Bulletins and News Discussion from July 29th to August 4th, 2024 - Haters Stay Mad(uro) - COTW: Venezuela
Bulletins and News Discussion from July 29th to August 4th, 2024 - Haters Stay Mad(uro) - COTW: Venezuela
Image is of a colectivo: an armed group, usually operating in impoverished areas, which act to support and defend the socialist government of Venezuela. They are often derided as vigilante terrorist groups which prop up the government, because cops are only bad when they are socialist and not murdering minorities, I suppose.
Maduro's party, the PSUV, has won the election after a staggering amount of propaganda by the opposition, who said their polls suggested they were going to win and that Maduro's loss was inevitable. The reaction across Latin America is what one would expect. Left-leaning leaders are generally respecting the results and congratulating Maduro, while those on the right and/or are US puppets (such as in semirecently-couped Peru) are calling for recounts, or even that the election was illegitimate. The US itself is also unhappy about the results. We shall soon see if their unhappiness boils over into yet another coup attempt.
Personally, I think they should have ran Guaido again.
Thank you to @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net for the election coverage here, and everything else they do in the news megathread.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish 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 (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
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.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
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.
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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Mexican President (Still AMLO) condemns OAS's interfering attitude in Venezuela - TelesurSpanish (Translated)
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López Obrador asserted that it is necessary for all countries to respect Venezuela's autonomy.
The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, condemned this Tuesday during his morning conference at the National Palace the interfering attitude of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Venezuela's internal affairs.
López Obrador affirmed “the OAS has to get involved. That is interference, that is why the OAS has no credibility”. The Mexican president asked: “On what grounds does the OAS maintain that the other candidate won? Where is the evidence?
Likewise, he urged to respect the self-determination of the peoples, to avoid violent demonstrations and to stop political incitement.
In this sense, he referred to international actors, internationalist experts and advisors, and stressed that each country is free, independent and sovereign.
The Head of State criticized the hypocrisy of former Presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón, who opposed the recount of votes in Mexico and are now “international observers”.
All Latin American nations should leave the OAS and strengthen CELAC.
I keep seeing people say "AMLO hasn't recognized the election yet so I can critique it from the left". Guarantee he recognizes it just has to play both sides.
AMLO, Petro and Lula will probably recognize the elections. Mexico literally borders the US, they need to be careful about their relation with the US. Petro and Lula are constantly attacked by the Far-Right inside their own countries, so they too are careful with what they say and do. They do not want the US to begin an aggressive campaign agaist them and Venezuela.
Besides, Brazil and Colombia are political and economic allies of Venezuela. They literally buys oil from them and depend on Venezuela's Energy aid to support the Amazon provinces. AMLO, Petro and Lula said via their diplomats and other staff that there was no electoral fraud in the election. AMLO said that himself.
Also, AMLO probably distrusts the OAS, because they refused to recognize that he actually won the 2006 elections.
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There is also a non-zero possibility that at some point in the future Mexico will have either U.S. Nat Guard or Army people sent in for 'peace-keeping missions against the cartels'. They have to generally play their cards close to the chest.