The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago and the state of Illinois.

Trump’s DHS has framed the operation as a response to “sanctuary city” policies, which are protocols implemented by more left-leaning areas aiming to shield immigrant workers from ICE raids. The Trump administration has used much of its power to level threats at so-called “Democrat-run” cities such as Chicago.

“For years, Governor Pritzker and his fellow sanctuary politicians released Tren de Aragua gang members, rapists, kidnappers, and drug traffickers on Chicago’s streets – putting American lives at risk and making Chicago a magnet for criminals,” state DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/10/outrage-erupts-in-chicago-over-trumps-immigration-crackdown/

On the afternoon of Thursday, September 11, Supreme Court Minister Cármen Lúcia cast the vote to cement the majority decision to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro and seven other allies accused of coup plot.

In her vote, the minister stated that “Jair Messias Bolsonaro committed the crimes with which he is charged as the leader of a criminal organization. He was not swept up into the insurgency. He is the instigator, he is the leader of an organization that promoted all forms of coordination aligned with the goal of maintaining or seizing power.”

📲 Read the full article by Brasil de Fato on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/11/jair-bolsonaro-found-guilty-by-brazilian-supreme-court/

GUILTY

🇧🇷 This Thursday (11), Supreme Court Justice Cármen Lúcia cast the deciding vote to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro for leading a criminal conspiracy to overturn Brazil’s 2022 election results. Her vote secured a majority on the Court, marking an unprecedented ruling against high-ranking political and military figures.

⚖️ In her statement, Lúcia described Bolsonaro as the leader of a criminal organization that carried out a systematic plan to undermine democratic institutions and the peaceful transition of power. She referred to the operation as a “coup machine”: a long-planned structure that culminated in the violent attacks on government buildings in Brasília on January 8, 2023.

The people of Benin will head to the polls to elect their next president on April 12, 2026. Yet even months ahead of the contest, the situation in the country has already been marked by rising political repression, deepening economic inequality, and declining public trust in democratic processes, Nidol Salami of the Communist Party of Benin (PCB) told Peoples Dispatch.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/10/political-repression-escalates-ahead-of-benins-2026-election/

Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis.

📲 Read the full article by Vijay Prashad and Atul Chandra on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/11/five-theses-on-the-situation-in-nepal/

Settlement has been a main pillar of the Israeli colonial project since Israel occupied the Palestinian territories known today as the West Bank, in 1967.

An expert compared Israel’s pastoral settlement policy to the mass slaughter of the American bison, which European colonists practiced to subdue native Americans by depriving them of their major source of livelihood.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/12/paradise-lost-a-palestinian-farmer-on-settler-violence-and-dispossession/

🚩Remembering Indian communist leader Sitaram Yechury

"This rightward shift in politics is to ensure that governments will promote neoliberal policies and, at the same time, disrupt the growing unity of the working people.."

Today, on his death anniversary, we remember Indian communist leader Sitaram Yechury, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

Here, Yechury was speaking in Kannur, Kerala at the 23rd Party Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in April 2022.

In its Dossier No. 92, the Tricontinental Institute attempts to demonstrate the historical role of the project carried out by former President López Obrador and continued by current President Sheinbaum. In this report, we summarize some of its most important ideas.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/12/what-is-the-4t-in-mexico-morenas-project-under-debate/

The third Nyéléni Global Forum took place in Kandy, Sri Lanka, from September 6 to 13, uniting social movements around the world to discuss several themes including rising authoritarianism, food sovereignty, land reform, healthcare, and climate justice.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/11/nyeleni-global-forum-builds-struggle-for-sovereignty-and-human-rights/

Israel called the campaign “Operation Gideon Chariots II”, which Hamas said it will counter with a series of operations dubbed “Moses’ Staff”.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/12/israel-levels-50-high-rise-buildings-in-large-scale-gaza-occupation-campaign/

Despite two suspected drone attacks, the largest civilian-led maritime effort to challenge Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza promises to fulfill its mission.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/12/global-sumud-flotilla-vows-to-continue-mission-despite-attacks/