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Migrants aboard an inflatable boat before their rescue co-ordinated by a U.S. military vessel near Spain in 2016. (U.S. Navy, Wesley R. Dickey, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain) By Peoples Dispatch Over 2,500 people died or went missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe by September this year, stated the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a huge jump from last year’s figure from the same period of 1,680. UNHCR Director Ruven Menikdiwela told the UN Security

Rechargeable batteries have an important role to play in the fight against climate change, especially when it comes to lowering greenhouse gas emissions through the transition to electric vehicles. It’s one reason the rechargeable battery market is expected to grow to over $180 billion by 2030. But the transition minerals that go into those batteries […]

A cell block on Abu Gharib. Photo: USDOJ Office of the Inspector General, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Abdul Rahman / Peoples Dispatch Hundreds of Iraqi prisoners kept in US detention centers in Iraq, including the largest facility Abu Ghraib, endured various forms of torture and abuse by the US armed forces between 2003 and 2009. However, even after two decades, none of these Iraqis have been given any kind of redressal or compensation. The first major evidence was the leak of

Silence surrounded the atrocities of Mahamat Deby's military government, which last year killed at least 128 people during country-wide pro-democracy, anti-French protests, Pavan Kulkarni reports. By Pavan Kulkarni Peoples Dispatch The killings and arrests of pro-democracy, anti-French pro

U.S. President Joe Biden delivering remarks on the Child Tax Credit on July 15, 2021. (White House, Adam Schultz) By Natalia Marques / Peoples Dispatch Millionaire real estate company head Tim Gurner went viral (not for the first time) for his barefaced remarks earlier this month to fellow capitalists at the Financial Review Property Summit. In a talk, he claimed that workers have become “arrogant” and as a result need to experience rates of unemployment as high as 40 percent and feel “pain in