Democratic Senator Bob Menendez is facing serious corruption charges of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes—in cash, gold bars, furniture and luxury cars—to pass deals benefiting the Egyptian regime and businessmen of his home state of New Jersey.

This time, the smoking guns in his 39-page indictment are too big for Menendez’s colleagues, even close allies, to ignore, let alone Menendez’s constituents in the state of New Jersey.

With his future uncertain, Calla Walsh of CODEPINK looks at his legacy of anti-Cuba policies and raises the question of how a possible resignation could impact US-Cuba relations.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/28/sanctioner-in-chief-bob-menendez-indicted-on-corruption-charges/

Public health experts with a commitment to left and people-centered approaches find themselves increasingly facing maltreatment and persecution.

While violence against health workers in occupied territories and under authoritarian regimes has long been a difficult reality, a newer threat has emerged in the form of corporate influence over universities
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/09/29/critical-public-health-experts-face-rising-maltreatment-and-corporate-intrusion/

🇲🇽 Parents of the 43 students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College, who disappeared in 2014, lifted the sit-in protests that they had held for eight days in front of the Military Camp No. 1 in the capital Mexico City.

The decision came after the presentation of a new report by the Commission for Truth and Access to Justice in the Ayotzinapa case (COVAJ), which revealed that a meeting of authorities had taken place in October 2014 to construct the so-called “historic truth” and that it was attended by the then president Enrique Peña Nieto, among other officials.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/10/01/government-report-on-ayotzinapa-disappearances-links-ex-president-enrique-pena-nieto-to-the-crime/

🇮🇹/🇵🇸 Palestinian-Italian activist and researcher Khaled el Qaisi has been released from prison a month after being detained by Israeli authorities. The 27-year-old was arrested on August 31 at the Allenby crossing which connects the Occupied West Bank and Jordan.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/10/02/palestinian-italian-researcher-khaled-el-qaisi-released-on-bail-pending-further-hearings-by-israeli-court/

The Conservative government’s decision to approve the development of the controversial Rosebank oil and gas field project in Scottish territorial waters has been widely criticized by climate activists and other progressive sections in the UK.

The offshore Rosebank oil, the largest untapped oil and gas field in the North Sea, is owned by the Norwegian energy giant Equinor ASA and Ithaca Energy plc. It is said to contain around 500 million barrels of oil.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/10/02/activists-harshly-criticize-sunak-governments-approval-for-rosebank-oil-and-gas-field-project/

🇪🇺/ 🇹🇳 The agreement was initially reached in July this year, as per which the EU will give USD 135 million to Tunisia to monitor and prevent migrants and asylum seekers from Africa from illegally crossing over to Europe.

Around EUR 42 million of the transfer will reportedly go to Tunisia’s coast guard and navy. Along with the army and other security forces, they have been accused of grave human rights violations and abuses against Black African migrants.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/10/01/eu-releases-funds-to-tunisia-as-part-of-controversial-migrant-deal/

🇭🇹 On Monday, October 2, the United Nations Security Council voted to authorize a year-long Kenyan-led security intervention in Haiti.

This latest foreign military intervention has been widely rejected by the people of Haiti and by progressive organizations across the world.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/10/02/un-authorizes-kenyan-led-military-intervention-in-haiti/

One of the issues that most stirs the emotions of Argentine society is the human rights violations of the military dictatorship.

“There weren’t 30,000 disappeared, there were 8,753,” said the far-right candidate who leads most of the polls, raising his voice for the first time after an hour.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/10/02/argentinas-presidential-frontrunner-milei-denies-number-of-disappeared-from-dictatorship/

#PeoplesHistory | In 2019, Indigenous, peasant, student, and different social organizations from all over Ecuador took to the streets of the capital, Quito, to protest against the economic and labor measures imposed by the right-wing government of Lenin Moreno as a consequence of the agreement with the International Monetary Fund.

During 11 heroic days, the masses of Ecuador, led by the Indigenous movement, went on strike and protested in the streets of Quito, forcing the government to backtrack on some of its neoliberal IMF-imposed policies.

During the national strike, the police and armed forces of Ecuador were deployed and perpetrated a brutal repression. According to a Truth Commission report by the Ombudsman office the security forces perpetrated 249 alleged human rights violations, including six extrajudicial executions, 22 attacks on the right to life, three cases of sexual violence and 20 eye injuries.

🇮🇳 Indian Police carried out a massive operation this morning targetting journalists and former employees of progressive media outlets Newsclick and Peoples Dispatch, as well as Tricontinental Research Services.

Newsclick editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha and administrator Amit Chakraborty have been arrested under the draconian anti-terror law, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). At least 500 police officers and intelligence agents participated in the operation.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/10/03/50-detained-over-100-homes-raided-in-sweeping-crackdown-on-press-freedom-in-india/

On October 4, 75,000 healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities in several US states are set to go on strike for three days following the breakdown of contract negotiations last week.

This size of strike is unprecedented in the healthcare field in the US. “We are in a healthcare staffing crisis, but Kaiser is unwilling to even meet with our bargaining team to discuss a wage proposal that would keep good healthcare workers at our facilities,” wrote SEIU-UHW. “That has never happened before in the 25 years of our partnership.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/10/03/biggest-health-worker-strike-in-us-history-to-begin-tomorrow/

🇭🇹 On Monday, October 2 the United Nations Security Council voted to authorize a Multinational Security Support Mission to Haiti, led by Kenya, to purportedly “fight street gangs.”

This deployment of foreign troops to Haiti is just the latest in a series of attempts on the part of Western powers spanning decades to subvert the country’s sovereignty and the popular will of the Haitian people.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/10/04/kenyan-political-leaders-decry-un-authorization-of-military-intervention-in-haiti/