https://znetwork.org/author/philrockstroh/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:22:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/philrockstroh/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-runaway-train-of-state-sanctioned-murder/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-runaway-train-of-state-sanctioned-murder/#respond Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:45:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294063 So it has come to this: ICE Gestapo agents claim, without a judge’s order, they are permitted to enter houses at their fascist whim. Are they taking lessons from the Israeli Defense Forces now? Moreover, the present criminal class of MAGA authoritarians are at liberty to transport the officialdom killer out the reach of accountability [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-runaway-train-of-state-sanctioned-murder/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/authoritarians-promise-of-law-and-order-always-translates-to-lawlessness-at-the-top/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/authoritarians-promise-of-law-and-order-always-translates-to-lawlessness-at-the-top/#respond Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293690 Human history is a crime scene, and the perps have been, more often than not, men in uniform, often agents of the law, deployed by the political class to carry out their criminal intent. A defining refrain of Adolf Hitler was: “law and order.” Law enforcement entailed the perpetration of authoritarian ideology on the German public. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/authoritarians-promise-of-law-and-order-always-translates-to-lawlessness-at-the-top/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-authoritarians-play-victim-from-minnesota-to-tel-aviv-it-is-an-admission-of-violent-intent/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-authoritarians-play-victim-from-minnesota-to-tel-aviv-it-is-an-admission-of-violent-intent/#respond Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293486 Fascists and various authoritarian personality types have a proclivity for playing the victim. Anyone who calls into question their brutal tactics is a terrorist/terrorist supporter who not only places them in mortal danger (i.e., As a rule, clad in body armor, heavily armed, and traveling in a belligerent pack) but the security and welfare of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-authoritarians-play-victim-from-minnesota-to-tel-aviv-it-is-an-admission-of-violent-intent/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/self-hating-jew-kapo-what-about-hamas/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/self-hating-jew-kapo-what-about-hamas/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292974 Zionists have attempted to teach me the following: 1) Because I am Jewish, all Palestinians clamor and scheme to have me erased from the Earth. 2) There is no such entity as the Palestinian people. Damn convenient: The people you are perpetrating a genocide upon do not exist. Damn odd: The people you are erasing [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/self-hating-jew-kapo-what-about-hamas/feed/ 2 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-me-a-jew-a-painful-truth-israel-is-a-perpetual-crime-against-humanity-masquerading-as-a-nation/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-me-a-jew-a-painful-truth-israel-is-a-perpetual-crime-against-humanity-masquerading-as-a-nation/#respond Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:11:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292799 I hold joint US/German citizenship due to the historical fact that my maternal family was stripped of their German citizenship by The Reich Citizenship act attendant to Nazi imposed Nuremberg Laws enacted in 1935. Subsequently, as the Third Reich consolidated power, by means of legalized state criminality, my family’s business interests and personal property were [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-me-a-jew-a-painful-truth-israel-is-a-perpetual-crime-against-humanity-masquerading-as-a-nation/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zblogs/secrets-of-empire-and-self-deceptions-of-partisans-yet-a-howling-defiance-into-the-darkness-of-the-corporate-state-night-by-phil-rockstroh-1/ https://znetwork.org/zblogs/secrets-of-empire-and-self-deceptions-of-partisans-yet-a-howling-defiance-into-the-darkness-of-the-corporate-state-night-by-phil-rockstroh-1/#respond https://znetwork.org/zblogs/secrets-of-empire-and-self-deceptions-of-partisans-yet-a-howling-defiance-into-the-darkness-of-the-corporate-state-night-by-phil-rockstroh-1/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/secrets-of-empire-and-self-deceptions-of-partisans-yet-a-howling-defiance-into-the-darkness-of-the-corporate-state-night-by-phil-rockstroh/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/secrets-of-empire-and-self-deceptions-of-partisans-yet-a-howling-defiance-into-the-darkness-of-the-corporate-state-night-by-phil-rockstroh/#respond Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:46:12 +0000 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/secrets-of-empire-and-self-deceptions-of-partisans-yet-a-howling-defiance-into-the-darkness-of-the-corporate-state-night-by-phil-rockstroh/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zblogs/lost-verities-and-dirty-hippies-by-phil-rockstroh-1/ https://znetwork.org/zblogs/lost-verities-and-dirty-hippies-by-phil-rockstroh-1/#respond https://znetwork.org/zblogs/lost-verities-and-dirty-hippies-by-phil-rockstroh-1/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/lost-verities-and-dirty-hippies-by-phil-rockstroh/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/lost-verities-and-dirty-hippies-by-phil-rockstroh/#respond Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:08:26 +0000 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/lost-verities-and-dirty-hippies-by-phil-rockstroh/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zblogs/memes-death-genes-and-real-estate-schemes-by-phil-rockstroh/ https://znetwork.org/zblogs/memes-death-genes-and-real-estate-schemes-by-phil-rockstroh/#respond https://znetwork.org/zblogs/memes-death-genes-and-real-estate-schemes-by-phil-rockstroh/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-degree-to-which-you-resist-is-the-degree-to-which-you-are-free-by-phil-rockstroh/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-degree-to-which-you-resist-is-the-degree-to-which-you-are-free-by-phil-rockstroh/#respond Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:15:06 +0000 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-degree-to-which-you-resist-is-the-degree-to-which-you-are-free-by-phil-rockstroh/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/police-repression-official-mendacity-and-why-ows-has-already-overcome-by-phil-rockstroh/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/police-repression-official-mendacity-and-why-ows-has-already-overcome-by-phil-rockstroh/#respond Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:42:45 +0000 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/police-repression-official-mendacity-and-why-ows-has-already-overcome-by-phil-rockstroh/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/american-autumn-by-phil-rockstroh/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/american-autumn-by-phil-rockstroh/#respond Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:24:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/american-autumn-by-phil-rockstroh/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/late-capitalism-and-its-discontents-of-the-american-autumn-by-phil-rockstroh/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/late-capitalism-and-its-discontents-of-the-american-autumn-by-phil-rockstroh/#respond Sun, 23 Oct 2011 05:31:25 +0000 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/late-capitalism-and-its-discontents-of-the-american-autumn-by-phil-rockstroh/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-labor-day-tale-of-three-cities-pittsburgh-birmingham-and-new-orleans-by-phil-rockstroh/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-labor-day-tale-of-three-cities-pittsburgh-birmingham-and-new-orleans-by-phil-rockstroh/#respond Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:29:22 +0000 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-labor-day-tale-of-three-cities-pittsburgh-birmingham-and-new-orleans-by-phil-rockstroh/feed/ 0