Daniel Ellsberg, who inspired the Vietnam generation of the 60s and 70s to bring the Pentagon Papers out into the world, has died of pancreatic cancer aged 92.

After he released the 7,000 pages of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, Henry Kissinger paid him the highest accolade, calling him “the most dangerous man in America who must be stopped at all costs.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/22/daniel-ellsberg-matters-more-than-ever-to-global-peace-movements/

🇵🇸 Hundreds of Israeli settlers invaded several Palestinian villages and towns in the occupied West Bank for the second day in a row.

According to latest reports, the attacks caused widespread damage to Palestinian homes, property, agricultural lands and crops. Over 140 Palestinian cars and other vehicles were damaged, many of them completely burnt. At least 30 Palestinian-owned homes were also set on fire.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/22/israeli-settlers-attack-west-bank-villages-and-towns-for-second-day-one-palestinian-killed-and-over-35-injured/

🇨🇺 Several activists with the National Network on Cuba, CODEPINK, and IFCO/Pastors for Peace were arrested after trying to have a meeting with New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez in his office in Washington, DC.

Menendez is a hardliner against socialist countries such as Cuba and Venezuela, and spearheads some of the most brutal sanctions efforts against these countries. He has come down hard on lawmakers from his own party for attempting to lift some sanctions.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/22/us-cuba-solidarity-activists-arrested-after-trying-to-meet-with-senator-bob-menendez-sanctioner-in-chief/

The three-day state visit of India’s prime minister Narendra Modi to the US was marked by Joe Biden administration’s attempts to pull India closer within its policies focused on the so-called containment of China.

During the visit, apart from the usual rhetoric of their mutual commitments to democracy and human rights, both the countries signed a number of agreements in areas ranging from semiconductors to space cooperation and expressed their mutual “strategic interests” in the Indo-Pacific region.

Modi’s visit also saw protests across the US with some of the lawmakers boycotting his Congress address over his record on religious minorities and human rights violations under his government. Human rights groups and activists also took out protests across the US against Modi’s state visit.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/23/china-is-the-subtext-as-modi-and-biden-discuss-mutual-strategic-interests-trade-and-technology/

Wisam Rafeedie's important article highlights the story of Walid Daqqah, a Palestinian prisoner who has shown remarkable strength and resistance. The article also covers the increasing efforts to secure his release.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/06/26/the-prisoner-walid-daqqah-a-stubborn-conscience-that-cannot-be-seared/