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.
Medvedev says a full scale war in the Middle East is the only path to peace.
https://xcancel.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1818762851290591510
Either Dmitry Medvedev or Daniil Medvedev (tennis player) have to change their name because this isn't the first time I've thought a tennis player was calling for war
Am I very confused or the name means bear? If so was the Russian president named Mr bear at one point?
Medved is Russian for bear...
Dmitry is the Russian translation for the Greek name Demetrius, meaning "follower of Demeter". Demeter is the Greek goddess of agriculture. She is perhaps best known for going to the Underworld to rescue her daughter Persephone from Hades, who had kidnapped her. Zeus helped Demeter on the condition that if Persephone has eaten anything in the Underworld, she would have to stay there forever. As it turned out, Persephone has eat six pomegranate seeds, and Zeus declared that Persephone would have to return the Underworld for 6 every year. As a result, Demeter refuses to let anything grow for 6 months of the year, which is how we got winter...
...winter...war in the middle east...nuclear winter...six months...six in..Greek? That's...that's "hex"...Mr. President Follower of Demeter Bear...Mr. President Six Months Bear...Mr President Hex Bear Nuclear Winter?!
So, which one of the mods is he?
This is the level of outside the box thinking that brought the world genocide joe
Honestly impressive
I'm gonna start leftist QAnon over this post, my mind is blown.
I believe it does! Similarly everytime Daniil Medvedev plays Wimbledon he's introduced as Mr Medvedev (bear)
Some trivia, the Russian word for bear comes from "honey eater" as a euphemism for the animal, likely because of a superstition that saying the animal's name might cause it to appear. Same with the Germanic "bear" coming from a word meaning "the brown one".
Wiktionary: Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/medvědь
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Glad you asked! The original name was--
..jokes aside, I think the quote is saying the original word isn't exactly known, but probably something like *rьstъ, similar to the Lithuanian irštva
Which is, I believe, the origin of the Latin ’ursa’ and Spanish ‘oso’
Beowulf is the same way meaning "bee-wolf"
Welsh is an exception https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5sZkJpCGH0&t=136s
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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Didn’t the security council vote on Libya while under the impression there would be a discussion before action, then the US invaded anyway? Or am i misremembering
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Didn’t the security council vote on Libya while under the impression there would be a discussion before action, then the US invaded anyway? Or am i misremembering