https://znetwork.org/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:38:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-architecture-of-extermination-why-the-gaza-genocide-is-premeditated-and-repeatable/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-architecture-of-extermination-why-the-gaza-genocide-is-premeditated-and-repeatable/#respond Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:38:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292863 Suppose we accept the fiction that none of us expected Israel to launch a full-scale genocide in Gaza—a premeditated campaign to erase the Strip and exterminate a significant portion of its inhabitants. Let us pretend that nearly eighty years of relentless massacres were not a prelude to this moment, and that Israel had never before sought the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-architecture-of-extermination-why-the-gaza-genocide-is-premeditated-and-repeatable/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/socialism-should-give-us-hope-for-tomorrow/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/socialism-should-give-us-hope-for-tomorrow/#comments Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:33:47 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292861 According to recent data from the Pew Research Center, 45 percent of American adults say that if they could choose when to live, they would live sometime in the past. Another 40 percent have the good luck to be born exactly when they want to live. And only 14 percent would choose to live in the future. These [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/socialism-should-give-us-hope-for-tomorrow/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-architecture-of-exclusion/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-architecture-of-exclusion/#respond Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:27:40 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292859 The Trump Administration’s Department of Education recently announced that graduate programs for areas of study such as nursing, education, social work, physical therapy, and more would no longer be considered “professional degrees” for the purposes of federal student loan limits. This seemingly innocuous change was presented as a routine bureaucratic recalibration, a definition update aimed at urging universities to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-architecture-of-exclusion/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/africa-deindustrializes-due-to-chinas-overproduction-and-trumps-tariffs/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/africa-deindustrializes-due-to-chinas-overproduction-and-trumps-tariffs/#respond Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:21:31 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292854 At the close of a year in which Africa’s underlying economic problems continue to worsen, the Johannesburg G20 summit on November 22-23 utterly failed in its mandate to cut the continent’s foreign debt and assure that appropriate climate-finance grants will be available. Nevertheless, even while the world economy’s value chains suffer disfigurement thanks to Donald [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/africa-deindustrializes-due-to-chinas-overproduction-and-trumps-tariffs/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-much-of-project-2025-has-actually-been-accomplished-this-year/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-much-of-project-2025-has-actually-been-accomplished-this-year/#respond Sun, 28 Dec 2025 14:58:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292852 In the months leading up to his election, President Donald Trump insisted that he had nothing to do with the far-right vision for his second administration known as Project 2025, a Christian-nationalist blueprint to remake the federal government. As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that his [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-much-of-project-2025-has-actually-been-accomplished-this-year/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-dont-need-any-more-renewables/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-dont-need-any-more-renewables/#comments Sun, 28 Dec 2025 14:53:15 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292849 The claim is ubiquitous: if we’re to meet our climate goals, we need a mass buildout of renewable energy production. But this claim is false, and worse yet, attempting it will accelerate climate collapse. Let’s start with the assumptions baked into this claim: 1) Demand is natural and untouchable, 2) Renewable energy production reduces greenhouse [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-dont-need-any-more-renewables/feed/ 2 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reform-without-power-chiles-parliamentary-left-from-allende-to-boric/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reform-without-power-chiles-parliamentary-left-from-allende-to-boric/#respond Sun, 28 Dec 2025 14:49:56 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292846 The victory of José Antonio Kast in Chile’s 2025 presidential election ends a political cycle that began, improbably, with a subway fare hike six years earlier. In October 2019, a mass revolt shattered the image of stability that had long distinguished Chile from its neighbours. In October 2020, an overwhelming plebiscitary majority voted to scrap [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reform-without-power-chiles-parliamentary-left-from-allende-to-boric/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-the-iraqi-militias-truly-disarm/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-the-iraqi-militias-truly-disarm/#respond Sun, 28 Dec 2025 14:42:32 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292843 For the first time, several well-known armed groups in Iraq have released statements supporting the idea of “the state’s monopoly on the use of force,” This idea calls for these groups to turn over their weapons to the government, dissolve their groups or merge with the military and security forces, and engage in political involvement. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-the-iraqi-militias-truly-disarm/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-case-for-expelling-israel-from-eurovision/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-case-for-expelling-israel-from-eurovision/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2025 14:07:44 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292835 The term ‘hypocrisy’ is the most convenient term, but certainly not the most apt to describe the inclusion of Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026. We must search for other terms that could possibly explain why a country that has just committed one of the most horrific genocides in modern history is celebrated as a hub [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-case-for-expelling-israel-from-eurovision/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/arundhati-roy-on-new-memoir-mother-mary-comes-to-me-gaza-authoritarianism-from-india-to-u-s/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/arundhati-roy-on-new-memoir-mother-mary-comes-to-me-gaza-authoritarianism-from-india-to-u-s/#respond Sat, 27 Dec 2025 14:04:40 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1292836 In this holiday special, we speak to the acclaimed Indian writer Arundhati Roy on her new memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me. The book focuses on her mother Mary Roy and how Arundhati was shaped by her, both as a source of terror and of inspiration. We also talk to Arundhati about Gaza and the rise [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/arundhati-roy-on-new-memoir-mother-mary-comes-to-me-gaza-authoritarianism-from-india-to-u-s/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trillionaire-cometh-democracy-goeth/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trillionaire-cometh-democracy-goeth/#respond Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:57:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292833 wrote my first post for Inequality.org, Our First Trillionaire: Only a Matter of Time, over twelve years ago. I hoped, at the time, that the post would age poorly. After all, the presence of a trillionaire on American soil would certify that we had unquestionably reached an oligarchic concentration of our nation’s wealth. Unfortunately, that post has [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trillionaire-cometh-democracy-goeth/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/was-colonialism-a-crime-algerian-parliament-criminalizes-130-years-of-french-rule/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/was-colonialism-a-crime-algerian-parliament-criminalizes-130-years-of-french-rule/#respond Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:54:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292830  The Algerian newspaper al-Masa’ reports that on December 24, the Algerian parliament passed a law recognizing French colonialism in that country, 1830-1962, as having been a crime that involved mass killing, rape, displacement of populations, usurpation of land, and marginalization of people. The law also makes claims on France for reparations. The great Algerian historian Mahfoud [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/was-colonialism-a-crime-algerian-parliament-criminalizes-130-years-of-french-rule/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unbridled-capitalism-necropolitics-and-the-crisis-of-life-conditions/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unbridled-capitalism-necropolitics-and-the-crisis-of-life-conditions/#respond Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:35:23 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292828 In days when many people are condemned to (and partly enchanted by) Black Friday advertisements, and when companies and media prepare a large part of the world to better welcome New Year celebrations, this ominous news was buried among other unpleasant daily reports: In the final agreement of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30 / [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unbridled-capitalism-necropolitics-and-the-crisis-of-life-conditions/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-effective-are-protests-historians-say-very/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-effective-are-protests-historians-say-very/#respond Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:30:20 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292826 Trump’s first and second terms have been marked by huge protests, from the 2017 Women’s March to the protests for racial justice after George Floyd’s murder, to this year’s No Kings demonstrations. But how effective is this type of collective action? According to historians and political scientists who study protest: very. From emancipation to women’s suffrage, from [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-effective-are-protests-historians-say-very/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-2025-educators-didnt-just-endure-repression-they-built-resistance/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-2025-educators-didnt-just-endure-repression-they-built-resistance/#respond Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:22:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292824 On a humid June afternoon, I arrived at Florida International University expecting to give what I thought would be a standard talk on my new book, Teach Truth, about the escalating assault on antiracist education. But when historian and freedom fighter Dr. Marvin Dunn took me to the campus, he made clear this would be no [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-2025-educators-didnt-just-endure-repression-they-built-resistance/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/federal-judge-halts-trumps-arbitrary-and-capricious-immigration-court-arrests/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/federal-judge-halts-trumps-arbitrary-and-capricious-immigration-court-arrests/#respond Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:17:13 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292822 A US judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked two federal agencies from arresting noncitizens at immigration courthouses in the San Francisco area, a ruling hailed by migrant justice advocates amid ongoing legal challenges to the Trump administration’s policy. US District Judge for the Northern District of California Casey Pitts granted a stay in Sequen v. Albarran blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/federal-judge-halts-trumps-arbitrary-and-capricious-immigration-court-arrests/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-excavator-10000-bodies-a-sea-of-rubble-inside-gazas-effort-to-retrieve-and-bury-its-dead/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-excavator-10000-bodies-a-sea-of-rubble-inside-gazas-effort-to-retrieve-and-bury-its-dead/#respond Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:20:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292798 Fatima Salem waits outside anxiously, as rescue crews dig through the rubble of her family’s home in Gaza City on December 15th. With bated breath, she clings to the hope that all 60 of her family members – brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, and grandchildren – who were buried under the rubble after an Israeli airstrike [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-excavator-10000-bodies-a-sea-of-rubble-inside-gazas-effort-to-retrieve-and-bury-its-dead/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/amid-starvation-and-mass-killings-this-gaza-baker-refused-to-stop-her-work/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/amid-starvation-and-mass-killings-this-gaza-baker-refused-to-stop-her-work/#respond Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:18:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292800 “The hardest part of working during the war was the endless search for the ingredients I needed to make cakes,” 23-year-old Gaza baker Dema Al-Buhisi tells me. “For months, that struggle consumed me,” she adds. “Finding flour alone took five full days — five days just to get clean, unspoiled flour that hadn’t gone bad. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/amid-starvation-and-mass-killings-this-gaza-baker-refused-to-stop-her-work/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-me-a-jew-a-painful-truth-israel-is-a-perpetual-crime-against-humanity-masquerading-as-a-nation/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-me-a-jew-a-painful-truth-israel-is-a-perpetual-crime-against-humanity-masquerading-as-a-nation/#respond Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:11:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292799 I hold joint US/German citizenship due to the historical fact that my maternal family was stripped of their German citizenship by The Reich Citizenship act attendant to Nazi imposed Nuremberg Laws enacted in 1935. Subsequently, as the Third Reich consolidated power, by means of legalized state criminality, my family’s business interests and personal property were [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-me-a-jew-a-painful-truth-israel-is-a-perpetual-crime-against-humanity-masquerading-as-a-nation/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whatever-happened-to-trumps-golden-age-for-american-workers/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whatever-happened-to-trumps-golden-age-for-american-workers/#respond Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292794 Although Donald Trump’s Department of Labor announced in April 2025 that “Trump’s Golden Age puts American workers first,” that contention is contradicted by the facts. Indeed, Trump has taken the lead in reducing workers’ incomes. One of his key actions along these lines occurred on March 14, 2025, when he issued an executive order that scrapped a Biden-era regulation [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whatever-happened-to-trumps-golden-age-for-american-workers/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hawaii-has-a-rare-opportunity-to-reclaim-land-from-the-us-military/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hawaii-has-a-rare-opportunity-to-reclaim-land-from-the-us-military/#respond Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292796 Since 1964, the U.S. military has leased roughly 47,000 acres of land from the State of Hawai‘i — for a token $1. The leases, which account for 18 percent of military lands in Hawai‘i, are set to expire in 2029, offering Hawai‘i a rare opportunity to reclaim land from the war machine. As the expiration [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hawaii-has-a-rare-opportunity-to-reclaim-land-from-the-us-military/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-domestic-costs-of-cia-covert-action-abroad-run-high/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-domestic-costs-of-cia-covert-action-abroad-run-high/#respond Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292803 On the evening of November 26, Andrew Wolfe and Sarah Beckstrom were stationed outside the Farragut West Metro Station in Washington, DC. Both were members of the West Virginia National Guard. As part of Donald Trump’s attempt to transform Democratic-voting cities into war zones, they had been sent to the nation’s capital. The two young [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-domestic-costs-of-cia-covert-action-abroad-run-high/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-launches-christmas-strikes-on-nigeria-the-9th-country-bombed-by-trump/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-launches-christmas-strikes-on-nigeria-the-9th-country-bombed-by-trump/#respond Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292802 President Donald Trump—the self-described “most anti-war president in history”—has now ordered the bombing of more countries than any president in history as US forces carried out Christmas day strikes on what the White House claimed were Islamic State militants killing Christians in Nigeria. “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-launches-christmas-strikes-on-nigeria-the-9th-country-bombed-by-trump/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/britains-leaders-are-hiding-from-amoc-disaster/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/britains-leaders-are-hiding-from-amoc-disaster/#comments Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292779 The plan was to stand outside the Houses of Parliament on Guy Fawkes Day with a large inflatable bomb. The protesters would then leaflet MPs as they arrived for Prime Minister’s Questions. But on the day, the far-right put a stop to that. Their larger and far more rowdy protest started earlier, and swamped the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/britains-leaders-are-hiding-from-amoc-disaster/feed/ 4 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestinian-factions-have-come-together-to-thwart-israeli-plans-in-gaza-for-now/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestinian-factions-have-come-together-to-thwart-israeli-plans-in-gaza-for-now/#comments Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292792 The United States seems to be poised to reevaluate its tactics in implementing President Donald Trump’s plan for the Gaza Strip. It seems they are considering installing a Palestinian technocrat government and Palestinian police force before assembling their International Stabilization Force (ISF), which they are finding no country wants to be part of. While this [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestinian-factions-have-come-together-to-thwart-israeli-plans-in-gaza-for-now/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gazans-are-taking-matters-into-their-own-hands-by-launching-community-reconstruction-efforts/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gazans-are-taking-matters-into-their-own-hands-by-launching-community-reconstruction-efforts/#comments Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:03:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292768 Abu Ahmad, a displaced resident of northern Gaza, thought he would be living with some sort of roof over his head by now. Instead, he and his family remain exposed to the cold and the rain with only a threadbare tent for shelter. “When the ceasefire was announced, I believed I would finally be able [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gazans-are-taking-matters-into-their-own-hands-by-launching-community-reconstruction-efforts/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alberta-is-privatizing-healthcare-threatening-public-healthcare-across-canada/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alberta-is-privatizing-healthcare-threatening-public-healthcare-across-canada/#respond Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:02:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292772 The Canada Health Act requires provinces to provide all medically necessary hospital and physician services under public health insurance. It is like a bill of rights for patients. Canadians have the right to medically necessary hospital and physician care on equal terms and conditions, without financial barriers. Extra-billing patients and charging user fees for medically necessary hospital and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alberta-is-privatizing-healthcare-threatening-public-healthcare-across-canada/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/learning-from-defeat-in-chile/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/learning-from-defeat-in-chile/#respond Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292770 After years in which Chile promised a rupture from neoliberalism, Sunday’s elections were a major setback. While the Left’s joint candidate, Jeannette Jara, a Communist Party member and recent labor minister, narrowly headed the first-round ballot, the runoff handed victory to the far-right José Antonio Kast. It was bad news for supporters of outgoing president Gabriel [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/learning-from-defeat-in-chile/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/judge-finds-acts-of-civil-disobedience-to-be-justified/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/judge-finds-acts-of-civil-disobedience-to-be-justified/#respond Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292762 Northampton District Court Judge, Mary Beth Ogulewicz, put her neck bravely within the noose of potential political and corporate retribution when she rendered the verdict on December, 23, “After consideration of the testimony, exhibits, applicable law and arguments of counsel, I find the defendants Not Responsible on all counts.” This is an astonishing verdict in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/judge-finds-acts-of-civil-disobedience-to-be-justified/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gaza-will-mark-christmas-with-silent-bells-frozen-nights-and-grief/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gaza-will-mark-christmas-with-silent-bells-frozen-nights-and-grief/#respond Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292758 Christmas is due to arrive without lights and without warmth, burdened by the memory of a war that has not truly ended. For the third consecutive year, Christmas will pass in Gaza without lights and without fanfare. Bells will not ring, and decorations that once briefly softened the Strip’s pain will be absent from streets [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gaza-will-mark-christmas-with-silent-bells-frozen-nights-and-grief/feed/ 0