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Beneath the Surface: Is the Trump-Netanyahu ‘Unthinkable’ About to Erupt?
Published: April 18, 2025 16:02
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington was no ordinary trip. The consensus among Israeli analysts, barring a few remaining loyalists, is that Netanyahu was not invited but, rather, summoned by US President Donald Trump. All…
Small Island States Are Leading the Fight Against Climate Change
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/small-island-states-are-leading-the-fight-against-climate-change/
Published: April 18, 2025 16:01
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face some of the most severe threats from climate change. Dispersed across the world’s oceans, these nations are among the first to confront rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and shifting ecological patterns.…
UN Expert: Israel Has “Decimated” Gaza Health System, Leaving “Zero” Options
Published: April 18, 2025 16:01
Israel’s assault on Gaza health facilities and workers has completely “decimated” the health care system and has left Palestinians with “zero” options for care, a UN expert has warned. Earlier this week, Israel struck Al-Ahli Hospital, rendering it…
Democracy or Plutocracy?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/democracy-or-plutocracy/
Published: April 18, 2025 16:01
Despite much lofty rhetoric portraying the United States as a democracy (in which the people rule), this nation, in fact, has often resembled a plutocracy (in which the wealthy rule). The confusion owes a great deal to the fact that the United States, at…
Gaza Faces Increasingly Bleak Reality One Month After Israel Ended Ceasefire
Published: April 18, 2025 16:01
Although Donald Trump is thoroughly unpredictable on many issues, his support for Israel’s government remains firm for now, allowing Binyamin Netanyahu to continue with the devastating war in Gaza. Israel aims to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its Palestinian…
The Brazilian Left Has Yet to Find a Successor to Lula
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-brazilian-left-has-yet-to-find-a-successor-to-lula/
Published: April 18, 2025 16:00
With the third term of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva well beyond its midway point, South America’s largest nation is again suffering from a leadership crisis. The once widely beloved politician’s approval rating has reached the lowest point…
Trump Is Leading the US Into Fascism
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-is-leading-the-us-into-fascism/
Published: April 18, 2025 16:00
Mainstreamcommentators acknowledge that the second Trump administration is authoritarian or right populist, but can’t bring themselves to use the term fascist. Like Harvard’s Steven Levitsky and University of Toronto’s Lucan A. Way in their recent piece in…
Chicago Teachers Win Greener Schools
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/chicago-teachers-win-greener-schools/
Published: April 18, 2025 16:00
The Chicago Teachers Union won a tentative agreement in December that, for the first time, addresses climate and environmental justice demands—making healthy green schools a priority in our city. We achieved this breakthrough even while broader contract…
Facing Trump’s America In the Spirit of African American History and Black Civil Rights Movement
Published: April 18, 2025 16:00
Recently, in an executive order, President Trump directed the removal of “improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution. That order was, in essence, an attempt to rewrite history on race and gender.…
How Eco-Localism Differs from Tariff Terrorism
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-eco-localism-differs-from-tariff-terrorism/
Published: April 18, 2025 16:00
Followers of the Small Is Beautiful school of environmentalism (to which I subscribe) often critique globalization and advocate localism. The controversial new Trump tariffs seem purpose-made to choke off global trade and promote American domestic…
Recovering Our Power
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/recovering-our-power/
Published: April 18, 2025 16:00
There’s a moment in chapter 12 of Capital where Karl Marx describes a critical phase of glassmaking in a manufacturing workshop. Five workers gather at “the hole” of the furnace, each focused on an individual task that, taken together, will produce a…
Global Battlefields: A No-Holds-Barred Reckoning
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/global-battlefields-a-no-holds-barred-reckoning/
Published: April 18, 2025 16:00
Global Battlefields: Memoir of a Legendary Public Intellectual from the Global South, by Walden Bello. (Clarity Press, 2025) For starters, Walden Bello’s memoir takes the reader inside some of the biggest fights against dictatorship, exploitation, and…
Neurodiversity: Challenging Normality in Activism
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/neurodiversity-challenging-normality-in-activism/
Published: April 17, 2025 15:58
As a starting point, neurodivergent refers to individuals whose neurocognitive functioning differs from what dominant societal standards define as “normal.” This includes conditions such as autism, ADHD, OCD , dyspraxia and Parkinson’s disease, among…
Day of Action on 150+ Campuses Across US Will Target Trump Attack on Higher Education
Published: April 17, 2025 15:58
“What is at stake is the defense of our fundamental democratic rights and constitutional freedoms,” said one organizer. With universities across the U.S. facing attacks from the Trump administration that “have been compared to the worst of McCarthyism,” as…
Unthinking, Apathy, and Genocide
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unthinking-apathy-and-genocide/
Published: April 17, 2025 15:58
Late last century I figured out that I needed to work on a job dedicated to making the world a better place. I know not everyone can find such a job if they try. I appreciate all the other useful jobs that millions of people do — if not the useless and…
Global Charade: Israel, Palestine and the ‘Rules-Based Order’
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/global-charade-israel-palestine-and-the-rules-based-order/
Published: April 17, 2025 15:57
The post-WW2 ‘international rules-based order’ that supposedly underpins global affairs in the interests of peace, democracy and prosperity has always been largely a charade. But Israel’s continuing Gaza genocide, carried out with seeming impunity and with…
Against Militarization: Scientists Unite in Opposition to EU Rearmament
Published: April 17, 2025 15:56
Scientists are uniting to voice against the recent proposal to rearm the European Union. They have released “Scientists against rearmament – A manifesto” and are calling on scientists, engineers, medical professionals, mathematicians, scholars, and the…
Los Angeles Teachers’ Union Defends Students From Trump’s Anti-Migrant Crackdown
Published: April 17, 2025 15:53
On April 7, federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempted to enter two elementary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). According to LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, the agents were trying to contact…
UK Arrest Warrant For Israeli Foreign Minister
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/uk-arrest-warrant-for-israeli-foreign-minister/
Published: April 17, 2025 15:52
Arrest Warrant Sought for Israeli Foreign Minister During Ongoing UK Visit An arrest warrant is being urgently sought for a senior member of Israel’s security cabinet, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar during his visit to the UK. The charges focus in…
Progressives Push for Emergency DNC Meeting to Confront ‘Dictatorial’ Trump
Published: April 17, 2025 15:50
“Step by step, in effect, the regime is proceeding to shred the Constitution of the United States,” said the national director of RootsAction. “This is no time for Democratic Party business as usual.” A pair of grassroots progressive organizations launched…
A Time of Living Dangerously – For Telling the Truth
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-time-of-living-dangerously-for-telling-the-truth/
Published: April 17, 2025 15:50
The West has long cherished political correctness as though it were a core democratic value. This drive to ‘civilise’ public discourse has been especially aimed at illiberal democracies or post-socialist societies that are still expected to become ‘true…
No Resurrection: The Life and Death of the Modern University
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-resurrection-the-life-and-death-of-the-modern-university/
Published: April 17, 2025 15:49
My first academic job was at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. I was extremely lucky to have landed that job. I was fresh out of graduate school and had mailed off around 150 applications between September and December. It was 2003. These things…
NATO Was Founded to Crush Communist, Socialist, and Anti-colonial Movements Worldwide
Published: April 17, 2025 15:46
NATO was never a good idea gone wrong. It was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements in Europe and around the world. Medea Benjamin and David Swanson explain NATO’s supremely violent history in NATO: What You Need to Know . The…
In Gaza: Relentless Bombardment, Lack of Water and Hospitals, People Burned Alive
Published: April 16, 2025 19:54
In the 28th straight day since obliterating the ceasefire agreement on March 18th (the day that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to testify in his trial for corruption), Israeli forces continued to bombard the terrified residents of the…
Why Is the BBC Middle East Desk Run By a Mossad Collaborator?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-is-the-bbc-middle-east-desk-run-by-a-mossad-collaborator/
Published: April 16, 2025 19:53
A senior figure at the BBC’s Middle East desk, Raffi Berg, has been exposed as a former employee of a CIA propaganda division and a collaborator with Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad, according to a detailed investigation by MintPress News. Berg, who…
Double Standard About Israel’s Foreign Interference
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/double-standard-about-israels-foreign-interference/
Published: April 16, 2025 19:52
Benjamin Netanyahu is openly throwing his weight behind Pierre Poilievre. But few are pushing back against this flagrant interference in Canada’s election. On Friday the Israeli prime minister posted, “Canada has always sided with civilization. So should…
Standing Up by Sitting Down: The 1906 Sit-Down Strike in Schenectady, New York
Published: April 16, 2025 19:51
There are hundreds if not tens of thousands of historical examples of the plight of organized labor, radical and otherwise. Some are more celebrated than others such as the Pullman Strike of 1894 and the Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 in Lawrence,…
Who Would Pay the Biggest Price for Postal Privatization?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/who-would-pay-the-biggest-price-for-postal-privatization/
Published: April 16, 2025 19:45
President Trump and Elon Musk have expressed an interest in selling off the U.S. Postal Service to for-profit corporations. Even piecemeal privatization of this public agency would have wide-ranging effects on postal customers, employees, businesses, and…
With Congress Preparing a “Fiscal Tsunami,” States Can Choose Differently
Published: April 16, 2025 19:37
Tax policy experts and lawmakers have long circled 2025 as a year to prepare for. What makes it so significant? For one thing, Federal COVID money to states is expiring, straining state budgets at the same time the economy is starting to weaken. For…
Appalled at Funding Genocide, Over 2,000 US Taxpayers Turn to the UN for Redress
Published: April 16, 2025 19:25
Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG), a nongovernmental grassroots mass movement comprised of more than 2,000 taxpayers who have been protesting their congressional representatives’ votes to fund Israel’s genocide in Gaza, filed an unprecedented report with…
Expanding the Possible, From Below
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/expanding-the-possible-from-below/
Published: November 12, 2024 18:37
Starting where we’re at Less than one week after a self-proclaimed dictator, climate change denier, and big oil-funded billionaire (among other equally impressive accolades) took the single most powerful political office in the world, it seems like a…
Home Insurance Should Be for Safety, Not Profits
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/home-insurance-should-be-for-safety-not-profits/
Published: November 12, 2024 17:40
Though the full extent of the havoc wrought by Hurricanes Helene and Milton is still being assessed, by now we’re all clear on one thing: home insurance markets are in crisis, with devastating consequences for people across the United States. While Helene…
Spain to Block Maersk Ships Bound to Israel After Pressure From Activists
Published: November 12, 2024 17:40
The Spanish government has announced it will block two ships—Denver and Seletar—operated by shipping giant Maersk and carrying military cargo bound for Israel, from docking at the port of Algeciras. This decision comes just days after the Mask off Maersk…
AOC Asks MAGA One Question… The Results Are STUNNING
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/aoc-asks-maga-one-question-the-results-are-stunning/
Published: November 12, 2024 17:39
Adam Mockler with MeidasTouch Network analyses the responses to an experiment run by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez where she asked Trump voters in her district, why they also voted for her.
The Military-Industrial Complex Is Fueling Climate Catastrophe — Let’s Demand Accountability at COP
Published: November 12, 2024 17:30
The world’s largest institutional emitter, the U.S. military, sits beyond the reach of the metrics meant to hold countries accountable for climate pollution. Exempt from transparency requirements at the COP or within U.N. climate agreements, the military…
Cherokee Nation Citizen Works to Change the Face of Construction, Offer Affordable Housing Solution
Published: November 12, 2024 17:30
I want to change the face of construction. A predominantly male-focused industry, there are plenty of opportunities for women. That’s why I founded Prime Craftsman Homes, a Native-owned company that aims to provide affordable housing solutions,…
The Harsh Reality of Seasonal Labour in Germany
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-harsh-reality-of-seasonal-labour-in-germany/
Published: November 12, 2024 17:00
On an asparagus farm in eastern Germany, the large area earmarked for barracks-style housing is divided in two. One half is reserved for European Union citizens, mostly seasonal workers from Romania, while the other half houses non-EU nationals. Their…
Venezuelan Communist Neirlay Andrade: ‘An Authoritarian Regime Is Never the Better Option’
Published: November 12, 2024 17:00
More than three months after Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election, revolutionary and left-wing organisations inside the country continue demanding the National Electoral Council (CNE) publish the election results. According to the CNE, incumbent…
Redefining the Political in Colonial Puerto Rico
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/redefining-the-political-in-colonial-puerto-rico/
Published: November 12, 2024 17:00
The struggle for life is taking new and interesting twists in Puerto Rico. The last few months have seen an escalation in the confrontation between those that want to preserve the status quo and those that wanted to explore alternative roads with the…
Climate Advocacy Groups Say They’re Ready for Trump 2.0
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climate-advocacy-groups-say-theyre-ready-for-trump-2-0/
Published: November 12, 2024 17:00
Donald Trump has promised to demolish the country’s domestic and international climate policies at a crucial moment, when climate scientists say the window is closing on the world’s ability to avoid the most dangerous impacts of global warming. But in the…
Firewall Gender Equality From Threats Like Anti-Rights Geneva Consensus Declaration
Published: November 12, 2024 17:00
Trump’s earlier tenure as President of the United States was marred by the infamous jolt to abortion rights and broader sexual and reproductive health and rights. Within days after the 2024 election results point towards his imminent return as the…
Post-Election Mass Call: Making Meaning of the Moment
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/post-election-mass-call-making-meaning-of-the-moment/
Published: November 11, 2024 17:49
Donald Trump will be returning to the White House. It’s up to us to build the movement that will fight for each other. Join with members of 200+ organizations as we make meaning of the moment, lay out concrete actions, and share thoughts on the path…
How We Can Defend Ourselves in the New Trump Era
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-we-can-defend-ourselves-in-the-new-trump-era/
Published: November 11, 2024 17:17
Bill Fletcher Jr. is one of the most revered political organizers of the last 40 years. He’s been an activist since his teen years and joined the labor movement after college when he worked as a welder in a shipyard. He has worked for and with numerous…
Directly Challenging the US Empire, Capitalism, and the Global Climate Crisis
Published: November 11, 2024 17:06
Well, the Democrats failed to keep Donald Trump out of the presidency again. That’s going to hurt a lot of people. I assume most of us would prefer that he was not in this position. However, I argue that if we carefully examine the situation, we can see…
Gaza Genocide & Empire with Jason Hickel
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/gaza-genocide-empire-with-jason-hickel/
Published: November 11, 2024 16:57
Dr. Jason Hickel explains Israel’s role as US proxy, and how the genocide in Gaza is intentional and necessary for imperialism.
Trump 2.0 Poses an Even Bigger Threat to Migrants. Here’s How We Fight Back.
Published: November 11, 2024 16:46
This election cycle was defined — yet again — by Donald Trump’s fearmongering over immigration. Like his previous two campaigns for president, Trump fueled a racist panic over “migrant crime” and capitalized on people’s fears over economic insecurity by…
Alienation or Repression?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alienation-or-repression/
Published: November 11, 2024 16:33
§1. We are told that certain tactics by the European climate justice movement “alienate” the public. For all practical purposes, this discourse could be a pseudo-argument by the “opinion-making” elites who want to see their comfort untouched and can be…
No Justice, No Peace in Mozambique
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-justice-no-peace-in-mozambique/
Published: November 11, 2024 16:21
On October 9, Mozambicans cast their ballots in the general election. After widespread fraud during last year’s municipal vote, many believed that the outcome was a foregone conclusion. The ruling party would rig the results, the opposition would…
What Rough Beast?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-rough-beast/
Published: November 11, 2024 16:16
President Joe Biden has now joined the ranks of Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush as a president whose Middle East policy crashed and burned spectacularly. Unlike Carter, who was stymied by the Iranian hostage crisis, or Bush, who faced a popular Iraqi…
African Women and Girls Will Die From Unsafe Abortions Thanks to Trump Win
Published: November 11, 2024 16:10
Trump’s presidency already looks set to have a catastrophic effect on sexual reproductive health and rights on the African continent. I work as a reproductive and gender health specialist in Uganda and we’re still feeling the impacts of Trump’s last…
Tesla = Trump
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/tesla-trump/
Published: November 11, 2024 16:04
Last night, we visited Tesla’s European HQ in Amsterdam to tell the story of how one of the world’s richest people bought the ‘digital town square’, then used it to peddle disinformation and help push Donald Trump to victory. There are many reasons why…
What a Trump Presidency Means for Climate Action
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/what-a-trump-presidency-means-for-climate-action/
Published: November 11, 2024 15:57
WTF – What Trump Fucks.* Beside his extensive sexual assault of women, Trump’s political agenda involves violently assaulting the planet, climate legislation, industry regulations, state-led climate agendas and international negotiations. And that was just…
The World According to Trump – The Chris Hedges Report
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-world-according-to-trump-the-chris-hedges-report/
Published: November 10, 2024 16:20
Joining host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report is Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. With his extensive insights and expertise into the Middle East and American…
Trump’s Win Casts Shadow over US Climate Progress, Global Leadership
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-win-casts-shadow-over-us-climate-progress-global-leadership/
Published: November 10, 2024 15:53
Former president Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday jeopardizes the hard-fought climate progress of the past four years in the United States and sets back the global effort to curb warming at a time when the overwhelming scientific consensus is that delay…
Germany’s Coalition Collapsed, but Recession Is Here to Stay
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/germanys-coalition-collapsed-but-recession-is-here-to-stay/
Published: November 10, 2024 15:39
“Scholz ditches Lindner.” Three words that pack a punch for Germans, after three years in which Free Democrats (FDP) leader Christian Lindner set an austerian tone for the coalition government. The split between Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Finance Minister…
Congress Is About to Gift Trump Sweeping Powers to Crush His Political Enemies
Published: November 10, 2024 15:31
Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire for revenge. On the campaign trail, he joked about being a dictator on “day one” in office, pledged to jail journalists, and threatened to retaliate against political foes who he felt had wronged him. Now, just…
How Did I “Predict” That Trump, Despite His Repulsive Persona and Politics, Would Prevail?
Published: November 10, 2024 15:24
Nearly a month before the November 5 elections, I anticipated that Donald Trump would win and wrote about it in a couple of articles. My “prediction” created some controversy, especially since the polls showed Harris and Trump in a dead heat. Not…
Billionaires Own US Climate Policy
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/billionaires-own-us-climate-policy/
Published: November 10, 2024 15:20
Billions of dollars will buy almost anything anybody wants, and on November 5th billions of dollars bought the world’s leading anti-climate-change political administration, aka: the Trump Administration, which is anti-almost-everything, except for a free…
Prepping Readers to Accept Mass Slaughter in Lebanese ‘Strongholds’
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/prepping-readers-to-accept-mass-slaughter-in-lebanese-strongholds/
Published: November 10, 2024 15:11
Back in May 2015, the New York Times’ Isabel Kershner decided to moonlight as an Israeli military propagandist by penning an alleged exposé (5/12/15)—headlined “Israel Says Hezbollah Positions Put Lebanese at Risk”—in which she diligently conveyed all that…
A New Wave of Movements Against Trumpism Is Coming
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-new-wave-of-movements-against-trumpism-is-coming/
Published: November 10, 2024 15:04
For many of us, the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s decisive electoral victory has been a time of deep despair and mourning. There has been plenty of commentary trying to make sense of Trump’s win and the factors that led to it. But no analysis…
Apocalypse Now?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/apocalypse-now/
Published: May 23, 2024 16:46
Eyes open. Look around. Ears attuned. Listen up. Something is happening here, there, and everywhere. Ignore it, avoid it, deny it , whine or weep over it and it will keep happening. Fight it and envision and seek better, and we can stop it. You know it,…
Lily Greenberg Call, First Jewish Biden Appointee to Publicly Resign over Gaza
Published: May 23, 2024 16:20
We speak with Lily Greenberg Call, the first known Jewish appointee to resign from the Biden administration over the war in Gaza. Greenberg Call was a special assistant to the chief of staff at the Interior Department after being named to the post by…
A Victory for Palestine and Palestinian Solidarity in Dublin
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-victory-for-palestine-and-palestinian-solidarity-in-dublin/
Published: May 23, 2024 15:59
On May 15, to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the Nakba and in solidarity with Palestinians, Dublin based, Irish football club Bohemian FC played host to the Palestinian national women’s team. It also marked the maiden game that the Palestine team had…
To Win Big, Labor Has to Lose More
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/to-win-big-labor-has-to-lose-more/
Published: May 23, 2024 15:57
There’s no sugarcoating it: Mercedes workers’ loss last week was a punch in the gut. Hopefully we can soon get some sober assessments from worker leaders and staff organizers about what — if anything — they’d try to do differently next time around. But…
Nakba Resurrected – How the Gaza Resistance Ended Segmentation of Palestine
Published: May 23, 2024 15:57
Inadvertently, Israel has pressed the reset button on its war with the Palestinian people, taking back the so-called conflict to square one. Save a few self-serving Palestinian officials affiliated with the Palestinian Authority (PA), most Palestinians do…
The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-slow-motion-execution-of-julian-assange-continues/
Published: May 23, 2024 15:56
The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point. The decision by the High Court in London to grant Julian Assange the…
ICC Delivers Three Surprises In Overdue Netanyahu War Crimes Indictment
Published: May 23, 2024 15:55
t had been widely anticipated that, to maintain any institutional respect, the International Criminal Court would have to indict some Israeli leaders, unavoidably including Prime Minister Netanyahu, in connection with the Gaza genocide and that, for…
‘Extremely Harrowing’: British Surgeon’s Gaza Testimony Buried By The ‘MSM’
Published: May 23, 2024 15:54
Propaganda by omission is a dominant feature of the ‘mainstream’ news media. Indeed, it is a requirement. Rather than serving the public interest by fully exposing the brutal machinations of power, state-corporate media shield Western governments and their…
THE HOLLOW MYTHS OF A ‘MAVERICK’ EMPIRE
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-hollow-myths-of-a-maverick-empire/
Published: May 23, 2024 15:52
As the US geopolitical project stumbles, and the idea of ‘benevolent statecraft’ is revealed as a sham, so too its ideological apparatus starts to wane. Hollywood, for years a supporter of the imperial project though the production of myths seems to have…
War Cuts the Heart Out of Humankind
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/war-cuts-the-heart-out-of-humankind/
Published: May 23, 2024 15:52
In the apartment of my friends in Baghdad (Iraq), they tell me about how each of them had been impacted by the ugliness of the 2003 U.S.-imposed illegal war on their country. Yusuf and Anisa are both members of the Federation of Journalists of Iraq and…
A Brutal Punishment: The Sentencing Of David Mcbride
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-brutal-punishment-the-sentencing-of-david-mcbride/
Published: May 23, 2024 15:49
David McBride, the man who revealed that Australia’s special forces in Afghanistan had committed atrocities and faced a compromised chain of command, was condemned on May 14 to a prison term of five years and eight months. Without McBride’s feats, there…
CBC Has Whitewashed Israel’s Crimes In Gaza. I Saw It Firsthand
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cbc-has-whitewashed-israels-crimes-in-gaza-i-saw-it-firsthand/
Published: May 23, 2024 15:45
Working for five years as a producer at the public broadcaster, I witnessed the double standards and discrimination in its coverage of Palestine—and experienced directly how CBC disciplines those who speak out The executive producer peered at me with…
At Western Sahara: Visiting a Forgotten People
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/at-western-sahara-visiting-a-forgotten-people/
Published: May 23, 2024 15:44
South of the Algerian town of Tindouf on the border with Western Sahara are five refugee camps. The camps are home to the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara and are administered by their freedom movement Polisario, which is fighting to liberate their…
Education in Gaza Has Been Decimated, but the Spirit of Refaat Alareer Will Prevail
Published: May 22, 2024 17:26
Palestinians have always been proud to have one of the lowest illiteracy rates in the world. Many Palestinian refugees, who lost their homes in the Nakba and Naksa, believe that investment in education is the way out — the way for them to survive and…
Welcome to the Hedge-Fund Driven Neoliberal University
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/welcome-to-the-hedge-fund-driven-neoliberal-university/
Published: May 22, 2024 17:20
There can be little doubt that neoliberalism has undermined, if not crippled, the notion of higher education as a democratic public sphere—a protective and courageous space where students can speak, write, and act from a position of agency and informed…
Biden Should Stop Attacking the International Criminal Court
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/biden-should-stop-attacking-the-international-criminal-court/
Published: May 22, 2024 17:16
“I’ve had some elected leaders speak to me and be very blunt: ‘This court [the International Criminal Court] is built for Africa and for thugs like Putin,’ is what one senior leader told me.” It’s hard to know what’s more extraordinary: yesterday’s…
Atlanta’s Cop City: Other Cities Are Also Building Police Training Facilities, Despite Pushback
Published: May 22, 2024 17:12
This year, the night before Valentine’s Day, more than 200 people attended a city council meeting in Fitchburg, a suburb of Madison, Wisconsin. The house was packed because of one agenda item in particular: plans for a new $50 million police station,…
The Turning of the Tide
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-turning-of-the-tide/
Published: May 22, 2024 16:59
In the normal run of things, if a very senior judge instructs you to give an assurance to their Court, it would probably not be wise to avoid giving the assurance, to devote a huge amount of text to trying to obscure the fact you have not given the…
“We Hope to Be a Model”: Students & Faculty at The New School Secure Divestment Vote
Published: May 22, 2024 16:50
Handmaids in America
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/handmaids-in-america/
Published: May 22, 2024 16:24
In the first year of Trump’s presidency, I decided it was time to reread George Orwell’s classic “1984,” which I hadn’t touched for a couple of decades. When I read it again, it was upsetting to find it resonated in a way I never expected it to. “1984” was…
In the Largest Democracy, a Spade Must Not Be Called a Spade
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-the-largest-democracy-a-spade-must-not-be-called-a-spade/
Published: May 22, 2024 16:10
Had Indira Gandhi been alive today, she would have learnt how to run an Emergency without declaring it. That she invoked, injuriously, a then-existing provision of the constitution to so do gave her little cover from history. But in our times, you may have…
US Labor Today and the Way Forward
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-labor-today-and-the-way-forward/
Published: May 22, 2024 16:04
The labor movement in the United States used to be respected and looked to for leadership; people cared about what positions labor took, watched when they mobilized, noticed the causes they supported. This was especially true among the left. Today, for…
Third Parties and the November Election
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/third-parties-and-the-november-election/
Published: May 22, 2024 16:01
So what’s the state of the horse race for the Presidency? I’ve done a little research, and here’s what I’ve come up with. I looked at the polling results for the first three weeks of May at the Real Clear Politics website by pollsters who gave the option…
Housing, Not Handcuffs
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Published: May 21, 2024 16:30
On April 22nd, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case that focuses on whether unhoused — the term that has generally replaced “homeless” — people with no indoor shelter options can even pull a blanket around themselves…
There is an Alternative to Costly, Carbon-emitting Chemical Fertilisers
Published: May 21, 2024 16:30
At the recent African Union (AU) Fertilizer & Soil Health Summit in Nairobi on 7-9 May, African leaders unveiled the new 10-year Fertilizer and Soil Health Action Plan 2023-2033. Designed to maintain soil fertility and ensure soil health across the…
The American Indian Movement and Leonard Peltier
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Published: May 21, 2024 16:30
Despite now spending 47 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit, Leonard Peltier continues to be denied parole by the federal government of the United States. Why has the US so obstinately refused to free Peltier, despite decades of international…
Small Victory in the Assange Case: Permission to Appeal Extradition
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/small-victory-in-the-assange-case-permission-to-appeal-extradition/
Published: May 21, 2024 16:30
In this video, acTVism Munich provide an update on the extradition case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from London, England. During a two-hour permission to appeal hearing on Monday May 20 at the Royal Courts of Justice, Judges Victoria Sharp and…
United Nations 3.0
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Published: May 21, 2024 16:30
It was in the embers of the unprecedented death and destruction of World War I, that the Allied powers at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 established the ‘League of Nations’ – the United Nations version 1.0 – a global organization for peace that many…
German Colonial Amnesia and the Destruction of Gaza
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/german-colonial-amnesia-and-the-destruction-of-gaza/
Published: May 21, 2024 16:30
Aimé Césaire states in his Discourse on Colonialism that colonialism decivilizes the colonizer, brutalizes him, degrades him, “to awaken him to buried instinct, to covetous violence, race hatred, and moral relativism” as “universal regression” (p. 35). As…
US-Backed Philippine Government Committed War Crimes, People’s Tribunal Finds
Published: May 21, 2024 16:30
Gaza is not the only place where Joe Biden’s government is aiding and abetting atrocities. Following a hearing on May 17-18, the International People’s Tribunal on War Crimes in the Philippines found Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr.,…
Dear White Friends: Can You Smell the Yellow Roses of Dier al-Balah?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dear-white-friends-can-you-smell-the-yellow-roses-of-dier-al-balah/
Published: May 21, 2024 16:30
One of the first things that I heard from people when I immigrated to the United States from the Global South in early 2000 was, “Oh, you speak our language so well.” To which I would reply politely that it was one of the things that the British left…
The Race to End Fossil Fuel Production
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-race-to-end-fossil-fuel-production-2/
Published: May 21, 2024 16:30
Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. This quip by the American essayist Charles Dudley Warner applies to fossil fuels as well. Everyone talks about ending fossil fuel production, but almost no one is doing anything about…
The Threat of Democracy on Campus at UMass
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-threat-of-democracy-on-campus-at-umass/
Published: May 21, 2024 16:30
Before arriving at UMass Amherst last fall, Chancellor Javier Reyes was already notorious for his cavalier approach to critics. But few foresaw what he did on May 7. Earlier that day, organizers from a coalition of campus solidarity groups had erected…
An Oral History of The Next American Revolution: Installment 1
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-oral-history-of-the-next-american-revolution-installment-1/
Published: May 21, 2024 16:30
“The following article is excerpted from a book in progress titled An Oral History of The Next American Revolution. It includes a Foreword, an Introduction, and a short First Chapter of the book. Z will publish one excerpt a week for fourteen weeks,…
Activist Diary #1: Go to the Meeting
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/activist-diary-1-go-to-the-meeting/
Published: May 21, 2024 16:30
Back in the early 2000s, I was doing a lot of neighborhood based organizing against the war in Iraq. My partner and I brought our kids with us to meetings and protests, and our house was often full of people planning the next action. One day, our 11-year…
Iranian President Dead in Crash: Now Comes the Night of Long Knives
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Published: May 20, 2024 17:40
Iran’s Mehr News Service reported Monday morning Tehran time that President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian died Sunday in a helicopter crash in a remote area of Iran. They had been at the border with the neighboring country of…
A Reprieve for Assange
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-reprieve-for-assange/
Published: May 20, 2024 17:33
The High Court’s decision to permit Julian Assange to appeal his pending extradition is an important, if partial, victory. The judges are only too aware that, in reality, he has no case to answer. The US charge of ‘espionage’ is blatant nonsense. The fact…
Retired New York City Teachers Rise and Run
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/retired-new-york-city-teachers-rise-and-run/
Published: May 20, 2024 17:31
They’ve really stepped in it. The incumbent Unity Caucus that runs the huge teachers union in New York City is facing a challenge from the Retiree Advocate slate who hope to take leadership of the powerful 70,000-person retiree chapter within the union.…
Worker Co-Ops Have a Role to Play in Socialist Strategy
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/worker-co-ops-have-a-role-to-play-in-socialist-strategy/
Published: May 20, 2024 17:27
Copenhagen, 1910. Here, at the beginnings of social democracy’s ascent in Europe, the Second International passed a resolution supporting cooperatives. While acknowledging that cooperation alone was “incapable of realizing the aim of socialism,” the…
The Indigenous Growers Reviving Hemp’s Deep Roots
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-indigenous-growers-reviving-hemps-deep-roots/
Published: May 20, 2024 17:21
Cannabis can transform our materials economy and textiles industry, return carbon to the soil, provide sustainable housing material, nurture health and well-being and set us on a path to restorative justice. That’s why we call it the New Green Revolution.…
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