Republican Party leadership, heavily backed by the Trump administration, is attempting to push through the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” escalating divisions within the Party itself as opposition to what has been dubbed the “Reverse Robin Hood Bill” grows.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/12/trumps-one-big-beautiful-bill-will-save-rich-trillions-and-kick-millions-off-medicaid/

Ghana endorsed Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara, abandoning its long-held support for Sahrawi sovereignty. Now Ghana is aligned with Morocco’s expanding economic and diplomatic maneuver across Africa.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/13/ghanas-support-for-moroccos-autonomy-plan-undermines-western-saharas-push-for-sovereignty/

Another wave of protests swept across Europe over the weekend, June 14-15, as hundreds of thousands demanded an end to the genocide in Palestine and European complicity in Israel’s war crimes.

The demonstrations also expressed support for ongoing efforts to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza, breaking attendance records in many locations.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/16/mass-protests-across-europe-demand-just-peace-for-palestine/

Marking eight years since the Grenfell Tower fire, communities and workers continue to demand justice and an end to the austerity policies that fueled the tragedy.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/16/calls-for-justice-persist-eight-years-after-grenfell-fire/

🇵🇸🇧🇷 Brazilian movements demand Lula cut ties with Israel

Thousands took to the streets of São Paulo in the largest mobilization for Palestine in Brazilian history. Reaffirming their solidarity with the Palestinian people, Brazilian workers, students, youth, landless rural workers, and political leaders called on the government of Lula da Silva to cut all ties with Israel and end its complicity with Israel's war crimes.

Peoples Dispatch spoke to members of MST, Levante Popular da Juventude and Movimiento Brasil Popular about why they were marching.

Thousands took to the streets across the US to protest unpopular Trump policies including ICE raids and social program cuts.
#NoKingsDay

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/16/mass-marches-against-trump-take-place-across-us-on-no-kings-day/

"The global situation has shifted rapidly in the last few days following Israel’s unprovoked attacks against Iran."

📲 Read the full article by Peiman Salehi, an Iranian political philosopher and international affairs analyst.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/16/israels-strategic-miscalculation-and-the-dawn-of-a-new-world-order/

Today, US Senator Tim Kaine introduced a War Powers Resolution, to prevent President Trump from using military force against Iran without Congressional authorization.


Republican US Rep. Thomas Massie declared: “This is not our war"

✍️ Medea Benjamin.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/16/israels-strikes-on-iran-spark-growing-dissent-in-congress/

Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) announced the suspension of its nationwide strike on Friday, June 13, which had successfully paralyzed medical services since June 2, 2025. The decision follows an engagement with the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health and other key stakeholders.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/16/ghana-nurses-suspend-nationwide-strike-after-parliamentary-intervention/

China has announced its intention to eliminate tariffs on imports from all 53 African countries. The move is poised to significantly strengthen China-Africa trade relations and open new opportunities for African exporters.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/16/china-to-remove-tariffs-on-african-goods-deepening-economic-ties-with-the-continent/

At least 80 Palestinian aid seekers were killed and hundreds more were wounded by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in two distribution centers run by the infamous US-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), on Tuesday, June 17.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/17/israel-continues-massacring-people-at-ghf-distribution-centers-in-gaza/

As Israel escalates attacks on Iran, increasing the death toll to 220 and striking Iran’s state broadcasting service and nuclear sites, the US appears to be laying the groundwork for the possibility of joining the war.

“Israel’s war on Palestinians and its attack on Iran is not what surprises the world. What does is the open support by a handful of settler colonial and ex-colonial powers, the G7 and their hypocrisy,” said Prabir Purkayastha, editor of NewsClick. “They term Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, its wars against Lebanon, Syria and now Iran, as ‘Israel’s right to self-defense.’ A right that Lebanon, Syria or Iran apparently does not have.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/17/the-us-drive-to-war-with-iran/

In a recent press conference, the spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guo Jiakun, issued harsh statements against the actions taken by Washington in Latin America. “The American continent is nobody’s backyard,” said the spokesman, referring to US efforts to limit – and, in some cases, dismantle – the regional alliances that Latin America has developed with China over the last several decades.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/17/the-american-continent-is-nobodys-backyard-says-chinese-spokesperson/

In his inaugural speech, South Korea’s recently elected President Lee Jae-myung declared that “no peace is too expensive; it is always better than war”.

Lee’s pragmatic foreign policy must disengage from the US-led NATO expansion into Asia that destabilizes the Indo-Pacific.

📲 Read the full article by Dae-Han Song on our website. ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/17/south-koreas-president-lee-shouldnt-attend-nato-amidst-crises-peace-is-pragmatic/

As President Bola Tinubu’s deepening neoliberal reforms to appease the IMF worsens hunger, his government’s agriculture ministry has outraged Nigerians by organizing prayers and fasting in the hopes that a “divine intervention” will help improve food security.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/17/hunger-by-policy-fasting-for-food-security-in-nigeria/

Thousands of people across India took to the streets June 17 to demand an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its military aggression against Iran. The day was observed as the day of national solidarity with Palestine by the country’s left parties.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/18/indias-left-parties-demand-india-end-collaboration-with-israel-in-national-day-of-action/

Mali’s cabinet has approved a proposal to extend Colonel Assimi Goïta’s leadership for a renewable five-year term, allowing him to further consolidate ongoing reforms in the country.

Colonel Goïta came to power in 2020, following mass popular protests against former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, and has since emerged as an important leader in Mali’s political evolution and in the growing assertiveness of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), a regional bloc formed by Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger in September 2023.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/18/mali-moves-to-extend-goitas-rule-as-aes-bloc-advances/