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.

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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/

New York City Comptroller and 2025 mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested by ICE agents on June 17 at the city’s main immigration court, while in the process of escorting a migrant who those agents were seeking to arrest.

In an interview with Democracy Now! after being released from custody, Lander described the way that these “expedited removals” are taking place at courthouses across the country. With some migrants lacking adequate translation services, many don’t understand what’s happening when a judge strips their immigration status.

“You’re stripped of status, you walk out of the courtroom, you walk down the hallway, and then those masked ICE agents are waiting in the elevator lobby to grab you,” Lander described.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/18/courthouse-arrests-of-immigrants-continue-amid-trumps-pursuit-of-increased-deportations/