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Global Solidarity
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/global-solidarity/
Published: September 20, 2026 12:57
I love the name of this conference, United In Radical Solidarity. Solidarity to me is an action of putting into practice, the Wobbly, IWW slogan, “An Injury to one is an Injury to All.” Solidarity, if meaningful, is active, not just a feeling. Solidarity…
First Principles for a New Progressive Foreign Policy
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/first-principles-for-a-new-progressive-foreign-policy/
Published: September 20, 2026 12:53
This is the first article in a two-part series. For many years, progressive movements and activists have longed for the moment when we could imagine a real foreign policy rooted in true internationalism and solidarity. But in our efforts to influence…
15 Years On From Occupy, The Long Fight Of The 99% Continues
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/15-years-on-from-occupy-the-long-fight-of-the-99-continues/
Published: September 20, 2026 12:47
s we mark 15 years since Occupy Wall Street, it is worth remembering that the movement against inequality has a long lineage. The Gen Z-led protests flooding the streets of India, Kenya, Bolivia, and Tunisia today have been building for generations. On…
Robert Kraft Enters the Concussion Protocol
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/robert-kraft-enters-the-concussion-protocol/
Published: September 20, 2026 12:43
As a kid, I knew three things about the guy who owned my favorite NFL team. He was short, from Ohio, and he was a good owner because he spent money. After 40 years of further review, that stands as the ideal total knowledge about a sports owner. And while…
Trump’s Fraudulent Forced Labor Tariffs
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-fraudulent-forced-labor-tariffs/
Published: September 20, 2026 12:38
The Trump administration has deployed tariffs, the most beautiful word in the dictionary according to President Donald Trump, to combat the scourge of forced labor in the global economy. But their stated concern about forced labor is nothing other than a…
Fourteen Hundred Solar Manufacturing Workers Join the Steelworkers
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fourteen-hundred-solar-manufacturing-workers-join-the-steelworkers/
Published: September 20, 2026 12:34
Workers at a Corning solar manufacturing plant in Michigan voted September 1 to join the Steelworkers (USW). The vote was a close 560-512, following an intense anti-union campaign by the company. Nakisha West, a wirecutter, voted yes for “fairness and…
Who Profits From ‘Saving’ Women?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/who-profits-from-saving-women/
Published: September 20, 2026 12:30
During a recent dialogue convened by Liberation Alliance Africa’s Building Knowledge Bridges Community of Practice on Recentering African Feminist Epistemologies to Prevent and Respond to Sexual Violence, bringing together activists, writers, and…
MAGA Wants To Ban His Books. Who Was Howard Zinn?
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/maga-wants-to-ban-his-books-who-was-howard-zinn/
Published: September 20, 2026 12:25
Destroying Democracy – 3 AfD Strategies
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/destroying-democracy-3-afd-strategies/
Published: September 20, 2026 12:19
The AfD has long converted the use of parliament into an abuse of parliament. The strategy of undermining and disabling Germany’s parliaments — its 16 state parliaments and one federal parliament, plus numerous local councils — has been practiced by the…
Data Centers As Mega Scams And AI Too
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/data-centers-as-mega-scams-and-ai-too/
Published: September 19, 2026 15:59
Why pursue gigantic data centers called “Hyperscalers”? Presumably, those who seek them believe they are essential for the continued elaboration of ever more powerful AIs into every nook and cranny of human engagement. I acknowledge that I believe AI…
The Elimination Project
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-elimination-project/
Published: September 19, 2026 15:57
Since the current Israeli government took office at the end of 2022, and even more so since October 2023, Israel has dramatically escalated its assault on all aspects of Palestinian life in the West Bank. At any moment, Palestinians may be exposed to…
The Real AI Threat isn’t What You Think
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-real-ai-threat-isnt-what-you-think/
Published: September 19, 2026 15:56
In this AI focussed episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau expose the recent apocalyptic warnings from tech bosses as tricks for regulatory capture, reveal how weaponised AI and China’s robotic lead threaten stability, and…
“We Are The 99%”: 15 Years Later, Occupy Wall Street’s Impact is Still Being Felt
Published: September 19, 2026 15:55
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, Democracynow.org, the War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman with Juan González. We end today’s show looking back at Occupy Wall Street. Fifteen years ago…
A Single Firm is Behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta Hacking Scandals
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-single-firm-is-behind-openai-anthropic-and-meta-hacking-scandals/
Published: September 19, 2026 15:53
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta models hacked into several real world systems over the past three months. These models gained unauthorized access to web systems, published malicious packages, and exploited unnamed vulnerabilities. A single firm, Irregular, is…
Higher Education Can’t Be Neutral In An Age Of Brutality: It Must Choose Democracy
Published: September 19, 2026 15:51
The university as a democratic institution under siege Across the United States, and increasingly in other democracies under siege, higher education faces a coordinated assault unlike anything witnessed in generations. State governments are prohibiting…
Israeli Jews Who Expose Genocide Might Lose Their Citizenship
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-jews-who-expose-genocide-might-lose-their-citizenship/
Published: September 19, 2026 15:50
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to pass a law to revoke the citizenship of anyone who defames Israel’s soldiers, his latest threat against the Israeli directors of “NAZA”, a documentary about soldiers’ killing of Gaza civilians. “NAZA” is a…
After Pretoria: the Political Map is Changing
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-pretoria-the-political-map-is-changing/
Published: September 19, 2026 15:47
For a long time, it was still possible to describe the problem mainly as one of implementation. Displaced Tigrayans had not returned home. Territorial questions remained unresolved. Disarmament was contested. Relations between Mekelle and Addis Ababa…
Lily Lynch: “Victory in Defeat”
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/lily-lynch-victory-in-defeat/
Published: September 19, 2026 15:46
The mood at the hard-right Sweden Democrats’ (SD) election-night gala on Sunday was sombre. Earlier in the evening, party faithful had swayed to ‘Dancing Queen’ under purple and pink lights, and mimicked Trump’s signature fist pumping to ‘YMCA’. But as…
Courtrooms Without Sociology: Gramscian Hegemony and the Myth of Criminal Responsibility
Published: September 19, 2026 15:45
Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony helps explain how the power structure of modern liberaldemocratic societies maintains authority without relying on overt force. Hegemony creates “common sense,” the assumptions a society accepts as natural and right,…
Social Democracy Won the Century and Lost the Future
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/social-democracy-won-the-century-and-lost-the-future/
Published: September 18, 2026 16:04
On Sunday, Sweden’s Social Democratic Party (SAP) emerged as the largest party in an election that will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. Magdalena Andersson is poised to return as prime minister, with her four-party bloc holding a one-seat majority…
Germany’s Far-Right Turn: Examining the Drivers and Aftermath of the AfD’s Victory
Published: September 18, 2026 15:57
Following the electoral victory of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, we hear from all sides that the danger of the rise of the AfD and far-right movements must be taken seriously, and that democracy is in peril.…
Between the Usa-State Inc. and China’s Party-State: AI as a Litmus Test
Published: September 18, 2026 15:54
The end of the Soviet Union and the socialist countries of Eastern Europe was hailed as the great universal consolidation of capitalism, considered the “natural” way to organize the economy and society—the end of history. The philosophy of capitalism…
‘Like being Let Out of a Cage’: What the Pittston Strike Can Teach US About Faith, Building Community and Democracy
Published: September 18, 2026 15:52
Sept. 16, 1989, was a hot late-summer day in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Rev. Jim Sessions couldn’t sleep. He had a lot to be nervous about. The next morning, Sessions would drive two hours into the coalfields of southwest Virginia to participate in an act…
Native Americans Build Strategies to Overcome Voter Suppression
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/native-americans-build-strategies-to-overcome-voter-suppression/
Published: September 18, 2026 15:48
Greg Lembrich is hoping for the best but planning for the worst in the upcoming midterm elections. Legal director of the national nonprofit Four Directions Native Vote–Indian Country, Lembrich is worried about ever-higher barriers tribal voters may face in…
Fed Rate Hikes, US Treasury Market & Crisis of Empire
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fed-rate-hikes-us-treasury-market-crisis-of-empire/
Published: September 18, 2026 15:41
This past week the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark short term interest (Federal Funds) rate a minimal quarter point, .25, from 3.75% to 4.00%. Expectations are strong for yet another .25 hike before the end of 2026. Goods and services inflation in the…
The Realpolitik of the New Combatting Hate Act
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-realpolitik-of-the-new-combatting-hate-act/
Published: September 18, 2026 15:38
On June 18, 2026, the Canadian Parliament passed the Combatting Hate Act, which revises the Criminal Code in unnecessary but dangerous ways. Subject to intense lobbying by pro-Israel organizations, the lawmakers succumbed to a carefully curated moral…
Bases Without Names: How Governments Rebrand the U.S. Military Presence
Published: September 18, 2026 15:37
From “Forces of allied and friendly nations” in Jordan to “agreed locations” in the Philippines and a “rotational presence” in Australia, governments use legal and diplomatic language that avoids describing facilities hosting U.S. forces as military bases.…
Gendering the World-System: Women, Class, and the Global Division of Labor
Published: September 18, 2026 15:35
Which World Does the Woman Question Belong To? The woman question cannot be explained within the bounds of a single nation or the gender relations of one society alone. Family structure, labor markets, wages, property, care work, migration, and the many…
Is Europe Restraining Israel—or Merely Protecting the Two-State Illusion?
Published: September 18, 2026 15:29
This time, Europe seems serious about holding Israel accountable – or at least that is what 11 European countries, together with Canada, want us to believe. On September 8, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal,…
Don’t Look Away
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dont-look-away/
Published: September 17, 2026 15:58
After spending millions of dollars redecorating the White House and transforming D.C. monuments, President Trump approved, on September 15, 2026, an additional 2.8 billion dollar sale of heavy bombs to Israel, including 40,000 one-ton bombs, 20,000 of the…
The Nepal and Tibet Flood – Another Warning, Another Failure to Respond
Published: September 17, 2026 15:57
A stark warning was issued to humanity via CCTV on 26 August when a tsunami-like torrent of floodwater rising as high as 130 metres destroyed Gyirong Port, one of the main border crossings between Nepal and Tibet. The deeply shocking video footage shows…
Zionism Controls Hollywood, But There Are “Righteous Jews” Who Are Trying To Present The Truth
Published: September 17, 2026 15:54
When I was a kid growing up in a very pro-Zionist, Conservative Jewish family, I was subject to all kinds of propaganda about Israel that dominated my thinking until I spent one summer in Israel more than a half-century ago and I finally discovered the…
The Language of Complicity: When Liberalism Cannot Name Fascism
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-language-of-complicity-when-liberalism-cannot-name-fascism/
Published: September 17, 2026 15:53
But how can anyone tell the truth about Fascism, unless he is willing to speak out against capitalism, which brings it forth? —Bertolt Brecht, Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties (1935) In his magnificent Age of Extremes, the late historian Eric Hobsbawm…
Super-intelligent AI Won’t Kill Us. Dumb Billionaires are Doing That All by Themselves
Published: September 17, 2026 15:52
The super-rich have already screwed up the planet in their pursuit of power and profit. AI simply gives them a new tool to hasten their story – and ours – to its dramatic finale It is extremely difficult for ordinary people, myself very much included, to…
Ed Sheeran’s Craven “Neutrality” is a Watershed Moment for Mainstreaming Palestine Solidarity
Published: September 17, 2026 15:51
Ed Sheeran’s entire tour quitting in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore proves the logic of BDS. It has been an excellent 48 hours for Schadenfreude. Unprincipled pop star Ed Sheeran dropped principled pop star Macklemore from his U.S. stadium tour,…
Robin D. G. Kelley: What We’re Experiencing Right Now is Fascism
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/robin-d-g-kelley-what-were-experiencing-right-now-is-fascism/
Published: September 17, 2026 15:51
MAGA’s ongoing fascist assault on the nation’s residents echoes past eras of U.S. enslavement, racial terror, dispossession, segregation, and exclusion. Historian and political analyst Robin D. G. Kelley, distinguished professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed…
What Europe’s Migration Deals are Really Buying
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-europes-migration-deals-are-really-buying/
Published: September 17, 2026 15:50
The gravestones are barely visible. Scraps of text scratched into wet cement, left to harden in whatever shape they took. Some have no text at all, just a slight rise in the sand, a low dune along the wall at the far edge of the cemetery in Nouadhibou,…
A Portrait of How Workers Build a Strike
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-portrait-of-how-workers-build-a-strike/
Published: September 17, 2026 15:48
Who Moves America chronicles the Teamsters’ 2023 near-strike at UPS. It’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse group of workers building themselves into a fighting force, who then must wrestle with a different version of victory than they…
On My New Book
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-letter-to-readers/
Published: September 17, 2026 15:47
My new book, GAZA’S GRAVEDIGGERS: An Inquiry into Corruption in High Places, was officially published this week. When I began writing the book, my objective was to expose pockets of corruption in the United Nations. By the time I completed the book, it had…
How Workers Use AI in Germany
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-workers-use-ai-in-germany/
Published: September 17, 2026 15:45
A recent study from Germany shows that those who understand artificial intelligence (AI) are more scared of losing their jobs. So far, experts on Germany’s labor market (a market that sells nothing) and AI had — wrongly — “assumed” that people who know…
Counterfeit Righteousness: Anthropic, AI and the Pacing Fallacy
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/counterfeit-righteousness-anthropic-ai-and-the-pacing-fallacy/
Published: September 17, 2026 15:45
It’s bleak. “They are racing straight toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” So stated researcher Jacob Coxon on those artificial intelligence firms so keen on imposing their jaundiced visions upon humanity in the name of a…
How Israel’s Arms Industry Is Integrated Into Britain’s Military
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-israels-arms-industry-is-integrated-into-britains-military/
Published: September 16, 2026 19:18
Just days before Ed Miliband announced trade sanctions on Israeli settlements, more than 300 British soldiers participated in a “landmark” training exercise facilitated by Israel’s largest arms firm. Elbit Systems UK boasted about its “key role” in the…
To Understand the Houthis, Begin With Yemen
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/to-understand-the-houthis-begin-with-yemen/
Published: September 16, 2026 18:26
The Houthis are routinely described as an Iranian proxy. The description has become even more common as their military reach has expanded from northern Yemen toward the Red Sea and Bab el Mandeb. Iran has supplied weapons, training, intelligence and…
Pentagon Iran War Report Admits to Worst Drubbing Since Vietnam
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pentagon-iran-war-report-admits-to-worst-drubbing-since-vietnam/
Published: September 16, 2026 18:25
The Department of Defense report on the Israeli-US war on Iran admits that it has been costly, has seen extensive destruction of US facilities in the Middle East, and has run down Pentagon munitions. Since it is being issued by a department headed by…
America’s Future: Fossil Fuel Island in a Greentech World?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/americas-future-fossil-fuel-island-in-a-greentech-world/
Published: September 16, 2026 18:21
As we have seen throughout this series, the Greentech revolution is transforming energy production and use worldwide. Along with its other advantages, fossil free energy has become radically cheaper than fossil fuel energy. More than 90% of utility-scale…
India Has the Gavel. Does It Still Have a Voice?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/india-has-the-gavel-does-it-still-have-a-voice/
Published: September 16, 2026 18:12
At the BRICS Business Forum in Bharat Mandapam on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin read out the numbers. The eleven members of this grouping now produce more than 40 percent of the world’s output. The G7 produces 29. Over the last five years, BRICS…
How Amazon Busts Unions, in Its Own Words
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-amazon-busts-unions-in-its-own-words/
Published: September 16, 2026 18:10
Nearly ninety years ago, Ford kept its own private security force on the payroll for whenever they needed to beat up union supporters. Having traded in the brass knuckles and baseball bats of the early twentieth century for the empathetic listening and…
Why Ro Khanna and AOC Should Run for President in 2028
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-ro-khanna-and-aoc-should-run-for-president-in-2028/
Published: September 15, 2026 16:01
Fifteen years ago, during President Obama’s first term, we co-founded RootsAction as an online progressive group challenging not only Republicans but also the corporatism and militarism of the Democratic Party. RootsAction supported Bernie Sanders for…
130+ Lawyers Warn Burnham Israeli Settlement Sanctions ‘Fall Far Short’ of UK Obligations
Published: September 15, 2026 16:00
More than 130 lawyers and legal academics have warned Prime Minister Andy Burnham that sanctions announced against Israeli settlements fail to meet the UK’s obligations under international law. The six-page letter – whose signatories include renowned…
Marxism, Socialism, Communism — Oh No!
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/marxism-socialism-communism-oh-no/
Published: September 15, 2026 16:00
“Because they want — they think, over two or three cycles, they will elect enough Marxist socialist communists to take over the means of production. That means no more private property ownership. Compare that agenda with some crazy things that people have…
Liberating Theory, Economics/Class
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/liberating-theory-economics-class/
Published: September 15, 2026 16:00
This article continues a sequence taken from a book, Liberating Theory, published forty years ago. Its seven co-authors felt that a successful left in the U.S. needed what some of us called a shared conceptual toolbox for conceiving, judging, and enacting…
The Project for the New American Century, the War on Terrorism, and Wars Today
Published: September 15, 2026 16:00
Within days of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, members of President Bush’s cabinet began to advocate a military assault on Iraq, a longstanding target of the Washington militarists of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC). Now is the time, they said,…
AI & Deliberative Participation
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ai-deliberative-participation/
Published: September 15, 2026 16:00
One of the most common empty phrases about artificial intelligence (AI) is that it offers opportunities and challenges. Yet, AI can improve citizen participation when AI is not corrupted by large corporations using AI for profit. Interestingly, in May…
Recolonisation is Taking Place
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/recolonisation-is-taking-place/
Published: September 15, 2026 16:00
Latin America and the Caribbean countries are being re-colonised. This time it is not by Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, France and Portugal, but by the United States. At a period of time the United States had an anti-colonial position and had advocated…
Houthi Control of Red Sea Oil Chokepoint Exposes Deep Divisions in BRICS
Published: September 15, 2026 16:00
Houthi rebel forces have seized the Yemeni port of Mokha as well as Mayyun Island overlooking the Bab el-Mandab strait. This gives Iran’s most powerful remaining proxy force in the Middle East nearly complete control of Yemen’s entire Red Sea coast.…
Why the Trade War With Canada Amounts to Self-Sabotage
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-the-trade-war-with-canada-amounts-to-self-sabotage/
Published: September 15, 2026 16:00
Derrick Cleveland’s livelihood depends as much on thousands of workers in Canada as it does on the 100 colleagues he works shoulder to shoulder with at the Welded Tube mill in Lackawanna, New York. Cleveland and the other Lackawanna workers, all members of…
A Conversation With Indigenous Activist Sammy Gensaw III
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-conversation-with-indigenous-activist-sammy-gensaw-iii/
Published: September 15, 2026 15:59
Sammy Gensaw III (Yurok) was born and raised as a fisherman along Northern California’s Klamath River. His journey reflects a blend of ancestral wisdom and contemporary activism, all centered around the profound significance of preserving ecosystems and…
Fatal Alliance: The Reality of the U.S.-Israel Axis
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fatal-alliance-the-reality-of-the-u-s-israel-axis/
Published: September 14, 2026 19:40
To examine the unyielding multi-billionaire dollar shield that the United States provides Israel is to confront the coarse mechanics of modern empire. Washington has, for decades, maintained a posture of absolute defense, supplying advanced weaponry,…
Hubris in Action: Netanyahu and the Warnings of October 7
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hubris-in-action-netanyahu-and-the-warnings-of-october-7/
Published: September 14, 2026 19:36
Whatever awaits him this coming November, few politicians could claim to have the endurance, bloody mindedness and sense of granite staying power than Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. With some prowess, he has wooed, deceived, and lied his way to power, and,…
How the Despised Marxists Best Explained the Making of the Serbian Nation
Published: September 14, 2026 19:30
There is something almost paradoxical about the fate of the 1979 collection The Emergence and Development of the Serbian Nation. It grew out of a scholarly debate organized by the Marxist Centre of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of…
As Hostilities Flare and Oil Prices Spike, U.S. Consumers Pay at the Pump
Published: September 14, 2026 19:29
Hours after President Donald Trump predicted on Truth Social that oil prices would fall precipitously once the United States wins its war with Iran, strikes on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure by Iranian-backed Houthis Tuesday caused global oil prices to…
What Would a More Democratic Job Search Look Like?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-would-a-more-democratic-job-search-look-like/
Published: September 14, 2026 19:24
The job search is often described as though it were a private problem. Update the résumé. Search harder. Apply to more positions. Improve your interview skills. Learn another software program. Network. Follow up. Try again. There is truth in all of this.…
Pretoria Cannot Explain Ethiopia Anymore
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pretoria-cannot-explain-ethiopia-anymore/
Published: September 14, 2026 19:17
European diplomacy toward Ethiopia increasingly sounds as if the country has been frozen in November 2022. The same words keep returning: Pretoria, mediation, restraint, dialogue. None of them is objectionable. The Pretoria Cessation of Hostilities…
Why the US Should Not Recognize Somaliland
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-the-us-should-not-recognize-somaliland/
Published: September 14, 2026 19:13
Steven A. Cook argues in a recent piece on “Why the United States Should Recognize Somaliland” that the main reason for recognizing Somaliland is geostrategic. The stakes at play are “confronting the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] and the Houthis…
HJ-Siggi Wins Nazi-Anhalt
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hj-siggi-wins-nazi-anhalt/
Published: September 14, 2026 18:48
In the 2026 September election in the small East German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the former Neo-Nazi Ulrich Siegmund and his AfD party won a whopping 44%. It is very likely that, behind closed doors, Ulrich Siegmund is greeted by his adoring worshippers…
How Can Tech Workers Defeat the Oligarchy?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-can-tech-workers-defeat-the-oligarchy/
Published: September 14, 2026 18:44
Eric Blanc: What is the overall state of tech worker organizing under Trump 2.0? It seems like lots of people must be angry with their companies’ capitulation to Trump but I imagine the fear factor is also a lot higher today. JS Tan: Yes, we’re hearing…
From Oslo to Displacement: Thirty-Three Years That Changed the Map of Palestine
Published: September 14, 2026 18:33
On September 13, 1993, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin stood on theWhite House lawn and shook hands before the world. For Palestinians, that image carried a larger hope: that atransitional process would lead to the end of occupation and theestablishment of…
The Revolution Will Be Computational
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-revolution-will-be-computational/
Published: September 14, 2026 18:27
The next great political revolution may not begin with a crowd in a square. It may begin with a network of ordinary people acquiring computational capabilities that were previously reserved for governments, corporations and large institutions. For…
The US Wants Minerals from South America. Its Environmental Defenders Fear What Comes Next.
Published: September 14, 2026 12:48
When Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in South America this week, he carried a familiar message: The United States wants access to minerals and an expanded military presence in the region. That agenda is being welcomed by newly elected right-wing…
Mexican Activists are Fighting Climate Crises by Stopping Extractive Violence
Published: September 13, 2026 16:01
Atahualpa Sofía Enciso’s children don’t know what a normal river is, she says. Living by the Santiago River in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, which overflows with dense white foam from the hundreds of industries that pollute it, she notes that the area is…
For Many Muslim Women, the Racism and Suspicion After 9/11 Still Hasn’t Lifted
Published: September 13, 2026 16:00
Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many Muslim Americans are still perceived in ways shaped by 9/11 and continue to face discrimination, bigotry and suspicion. Muslim women, many of whom wear a visible identifier of their…
How Status Quo Democrats Could Create Another Trump
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-status-quo-democrats-could-create-another-trump/
Published: September 13, 2026 16:00
When I look back on all of my work over the last 30 years, one of the projects I’m most proud of is Meltdown, an audio series I did in 2021 with acclaimed director Alex Gibney that reveals the untold story of how Obama-era Democrats turning promises of…
Repeat After Media: Data Centers Are Wonderful and Good
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/repeat-after-media-data-centers-are-wonderful-and-good/
Published: September 13, 2026 16:00
If you follow conservative media and Republican politicians, you could be convinced that any opposition to AI data centers is not due to their sprawling footprint, greed for electricity or insatiable need for cooling water. Rather, it’s the result of a…
Map Wars: The Victory of Equal Earth Over an Unequal One
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/map-wars-the-victory-of-equal-earth-over-an-unequal-one/
Published: September 13, 2026 16:00
Last week, on 4th September, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows countries’ true size relative to one another. It aims to correct the view of the world shaped by the widely used world map based…
South Korea Shouldn’t Abet Trump in Hormuz
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/south-korea-shouldnt-abet-trump-in-hormuz/
Published: September 13, 2026 16:00
The Lee Administration leaked the possibility of deploying Korean forces to the Strait of Hormuz on 03 September. The backlash was immediate from Korean civil society that opposes any type of support for Trump’s war of aggression. Furthermore, recent polls…
An American Tragedy: the Woeful Self-Inflicted Consequences of 9/11
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-american-tragedy-the-woeful-self-inflicted-consequences-of-9-11/
Published: September 12, 2026 16:01
The 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon has resulted in a catalogue of self-inflicted disasters for the US. It was exploited by the worst elements of our political system to create a surveillance society, increase military spending, and…
Delcy Rodríguez Has a Gun Pointed at Her Head: Does She Have Options?
Published: September 12, 2026 16:01
Donald Trump’s success in wresting concessions from Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez is a clear demonstration of what can be achieved through the barrel of a gun. Just hours after the military incursion that resulted in the kidnaping of…
Fascist Fantasy Meets The Strait of Hormuz
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Published: September 12, 2026 16:01
Fascism is the elevation of male violence – celebrated in war, hunting, martial arts, meat eating and the subjugation (via eugenics) of the weak, the disabled and the colonized. Women are reduced to, well, Natalie Harp. This hyper-masculine ideal…
Anti-Imperialism and the Left in 2026
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Published: September 12, 2026 16:01
Manijeh Maradian is a founder of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective and the author of This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States. The homepage of the website for the Collective makes the group’s position quite clear: it rejects US…
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: The Power of Persistence
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Published: September 12, 2026 16:00
We live in a time fraught with bad news: assaults on democracy, climate disasters, crippling inequality, and an endless proliferation of lies. The pace of the daily outrages reminds me of a moment from Art Spiegelman’s Maus. The Spiegelman character asks…
Narendra Modi’s Take on ‘Cogito Ergo Sum’
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Published: September 12, 2026 16:00
I have always had a poor opinion of academics who flaunt their scholastic attainments at the first opportunity they get. Thankfully, not having any attainments, I have been saved the gauche temptation. But this is one reason why I rate Shri Narendra Modi’s…
A Shift in Europe from Right to Left Is Possible
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Published: September 12, 2026 16:00
In several European countries, parliamentary and presidential elections have become the scene of a historic contest between right-wing and left-wing forces. In Germany, state elections are underway, and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has…
Ben on Ben & Jerry’s and How We Can Save IT
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Published: September 12, 2026 16:00
This week on Talk World Radio, we’re talking about corporate power, the freedom of speech, and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream with Ben of Ben & Jerry’s, Ben Cohen, who has spoken out for years dramatically, creatively, and powerfully for peace and for a moral…
Making Change From the Dirt Up
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Published: September 12, 2026 16:00
Twenty-eight years ago, a group of neighbors in downtown Tucson, Arizona, led by permaculture designer Brad Lancaster, cut curbs in their neighborhood to let rainwater into the verge, where they guerrilla-planted indigenous flora. These and other crimes…
A Popular Movement in Kashmir Defies Severe Repression
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Published: September 12, 2026 16:00
When activist Shahzaib Habib was killed by unidentified men on the night of June 6 in Rawalakot, Pakistan, protesters took custody of his body from the combined military hospital and staged a sit-in outside the hospital, demanding that an investigation be…