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  •  | Mourning ceremony on the eve of Ashura was held in the presence of Imam Khamenei July 5 2025 Photo KhameneiirX | MR Online

    After the war: Strategic distrust and the rupture in Western legitimacy

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on July 29, 2025 by Peiman Salehi (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jul 31, 2025)

    For the first time in decades, a regional power was militarily assaulted during active negotiations; not for escalating tensions, but rather, in spite of de-escalating them.

  •  | Brazilian President Lula da Silva wearing hat Brazil is for the Brazilians Photo Lula  X | MR Online

    Lula to Trump: If you charge us 50%, we’ll charge you 50%. Brazil must be respected!

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on July 15, 2025 by Pablo Meriguet (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jul 17, 2025)

    The diplomatic row devolved into a potential trade crisis when Trump threatened Brazil with higher tariffs on Brazilian products if it did not cease the alleged persecution of the ultra-right former president Jair Bolsonaro.

  •  | Allies take place outside Glencore offices ahead of Annual General Meeting in Switzerland Photo screenshot | MR Online

    Colonial mining fuels Israeli genocide: global protests target Glencore

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 29, 2025 by Pavan Kulkarni (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jun 03, 2025)

    Glencore, one of the world’s largest mining conglomerates at the confluence of worker exploitation, environmental destruction, and genocide, brought Palestine solidarity activists, trade unionists and mining affected communities together in a unified protest.

  •  | GHF food distribution site in Rafah Photo Quds News Network | MR Online

    U.S. and Israel hijack aid, massacre starving Palestinians

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 28, 2025 by Abdul Rahman (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted May 30, 2025)

    The Israeli and U.S. aid distribution maneuver sparked chaos among desperate, starving Palestinians and Israeli forces responded by killing at least five.

  •  | Panamanian worker on the streets as part of the national strike Photo SUNTRACS | MR Online

    “With our dignity high, no repression can stop us,” say Panamanian workers

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 19, 2025 by Pablo Meriguet (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted May 23, 2025)

    The Panamanian workers’ strike enters another week and is gaining more support despite police and judicial pressure from the Mulino government, say the demonstrators.

  •  | Former Uruguayan President José Pepe Mujica Photo Presidencia de Colombia | MR Online

    Life and death of José Mujica, the guerrilla fighter who became president

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 15, 2025 by Pablo Meriguet (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted May 17, 2025)

    A deeper look at the life of one of the most emblematic Latin American presidents of recent years, who went from armed struggle to a prison that lasted more than a decade, to the country’s presidency.

  •  | A large road sign in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam commemorating the 30 April 1975 Photo Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Vietnam celebrates 50 years of the end of its colonial period

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 12, 2025 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Reflections on Vietnam’s revolutionary reunification, post-war recovery, and socialist transformation–highlighting the enduring legacy of resistance and the challenges of building a sovereign economy.

  •  | Kehlani in the music video for their song Next 2 U | MR Online

    Artists reject censorship of Pro-Palestine musician Kehlani after NYC concert cancellation

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 10, 2025 by Natalia Marques (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted May 12, 2025)

    Boots Riley, Kneecap, Residente and dozens of other artists have signed an open letter protesting the censorship of Kehlani after the NYC mayor’s office pushed for the cancellation of her pride concert.

  •  | CECOT prison in El Salvador Photo Nayib BukeleX | MR Online

    CECOT: Bukele’s mega prison where “the only way out is in a coffin”

    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

    Communist-led Kerala soon to become India’s first state free of extreme poverty

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 16, 2025 by Abdul Rahman (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Apr 18, 2025)

    A targeted program has been undertaken to develop sustainable livelihoods for thousands of families suffering under extreme poverty.

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

    Dilemmas of Humanity Conference discusses new framework for development in the Global South

    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

    Anti-Haitian protest in the Dominican Republic turns deadly, nationalists call for intensifying mass deportations

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 2, 2025 by Devin B. Martinez (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Apr 04, 2025)

    The far-right Antigua Orden group led a xenophobic protest calling for the expulsion of Haitian migrants, echoing Trump-style anti-immigrant rhetoric.

  •  | 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.

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    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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    Leonard Peltier: “It’s finally over–I’m going home”

    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

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on January 22, 2025 by Pavan Kulkarni (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted Jan 24, 2025)

    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.

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    “GDP-NATIONALISM”

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on January 12, 2025 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    There are at least three basic differences between European nationalism as it developed in the seventeenth century and the anti-colonial third world nationalism of the twentieth century.

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

    Mexico prepares its consulates in the U.S. to face Trump’s mass deportations

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

    Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum reaffirms support for migrants amid Trump’s deportation plans, and proposes a regional summit to address the causes of immigration.

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