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.
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@[email protected] and others discuss weakening Chinese domestic consumption and the importance of their trade surplus to the status quo
@[email protected] and @[email protected] on the fraught discussion of harm to Jewish versus Palestinian lives and the implicit racism of the Palestine exception
Previous posts of the week: Oct 27 | Nov 3 | Nov 10 | Nov 17 | Nov 24 | Dec 1 | Dec 8
@[email protected] and others discuss weakening Chinese domestic consumption and the importance of their trade surplus to the status quo
A lot of interesting discussion and debate in this thread, though it’s somewhat controversial, so I’m not sure if you would want to include it.
it’s good discussion but also a lot of
with site rules lawyering for good measure.https://hexbear.net/comment/6761055
Nominating this specifically, comrade @[email protected] made an absolutely excellent comment regarding Holocaust exceptionalism, the western left, and the supremacy of “Jewish pain” (but only when it helps zionists).
Yeah, that’s what I mean by “controversial”.
Video from Luna Oi about the ongoing conflict between Cambodia and Thailand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl3tjEBXhLgShe briefly goes over the ceasefire from the previous border conflict. The timeline of the conflict and she explaining the geopolitical stance of Cambodia and Thailand with respect to China and the US starts at 6:44.
Looks like the third tanker the US is attempting to seize around Venezuela, the BELLA 1, is now on the run. The vessel did not comply with orders to be boarded by the US Coast Guard and Navy, and the US Coast Guard is currently in “active pursuit” of BELLA 1.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/60-minutes-pulls-cecot-trump-brutal-prison-1236614034/ CBS News ‘60 Minutes’ Pulls Segment on ‘Brutal’ El Salvador Prison Where Trump Administration Sent Deportees, Just Hours Before Airtime
Pretty good statement that could be pushed around left-leaning spaces:
https://nocoldwar.org/news/statement-from-no-cold-war-on-the-us-aggression-against-venezuela
Statement from No Cold War on the US aggression against Venezuela:
The No Cold War collective stands in firm opposition to the illegal embargo of Venezuela, the sanctions policy, and the military aggression already faced by Venezuela through the armada and the attack on small boats. We believe that this aggression in the Caribbean has nothing to do with human rights or democracy.
The United States has tried to overthrow the government of Venezuela since the Bolivarian process passed the Hydrocarbons Law in 2001, which increased taxation on oil extraction for transnational companies and mandated a minimum state participation of 51% in ‘mixed companies’ for private partners. The first coup against the Bolivarian process was in 2002, not even a year after the Hydrocarbons Law was passed.
This attack on Venezuela is about oil. It always was about oil. And it always will be about oil. The United States government is trying to use its financial and military instruments to overthrow the Venezuelan government not for the Venezuelan people but for the US oil companies.
In the US National Security Strategy 2025, the administration of President Donald Trump made it clear that his government would now focus attention on the Western Hemisphere so that the US can restore its dominance in the region. It has evoked the 1823 Monroe Doctrine with a Trump Corollary – namely to enforce the Doctrine with armed will – to suggest that the US has licence to do what it wants in this region.
But, in fact, the Monroe Doctrine is not international law; international law, namely rooted in the United Nations Charter, prevents any attack without a UN Security Council resolution. If the US does attack Venezuela, then that is a violation of international law and would immediately constitute a war crime (in the same way as the US illegal war on Iraq in 2003 was a war crime).
The United States has been at war with Venezuela since 2002, when it participated in a failed coup against President Hugo Chávez. For almost a quarter of a century, the United States has been trying to overthrow not only the government in Venezuela but the Bolivarian process that seeks to enhance the sovereignty of the country and the dignity of the Venezuelan people.
We call upon the world’s people to stand with the Venezuelan people against this aggression by the United States and its allies in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Europe. The world must not allow such aggression to continue.
Russian communists organized the annual ‘two carnations for Stalin’ event today (4,400 red carnations were placed at his grave/memorial site, in observance of his birthday):
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/10258565.html (in Russian)
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“holy shit did they start bombing Venezuela?”
[look inside]
it’s a huge slapfight over the zionist cancer
USS Gerald R. Ford was spotted today roughly 40 miles southwest of the Venezuelan Federal Dependency of Aves Island in the central Caribbean.
Almost exactly 500-600km out from mainland Venezuela. I assume this is an operational safety range they’re maintaining?
Third tanker off the coast of Venezuela intercepted.
Alright, i don’t know if this is news worthy so if it isn’t i or a mod can remove it. I found a useful website, maybe some of you have already heard of it, still, it gives you all of the major mappers of the Ukraine war combined with a timeline. So heads up if anyone is interested, the link is in the bottom. Useful for comparing pro-Russian mapmakers to more pro-Ukrainian ones, if you care about that.
Happy Holidays!
Hey everyone. Remember how we used WMDs as a fake pretext for the Iraq war and now everyone knows that it was fake, even the naive & stupid people? Anyway…
Fentanyl will be classified as a weapon of mass destruction via an EO today, Trump says.
we are not living. none of this is real.
The Amerikkkan imperialists sent the nukes during the
CubanTurkish Missile Crisis, the last 60 years have just been a long dying dream.
But the US administration does know that it worked in the moment, and that’s all they need to manufacture consent, it doesn’t matter if libs will smugly be saying they opposed the war in 20 years, if they are supporting it now.
if they are supporting it now.
But they aren’t. The boat strikes are unpopular.
Actual war is enormously unpopular.
Tbf its unpopular because trump is president. Libs gave a damn about BLM and kids in cages during Trump I as well. They also called themselves socialist too.
Most people have an incoherent string of beliefs which are anti-elite in nature.
Tbf its unpopular because trump is president.
Aside from this claim being an assumption, this is basically just saying “people are mad because of the current specific situation, not something abstract”. The actions of the ruling class are unpopular because the ruling class is unpopular because its actions are unpopular… That’s just how shit works. Organize the anger! Make it permanent!
Libs gave a damn about BLM and kids in cages during Trump I as well. They also called themselves socialist too.
And many of them became real socialists. The socialist movement today is demonstrably bigger, more organized, and more radical than it was eight years ago.
We have seen this happen with COVID, Israel, ICE/DHS, imperialism more broadly, oil drilling in the US, etc. Every time the demonrats do it it’s excused and when Trump does it is not.
Edit: also sexual assault allegations. They did it on those too.
This is true if you only listen to bourgeois media. It is not reflective of the political reality on the ground.
Mmmmm. It’s definitely true on the ground with COVID and ICE at least. Also slowly happening with Israel with the Zohranists.
But they aren’t. The boat strikes are unpopular.
Whenever I see people act otherwise I feel like it’s just rote “expecting to be right too early” without actually… Looking outside.
Intense pessimism about the masses, contrary to data, thinking oneself so politically superior that engagement is impossible and defeat is inevitable is another type of liberalism.
Tagline?
absolutely true, the United States and its citizenry have no appetite for direct conflict with anyone, however… there is an underlying hunger for imposing the conditions that will eventually lead to the bloodshed that The Empire craves.
is it worth opposing despite the odds? of course. but I will forever be cynical until we can translate the unpopularity of the Empire toward dismantling it.
Trump needs his own 9/11 to boost those numbers.
Welcome back Dick Cheney.
This so half baked. Nearly every hospital in the world, including the US, is now harboring WMDs according to these braniacs
every hospital in the world is now harbouring WMDs
hasn’t this been the extent of Western international law since 2023?
Israel is gonna love that one.
Weapons of mass destruction:
- Nuclear weapons
- Chemical weapons
- Biological weapons
- Common drug that is used every day in every hospital
They better not declare paracetamol a WMD or I’m fucked
They better not declare paracetamol a WMD
weapons of mass diagnosis
Also known as trains
NO LINK
Here comrade!
By the most conservative counts more than 70000 people have been murdered by Israel in Gaza since October 7, 2023. That works out to an average of about 90 people killed every day for 800 days. In other words, Israel has committed 6 Bondi Beaches every single day for more than two years.
And that’s with the most conservative count of how many people have been killed.
Don’t forget that this lowest estimate only includes violent murders, and not murders through sanctions, through sieging, through destruction of infrastructure and housing, etc.
violent murders that can be conclusively provenIf you’re relative has no identifiable remains, or non remain at all, they’re not counted! And that’s assuming that there’s officials or infrastructure to identify them!
Absolutely, if you go with a more realistic estimate (500,000+ people killed) that’s the equivalent of Israel commiting dozens of Bondi Beaches (40+) every single day since October 7, 2023.
A little bit of holiday spirit:
Thieves dressed as Santa and his elves steal $3K worth of goods from Montreal grocery store
On social media, an activist group calling themselves Robins des ruelles or Robins of the Alleys — a nod to Robin Hood — claimed responsibility for the heist.
The group says the stolen food, worth around $3,000, was redistributed under a Christmas tree at place Valois in Montreal’s Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough, with leftovers going to various community fridges.
The group described Monday’s raid as a “great food drive” and a political call to action.
Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation …
[edit] I should be clear *** Ummmm let me be clear ***, this is real, from their recent IG post. All comments seem to be from bots.
“…8 months later I wash up on Miami beach, sissy-hypnotized, still aching with desire for Papi Fidel.”
I don’t have this problem because I don’t do espionage on behalf of the world’s most murderous empire. In fact, I manage to not do this every single day. Try it sometime. Works wonders for your health!
extremely funny noise complaint
Good lol get wrecked
lmao, they really do have Main Character Syndrome.
This is Havana Syndrome’s patient zero
I was doing Watergate but I’m really the victim here.
What the hell do they teach at Langley besides Epstein shit? They couldn’t have come up with a better idea than drill through drywall? The Yale boys have really dropped off
What the hell do they teach at Langley besides Epstein shit?
Hitlerism.
Lmao owned
lol
lmao
jesus fucking christ
Self-reported skill issue on their part amazing.
Owned lmao
