https://znetwork.org/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:36:06 +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-enemy-of-your-enemy-is-not-your-friend/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-enemy-of-your-enemy-is-not-your-friend/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:54:48 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295359 Like many of you, I have been glued to the news since Trump’s bizarre announcement early Saturday morning that the USA is once again at war with Iran. Given the assassination of the Supreme Leader, the amount of bombing, Iran’s retaliation across the Middle East including its targeting of American allies, and the Orwellian promises [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-enemy-of-your-enemy-is-not-your-friend/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-war-can-still-be-stopped/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-war-can-still-be-stopped/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:39:03 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295350 TAKE ACTION to stop US/Israeli imperial aggression and support the Iranian people’s struggle against brutal state repression. Call your lawmakers now, join a mass call TONIGHT (March 2), and sign and distribute a petition from Iranian-Americans for Peace and Democracy. On Saturday, February 28, the Trump regime launched an unprovoked and unconscionable war on Iran, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-war-can-still-be-stopped/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/call-grows-to-impeach-trump-the-most-dangerous-man-on-the-planet/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/call-grows-to-impeach-trump-the-most-dangerous-man-on-the-planet/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:33:13 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295348 After the unprovoked bombing of Iran over the weekend by the United States and Israel—strikes that included the unlawful assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei—the call for US President Donald Trump to be impeached and removed from office has grown as the straightest path to hold the US leader to account for the attacks which policy and human [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/call-grows-to-impeach-trump-the-most-dangerous-man-on-the-planet/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-we-need-a-life-based-paradigm-instead-of-the-growth-paradigm/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-we-need-a-life-based-paradigm-instead-of-the-growth-paradigm/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:27:45 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295345 Human activity has grown to challenge planetary limits, yet the official solution to any problem that arises is to grow more. Like fish unable to live anywhere but in water, our leaders find it hard to imagine any way of life outside the Growth paradigm. Production and consumption, income and expenditure define our lives. Measured [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-we-need-a-life-based-paradigm-instead-of-the-growth-paradigm/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/water-a-factor-of-stability-and-conflict-the-iranian-case-and-the-forgotten-lessons/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/water-a-factor-of-stability-and-conflict-the-iranian-case-and-the-forgotten-lessons/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:21:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295341 INTRODUCTION: TEHRAN, A CAPITAL TO BE EVACUATED WELL BEFORE THE BOMBS, BECAUSE IT’S DRY In November 2025, Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian issued a warning that sent a chill through the entire country: Tehran, the capital of one of the world’s oldest empires, might have to face rationing, then partial evacuation. Not under the threat of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/water-a-factor-of-stability-and-conflict-the-iranian-case-and-the-forgotten-lessons/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/world-war-iii-is-about-to-begin/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/world-war-iii-is-about-to-begin/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:04:40 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295338 Shortly before World War I, when the smell of war was in the air, one of the most eloquent advocates of peace, the writer Romain Rolland, winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote that the urgency of the moment no longer allowed for analytical circumspection regarding the complexity of the factors driving the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/world-war-iii-is-about-to-begin/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ai-and-the-lesson-not-learned/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ai-and-the-lesson-not-learned/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:54:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295336 In the last century people marveled at the Wright brothers’ success. Just 66 years later, an awestruck world watched American astronauts walk on the moon. Technical advances became prosaic. But we should be paying more attention to Artificial Intelligence. For this revolution we will not be casual observers. It will change our lives in fundamental [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ai-and-the-lesson-not-learned/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/daniel-ellsberg-speaks-to-us-as-the-war-on-iran-continues/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/daniel-ellsberg-speaks-to-us-as-the-war-on-iran-continues/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:36:03 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295330 When Daniel Ellsberg died in 2023, the world lost a unique voice of sanity. Five decades earlier, as a “national security” insider, he had released the top-secret Pentagon Papers to expose the official lies behind the ongoing Vietnam War. From then on, he never stopped writing, speaking and protesting for peace, while explaining how the madness of nuclear weapons [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/daniel-ellsberg-speaks-to-us-as-the-war-on-iran-continues/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-and-netanyahus-lurch-into-iran-imperial-hubris-in-the-wake-of-a-peoples-uprising/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-and-netanyahus-lurch-into-iran-imperial-hubris-in-the-wake-of-a-peoples-uprising/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:34:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295332 Reeking of Imperial Hubris Seizing upon what they consider to be a generational opportunity, with Iran’s theocratic dictatorship shaken by the January people’s uprising, Trump and Netanyahu launched a “prolonged” attack from the air on February 28. While the attacks are aimed, they say, at eliminating Iran’s nuclear and missile capacity, it clearly involves an [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-and-netanyahus-lurch-into-iran-imperial-hubris-in-the-wake-of-a-peoples-uprising/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-do-left-wing-governments-in-central-and-latin-america-remain-trapped-in-cycles-of-rise-and-retreat/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-do-left-wing-governments-in-central-and-latin-america-remain-trapped-in-cycles-of-rise-and-retreat/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:33:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295334 Introduction: The Problem Goes Beyond Electoral Defeat The recurrent rise and fall of left-wing governments across Latin America and Central America—from Venezuela and Bolivia to Brazil, Chile, Honduras, and Nicaragua—is often portrayed in dominant political and media narratives as a mere electoral pendulum or as evidence of “popular fatigue with the left.” Such interpretations, whether [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-do-left-wing-governments-in-central-and-latin-america-remain-trapped-in-cycles-of-rise-and-retreat/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/understanding-the-u-s-and-israels-illegal-aggression-in-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/understanding-the-u-s-and-israels-illegal-aggression-in-iran/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:32:16 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295327 Once again, the U.S.-Israel Axis has launched an unnecessary, unprovoked, and deeply immoral attack against the sovereign nation of Iran.  But what is largely missing from Western corporate media coverage of the attack is that it is also an entirely unlawful, indeed criminal act.  And that the armed Iranian response, as a matter of international law, is both justified [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/understanding-the-u-s-and-israels-illegal-aggression-in-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/western-gangster-journalism-runs-cover-for-trumps-donroe-doctrine-in-venezuela/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/western-gangster-journalism-runs-cover-for-trumps-donroe-doctrine-in-venezuela/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:47:30 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295302 US forces launched a military attack against Venezuela on January 3, reportedly killing over 100 people and kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores, who also serves as a National Assembly deputy. Western corporate media have played an active role in recent years in legitimizing escalated US aggression against the Venezuelan people, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/western-gangster-journalism-runs-cover-for-trumps-donroe-doctrine-in-venezuela/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/let-them-eat-patents/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/let-them-eat-patents/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:45:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295303 Today roughly 25 percent of the global population works the land. Their grueling labor feeds the remaining 75 percent. The true magnitude of farmers’ importance reveals itself in moments of crisis. They are a keystone in a fragile global food system. If their work is jeopardized, the consequences will not be abstract. The world’s food [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/let-them-eat-patents/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-us-israeli-war-on-iran-is-based-on-lies-here-is-the-truth/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-us-israeli-war-on-iran-is-based-on-lies-here-is-the-truth/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:44:41 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1295308 The United States and Israel are waging a war of aggression against Iran. This is not about nuclear weapons; it’s about imperialism. Trump and Netanyahu admitted they want regime change in Tehran. They want to overthrow the revolutionary government and put a puppet in power, like the former shah. Ben Norton explains.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-us-israeli-war-on-iran-is-based-on-lies-here-is-the-truth/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/another-terror-attack-on-cuba-the-66-year-war-that-washington-refuses-to-end/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/another-terror-attack-on-cuba-the-66-year-war-that-washington-refuses-to-end/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:43:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295306 On the morning of February 25, 2026, Cuban authorities thwarted yet another terrorist attack one mile off the country’s northern coast. When it was over, four men lay dead, six more were wounded and in Cuban custody, and a high-speed boat registered in Florida (FL7726SH) sat disabled, its deck littered with assault rifles, handguns, Molotov [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/another-terror-attack-on-cuba-the-66-year-war-that-washington-refuses-to-end/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/robert-f-kennedy-jr-1-year-of-failure/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/robert-f-kennedy-jr-1-year-of-failure/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:41:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295305 In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out a plan to restore trust. The COVID-19 pandemic saw public faith in Federal health and science plummet—between April, 2020, and September, 2023, the percentage of polling respondents who trusted coronavirus and vaccine information [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/robert-f-kennedy-jr-1-year-of-failure/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-whole-economy-pays-the-amazon-tax/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-whole-economy-pays-the-amazon-tax/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:39:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295300 Selling on Amazon is a tough business. Sure, you can reach a lot of customers, but this comes at a very high price: the junk fees that Amazon extracts from its sellers amount to 50-60% of the price you pay. That’s a hell of a lot of money to hand over to a middleman, but [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-whole-economy-pays-the-amazon-tax/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/elders-are-a-powerhouse-of-the-us-pro-democracy-movement/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/elders-are-a-powerhouse-of-the-us-pro-democracy-movement/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:37:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295313 As a senior, I’m trying to do my part to push back against the daily dismantling of the nation by the Trump administration. And I’m not alone. Around 25 percent of adults in the United States are seniors. We are a powerful demographic for reclaiming and restoring democracy in this country. We want to build [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/elders-are-a-powerhouse-of-the-us-pro-democracy-movement/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-the-first-time-more-americans-sympathize-with-palestinians-than-israelis/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-the-first-time-more-americans-sympathize-with-palestinians-than-israelis/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:35:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295312 For the first time in modern history, Gallup finds that the proportion of Americans who sympathize more with Palestinians has surpassed those who favor Israelis — a stark reflection of changing attitudes toward the top U.S. ally as it commits a live-streamed genocide in Gaza and wanton ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank. Polling [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-the-first-time-more-americans-sympathize-with-palestinians-than-israelis/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-the-third-world-war-a-political-lexicon-for-todays-struggles/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-the-third-world-war-a-political-lexicon-for-todays-struggles/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:23:16 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295287 This is the English translation of the original introduction to our book, Nella Terza guerra mondiale. Un lessico politico per le lotte del presente (DeriveApprodi, 2025). We are now publishing its English translation as a free ebook. Read online the 2026 Preface to the English edition, and download and share the book. In the Third World War: A Political Lexicon [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-the-third-world-war-a-political-lexicon-for-todays-struggles/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense-part-3/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense-part-3/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:20:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295290 It was the summer of 2003. I was employed at the time as the national coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network, working towards, we hoped, a progressive, broad-based alternative to the Dems and Reps. But something happened that summer in Europe which changed my life, leading me to leave that IPPN job a year [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense-part-3/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-economy-is-hurting-americans-and-setting-us-up-for-long-term-collapse/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-economy-is-hurting-americans-and-setting-us-up-for-long-term-collapse/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:12:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295285 President Donald Trump is boasting about the economy one year into his term. He claims that inflation has been defeated, growth is unprecedented, incomes are rising, and his tariffs are generating hundreds of billions for the U.S. economy. This is all hogwash, according to progressive economist Gerald Epstein, a leading global authority on macroeconomic policy [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-economy-is-hurting-americans-and-setting-us-up-for-long-term-collapse/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-iranian-left-the-right-of-self-determination-and-the-question-of-ethnic-particularism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-iranian-left-the-right-of-self-determination-and-the-question-of-ethnic-particularism/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:07:17 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295283 The debate over the “right of nations to self-determination” within segments of the Iranian left is less the result of a concrete analysis of Iran’s social and political structure than a legacy of twentieth-century leftist theoretical traditions, often transferred into the Iranian context without critical reconstruction. In its original historical setting, this concept was a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-iranian-left-the-right-of-self-determination-and-the-question-of-ethnic-particularism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sleazy-afd-germanys-far-right-loots-the-state/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sleazy-afd-germanys-far-right-loots-the-state/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:01:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295280 For weeks, allegations of sleaze, nepotism, and corruption inside the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) have dominated local media in Germany. Nepotism within the AfD has occurred at both state and federal level. The neo-fascist AfD is not known for being a political party free of infighting. Unsurprisingly, what triggered the emergence of widespread nepotism was [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sleazy-afd-germanys-far-right-loots-the-state/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-the-trump-administration-thats-threatening-the-world-not-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-the-trump-administration-thats-threatening-the-world-not-iran/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:56:01 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295278 President Donald Trump’s Pentagon is reportedly preparing a potential military assault on Iran. Washington and Tehran are set to resume Omani-mediated talks on Thursday, but the threat of war is rising nonetheless. This month, the White House and Pentagon have repeatedly met with Israeli leaders who are lobbying against a deal with Iran and are in favor of launching an attack on [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-the-trump-administration-thats-threatening-the-world-not-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-much-of-america-has-been-slow-to-react-to-ice-terrorism/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-much-of-america-has-been-slow-to-react-to-ice-terrorism/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:50:09 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1295275 ICE is terrorizing this country and threatening its long term survival. Yet still, many Americans don’t understand the magnitude of this existential threat and just how precarious the current moment is. Dominick Conidi is a recent graduate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is a contributor at ZNetwork.org. He has organized previously with the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-much-of-america-has-been-slow-to-react-to-ice-terrorism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-are-the-prospects-for-renewing-social-democratic-agency-in-britain/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-are-the-prospects-for-renewing-social-democratic-agency-in-britain/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:02:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295294 A social democratic order is one in which society, through the state, asserts control over the market and subordinates it to the common good.  Something like a social democratic order was created in Britain in the three decades after World War Two.  Organized labor allied with parts of the middle class expressed demands that were [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-are-the-prospects-for-renewing-social-democratic-agency-in-britain/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/maga-is-the-avatar-of-a-fossil-fuel-industry-coup/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/maga-is-the-avatar-of-a-fossil-fuel-industry-coup/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295292 I wrote over a year ago that “doomerism,” or “doomism,” if you prefer, ought to be a precondition for activism. If you believe that the sea won’t soon rise and drown the coastal cities that run the world’s economies, if you believe that deserts won’t swell and swallow up farmlands, if you believe that fascist predatory [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/maga-is-the-avatar-of-a-fossil-fuel-industry-coup/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hope-beats-hate-green-party-defeats-reform-and-labour-in-huge-gorton-and-denton-by-election-victory/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hope-beats-hate-green-party-defeats-reform-and-labour-in-huge-gorton-and-denton-by-election-victory/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295271 TODAY In the end it wasn’t even close. Hannah Spencer and the Greens won the Gorton and Denton by-election by a whopping 41% of the vote – pushing Reform and Labour into a distant second and third place. The result followed polling by Byline Times which showed the race to be neck and neck, but [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hope-beats-hate-green-party-defeats-reform-and-labour-in-huge-gorton-and-denton-by-election-victory/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-federal-immigration-agents-descended-on-minneapolis-residents-deployed-mutual-aid-to-protect-their-neighbors/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-federal-immigration-agents-descended-on-minneapolis-residents-deployed-mutual-aid-to-protect-their-neighbors/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295238 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security deployed 3,000 federal immigration agents to Minneapolis and St. Paul in December 2025, under the name Operation Metro Surge. Previously, there were 190 agents working across five states, including Minnesota. Agents shot three people, killing two — Renee Good and Alex Pretti — during the operation.  In the absence [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-federal-immigration-agents-descended-on-minneapolis-residents-deployed-mutual-aid-to-protect-their-neighbors/feed/ 0