https://znetwork.org/author/tedglick/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:10:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/tedglick/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense-part-one/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense-part-one/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:15:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294852 A quarter of the way through this century, there is no doubt that the USA and the world are in deep trouble. This is true for everyone, even the families of those most responsible for this state of affairs, the “Epstein class” and those supporting them. Given the fact that the burning of fossils fuels [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense-part-one/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/casualties-in-the-fight-for-democracy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/casualties-in-the-fight-for-democracy/#respond Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:35:03 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294094 “Ultimately, what I have learned is that government repression can have a disruptive impact on our work, but we can turn a negative into a positive. The extent to which we can creatively, intelligently and fearlessly demonstrate the truth of what we are about when responding to what they are doing to us is the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/casualties-in-the-fight-for-democracy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hungering-for-solar-and-more/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hungering-for-solar-and-more/#respond Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:24:49 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293659 “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”  -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963, Letter from a Birmingham Jail From January 5-7 I must have seen these words of Dr. King flash many hundreds of times. That happened because over those three days, from 7 am to 5 pm, I engaged in a 72-hour, water-only hunger [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hungering-for-solar-and-more/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-significance-of-last-weekends-1200-local-actions/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-significance-of-last-weekends-1200-local-actions/#respond Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293477 The new year began on a very foreboding note. First was the Trump regime’s invasion of Venezuela to kidnap its President with the explicit purpose being to get control of its oil. Then, a few days later, came the killing of 37-year-old, mother of three Renee Nicole Good by ICE in Minneapolis, followed by Trump [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-significance-of-last-weekends-1200-local-actions/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/july-4th-and-november-3rd/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/july-4th-and-november-3rd/#respond Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293022 It’s good to enter the new year with MAGA divided, Trump down in the polls and forced to pull the National Guard out of Portland, Los Angeles and Chicago, a huge win for the resistance in those cities, the Epstein issue still very much out there, and more. This is a very different New Year’s [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/july-4th-and-november-3rd/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/two-flags-flying/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/two-flags-flying/#respond Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:31:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292383 For the last month or so there have been two small flags flying prominently outside the front door of my and my wife’s house. One is an American flag, the other the Palestinian flag. In the 46 years that Jane and I have been married we’ve never done anything like this. We’ve had issue-oriented signs [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/two-flags-flying/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/conditions-are-ripe-for-a-resistance-counter-offensive/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/conditions-are-ripe-for-a-resistance-counter-offensive/#respond Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:10:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291901 It’s been over ten long months that the forces of democracy have been on the defensive, doing our best to withstand the many and various assaults on us on issue after issue, but the tide is turning: Remember that it was Joe McCarthy in the 1950’s attacking the US military that was the beginning of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/conditions-are-ripe-for-a-resistance-counter-offensive/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/energy-affordability-not-energy-dominance/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/energy-affordability-not-energy-dominance/#respond Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:10:20 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291625 Two of the most significant dates in my life as a progressive activist and organizer are April 4, 1968 and August of 2003. The 1968 date is the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed. His killing pushed me to finally do something about racial injustice and the Vietnam War rather than just reading and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/energy-affordability-not-energy-dominance/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-supreme-court-is-not-above-the-law-either/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-supreme-court-is-not-above-the-law-either/#respond Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290384 “I think we can do a lot, if a critical mass of organizations steps forward and develops a plan to go public and visible calling out the undemocratic and dangerous reality of what the Supreme Court majority is doing, particularly these shadowy, opaque, undemocratic ‘emergency’ decisions. Just like we have had and will be having, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-supreme-court-is-not-above-the-law-either/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/october-18-november-4-world-changing/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/october-18-november-4-world-changing/#respond Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289944 Many millions on the streets this Saturday all over the country loudly proclaiming: No Kings! Yes to Democracy!–followed on November 4th by victories for Mamdani in NYC, Sherrill in NJ, Spanberger in Virginia, redistricting in California, and more–could this be truly “world changing?” On one level, no. This is not a Presidential election year or a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/october-18-november-4-world-changing/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jane-goodall-fight-to-the-very-end/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jane-goodall-fight-to-the-very-end/#respond Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:16:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289652 “I have no doubt that we have the tools to make the change, but do we have the will to make the change? It seems with some of the top politicians and corrupt corporations there’s no such will. We need to reach people’s hearts. If millions, billions of people do little things it makes big [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jane-goodall-fight-to-the-very-end/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/repression-and-militarism-great-distractions-for-a-weakening-regime/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/repression-and-militarism-great-distractions-for-a-weakening-regime/#respond Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:10:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289348 The speeches by Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump today to 800 or so top US military leaders around the world, combined with the farcical indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and the promise of more of them, have accomplished one thing so far: pushing the Trump/Epstein relationship far down in the news. Is there [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/repression-and-militarism-great-distractions-for-a-weakening-regime/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/supremely-courting-authoritarian-rule/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/supremely-courting-authoritarian-rule/#respond Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:23:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288981 “Perhaps the degradation of our rule-of-law regime would happen anyway,” Jackson wrote. “But this Court’s complicity in the creation of a culture of disdain for lower courts, their rulings, and the law (as they interpret it) will surely hasten the downfall of our governing institutions, enabling our collective demise.” – Supreme Court Justice Katanji Jackson, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/supremely-courting-authoritarian-rule/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-down-and-there-is-hope-at-the-grassroots/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-down-and-there-is-hope-at-the-grassroots/#respond Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:09:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288313 How is Trump doing in the polls? Over the last week and a half, averaging polls done by CBS, NBC, The Economist, Reuters/Ipsos and Quinnipiac, he is doing terribly: an average approval rating of 41.6% and a disapproval rating of 55.4%. He is down 14 points. As significant, however, are the results from the Quinnipiac poll as [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-down-and-there-is-hope-at-the-grassroots/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/thomas-paine-working-class-hero/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/thomas-paine-working-class-hero/#respond Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:36:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287809 “In ‘Common Sense,’ Thomas Paine defines common sense as the fundamental ability of all people to reason and discern truth, regardless of social standing or education. He argues that this innate capacity, when applied to political matters, reveals the absurdity of hereditary monarchy and the necessity of self-governance based on the consent of the governed. Paine’s ‘Common [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/thomas-paine-working-class-hero/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/self-determination-for-eastern-ukraine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/self-determination-for-eastern-ukraine/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:51:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287579 Completely absent in any of the governmental efforts for the last three and a half years to end the war on Ukraine is the issue of self-determination as it relates concretely to where the on-the-ground war and the huge percentage of casualties are primarily happening. The principle of nations having the right to make decisions [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/self-determination-for-eastern-ukraine/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rise-up-for-our-planet-september-18-21/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rise-up-for-our-planet-september-18-21/#respond Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287321 It is crystal clear that millions of US Americans are prepared to organize and take action to fight the efforts of the Trump regime to impose a form of 21st Century fascism on the USA. From the first youth-led, #50501 actions in all 50 states on February 5th to the more than five million people who came [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rise-up-for-our-planet-september-18-21/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-trump-death-cult-part-2/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-trump-death-cult-part-2/#respond Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:28:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287014 Six weeks ago I wrote a column entitled, Fighting Climate Meltdown and the Death Cult. In it I said, “This would-be fascist government wants to roll back hundreds of billions of dollars approved in 2022 for wind and solar energy, electric cars, buses and trains and other clean and jobs-producing energy. This is the kind [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-trump-death-cult-part-2/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nixon-and-watergate-trump-and-the-epstein-crisis/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nixon-and-watergate-trump-and-the-epstein-crisis/#respond Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286707 On November 6 last year, the day after the big election, I wrote about the “so-serious situation we are now faced with in not just the USA but the world because of the MAGA victory. I remember a very similar feeling after the November, 1972 runaway Presidential victory of Trump-similar Richard Nixon over George McGovern. But [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nixon-and-watergate-trump-and-the-epstein-crisis/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/progressive-comradeship-during-the-trump-times/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/progressive-comradeship-during-the-trump-times/#respond Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:02:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285899 I’ve noticed over the last couple of years younger progressive/revolutionary organizers using the word, “comrade,” to refer to other organizers. Is this a good idea? During the days of McCarthyism in the 1950’s, and probably before then, self-righteous conservatives used this word as a smear against people on the political Left. “Comrade” was a word [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/progressive-comradeship-during-the-trump-times/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fighting-climate-meltdown-and-the-death-cult/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fighting-climate-meltdown-and-the-death-cult/#respond Sun, 29 Jun 2025 13:25:59 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285608 “This is a fight for life. And like all fights, you need a tremendous amount of bravery to take it on. Before I started working on climate change, I didn’t think of myself as a fighter, but I became one because I felt I have a responsibility to preserve the world for my son and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fighting-climate-meltdown-and-the-death-cult/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/turning-political-repression-into-movement-building/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/turning-political-repression-into-movement-building/#respond Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285255 My first years of progressive activism and organizing took place during the presidency of Richard Nixon, who, without a doubt, led one of the most repressive presidential administrations we have experienced in the United States in the modern era, prior to this Trump regime. It was under Nixon that the Republican Party, with its “southern [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/turning-political-repression-into-movement-building/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nonviolent-tactics-and-the-fascist-threat/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nonviolent-tactics-and-the-fascist-threat/#respond Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:55:00 +0000 “Anger against injustice and oppression is not just legitimate; it is necessary to successfully build a movement for real change. But anger needs to be used in a disciplined way. Those who are quick to call cops “pigs” or throw bricks or otherwise display anger negatively are either government agents attempting to discredit the movement [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nonviolent-tactics-and-the-fascist-threat/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fighting-fascism-then-and-now/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fighting-fascism-then-and-now/#respond Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:59:48 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284558 “Veterans and military family members are being fired by the thousands from federal jobs. Our health care is being gutted. Our benefits are under siege. “This isn’t the first time veterans have had to fight for what was promised. From the Bonus Army of 1932 to the battles for the GI Bill and Agent Orange [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fighting-fascism-then-and-now/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-must-go-outreach-is-essential/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-must-go-outreach-is-essential/#respond Tue, 27 May 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284252 “Contact engenders more trust, more solidarity and more mutual kindness. It helps you see the world through other people’s eyes. (p. 358) . . . The thing we all need to remember is that those other folks are a lot like us. The angry voter venting on TV, the refugee in the statistics, the criminal [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-must-go-outreach-is-essential/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-first-four-months/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-first-four-months/#respond Wed, 21 May 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284033 In early February, a few weeks into this time of testing, I identified our objectives over the next two years as “making as many advances as we can on local and state levels while preventing as much damage as possible to the primary MAGA targets: US democracy, human and civil rights, including internationally, organized labor and programs [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-first-four-months/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/end-times-fascism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/end-times-fascism/#respond Sat, 10 May 2025 14:39:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283558 “Our opponents know full well that we are entering an age of emergency, but have responded by. . . choosing to let the Earth burn. Our task is to build a wide and deep movement, as spiritual as it is political, strong enough to stop these unhinged traitors. A movement rooted in a steadfast commitment [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/end-times-fascism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pope-francis-presente/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pope-francis-presente/#respond Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282958 Growing up, I had virtually no contact with people who identified themselves as Catholics. Perhaps some of my friends and acquaintances in high school and college were but if so, I didn’t know it. The first open Catholics I came to know in late 1969 at the age of 20 were people like then-Sister Joann [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pope-francis-presente/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tom-paine-revolutionist/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tom-paine-revolutionist/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:18:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282761 The Future Hope column below was published on July 5, 2020. It is essentially a review of the book, “Citizen Tom Paine,” by Howard Fast. I am posting it again five years later on the day after the over 800 “No Kings!” actions around the country, the latest in a wave of 50-state protests against [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tom-paine-revolutionist/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/albert-einstein-anti-fascist/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/albert-einstein-anti-fascist/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282514 There are two important anniversaries at the end of this week. Saturday, April 19th is the day the American Revolution against King George III and British colonialism began 250 years ago at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. The American Revolution was a mixed bag, to be sure. The new United States of America which emerged from the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/albert-einstein-anti-fascist/feed/ 1