https://znetwork.org/author/davidrovics/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:42:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/davidrovics/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/being-an-artist-in-an-age-of-blacklists-and-boycotts/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/being-an-artist-in-an-age-of-blacklists-and-boycotts/#respond Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292298 If you don’t find my music on a music streaming platform, it’s not because I boycotted it, it’s because I was blacklisted. Particularly in the era of social media and the conflict-promoting algorithms most of it is designed to thrive on, one must at least make a good effort at developing some thick skin.  Everyone’s [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/being-an-artist-in-an-age-of-blacklists-and-boycotts/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-i-wrote-the-song-im-a-better-anarchist-than-you/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-i-wrote-the-song-im-a-better-anarchist-than-you/#respond Sat, 27 Apr 2024 14:26:33 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1265618 While I spend most of my waking hours banging my head against a wall, figuratively speaking, occasionally I get reflective.  I’ve noticed that reflection can occasionally be useful in helping us figure out how to bang our heads against the wall more effectively. I suppose the most depressing thing about being a middle-aged radical approaching [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-i-wrote-the-song-im-a-better-anarchist-than-you/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dublin-riots-the-social-engineering-of-xenophobia-in-ireland/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dublin-riots-the-social-engineering-of-xenophobia-in-ireland/#respond Tue, 28 Nov 2023 17:39:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1258204 In these days of a genocidal bombing campaign in Gaza and a widespread blackout in both the mainstream media in the west, and on social media, the choice between a news blackout on Facebook and a polarized, all-or-nothing “discourse” on X, trying to make sense of anything happening in the world that you’re not directly [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dublin-riots-the-social-engineering-of-xenophobia-in-ireland/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-gaza-ghetto-uprising/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-gaza-ghetto-uprising/#respond Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1255534 The uprising began on the anniversary of another one, which had become a revolution.  The occupying power had had informants throughout the ghetto, but despite their extensive networks of surveillance and control, they were completely blindsided when the uprising began.  Those who did rise up did so primarily with ingenuity and homemade weapons, but they [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-gaza-ghetto-uprising/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-mind-warping-effects-of-rabbit-holes/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-mind-warping-effects-of-rabbit-holes/#respond Sun, 03 Sep 2023 15:35:58 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1253055 Looking at the broad expanse of history as it’s occurred, rather than the kind some people like to make up in order to suit a narrative, it’s pretty clear that material conditions tend to produce reactions on the part of people experiencing them.  What happens with those reactions, how they are channeled, then has a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-mind-warping-effects-of-rabbit-holes/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-progressive-industrial-complex-and-our-fascist-future/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-progressive-industrial-complex-and-our-fascist-future/#respond Thu, 25 Aug 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1201056 The Democratic Party leadership, along with the Liz Cheney wing of the Republican Party, seems intent on provoking a war with both Russia and China at the same time, all supposedly out of love for democracy and opposition to tyranny.  The sidewalks of cities across the US are increasingly filled with the stench of the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-progressive-industrial-complex-and-our-fascist-future/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/bidens-brinksmanship/ 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