https://znetwork.org/author/deroyden/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Wed, 18 Dec 2024 19:36:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/deroyden/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-faux-antiwar-president/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-faux-antiwar-president/#respond Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:35:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1277295 In at least three separate elections, Donald J. Trump was portrayed by his supporters and right-wing intellectuals as an ‘anti-war’ candidate. This framing was interesting in that the Trump doctrine as he and those allied with him have articulated over time is one that should be familiar to most people: “peace through strength.” This, like so [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-faux-antiwar-president/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/post-imperial-entropy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/post-imperial-entropy/#respond Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:47:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1264593 According to a recent United Nations report there are more armed conflicts throughout the world today than during the 2nd World War. These hostilities don’t always concern opposing nations or coalitions of them as in the past but are in the main being fought against insurgencies and even heavily armed criminal groups.  In other words, civil wars, at [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/post-imperial-entropy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/united-states-of-amnesia/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/united-states-of-amnesia/#respond Fri, 22 Sep 2023 20:52:22 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1254741 Just a little more than 20 years ago, on August 19th, 2003, a cement mixing truck containing a large bomb rolled into the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad. The subsequent explosion killed Sergio Vieira de Mello, the body’s special representative to the country and many others. This event, which led to the UN withdrawing all non-essential personnel from [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/united-states-of-amnesia/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/individualism-is-killing-the-planet/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/individualism-is-killing-the-planet/#comments Mon, 07 Aug 2023 17:34:59 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1250525 On Sunday, June 25th I awoke to the smell of a smoldering campfire, a scent most people associate with our earliest, often happiest, experiences out in the natural world. Upon going outside, I found the entire city of Montreal was blanketed by a smoky haze and realized that the wildfires raging throughout the northeast, producing public health warnings [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/individualism-is-killing-the-planet/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/moral-panics-then-and-now/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/moral-panics-then-and-now/#respond Thu, 25 May 2023 17:06:04 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1246572 For at least half a century, at least once every decade in the English-speaking democracies of the West there’s been a moral panic of some sort, usually related to progressive social change. In the 1980s, it was the now almost forgotten ‘Satanic Panic’, which spread like a sociological wildfire in Canada and the United States, despite [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/moral-panics-then-and-now/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/facing-the-reality-of-a-multi-polar-world/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/facing-the-reality-of-a-multi-polar-world/#respond Fri, 12 May 2023 15:51:52 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1245945 The past few months have brought with them some diplomatic triumphs on the world stage, not one of them attributable to the United States or its NATO allies. The most impressive was the Chinese initiative to bring Saudi Arabia and its regional enemy Iran together to iron out their differences.  While neither country is a champion of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/facing-the-reality-of-a-multi-polar-world/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sanctions-as-siege-warfare/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sanctions-as-siege-warfare/#respond Tue, 11 Apr 2023 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1243292 In the distant past, the one place that people could escape a marauding army was behind the walls of a castle. Though this usually protected them from any immediate danger, it created problems of its own. While under siege and waiting for outside help or for the attackers to leave in frustration, those behind the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sanctions-as-siege-warfare/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/collateral-damage-and-other-slippery-slopes/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/collateral-damage-and-other-slippery-slopes/#respond Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1237105 The beginning of the war on terror at the turn of the century coincided with the creation of new euphemisms to describe things that were already well defined. Although military idioms have long tortured language for the sake of specious arguments, there was a new audacity in the way it was being reshaped to excuse [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/collateral-damage-and-other-slippery-slopes/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yes-we-can-from-spain-to-britain-to-america-a-revitalized-left-is-emerging/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yes-we-can-from-spain-to-britain-to-america-a-revitalized-left-is-emerging/#respond Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:01:08 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=985949 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yes-we-can-from-spain-to-britain-to-america-a-revitalized-left-is-emerging/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-the-national-endowment-for-democracy-manufactures-regime-change-around-the-world/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-the-national-endowment-for-democracy-manufactures-regime-change-around-the-world/#respond Tue, 03 Nov 2015 09:00:06 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=979810 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-the-national-endowment-for-democracy-manufactures-regime-change-around-the-world/feed/ 0