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This week marks the one year anniversary of Honduras ceasing to recognize Taiwan and instead only recognizing China. Over that time period, China and Honduras have gone through several rounds of negotiating a free trade agreement, with trade expanding. Additionally, they have just signed a $275 million cooperation agreement, providing education infrastructure for Honduras.

The other major news piece relevant to Honduras is the battle against Prospera, a US-based crypto libertarian firm that sought to buy a private island in order to create an ancap paradise, in which Bitcoin would be legal tender. In 2022, Honduras killed the island's special status that made the deal possible, and so Prospera is seeking $11 billion in compensation.


The COTW (Country of the Week) label is designed to spur discussion and debate about a specific country every week in order to help the community gain greater understanding of the domestic situation of often-understudied nations. If you've wanted to talk about the country or share your experiences, but have never found a relevant place to do so, now is your chance! However, don't worry - this is still a general news megathread where you can post about ongoing events from any country.

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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

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.


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[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 67 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ukraine finally managed to blow up the bridge! Fuck you Putler 😡

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[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 66 points 9 months ago (2 children)

From the Resistance News Network:

🚨 The sounds of explosions are still heard in Aleppo, Syria, as the IOF launches what local sources are calling the most violent IOF attack on Syria in recent history.

US-aligned terrorist organizations in Idlib exploited the zionist attack and coordinated the launch of several batches of drones with the zionist aggression in order to confuse the Syrian air defense systems.

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[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 66 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 66 points 9 months ago (2 children)

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/23/intercepted-doctor-gaza-interview/

But [Palestinian medical workers], they are working on a daily basis on the most horrific, explosive trauma that you’ve ever seen. They’re doing sometimes 14, 15 amputations, mostly on children, per day, and they’ve been doing it for six months now.

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[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 65 points 9 months ago

Itamar Ben-Gvir, the far-right national security minister of Israel, says “the United Nations is a wasteland” in reaction to the UN Security Council vote.

lol

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 65 points 9 months ago (5 children)

UN Security Council adopts resolution calling for immediate Gaza ceasefire

Amerikkka abstained, and the resolution also calls for the immediate release of all hostages. It's unclear to me if they mean the release of only those being held in Gaza or if Palestinians being held captive would also be released. For some reason I think they only mean the captive Israelis should be released

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[–] Kaplya@hexbear.net 64 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Hot take: Macron is going full support for Ukraine because they are genuinely worried about a terrorist attack during the Paris Olympics.

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[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 64 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Estonia sending one guy to fight the Houthis and Russia in the red sea.

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[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 64 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

I have started tagging hasbara on reddit-logo for my own sanity, and it's actually kinda surprising seeing how much these guys get around once you start tagging them. I am not looking at worldnews or politics, but I've started to notice it's mostly the same usernames over and over again.

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[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

hamas-base Gunned down two unarmed Palestinians waving white flags. CW NSFW/L MURDER

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One was told to approach and was shot. The other walking back was chased by a tank and shot. The Zionazis then took a bulldozer and shoved the bodies in a trash pile.


[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

video of the Dali cargo ship colliding with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, sending ~~the whole thing~~ a good chunk into the water

https://twitter.com/kf18616835/status/1772566837571539264

EDIT: the bridge is a mile long so this is only one section, I shouldn't have said "the whole thing"

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[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

Maybe infrastructure should be constructed in such a way that 100K ton battering rams don't have to pass underneath them shrug-outta-hecks

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[–] Commiejones@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago (4 children)

galaxy-brain Bridge was destroyed by USA as a false flag to distract from their operatives getting caught doing terrorism in Russia.

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[–] chicory@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hot on the heels of Air Canada's AI chat bot making up policies, NYC is following suit, giving illegal advice in response to questions:

The problem, however, is that the city’s chatbot is telling businesses to break the law.

Five months after launch, it’s clear that while the bot appears authoritative, the information it provides on housing policy, worker rights, and rules for entrepreneurs is often incomplete and in worst-case scenarios “dangerously inaccurate,” as one local housing policy expert told The Markup.

https://archive.is/n9XF3

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[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Praying to every god that Netanyahu dies during surgery. Let's see if God's real.

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[–] sempersigh@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago (13 children)

yo wtf is wrong with Italians

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[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)
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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago (6 children)
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[–] jimbojambo@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Not posted in a while and this isn't strictly news but I figured if anyone keeps track of Western misinformation around the Ukrainian war and the events leading up to it then you can add this to your "There are no Nazis in Ukraine" section.

I've been having this argument with my brother for a few days now. I had most recently brought up the anti-Roma pogroms post-2014, one of which is described in detail here. Of course this wasn't good enough as a source for my brother even though it directly links to the court's ruling on the Roma's claims for compensation for being forced from their homes by local authorities after anti-Roma riots on the Ukrainian Court website. So I pulled up the court document and had it translated. Some choice quotes from the Judge's decision below:

On the legality of the local assembly's decision concerning the Roma: "The court states that the decision No. 1 indirectly instructed the Executive Committee of the Council of the need to convey to residents of Roma nationality the opinion of the residents of the village on the issue of their residence in the village, which according to Article 8 of the Law 'On Local Self-Government in Ukraine' is a form of direct participation in solving issues of local importance."

Regarding the village head's actions in signing and announcing the assembly's decision: "As for the actions of the village head to sign and announce this decision, in the opinion of the court, they do not have independent significance in the aspect of violation of the rights of the plaintiffs but are actions of writing the decision of the general meeting of citizens for its legitimation in the context of the possibility of further consideration in the activities of the Council and the Executive Committee."

On the court's view of the village assembly's decision's impact: "At the same time, the defendant village head did not personally make this decision; such a decision was made by the territorial community represented by the village council, which is not a defendant in the case and against which claims have not been filed."

On the issue of moral damages: "Since the court came to the conclusion that there are no grounds for recognizing the actions and inactions of the defendants as illegal, there are also no grounds for the recovery of moral damages, taking into account the absence of signs of illegality in the actions and inactions of the defendants."

ukkkraine

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Zionist settler: Khamas terrorists are targeting civilians like us.

Also Zionist settler: We feel that we are civil soldiers.

https://twitter.com/Pal_action/status/1773013411531497925

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[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/middleeast/un-security-council-gaza-israel-ceasefire-intl/index.html

Israel cancels Washington visit after US allows UN Gaza ceasefire resolution to pass

''Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on X his country would not abide by the resolution.

“The state of Israel will not cease fire,” Katz said. “We will destroy Hamas and continue to fight until the last of the hostages returns home.”'

Come on US, do a mutiny on your land aircraft carrier already, just like in 1963

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[–] Zrc@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago (1 children)

ukraine experts are forever doomed to believe that the yearly wave of Russians getting called up for regular military service is connected to the war

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[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago (1 children)

send news

Do you mean send nudes?

No, I mean send news, load up the seventytwotrillion mega

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[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago

If I was ISIS I would claim I destroyed the Baltimore bridge

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 59 points 9 months ago

Yesterday, Mexico's Congress approved a ban on so-called homosexual conversion therapies. The big controversy was the vote of the National Action Party (PAN).

The PAN voted almost unanimously against the bill, which outraged internet users and members of the LGBT+ community. The reason: the party's candidates in Mexico City and for president claim to "defend" the community.

The presidential campaign is about to begin, and the PAN candidate for the presidency, Xochitl Galvez, has already started with this bombshell to explain.

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 59 points 9 months ago

Dude you know a union is fking useless when the company offers to pay part of your dues

[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 59 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Joe Lieberman has died after falling at age 82. packwatch

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[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 58 points 9 months ago (2 children)

CW NSFW/L DEAD BODIES

2 day upload

Telegram

Over 60 martyrs ascended and over 160 Palestinians are wounded after the IOF once again opened fire on 30,000 Palestinians gathered to receive aid at the Kuwait Roundabout in the northern #Gaza Strip, which has become a death trap.

Machine guns, helicopters, and drones of the US-funded IOF massacred the starving citizens. This is the fifth day in a row that the IOF has opened fire on Gazans in the famine-stricken north waiting for aid.

Over 500 Palestinians have now ascended to martyrdom as a result of IOF fire while waiting for aid in the last two weeks, starting from the Flour Massacre.*

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[–] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 58 points 9 months ago

I once read that if you repeat a lie enough times it becomes the state of Israel.

[–] chicory@hexbear.net 57 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Critical support to... the White House Press Corp for apparently nonstop theft from Air Force One:

Everyone, it appears, is pilfering from Air Force One. And it’s gotten so bad that last month, NBC correspondent KELLY O’DONNELL, the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, included a terse reminder to colleagues that taking items off the plane was not allowed and reflected poorly on the press corps as a whole, several individuals who saw the off-the-record email confirmed.

https://archive.is/dboCM

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 57 points 9 months ago

In the series of "usa realizes that it holds all the cards actually", israel will send delegation to usa after cancelling the trip 2 days ago. Apparently they still want to invade rafah though idf-cool

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 56 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Denmark is selling 24 vintage F-16 warplanes, scheduled to be replaced with F-35's to Argentina. In all likelihood the sale is made on orders from Washington as the evil empire is afraid that China will get the deal, causing American power over Argentina to fade.

Some politicians are angry that the warplanes were not given to Ukraine, like it has already happened with 19 other planes. However Washington chose differently and the Danish government is happy to oblige their masters.

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[–] edge@hexbear.net 56 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Have you ever been alive just to flex on Joe Lieberman? No? Well you can now.

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 56 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

The wheels on the bus go round and round / Round and round, round and round

DOD in early talks to fund a peacekeeping force in Gaza - POLITICO

U.S. officials have been clear the plan would not include American boots on the ground.

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Spencer Ackerman

The finest minds at the Pentagon are like “hmm, but what if Gaza had a different occupier ”

https://bsky.app/profile/attackerman.bsky.social/post/3korpprtfzq2x

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[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 55 points 9 months ago (7 children)

CW: SA

New media blitz discussing rape and sexual assault of israeli hostages during captivity by Hamas. The account quite frankly seems believable enough at first blush. Hamas has apparently released a response criticizing the account's truthfulness, but of course the western press isn't covering that with any kind of detail (such that I can't even find it!) and instead uncritically repeating the claims of the victim and Israeli politicians bloviating about why they have to continue genocide "tO sAvE tHe HoStAgEs" as if their operations have anything to do with that at this point.

Even if the allegations are true, which is at least plausible, the timing and media strategy seems more in response to the recent UN ceasefire vote than actually seeking justice in any meaningful sense of the word.

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