https://znetwork.org/author/donfitz/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Thu, 07 May 2026 09:18:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/donfitz/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-hate-cuba-especially-its-medical-practices/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-hate-cuba-especially-its-medical-practices/#respond Thu, 07 May 2026 15:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297812 An assault on Cuba needs excuses for hating it. But given that any exchanges between the US and Cuba has been blocked out of the news for decades, it’s a bit difficult for a lot of folks to figure out why they are supposed to hate it and starve the people there. Let’s look through [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-hate-cuba-especially-its-medical-practices/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/you-dont-miss-what-doesnt-exist/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/you-dont-miss-what-doesnt-exist/#respond Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:04:30 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294294 “Anthropause” is an amazing word and the latest book about it is an eye-opener. Stan Cox’s Anthropause: The Beauty of Degrowth (2026, Seven Stories Press), does what far too few degrowth books do – it first focuses readers’ attention to the positive experiences we could enjoy in a society less dedicated to producing unnecessary stuff. It [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/you-dont-miss-what-doesnt-exist/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-its-much-more-than-oil/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-its-much-more-than-oil/#respond Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293441 As the US openly discussed schemes to add Greenland to its list of conquered territories, it became abundantly clear that “Alternative Energy” (AltE, solar, wind, hydro power) joined fossil fuels at center stage. [1]  Corporations which pull the puppet strings of governments are well aware that oil production will cease long before none remains in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-its-much-more-than-oil/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/public-schools-climate-disasters-workers-control/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/public-schools-climate-disasters-workers-control/#respond Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:16:49 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285521 When teachers’ union president Ray Cummings told the superintendent that her plan could put students in danger, he brought together problems of excluding workers from critical decisions and schemes to use climate disasters to privatize public schools. On May 16, 2025 a tornado tore through predominantly Black north St. Louis, killing 5, and leaving thousands [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/public-schools-climate-disasters-workers-control/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-evs-truly-the-greenest-form-of-transportation/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-evs-truly-the-greenest-form-of-transportation/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1264811 A friend recently told me of a new study showing that the “life cycle” of electric vehicles (EVs) causes fewer CO2 emissions than gas-powered cars. This is important since research comparing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per mile have left out the enormous emissions associated with the complex mining, manufacturing and disposal phases of EVs. Is this recent [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-evs-truly-the-greenest-form-of-transportation/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/girl-scouts-threatened-for-supporting-palestinian-children/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/girl-scouts-threatened-for-supporting-palestinian-children/#respond Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:59:30 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262849 Guess who threatened them? The Girl Scouts of the United States. Stories abound of retaliation against those who express concern over Israeli ethnic cleansing – from censoring news reports to reprimanding faculty, mass arrests, and suppressing students’ right to protest. A well-orchestrated campaign against Palestine’s right to exist is spreading like Covid across the US. Now, it has hit a new [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/girl-scouts-threatened-for-supporting-palestinian-children/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/degrowth-how-anti-worker-would-it-be/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/degrowth-how-anti-worker-would-it-be/#respond Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1255486 The year 2023 saw the hottest Summer on record in the northern hemisphere while those in the southern hemisphere felt the hottest winter on record.  It was followed by a Fall with terrifying storms and floods across the globe.  The number of people attributing climate catastrophe to economic growth is mounting. Not all agree that [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/degrowth-how-anti-worker-would-it-be/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nuclear-fusion-eternal-energy-eternal-damnation/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nuclear-fusion-eternal-energy-eternal-damnation/#respond Sun, 04 Jun 2023 04:04:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1247048 Like a third rate zombie movie on Netflix, delusions of nuclear fusion repeatedly rise from the dead.  The cover story in the June 2023 issue of Scientific American by Philip Ball, “Star Power: Does Fusion Have a Future After All?” recycles the corporate line which was broadcast on December 13, 2022.  The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced that [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nuclear-fusion-eternal-energy-eternal-damnation/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/two-barrels-aim-at-african-peoples-socialist-party/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/two-barrels-aim-at-african-peoples-socialist-party/#respond Tue, 27 Dec 2022 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1235577 With new FBI and Department of “Justice” (DOJ) attacks expected in early January, a defense, mobilization and information session attracted hundreds of allies of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP).  On Friday, December 23 they zoomed into the “Emergency Mass Meeting: Hands Off Uhuru! Hands Off Africa!”  The APSP told its supporters that it expects [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/two-barrels-aim-at-african-peoples-socialist-party/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/life-expectancy-the-us-and-cuba-in-the-time-of-covid/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/life-expectancy-the-us-and-cuba-in-the-time-of-covid/#respond Fri, 16 Sep 2022 14:09:40 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1220204 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/life-expectancy-the-us-and-cuba-in-the-time-of-covid/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/decriminalized-marijuana-reinvents-racism-and-poisoning/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/decriminalized-marijuana-reinvents-racism-and-poisoning/#respond Sun, 15 May 2022 12:12:07 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1058236 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/decriminalized-marijuana-reinvents-racism-and-poisoning/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-prepares-for-disaster/ 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