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.

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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/

The Lebanese Cabinet approved the objectives outlined in the phased plan presented by US envoy Tom Barrack to disarm Hezbollah by the end of the year during a session held on Thursday, August 7.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/08/lebanese-government-endorses-controversial-us-plan-to-disarm-hezbollah/

In the national elections held in April-June last year, ultra-right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came back to power for the third consecutive term despite large scale popular resentment and strong opposition unity.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/08/indias-opposition-claims-2024-national-elections-were-rigged/

Five hundred people have pledged to join a protest demanding the de-proscription of Palestine Action, banned by Keir Starmer’s government.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/08/campaign-to-de-proscribe-palestine-action-grows-in-britain/

🇵🇸 Israel's targeted assassination of Palestinian journalists continues.

Over 200 Palestinian journalists in Gaza have been killed by Israel since October 7, 2023.

Yesterday, on Sunday, August 10, Israel killed 4 journalists from Al-Jazeera including Anas al-Sharif. More journalists have been killed by Israel in Gaza in the last 22 months than in any other war.

🇮🇹Italy is embracing the global militarization policy which aims to reaffirm the economic, commercial, political and military dominance of US imperialism in the new world order.

📝Maurizio Coppola

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/11/militarization-in-italy-from-the-war-economy-to-the-battle-of-ideas/

🇦🇷🇵🇸 Thousands marched in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 9 - one of the largest pro-Palestine mobilizations in Argentine history.

Protesters emphasized that despite the alignment of President Javier Milei with the US and Israel, the people of Argentina reject Israel’s genocide and stand with the people of Palestine. Actions were held in over a dozen other cities across the country as well.

🇵🇸Israel has killed 238 Palestinian journalists since the beginning of its 22-month genocidal aggression on the Gaza Strip.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/11/israel-kills-six-palestinian-journalists-including-al-jazeera-correspondents-anas-al-sharif-and-mohammad-qreiqe/

The Venezuelan government has said that the increase in the reward for the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro by US Attorney General Pam Bondi is “ridiculous” and that it is part of a “propaganda operation” and a “desperate distraction” from the internal problems facing the United States.

According to the US government, Maduro allegedly collaborated with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) “to use cocaine as a weapon to ‘flood’ the United States”.

During the Biden administration, this figure was increased to USD 25 million (the same amount offered for the capture of Osama Bin Laden after the attacks of September 11, 2011).

This time, Washington is doubling the “bet” to USD 50 million. According to the Trump administration, Maduro is one of the world’s most prominent drug traffickers.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/08/us-increases-bounty-on-venezuelan-president-nicolas-maduro-to-50-million/

"This is a first step in Trump’s march to militarize America’s cities and destroy and subvert democracy."

"Donald Trump has created the fiction of an emergency to turn the nation’s capital into a prototype of a police state. This is intended as a model application. No American city is safe from being placed under federal militarized rule," says constitutional rights litigator Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, the executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund.

US President Trump announced in a press conference on Monday, August 11 that he will deploy the National Guard in the United States capital, Washington DC, and take over the city’s police force in an effort to reduce crime.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/11/trump-takes-over-us-capitals-police-force-deploys-national-guard-in-effort-to-restore-law-and-order/

The current US administration is determined to abandon multilateral frameworks, favoring instead the resolution of trade disputes through bilateral negotiations, one by one, in pursuit of maximizing US interests. It has openly declared its intention to replace multilateral agreements with bilateral pressure, believing that the US holds stronger leverage in one-on-one negotiations.

Whether in terms of the interests the US seeks or the nature of the terms themselves, such agreements constitute unequal treaties for the other parties involved. They represent a new form of economic colonialism – one that fractures existing multilateral cooperation frameworks, depletes US international credibility, and plants deep risks for the healthy development of the global economic and trade order.

📲 Read the full article by Shen Yi on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/10/tariff-pressure-under-trump-a-new-economic-colonialism/

Colombian senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe died on Monday, August 11 two months after being shot during an election campaign speech.

He was hospitalized in serious condition, and had already undergone neurosurgical procedures. His death was confirmed by his wife, María Claudia Tarazona, on social media.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/11/colombian-presidential-candidate-miguel-uribe-dies-two-months-being-shot-at-campaign-event/

"For the first time, solar and wind energy are now cheaper than coal, natural gas, or oil, and are the quickest options for installing new electricity generation."

📲 Read the full article by Prabir Purkayastha on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/12/inflection-point-renewable-energy-is-cheaper-than-fossil-fuels/

"The world appears to have learned nothing from the most horrifying crime against humanity in modern history."

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/12/hiroshima-lives-on-in-gaza/

Imperialist attacks make nuclear proliferation a necessity.

Vijay Prashad, Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Dae-Han Song of the International Strategy Center and the No Cold War collective argue that the US makes most compelling case for nuclear proliferation and that the threat of annihilation of small countries by imperialism makes the proliferation of nuclear weapons across the globe an inevitable reality.

Suleiman Al-Obeid, the “Palestinian Pelé”, was killed in an Israeli strike. After UEFA posted a tribute, Mohamed Salah retweeted it, demanding to know the circumstances of his death – a response that has since gone viral.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/12/mo-salah-slams-uefa-tribute-to-palestinian-football-icon-suleiman-al-obeid/

Kenyan MPs held a parliamentary debate over the ongoing war in Gaza, with many legislators condemning the devastation inflicted on Palestinians and calling for urgent global action.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/12/kenyan-mps-condemn-gaza-atrocities-call-for-ceasefire-and-recognition-of-palestine/

Tanzania’s National Farmers’ Day, widely known as “Nane Nane”, was marked across the country on August 8, 2025, with MVIWATA leading a bold grassroots presence under the theme Peasant Agroecology.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/12/mviwata-champions-peasant-agroecology-at-2025-national-farmers-day-celebrations/

Five years following the mass uprisings against police brutality and racism in 2020, Confederate monuments set to be returned to their original locations.

The National Park Service announced August 5 that the statue of Confederate General Albert Pike, toppled by protesters in 2020, will be reinstalled at its original site near Judiciary Square in October. The next day, Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote in a post on X that a large Confederate memorial will return to the Arlington National Cemetery, the country’s most well-known military burial ground.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/12/outrage-grows-as-confederate-monuments-return-to-us-capital/

🇨🇺Fidel Castro speaks in Moscow, 1981.

The commander and revolutionary Cuban leader Fidel Castro spoke at the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in Moscow 1981. There he once again exposed the role of the United States in attempting to crush righteous revolutionary uprisings for liberation and its never-ending colonialist desire to be the world's police officers.

Today, August 13, marks 99 years since Fidel's birth.