By Krishen Mehta In October 2022, about eight months after the war in Ukraine started, the…
Category: INTERNATIONAL (PEOPLES DISPATCH)
The Case for Diplomacy in Ukraine
By Katrina vanden Heuvel and James W. Carden As 2023 unfolds, we fear that American policy…
Asking the Oppressed to Be Nonviolent Is an Impossible Standard That Ignores History
By Justin Podur In January 2023, after five police officers killed Tyre Nichols, President Joe Biden…
West Lacks Operational Tanks For Kiev – UK Defense Secretary
Western armies have been “hollowed out” over the last three decades, Ben Wallace said After pledging…
Israeli firm dubbed ‘Team Jorge’ ‘meddled in more than 30 elections around the world…
An Israeli firm sought to influence more than 30 elections around the world for clients by hacking, sabotage…
Chomsky and Prashad: Cuba Is Not a State Sponsor of Terrorism
By Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad Cuba, a country of 11 million people, has been under…
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY
While NED is a private organization, they get funding directly from the US gov as well…
Can Europe Survive This Moment?
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos A new-old ghost is hovering over Europe—war. The most violent continent…
We’ve Never Been Closer to Nuclear Catastrophe— Who Gains by Ignoring It?
Antiwar and environmental activist Dr. Helen Caldicott warns that policymakers who understate the danger of nuclear…
How Complicit Governments Support the Drug Trade
Several governments or government entities play a double game of enforcing some drug laws while ignoring…
Recreating the Holocaust in their own image, By Owei Lakemfa
That a people were victims of genocide does not mean they would condemn the next genocide…
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT DEMOCRACY GETS FUNDING DIRECTLY FROM THE US GOVERNMENT
While NED is a private organization, they get funding directly from the US gov as well…
National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Deletes Records of Funding Projects in Ukraine
National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Deletes Records of Funding Projects in Ukraine By Jeremy Kuzmarov –March…
Pentagon says it is monitoring Chinese spy balloon spotted flying over US
Officials say balloon has been watched for a few days but decided not to shoot it…
Republicans remove Ilhan Omar from House foreign affairs committee – as it happened
Closing summary It is now 4pm in DC. Here are the key events that happened across…
New Jersey Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour shot dead outside home in ‘despicable criminal act’
By Lawrence Richard | Fox News Sayreville Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour found dead inside vehicle outside apartment with multiple…
The US will never be a socialist country
This mirrors Trumps State of the Union message which was the defacto launch of his 2020…
The majority of US. Democrats and all Republicans in Congress issued a resolution yesterday
The majority of US. Democrats and all Republicans in Congress issued a resolution yesterday: “… many…
Half of black British police suffer racial incidents from colleagues, survey finds
Officers polled about experiences of bullying, discrimination and micro-aggressions in past year Vikram Dodd Police and crime…
Case against Ola Bini has consequences for all of Latin America, says report
Bini, digital rights activist and friend of Julian Assange may be sentenced to up to 5…
China tells US to fix its own debt problems after Yellen Africa remarks
BY EDITORIAL STAFF Janet Yellen with Zambian President Hichilema AFTER US Treasury Secretary (finance minister) Janet Yellen called…
World’s biggest Afrobeats festival, Afro Nation Portugal 2023, announces biggest names in Afrobeats, Amapiano and more
Afro Nation returns to Portimao Beach 28-30th June, with tickets on sale this Thursday January 26…
How Brazilian politics reacted to Bolsonarist terrorism in Brasilia
From the upper echelons of power to the streets, the answer was unanimous: no backsliding on…
How Cabral, Fanon and Freire shaped the struggle against apartheid South Africa — and still inspire
In January 1973 there was a significant political awakening in Durban. At the same time, a…
The Role of the Brazilian Military in the Coup Attempt
By Pedro Marin The far-right mob that invaded the federal building, Congress, and the Supreme Court…
An Ancient Recipe for Social Success
By Linda M. Nicholas and Gary M. Feinman New evidence and understandings about the structure of…
BRITAIN’S 42 COUPS SINCE 1945
The UK has planned or executed over 40 attempts to remove foreign governments in 27 countries…
No imperialist peoples, only imperialist states
Adam Mayer praises a new collection, Liberated Texts, which includes rediscovered books on Africa’s socialist intellectual…
ISRAELI IMMIGRATION POLICE ARREST GHANAIAN BOY MID-SCHOOL DAY
Israeli immigration police are not allowed to arrest children from school An eight-year-old boy from Ghana…
Feel Sorry For Prince Harry, But He Has Revealed Too Much As A “SPARE By Kumi Owusu-Ansah
Well I normally don’t read books about the British royal family nor take anything put out…
In Davos, Haddad and Marina foresee a more sustainable and above-average GDP for Brazil
The ministers represented the new government at the event with the world’s economic leaders in Switzerland…
Israeli immigration police arrest Ghanaian boy mid-school day
Israeli immigration police are not allowed to arrest children from school By WALLA! Published: JANUARY 15, 2023 An…