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/

In Washington, DC itself, residents are continuing to “resist” the incursion of federal forces, says DC-based journalist Esther Iverem.

DC residents are “documenting the police, the National Guard, and these different federal agencies here as they harass residents and are arresting people simply trying to go to work. Uber drivers, delivery people, men working in construction as they leave the Home Depot, it’s very targeted.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/19/republican-governors-send-1100-national-guard-troops-to-back-trumps-dc-takeover/

The spokesperson of Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Majed Al-Ansari confirmed during a press conference on Tuesday, August 19, that the main mediators of Gaza ceasefire negotiations (Qatar and Egypt) received a “positive response” from Hamas to the latest ceasefire proposal that same day.

Gaza ceasefire negotiations were stalled by an unprecedented stalemate for the last month, which analysts believe was in favor of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has worked relentlessly to perpetuate the genocidal aggression on Gaza to serve his personal political interests.

However, Netanyahu’s government now faces a new reality, after around one million Israeli people took part in mass protests in different areas across the territories occupied by Israel on Sunday, August 17.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/19/gaza-ceasefire-talks-make-tangible-progress-as-mass-rallies-sweep-israel/

The US bombing of Japan pushed millions in the country to fight for a world without nuclear weapons and with peace.

An interview with Yayoi Tsuchida, peace activist and deputy secretary general of the Organizing Committee of the World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (A and H).

📲 Read the full article by Klara Ledroit on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/19/80-years-after-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-human-beings-and-nuclear-weapons-cannot-coexist/

Tune in to 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. This week, they reflect on the prospects for an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, the devastating cholera outbreak in Sudan, Israel’s plan to seize Gaza City and the ongoing murder of journalists in the enclave, the advance of the right wing in Bolivia’s general elections, and the victory of Air Canada workers.
https://youtube.com/live/dfcL7Xg7bPc

🇪🇺"[European leaders] dropped everything that was important to them going on in their countries and hightailed it across the Atlantic, to be humiliated, frankly."


Roger McKenzie, international editor of Morning Star, speaks on Give The People What They Want! about the Alaska summit, the possibility of peace between Russia and Ukraine, and the role played by Europe in the war.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that he will sanction officials who have facilitated the implementation of the Cuban brigade program. Cuba has asserted the program will continue.

According to Rubio, the work of Cuban doctors working in other countries is “forced labor”. The decision is part of a tightening of measures against the Caribbean island, which are in addition to the economic and commercial blockade imposed on the island as a means of punishment against the revolutionary process that began in 1959.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/20/the-us-increases-pressure-on-cuba-by-targeting-its-medical-brigades/

Trump claims to be working for peace but is adding fuel to the fire in violent conflicts across the world and is participating in illegal bombing campaigns.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/20/donald-trump-wants-a-nobel/

The former PM has been in prison since the coup against Pedro Castillo. In her latest letter, she announced she was embarking on a hunger strike, explicitly stating she does not wish to be revived.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/20/perus-former-pm-betssy-chavez-has-launched-a-hunger-strike-in-prison/

Iran has welcomed the declaration of peace between its northern neighbors Armenia and Azerbaijan earlier this month.

However, it has also made clear its opposition to any US presence in the region, claiming that would be detrimental to regional peace and stability.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/20/iran-welcomes-peace-between-armenia-and-azerbaijan-warns-against-external-forces-in-the-south-caucasus-region/

Air Canada flight attendants win ground pay after four-day strike after workers condemn government’s back-to-work order as violation of their rights.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/20/unpaid-work-is-over-canadian-flight-attendants-reach-tentative-agreement-with-airline/

The Trump administration increased the bounty on the head of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro for alleged charges of drug trafficking.

"This accusation, particularly amplified under the Trump Administration, is a calculated smokescreen to justify a long-standing agenda: the overthrow of the Venezuelan government and the seizure of its vast oil and mineral resources. A closer examination of the facts reveals a country that has actively fought drug trafficking on its own terms and a US government with a clear and consistent history of destabilizing independent countries in Latin America."

📲 Read the full article by Manolo De Los Santos explaining in detail what's behind this accusation.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/21/trumps-smokescreen-on-venezuela-exposing-the-narco-state-accusation/

Although Syria’s new ruler claimed that the controversial meeting aimed to enhance national stability and security due to Israel’s recurrent assaults on the Arab country, the move was seen by critics as an explicit act of normalization.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/21/syrias-interim-government-faces-backlash-for-step-toward-normalization-in-us-brokered-talks-with-israel/

The claim that achieving “debt stabilization” without restructuring is possible is based on the flawed argument that African countries can grow themselves out of debt.

📲 Read the full article by Grieve Chelwa and Vijay Prashad on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/21/how-to-get-the-international-monetary-fund-to-think/

The member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) met on August 20 to support Venezuelan sovereignty and the government of Nicolás Maduro after the recent deployment of US military forces in the Caribbean Sea.

Following the meeting of several heads of state and government, the international organization made a statement in favor of “the defense of the sovereignty, security, and stability of our peoples”.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/21/alba-tcp-countries-condemn-washingtons-latest-military-moves/

Hundreds of people, including activists, intellectuals, film makers, and political leaders gathered in India’s second biggest city, Mumbai, to protest the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and demand Indian government break all ties with the Zionist regime in Israel.


Speakers pointed out that the Israeli genocide in Gaza is sponsored by the US and other European countries who are providing weapons and political aid to the Zionist regime to carry on the killing and destruction in Gaza.


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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/21/hundreds-gather-in-indias-mumbai-to-denounce-israeli-genocide-of-palestinians/

A 70-minute parade featuring new military equipment and a new stage of Chinese modernization. This was the dress rehearsal last Sunday, August 17, for the upcoming 80th anniversary celebration of what China officially calls the Victory of the Chinese People against Japanese Aggression, or even the World War against Fascism, as the Second World War (1930-1945) is called in the Asian giant. The official parade will take place on September 3, following Chang’an Avenue, which passes through Tiananmen Square.

📲 Read the full article by Mauro Ramos on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/21/china-prepares-to-celebrate-80-years-since-world-war-ii-victory-over-fascism/

Each August marks the annual commemoration of a month honoring the legacy of Black prisoners kept behind bars for political activism.

Black August is a month to honor the history of struggles for Black liberation, in defiance of racial, colonial, and imperialist oppression, both inside and outside prison walls.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/22/attica-when-prisoners-revolted/

🇧🇴Bolivia’s left suffered a major defeat at the polls, raising urgent questions for progressive forces in Latin America. This goes beyond the rivalry between Evo Morales and Luis Arce - it’s about the limits of the electoral strategy in Latin America and the unfinished task of fundamentally transforming the state.

Manolo de los Santos and Zoe Alexandra write on the deeper roots of this defeat and the lessons to be taken from this moment.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/22/beyond-defeat-in-bolivia-the-limits-of-left-electoral-strategy-in-latin-america/

🇻🇪 After the Trump administration increased the bounty against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and deployed several ships to the Caribbean, the Venezuelan president addressed the US threats against Venezuelan sovereignty.

He stated that the union of popular power and the security forces is solid and will be what defends the Bolivarian nation from any attack.