https://znetwork.org/author/arungupta/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sat, 04 Jan 2025 15:13:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/arungupta/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-downward-spiral/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-downward-spiral/#respond Sat, 04 Jan 2025 15:13:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1277956 Israel is riding high after carrying out the most audacious campaign of military conquest of any nation since the 1940s. Following the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, Israel has begun an open-ended occupation in Lebanon, seized Syrian territory twice the size of Gaza, wiped 50 Palestinian villages “off the map” in the West Bank, bombed Iran and Yemen, and weathered more [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-downward-spiral/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-dominance-of-platform-foods/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-dominance-of-platform-foods/#respond Sun, 03 Dec 2023 15:17:26 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1258752 What did you eat today? Perhaps it was an egg-and-cheese sandwich, followed by pizza, then ramen for dinner. Or maybe you had a breakfast burrito, grabbed to-go sushi for lunch, and noshed on a burger and fries to end the day. I term these dishes “platform foods.” Though a sliver of culinary heritage, they make [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-dominance-of-platform-foods/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-reason-israel-is-attacking-gazas-hospitals/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-reason-israel-is-attacking-gazas-hospitals/#respond Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1257888 Israeli propaganda is bad, really bad, comically bad.  There are fake stories about Hamas beheading babies, and even beheading a fetus. There are outlandish claims of “mass rape so brutal that they broke their victims’ pelvis – women, grandmothers, children.”  There is a fake Al Qaeda manual found on a dead Hamas fighter emblazoned with “Al Qaeda” in English on its cover. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-reason-israel-is-attacking-gazas-hospitals/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/bananas-for-socialism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/bananas-for-socialism/#respond Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1253295 Will there be bananas under socialism? The question recently swept the internet, started with a tweet from Malcolm Harris, communist and author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. 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