https://znetwork.org/author/henrya-henrya/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:55:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/henrya-henrya/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/goebbelss-ghost-and-millers-dream-of-a-unified-reich/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/goebbelss-ghost-and-millers-dream-of-a-unified-reich/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:55:11 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293319 White House adviser Stephen Miller seems torn from the darkest archive of the 1930s. His ideological fever, spittle-laced tirades, compulsive lying, and theatrical rage are not excesses but instruments: performative rituals through which cruelty is normalized and racism is taught. What he stages is not only a ruthless infatuation with power and updated fascist politics but [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/goebbelss-ghost-and-millers-dream-of-a-unified-reich/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/resisting-authoritarianism-in-todays-classrooms/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/resisting-authoritarianism-in-todays-classrooms/#respond Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292748 Appeals to neutrality, civility and “balance” can easily become mechanisms for silencing critique and avoiding responsibility. ascism does not crash onto the stage of history — it slips in through habits, policies and the quiet erosion of conscience, often cloaked in the language of efficiency, order, fear and “commonsense.” Today, its most dangerous advances are pedagogical. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/resisting-authoritarianism-in-todays-classrooms/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/higher-education-in-the-time-of-fascist-plague/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/higher-education-in-the-time-of-fascist-plague/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292300 Introduction The horrors of fascism have returned have returned, not as ghosts, but as a plague, fueled by racial hatred and historical amnesia, infiltrating schools, universities, and the public sphere through state violence, fear, censorship, and manufactured ignorance. Across the globe, fascist forces—emboldened by resurgent colonial logics, neoliberal cruelty, and virulent white nationalism—have transformed universities [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/higher-education-in-the-time-of-fascist-plague/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/echoes-of-hitler-and-pinochet-how-trumps-policies-resurrect-state-terror/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/echoes-of-hitler-and-pinochet-how-trumps-policies-resurrect-state-terror/#respond Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291938 America’s fascist dress rehearsal including torture, dehumanization, and the collapse of democratic norms are no longer theoretical—they’re preparing for the opening act. We inhabit a historical moment that resurrects, with chilling familiarity, the state terrorism once made visible under Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, Pinochet, and other dictators who transformed cruelty into a governing philosophy. Central to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/echoes-of-hitler-and-pinochet-how-trumps-policies-resurrect-state-terror/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-courting-saudi-arabia-trump-emulates-mohammed-bin-salmans-authoritarianism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-courting-saudi-arabia-trump-emulates-mohammed-bin-salmans-authoritarianism/#respond Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291705 Fascism thrives in societies that grow desensitized to violence. Once cruelty is normalized, political life collapses into a spectacle of force, lies, and corruption. Under such conditions, the humanity of selected populations becomes disposable. Bodies disappear, injustice parades as lawful, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security reveal themselves as having [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-courting-saudi-arabia-trump-emulates-mohammed-bin-salmans-authoritarianism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-politics-of-defecation/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-politics-of-defecation/#respond Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:51:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290635 Recently, Donald Trump shared a video known as the “Flying King”– an AI-generated spectacle in which he pilots a fighter plane emblazoned with the words “King Trump,” raining brown sludge, representing excrement, onto a group of protesters below. This grotesque display seems to be a direct response to the widespread “No Kings” protests, where citizens [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-politics-of-defecation/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-law-becomes-crime-the-tyranny-of-gangster-capitalism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-law-becomes-crime-the-tyranny-of-gangster-capitalism/#respond Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290333 At its center lies a machinery of state violence: abductions, the erosion of due process, and the weaponization of government to punish critics and institutions deemed enemies of the people. Fascism is now in full bloom in the United States. It reveals itself not only in its drive to purge the last traces of democracy, but [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-law-becomes-crime-the-tyranny-of-gangster-capitalism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stephen-miller-and-the-making-of-the-fascist-subject/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stephen-miller-and-the-making-of-the-fascist-subject/#respond Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:11:45 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290130 Stephen Miller, Trump’s White House Deputy Chief of Staff, is a well-documented white nationalist and one of the most influential architects behind Trump’s racist policies. Miller has long aligned himself with far-right media and extremist figures. His outspoken opposition to DACA and his calls to end Temporary Protected Status for predominantly nonwhite populations further expose his deeply entrenched [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stephen-miller-and-the-making-of-the-fascist-subject/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/an-interview-with-prof-henry-giroux/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/an-interview-with-prof-henry-giroux/#respond Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1289709 Professor Henry Giroux—world-renowned cultural critic & public intellectual—joins TV Metro Mail, Canada, in an exclusive conversation with Editor Emamul Haque. 🎙️ 🔥 Topics include: Cultural Fascism & Democracy, Nationalism, Religion, Authoritarian Regimes & The Language of Hope ✨ 👏 Prof. Giroux praises the July Revolution in Bangladesh, calling it a powerful example of how youth [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/an-interview-with-prof-henry-giroux/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-road-to-the-camps-echoes-of-a-fascist-past/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-road-to-the-camps-echoes-of-a-fascist-past/#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:37:14 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289180 Historically, the most terrible things war, genocide, and slavery have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. – Howard Zinn The irony is unbearable. Trump has saturated public life in lies, turned immigrants and Black citizens into targets of contempt, and made corruption and violence the grammar of governance. He pledges loyalty to dictators, surrounds [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-road-to-the-camps-echoes-of-a-fascist-past/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pedagogies-of-repression-ford-trump-and-the-war-on-education/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pedagogies-of-repression-ford-trump-and-the-war-on-education/#respond Sun, 14 Sep 2025 15:03:33 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288559 Analyses of fascism too often fixate on its most spectacular expressions: staggering inequality, systemic racism, the militarization of daily life, unbridled corruption, monopolistic control of the media, and the concentration of power in financial and political elites. Fascism thrives on a culture of fear and racial cleansing and the normalization of cruelty, lies, and state [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pedagogies-of-repression-ford-trump-and-the-war-on-education/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-theater-of-cruelty-fascisms-malignant-return/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-theater-of-cruelty-fascisms-malignant-return/#respond Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288411 Trump’s obsession with violence is more than a grotesque fixation on power and cruelty; it is a commentary on politics as pathology, a grim theater in which authoritarianism reveals its inner logic. What he offers is not governance but the intoxication of destruction, the fetishization of cruelty, and the performance of violence as ritual. On [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-theater-of-cruelty-fascisms-malignant-return/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/domestic-terrorism-and-spectacularized-violence-in-trumps-warfare-state/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/domestic-terrorism-and-spectacularized-violence-in-trumps-warfare-state/#respond Sat, 30 Aug 2025 16:27:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287960 The Trump administration’s race toward fascism is unfolding at breakneck speed and on multiple fronts. At the heart of this transformation lies the emergence of the United States as a warfare state, a captive state that merges the interests of the military-industrial-academic complex with the toxic ideologies of white nationalism and white supremacy. What makes this moment especially [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/domestic-terrorism-and-spectacularized-violence-in-trumps-warfare-state/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/death-of-memory-is-the-death-of-democracy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/death-of-memory-is-the-death-of-democracy/#respond Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287878 The MAGA War on Memory Democracy cannot survive without memory or it runs the risk of turning itself into an  authoritarian state. It requires citizens to confront injustice, to learn from the crimes of the past, and to imagine futures that do not repeat them. William Faulkner’s warning still resonates: “The past is never dead. It’s not even [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/death-of-memory-is-the-death-of-democracy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/every-child-is-our-child-gaza-lidice-and-the-collapse-of-global-conscience/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/every-child-is-our-child-gaza-lidice-and-the-collapse-of-global-conscience/#respond Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286540 The bronze sculpture by Marie Uchytilová, Memorial to the Children Victims of the War,  depicting the 82 children of Lidice murdered at Chełmno in 1942, serves as a haunting reminder of the barbarity that defined the Nazi-led Lidice massacre. In reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazis razed the village of Lidice, executed its men, and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/every-child-is-our-child-gaza-lidice-and-the-collapse-of-global-conscience/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/capitalism-and-culture-their-connection-in-crisis-now/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/capitalism-and-culture-their-connection-in-crisis-now/#respond Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1286292 On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides updates on Medicare advantage and “pre-authorization” as a way to reduce Medicare payments, liberals and radicals split over Mamdani,  Trump’s current budget further deepens the inequality of wealth across the US, and Mexico attends the BRICS meeting in Rio de Janeiro. In the second part of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/capitalism-and-culture-their-connection-in-crisis-now/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/resisting-the-deadly-language-of-american-fascism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/resisting-the-deadly-language-of-american-fascism/#respond Sat, 12 Jul 2025 15:25:53 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286100 Introduction: Language in the Age of Fascist Politics In the age of expanding fascism, the power of language is not only fragile but increasingly threatened. As Toni Morrison has noted, “language is not only an instrument through which power is exercised,” it also shapes agency and functions as an act with consequences. These consequences ripple through the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/resisting-the-deadly-language-of-american-fascism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-can-still-save-education-and-thats-the-key-to-saving-democracy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-can-still-save-education-and-thats-the-key-to-saving-democracy/#respond Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285760 We live in a dangerous historical moment, when fascist politics are no longer lurking on the margins but inhabiting the centers of power. Across the globe, authoritarian regimes, from the U.S. to Hungary, India and Argentina, are gutting democracy, silencing dissent and merging culture and violence to impose updated forms of fascist politics.  This is nowhere more evident [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-can-still-save-education-and-thats-the-key-to-saving-democracy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unmasking-fascism-edward-saids-pedagogy-of-wakefulness-in-an-age-of-educational-repression/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unmasking-fascism-edward-saids-pedagogy-of-wakefulness-in-an-age-of-educational-repression/#respond Sat, 28 Jun 2025 15:34:06 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285596 The War at Home—State Terrorism on Full Display Across the globe, we are living in a moment of profound crisis where the very essence of education as a democratic institution is under attack. In the United States, the assault on higher education is part of a broader war waged by authoritarian forces aiming to dismantle the pillars of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unmasking-fascism-edward-saids-pedagogy-of-wakefulness-in-an-age-of-educational-repression/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/culture-as-a-pedagogical-battlefield-in-the-fight-against-authoritarianism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/culture-as-a-pedagogical-battlefield-in-the-fight-against-authoritarianism/#respond Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285467 On June 6, resistance ignited in the streets of Los Angeles to confront the Trump regime’s brutal campaign against immigrants, enforced by the brutality of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and the machinery of mass deportation. In a chilling escalation, Trump branded the protesters “insurrectionists” and threatened the use of military force [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/culture-as-a-pedagogical-battlefield-in-the-fight-against-authoritarianism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/trumps-really-going-to-try-it-2/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/trumps-really-going-to-try-it-2/#respond Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1285242 Henry Giroux, Chaired Professor of Scholarship in the Public Interest at McMaster University, joins David to discuss neo-liberal fascism and whether fascism and authoritarian are valid descriptors of what Donald Trump has promised for his second term]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/trumps-really-going-to-try-it-2/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/culture-is-the-front-line-of-the-fight-for-democracy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/culture-is-the-front-line-of-the-fight-for-democracy/#respond Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284903 Fascism no longer announces itself with marching boots or military coups. It now emerges through culture, through the seductive rhythms of social media, viral spectacle and the normalization of cruelty. Today, culture is not just a backdrop to politics; it is politics. It teaches us how to see, what to remember, whom to fear, and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/culture-is-the-front-line-of-the-fight-for-democracy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-war-on-thought-higher-education-and-the-fight-against-authoritarianism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-war-on-thought-higher-education-and-the-fight-against-authoritarianism/#respond Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284591 According to the 2024 Democracy Index, approximately 45% of the world’s population now resides in democracies, yet only 8% live in full democracies. The rise in authoritarian regimes is particularly alarming, with over 35% of the global population living under such systems. This backslide is attributed to factors such as authoritarian crackdowns, increasing political polarization, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-war-on-thought-higher-education-and-the-fight-against-authoritarianism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tears-of-blood-eugenics-disposability-and-the-war-on-children/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tears-of-blood-eugenics-disposability-and-the-war-on-children/#respond Thu, 29 May 2025 15:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284352 Violence, soaked in blood and stripped of shame, has become the defining language of governance in the age of Trump and the global resurgence of authoritarianism. Across the globe, democracy is in retreat, and with it, the very notion of moral and social responsibility. In its place, we find a brutal political grammar scripted by modern-day barbarians, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tears-of-blood-eugenics-disposability-and-the-war-on-children/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-build-civic-courage/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-build-civic-courage/#respond Fri, 23 May 2025 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284117 WORT 89.9FM Madison · How to Build Civic Courage with Henry Giroux On today’s show, social critic Henry Giroux discusses what he calls the “politics of cleansing,” the multi-pronged offensive currently being waged against civil liberties, dissent, and ultimately democracy by “American-style fascism.” He says that cleansing means to purify in the service of domination. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-build-civic-courage/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/radical-democracy-requires-more-than-just-resisting-fascism-it-needs-infrastructure/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/radical-democracy-requires-more-than-just-resisting-fascism-it-needs-infrastructure/#respond Thu, 15 May 2025 15:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1283759 Henry Giroux joins Dick Price and Sharon Kyle of the LA Progressive to discuss the need for a radical democracy. He brings up important questions followed by even more important answers. Giroux says, “Disposable populations are no longer hidden in the shadows or relegated to the margins. They have been thrust into the harsh spotlight [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/radical-democracy-requires-more-than-just-resisting-fascism-it-needs-infrastructure/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-fire-next-time-youth-education-and-the-struggle-for-a-radical-democracy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-fire-next-time-youth-education-and-the-struggle-for-a-radical-democracy/#respond Thu, 01 May 2025 15:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283216 Disposable populations are no longer hidden in the shadows or relegated to the margins. They have been thrust into the harsh spotlight of a militarized spectacle, orchestrated by Trump’s Christian white supremacist nationalist regime. The faces of the undocumented, people of color, and those labeled as “gang members” are now paraded across a media landscape [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-fire-next-time-youth-education-and-the-struggle-for-a-radical-democracy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rot-at-the-top-fire-below-liberal-complicity-in-a-fascist-age/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rot-at-the-top-fire-below-liberal-complicity-in-a-fascist-age/#respond Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282911 Watching the Rachel Maddow show this past Thursday evening stirred a whirlwind of emotions—admiration and anger, inspiration and despair. On the one hand, Maddow remains one of the few mainstream journalists committed currently to documenting the ever-growing wave of resistance rising against Trump’s increasingly and openly authoritarian rule. On the other hand, the show laid [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rot-at-the-top-fire-below-liberal-complicity-in-a-fascist-age/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-politics-of-cleansing/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-politics-of-cleansing/#respond Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:51:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282903 All across the United States, people are rising up–refusing to be complicit in the slow-motion annihilation of democracy. They march against a regime that strips away public goods, criminalizes dissent, vanishes students, and hollows out the very institutions meant to protect civic life. But these assaults are not new; they are the culmination of what [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-politics-of-cleansing/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zaudio/law-and-disorder/ https://znetwork.org/zaudio/law-and-disorder/#respond Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=audio&p=1282615 Oligarchs, Billionaires And Reshaping The Economic-Political Landscape We’re living at a time of profound changes in the institutions that previously governed our society. One hundred years ago V.I Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution, observed that sometimes nothing changes for decades and at other times decades-long changes occur within several days. This is what [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zaudio/law-and-disorder/feed/ 0