🇦🇷 Argentina’s pensioners continue to stand up to repression to demand dignity

During today’s protest in Buenos Aires, Argentina of pensioners, over a dozen were injured and several journalists were targeted by police.

The US and Israeli bombings of Iran’s nuclear sites violated basic tenets of nuclear non-proliferation, ironically demonstrating to countries pursuing independent development the need to build nuclear deterrent.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/06/80-years-after-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-nuclear-war-is-closer-than-ever/

A major part of the political canon of liberalism is the “sacrosanct” defense of the alternation of power. In other words, the fact that a person does not remain in power indefinitely is a sign of the vigor and health of a modern republican political system. According to this canon, the lack of alternation is usually a clear symptom of a totalitarian drift.

However, history shows us that historical judgments are just that: judgments, subject to circumstances and limited by potential political benefits. Alternation is therefore desirable when the leader is inconvenient, but not when he or she helps to sustain a given geopolitical order.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/06/why-is-el-salvador-now-allowing-indefinite-presidential-re-election/

“I have had so many patients die because they can’t get enough food to recover. It’s distressing to see that and know that it’s preventable and treatable,” Gastrointestinal surgeon Nick Maynard stated.

The extent of hunger and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip is worsening daily, with the United Nations warning that the entire under-five population – over 320,000 children – is now at risk of acute malnutrition due to Israel’s genocide.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/06/intergenerational-hunger-the-effects-of-israels-starvation-of-gaza/

The Trump administration offers a 50,000-dollar signing bonus and 60,000 dollars in student loan repayment to those willing to join the ranks of immigration enforcement.

Trump signed the “Big Beautiful Bill” into law on July 4, which allocates USD 170 billion in additional funding in the next three years for immigration enforcement.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/06/trump-dangles-student-loan-forgiveness-to-attract-new-ice-hires/

While Venezuela reunites families, the US invests USD 131 billion into building a border-war machine.

In July 2025, the US Congress passed a budget that commits USD 131 billion to expanding detention, deportation, and border militarization. It is the largest immigration enforcement package in modern US history and one that most people are funding without knowing.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/06/the-war-economy-at-the-border/

The Brazilian government filed a request for consultation with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against tariffs imposed by the United States on Brazilian products.

The decision was made on the same day that the tariff announced by US President Donald Trump came into effect, raising taxes on a series of imports from Brazil to 50%.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/06/lula-takes-trumps-tariffs-to-world-trade-organization/

In Chile, “the market” speaks with the voice of a powerful few while silencing alternatives that challenge the status quo.

📲 Read the full article by Jorge Coulon and Jaime Bravo on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/07/chile-and-what-the-market-thinks/

The Chinese government has received more than 3,113,000 online suggestions for consideration in the country’s five-year plan, to be implemented from 2026 to 2030.

Earlier this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping, instructed the government and the Party to “investigate broadly and deeply the people’s conditions, listen to the voices of the people, and gather the wisdom of the masses to consolidate a powerful joint force that will push forward Chinese-style modernization and continuously realize the people’s aspirations for a better life.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/07/chinese-people-submit-over-3-million-suggestions-for-governments-15th-five-year-plan/

Opposition groups, trade and farmers’ unions demanded the government of India explore alternative international mechanisms, such as the BRICS, to counter US imperialist moves.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/07/trump-raises-tariffs-on-india-to-50-delhi-calls-move-unjustified-and-unreasonable/

Activists call for public monitoring to guarantee the full implementation of Slovenia’s arms embargo on Israel.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/07/activists-urge-continued-mobilization-to-ensure-slovenias-arms-embargo-on-israel/

Samuel Eto’o, Adebayor, Seydou Keita, Charles Kaboré, Alain Traoré, El Hadj Diouf. All these legends of African soccer were present to celebrate the inauguration of the Stade du 4 Août stadium in the city of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.

Officially inaugurated on July 18, 1984, during the presidency of Pan-Africanist leader Thomas Sankara, the stadium was banned by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) from official competitions in 2021 due to the deterioration of its infrastructure.

After the renovation, however, the Burkina Faso national soccer team will once again play its friendly and official matches at its home stadium. On September 8, the national team will face Egypt in a qualifying match for the 2026 World Cup.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/08/etoo-okosha-adebayor-african-soccer-legends-join-traore-to-inaugurate-stadium-in-burkina-faso/

On July 25, 2021, riding on a wave of public frustration over a decade of political deadlock and economic stagnation, President Saied suspended parliament, dismissed the government, and seized executive powers.

Framing his actions as a mission to “fight corruption” and “restore national sovereignty”, Saied sidelined opponents and pledged to fulfill the unachieved aspirations of the 2011 revolution.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/08/tunisias-authoritarian-spiral-tightens-four-years-after-the-coup/

🇧🇷 The Lula government in Brazil has once again achieved Brazil's exit from the UN Hunger Map.

On August 5, the Brazilian president gave an emotional speech to the country's National Council for Food Security celebrating the achievement. Lula shared his personal experience with hunger and poverty and emphasized that alleviating hunger and poverty must be a primary goal of all governments.

Brazil had exited the UN Hunger Map in 2014, but returned in 2021 under the neoliberal, far-right government of Jair Bolsonaro.

Bolivia is preparing for its most unusual general elections in recent years.

According to the latest polls, the political fragmentation of the left appears to be benefiting right-wing parties, which could return to power through democratic means after nearly 20 years.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/08/bolivia-prepares-for-presidential-elections-with-a-fragmented-left-and-an-optimistic-right/

Tune in for another episode of Give The People What They Want! with Zoe Alexandra, Indian journalist Prasanth R., and Roger McKenzie, international editor of the Morning Star, as they recollect the horrors of the dropping of the atom bomb in Japan, the hunger, starvation, and deaths in Gaza, mainstream media's calls to free reporting from Gaza, a roundup on Trump's tariff frenzy, as well as an update on the legal backlash Jair Bolsonaro has been facing.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3RYrvIhFuHg6LLUsLR7PnL?si=841c5238d67748db

Unable to pay rent, thousands have returned to their villages, whose subsistence farming-based economy cannot sustain their families.

Desperate, many have taken the dangerous road across the border to the illegal mining enterprises in South Africa.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/08/trumps-tariffs-have-destroyed-the-livelihoods-of-thousands-of-women-in-lesothos-textile-industry/