With over 100 confirmed fatalities, including 28 children, from a massive flash flood in central Texas, the state is reeling from one of the deadliest flooding disasters in the last century.

“The reality is that information just did not get disseminated in a way that communicated any sort of urgency to the people on the ground,” said Brianna Griffith, a community organizer based in Texas, who is coordinating a community-based response network to fill in gaps in the state and federal government response.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/07/every-man-for-himself-texas-reels-in-wake-flash-floods-and-90-death-toll-as-trump-plans-to-slash-federal-disaster-response/

🇧🇷 Brazilian President and co-founder of BRICS, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, spoke at the 17th BRICS summit to promote a new development paradigm that comes from the Global South and avoids the current capitalist system that, as Marx said, "tends to destroy its two sources of wealth: nature and human beings."

A new wave of tensions has emerged between Bogotá and Washington. Both Petro and Trump have announced that they are withdrawing their respective chargé d’affaires in each other’s countries in the aftermath of reports of a possible coup plot against Gustavo Petro.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/08/new-tensions-between-bogota-and-washington-over-coup-plot-reveal/

🇵🇸 Ghassan Kanafani on class struggle and why the Palestinian people continue to fight for their liberation.

On this day in 1972, Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad in Beirut.

As trash piles up on the streets of Philadelphia, nearly 10,000 city workers in Philly’s largest union have more than proven how essential they are to making their city run.

The slogan of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District 33 (AFSCME DC 33), which is leading the strike, is “Philadelphia works because we do”.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/08/philadelphia-works-because-we-do-one-week-into-strike-philly-city-workers-flex-collective-power/

Ten new countries joined the grouping as “observers” despite US President Donald Trump calling BRICS “anti-American” and threatening 10% additional tariffs on those aligning with it.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/08/brics-warns-unilateral-tariffs-harm-global-development-as-trump-threatens-economic-bloc/

Economist says UN statement is ”scaremongering” to pave the way for a new military intervention in the Caribbean country.

📲 Read the full article by Rodrigo Durão on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/08/gangs-dont-control-areas-in-port-au-prince-they-attack-and-leave-says-haitian-economist/

Under the cover of industrial development, the Karnataka state government is forcibly acquiring thousands of fertile acres of farmland for real estate profiteering, farmer leader Yashavantha told Peoples Dispatch.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/07/farmers-near-victory-after-almost-2000-days-of-protest-against-land-acquisition-in-southern-india/

Thousands of people across Serbia continue to take to the streets, demanding snap elections, an end to police harassment, and the release of activists arrested and detained over the past week.

Their demands stem from the deadly collapse of a railway canopy in Novi Sad that killed over a dozen people – and from the structural failings that made the disaster possible.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/08/protests-persist-in-serbia-in-face-of-police-repression/

Israeli Prime Minister supports Trump’s plan for mass displacement of Palestinians and nominates US leader for Nobel Peace Prize.

The controversial visit has been met with protests from pro-Palestine and anti-imperialist organizations in Washington DC.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/08/israeli-pm-netanyahu-back-in-the-us-capital-defying-icc-arrest-warrant/

🇦🇷 Victory for truth and justice in Argentina

Estela de Carlotto, the historic Argentinian human rights defender and President of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, announced the restitution of the Grandchild number 140 (#Nieto140), son of Graciela Alicia Romero and Raúl Eugenio Metz, who were kidnapped during the civic-military dictatorship in Neuquén.

30,000 left-wing activists, union members, and human rights defenders were kidnapped, tortured and killed thousands during the civic-military dictatorship in Argentina.

Madres de Plaza de Mayo and Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo have been fighting for truth and justice for almost 5 decades. To uncover the truth of what happened to their children and their grandchildren- hundreds of whom were kidnapped from detention centers and given to military families. The Abuelas have restituted the identities of 140 people and continue to fight for the rest.

"The post-Cold War order is unravelling. The global trading system and the multilateral order, painstakingly built after the Second World War, have been torn apart."

📲 Read the full article by Shiping Tang on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/08/brics-empowering-development/

Tune in for another episode of Give The People What They Want! with Indian journalist Prasanth R and Roger McKenzie, international editor of Morning Star, as they reflect on the recently concluded BRICS summit in Brazil, the resumption of attacks by Ansar Allah on Israel-linked ships in the Red Sea, possibilities of a peace deal in Palestine, crackdown on pro-Palestine activists in the UK, and the national strike in India in defense of workers' rights.

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The threat of annihilation of countries by imperialism makes the proliferation of nuclear weapons across the globe an inevitable reality.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/09/the-us-makes-most-compelling-case-for-nuclear-proliferation/

🇮🇳250 million went on strike in India!

Workers went on strike answering the call by the Central Trade Unions to protest far-right Modi’s 2020 anti-worker labor codes.

Farmers, students, teachers, and other professionals joined the call, resulting in a major disruption to Indian industries. The 2020 labor codes, propelled by the BJP, strip workers of their rights and directly attack unionization and collective bargaining.

The specter of ethnic cleansing looms over hundreds of thousands trapped without food, water, or medicines in the North Darfur state’s besieged capital, El Fasher.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/09/ethnic-cleansing-awaits-north-darfurs-besieged-starving-population-in-war-torn-sudan/

Despite creating waves of disagreement and rifts within Donald Trump’s coalition, the passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” appears to have gone as planned.

But while the Trump administration does its victory lap, Republican Party leadership is planning for a potential backlash to the new law, which remains largely unpopular due to proposed cuts to SNAP and Medicaid, as well as the injection of billions of dollars towards expanding ICE detention and immigration enforcement arrests.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/09/us-republicans-brace-for-voter-rebellion-over-big-beautiful-bill/

Millions took to the streets all over India on Wednesday, July 9, to observe a national strike call made by Central Trade Unions (CTU). They are striking against the anti-worker policies adopted by the ultra-right-wing government in the country.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/09/250-million-indian-workers-and-farmers-on-the-streets-in-a-national-strike/

The move is seen as an incentive by the Trump administration for Syria’s interim government to sign a normalization agreement with Israel.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/09/us-delists-syrias-hts-as-foreign-terrorist-organization/