Tensions flare as the US holds direct talks with Hamas over a Gaza ceasefire and captives-for-prisoners deal—bypassing Israel. US envoy Adam Boehler’s denoscription of Hamas as “nice guys” sparked outrage in Israel, with critics accusing him of legitimizing the group.
The talks highlight growing friction between the US and Israel, as Netanyahu feels sidelined in negotiations. Meanwhile, Boehler retracted his statements, calling Hamas a “terrorist organization,” but the damage was done.
#Israel #Hamas #USIsraelRelations #GazaCeasefire #MiddleEast
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/11/israel-slams-us-hostage-envoy-after-he-described-hamas-as-a-bunch-of-nice-guys/
The talks highlight growing friction between the US and Israel, as Netanyahu feels sidelined in negotiations. Meanwhile, Boehler retracted his statements, calling Hamas a “terrorist organization,” but the damage was done.
#Israel #Hamas #USIsraelRelations #GazaCeasefire #MiddleEast
📲 Read the full article on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/11/israel-slams-us-hostage-envoy-after-he-described-hamas-as-a-bunch-of-nice-guys/
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Israel slams US hostage envoy after he described Hamas as a “bunch of nice guys”
The talks between the US and Hamas were seen by Israelis as an implicit acknowledgement of Hamas’s legitimacy and pressure on Netanyahu to proceed with the ceasefire deal.
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Europe’s Arms Race Accelerates: Von der Leyen’s €850 Billion Militarization Plan Sparks Debate—But Who Really Benefits? As Left Voices Warn of Profits Over Peace, the EU Doubles Down on Defense Spending. Is Diplomacy Taking a Backseat to Rearmament?
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/11/the-eu-fast-tracks-militarization-as-ursula-von-der-leyen-pushes-rearmament-agenda/
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/11/the-eu-fast-tracks-militarization-as-ursula-von-der-leyen-pushes-rearmament-agenda/
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The EU fast-tracks militarization as Ursula von der Leyen pushes rearmament agenda
As Ursula von der Leyen pitched her rearmament agenda to the European Parliament, only left parliamentarians pushed back against the pressure to expand military spending
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🇰🇷 What's next in South Korea?
Dae-Han Song of the International Strategy Center discussed the fall out of Yoon's attempted coup last December and what will happen if the courts approve his impeachment.
Check out the full conversation between Dae-Han Song and Mikaela Nhondo Erskog on the YouTube of No Cold War, as part of their series 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/12/south-korea-after-the-failed-coup-dae-han-song-mikaela-nhondo-erskog/
Dae-Han Song of the International Strategy Center discussed the fall out of Yoon's attempted coup last December and what will happen if the courts approve his impeachment.
Check out the full conversation between Dae-Han Song and Mikaela Nhondo Erskog on the YouTube of No Cold War, as part of their series 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/12/south-korea-after-the-failed-coup-dae-han-song-mikaela-nhondo-erskog/
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South Korea – After the failed coup: Dae-Han Song & Mikaela Nhondo Erskog
Dae-Han Song discuses with Mikaela Nhondo Erskog last December’s attempted coup in South Korea - why it took place, how it was defeated and the effect that will have on the country’s politics.
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Ansar Allah-led Yemeni Armed Forces announced the resumption of the ban on Israeli ships passing through the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden, due to Israel’s continuous blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/12/yemens-ansar-allah-resumes-ban-on-israeli-ships-over-gaza-aid-ban/
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/12/yemens-ansar-allah-resumes-ban-on-israeli-ships-over-gaza-aid-ban/
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Yemen’s Ansar Allah resumes ban on Israeli ships over Gaza aid ban
With the resumption of the attacks, Ansar Allah demonstrated that they were not deterred by US threats and the decision to designate them as “Foreign Terrorist Organization”.
🚨 1,300 Education Workers Axed: Trump Administration Slashes Department of Education by a Third, Sparking Outrage. As civil rights offices shutter and public education faces gutting, workers vow to fight back. Is this the end of federal oversight in education? 📚✊ #PublicEducation #TrumpLegacy
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/12/trump-administration-fires-1300-department-of-education-workers/
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/12/trump-administration-fires-1300-department-of-education-workers/
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Trump administration fires 1,300 Department of Education workers
The mass layoffs by the Trump administration effectively gut the Department, cutting departmental staff by nearly one third
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Amidst the darkness of oppression, the light of resilience shines. As Israel retaliates with brutal force, cutting off essentials and violating ceasefires, Palestinians endure with unwavering strength. Vijay Prashad’s powerful piece sheds light on the systematic cruelty faced by Gaza, yet also the unyielding spirit of its people. From the great march northward to the struggle for survival during Ramadan, this is a story of defiance and hope. Read more in the link above. ✊🏼 #Gaza #Resilience #VijayPrashad #FreePalestine
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/12/israel-inflicts-revenge-on-palestinians-for-its-own-intelligence-failure/
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/12/israel-inflicts-revenge-on-palestinians-for-its-own-intelligence-failure/
Peoples Dispatch
Israel inflicts revenge on Palestinians for its own intelligence failure
As Ramadan began, Israel responded with brutal retaliation – cutting off food, water, and electricity, violating the ceasefire, and resuming airstrikes. This is the story of resilience amid systematic oppression.
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From Korea to the world, the call for peace grows louder. The International People’s Assembly (IPA), International League of Peoples Struggle (ILPS), and Nodutdol have joined forces to demand the cancellation of Freedom Shield 25, a US-South Korea military exercise which they claim threatens regional stability and brings the world closer to war.
“Freedom Shield 25 has dire implications for regional and global peace and stability. As part of Washington’s New Cold War against China, the NATO bloc and its Asian and Oceanian partners are escalating in East Asia, using the Korean peninsula as a staging ground. Freedom Shield poses a most immediate threat to the stability of the region, but its effects also extend far beyond,” the statement reads.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/12/movements-across-the-world-call-for-an-end-to-all-us-military-exercises-on-the-korean-peninsula/
“Freedom Shield 25 has dire implications for regional and global peace and stability. As part of Washington’s New Cold War against China, the NATO bloc and its Asian and Oceanian partners are escalating in East Asia, using the Korean peninsula as a staging ground. Freedom Shield poses a most immediate threat to the stability of the region, but its effects also extend far beyond,” the statement reads.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/12/movements-across-the-world-call-for-an-end-to-all-us-military-exercises-on-the-korean-peninsula/
Peoples Dispatch
Movements across the world call for an end to all US military exercises on the Korean peninsula
The call to cancel the military exercises takes on increased urgency given the military accident last week when South Korean jets bombed their own citizens in the region bordering North Korea during the preparation of yet another joint military exercise with…
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🇦🇷 This is the Argentina of Javier Milei: brutal police crackdown on senior citizens
Security forces unleashed a brutal crackdown on retirees in Argentina yesterday during their weekly protest against budget cuts and insufficient pension payments. Fan bases of football clubs, social organizations, and trade unions, marched alongside pensioners as they faced violent crackdowns by police and security forces who deployed tanks, water cannons, pepper spray, tear gas, and batons. Several people have been critically injured including photojournalist Pablo Grillo.
#Jubilados #JubiladosAlCongreso #Milei
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHJojkiMF8U/?hl=en
Security forces unleashed a brutal crackdown on retirees in Argentina yesterday during their weekly protest against budget cuts and insufficient pension payments. Fan bases of football clubs, social organizations, and trade unions, marched alongside pensioners as they faced violent crackdowns by police and security forces who deployed tanks, water cannons, pepper spray, tear gas, and batons. Several people have been critically injured including photojournalist Pablo Grillo.
#Jubilados #JubiladosAlCongreso #Milei
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHJojkiMF8U/?hl=en
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After 16 years at Nestlé, Asif Jutt was fired for trying to form a union. A 9-year legal battle left him hopeless, leading to his tragic self-immolation in court. Now, workers, unions, and left parties in Pakistan are rallying for justice in his name. This is a fight for dignity, rights, and against corporate exploitation. 💔✊🏼 #JusticeForJutt #WorkersRights #Solidarity
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/13/nestle-worker-self-immolates-in-court-after-9-year-battle-igniting-a-workers-movement-for-justice/
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/13/nestle-worker-self-immolates-in-court-after-9-year-battle-igniting-a-workers-movement-for-justice/
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Nestlé worker self-immolates in court after 9-year battle, igniting a worker’s movement for justice
Jutt, a long term Nestlé employee, was fired by the management for trying to form a union. He self-immolated after a decade-long legal battle.
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🇧🇷 #PeoplesHistory | Today we honor Marielle Franco, the Afro-Brazilian, LGBTQ+, and human rights activist who was assassinated in Rio de Janeiro in a political crime that shook the entire country.
Marielle Franco proudly defined herself as a “Woman, a Black person, a mother, and raised in the Maré favela.” As a Rio de Janeiro councilwoman, she worked tirelessly to fight against the systemic violence waged by the Military Police and the militias against the poor and oppressed Favela neighborhoods under the guise of the so-called war on drugs.
On the night of March 14, 2018, Marielle Franco and her driver, Anderson Gomes, were assassinated in Rio de Janeiro. Their murders sent shockwaves across the country and were immediately recognized as politically motivated. Marielle’s rise as a Black, lesbian woman in Brazil’s conservative-dominated political landscape made her a symbol of hope and resistance.
Marielle Franco proudly defined herself as a “Woman, a Black person, a mother, and raised in the Maré favela.” As a Rio de Janeiro councilwoman, she worked tirelessly to fight against the systemic violence waged by the Military Police and the militias against the poor and oppressed Favela neighborhoods under the guise of the so-called war on drugs.
On the night of March 14, 2018, Marielle Franco and her driver, Anderson Gomes, were assassinated in Rio de Janeiro. Their murders sent shockwaves across the country and were immediately recognized as politically motivated. Marielle’s rise as a Black, lesbian woman in Brazil’s conservative-dominated political landscape made her a symbol of hope and resistance.
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MST WOMEN OCCUPY HIGHWAY FOR THE RIGHT TO GROW FOOD 🥕👊🏽
🇧🇷Yesterday, March 13, as part of a national day of action, more than 250 women from rural communities in the states of Maranhão, Pará and Tocantins occupied a stretch of the BR-010 highway, the access road to one of agribusiness giant Suzano's largest pulp and paper mills in the country and a strategic region for agribusiness to denounce the advance of eucalyptus crop, violence against rural workers, aerial spraying of pesticides and soil and water contamination.
According to the MST, the company has been threatening rural workers and prohibiting the planting of food on agrarian reform territories, with practices of intimidation, threats of legal prosecution, the use of physical violence, and the dumping of poison on plantations.
"They come into our shacks with the support of private security guards, take our harvest, forbid us to plant and threaten to dump poison with drones. We could plant all this land here, but now it's all eucalyptus,” says one of the farmers from the south of Maranhão.
The leadership of the MST, at the National Day of Women's Struggles across the country, points to the history of legal complaints against Suzano and calls the attention of regional and federal bodies.
"Society has noticed the rise in food prices, but we need to question the reasons for this increase. Among them are the lack of areas to grow food and also the poisoning of our territories, our soil and our water. Suzano is one of these companies that has had an impact on family farming, with the advance of eucalyptus on what used to be productive land and the spraying of pesticides,” explains Divina Lopes, from the MST leadership in Maranhão.
Video from MST-Amazônica
https://youtube.com/shorts/YN1IQOHOpHA?feature=share
🇧🇷Yesterday, March 13, as part of a national day of action, more than 250 women from rural communities in the states of Maranhão, Pará and Tocantins occupied a stretch of the BR-010 highway, the access road to one of agribusiness giant Suzano's largest pulp and paper mills in the country and a strategic region for agribusiness to denounce the advance of eucalyptus crop, violence against rural workers, aerial spraying of pesticides and soil and water contamination.
According to the MST, the company has been threatening rural workers and prohibiting the planting of food on agrarian reform territories, with practices of intimidation, threats of legal prosecution, the use of physical violence, and the dumping of poison on plantations.
"They come into our shacks with the support of private security guards, take our harvest, forbid us to plant and threaten to dump poison with drones. We could plant all this land here, but now it's all eucalyptus,” says one of the farmers from the south of Maranhão.
The leadership of the MST, at the National Day of Women's Struggles across the country, points to the history of legal complaints against Suzano and calls the attention of regional and federal bodies.
"Society has noticed the rise in food prices, but we need to question the reasons for this increase. Among them are the lack of areas to grow food and also the poisoning of our territories, our soil and our water. Suzano is one of these companies that has had an impact on family farming, with the advance of eucalyptus on what used to be productive land and the spraying of pesticides,” explains Divina Lopes, from the MST leadership in Maranhão.
Video from MST-Amazônica
https://youtube.com/shorts/YN1IQOHOpHA?feature=share
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MST WOMEN OCCUPY HIGHWAY FOR THE RIGHT TO GROW FOOD
MST WOMEN OCCUPY HIGHWAY FOR THE RIGHT TO GROW FOOD 🥕👊🏽🇧🇷Yesterday, March 13, as part of a national day of action, more than 250 women from rural commun...
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#PeoplesHistory | Today marks the death anniversary of Karl Marx, the revolutionary German philosopher whose analysis of capitalism laid the foundations for the modern socialist movement. 🚩
Marx’s scientific theory of historical dialectical materialism provided a powerful framework to understand the evolution of human societies. His numerous essays, books, and newspaper articles exposed the fundamental nature of capitalism as a system that inevitably leads to the exploitation of the working class. 📚⚒️
By lifting the veil on the material conditions and social relations underpinning capitalist society, as well as the deep contradictions it generates, Marx demonstrated the historical necessity of overthrowing bourgeois rule to achieve true emancipation. His clarion call—“Workers of the world, unite!”—still resonates today as a rallying cry for justice and equality.
Marx’s scientific theory of historical dialectical materialism provided a powerful framework to understand the evolution of human societies. His numerous essays, books, and newspaper articles exposed the fundamental nature of capitalism as a system that inevitably leads to the exploitation of the working class. 📚⚒️
By lifting the veil on the material conditions and social relations underpinning capitalist society, as well as the deep contradictions it generates, Marx demonstrated the historical necessity of overthrowing bourgeois rule to achieve true emancipation. His clarion call—“Workers of the world, unite!”—still resonates today as a rallying cry for justice and equality.
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🚨 Columbia sanctions students and violates labor rights under pressure from Trump
The administration of Columbia University has given in to Trump’s demands and sanctioned 22 students for pro-Palestine protests. It also has fired the graduate student union president and canceled contract negotiations with the union.
Peoples Dispatch reported from yesterday’s rally of unionized graduate students on Columbia’s campus, where UAW Local 2710 workers denounced this violation of their labor rights.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHOSdaXsjbE/
The administration of Columbia University has given in to Trump’s demands and sanctioned 22 students for pro-Palestine protests. It also has fired the graduate student union president and canceled contract negotiations with the union.
Peoples Dispatch reported from yesterday’s rally of unionized graduate students on Columbia’s campus, where UAW Local 2710 workers denounced this violation of their labor rights.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHOSdaXsjbE/
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Big Pharma keeps pushing for weaker pollution standards despite proven risks to human and environmental health.
📲 Read the full article by Jan Wintgens on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/15/is-big-pharmas-pollution-deregulation-campaign-fueling-the-next-pandemic/
📲 Read the full article by Jan Wintgens on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/15/is-big-pharmas-pollution-deregulation-campaign-fueling-the-next-pandemic/
Peoples Dispatch
Is Big Pharma’s pollution deregulation campaign fueling the next pandemic?
Big Pharma keeps pushing for weaker pollution standards despite proven risks to human and environmental health
#PeoplesHistory | Today we honor the memory of US activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by Israeli Occupation Forces in 2003.
In 2003, during the Second Intifada, Corrie was demonstrating against Israeli Occupation Forces' destruction of homes in Rafah. While protesting the demolition of local homes, she was struck and killed by an Israeli soldier operating a Caterpillar D9R armored bulldozer. The soldier responsible was never brought to justice despite the efforts of Corrie's family and human rights organizations.
In 2003, during the Second Intifada, Corrie was demonstrating against Israeli Occupation Forces' destruction of homes in Rafah. While protesting the demolition of local homes, she was struck and killed by an Israeli soldier operating a Caterpillar D9R armored bulldozer. The soldier responsible was never brought to justice despite the efforts of Corrie's family and human rights organizations.
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