https://znetwork.org/author/jonqueally/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:52:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/jonqueally/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pure-incitement-google-rebuked-over-israeli-sponsored-propaganda-aimed-at-global-sumud-flotilla/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pure-incitement-google-rebuked-over-israeli-sponsored-propaganda-aimed-at-global-sumud-flotilla/#respond Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:52:31 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288834 Evidence posted over the weekend online appears to show that tech giant Google has allowed the government of Israel to purchase sponsored content spots so that online users searching on the Global Sumud Flotilla will be shown inaccurate, propagandized content accusing the flotilla particpants as being allied with violent, terrorist elements. The Sumud Flotilla—a group of international [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pure-incitement-google-rebuked-over-israeli-sponsored-propaganda-aimed-at-global-sumud-flotilla/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/support-for-labor-unions-near-historic-high-as-trump-trashes-working-class/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/support-for-labor-unions-near-historic-high-as-trump-trashes-working-class/#respond Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:10:56 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287985 A new poll reveals that Americans continue to support organized labor at historic levels, even as the Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress take a battering ram to union rights and the nation’s working class. Gallup’s annual survey, released Thursday, shows more than two-thirds of people in the US (68%) approve of labor unions and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/support-for-labor-unions-near-historic-high-as-trump-trashes-working-class/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-isnt-normal-secret-pentagon-plan-for-troops-to-put-down-local-unrest-nationwide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-isnt-normal-secret-pentagon-plan-for-troops-to-put-down-local-unrest-nationwide/#respond Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287285 “If people aren’t allowed to peacefully protest and the elections are being rigged through gerrymandering and voter suppression, how are Americans supposed to respond when they figure out their lives are being actively destroyed by a corrupt, fascist government?” Internal documents obtained by The Washington Post and reported on Tuesday reveal a secret Pentagon plan by the Trump [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-isnt-normal-secret-pentagon-plan-for-troops-to-put-down-local-unrest-nationwide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-pentagon-plan-for-troops-to-put-down-local-unrest-nationwide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-pentagon-plan-for-troops-to-put-down-local-unrest-nationwide/#respond Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:31:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287247 Internal documents obtained by The Washington Post and reported on Tuesday reveal a secret Pentagon plan by the Trump administration to create a standing force of military personnel that could be rapidly deployed to U.S. cities or communities to quell public protests or any situation President Donald Trump deems “domestic civil unrest.” The proposal to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-pentagon-plan-for-troops-to-put-down-local-unrest-nationwide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-have-run-out-of-body-bags-to-bury-the-dead-in-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-have-run-out-of-body-bags-to-bury-the-dead-in-gaza/#respond Tue, 17 Dec 2024 17:21:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1277229 Rescue workers, children, and journalists are among the civilians killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza on Sunday, as the death toll continues to mount in a military campaign Amnesty International earlier this month said has all the markings of an active and ongoing genocide. “Due to the rising Israeli bombings and killings in northern Gaza, we have run out [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-have-run-out-of-body-bags-to-bury-the-dead-in-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/children-among-100-killed-by-israel-bombing-of-gaza-school-just-hours-after-us-weapons-approval/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/children-among-100-killed-by-israel-bombing-of-gaza-school-just-hours-after-us-weapons-approval/#respond Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:45:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1270764 Just hours after the Biden administration Friday announced approval of $3.5 billion in military funds for Israel and shipments for new weaponry, an Israeli bombing of a school-turned-shelter in Gaza has killed 100 people or more, including scores of civilian men, women, and children in what was described as a “bloody massacre” that struck during morning prayers, leaving body [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/children-among-100-killed-by-israel-bombing-of-gaza-school-just-hours-after-us-weapons-approval/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/11000-return-trumps-1-billion-offer-could-yield-110-billion-windfall-for-big-oil/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/11000-return-trumps-1-billion-offer-could-yield-110-billion-windfall-for-big-oil/#respond Thu, 16 May 2024 17:04:52 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266472 A new analysis reveals that the alleged $1 billion election year “quid pro quo” offer that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump made to executives of major oil company’s could, if they agreed to the deal, bank them a handsome profit. According to the study by Friends of the Earth Action, first reported by The Guardian on Thursday, the “remarkably blunt and transactional” [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/11000-return-trumps-1-billion-offer-could-yield-110-billion-windfall-for-big-oil/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/oil-and-gas-decarbonization-charter-denounced-as-greenwashing-scheme-by-fossil-fuel-arsonists/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/oil-and-gas-decarbonization-charter-denounced-as-greenwashing-scheme-by-fossil-fuel-arsonists/#respond Sun, 03 Dec 2023 15:12:15 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1258749 Hundreds of civil society groups and frontline voices from around the world on Saturday condemned a voluntary pledge heralded by government leaders and fossil fuel giants, calling the “Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter” unveiled at the COP28 climate talks in Dubai nothing but a cynical industry-backed smokescreen and greenwashing ploy that will allow for the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/oil-and-gas-decarbonization-charter-denounced-as-greenwashing-scheme-by-fossil-fuel-arsonists/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/huge-victory-for-workers-judge-excoriates-starbucks-for-union-busting-in-pittsburgh/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/huge-victory-for-workers-judge-excoriates-starbucks-for-union-busting-in-pittsburgh/#respond Wed, 05 Jul 2023 16:14:14 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1248909 In what union members called a “huge victory for workers,” an administrative judge with the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that coffee giant Starbucks violated federal labor law by terminating organized workers in several Pittsburgh locations, accusing the company of orchestrating a “purge” of employees leading the unionization effort. The ruling by Judge Robert [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/huge-victory-for-workers-judge-excoriates-starbucks-for-union-busting-in-pittsburgh/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/corruption-plain-and-simple-ginni-thomas-took-secret-payments-ahead-of-landmark-voting-rights-case/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/corruption-plain-and-simple-ginni-thomas-took-secret-payments-ahead-of-landmark-voting-rights-case/#comments Fri, 05 May 2023 15:52:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1245616 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni Thomas are under fresh scrutiny as yet another revelation, this one reported by the Washington Post on Thursday evening shows Ginni received tens of thousands of dollars in off-the-book compensation from a powerful right-wing nonprofit shortly before the group “soon would have an interest before the court”—a pivotal voting rights case. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/corruption-plain-and-simple-ginni-thomas-took-secret-payments-ahead-of-landmark-voting-rights-case/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/earth-day-message-to-biden-end-the-era-of-fossil-fuels/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/earth-day-message-to-biden-end-the-era-of-fossil-fuels/#respond Mon, 24 Apr 2023 14:43:01 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1244213 The Earth Day message delivered to President Joe Biden outside the White House on Saturday was clear: do everything in your power to bring the age of fossil fuels to an end while rapidly escalating the renewable energy transition that holds the key to a more sustainable future. It was delivered by hundreds who turned [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/earth-day-message-to-biden-end-the-era-of-fossil-fuels/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/16000-nurses-say-they-are-ready-to-strike-across-new-york-city/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/16000-nurses-say-they-are-ready-to-strike-across-new-york-city/#respond Sun, 01 Jan 2023 15:07:19 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1235954 An estimated 16,000 unionized nurses from private hospitals across the New York City metropolitan area announced strike authorizations on Friday as current contracts are set to expire and the region continues to experience a “tridemic” health crisis that includes Covid-19, flu, and the respiratory illness known as RSV. The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/16000-nurses-say-they-are-ready-to-strike-across-new-york-city/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-weak-global-biodiversity-pact-approved-at-cop15-despite-objections-of-african-nations/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-weak-global-biodiversity-pact-approved-at-cop15-despite-objections-of-african-nations/#respond Tue, 20 Dec 2022 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1235008 Over the objections of the Democratic Republic of Congo and frustrations by other African nations, a final draft of The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted in the early hours of Monday that conservationists say is not strong enough to prevent industries and corporate behemoths from continuing their destructive, profit-driven attacks on the natural world and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-weak-global-biodiversity-pact-approved-at-cop15-despite-objections-of-african-nations/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/over-100-climate-activists-arrested-for-blocking-private-jets-from-taking-off-in-amsterdam/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/over-100-climate-activists-arrested-for-blocking-private-jets-from-taking-off-in-amsterdam/#respond Mon, 07 Nov 2022 15:55:09 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1231171 More than 500 environmental and social justice campaigners on Saturday occupied the runway and blocked private jets from taking off from a major airport in the Netherlands to call attention to the highly-polluting travel practices of the uber-rich in the face of runaway climate catastrophe. The organizers of the protest said participants—many of whom were arrested [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/over-100-climate-activists-arrested-for-blocking-private-jets-from-taking-off-in-amsterdam/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-migrants-confirm-they-were-misled-calls-for-prosecution-of-desantis-and-abbott-grow/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-migrants-confirm-they-were-misled-calls-for-prosecution-of-desantis-and-abbott-grow/#respond Mon, 19 Sep 2022 14:25:01 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1220341 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-migrants-confirm-they-were-misled-calls-for-prosecution-of-desantis-and-abbott-grow/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/biden-student-debt-relief-plan-a-big-deal-says-sanders-but-we-have-got-to-do-more/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/biden-student-debt-relief-plan-a-big-deal-says-sanders-but-we-have-got-to-do-more/#respond Thu, 25 Aug 2022 13:56:00 +0000 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