Image is of Rixi Moncada of the LIBRE Party voting in the election.
On November 30th, Hondurans voted to choose their next President, as well as deputies to the Congress, councillors, and other candidates. Like all elections in Latin America, the looming shadow of American intervention will be a major factor in deciding the winner. In this election, that intervention has been fairly naked, with Trump literally stating who he wishes to win (the far-right nationalist guy, Nasry Asfura). Asfura has said that if he does not win, American funding to the country will dry up - a clear threat - and Trump has additionally pardoned the former Honduran president and US ally Juan Orlando Hernández, imprisoned for smuggling cocaine into the US.
The other candidates in this election are Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party, who is essentially running on the same platform as Asfura with some differences (such differences would inevitably vanish if he were to win); and Rixi Moncada of the progressive (self-described as democratic socialist) LIBRE Party. The narrative about this election is - try not to yawn - the neverending battle of democracy against communism. This narrative is obviously very important to uphold in the current environment of accelerated aggression against Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, and others.
Who is going to win? As of me writing this sentence, the results have not yet been fully reported. However, there has been something of a scandal in regards to a plot - with recorded voices, though those guilty plead AI tampering - to show the best possible preliminary results for the right wing, so as to manipulate the narrative and morale of the population. The idea, is presumably, that if LIBRE were to win, the fascists could say “How did LIBRE go from 20% of the vote (which is what the preliminary results showed) to a victory?! It must be communist meddling!”
Of course, it’s entirely possible that LIBRE won’t win anyway, or get particularly close. We shall see how things turn out very shortly.
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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.
And I’ve hit the character limit. That’s ok though, the rest of the essay is just a waffling conclusion about mythical values the west holds so I was gonna skip it anyway.
My question is ultimately whether his suggestions would benefit us or not. Would revolutions be able to occur with less imperialist intervention? Or if the US would be prevented from doing it as it has done so since the end of ww2 would the UN instead become the new vessel of imperialist intervention preventing countries from socialist revolution?
I don’t know the answer. I do lean towards the idea that a stronger UN like this would restrain the US which is why I am skeptical you could ever get the US to support it. But perhaps the US could be convinced that the sacrifice is necessary to also restrain their enemies if they fear they might actually lose to China et al? I think I lean towards this idea being beneficial rather than harmful to international socialists? My area of uncertainty is in what the UN under these circumstances would do when socialist revolution threatens a country. Whether they would deploy “peacekeepers” that ultimately prevent it or stabilise a collapsing capitalist state, etc.
I think a stronger UN in the way they pitch it (more permanent members required to veto than just 1 country, membership suspended for violating charter, etc.) would help limit US intervention which would be better for the global left.
But I don’t think the US agrees to that though even if they think it could limit Russia or China. There’s way too many votes (Cuba Embargo, Israel, etc.) that they and 2-3 of their vassals are the only countries in the whole UN voting against something that they’d then lose with a reformed UN.
Yeah, there’s simply no way to reform the UN deeply without the US either leaving, rendering the UN weak, or adopting a fundamentally anti-imperialist foreign policy. There’s been about five years of that in the country’s entire history, and it won’t happen again without a revolution.
i am generally pro a stronger UN. The general assembly overall passes good resolutions. The problem is that the UN has no way to enforce them. That will always be the key issue. US has always played the role of the enforcer. And if the US doesn’t like a resolution, they can just ignore it. What is the UN / the world going to do then?
I would assume without vetos the UN would vote to build a stronger ability to enforce its own resolutions. It would evolve into an international government through building itself state powers.
it would be kind of funny if US + EU leave the united nations to escape enforcement lol
I don’t think they would, it would immediately hand the rest of the world over to their opponents and shatter the idea they’re not an empire and actually a collection of states with mutual “values”.
The remaining states could collectively enforce economic sanction or whatever they want with them outside of it.
A girl can dream