China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced sanctions against US weapons manufacturing firms and their high-level officials over Washington’s decision to allow billions of dollars of arms sales to Taiwan.

The sanctions freeze all the movable and unmovable properties in China belonging to these firms and individuals. Under the measures, Chinese individuals and firms are prohibited from engaging or doing business with these companies or individuals.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/30/china-imposes-sanctions-on-dozens-of-us-weapons-manufactures-over-arms-sales-to-taiwan/

Over 670 farmers gathered in Morogoro, Tanzania, on December 4-5 to chart a course for the future of MVIWATA (National Network of Farmers Groups in Tanzania), one of Africa’s most unique farmers’ organizations. The occasion was MVIWATA’s 30th Annual General Meeting (AGM), which serves as the highest democratic platform for members to voice their aspirations for the organization’s future.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/29/mviwatas-30th-agm-forging-a-stronger-farmers-movement-in-tanzania/

As 2025 comes to a close, Vijay Prashad assesses the situation in Gaza where Israel has continually violated every ceasefire it has agreed upon, jeopardizing future efforts and the lives of the people in the Gaza Strip.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/30/this-is-not-a-ceasefire-the-israeli-genocide-continues/

Almost a month after the elections were held, the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Honduras proclaimed the candidate of the far-right National Party of Honduras (PNH), businessman and former mayor of Tegucigalpa Nasry Asfura, as president-elect.

Despite being declared the winner, the other candidates do not recognize Asfura, the candidate supported by Trump, as the legitimate winner of the elections.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/30/nasry-asfura-is-proclaimed-president-elect-of-honduras-amid-allegations-of-electoral-fraud/

Israel’s recognition of Somaliland (a separatist enclave in Somalia’s northwest) as a sovereign entity has provoked a global outcry, with 14 of the 15 UN Security Council (UNSC) members opposing it at the emergency meeting convened on December 29. The US was the only country defending Israel’s action at the meeting in New York, convened at the request of Somalia.

Others argued that the move undermines Somalia’s sovereignty and raised concerns about its destabilizing effects on the Red Sea region.

Defending Israel’s position before the Council, its Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Jonathan Miller, claimed before the UNSC that during the civil war, Somalia had committed a “genocide” against the Isaaq clan, which controls Somaliland.

It is “ridiculous and unbelievable” that the “occupying power in Palestine” that is “killing and maiming hundreds of thousands”, starving “innocent people”, and forcibly displacing “the whole community” is “lecturing us” about “genocide”, retorted Somali envoy Osman. “If we want to talk about genocide, it is Israel that is committing” it before “our own eyes every day”.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/02/global-outcry-against-israels-recognition-of-somaliland/

Explosions were reported at key military bases and other sites across the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and surrounding areas in the early hours of Saturday, January 3. The Venezuelan government said in an official statement that the attack was perpetrated by the United States and constitutes a “grave military aggression” against “Venezuelan territory and population”.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/03/us-bombs-venezuela/