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Editorial PhilosophyBy 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…
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…
If humanity was obliged to wreck the planet and accelerate climate change, it would invent war. Since every aspect of military activity…
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…
According to a recent United Nations report there are more armed conflicts throughout the world today than during the 2nd World War. These hostilities don’t…
Matthew Wilson teaches at Prifysgol Abertawe (Swansea University) where he lectures on People, Organisation and Business. He is an active participant in the UK…
When the Washington Post revealed Friday afternoon that “the Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs…
Each year Americans forfeit a sizable slice of their income to the United States Treasury to fund the government. Tax Day is…
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…
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has sent shock waves throughout the United States. The bridge was not…
The last hundred years have been years of intense conflict that have resulted in countless wars, in addition to the two world…
Suffocated for more than six decades by the U.S. state of economic siege, Cuba is facing serious difficulties that are impacting…
Suffocated for more than six decades by the U.S. state of economic siege, Cuba is facing serious difficulties that are impacting the…
This March, Argentina’s school year began with empty classrooms. The price of learning materials rose by 502 percent over the past year, leaving many…
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…
“Instead of seizing the chance to close schools… communities across the country are pushing their districts to think about schools differently and…