The war on terror, the war on drugs, and other bedtime stories for grown nations
If Africa has learned anything from the last century, it’s this: whenever the world’s great powers announce a new “war”, on terror, on drugs, on trafficking, it usually means Africa is about to become someone else’s battlefield again.
La libertad de una fugitiva: el exilio de Assata Shakur en Cuba
Testimonio viviente de la posibilidad de resistencia, Assata encarnó el coraje no sólo de pensar en el cambio sino de luchar por un mundo completamente nuevo.
A fugitive’s freedom: Assata Shakur’s exile in Cuba
A living testament to the possibility of resistance, Assata embodied the courage not only to think about change but to fight for a new world entirely.
US increases pressure on Jordan to extradite Ahlam al-Tamimi
During his first presidential term, Trump also pressured the Jordanian government to hand al-Tamimi over to the United States or otherwise deport her to another country.
Leonard Peltier: “It’s finally over – I’m going home”
The Indigenous leader and longest-held political prisoner in the United States will be released to home confinement after his sentence was commuted.
The people’s struggle will free Leonard Peltier
Peoples Dispatch speaks to Gloria La Riva, who has spent decades in the movement to free the longest-held political prisoner in the United States
Daily Round-up | FBI investigation opened into Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing & other stories
In this episode, we bring you stories of the FBI probe into the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh, the Gustavo Petro government completing 100 days in power, a verdict in Georgia on abortion, and the sentencing of Saudi activist Abdullah Jelan
Israel lashes out against US decision to investigate killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
For months, the US had declined to conduct any investigation into the killing of the Palestinian journalist and accepted the Israeli version calling it an accident. This is despite repeated appeals by Akleh’s family and human rights groups for an inquiry
FBI conducts coordinated raids against Black Liberation organization
The FBI’s history is marked by violent attempts to “neutralize” Black organizations. Some worry that recent raids on the Uhuru Movement is another such attempt
US police monitored journalists, activists after George Floyd’s murder and other stories
Today we look at an investigation into police surveillance of activists in the US, the trial of 3 former health ministers for mass forced sterilizations in Peru and more
Movements call for release of the longest-serving US political prisoner
Leonard Peltier, who is imprisoned at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Florida, is 77 years old and has served more than 46 years for a crime that he insists he did not commit.
Senior journalist and author Paranjoy Guha Thakurta talks to Peoples Dispatch about how the Israeli state used the Pegasus spyware to advance the country’s diplomatic interests.






