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On October 9th, Daniel Chapo won the Mozambique general election with about 70% of the vote. Chapo is the head of FRELIMO, the Marxist-Leninist party of Mozambique's liberation, which fought an internal anti-communist resistance called RENAMO which was backed by Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa; Frelimo won in 1975. However, as the USSR fell, Frelimo began to allow elections inside Mozambique, and has ruled the country with significant majorities in each election ever since.

The main opposition party inside Mozambique is Podemos, which is led by Venancio Mondlane, a former member of Renamo and trained inside the USA. He alleges that his polling figures predicted a majority win for him, not Frelimo, and has accused Chapo of electoral fraud. There have been the usual slogans about how they yearn for freedom. The EU, of course, "witnessed irregularities." As @[email protected] has pointed out, Mozambique has massive undeveloped gas fields and is outsourcing the development process to France, Norway, the UK, and the USA, while mysterious Islamist groups have popped up to cause chaos in the exact regions which have the gas, slowing the process of actually developing those gas fields. Overall, it appears to be a cookie-cutter colour revolution attempt by the imperial core designed to install a comprador for cheaper resources. Its proximity to BRICS+ member South Africa may also be significant, noting the colour revolution in Bangladesh earlier this year exerting influence near India and China.

Protestors have been battling against the police and government since late October, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries as well as massive disruption, as the government has intermittently blocked access to the internet and social media. As of today, calm appears to be returning, with border crossings beginning to reopen.


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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago

Cuba thanks international solidarity for recovery after Hurricane Rafael - Telesur English

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The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, thanked this Saturday the international solidarity towards his country, hit two days ago by the passage of Hurricane Rafael. In exclusive statements to teleSUR, Díaz-Canel, valued that the help of friendly countries and United Nations bodies, together with the empathy among the Cuban population, have made it possible for the country to be in a phase of recovery and healing.

“There was solidarity among Cubans. The Cuban people have been supportive. Just as people expressed solidarity with Guantánamo (…) And help has arrived from Venezuela. Today we received an audience with the ambassador of Qatar. There are several governments that have asked their ambassadors to provide needs to support and all those things are arriving,” said President Díaz-Canel.

“Also in the United Nations system, with the WFP (World Food Program) and other organizations of the system here in Cuba, they have also made resources available and are raising other resources,” he added.

The Cuban head of state also referred to the recovery of the national electrical system, which he noted has been recovering progressively and in some areas, such as Artemisa, it will take at least 20 days to restore.

Diaz-Canel also mentioned the need for, in addition to the recovery of the electrical system, to move forward in restoring the supply water at the national level.

“I believe, for example, in the affected area that was Artemisa, we have more than a dozen days left. It does not mean that all of Artemisa will be off, but there is an important part that will not have light,” Diaz-Canel said.

“In the midst of this situation, the National Electric System was restored, which has been working from the center to the east of the country. There is already power, the power service has been restored in several areas of the affected provinces. And now we have to start to recover with water, because the water base is also affected when there is no electricity to pump water,” added the Cuban president. He also said that in a week there should be no traces of the hurricane in terms of sanitation.

“In terms of sanitation, in the general sense, on Monday we will already be in a situation where the traces, the most visible trace of the hurricane will not be present. We will still have electrical problems, water problems and the problems with housing and infrastructure that have to do with the same measure that the materials are arriving to be able to recover them,” said the president.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

Paul "the stenographer of powerful" krugman came around to tariffs i-cant

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ou3Cc

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (9 children)

German leader Olaf Scholz made a phone call to Putin on Friday. He's still nowhere near to abandoning the west's delusional demands of Russian surrender but at least he's opening up to the general concept of diplomacy.

This has made Zelensky and all the NATO ghouls very mad. One of these ghouls is noted war criminal Anders Fogh Rasmussen, formerly the head of NATO, and before that a catastrophic Liberal Party leader of Denmark. Currently he is an asset for American imperialism, providing shady "consultancy" services to some of Washington's most distasteful puppet regimes and businesses connected to American spy agencies.

In (a statement to state media DR)[https://archive.ph/1uuZo] he says:

It is completely unacceptable if Putin should get anything at all out of his adventure. Because then Xi Jinping (China's president, red.) will conclude: "If Putin can take the Crimean peninsula then I can take Taiwan". That is why we must make sure Putin is not successful in Ukraine.

This is what passes for serious statesman-like analysis in the west. Rasmussen did not mention how the American Bush regime's illegal and unprovoked full-scale invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, that Rasmussen himself was an accessory to as Danish PM, has helped create a precedence for unilateral military involvement in other countries.

Rejecting the idea of further diplomacy with Russia, Rasmussen goes on to say:

I think the most important thing we can do to m make peace in Ukraine is to deliver even more weapons to Ukraine and remove all restrictions on the weapons we give.

I am too lazy to look up whether he is in the pocket of the American military industrial complex but I would be more surprised to learn that he's not than to learn that he is. Anyways these are the kind of madmen they put in charge of western military bureaucracies.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

Is Trump basically handing DeSantis a Senate seat by picking Rubio for a Cabinet position?

DeSantis gets to pick Rubio’s replacement until the special election in 2026. 2026 is also when DeSantis gets term limited. So DeSantis can easily pick someone loyal to warm the seat for him and let him smoothly transition from Governor to Senator.

But didn’t Trump and DeSantis have issues? Does Trump realize he’s helping DeSantis?

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I’m glad Mozambique is getting more coverage on here. I was afraid that it would get buried under everything else with it being an African country most aren’t familiar with.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Lmao, well good reason not to speculate about appointments, last I will say about the subject

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

link to the guardian about Amsterdam last week

genuinely surprised that the guardian is still talking about this as the original framing falls apart. Still not a good article, but some super surprising admittances to find here.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

the grayzone goes into detail regarding the israeli amsterdam psychological operation https://youtu.be/cGPi7UfCu5Q?t=787

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (18 children)

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3286907/8-die-knife-rampage-china-suffers-second-mass-killing-week

8 die in knife rampage as China suffers second mass killing in a week

Police say 21-year-old held after attack at college where he had studied had failed his exams and was angry about low pay as factory intern

Uh-huh, what up deng. And btw "the desire to succeed in exams" actually shows the fucked payscale in china

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Some Mozambique questions that I have on my mind after recently watching a vlog by a Palestinian-Jordanian vlogger who was in Maputo.

  1. How anti-imperialist is FRELIMO these days and how come that they seem mostly kinda hated by the locals?

  2. How prevalent is drug use and general crime in the country? There seems to be crazy amounts of drug users in some neighborhoods and even the metal car logo thingy in front of cars get stolen and sold in criminal markets that are semi-allowed in the country.

  3. Has FRELIMO achieved some success in terms of addressing widespread poverty and living conditions in the slums? The situation seemed horrible from what I saw in the video.

  4. How deep is Portuguese colonial penetration these days? We know that the French never really left the colonies despite the independence of the colonies. What's the situation with Portuguese imperialism?

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (10 children)

In the Amazon, US President Joe Biden signed the document that creates the International Day of Conservation and also stipulated the resources that will be allocated to the Amazon Fund.

“At first, I thought I was fighting to save the rubber tappers. Then I realized I was fighting to save the Atlantic Forest and the rainforest, and then I realized I was fighting for humanity. (...) Today, I'm proud to be here.” - Joe Biden

Directly from the Amazon, US President Joe Biden authorized Ukraine to use long-range missiles against Russian territory. These missiles are highly destructive and are supplied by the US. Previously, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, had suggested that if this were to happen, he might use nuclear weapons in response.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Hamas calls for ‘Arab-Islamic alliance’ to end "Israeli" war on Gaza, Lebanon | The Cradle

Hamas called in a statement on 10 November for the formation of an “international Arab-Islamic alliance” to bring an end to the war in Gaza and Lebanon, ahead of a summit hosted by Saudi Arabia to address the "Israeli" genocide.

The resistance movement called on all “kings, presidents, and leaders gathered at the joint Arab-Islamic follow-up summit scheduled to be held tomorrow in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to form an international Arab-Islamic alliance to pressure the occupation and its supporters to stop the war of genocide in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.”

It also called on the participants of the summit to “work to break the siege on Gaza, withdraw from the occupied territories, enable the Palestinian people to exercise their rights to self-determination, establish a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, and return Palestinian refugees to their cities and villages from which they were displaced.”

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://archive.ph/voXwt So now I've seen waffling about how jobs made from the Ukraine war in several US states will be lost

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

NED is going to be present in Johannesburg of all places next weekend. The live broadcast on Salaamedia called out the NED for being a CIA front, very pro-western/Zionist and collaborating with the Apartheid regime. Both the radio/show host and BDS guest speaker Roshan Dadoo also rightfully took offence to the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation for being one of the venues participating in NED's visit.

I wonder if NED's unwelcome visit to South Africa is related to the unrest in Mozambique, as there have been concerns levied of the violence spilling over into South Africa, with the far-right opposition declaring the elections illegitimate. Of course the international-community-1international-community-2 supports the Apartheid collaborating party. Mozambique is also just 550 kilometers from Durban and Gauteng. Fertile grounds for another Maidan colour revolution to cause chaos for South Africa. ISIS are also present and have made threats to attack since 2016, but these never materialised.

Just 2 months prior, a Zionist-led "peace in the Middle East" conference that was scheduled to be held in Constitution Hill (also in Johannesburg, which includes the old prison and the Constitutional/Human Rights Court) was canceled due to massive outcry and protests.

Imtiaz Sooliman of the Gift of the Givers should absolutely pursue legal action against the SAJBD, SAZF and SAJR and deliver an earth-shattering smackdown like a WWE fighter with a folding steel chair following defamatory statements in public. I personally think about R1.5 trillion ZAR sounds reasonable enough.

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