Z Friends & Staff Posts
The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ships to Gaza has been intense. As hundreds of us from 32 countries…
Earth Day 2024, Washington, DC | The red carpet had been rolled out from the high doors and down the polished steps…
One of South Korea’s two highest courts on Tuesday began hearing Asia’s first-ever youth-led climate lawsuit, which accuses the country’s government of…
“Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming, We’re finally on our own. This summer, I hear the drummin’ Four dead in O-hi-o . . .” —“Ohio,”…
I went to MIT, class of 1969. It is now 2024 not the late sixties, but rebellion for change is again in…
The western discourse on the circumstances behind the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 75 years ago, is hardly convincing. …
The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in the thousands of kilometers. But the historical distance is much closer. This is…
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…
As Germany intensifies its crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices, we speak with Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis, one of the planned speakers…
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…
“We are a married couple of 45 years. We are taking action together as elders deeply concerned about the future facing our…
Teargas for mega-mines Corporations and their government enablers prefer to keep the ecocidal and ethnocidal reality of extractivism hidden, but activists in…
Friends, Congratulations, and heartfelt thanks, for being here, despite the threats, despite the ironclad police outside this venue, despite the panoply of…
Israel described its clearly deliberate killing of seven humanitarian aid workers on April 1 as a “grave mistake”, a “tragic event” that “happens in…
If there is a single false claim to “nonviolent” struggle that has most powerfully captured the imagination of the world, it is…
The original Green New Deal resolution took as its models not only the original New Deal but also the home front mobilization…
Patricia Evangelista’s Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country is not an easy read. An account of genocide is never an…
Human activity in a profit-driven world divided by nation-states and those who have rights and those who don’t is the primary driver…
The Berlin-based Lawyers’ Collective on Friday sued the German government in an effort to stop weapons transfers to Israel, whose government and…
https://youtu.be/udKzoxEKkaY?si=0niDBFMS_rlm3dwO Mexico on Friday night announced the suspension of diplomatic relations with Ecuador after police stormed the Mexican Embassy in Quito and…
The three most critical heat-trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere again reached record levels last year, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday,…
A doctor at an Israeli field hospital inside a notorious detention center where hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are temporarily held is sounding the alarm…
Historically, wars unite Israelis. Not anymore. Not that Israelis do not agree with Benjamin Netanyahu’s war; they simply do not believe that…
When the Washington Post revealed Friday afternoon that “the Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs…
Those who admonish Palestinian Resistance, armed or otherwise, have little understanding of the psychological ramifications of resistance, such as a sense of…
In my first couple of years of progressive activism in the late 60’s, many of those I worked with who were also…
Yanis Varoufakis’s new film series explains how elites used the financial crisis to terrorize Europe’s populations into submission. “Debt is to capitalism…
Over 9,000 Palestinian women have been killed since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. Mothers have been the largest share…
“What we saw on October 7 in Israel, and what we are seeing in Gaza now, represents the blatant violation of international…
The three major wars or conflicts that are ongoing today demonstrate the volatility of the intersection between the local and the global.…
Books about union presidents are usually penned by professional writers — either academic historians, labor journalists, or paid flacks. Past accounts of…
Last week, Variety reported that “more than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone…
As India’s right-wing government cracks down on opposition ahead of next month’s general elections, Amnesty International on Friday urged authorities to “stop weaponizing the…
When the foreign policy of a country as large and significant as the United States is governed by a case of cognitive…
If we condemn Hamas for its October 7 attacks in Israel, we’re not accused of anti-Arab bigotry. Nor should we be. Nothing…
Throughout 2023 and into 2024, the North of Ireland [1] has witnessed the largest and most sustained public sector strikes in all…
Editor’s Note: Recent studies of lawmakers in the United States have found that less than 2% of those serving on Capitol Hill…
In a work entitled “Irish Famine 4,” Palestinian-American journalist and artist Sam Husseini combined grass and paint to commemorate a bitter time…
In addition to killing, maiming, and forcibly displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children, Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza has wrought tremendous psychological damage…
“Inside every phone is the blood of a Congolese person.” These words from Pascal Mirindi, a student and activist in Goma, Democratic…
President Biden began his State of the Union speech with an impassioned warning that failing to pass his $61 billion dollar weapons…
‘All we can do for Gaza is just offer our Du’a.” This is an oft-repeated statement by enraged Arabs and Muslims who…
Social movements often find themselves locked into isolated silos, divided by internecine conflict, or even brutalizing each other in “circular firing squads.”…
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and author who served as Greek Finance Minister in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crash.…
Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political and media analyst Norman Solomon as they discuss Solomon’s important new book, War Made Invisible: How America…
Jared Kushner, a former US official whose relationship to power is that he married the wealthy daughter of a man who was…
One of the occupational hazards of being a labor activist is over-exposure to “corporate bullshit”—on the job, in the community, and in…
In a conversation in 2020 with Princeton Professor Emeritus, Richard Falk, he told me that historically, colonized nations that have won the legitimacy war…
The Israeli genocide in Gaza will be remembered as the moral collapse of the West. As soon as the Israeli war began,…