Pakistan is yet again facing heavy casualties and massive destruction due to unusual heavy rains and floods across the country this year.
The flash floods in mostly the northeastern parts of the country have also displaced hundreds of thousands with scores still reported missing.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/18/heavy-rain-and-floods-affect-millions-in-pakistan-over-650-killed-since-late-june/
The flash floods in mostly the northeastern parts of the country have also displaced hundreds of thousands with scores still reported missing.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/18/heavy-rain-and-floods-affect-millions-in-pakistan-over-650-killed-since-late-june/
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Heavy rain and floods affect millions in Pakistan, over 650 killed since late June
Pakistan has witnessed frequent heavy rains and floods in recent times causing massive human and material loss claimed to be the result of human-induced global changes in the climate
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🇵🇸"The Palestinian woman is the base of resistance"
Feminist and social movements in Venezuela organized a rally on Saturday, August 16, in Caracas, to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, especially women, amid the 22nd month of Israel's genocide in Gaza. They demanded international action to put pressure on Israel to end its genocide.
Feminist and social movements in Venezuela organized a rally on Saturday, August 16, in Caracas, to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, especially women, amid the 22nd month of Israel's genocide in Gaza. They demanded international action to put pressure on Israel to end its genocide.
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On August 17, general elections were held in Bolivia. After almost two decades of rule by the leftist Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party, two right-wing parties will contest the presidency. The second round of elections is scheduled for October 19.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/18/bolivia-turns-to-the-right-paz-and-quiroga-will-contest-the-presidency/
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Bolivia turns to the right: Paz and Quiroga will contest the presidency
On August 17, general elections were held in Bolivia. After almost two decades of rule by the leftist Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party, two right-wing parties will contest the presidency. The second round of elections is scheduled for October 19.
World War II did not end by handing over part of Germany to the Nazis. The conflict will not end by handing over part of Palestine to Zionism.
📲 Read the full article by Guillermo R Barreto on our website.⬇
http://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/18/palestine-cannot-wait/
📲 Read the full article by Guillermo R Barreto on our website.⬇
http://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/18/palestine-cannot-wait/
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Palestine cannot wait
World War II did not end by handing over part of Germany to the Nazis. The conflict will not end by handing over part of Palestine to Zionism.
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Once again Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir has emerged as the number one antagonist of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement after a provocative video was released showing him taunting Prominent Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti in prison.
“You won’t win. Whoever messes with the people of Israel, whoever murders our children, whoever murders our women, we will wipe them out,” Ben-Gvir told Barghouti.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/19/ben-gvir-provokes-palestinians-with-threat-to-prominent-palestinian-leader-and-prisoner-marwan-barghouti/
“You won’t win. Whoever messes with the people of Israel, whoever murders our children, whoever murders our women, we will wipe them out,” Ben-Gvir told Barghouti.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/19/ben-gvir-provokes-palestinians-with-threat-to-prominent-palestinian-leader-and-prisoner-marwan-barghouti/
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Ben-Gvir provokes Palestinians with threat to prominent Palestinian leader and prisoner Marwan Barghouti
Israel has refused to release Barghouti via a prisoners’ swap deal for the last two decades given his influential role in the Palestinian struggle against occupation.
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Dozens of residents of the Colorado city of Walsenburg, as well as Colorado-based activists, held a protest against plans to reopen a for-profit prison as an ICE detention center.
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” allocates USD 45 billion for mass detention of immigrants, spurring the administration’s attempts to open new ICE facilities throughout the US.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/18/colorado-residents-reject-trumps-plan-to-turn-private-prison-into-ice-detention/
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” allocates USD 45 billion for mass detention of immigrants, spurring the administration’s attempts to open new ICE facilities throughout the US.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/18/colorado-residents-reject-trumps-plan-to-turn-private-prison-into-ice-detention/
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Colorado residents reject Trump’s plan to turn private prison into ICE detention
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” allocates USD 45 billion for mass detention of immigrants, spurring the administration’s attempts to open new ICE facilities throughout the US
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#PeoplesHistory | On this day in 1936, fascist forces executed Federico García Lorca at the dawn of the Spanish Civil War. The Spanish writer, poet, and socialist, was a prominent voice in Spain's literary scene but faced significant challenges due to his political views and being gay. His body was never recovered, nor were the motives for his assassination revealed.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that he is sending troops to the southern Caribbean Sea to carry out military operations in the region. He said the goal is to arrest Latin American drug traffickers and linked one of these groups to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
📲 Read the full article by Lorenzo Santiago on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/18/us-sends-troops-to-southern-caribbean-in-new-threat-to-venezuela/
📲 Read the full article by Lorenzo Santiago on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/18/us-sends-troops-to-southern-caribbean-in-new-threat-to-venezuela/
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US sends troops to southern Caribbean in new threat to Venezuela
The action was announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who called the Venezuelan government a “criminal organization”.
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#PeoplesHistory | 🇮🇷 On this day in 1953, Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and his democratically elected government were overthrown in a CIA-backed coup. British intelligence backed their US counterparts in this illegal act.
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US President Donald Trump’s White House meeting with European leaders on Monday, August 18, ended with the promise of security guarantees for Ukraine.
The guarantees are part of a series of incentives being offered to the Eastern European country in exchange for signing a potential peace deal with the Russians that would end more than three years of war in Ukraine.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/19/trump-promises-ukraine-russia-summit-after-meeting-with-zelenskyy-and-european-leaders/
The guarantees are part of a series of incentives being offered to the Eastern European country in exchange for signing a potential peace deal with the Russians that would end more than three years of war in Ukraine.
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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/19/trump-promises-ukraine-russia-summit-after-meeting-with-zelenskyy-and-european-leaders/
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Trump promises Ukraine-Russia summit after meeting with Zelenskyy and European leaders
Ukraine agreed to buy USD 90 billion worth of weapons from the US as part of “security guarantees” promised by the Europeans and the White House in the event of a Ukraine-Russia deal to end the war.