https://znetwork.org/author/stancox/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:04:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/stancox/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dearborn-says-to-washington-forget-campaigning-just-end-the-war-and-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dearborn-says-to-washington-forget-campaigning-just-end-the-war-and-genocide/#respond Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:25:00 +0000 Donald Trump’s illegal, increasingly unpopular war on Iran is sinking Republican prospects for winning the midterm elections, to the delight of Washington Democrats and liberal media. A couple of weeks before the US and Israel launched their blitzkrieg at the end of February, a Senate foreign-policy aide told Drop Site News that  A substantial number [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dearborn-says-to-washington-forget-campaigning-just-end-the-war-and-genocide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-biggest-threats-the-iranian-people-face-are-america-and-israel/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-biggest-threats-the-iranian-people-face-are-america-and-israel/#respond Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:45:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294065 Israel’s longstanding campaign to lure Washington into war with Iran seems to have fizzled once again—for now, anyway. But in their attempt to invent a casus belli, their spy agencies employ tactics—disinformation, infiltration, and incitement of rioting—that help sustain the patently false impression that Tehran, not Tel Aviv, is home to the Middle East’s cruelest [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-biggest-threats-the-iranian-people-face-are-america-and-israel/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/were-racing-down-the-highway-to-a-mad-max-world/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/were-racing-down-the-highway-to-a-mad-max-world/#respond Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:51:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293453 Let me start by putting things bluntly: Don’t bother to tell Donald Trump, but with his distinct help, we’re doing nothing less than cooking ourselves. Thanks to the continued use of fossil fuels in a staggering fashion and the growth of greenhouse gas emissions, almost half of the world’s population now suffers through 30 additional days [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/were-racing-down-the-highway-to-a-mad-max-world/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stopping-the-genocide-requires-armed-intervention/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stopping-the-genocide-requires-armed-intervention/#respond Sat, 20 Sep 2025 15:07:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288806 The Palestinian armed resistance has defended Gaza for almost two years now, successfully preventing Israel from expelling two million people from their homeland. But, outgunned as they are by Israel’s technology and its unlimited supply of war matériel from the United States, the resistance fighters now need the world’s help—and soon—to drive out the Israeli [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stopping-the-genocide-requires-armed-intervention/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-gaza-starved-npr-coverage-grew-but-didnt-get-any-better/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-gaza-starved-npr-coverage-grew-but-didnt-get-any-better/#respond Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286924 Before the third week of July, when mass-starvation alarms finally started sounding, only a tiny minority of Americans were focused on the crimes against humanity that Israel was committing in Gaza. Z readers had long known what was going on, of course, but most Americans who depend on establishment media, whether liberal or MAGA, for [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-gaza-starved-npr-coverage-grew-but-didnt-get-any-better/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-israeli-warplanes-rain-death-on-gaza-the-copilot-is-uncle-sam/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-israeli-warplanes-rain-death-on-gaza-the-copilot-is-uncle-sam/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1278424 In recent weeks, political soothsayers have speculated about a wide variety of odious new policies the incoming Trump administration and its allies in Congress may or may not pursue. No one can predict with certainty which of those measures they will inflict on us and which they’ll forget about.  But we can make one prediction [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-israeli-warplanes-rain-death-on-gaza-the-copilot-is-uncle-sam/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestinians-both-civilian-and-military-are-transcending-the-horror-weve-unleashed/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestinians-both-civilian-and-military-are-transcending-the-horror-weve-unleashed/#respond Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1275598 In February, the public health specialist Muna Abed Alah published a paper in the journal Current Psychology titled “Shattered Hierarchy: How the Gaza Conflict Demolished Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs.” The idea of a hierarchy of needs—first published by the psychologist Abraham Maslow in 1943 and subsequently modified in various ways by Maslow and others—has long [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestinians-both-civilian-and-military-are-transcending-the-horror-weve-unleashed/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/outrageous-anti-protest-laws-cant-silence-the-climate-movement/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/outrageous-anti-protest-laws-cant-silence-the-climate-movement/#respond Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:51:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1274165 In August, climate activist and cellist John Mark Rozendaal was arrested and charged with criminal contempt for playing a few minutes of Bach outside Citibank’s headquarters in New York City. Rozendaal, 63, was prominent in the “Summer of Heat on Wall Street” campaign that targeted Citibank for its prolific financing of fossil-fuel projects. He and a co-defendant [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/outrageous-anti-protest-laws-cant-silence-the-climate-movement/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/were-getting-sick-of-noise-pollution/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/were-getting-sick-of-noise-pollution/#respond Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:11:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272418 The most pressing environmental crisis of these times, our heating of the Earth through carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas pollution, is closely connected to our excessive energy consumption. And with many of the ways we use that energy, we’re also producing another less widely discussed pollutant: industrial noise. Like greenhouse-gas pollution, noise pollution is [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/were-getting-sick-of-noise-pollution/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/starvation-in-sudan/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/starvation-in-sudan/#respond Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:25:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1270152 For months, we’ve all been able to stay reasonably informed about the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. But there’s another horrific war that’s gotten so little coverage you could be excused for not knowing anything about it. What we have in mind is the seemingly never-ending, utterly devastating war in Sudan. Think of it as the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/starvation-in-sudan/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dear-white-friends-can-you-smell-the-yellow-roses-of-dier-al-balah/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dear-white-friends-can-you-smell-the-yellow-roses-of-dier-al-balah/#respond Tue, 21 May 2024 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266683 One of the first things that I heard from people when I immigrated to the United States from the Global South in early 2000 was, “Oh, you speak our language so well.” To which I would reply politely that it was one of the things that the British left behind, but would think to myself [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dear-white-friends-can-you-smell-the-yellow-roses-of-dier-al-balah/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/eco-collapse-hasnt-happened-yet-but-you-can-see-it-coming-2/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/eco-collapse-hasnt-happened-yet-but-you-can-see-it-coming-2/#respond Wed, 01 May 2024 19:36:44 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1265793 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/eco-collapse-hasnt-happened-yet-but-you-can-see-it-coming-2/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/eco-collapse-hasnt-happened-yet-but-you-can-see-it-coming/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/eco-collapse-hasnt-happened-yet-but-you-can-see-it-coming/#respond Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:53:17 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1265698 Something must be up. Otherwise, why would scientists keep sending us those scary warnings? There has been a steady stream of them in the past few years, including “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency” (signed by 15,000 of them), “Scientists’ Warning Against the Society of Waste,” “Scientists’ Warning of an Imperiled Ocean,” “Scientists’ Warning on Technology,” “Scientists’ [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/eco-collapse-hasnt-happened-yet-but-you-can-see-it-coming/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/armed-by-washington-israel-trashes-the-genocide-convention/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/armed-by-washington-israel-trashes-the-genocide-convention/#respond Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1263833 It’s been almost two months since the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop killing Gazans and destroying their means of subsistence. So let’s look back and ask (1) how Israel has responded to its “orders,” and (2) how hard the Biden administration has pushed Israel to abide by those orders. Spoiler alert: the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/armed-by-washington-israel-trashes-the-genocide-convention/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-israel-india-u-s-triangle/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-israel-india-u-s-triangle/#respond Mon, 04 Dec 2023 16:17:14 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1258803 In 1981, India’s post office issued a stamp showing the flags of India and occupied Palestine flying side by side above the phrase “Solidarity with the Palestinian people.” That now seems like ancient history. Today, Hindu nationalists are flying the flags of India and Israel side by side as a demonstration of their support for that country’s [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-israel-india-u-s-triangle/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/humanitarian-calamities-that-arent-on-the-worlds-agenda/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/humanitarian-calamities-that-arent-on-the-worlds-agenda/#respond Sun, 15 Oct 2023 15:26:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1255798 Various versions of the aphorism “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography” have been making the rounds ever since the rise of U.S. imperialism in the late 1800s. The quip (which, despite legend, appears not to be attributable to Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, or any other famous person) has proven all too accurate when the war [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/humanitarian-calamities-that-arent-on-the-worlds-agenda/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/suffering-in-the-shadows/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/suffering-in-the-shadows/#respond Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:48:28 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1255681 Various versions of the aphorism “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography” have been making the rounds ever since the rise of U.S. imperialism in the late 1800s. The quip (which, despite legend, appears not to be attributable to Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, or any other famous person) has proven all too accurate when the war [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/suffering-in-the-shadows/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/young-montanans-are-fighting-climate-change-in-court-for-all-our-sakes/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/young-montanans-are-fighting-climate-change-in-court-for-all-our-sakes/#respond Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1254120 The wording in Article IX, Section 1, of Montana’s constitution couldn’t be clearer: “The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations.” Accordingly, in April, a district court judge in Yellowstone County voided a permit for a natural-gas-fired power plant under construction there. Over its lifetime, it [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/young-montanans-are-fighting-climate-change-in-court-for-all-our-sakes/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-future-generation-shows-up-ahead-of-schedule/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-future-generation-shows-up-ahead-of-schedule/#respond Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1254057 The wording in Article IX, Section 1, of Montana’s constitution couldn’t be clearer: “The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations.” Accordingly, in April, a district court judge in Yellowstone County voided a permit for a natural-gas-fired power plant under construction there. Over its lifetime, it [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-future-generation-shows-up-ahead-of-schedule/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/even-plutocrats-cant-escape-the-coming-heat/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/even-plutocrats-cant-escape-the-coming-heat/#respond Sat, 19 Aug 2023 14:54:01 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1252216 The future is here. A study recently published by a team of British and Dutch scientists found that this summer’s horrific heatwaves “would have been virtually impossible to occur in the U.S./Mexico region and Southern Europe if humans had not warmed the planet by burning fossil fuels.” More and more, it seems that heatwaves, more than storms, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/even-plutocrats-cant-escape-the-coming-heat/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/that-other-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/that-other-war/#respond Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:34:05 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1250108 It’s been devastating, even if no one’s paying attention. Three months of fighting in Sudan between the army and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Force (RSF) has left at least 3,000 people dead and wounded at least 6,000 more. Over two million people have been displaced within the country, while another 700,000 have fled to neighboring nations. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/that-other-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/needed-either-degrowth-or-two-earths/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/needed-either-degrowth-or-two-earths/#respond Mon, 19 Jun 2023 15:37:12 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1248066 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/needed-either-degrowth-or-two-earths/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/between-a-yoga-mat-and-a-hard-place/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/between-a-yoga-mat-and-a-hard-place/#respond Tue, 23 May 2023 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1246458 Are you worried about the rising political power of violent white nationalists in America? Well, you’ve got plenty of company, including U.S. national security and counterterrorism officials. And we’re worried, too — worried enough, in fact, to feel that it’s time to take a look at the experience of India, where Hindu supremacist dogma has increasingly been [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/between-a-yoga-mat-and-a-hard-place/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/not-a-green-bone-in-their-white-bodies/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/not-a-green-bone-in-their-white-bodies/#respond Wed, 26 Apr 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1244388 It’s not often that conservative lobbyists beat the drum for increased environmental oversight and regulation. But that’s what happened this month when the far-right Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), through its legal arm, filed a brief in federal court demanding that the Department of Homeland Security conduct an extensive environmental impact study examining, of all things, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/not-a-green-bone-in-their-white-bodies/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tinpot-legislators/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tinpot-legislators/#respond Mon, 03 Apr 2023 15:31:19 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1242740 The demise of Silicon Valley Bank last month triggered plenty of angst among solar energy developers. Before it collapsed, SBV claimed it had “financed or helped finance 62 percent of community solar projects in America,” according to Washington Post business reporter Evan Halper. At first, it wasn’t clear who might fill that gap. MAGA politicians took great delight in the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tinpot-legislators/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/paying-for-an-overheating-earth/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/paying-for-an-overheating-earth/#respond Fri, 02 Dec 2022 09:12:51 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1233449 On October 29th, 75-year-old Saifullah Paracha, Guantánamo Bay’s oldest detainee, was finally released by U.S. authorities and flown home to his family in Karachi, Pakistan. He had been incarcerated for nearly two decades without either charges or a trial. His plane touched down in a land still reeling from this year’s cataclysmic monsoon floods that, in July, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/paying-for-an-overheating-earth/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-green-resource-wars-looming/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-green-resource-wars-looming/#respond Fri, 14 Oct 2022 15:28:11 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1222805 Much of the excitement over the Inflation Reduction Act, which became law this summer, focused on the boost it should give to the sales of electric vehicles. Sadly, though, manufacturing and driving tens of millions of individual electric passenger cars won’t get us far enough down the road to ending greenhouse-gas emissions and stanching the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-green-resource-wars-looming/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/real-climate-action-isnt-at-cop-27-but-it-is-in-a-thousand-rebellious-communities/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/real-climate-action-isnt-at-cop-27-but-it-is-in-a-thousand-rebellious-communities/#respond Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:43:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1222773 Two high-profile events relevant to this series are going to coincide next month. One of them—the U.S. midterm elections, which will conclude November 8—could provide the strongest indicator yet of which way our society will turn in the near future: toward an inclusive, pluralistic democracy or toward the anti-democratic “semi-fascism” of the MAGA right. It [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/real-climate-action-isnt-at-cop-27-but-it-is-in-a-thousand-rebellious-communities/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-nightmare-of-military-spending-on-an-overheating-planet/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-nightmare-of-military-spending-on-an-overheating-planet/#respond Fri, 23 Sep 2022 12:10:16 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1220937 On October 1st, the U.S. military will start spending the more than $800 billion Congress is going to provide it with in fiscal year 2023. And that whopping sum will just be the beginning. According to the calculations of Pentagon expert William Hartung, funding for various intelligence agencies, the Department of Homeland Security, and work on nuclear [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-nightmare-of-military-spending-on-an-overheating-planet/feed/ 0