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3232Trump’s Kent State
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https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-kent-state/#respondFri, 09 Jan 2026 18:31:07 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293275Yesterday [January 7] an American citizen in Minneapolis was gunned down by her own government. Think about that for a moment. The 37-year-old woman, Renee Nicole Good, was unarmed, trying to turn her car around from the armed and masked agents. Yet the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fired three shots into this innocent victim’s [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-kent-state/feed/0Let Them Eat… Nothing
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https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/let-them-eat-nothing/#respondWed, 29 Oct 2025 18:21:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290588This Saturday, November 1, because of the latest government shutdown, some 42 million Americans will lose their SNAP benefits. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly the Food Stamp Program, is the largest anti-hunger assistance our government provides. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, SNAP “provides important nutritional support for working families with [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/let-them-eat-nothing/feed/0“It’s Not A lie If You Believe It”
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https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-not-a-lie-if-you-believe-it/#respondTue, 05 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286971July 31, 2025 “The president has always and will always proudly stand with our men and women in blue.” [Except for the 140 officers injured during the violent January 6 insurrection instigated by Donald J. Trump. Many sustained traumatic brain injuries and broken bones. Five of the officers later died, four by suicide, one from [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-not-a-lie-if-you-believe-it/feed/0The Booming Economy Based on the Criminalization of Migrants
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https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-booming-economy-based-on-the-criminalization-of-migrants/#respondFri, 20 Jun 2025 15:47:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285257Robo dogs. Tasers-equipped drone. Lie detectors. Smart walls. Iris scans. The imprecise, inhumane technology of AI algorithms. This is the arsenal that migrants and their families now face when they flee horrific conditions in their native countries. If they survive perilous journeys by boat across the Mediterranean Sea, or on foot across the Sonoran Desert, [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-booming-economy-based-on-the-criminalization-of-migrants/feed/0Today We Are All Mahmoud Khalil
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https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/today-we-are-all-mahmoud-khalil/#respondThu, 13 Mar 2025 15:52:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280967Pop open those bottles of chilled champagne. The United States of America is now in the same exclusive company as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan, and Serbia. Our flagging democracy has landed on the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist along with those four nations. https://monitor.civicus.org/watchlist-march-2025 According to its mission statement, “CIVICUS has worked for nearly [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/today-we-are-all-mahmoud-khalil/feed/0Is This Democracy or Muskocracy?
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https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-this-democracy-or-muskocracy/#respondTue, 04 Feb 2025 17:01:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1279271I am trying to get my head around our new reality: a private citizen who happens to be the richest man in the world, who owns half of all the satellites orbiting our beleaguered planet, who controls one of the largest social media platforms in the world, who depends on millions of dollars of largess [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-this-democracy-or-muskocracy/feed/0If You See Something, Say Nothing
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https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/if-you-see-something-say-nothing/#respondWed, 22 Jan 2025 19:19:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1278767As the Trump administration, led ironically by former Obama administrator, and new “border czar” Thomas Homan, prepares its Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to descend on Chicago and other sanctuary cities to carry out perhaps the largest deportation effort in U.S. history, it will need your support. And don’t fret about those past pesky statutes. [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/if-you-see-something-say-nothing/feed/0
Yesterday [January 7] an American citizen in Minneapolis was gunned down by her own government. Think about that for a moment. The 37-year-old woman, Renee Nicole Good, was unarmed, trying to turn her car around from the armed and masked agents. Yet the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fired three shots into this innocent victim’s [...]]]>
This Saturday, November 1, because of the latest government shutdown, some 42 million Americans will lose their SNAP benefits. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly the Food Stamp Program, is the largest anti-hunger assistance our government provides. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, SNAP “provides important nutritional support for working families with [...]]]>
July 31, 2025 “The president has always and will always proudly stand with our men and women in blue.” [Except for the 140 officers injured during the violent January 6 insurrection instigated by Donald J. Trump. Many sustained traumatic brain injuries and broken bones. Five of the officers later died, four by suicide, one from [...]]]>
Robo dogs. Tasers-equipped drone. Lie detectors. Smart walls. Iris scans. The imprecise, inhumane technology of AI algorithms. This is the arsenal that migrants and their families now face when they flee horrific conditions in their native countries. If they survive perilous journeys by boat across the Mediterranean Sea, or on foot across the Sonoran Desert, [...]]]>
Pop open those bottles of chilled champagne. The United States of America is now in the same exclusive company as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan, and Serbia. Our flagging democracy has landed on the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist along with those four nations. https://monitor.civicus.org/watchlist-march-2025 According to its mission statement, “CIVICUS has worked for nearly [...]]]>
I am trying to get my head around our new reality: a private citizen who happens to be the richest man in the world, who owns half of all the satellites orbiting our beleaguered planet, who controls one of the largest social media platforms in the world, who depends on millions of dollars of largess [...]]]>
As the Trump administration, led ironically by former Obama administrator, and new “border czar” Thomas Homan, prepares its Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to descend on Chicago and other sanctuary cities to carry out perhaps the largest deportation effort in U.S. history, it will need your support. And don’t fret about those past pesky statutes. [...]]]>