a law enforcement official.
The shooting occurred in downtown Washington, DC, near the White House. DC Metropolitan Police said on X that they are at the scene of a shooting in the area and advised people to avoid the area.
The National Guard did not immediately respond to request for comment. The circumstances of the shooting are not immediately clear. National Guard troops from multiple states have been in Washington, DC, for months as part of President Donald Trump’s anti-crime crackdown in the nation’s capital, which has since expanded to other cities across the country.
CNN has reached out to the Pentagon, the National Guard, the White House and DC’s metropolitan police for comment.
This fire in Hong Kong is absolutely horrific. 36 confirmed dead so far and 270+ injured. Multiple buildings went up after bamboo scaffolding caught fire and windy conditions transferred the fire to other buildings with bamboo scaffolding too.
It’s like Grenfell in London but multiple buildings, the fire travelling on the outside of the building. China needs to ban bamboo scaffolding.
Haiti has finally qualified for the World Cup after 52 years since its first participation.
In 2006, two academics, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, wrote a paper called “The Israel Lobby,” which argued that a loose group of Israel supporters used their connections and financial resources to tilt US foreign policy in Israel’s direction.
The savage response to the paper was like nothing academia had ever seen. We can now report that Jeffrey Epstein helped coordinate the counterattack with Alan Dershowitz, while Larry Summers was Harvard president. And Les Wexner was one of the largest donors to the Kennedy School, if not the largest. Epstein controlled Wexner’s money.
In other words, a loose group of powerful supporters of Israel used their financial resources and connections behind the scenes to destroy the reputations of two academics who wrote a paper arguing that a loose group of Israel supporters was using their connections and financial resources to shape American foreign policy. Story here
https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1993509279442079750
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-aided-alan-dershowitz-mearsheimer-walt-israel-lobby
On 26 November 2025, gunfire was heard in parts of Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau, with the country’s president Umaro Sissoco Embaló saying that he had been arrested as part of a coup d’état carried out by the army chief of staff and military officers declaring “total control” over the country and establishing the High Military Command for the Restoration of Order. The coup occurred a day before the results of the 2025 Guinea-Bissau general election held on 23 November, in which Embaló was running for reelection, were expected to be officially announced.
A spokesperson for President Embaló (Neoliberal) accused gunmen affiliated with Fernando Dias (Social-Democrat) of attacking the electoral commission to prevent the release of the election results. Former prime minister and head of PAIGC (Former Communist Ruling Party), Domingos Simoes Pereira (Democrat Socialist), who supported Dias and was accompanying him in a meeting with election observers when news of the violence broke out, accused Embaló of trying to simulate a coup so that he could declare an emergency after determining that he had lost the election.
Both the incumbent president, Umaro Sissoco Embaló (Neoliberal), and opposition candidate Fernando Dias da Costa (Social-Democrat) claimed victory in the presidential election. The coup occurred while official results of the vote were yet to be released on 27 November. President Embaló told Jeune Afrique that he had been arrested without force at his office at 13:00 GMT in a “coup d’état” led by the army chief of staff. Several officials were also arrested, including armed forces chief of staff General Biague Na Ntan, his deputy, General Mamadou Touré, and interior minister Botche Candé. Dias and Simoes Pereira were arrested as well.
Court sentences former Peruvian president to 14 years in prison - Prensa Latina
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Lima, Nov. 26 (Prensa Latina) Former Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra was sentenced today to 14 years in prison, to begin immediately, for bribery and other charges, by a court that found him guilty of receiving bribes from companies he favored.
The smile he wore when he arrived at court, encouraged by his supporters, disappeared when the lengthy reading of the verdict reached the most important part, which sent him to prison, dismissing his claims of innocence.
“Martín Vizcarra’s criminal responsibility in the commission of the alleged crime has been proven with a degree of certainty, and he must therefore be subject to criminal punishment,” stated the ruling, which added the State as an aggrieved party in the bribery case.
It considered valid the testimony and evidence that he received the equivalent of $676,470 from the companies Obrainsa and Lomas de Ilo in exchange for benefiting them with contracts for the construction of a hospital and a water project.
The court also imposed a nine-year ban on holding public office and ordered him to pay 2,363,000 soles ($695,000) in legal reparations, jointly with the companies involved.
The ruling came as no surprise, as lawyers and the media had been predicting a conviction for weeks based on evidence of crimes committed while he was governor of the southern region of Moquegua.
Vizcarra consistently declared himself innocent, arguing that the prosecution lacked sufficient evidence and denying the validity of the statements made by the contractors involved in the projects and his close friend José Hernández, who confessed to paying him bribes and acting as an intermediary in the bribery scheme, respectively.
The convicted man served as president from March 2018, when he was vice president and replaced the resigning neoliberal Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, until November 2020, when he was removed from office by Parliament.
Congress has also disqualified him from holding public office, which thwarted his attempt to run for president in next April’s elections.
The disqualification also prevented him from running in 2021 and deprived him of a seat in Congress as the legislator elected with the highest individual vote, which is also considered to be motivated by the alleged merit of having dissolved the unpopular neoliberal majority Parliament in September 2020.
Vizcarra will be the third inmate at the prison exclusively for former heads of state, where neoliberal Alejandro Toledo, who governed between 2001 and 2006, and nationalist Ollanta Humala (2011-2016) are serving their sentences.
