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    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 18, 2025 by Devin B. Martinez (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Apr 22, 2025)

    The alliance between Trump’s expanding deportation campaign and Salvadoran President Bukele’s carceral authoritarianism has major implications for human rights and the future of democracy.

  •  | Dharmadam becomes the first Assembly Constituency in Kerala to be declared free of extreme poverty Photo Pinarayi VijayanX | MR Online

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  •  | Vijay Prashad Executive Director of Tricontinental Institute for Social Research speaking on the opening panel Photo Priscila Ramos | MR Online

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    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 8, 2025 by Zoe Alexandra (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Apr 10, 2025)

    Dozens of economists, intellectuals, and movement leaders have converged in São Paulo for the IV International Dilemmas of Humanity conference.

  •  | Man holds sign that reads We Dont Want Refugees during the nationalist march in the Dominican Republic on March 30 Photo screenshot | MR Online

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  •  | Thousands rally in New York City on March 10 demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE detention Photo Wyatt Souers | MR Online

    Momentum builds behind calls for release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil from ICE detention

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on March 11, 2025 by Natalia Marques (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Mar 13, 2025)

    Federal judge orders that the recent Columbia graduate not be deported while the court considered a challenge brought by Khalil’s lawyers.

  •  | Trump 20 Photo Globetrotter Media | MR Online

    Trump 2.0: The view from China

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on March 4, 2025 by Wang Wen (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Mar 06, 2025)

    While Donald Trump has sent much of the world in a panic, his second term may strengthen China’s rise, just as his first did.

  •  | Berlin Wall Brandenburger Tor 1989 Photo Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    The roots of neo-fascism in East Germany

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on February 22, 2025 by Jacob Yasko (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Feb 24, 2025)

    The fall of the Berlin Wall enabled neo-fascist activity to spill over into East Germany, laying the groundwork for the strengthening of right-wing forces today.

  •  | Photo Viktor OrbánX | MR Online

    Far-right leaders gather in Madrid to “make Europe great again”

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on February 10, 2025 by Ana Vračar (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Feb 13, 2025)

    Far-right Patriots for Europe group meets in Madrid to lament loss of Europe’s supposed greatness.

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    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on January 20, 2025 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The Indigenous leader and longest-held political prisoner in the United States will be released to home confinement after his sentence was commuted.

  •  | Rescue operation underway in Shaft 11 Photo GIWUSA | MR Online

    78 miners found starved and dehydrated to death in South African police operation against unlicensed mining

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    The bodies of 78 dead miners have been retrieved from a shaft in Buffelsfontein mine’s Shaft 11 after being trapped underground since last August by the South African police who cut-off food and water supply in its attempt to crackdown on unlicensed mining.

  •  | The Interrelationship of FDI and GDP in European Transition Countries | MR Online

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  •  | People at Mexican Consulate in March 2018 Photo Mexican Consulate of Chicago | MR Online

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    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on January 6, 2025 by Miguel A. Romero (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jan 08, 2025)

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  •  | US Army test of Raytheons Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor LTAMDS Raytheon is one of the defense companies sanctioned by China Photo Raytheon | MR Online

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    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on December 28, 2024 by Abdul Rahman (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Dec 31, 2024)

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