After weeks of threats, US President Donald Trump officially announced that he is sending federal forces to the US city of Chicago. On September 2, Trump declared his intent to send federal troops, including National Guard personnel, to Chicago to address rising crime, stating: “We’re going in. I didn’t say when, but we’re going in.”

After Trump’s announcement about the midwestern city, Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson, a progressive Democrat, swiftly responded: “He just wants his own secret police force that will do publicity stunts whenever his poll numbers are sinking, whenever his jobs report shows a stagnating economy, whenever he needs another distraction from his failures,” Johnson told reporters.

“Chicago is doing what works without Trump’s invasion of our city,” wrote the Chicago Teachers Union on X. “We reject occupation. We welcome investments in public education, youth employment, and affordable housing.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/03/were-going-in-trump-moves-to-deploy-troops-to-chicago/

The massive military parade was attended by leaders from over 20 foreign nations, including Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Speaking on the occasion, Chinese President Xi Jinping noted that the Chinese people have contributed and sacrificed immensely during the “World Anti-Fascist War” – as the Chinese refer to World War II – “for the salvation of human civilization and the defense of world peace.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/03/china-celebrates-80th-anniversary-of-victory-over-japanese-occupation-calls-for-an-equitable-and-just-world-order/

The Gaza Tribunal opened in London to expose the British government’s complicity in Israeli war crimes in Palestine.

Despite the pressure, Starmer and his ministers have repeatedly avoided explaining or halting support for Israel. “Israel has not been able to carry out these atrocities alone,” independent MP Jeremy Corbyn wrote in The Morning Star. “Instead, it has relied on the military, economic and political support from governments around the world, including our own.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/04/gaza-tribunal-launches-to-expose-britains-role-in-genocide/

The global movement for Palestine pushes for a people’s arms embargo on Israel, from grassroots campaigns to international diplomacy.

“Regular people of the world are the most able to call out injustice for what it is, because we are not wedded to these systems that oppress us, and we are instead invested in the destruction of these systems that oppress us,” said Sachin Peddada, the Research Coordinator of the Progressive International.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/04/peoples-conference-for-palestine-amplifies-worldwide-demand-for-an-arms-embargo-on-israel/

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the administration chose Louisiana’s infamous former slave plantation prison as a scare tactic to push migrants into “self-deporting”.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/04/trump-turns-notorious-angola-prison-into-ice-detention-facility/

Observers suggest that Israel has exploited Egypt’s urgent need for energy supplies, and therefore weaponized the deal against Cairo for political gains.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/04/netanyahu-halts-major-gas-deal-with-egypt-over-alleged-peace-treaty-violations/

López was a prominent environmental activist. In the months before his death, he had openly opposed open-pit mining and hydroelectric projects in northern Honduras.

Latin America is the deadliest region for environmental defenders and organizations seeking to protect nature from mining, oil, and other projects usually carried out by foreign companies.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/04/honduras-charges-three-people-for-the-murder-of-environmentalist-juan-lopez/

In the last ten years, the wealth of the top one percent of the world’s population has grown by over $33.9 trillion – enough to end poverty twenty-two times over. Perhaps it is time for new ideas.

📲 Read the full article by Shiran Illanperuma, produced by Globetrotter, on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/04/fidels-economics-of-national-liberation/

🇵🇸 Italy stands with the Global Sumud Flotilla!

Thousands marched on the streets of Milan on September 4 to support the Global Sumud Flotilla, to demand that the Italian government protect the members of the Global Sumud Flotilla amid Israeli threats. They also called for an immediate end to Israel's genocide in Gaza and its blockade of the strip. Meanwhile, dock workers in Italy have pledged to shut down Europe if Israel attacks the flotilla.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly dropped the discussion on the West Bank annexation plan from the agenda of a security cabinet meeting scheduled at a later time of the same day, after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) warned that the plan would “cross the red lines”.

The move came one day after Smotrich revealed that the plan stipulates imposing Israel’s sovereignty over 82% of the occupied West Bank, and replacing the Palestinian Authority with “regional alternatives”.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/05/netanyahu-removes-west-bank-annexation-plan-from-meeting-agenda-after-uae-warned-it-would-cross-red-lines/

With an ICE crackdown poised to begin in Greater Chicago this weekend and a massive raid already carried out in Georgia, grassroots activists are mobilizing to resist.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/05/chicago-residents-brace-for-trump-deployment-of-federal-forces/

Although no major security agreement was reached, Mexico and Washington highlighted their good relationship. The meeting comes after a US attack on a small boat in the Caribbean Sea.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/05/in-rubio-sheinbaum-meeting-us-agrees-to-restrict-security-enforcement-to-respective-borders/

A new World Bank report states that Niger will be the fastest-growing economy in Africa in 2025.

📲 Read the full article by Pedro Stropasolas of Brasil de Fato on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/04/niger-will-be-africas-fastest-growing-economy-in-2025-says-world-bank/

Thousands of cotton farmers in India staged protests across the country between September 1 and 3 to oppose the government’s decision to withdraw tariff on cotton imports.

The protest was called by the left-wing All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and other constituents of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a collective of farmers’ unions.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/05/cotton-farmers-in-india-protest-tariff-withdrawal-and-betrayal-by-modi/

Incessant and unprecedented rains in the last month have caused havoc in the region with hundreds killed, millions displaced, standing crops destroyed, and cities in chaos.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/05/left-movements-in-south-asia-call-for-increased-mobilizations-to-face-the-effects-of-climate-change/

Midwife Fatimah Mohamied is suing an NHS Trust after being referred to counterterror program Prevent for Palestine solidarity social media posts.

As a Cultural Safety Lead Midwife, Mohamied told People’s Health Dispatch that her role was technically meant to address systemic racism and its consequences in maternity services.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/05/british-midwife-referred-to-counterterror-program-over-palestine-advocacy/