https://znetwork.org/category/topic/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:36:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/topic/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-first-lady-in-a-new-york-cell/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-first-lady-in-a-new-york-cell/#respond Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:08:59 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295424 On International Working Women’s Day in 2025, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, read a poem she wrote highlighting the historic role played by Latin American women in the fight against imperialism.  We’re not flowers the wind can pluck,we’re roots of rebel and loyal land,we’re grandmothers, mothers, daughters, granddaughters;we are woman. Our blood [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-first-lady-in-a-new-york-cell/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-tesla-works-councils-in-germany/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-tesla-works-councils-in-germany/#respond Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:06:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295426 Once — and particularly from an anarcho-syndicalist perspective — works councils were seen as revolutionary institutions for democracy and against capitalism and war. Today, the German model of social-democratic works councils as co-managers prevails. It allows companies to function smoothly, leaves capitalism untouched — or better, supports it — and gives workers the right to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-tesla-works-councils-in-germany/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pedro-sanchezs-spain-the-honor-of-europe/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pedro-sanchezs-spain-the-honor-of-europe/#respond Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:02:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295421 In a Europe that has become vassalized and submissive to the United States, to the detriment of its own interests, one country nevertheless manages to save the honor of the Old Continent: the Spain of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Attached to the ancestral values of the Iberian people, the head of the socialist government refuses [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pedro-sanchezs-spain-the-honor-of-europe/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-war-of-regional-supremacy-will-not-end-with-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-war-of-regional-supremacy-will-not-end-with-iran/#respond Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295425 Israelis and some in the Iranian diaspora celebrated when the first blow in the third Gulf war was struck early on Saturday morning, as Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of other military and political leaders were wiped out. The Iranian delegations at the talks in Geneva and Oman had just made a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-war-of-regional-supremacy-will-not-end-with-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/war-with-iran-resist-what/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/war-with-iran-resist-what/#respond Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:58:40 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295423 You get focused to resist and the target moves. It doesn’t just move. It morphs. Should you set aside one focus to pick up another? Or you get focused to resist and the target moves. It doesn’t just move, it morphs. Should you hang on to your valid, important focus and ignore distractions? It is [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/war-with-iran-resist-what/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/debunked-and-confirmed-myths-and-realities-from-the-iran-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/debunked-and-confirmed-myths-and-realities-from-the-iran-war/#respond Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:54:31 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295420 The war on Iran has not merely opened a new military front in the Middle East. It has shattered long-standing myths that have shaped US policy and regional politics for decades. What has unfolded in the past days is not simply a battlefield confrontation; it is a historical rupture. Several narratives that once appeared unassailable [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/debunked-and-confirmed-myths-and-realities-from-the-iran-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/who-decides-what-is-legitimate-power-democracy-and-the-war-on-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/who-decides-what-is-legitimate-power-democracy-and-the-war-on-iran/#respond Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295422 Democracy is invoked as moral legitimacy in war, while Iran’s authority rests on layered political, religious, and historical foundations. Democracy, however, is not the enemy. Its manipulation is. For decades, Western political discourse has equated legitimacy with elections—numbers counted on a single day, certified by institutions that themselves operate within systems shaped by immense financial [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/who-decides-what-is-legitimate-power-democracy-and-the-war-on-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-security-council-stalls-there-are-other-ways-to-stop-us-israeli-war-on-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-security-council-stalls-there-are-other-ways-to-stop-us-israeli-war-on-iran/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:31:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295388 Already 555 Iranians — including 180 students at a girls’ elementary school in Minab — have been  reported dead in the war of aggression launched February 28 by President Donald Trump and his accomplice, accused war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, against Iran. “Operation Epic Fury involves the largest regional concentration of American military firepower in a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-security-council-stalls-there-are-other-ways-to-stop-us-israeli-war-on-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-spend-almost-a-trillion-yearly-on-war-thats-insane/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-spend-almost-a-trillion-yearly-on-war-thats-insane/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:31:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295390 Donald Trump is setting Iran and the world on fire. And there’s every reason to think he’ll keep escalating abroad as his regime gets weaker and less popular at home. But we should be honest: this didn’t start with Trump. For decades, both parties have shared the same basic commitment to U.S. military dominance over [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-spend-almost-a-trillion-yearly-on-war-thats-insane/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-cathedral-of-plastic-how-we-manufactured-a-year-of-excess/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-cathedral-of-plastic-how-we-manufactured-a-year-of-excess/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:31:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295396 I found myself in a temple of excess last weekend. It wasn’t a place of worship, but it felt like one: a massive toy store inside a shopping mall. I was there for a mundane reason - a relative’s son was turning six, and a gift was required. But as I stepped through the sliding glass doors, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-cathedral-of-plastic-how-we-manufactured-a-year-of-excess/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/escalation-of-this-war-could-shatter-iran-into-ethnic-enclaves/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/escalation-of-this-war-could-shatter-iran-into-ethnic-enclaves/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:31:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295354 As a political-cultural geographer who has long been an antiwar organizer and studied the history of U.S. military interventions, it’s clear that the war on Iran could set into motion a regional conflagration, the violent break-up of Iran into ethnic enclaves, and a toll that would make the Iraq War look like a warm-up exercise. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/escalation-of-this-war-could-shatter-iran-into-ethnic-enclaves/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yanar-mohammed-a-flame-that-will-never-die-and-the-womens-revolution-continues/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yanar-mohammed-a-flame-that-will-never-die-and-the-womens-revolution-continues/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:31:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295366 With fierce anger burning in our hearts and an unbreakable resolve, we mourn the assassination of the courageous feminist and leftist leader and fighter Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, who was struck down by the hand of darkness in Baghdad on the morning of March 2, 2026 — as [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yanar-mohammed-a-flame-that-will-never-die-and-the-womens-revolution-continues/feed/ 2 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-writing-on-trumps-war-room-wall-operation-epstein-amnesia/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-writing-on-trumps-war-room-wall-operation-epstein-amnesia/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:31:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295380 Following the war criminality model of the Israeli Defense Forces, the US/Zionist bombing campaign on Iran is engaged in targeting hospitals, schools and private residences, slaughtering all who happen to be on the premises. The tactic, rather than demoralizing civilian populations, galvanizes contempt and the will to resist a foreign aggressor. Think about it. While [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-writing-on-trumps-war-room-wall-operation-epstein-amnesia/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-wounds-behind-the-strongman/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-wounds-behind-the-strongman/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:31:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295382 I’ve spent decades writing about men—how we’re shaped, how we’re wounded, and how too often those wounds are mistaken for strength. (I’ve also chronicled how a growing movement of men has been redefining manhood and masculinity.) The wounds, though, and what we are witnessing today, are both familiar and deeply unsettling. For a decade on the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-wounds-behind-the-strongman/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-human-well-being-comparable-with-an-ai-frenzy-driven-by-speculative-pursuit-of-profit/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-human-well-being-comparable-with-an-ai-frenzy-driven-by-speculative-pursuit-of-profit/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295386 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest topics out there. And for a good reason. AI is transforming industries and everyday life. But how much do we understand about AI? How powerful is it? Is it comparable with capitalism? How will it affect the workforce? Is it becoming “too important to fail?” Is there [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-human-well-being-comparable-with-an-ai-frenzy-driven-by-speculative-pursuit-of-profit/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-spain-amazon-workers-win-with-quick-hit-walkouts/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-spain-amazon-workers-win-with-quick-hit-walkouts/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295392 At an Amazon fulfillment center in Spain, we used a flurry of brief walkouts late last year to force the company to improve wages and time off. We struck for three days in November and in December in a series of “flexible strikes,” timed to hit production with intermittent walkouts during the holiday “peak” season. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-spain-amazon-workers-win-with-quick-hit-walkouts/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/housing-pensions-and-jobs-win-win-win/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/housing-pensions-and-jobs-win-win-win/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295394 Providing decent pensions in an ageing society, overcoming the affordability crisis driven by skyrocketing housing costs, and creating better-paid jobs for workers without university degrees are all essential to securing social peace and democracy. A compulsory, state-owned second-tier pension fund required to invest its capital exclusively in social housing can address all three challenges at [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/housing-pensions-and-jobs-win-win-win/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-enemy-of-your-enemy-is-not-your-friend/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-enemy-of-your-enemy-is-not-your-friend/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:54:48 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295359 Like many of you, I have been glued to the news since Trump’s bizarre announcement early Saturday morning that the USA is once again at war with Iran. Given the assassination of the Supreme Leader, the amount of bombing, Iran’s retaliation across the Middle East including its targeting of American allies, and the Orwellian promises [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-enemy-of-your-enemy-is-not-your-friend/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-war-can-still-be-stopped/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-war-can-still-be-stopped/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:39:03 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295350 TAKE ACTION to stop US/Israeli imperial aggression and support the Iranian people’s struggle against brutal state repression. Call your lawmakers now, join a mass call TONIGHT (March 2), and sign and distribute a petition from Iranian-Americans for Peace and Democracy. On Saturday, February 28, the Trump regime launched an unprovoked and unconscionable war on Iran, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-war-can-still-be-stopped/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/call-grows-to-impeach-trump-the-most-dangerous-man-on-the-planet/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/call-grows-to-impeach-trump-the-most-dangerous-man-on-the-planet/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:33:13 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295348 After the unprovoked bombing of Iran over the weekend by the United States and Israel—strikes that included the unlawful assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei—the call for US President Donald Trump to be impeached and removed from office has grown as the straightest path to hold the US leader to account for the attacks which policy and human [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/call-grows-to-impeach-trump-the-most-dangerous-man-on-the-planet/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-we-need-a-life-based-paradigm-instead-of-the-growth-paradigm/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-we-need-a-life-based-paradigm-instead-of-the-growth-paradigm/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:27:45 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295345 Human activity has grown to challenge planetary limits, yet the official solution to any problem that arises is to grow more. Like fish unable to live anywhere but in water, our leaders find it hard to imagine any way of life outside the Growth paradigm. Production and consumption, income and expenditure define our lives. Measured [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-we-need-a-life-based-paradigm-instead-of-the-growth-paradigm/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/water-a-factor-of-stability-and-conflict-the-iranian-case-and-the-forgotten-lessons/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/water-a-factor-of-stability-and-conflict-the-iranian-case-and-the-forgotten-lessons/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:21:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295341 INTRODUCTION: TEHRAN, A CAPITAL TO BE EVACUATED WELL BEFORE THE BOMBS, BECAUSE IT’S DRY In November 2025, Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian issued a warning that sent a chill through the entire country: Tehran, the capital of one of the world’s oldest empires, might have to face rationing, then partial evacuation. Not under the threat of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/water-a-factor-of-stability-and-conflict-the-iranian-case-and-the-forgotten-lessons/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/world-war-iii-is-about-to-begin/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/world-war-iii-is-about-to-begin/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:04:40 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295338 Shortly before World War I, when the smell of war was in the air, one of the most eloquent advocates of peace, the writer Romain Rolland, winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote that the urgency of the moment no longer allowed for analytical circumspection regarding the complexity of the factors driving the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/world-war-iii-is-about-to-begin/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ai-and-the-lesson-not-learned/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ai-and-the-lesson-not-learned/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:54:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295336 In the last century people marveled at the Wright brothers’ success. Just 66 years later, an awestruck world watched American astronauts walk on the moon. Technical advances became prosaic. But we should be paying more attention to Artificial Intelligence. For this revolution we will not be casual observers. It will change our lives in fundamental [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ai-and-the-lesson-not-learned/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/daniel-ellsberg-speaks-to-us-as-the-war-on-iran-continues/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/daniel-ellsberg-speaks-to-us-as-the-war-on-iran-continues/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:36:03 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295330 When Daniel Ellsberg died in 2023, the world lost a unique voice of sanity. Five decades earlier, as a “national security” insider, he had released the top-secret Pentagon Papers to expose the official lies behind the ongoing Vietnam War. From then on, he never stopped writing, speaking and protesting for peace, while explaining how the madness of nuclear weapons [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/daniel-ellsberg-speaks-to-us-as-the-war-on-iran-continues/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-and-netanyahus-lurch-into-iran-imperial-hubris-in-the-wake-of-a-peoples-uprising/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-and-netanyahus-lurch-into-iran-imperial-hubris-in-the-wake-of-a-peoples-uprising/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:34:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295332 Reeking of Imperial Hubris Seizing upon what they consider to be a generational opportunity, with Iran’s theocratic dictatorship shaken by the January people’s uprising, Trump and Netanyahu launched a “prolonged” attack from the air on February 28. While the attacks are aimed, they say, at eliminating Iran’s nuclear and missile capacity, it clearly involves an [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-and-netanyahus-lurch-into-iran-imperial-hubris-in-the-wake-of-a-peoples-uprising/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-do-left-wing-governments-in-central-and-latin-america-remain-trapped-in-cycles-of-rise-and-retreat/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-do-left-wing-governments-in-central-and-latin-america-remain-trapped-in-cycles-of-rise-and-retreat/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:33:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295334 Introduction: The Problem Goes Beyond Electoral Defeat The recurrent rise and fall of left-wing governments across Latin America and Central America—from Venezuela and Bolivia to Brazil, Chile, Honduras, and Nicaragua—is often portrayed in dominant political and media narratives as a mere electoral pendulum or as evidence of “popular fatigue with the left.” Such interpretations, whether [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-do-left-wing-governments-in-central-and-latin-america-remain-trapped-in-cycles-of-rise-and-retreat/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/understanding-the-u-s-and-israels-illegal-aggression-in-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/understanding-the-u-s-and-israels-illegal-aggression-in-iran/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:32:16 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295327 Once again, the U.S.-Israel Axis has launched an unnecessary, unprovoked, and deeply immoral attack against the sovereign nation of Iran.  But what is largely missing from Western corporate media coverage of the attack is that it is also an entirely unlawful, indeed criminal act.  And that the armed Iranian response, as a matter of international law, is both justified [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/understanding-the-u-s-and-israels-illegal-aggression-in-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/western-gangster-journalism-runs-cover-for-trumps-donroe-doctrine-in-venezuela/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/western-gangster-journalism-runs-cover-for-trumps-donroe-doctrine-in-venezuela/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:47:30 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295302 US forces launched a military attack against Venezuela on January 3, reportedly killing over 100 people and kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores, who also serves as a National Assembly deputy. Western corporate media have played an active role in recent years in legitimizing escalated US aggression against the Venezuelan people, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/western-gangster-journalism-runs-cover-for-trumps-donroe-doctrine-in-venezuela/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/let-them-eat-patents/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/let-them-eat-patents/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:45:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295303 Today roughly 25 percent of the global population works the land. Their grueling labor feeds the remaining 75 percent. The true magnitude of farmers’ importance reveals itself in moments of crisis. They are a keystone in a fragile global food system. If their work is jeopardized, the consequences will not be abstract. The world’s food [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/let-them-eat-patents/feed/ 0