https://znetwork.org/category/topic/international-relations/ 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/international-relations/ 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/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/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/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/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/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-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/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/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/zvideo/the-us-israeli-war-on-iran-is-based-on-lies-here-is-the-truth/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-us-israeli-war-on-iran-is-based-on-lies-here-is-the-truth/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:44:41 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1295308 The United States and Israel are waging a war of aggression against Iran. This is not about nuclear weapons; it’s about imperialism. Trump and Netanyahu admitted they want regime change in Tehran. They want to overthrow the revolutionary government and put a puppet in power, like the former shah. Ben Norton explains.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-us-israeli-war-on-iran-is-based-on-lies-here-is-the-truth/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/another-terror-attack-on-cuba-the-66-year-war-that-washington-refuses-to-end/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/another-terror-attack-on-cuba-the-66-year-war-that-washington-refuses-to-end/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:43:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295306 On the morning of February 25, 2026, Cuban authorities thwarted yet another terrorist attack one mile off the country’s northern coast. When it was over, four men lay dead, six more were wounded and in Cuban custody, and a high-speed boat registered in Florida (FL7726SH) sat disabled, its deck littered with assault rifles, handguns, Molotov [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/another-terror-attack-on-cuba-the-66-year-war-that-washington-refuses-to-end/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-the-third-world-war-a-political-lexicon-for-todays-struggles/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-the-third-world-war-a-political-lexicon-for-todays-struggles/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:23:16 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295287 This is the English translation of the original introduction to our book, Nella Terza guerra mondiale. Un lessico politico per le lotte del presente (DeriveApprodi, 2025). We are now publishing its English translation as a free ebook. Read online the 2026 Preface to the English edition, and download and share the book. In the Third World War: A Political Lexicon [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-the-third-world-war-a-political-lexicon-for-todays-struggles/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-the-trump-administration-thats-threatening-the-world-not-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-the-trump-administration-thats-threatening-the-world-not-iran/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:56:01 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295278 President Donald Trump’s Pentagon is reportedly preparing a potential military assault on Iran. Washington and Tehran are set to resume Omani-mediated talks on Thursday, but the threat of war is rising nonetheless. This month, the White House and Pentagon have repeatedly met with Israeli leaders who are lobbying against a deal with Iran and are in favor of launching an attack on [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-the-trump-administration-thats-threatening-the-world-not-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-other-lizard-people-why-the-epstein-files-are-shattering-global-theory/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-other-lizard-people-why-the-epstein-files-are-shattering-global-theory/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295232 When British author David Icke wrote his seminal work, The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World, published in 1999, he was not speaking metaphorically. When he detailed the “reptilian genetic streams” of “elite” families—human-reptile hybrids allegedly engineering global events—he meant it literally. To Icke, the world is not run by mere men, but by [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-other-lizard-people-why-the-epstein-files-are-shattering-global-theory/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/ordinary-people-want-peace-can-citizen-diplomacy-build-a-safer-future-for-everyone/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/ordinary-people-want-peace-can-citizen-diplomacy-build-a-safer-future-for-everyone/#respond Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1295195 “There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” George Bernard Shaw A thought provoking discussion with Jan Oberg of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Studies, who posts regularly on Substack and on their website https://transnational.live/ We [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/ordinary-people-want-peace-can-citizen-diplomacy-build-a-safer-future-for-everyone/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-trump-will-win-the-tariff-war/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-trump-will-win-the-tariff-war/#respond Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1294923 In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau pull back the curtain to reveal the shifting tectonic plates of the global economy, arguing that the world’s fixation on Donald Trump’s tariffs and Supreme Court rulings is a dangerous distraction from a much more profound transformation – namely a new form of power [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-trump-will-win-the-tariff-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-under-siege-battles-u-s-oil-blockade/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-under-siege-battles-u-s-oil-blockade/#respond Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295162 President Donald Trump on January 29 imposed import tariffs on any country providing Cuba with oil. The false claim that Cuba threatened terrorism against the United States served as pretext.  The U.S. Supreme Court on February 20 ruled that President Trump lacked constitutional authority for imposing tariffs. Now tariffs continue under different legal authorization. The oil [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-under-siege-battles-u-s-oil-blockade/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-suicidal-folly-of-a-war-with-iran/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-suicidal-folly-of-a-war-with-iran/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:54:01 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1295173 The Laurel and Hardy negotiating team of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, coupled with Trump’s appalling ignorance of world affairs and megalomania, seem set to push the U.S. into yet another debacle in the Middle East, one the Congress has not approved, and the public does not want. The demands imposed on Iran by the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-suicidal-folly-of-a-war-with-iran/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/natos-war-of-choice-the-sabotage-of-the-istanbul-negotiations/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/natos-war-of-choice-the-sabotage-of-the-istanbul-negotiations/#respond Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:48:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1295170 Professor Glenn Diesen outlines the evidence for how the US and UK sabotaged the peace negotiations in Istanbul to use Ukraine as a proxy to weaken Russia. After NATO built a large Ukrainian proxy army to weaken a strategic rival, it was absurd to assume that Ukraine would be allowed to restore its neutrality and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/natos-war-of-choice-the-sabotage-of-the-istanbul-negotiations/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-agents-bring-home-the-tactics-from-past-wars-abroad/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-agents-bring-home-the-tactics-from-past-wars-abroad/#respond Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:40:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295164 Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers pulled over several cars in Eagle County, Colorado. They took the people away in handcuffs, according to a witness, and left the cars idling at the side of the road. When family members of the disappeared immigrants arrived, there was no sign of their loved ones. What they found instead [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-agents-bring-home-the-tactics-from-past-wars-abroad/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-under-siege-mexico-and-latin-america-under-threat/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-under-siege-mexico-and-latin-america-under-threat/#respond Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:32:52 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295099 Right now, 90 miles from our shore, the people of Cuba are facing the most extreme attack by the United States in at least a generation. The Trump administration has moved to choke off all remaining fuel access to the island. Venezuela and Mexico—the two countries that have supplied the vast majority of Cuba’s oil—have [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-under-siege-mexico-and-latin-america-under-threat/feed/ 0