Mass graves, the criminalization of dissent, systematic slaughter glorified as self-defense, resisting students making history. Yes, the current nightmare does seem reminiscent…
Born in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, into a farming family of eight children, Alice Walker experienced racial segregation in the South of…
In looking at conflict in history, we can only tend towards the conclusion that many political leaders, wielding great power as wholly…
The events now happening on campuses are profoundly uplifting, ethically inspiring, and strategically wise. As I write, thirty-eight U.S. College campuses have…
Students at more than 40 universities and colleges in the United States and around the world have lit a fire under the Palestine solidarity…
In a global context where tropical rainforests play a critical role in biodiversity conservation and climate regulation, these ecosystems are severely threatened by expanding…
There are several exercises in extremes playing out in India right now. Nearly a billion people are voting in elections that will last into…
What to do. What to do. Consider our times. Do you feel, like I feel, massive confusion at what is happening out…
Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow them an…
In late October, 2018, East Bay DSA members and other progressives organized a pre-election rally at a Berkeley High School auditorium. A…
The destruction of nature might one day become a criminal offense adjudicated by the International Criminal Court. On December 3, 2019, the…
Mired in economic and internal crises, Pakistan is primed for normalization and trade with India—but Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government is failing…
Morgan Godvin is an internationally recognized expert on the topic of drugs and justice. She was a leading activist behind Oregon’s drug…
By now, many of the 370 million European voters, government officials, and political parties are gearing up for the next European election…
Dear Z Community, Things are HAPPENING! (Check out our resource list at the bottom of this message.) Unions have been kicking some…
Earth Day 2024, Washington, DC | The red carpet had been rolled out from the high doors and down the polished steps…
What will it take to end the nuclear nightmare that has gripped the world since the atomic bombings of 1945? For a…
This past weekend, April 20, 2024 the US House of Representatives passed a bill to provide Ukraine with another $61 billion in…
“…what happens to your remembrancewill be of your own doing.” ZNetwork.org presents An Asterisk, a poem written and performed by a Z…
I went to MIT, class of 1969. It is now 2024 not the late sixties, but rebellion for change is again in…
For forty years I have been writing an article about each decade of the revolution of April 25, 1974 that brought democracy…
The western discourse on the circumstances behind the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 75 years ago, is hardly convincing. …
In the 19 years since our movement was founded we have struggled to liberate ourselves from the chains of poverty, indignity and…
The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in the thousands of kilometers. But the historical distance is much closer. This is…
After a decade of struggling with infertility and undergoing IVF procedures, 27-year-old Alaa gave birth to her first son, Kareem—an “energetic and…
Cuba is going hungry. The costs of food and other basic necessities are skyrocketing. Rolling blackouts periodically plunge the island into darkness.…
The New York Times coverage of the Israeli carnage in Gaza, like that of other mainstream US media, is a disgrace to…
The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in the thousands of kilometers. But the historical distance is much closer. This is…
The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Lavender” to target thousands…
Good that defensive anti-missiles worked against Iran’s barrage. Still, two elements were more suited to the playground than to international politics: face…
A little history will suffice to conclude that Germany has been a problem for Europe for more than a century. The greatest…
Tom Bixler and several hundred of his co-workers produced top-quality glassware at the Libbey Glass plant in Toledo, Ohio, over the years…
Every year at tax time, the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies releases a tax receipt to show where your federal…
“We are a married couple of 45 years. We are taking action together as elders deeply concerned about the future facing our…
Despite the rather common neoliberal hallucination of eternal growth, the Club of Rome’s seminal study “Limits to Growth” (1972), showed that the…
Teargas for mega-mines Corporations and their government enablers prefer to keep the ecocidal and ethnocidal reality of extractivism hidden, but activists in…
We may be seeing an uptick in news on Haiti in the American mainstream media in the coming months. We may even…
Power Relations Inscribed in Narratives Among the concepts the French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, developed is symbolic violence. It is an extension of…
Friends, Congratulations, and heartfelt thanks, for being here, despite the threats, despite the ironclad police outside this venue, despite the panoply of…
By “class system” we mean the basic workplace organizations—the human relationships or “social relations”—that accomplish the production and distribution of goods and…
I invited three insightful analysts of present-day U.S. foreign policy to share their thoughts in a roundtable discussion. Here are excerpts from Phyllis…
Israel described its clearly deliberate killing of seven humanitarian aid workers on April 1 as a “grave mistake”, a “tragic event” that “happens in…
Things seem to be different this time around. The current year, 2024, is unlike the year 1934 when Hitler solidified his fascist…
Capitalism, the plastic bucket we are all crammed in for (give or take) 77.5 years, incentivizes the Seven Deadly Sins of the…
In a first, Parliament spent a full day debating a motion on the Israel/Palestine conflict. The March 18 opposition day motion presented by the…
If humanity was obliged to wreck the planet and accelerate climate change, it would invent war. Since every aspect of military activity…
I have suffered from persistent fatigue in recent months. Fatigue… the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate 3.3 million Americans…
On March 24, the Russian authorities presented to the media four individuals accused of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, which…
Although most states have held their presidential primaries as Joe Biden and Donald Trump have clinched the nomination of their respective parties,…
Historically, wars unite Israelis. Not anymore. Not that Israelis do not agree with Benjamin Netanyahu’s war; they simply do not believe that…