On December 4th, Rwanda’s Paul Kagame and the DRC’s Felix Tshisekedi signed the Washington Accords for Peace and Prosperity (pictured above). Trump boasted that he was settling a war that had gone on for decades, and remarked, idiosyncratically, “[…] and now they’re going to spend a lot of time hugging, holding hands […]”
A few days later, the M23 militia (backed by Rwanda) advanced into Uvira, a city near the DRC’s eastern border with Burundi and a major commercial and strategic location in the region. Burundi, although a small country, is a significant ally to the DRC and has sent thousands of soldiers to aid them during conflicts; this offensive by M23 aims to cut off a direct route between the two, though they do still share quite a long border over Lake Tanganyika. Tens of thousands of civilians (possibly up to 200,000) fled as M23 approached.
Signed almost simultaneously with the Accords was a Strategic Partnership Agreement between the DRC and the United States, which effectively threw open its critical minerals in the east to American exploitation. These minerals include tin, tungsten, and tantalum, which is vital for many industries. The irony is that M23 has been taking territory in the eastern DRC in order to transport these very minerals to Rwanda and onwards to global supply chains. Signing the Accord was, therefore, a remarkably pointless endeavour for everybody involved. Burundi and the DRC have complained, calling for sanctions on Rwanda, and appeasing to Trump’s pride, calling this a “slap in the face to the United States”, though I doubt the US is ultimately all that bothered about it one way or another.
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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.
Marxists in Oufa, Russia got 15-20years in prison and work camps for organizing marxists reading clubs
Article is available in French and Russian. Translate away if you want an English text.
The article only briefly mentions it but it sounds like the Russian police did the ol FBI tactic of infiltrating a group and encouraging them to plan violence, then arresting them for it.
Also, can’t help laughing atThe sentences handed down to the Marxists of Ufa—20 years’ imprisonment—are comparable to those imposed by Stalin
Norman Podhoretz dead at 95
Some AI and datacenter news, cracks are showing, investors are slowly getting nervous. Nothing huge yet, but if no one invests more into OpenAI, they might already start running out of cash in a couple of months!
Oracle partner Blue Owl Capital pulls ~$10 billion in funding from Oracle for their datacenters.
SoftBank (of WeWork fame) still hasn’t approved the ~$30 billion funding plan for OpenAI (SoftBank supposedly sold their Nvidia stock for this). They said that the deal will be finalized in December.
Amazon is planning a $10 billion investment into OpenAI that OpenAI would then use to buy products (mainly Amazon’s new Trainium AI chips and AWS services) from Amazon.
Oracle now has $127B in debt, of which ~$25 billion is due within the next three years. They had below $20 billion in cash at the end of 2025Q3. They are burning at a minimum ~$10 billion per year, probably closer to ~$20 billion.
Even though Ecuadorians voted against changing the constitution to allow foreign military bases, with two thirds of Ecuadorians voting against it, the US has decided that the US Air Force will deploy to Ecuador, for a “temporary operation with the Ecuadorian Air Force”.
There have been 6x C-17 flights to Ecuador, one of which was from the 821st Contingency Response Group, who has the job of preparing and opening air fields for use by the US Air Force, in particular Air Mobility Command (AMC), which is responsible for mid air refueling, and airlift/transport/cargo aircraft.
There’s a lot of complication here, because everyone knows that the M23 is a Rwandan expeditionary force. But also, M23 is technically not the Rwandan military, so they’re bound by a seperate agreement to the US brokered ceasefire, an agreement currently being negotiated in Qatar. Which is why they refer to Doha in the article. Rwanda tried to use this plausible deniability to continue to capture territory, as technically M23 were not bound by the US deal. If M23 is withdrawing, the US is calling out Rwanda on this tactic and subtly acknowledging that M23 is Rwanda.
Uvira is also a city of 700 000 people. It’s a big deal. That’s about 12x the population of Pokrovsk
Africa has a lot big cities nobody in the west has ever heard of.
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/12/16/israeli-prisonremoveds/
Far-right lawyers acting for four members of a group of Israeli prison guards exposed when footage of them anallyremoved a helpless Palestinian prisoner have announced the legal defence they will be filing if they are prosecuted: theyremovedd in ‘self-defence’.
A poll by Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies found that only 21% of Israelis believe soldiers thatremoved Palestinian prisoners should face criminal prosecution.
Google “61% of israeli men” and tell me that a “country” worth keeping.
It’s their national pastime, though. If 61% of American men played baseball it would be celebrated.
It couldn’t possibly beremoved. The guards were well acquainted with that prisoner, of course.
(The study focuses on the lack of comprehension about what constitutesremoved widely in Israeli society, with the findings indicating men and even 41% of women not to view forced sex by an acquaintance, and even more by a spouse, asremoved.)
I am sure Brad Lander or whoever the next zionist ally of the great breadtube army is would yap at you otherwise.
“It’s self defense” is the entire justification for the genocide in the first place so of course that’s what they’ll go with.
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Absolutely depraved society wtf
The Venezuelan government responds after Trump announces a blockade on the country’s oil tankers. “Venezuela will never again be a colony of an empire or any foreign power and will continue, together with its people, on the path of building prosperity and the unrestricted defense of our independence and sovereignty.” The U.S. Navy will operate in the Caribbean Sea, searching for and seizing any oil tanker that attempts to enter or leave Venezuela. Trump says Venezuela is “completely surrounded” by the U.S. Navy.
The Russian tanker Hyperion has just entered Caribbean waters, departing from the UMBA Offshore Terminal in Murmansk and heading for the Jose Terminal in Venezuela. The vessel is under US sanctions.
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During her press conference, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum mentioned that she is paying close attention to the allegations made by Honduran President Xiomara Castro regarding the possibility of a coup d’état in that country. In this regard, the president spoke out in favor of democracy and against interference and intervention.
This week, the US signed a military cooperation agreement with Paraguay. Now US military personnel will operate freely in the heart of South America.
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I am surprised this wasnt already the case. Regardless the Al-Tanf principle is being exported to South America.
Paraguay have been the most US bootlicker state in South America since the 1950s, but they usually are more or less heavily influenced/controlled by Argentina and Brazil since Paraguay lost the 1860s war. During the Catholic/Christian Socialist goverment of Fernando Lugo, Paraguay was more aligned with Brazil and the Pink Tide than with the US. Some may argue that a bit before Lugo got elected, the neoliberal turn socdem, Nicanor Duarte, of the ruling Colorado Party (the de facto ruling part of Paraguay since the late 1890s), was already very critical of the US and Pro-Chavez/Latin Americanism.
Honduran Deputy Foreign Minister Gerardo Torres states that 15 days after the general elections in the country, the winner of the polls has still not been determined, reports inconsistencies in the transmission of the election results, and denounces the interference of US President
Russia is amassing materiel for a major winter offensive in northeastern Donetsk. Three convoys carrying more than 400 artillery pieces were spotted heading toward the region on December 15.
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Can you link the telegram posts for your references?
Today in zionist death cult news, “israel” having record breaking number of settlers dying in “road fatalities” 😏
I wonder if the roads rhymed with Khorramshahr 🤔
Do they retrieve sperm from these fatalities, or do the sperm have to come from corpses that were actively genociding at the time of death?
10x KC-135 Stratotanker mid air refueling aircraft on the ramp in the Dominican Republic:
This is in addition to the KC-46s at the US Virgin Islands, and KC-130s. The Dominican Republic deployment has expanded quite a bit in the past few days. First tanker landed on December 9th. On December 10th there were 6. Now 10.
The Dominican Republic and Haiti have been under the US control since the 1960s, they literally invaded both countries when they dared to elect left-wing or nationalist goverments. I can only imagine how better LATAM would have been if they had never removed Juan Bosch from power, or if the 1964 April Revolution was never crushed by the US forces during Operation Power Pack.
Even before 1960s. Ever since the Haitian Revolution the us has worked to destroy/control any nation that controls the island of Kiskeya. They created Liberia because they feared newly freed black americans would emigrate to Haiti and create too strong of a black nation. Since the beginning of America both this island and cuba were the first victims of extra-continental ambitions by the americans.
Yes. I’m more talking about the “Modern” Period of Hispaniola, the US, and France in Haiti, has influenced all elections and actions in those two countries. When both countries had elections (even if they were pretty much liberal democracy elections) the people voted for left-wing candidates, the US didn’t accept that and made everything possible to sabotage those goverments as a way to stop a “second Cuba” from happening, and to isolate Cuba from it’s neighbors.
