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Image is of the breach in the tailings dam near Kitwe.


On February 18th, 50 million liters of acidic waste from a copper mine was accidentally released into the Kafue River after a tailings dam collapsed. The Kafue River stretches for a thousand miles across Zambia and a majority of the country - millions of people - rely on it, for both the economy and drinking water.

The results have already been catastrophic. The water supply for the city of Kitwe, home to 700,000 people, was completely shut off. As the wave of contamination moved downstream, a wave of death accompanied it as dead fish dotted the river surface. The government is dropping lime into the river to try and counteract the acid with an alkali and neutralize the water, but the tailings also contain toxic heavy metals that will undoubtably seep into the nearby environment and affect the area for years to come.

A considerable portion of the media attention to the accident has been devoted to the fact that the mine was Chinese-owned, as well as China's broader influence and investment in the region. Western anti-China propaganda aside, it has been clear to those in the know that these mines have been badly managed and needlessly dangerous for years now, and it is disappointing - to say the least - to see disasters of this magnitude occur from Chinese businesses. Hopefully this prompts a wave of investigations into China-owned mine managers all around the continent, who will then hopefully face real consequences for their actions.


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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:

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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.

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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] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Alhamdullilah, I missed this sound

For context, Yemen launched a missile at Israel

https://t.me/nayaforiraq/23905

https://t.me/TheSimurgh313/51147

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Not sure what's going on in the /r/socialism modteam but it feels very much like the modteam there now moderates the sub with an anti-china slant. In the past, when I was on that team, it was pro-china and so were its other mods. But now it seems to have swung in the other direction.

Is this news? Maybe not, it's news to me though. Genuinely surprised as some people on that team were definitely pro-china when I was in touch with them on previous usernames, a quick glance over their histories shows them now posting "capitalist china" content though.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

There has been a ramping on Anti-China sentiment recently, or maybe thats just anecdotal, but several of my lib friends have been saying crazy things about china. The wildest thing I heard is that china sells babies, or does mass child labor 0_0

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

October 7th was a joke compared to what they actually deserve

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I hate this fucking shithole irredeemable fascist world. What is worth saving? What is worth salvaging? Nowadays I actually start thinking about how nice it would be to not be alive, to not be forced to perceive any of this shit.

How am I expected to believe that the world itself isn't ideologically biased towards the fash?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Maersk shareholders to vote on banning Israel arms transfers over Gaza genocide | The Cradle

:::spoiler article Shareholders in Danish shipping giant Maersk are set to hold a vote on 18 March for a proposal to cease weapons shipments to Israel for as long as it is waging war on Gaza.

The vote comes as Israel has renewed its genocidal campaign against the strip, killing over 420 Palestinians since early Tuesday morning.

Weapons transfers to Israel are “in violation of international conventions, assuming that military equipment, weapons, and components were used in Israeli army operations where international conventions are breached,” shareholder Zen Donen told AFP.

Yet the shipping firm’s board does not support the proposal.

“The premise of the proposal is not correct, as the company is not transporting arms to Israel,” the company said, despite recent investigative reports in Danish media claiming otherwise. The reports show that Maersk has shipped armored combat vehicles and other military hardware to Israel.

The Eko activist group has drafted its own proposal demanding the firm’s transparency – which the Maersk board has also rejected.

Denmark has not implemented an arms embargo restricting weapons shipments to Israel, like other European nations have.

UN experts have recently called for countries to impose bans on arms exports to Israel.

“All States must ‘ensure respect’ for international humanitarian law by parties to an armed conflict, as required by 1949 Geneva Conventions and customary international law. States must accordingly refrain from transferring any weapon or ammunition – or parts for them – if it is expected, given the facts or past patterns of behavior, that they would be used to violate international law,” UN experts said in late February.

“The need for an arms embargo on Israel is heightened by the International Court of Justice’s ruling on 26 January 2024 that there is a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza and the continuing serious harm to civilians since then,” they added.

Maersk ships transporting goods to Israeli ports were targeted by the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) last year as part of Sanaa’s pro-Palestine blockade. This caused the company to face a significant crash in profits due to expensive reroutes.

The YAF recently announced a decision to resume attacks on all Israeli ships in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab strait, and the Gulf of Aden in response to Tel Aviv’s ceasefire violations and blocking of aid to Gaza.

This has prompted violent US attacks on Yemen, which the YAF has responded to by targeting the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman several times.

The Maersk shareholder vote coincides with a brutal campaign of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.

According to the director of Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, wounded Palestinians are dying “every minute” due to a severe lack of medical resources.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Donald Trump has tightened border controls to stop the trafficking of fentanyl, but immigration agents have seized more eggs than drugs! Since October, there have been 3,768 seizures of poultry products against 352 of opioids. In Texas, seizures of contraband are up 54%, and in San Diego, they've doubled. In some regions, a dozen eggs can cost as much as US$10, forcing consumers to seek out the illegal market. Bodegas in NY sell single eggs in plastic bags, and restaurants have added extra fees to their dishes.

There have even been large-scale thefts, such as the theft of 100,000 eggs in Pennsylvania. The authorities have stepped up enforcement and now ask drivers directly if they are carrying eggs. Anyone caught can pay a fine of up to 300 dollars. The eggs are then incinerated.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hmm

“In retaliation to the continued brutal American aggression against our country, on the anniversary of the great Battle of Badr, and as an extension of Islam's march against tyranny and arrogance, these operations by the Yemeni Armed Forces come as

Over the past few hours, the Yemeni Armed Forces have successfully targeted the US aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman in the northern Red Sea with two cruise missiles and two drones, and targeted a US destroyer with a cruise missile and four drones.

The targeting of the aircraft carrier is the third in the past 48 hours. The enemy was struck by a state of confusion, which prompted many of its warships to retreat towards the northern Red Sea region, and an air attack that was being prepared against our country was thwarted.

The US aggressor bears all the consequences of militarizing the Red Sea and expanding the scope of confrontation by continuing its aggression against Yemen, which negatively impacts international shipping traffic.

The Yemeni Armed Forces affirm that they will not cease targeting all hostile targets in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea until the aggression against our country stops. They are prepared, relying on Allah, to confront any American or Israeli escalation in the coming hours and days.

The Yemeni Armed Forces salute all our beloved Yemeni people who took to the streets today in response to the call of Sayyid Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi (may Allah protect him) on Al-Furqan Day, the anniversary of the Great Battle of Badr, to affirm their faith-based, jihadist stance in support of the Palestinian people and in rejection of the American aggression against our country.

The Yemeni Armed Forces salute the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and affirm that they will continue to ban the passage of Israeli ships from the declared zone of ​​operations until the blockade on the Gaza Strip is lifted.

Sana'a: Ramadan 18, 1446 AH March 18, 2025 AD

Issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces

http://t.me/army21ye

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As a long time reader of these statements, successfully targeted doesn't mean a hit was achieved. The successful targeting part has to do with the ships retreating back to the north of the Red Sea and thwarting an attack, as explained later.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Death to "Israel", death to the west, may they all rot in hell. The oppressed of the world will be liberated and we won't forget our martyrs.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Checked in for the first time in a while. Evil fucks in Israel need to get their heads blown off.

Are people saying now that literally everything that's happened, from October 7th to the genocide, to the "ceasefire" to every fucking conflict Pissrael's been engaging in, has been according to their master plan or something? That everything is falling perfectly into place, and now comes the part where they finally make Greater Israel a reality and destroy Iran? That they were only pretending to be frustrated, or frustrated that they weren't "winning harder"?

You know what? If Iran ends up collapsing and Israel reigns supreme, I'm going to chalk it up to this shithole world being explicitly designed to be a playground for Fascists, or some kind of sick "comedy" show geared towards Fascists. I'm sick of this shit, sick of Nazi fucks never getting any comeuppance.

EDIT: Oh yeah and where's the part where Jolani runs outside to hug an Israeli bomb being dropped directly on his head?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I knew it was coming and still I am fucking so mad at reading what’s currently happening. Then I get mad at myself for getting mad at something that I expected. I can’t concentrate on anything. FUCK.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I have a job interview in a couple of minutes, and trust me, I'm not thinking about my future rn. Glory to the martyrs, death to Israel

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The last time Nazis gleefully butchered normal people, the end result was their leader ended up shooting himself in the head in a hole in the ground and their country was bombed to pieces.

The sick bastards will push and push until they go too far and then it will all collapse in on them.

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26 arrested in massive Florida fentanyl bust, FOX 35 Orlando https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxgIFygOr1I Never seen American police balaclavaed up like this

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I wasn't exactly sure whether the whole Schumer caving to the GOP was kayfabe or just actual centrist brain, but I am pretty convinced now that it was kayfabe. The tell is the push to have AOC primary him instead of removing him as Senate minority leader. Schumer isn't even up for re-election until Trump's term is over in 2028. If the party was actually that mad, they would just remove him from his positions now.

I know some of you are going to say "duh" but I was waiting to see how things played out a bit first given how poorly the party is doing with its voters right now.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

all palestinian violence against israel is self-defense.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The U.S. Not To Return the Statue of Liberty: Leavitt - Telegram English

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The United States no longer represents the values ​​that led France to gift it the statue in 1884, said MEP Glucksmann. On Monday, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt rejected the possibility of the United States returning the Statue of Liberty to the French people.

Her remarks came after Raphaël Glucksmann, a French MEP, called on Washington to return the statue, which was gifted to Americans in the 1880s. “Absolutely not,” Leavitt said when asked if the monument would be returned. “My advice to that unidentified low-level French politician would be to remind them that it’s only because of the United States of America that the French aren’t speaking German properly now. So they should be very grateful to our great country,” she added.

Previously, the MEP criticized the current situation in the United States under the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, stating that the country no longer represents the values ​​that led France to gift it the Statue of Liberty. Designed by sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, the statue was presented by France as a gift to the United States on July 4, 1884, to commemorate the centennial of the Declaration of Independence.

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