Yeah, watch as we(sterners) stay silent about the new bolivian dictatorship under Rodrigo Paz, as he governs through decrees and makes ineligible 80% of the candidates(, 26.000 out of 34.000, with almost no substitution), something unseen under the MAS, who didn’t even need a second turn to win the 2020 elections, and would have won in 2025 as well without a suspicious(, fearful of the US ?,) betrayal of Luis Arce. Their victory in these subnational elections was assured, especially following the recent mass protests against Rodrigo Paz.
This article doesn’t mention the mass invalidation and its causes, nor that they put Luis Arce in jail and are trying to do the same for Evo Morales.

That’s what happens once you allow the rent-seekers to take power(, Étienne Chouard has a better solution to be safeguarded from abuses of power), and what will happen to Venezuela as well(, at least Venezuela’s constitution has the art.72 along with its participatory democracy, even if it didn’t protect them from sanctions), with a complicit silence of the capitalist-owned press, who’d have immediately denounced it if Evo Morales ever did something similar, and there will obviously not be any sanction, bombing, or western-backed coup in order to restore democracy and liberty.
And it’s not only in Bolivia.

So, what’s their alternative then, armed struggle ? They should just give up on their lives and sacrifice it in order to attempt taking back control ?
Rodrigo “Paz” banned their medias, and now they can’t even participate in a biased election, let us applaud.

It’s still a defeat compared to the past, but i feared worse(, even if the MAS is indeed destroyed) https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elecciones_subnacionales_de_Bolivia_de_2026
I unfortunately expect more manipulations from him in regard to his first 6 months, in order to avoid a defeat in 2030. There should be the possibility of a citizen-initiated recall referendum in every country, and no-one should ever govern through decrees…
And i maintain that if he was honest then he should have been more lenient by only invalidating at most 10% of the worst candidacies, as a progressive warning for the future, the lack of information never posed a problem in the past(, e.g. instead of banning Andrónico Rodríguez and other deputies from participating because they were in La Paz they could have had the same exception as usual).

Well, Călin Georgescu was forbidden from participating in the 2025 elections despite winning the first round, and Nicușor Dan ended up being the romanian president.

Moldova successively banned the Șor Party in June 2023, the Chance Party in November 2023, the Victory Bloc in 2024, and the Heart of Moldova in September 2025, but as for Ecuador you’ll never hear about that !
« the pro-Russian Patriotic Electoral Bloc has 26.6%. The Russia-friendly Alternativa Bloc stood at 8.6% and the populist Our Party — which wants “balanced foreign policy” between East and West — has 6.3% », they also banned 18 Russian-language television channels and over 60 internet resources, and restricted access to opposition politicians’ channels on social media and internet platforms, while pro-western media operate in Moldova without restrictions to manipulate the votes.

Hungary is under sanctions.

Ukraine overthrew Yanukovych with the help of the west, and already started after 2004 to “promote the ukrainian language” by enforcing subtitles, imposing ukrainian in the administration(, reverted in 2012 with Yanukovych), having more and more conflicts with Russia, promoting Stepan Bandera and others, they also launched a witch hunt against their anti-e.u. opponents(, e.g. Borys Kolesnykov). In Moldova, Ilan Shor and others were also attacked before 2014 under what may have been false pretenses.

In Estonia, they went even further by banning 6.1% of their population from voting.
In Latvia, the Harmony party was the main force of opposition but has now virtually disappeared after 2022, even if their leader Nils Ušakovs was already accused of corruption in 2019. And many diverse things against pro-russians

In Bulgaria, they tried to ban the Vazrazhdane party but ended up failing, so it’s now the third political party of the country.
It is good to know that with the Magnitsky Act, the u.s. can just ban pro-russian political candidates from participating. They sanctioned Delyan Peevski and Vasil Bozhkov in 2021, as well as Vladislav Goranov in 2023.
The Magnitsky act was used in other countries of the eastern bloc as well : Aleksandar Vulin in Serbia in 2023, Milorad Dodik in Bosnia from 2022 to 2024, Antal Rogán in Hungary in 2025, Vakhtang Gomelaur in Georgia in 2024, …

Slovenia

We’ll only hear about, e.g., Georgia or Hungary, or other opponents, exaggerating their misdeeds while ignoring ours

Pro-Russia Narek Karapetyan in Armenia as well

In New Caledonia, France just closed 48 polling stations out of 56, greatly complicating the votes for the poorest part of the population(, usually pro-independence). I’m from France and that’s one more thing not known.

State surveillance begins when protecting privacy is treated as a suspect act.
Preventing crimes apparently necessitates to forbid any resistance to surveillance.
So much for France/Europe being a defender of (digital )rights.

In France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner

If palestinians had to kill every IDF supporter there wouldn’t be many left standing in Israel.

Edit : In my ignorant opinion :
It’s obvious but i still want to add it : Hamas was the government, they paid the salary of doctors, civil servants, and a huge part of the population.
And Gaza was one of the poorest population in the world because of the heartless Israel, typically the far-right will complain about the bad (re)actions of people while refusing to see their own responsability in the causes that led them to (re)act(, e.g., they’ll refuse to see that poverty leads to crime, neocolonialism to immigration, or in this case that refusing a two-states solution leads to terrorism).
Not that it’s a shortsightedness of Netanyahu, he mostly doesn’t care, its expansion of the annexation of the Golan Heights was a success on which he ended his political career(, and of course there’s the 77th anniversary, yay…), and now if he can take control in a form or another of Gaza, for “security”, Israel will only have left to continue the slow colonization of the West Bank, slow enough not to cause too much of a stir, nothing difficult.
Even if the palestinians accepted demilitarization and everything Israel could demand, they probably still wouldn’t obtain the two-states solution they’re entitled to by international decisions, it’d be useless to speak about improving Israel’s security if the real cause is their desire to expand.

The only future left to palestinians would be to come back to launching “terrorist” (~suicide-)bombings from exile, like during the 70s and 80s, and i’m sorry that their suffering has to continue. I didn’t realize how harsh&unjust their daily lives were, and the systematic injustices in the west bank(, only that the uninterrupted settlement’s expansion left them no other choice than fighting back).

It’s a win for Israel, we’ll soon forget about everything, after all there are no foreign journalists allowed in, and almost no local journalists left to cover Gaza city’s razing, and we didn’t really see much. Far from sight, and far from the heart.
What would force Israel to accept a two-states solution ? The Bogotá conference was interesting with its economic sanctions, there’s also diplomatic isolation if the US intervenes, local pressures and covert actions from unified neighbours, and a gamble that the future will let them take their revenge(, not a future with the US as the “world police” then, unless it’s suddenly starting to defend the two-states solution, in deeds and not in words).
The west also holds a possibility to offer a territory for muslims and a territory for the jews in exchange for a third of the Holy Lands.

For what it’s worth, in 2024 he won the Human Rights Defender award by Amnesty, and no less than the Pulitzer Prize (Breaking News Photography category).

They’re just dying, imagine if they were israelis : https://x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1954670507128914219

This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings.

Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my people, ever since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that Allah would extend my life so I could return with my family and loved ones to our original town of occupied Asqalan (Al-Majdal). But Allah’s will came first, and His decree is final. I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification—so that Allah may bear witness against those who stayed silent, those who accepted our killing, those who choked our breath, and whose hearts were unmoved by the scattered remains of our children and women, doing nothing to stop the massacre that our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart and scattered across the walls.

I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you to take care of my family. I entrust you with my beloved daughter Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed.

I entrust you with my dear son Salah, whom I had wished to support and accompany through life until he grew strong enough to carry my burden and continue the mission.

I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose blessed prayers brought me to where I am, whose supplications were my fortress and whose light guided my path. I pray that Allah grants her strength and rewards her on my behalf with the best of rewards.

I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah (Bayan), from whom the war separated me for many long days and months. Yet she remained faithful to our bond, steadfast as the trunk of an olive tree that does not bend—patient, trusting in Allah, and carrying the responsibility in my absence with all her strength and faith.
I urge you to stand by them, to be their support after Allah Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast upon my principles. I testify before Allah that I am content with His decree, certain of meeting Him, and assured that what is with Allah is better and everlasting.

O Allah, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family. Forgive me if I have fallen short, and pray for me with mercy, for I kept my promise and never changed or betrayed it.

Do not forget Gaza… And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.

Anas Jamal Al-Sharif 06.04.2025

This is what our beloved Anas requested to be published upon his martyrdom.

« [Israel] has, since October 7, 2023, killed more journalists than the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined. »

« 6.000 trucks loaded with aid stuck outside Gaza [are still] waiting for the green light to enter »

After the massacres in south-east Asia in the 50-60s, the coups&dictatorships of the 70-80s in South America(, the remnants of european communism in the 90s), Netanyahu was a first witness to the massacres of the 2000-2010s in the Middle-East, he overturned 1991, and could say that there’s no credible other path left now.

However, the UK could have pretended the same impossibility of a life with palestinians in order to deny Ireland’s independence, or white south africans in order to refuse an end to the apartheid, either with two states, or with a multi-ethnic state like Belgium or Switzerland. Seems doable.
But Israel “just” wants the whole sacred lands for themselves, even if it matters for the other monotheist religions as well. They could share instead.