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The United States Is an International Lawbreaker
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-united-states-is-an-international-lawbreaker/
Published: January 7, 2026 21:57
The illegality of US intervention in Venezuela has been amply cited with reference to its attacks on alleged drug boats, its declaration of an oil blockade, and its kidnapping of Venezuela’s leader. When it comes to the US invasion, I have not seen…
How Israel’s Move in Somaliland Fits in Its Broader Strategy for Regional Dominance
Published: January 7, 2026 21:57
As Donald Trump proclaimed a “forever peace” in the region last October, Israel proceeded to dramatically escalate its military operations, launching repeated assaults across Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and beyond. In Gaza, Israel has violated the ceasefire…
It’s Colonialism, Stupid!
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-colonialism-stupid/
Published: January 7, 2026 21:51
What happened in the early hours of January 3 in Caracas left the world stunned. But the strongest reason for astonishment is the fact that the world was stunned. What happened had been widely predicted. Since when? The less informed would say since Donald…
Zohran Mamdani, Or How to Embody Hope in These Dark Times!
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zohran-mamdani-or-how-to-embody-hope-in-these-dark-times/
Published: January 6, 2026 17:01
But why, in these dark times, attach so much importance to what the new mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, says and does, while Trump bombs Venezuela and kidnaps Maduro and his wife? Or while Netanyahu and his Israel persist in exterminating the…
Zohran Mamdani’s Inaugural Speech
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/zohran-mamdanis-inaugural-speech/
Published: January 6, 2026 17:01
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers a historic, fiery inaugural speech, vowing to fight corporate greed, restore government accountability, and make NYC a city for all residents, not just the wealthy. He promises bold action on affordability,…
The West Bank Settlements Israel Evacuated in 2005 Are Back
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-west-bank-settlements-israel-evacuated-in-2005-are-back/
Published: January 6, 2026 17:01
Muhammad Jaradat would never have imagined that 2025 would be the last year he got to visit the hills of the northern West Bank with his hiking group. “We returned once or twice every year, amazed by the beauty of carob and oak trees,” he said in a quiet…
Venezuela Vs. the Empire
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-vs-the-empire/
Published: January 6, 2026 17:01
The USA is descending into a state of general lawlessness, at home and abroad. From using domestic special ops paramilitary units (ICE) to kidnap people off the streets of America and send them abroad, the US government is now deploying secret special ops…
Epstein, Trump and The Higher Immorality
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/epstein-trump-and-the-higher-immorality/
Published: January 6, 2026 17:01
We live in an America where those who control the levers of power potentially have knowledge of almost everything about the ordinary citizen while they operate clandestinely with little or no public scrutiny. In contrast, they have access not only to…
Venezuela, the U.S. National Security Strategy, and the Crisis of Responsible Statehood
Published: January 6, 2026 17:00
When does permissible strategic competition become illegitimate coercion, and when does state power begin to resemble organised crime? What is the Trump administration’s logic in pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández while indicting…
Venezuela’s Communes: Socialism of the Twenty-First Century
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuelas-communes-socialism-of-the-twenty-first-century/
Published: January 6, 2026 17:00
[Editor’s note: “This article was first published before the US attack on Caracas and kidnapping of President Maduro in January 2026.”] The United States is committed to removing Venezuela’s President, Nicolás Maduro, along with the government he leads.…
Trump’s Spectacles of Violence Can’t Hold Back the Growing Tide of Discontent
Published: January 6, 2026 17:00
My family is scared to step outside,” a student admitted during my class. Around him heads nodded. All were born in the U.S. but most know undocumented people. Donald Trump painted a big target on their backs. “We’re not criminals, you know. We’re just…
Trump Will Try to Defend Aggression Toward Venezuela. It’s Still Illegal.
Published: January 6, 2026 16:59
The Trump administration’s massive military attack on Venezuela, launched with 150 aircraft, reportedly killed upwards of 80 people, including civilians. In utter defiance of the mandates of the United Nations Charter, U.S. forces launched the attack as…
The United States and Israel: Two Halves of a Toxic Whole
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-united-states-and-israel-two-halves-of-a-toxic-whole/
Published: January 6, 2026 16:59
America’s close partnership with Israel has been costly. Tel Aviv’s expansionist policies in Palestine and pursuit of military dominance over its neighbors have driven instability in the Middle East and distorted once predictable international…
Corporations Are Ready to Cash In on Venezuela
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/corporations-are-ready-to-cash-in-on-venezuela/
Published: January 5, 2026 20:58
Just weeks before the American military operation in Venezuela to capture President Nicolás Maduro, the US energy giant Halliburton filed an unusual lawsuit in international court claiming the Venezuelan government owed them damages for US sanctions…
King of Cannibal Island
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/king-of-cannibal-island/
Published: January 5, 2026 20:53
The tulip bubble is the most famous financial bubble in history, but as historical examples go it is also, in one crucial respect, misleading. That’s because anyone can see the flagrant irrationality which was at work. At peak tulip madness in 1637, rare…
Venezuela Won’t Be the End. You’re Naive if You Think So
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-wont-be-the-end-youre-naive-if-you-think-so/
Published: January 5, 2026 20:47
Late Friday night into early Saturday, I watched the news and scrolled through social media as reports of explosions in Caracas began to spread. I went to sleep unaware of what the morning would bring. Hours later, bleary-eyed and half-blind without my…
Sovereignty Is a Sham: The Hypocrisy of State Power Playing the Rules It Pretends to Follow
Published: January 5, 2026 20:40
From Ukraine to Venezuela, claims of sovereignty often conceal strategic self-interest, exposing how global norms are wielded selectively to justify power rather than enforced consistently. The Kremlin’s declaration that Venezuela “must be guaranteed the…
It’s Dangerous to Overestimate the Left’s Strength
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-dangerous-to-overestimate-the-lefts-strength/
Published: January 5, 2026 20:31
Even with a couple of months’ distance, Zohran Mamdani’s election still feels almost unreal, like a dispatch from an alternate universe. But it’s happening: America’s largest city is now led by a young socialist, a Jacobin subscriber, and a committed…
Trump Has Tried This — and Failed — in Venezuela Before
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-has-tried-this-and-failed-in-venezuela-before/
Published: January 5, 2026 20:26
We’ve been here before when it comes to the Trump administration’s attempts to force a political transition in Venezuela. In 2019 and 2020, the Trump administration attempted to engineer such a change through pressure, spectacle, and public declarations of…
The Gulf’s Cold War: Saudi‑UAE Rivalry Spills into Africa
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-gulfs-cold-war-saudi%e2%80%91uae-rivalry-spills-into-africa/
Published: January 5, 2026 20:23
In the sterile, high-altitude boardrooms of the Gulf, the mantra for the last decade has been one of shared destiny. From the 2017 blockade of Qatar to the initial intervention in Yemen, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi appeared to be the twin engines of a new,…
Venezuela: President Trump Emerges ‘Victorious’ from his Litter Box
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-president-trump-emerges-victorious-from-his-litter-box/
Published: January 5, 2026 20:16
KEY TAKEAWAYS This Time, Merely Exiting the Litter Box Won’t Cut it The year 2026 commenced with a new war: the U.S.’ invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of its head of state. Donald J. Trump’s foreign policy bears a striking resemblance to how cats…
The Making of a MAGA Martyr
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-making-of-a-maga-martyr/
Published: January 5, 2026 20:12
In the wake of the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, President Donald Trump quickly took up the cause of a 35-year-old veteran named Ashli Babbitt. “Who killed Ashli Babbitt?” he asked in a one-sentence statement on July 1, 2021. “An…
Venezuela: The United States Against the Sovereignty of Nations
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-the-united-states-against-the-sovereignty-of-nations/
Published: January 5, 2026 20:04
On January 3, 2026, at two o’clock in the morning, the United States declared war on Venezuela by bombing several strategic sectors of the capital and kidnapping the elected president, Nicolás Maduro. The latter, the victim of a betrayal at the highest…
Regime Change in Venezuela: American Justice as “Supreme International Crime”
Published: January 5, 2026 19:59
In a military operation, Venezuela’s President Maduro was captured and transported to New York to face charges in a federal court. Reportedly, the U.S. Army’s elite Delta Force carried out a large-scale military strike and raid on Caracas, the capital of…
U.S. Malevolence, What Now?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/u-s-malevolence-what-now/
Published: January 4, 2026 15:24
I have met Maduro, Delcy Rodriguez too. And before them Chavez. I have walked around the streets of Caracas. Through other locales in Venezuela as well. And some Communes too. All that was some time back. It is all totally irrelevant. What matters, then?…
Criminal Attacks by a Criminal Empire
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/criminal-attacks-by-a-criminal-empire/
Published: January 4, 2026 15:15
There is only one word to describe the US attacks on Venezuela. That word is criminal. It is the only word that describes the act of invading another nation and kidnapping its president. Of course, it is also a word that describes the essential nature…
From Öcalan To Maduro: On Imperialisms Logic Of Hostage-Taking
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-ocalan-to-maduro-on-imperialisms-logic-of-hostage-taking/
Published: January 4, 2026 15:13
Imperialism has never limited itself solely to military occupations, economic plunder, or diplomatic bullying. Its true power lies in its ability to construct mental and political mechanisms that paralyze the historical will of peoples. Since the last…
In The Beginning Is Joy And Hope
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-the-beginning-is-joy-and-hope/
Published: January 4, 2026 15:08
At the start of this year, it is clearer than ever that joy and hope are drifting apart. There is joy, but, without hope, joy lasts only as long as a lit match. When night falls, joy has to take sleeping pills to get to sleep. If we look hard enough, we…
The Gulf’s Cold War: Saudi-UAE Rivalry Spills Into Africa
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-gulfs-cold-war-saudi-uae-rivalry-spills-into-africa/
Published: January 4, 2026 15:02
In the sterile, high-altitude boardrooms of the Gulf, the mantra for the last decade has been one of shared destiny. From the 2017 blockade of Qatar to the initial intervention in Yemen, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi appeared to be the twin engines of a new,…
“We’re Going to Run the Country:” Preparing an Illegal Occupation in Venezuela
Published: January 4, 2026 14:58
I listened to the January 3 press conference with a knot in my stomach. As a Venezuelan American with family, memories, and a living connection to the country being spoken about as if it were a possession, what I heard was very clear. And that clarity was…
Jacques Baud and the Demise of the EU as a Liberal Project
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jacques-baud-and-the-demise-of-the-eu-as-a-liberal-project/
Published: January 4, 2026 14:55
In late 2025, the European Union imposed sanctions on Jacques Baud, a retired Swiss colonel and former senior strategic analyst for NATO. The justification was openly ideological. Baud was accused of acting as a “mouthpiece” for pro-Russian propaganda and…
Mamdani Demotes NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mamdani-demotes-nypd-commissioner-jessica-tisch/
Published: January 4, 2026 14:48
Media coverage of Zohran Mamdani’s first day in office glossed over his early exercise of mayoral power. My favorite example of the shallowness of the coverage is CNN’s bombshell revelation that Mamdani was “distributing hot chocolate” at city hall, an…
Unions Condemn US Military Aggression and Violation of Venezuela’s Sovereignty.
Published: January 4, 2026 14:44
Given the gravity of the events, which include the bombing of facilities in Caracas and confirmation by the US government of the capture and kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, the international trade union movement declares: “These acts in no way…
Venezuelan, International Popular Movements Condemn US Bombings, Maduro Kidnapping
Published: January 4, 2026 14:39
Venezuelan popular movements and international solidarity organizations have taken to the streets to condemn a US military attack against the country and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro. Following the bombings and special operations raid in the…
A New Year of Empire
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-new-year-of-empire/
Published: January 4, 2026 00:17
With its violent military intervention into Venezuela – a country I used to live in – the U.S. has begun this year with entitled and undisguised imperialism. The unapologetic kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro and of Celia Flores (not just a wife as the media…
Building “Mass Governance” in Zohran Mamdani’s New York City
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/building-mass-governance-in-zohran-mamdanis-new-york-city/
Published: January 3, 2026 16:24
In late May, hundreds of volunteers flooded Herbert Von King Park in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood on a sunny Saturday not just for a rally with then-mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, but to knock on doors and talk to strangers about voting…
Fossil-Fuel Propaganda Is Stalling Climate Action. Here’s What We Can Do About It
Published: January 3, 2026 16:18
2025 has been a year of setbacks for Canada’s climate policy. In November, the federal and Alberta governments signed a memorandum of understanding to remove strict climate policies in the province and to support the construction of a new pipeline from…
Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship Seeks to Further Codify White Supremacy
Published: January 3, 2026 16:09
The Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing early next year regarding historic challenges to the Trump administration’s attempt to undermine the Fourteenth Amendment’s longstanding guarantee of birthright citizenship, which was enacted in 1868. The…
How the Right Turned Mass Shootings Into Vehicles for Anti-Palestinian Hate
Published: January 3, 2026 13:24
We were putting up decorations when my friend got the emergency alert. It was my roommate’s birthday, and we had just returned from shopping for drinks and party snacks. My friend works in a physics lab at Brown University, in the building where the shots…
This Is the Real SNAP Fraud
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-is-the-real-snap-fraud/
Published: January 3, 2026 13:11
When Republican politicians complain about “food stamp fraud,” they generally mean that some welfare cheat is ripping off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, by falsely claiming eligibility. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, for…
Contraband
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/contraband/
Published: January 3, 2026 13:05
I have a cousin (actually, the son of a cousin) who was employed as a prison guard in rural Ohio. I’ll refrain from publishing his name here. He was fired recently after he and another guard beat the living daylights out of a prisoner who was handcuffed.…
Food Fight, Anyone?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/food-fight-anyone/
Published: January 3, 2026 13:00
The US currently has two overlapping food crises. One is the elimination of food programs for the needy. According to the Center for American Progress, “Project 2025 and the Republican Study Committee budget envisioned a transformative dismantling of…
The AI Race and the Space Race: Can Great Power Rivals Inch toward Cooperation?
Published: January 3, 2026 12:50
At the July 2025 launch of America’s AI Action Plan, President Trump said that the country is in a fast-moving competition to develop groundbreaking technology that may well determine the global balance of power. He pledged that the U.S. would do whatever…
How Queer Ecology Reveals the Diversity of Nature and Human Experience
Published: January 3, 2026 12:46
Nature is astonishingly diverse. Across the planet’s oceans, forests, grasslands, and cities, living beings interact in ways that defy rigid expectations. Yet when it comes to discussing queer behaviors in the natural world, we often hear only a handful of…
$1776 Tax-free V July 4, 1776–Free
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/1776-tax-free-v-july-4-1776-free/
Published: January 2, 2026 17:01
Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon and marching his legion on Rome did not destroy the Roman Republic all by himself. The erosion of the republic and rise of the Empire occurred over decades, if not centuries, and built upon many little cuts and changes,…
Gaza: Child Killed, Fires, Flooding, and Cold Claim Lives, As Israel Restricts Shelter Materials
Published: January 2, 2026 17:01
A Palestinian child was killed by Israeli fire in northern Gaza on Thursday, as worsening winter conditions and unsafe displacement shelters led to the deaths of a woman, her daughter, and a three‑week‑old infant, underscoring the deepening humanitarian…
Trump’s Attempts to Control Higher Education Follow a Familiar Fascist Playbook
Published: January 2, 2026 17:00
The United States is on the road to a form of neofascism that, if allowed to complete its course, will have long-lasting impacts on all aspects of society. Indeed, the Trump administration is carrying out a series of policies that target the very…
July 4th and November 3rd
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/july-4th-and-november-3rd/
Published: January 2, 2026 17:00
It’s good to enter the new year with MAGA divided, Trump down in the polls and forced to pull the National Guard out of Portland, Los Angeles and Chicago, a huge win for the resistance in those cities, the Epstein issue still very much out there, and more.…
U.S. Strikes Against Venezuela
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/u-s-strikes-against-venezuela/
Published: January 2, 2026 17:00
As the Trump administration escalates its military campaign against Venezuela, we speak to Venezuelan journalist Andreína Chávez about the latest developments. Responding to the U.S. military’s drone strikes on small boats and seizures of oil tankers off…
Claudia Sheinbaum, I Love You!
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/claudia-sheinbaum-i-love-you/
Published: January 2, 2026 17:00
I have a crush on Claudia Sheinbaum, who has been president of Mexico since October 2024. Foreign leaders usually strike me as more intelligent and accomplished than the ones we produce in the US. President Sheinbaum, a climate change scientist with a…
The War in Sudan is “Between Two Wings of a Comprador Parasitic Capitalist Class”
Published: January 2, 2026 17:00
As the war in Sudan that has unleashed the world’s worst humanitarian crisis nears a thousand days, “a cessation of hostilities, a humanitarian truce going into the new year” is an “immediate goal” of the US, said its State Secretary, Marco Rubio, in his…
“Self-Hating Jew, Kapo, What About Hamas?”
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/self-hating-jew-kapo-what-about-hamas/
Published: January 1, 2026 16:58
Zionists have attempted to teach me the following: 1) Because I am Jewish, all Palestinians clamor and scheme to have me erased from the Earth. 2) There is no such entity as the Palestinian people. Damn convenient: The people you are perpetrating a…
After 2025, Europe Is Changed Forever
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/after-2025-europe-is-changed-forever/
Published: January 1, 2026 16:57
Yanis Varoufakis reflects on 2025 — the year Europe fell apart — and issues a warning for 2026. War, de-industrialisation, austerity, and authoritarianism are no longer threats. They are here. In this end-of-year message on behalf of DiEM25, Yanis…
Seizing an Oil Tanker off Venezuela
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/seizing-an-oil-tanker-off-venezuela/
Published: January 1, 2026 16:55
Reports that U.S. forces boarded and seized a large oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast on 10 December 2025 have already prompted accusations of “piracy”, unlawful coercion, and a renewed U.S. assertion of hemispheric dominance. At first glance, this…
The Sacramento, California, Black Parallel School Board
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-sacramento-california-black-parallel-school-board/
Published: January 1, 2026 16:52
For nearly two decades, organizers in Sacramento have centered Black self-determination, community-based advocacy, and working-class parent empowerment to fight for a 21st-century multiracial learning community and a socialist vision for education. In…
The European Left’s Lost Decade
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-european-lefts-lost-decade/
Published: January 1, 2026 16:51
Ten years ago, insurgent parties across southern Europe were elected on promises to transform capitalism. Their failure offers lessons the contemporary left cannot afford to ignore. As new left projects are gaining momentum — from Mamdani’s recent triumph…
Trump Lets Us See Who We Are
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-lets-us-see-who-we-are/
Published: January 1, 2026 16:50
In the Donald Trump era — praise be! — so much is possible that previously no one had ever even imagined. For instance, not only has “the late, great Hannibal Lecter” come back to life, he might even join Trump’s cabinet. Well, that’s just a guess, but why…
Education Under Trump: Understanding The Billionaires’ Project In Education- To Defeat It.
Published: January 1, 2026 16:50
As we near the end of this first year of Trump’s second administration, we face a new challenge: sustaining and building resistance that weakens the coalition that elected Trump and a new wave of neoliberalism. My last article of 2025 for the FOS substack…
Israel Bans Dozens of Aid Groups from Operating in Gaza, Including Doctors Without Borders
Published: December 31, 2025 21:26
Starting on January 1, Israel will ban 37 international aid groups and charities from operating in Gaza in its latest effort to add to the misery for the Palestinian civilians living in flimsy tents and bombed-out buildings in the Strip. The groups being…
10 Good Things That Happened in 2025
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/10-good-things-that-happened-in-2025/
Published: December 31, 2025 21:24
It’s true — 2025 has been a hard year. It’s easy to focus on the disasters, and there have been many. But we also had real victories that moved us closer to a better world. Here are some of my highlights from 2025: 1. Israel was forced to negotiate a…