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Image is of the Freedom Band performing at the end of the Second National Congress of the Socialist Movement of Ghana, sourced from this article. The same article contains most of the information used in the preamble below.
A little over a week ago, the Socialist Movement of Ghana concluded its second National Delegates Congress in Aburi, gathering 300 delegates from across the country. There, they deepened their commitment to the working class of Ghana and committed to intensifying political education and organization at the grassroots. The SMG itself decided to not electorally contest the 2024 elections in Ghana, but still presented a manifesto, and nonetheless managed to get two SMG members parliamentary seats in the National Democratic Congress.
Anyway, back to the National Delegates Congress: the delegates agreed that the Western imperialist system is now under a profound crisis, in which the likely future is a heightening of brutality, chaos, and resource plundering - a future which must be resisted and organized against.
To summarize their various statements and condemnations:
- Inside Ghana: a commitment to women's rights, youth empowerment, and environmental protection.
- A condemnation of the resource plundering of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by imperialist powers.
- A salute to the people of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, in their campaign against outside imperial control in the Sahel.
- A condemnation of Morocco's illegal occupation of the Western Sahara, and a call for the UN to identify the independence of the Sahwari people.
- A strong condemnation of Israel's genocidal atrocities and massive terrorist operations against nearby countries, and support for Palestinian independence.
- Support for the people of Haiti against outside imperial domination.
- A call for the end of the blockade on Cuba and their removal from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
- Solidarity with Maduro and the people of Venezuela against the United States.
- A rejection of all imperialist aggression and sanctions against Iran.
- A condemnation of NATO's decades-long military expansion eastwards towards Russia, especially as it has now resulted in massive devastation and risks a third world war.
- And finally, a commitment to Pan Africanism and international solidarity with all oppressed peoples around the world.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
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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.
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Hamas responded to the "peace plan", accepting to enter negotiations. I'm almost certain these will be rejected or destroyed by America and "Israel". The Hamas response states the need for Palestinian consensus for the interim governing authority, which the empire will never accept.
I assume this is a maneuver to make a visible show of peace, and letting Trump feel he is in within reach of that Nobel, so that Israel will have to cross Trump in order to resume violence. Maybe the plan is to go ahead and release the hostages on the assumption that without that casus belli, Israel will have less room to resume violence between Trump and the other Western leaders.
Not a bad gambit I suppose, and I largely trust Hamas’ judgement as they have shown good judgement so far… but I think that while Israel does not dictate policy to the US, it does seem that Netanyahu ultimately gets his way with Trump after they talk in person.
But I do feel strongly that accepting the 20 point plan would have been the beginning of the end of the resistance is Gaza.
Its PR, Hamas is trying to become the "reasonable" party (well already is but global elite perception is different)
Yes, exactly.
Reading the full statement, Hamas agreed to release all the Israeli hostages under the exchange formula in the Trump plan, and agreed to hand over civil governance of Gaza to the technocratic committee described in the Trump plan. But they want to negotiate on other issues such as disarmament and the further implementation of the plan, with a desire to participate in that.
Don't know if Israel and the USA will accept, but releasing all of the hostages and agreeing to give up civil governance are big concessions compared to a few months ago where only half of the hostages was what Hamas were willing to offer.
IIRC they have accepted these in the past. They also required that governance proceed according to the democratic will of Palestinians, which the USA and "Israel" will never accept. If they sign this plan, they will violate it immediately, just like every other previous plan.
Didn’t trumps committee involve foreign governance, Tony Blair, etc?
The foreign "board of peace" (with Trump and Blair) "oversees and supervises" the technocratic committee according to the plan.
Didn’t israel Katz say anything less than full acceptance is rejection? Just seems like rejection with more words, given that they stood firm on Hamas participating in the reconstruction government
full text
"Out of concern to stop the aggression and genocide our steadfast people in the Gaza Strip are facing, and stemming from national responsibility and commitment to our people’s constants, rights, and supreme interests, the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas has conducted extensive consultations within its leadership institutions, broad consultations with Palestinian factions, as well as discussions with mediators and friends, to reach a responsible stance in dealing with President Donald Trump’s plan.After thorough study, the movement has made its decision and conveyed the following response to the mediators:
Hamas values the Arab, Islamic, and international efforts, as well as the efforts of US President Donald Trump, calling for an end to the war on Gaza, a prisoner exchange, the immediate entry of aid, rejection of the occupation of Gaza, and rejection of the displacement of our people from it.
In this framework, and in a manner that achieves an end to the war and a full withdrawal from the Strip, the movement announces its approval to release all occupation prisoners — both living and remains — according to the exchange formula outlined in President Trump’s proposal, with the necessary field conditions ensured for the exchange process. In this context, the movement affirms its readiness to immediately enter negotiations through mediators to discuss the details.
The movement also renews its approval to hand over the administration of the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian body of independents (technocrats) based on national Palestinian consensus and supported by Arab and Islamic backing.
As for the other issues in Trump’s proposal relating to the future of Gaza and the inherent rights of the Palestinian people, these are tied to a collective national position and to relevant international laws and resolutions. They will be discussed through a comprehensive Palestinian national framework in which Hamas will participate and contribute responsibly."
On the bright side western media is already running front page news that basically amount to “Hamas agrees to release all hostages and discuss handing over control to independent Palestinian body” when one glances at the story so if these headlines stick long enough it’s a good move since now news normies would see Israel rejecting the gesture out of hand as highly unreasonable
In the past Hamas has made conciliatory statements that were immediately interpreted by western msm headlines as “Hamas rejects ceasefire deal” so in terms of public opinion and consent manufacturing this is a good sign
Edit: trump is the wild card here he wants this deal because he has attached himself heavily to this one and labels it as a “trump deal” so he wouldn’t be happy with an outright rejection following this one since the media interpretation is already becoming established. (Even on foxnews.com the headline says Hamas agreed to release hostages as a part of trump proposed deal)
I suspect the Israelis will still attempt to torpedo this however but they may try to “humor” further discussion and just stonewall them during those so they can try and convince people Hamas still isn’t budging on anything.
Yes, I agree. It's clearly a response keeping in mind that the "Israelis" will accuse them of rejecting the proposal. They propose that they cannot speak for all Palestinians and further negotiations are necessary. They know, of course, that "Israel" never had any intent to make peace. They're going to have to lie and mislead in the media about the Hamas response, which they were also always going to do.
Both "sides" are talking past each other, because the occupiers have no desire for peace. These proposals are messages for the rest of the world.