https://znetwork.org/author/davelindorff/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:33:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/davelindorff/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/britain-quits-the-free-world/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/britain-quits-the-free-world/#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285950 The United Kingdom just leap-frogged the US to become the leading country in the so-called “Free World” to abandon its much touted tradition of freedom of speech, press, and assembly, along with the right to protest. The move to abandon what in the US is popularly known as First Amendment rights actually came a few [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/britain-quits-the-free-world/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/global-peace-movement-needed-to-combat-climate-change-and-avoid-nuclear-apocalypse/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/global-peace-movement-needed-to-combat-climate-change-and-avoid-nuclear-apocalypse/#respond Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280537 Reading all the news in my temporary flat at Cambridge University, where my wife is on a year’s sabbatical leave, I’m able to view all the slaughter in the world and the chaos, increasingly blatant presidential power-grabbing and corporate influence in the US with a certain degree of detachment. That has got me thinking that [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/global-peace-movement-needed-to-combat-climate-change-and-avoid-nuclear-apocalypse/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/playing-nuclear-chicken-with-russia/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/playing-nuclear-chicken-with-russia/#respond Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:58:52 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1275665 There is no justifiable explanation for lame duck President Joe Biden’s sudden turnabout decision to okay Ukraine’s use of longer-range US ATACMS ballistic missiles which can hit targets as much as 200 miles inside Russia. Biden and his ironically-dubbed national security “brain trust” of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/playing-nuclear-chicken-with-russia/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-would-a-real-opposition-party-of-the-people-do/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-would-a-real-opposition-party-of-the-people-do/#respond Tue, 05 Jul 2022 18:42:20 +0000 https://zcomm-staging.work/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1061681 We are currently at the mercy of a cabal of self-righteous Christian zealots with a 6-3 grip on the US Supreme Court and on Congress, thanks to an arcane structure designed by slave-owning wealthy men who handed the power to a Senate dominated by small-state rich people and to their party of Christian fascists and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-would-a-real-opposition-party-of-the-people-do/feed/ 0 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