As part of his Latin America tour, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Ecuador. Results of the meeting appear to include the declaration of terrorist groups, intention to install military bases, and Quito’s further alignment with Washington.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/05/noboa-opens-door-to-us-military-bases-backs-rubios-fto-designation-for-ecuadorian-gangs/

In September 1972, a Palestinian commando unit took the Israeli Olympic team hostage in Munich. Then, as now, the German state responded with a wave of aggressive racist repression.

While racism is frequently attributed solely to the right-wing AfD, the last 23 months have made it clear that the AfD represents only the nationalist end of a much broader, deeply racist coalition stretching from the so-called “progressive” and “greens” parties to the far right.

📲 Read the full article by Leon Wystrychowski on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/08/from-black-september-to-october-7-anti-palestinian-repression-in-germany-then-and-now/

At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin on September 1, 2025, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping met and publicly framed the relationship as “partners, not rivals.”

Two moves gave the reset substance, not just optics. First, India and China re-activated the Special Representatives (SR) dialogue on the boundary question in New Delhi on August 19, 2025, and second, they agreed to restart direct flights and expand people-to-people and business links, after a five-year freeze. These are communications channels that reduce miscalculation and restore some weight to a battered relationship.

📲 Read the full article by Atul Chandra on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/07/elephant-and-dragon-choose-dialogue-why-the-sco-reset-matters-for-india-china-and-the-global-south/

Approximately 110,000 people gathered in Brussels on Sunday, September 7, in a new mass mobilization against the genocide in Gaza.

Demonstrators symbolically drew a red line to the atrocities in Palestine and showed a red card to the right-wing Arizona government, which continues to offer only cosmetic measures against Israel.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/08/over-100000-mobilize-in-brussels-against-israels-genocide-in-gaza/

🇵🇸 110,000+ march in Brussels for Palestine!

🇧🇪On Sunday, September 7, over 110,000 people marched in Brussels, Belgium, drawing a red line against Israel's war crimes and giving Israel a red card to its genocide in Gaza against the Palestinian people.

Protesters demanded that the neoliberal "Arizona" coalition government in Belgium take real measures against Israel such as a real arms embargo and sanctions that would stop the genocide that Israel is committing.

🇵🇸 #BREAKING | The Global Sumud Flotilla announced that its ship "Family" was attacked, with many suggesting it may have been a drone. UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese who arrived to the scene urged for international protection for other two boats on their way to Tunis. She also warned of the serious consequences if investigations do reveal that Israel was behind the attack.

Today, on her birthday, we celebrate Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child who attended an all-white elementary school in the United States South in 1960. While segregation in public schools had been ruled illegal by the US Supreme Court in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education case, it was not enforced in many places.

Bridges, at a very young age, had to endure vicious attacks and threats from white parents and community members. Bridges attended the all-white school escorted by US marshals to prevent attacks.

Bridges is turning 71 today.

The UK, France, and Germany, also known as E3, have no moral and legal standing to demand “snapback sanctions” against Iran under the now defunct nuclear deal, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed in an article.

The surrender of Britain, France and Germany to US dictates puts serious question marks to their credibility in the global politics, claims Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi in an article in The Guardian.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/08/iran-slams-uk-france-and-germanys-snapback-sanctions/

Recent UN General Assemblies have heard many speeches lamenting the UN’s failure to fulfill its most vital purpose, to ensure peace and security for all.

📲 Read the full article by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies of Codepink on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/06/how-the-un-can-act-decisively-to-end-genocide-in-gaza/

Nepalese Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli resigned after violent protests engulfed the country on Tuesday, September 9.

He and several of his cabinet colleagues were evacuated to safer places following attacks on their residences and protesters’ attempts to storm the parliament.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/09/nepals-pm-kp-sharma-oli-resigns-amid-violent-protests/

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, who is among those seeing off the boats, promptly reacted to the news. “If it’s confirmed that this is a drone attack, it will be an assault and aggression against Tunisia and against Tunisian sovereignty,” she said following the attack. “We cannot keep on tolerating this and normalizing the illegal.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/09/global-sumud-flotilla-ship-attacked-ahead-of-departure/

As students and workers struggled to commute amid SEPTA cuts, a sports betting firm paid to move Eagles fans, laying bare Philadelphia’s transit crisis.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/08/philadelphia-public-transit-death-spiral-is-a-warning-for-other-underfunded-cities-across-the-us/

The resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli, amid massive youth-driven protests has raised many questions for the people of Nepal and its once united Left. While many have accused the uprising about merely being in response to a social media ban, the roots are much deeper.

📲 Read the full article by Atul Chandra and Pramesh Pokharel on our website. ⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/09/nepals-gen-z-uprising-is-about-jobs-dignity-and-a-broken-development-model/

Israeli warplanes targeted a residential building at the center of the Qatari capital, Doha, on Tuesday, September 9, where senior leaders of Hamas convened to discuss a new Gaza ceasefire proposal brought forward by US President Donald Trump on Sunday, September 7.

The delegation, which includes senior Hamas leaders and is headed by Khalil al-Hayya, survived the airstrike, according to an official in the Palestinian movement. However, member of Hamas political bureau, Suhail al-Hindi, told Al Jazeera that the son of Khalil al-Hayya, Humam al-Hayya, and his office director, Jehad Labad, were killed in the attack.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/09/hamas-leaders-survive-israeli-assassination-attempt-in-doha/

#PeoplesHistory | Today, we remember the Attica prisoner uprising, a revolt that took place in 1971 against oppression and inhumanity.

Between September 9 and 13, 1971, out of roughly 2,200 men imprisoned at Attica, 1,281 seized control of the facility. Prisoners held control of part of the prison for four days, during which officials conceded to 28 of the prisoners’ demands.

On September 13, 1971, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller sent state troopers armed with rifles and pistols to retake Attica from the prisoners. The four-day uprising ended in a hail of blood and gunfire that left 39 dead, among them 10 prison staff. Four more had already died earlier during the uprising. With 43 men dead, the vast majority from the violence of state repression, the Attica prison uprising is still the deadliest prison uprising in US history.

By displaying strength on a day marking antifascist unity, China signals its dual path: deterrence without escalation, and development without domination. In a shifting world, it aims to prevent war, not wage it.

📲 Read the full article by Wang Xiangsui of The China Academy on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/09/3-ways-the-west-got-chinas-parade-totally-wrong/

The sanctions are believed to be part of the broader strategy of the Trump administration, which has provided unconditional support for Israel in its attempt to liquidate the Palestinian cause.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/08/us-sanctions-on-palestinian-rights-groups-act-of-bullying-says-director-of-al-haq/

Around 200,000 people once again filled the streets of London on Saturday, September 6, for the 30th national demonstration for Palestine.

Additional mobilizations targeted the ban on direct action group Palestine Action, with further actions planned this week as Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrives for an official visit with Keir Starmer’s government.

On Saturday, more than 800 people were arrested on counterterrorism charges for joining the sit-in and now face legal action.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/09/public-anger-persists-over-starmers-government-complicity-in-gaza-genocide/

The World Bank’s announcement that Niger will be the fastest-growing economy in Africa in 2025 is viewed with caution by the historic leadership of the progressive camp in the Sahel country.

📲 Read the full article by Pedro Stropasolas of Brasil de Fato on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/09/niger-boosts-economy-with-popular-support-but-imf-and-world-bank-are-obstacles-says-analyst/

The Global Sumud Flotilla has come under attack for a second time in days while preparing to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza by sea.

“These repeat attacks come during intensified Israeli aggression on Palestinians in Gaza, and are an orchestrated attempt to distract and derail our mission,” the coalition stated. “The Global Sumud Flotilla continues undeterred.”

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/10/global-sumud-flotilla-comes-under-second-attack-in-days/

🇵🇸Health workers join Global Sumud Flotilla to break the siege on Gaza

Hanne Bosselaers from the Belgian organization Médecine Pour Le Peuple (Medicine for the People) speaks about why she and other health workers are joining the Global Sumud Flotilla, and condemns Israel's systematic attacks on healthcare infrastructure and workers in Gaza.