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“Jesus recognized fully that out of the heart are the issues of life and that no external force, however great and overwhelming,…
A new kind of unity around Palestine is finally finding its way to the Palestine solidarity movement worldwide. The reason behind this…
Trump is a pestilence, an abomination. Really. He is. No more debate. It is as evident as a cloud of locusts. It…
Notwithstanding its many downsides, the era of neoliberal globalization had one significant claim to success: the growing wealth of once-poor countries, based…
Empire and injustice are not abstract concepts – they shape our daily lives. Awareness alone won’t change that. We can read the…
A new kind of unity around Palestine is finally finding its way to the Palestine solidarity movement worldwide. The reason behind this…
The toppling of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was cheered by U.S. President Joe Biden and other major Western leaders, like French President Emmanuel…
The sudden regime overthrow in Syria and the long-delayed opportunity to confront the legacy of Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny are either being celebrated…
During his campaign, Donald Trump publicly promised to reward oil and gas executives handsomely in exchange for funding his campaign. Within weeks of winning…
France’s National Assembly approved a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Wednesday — just three months after he was appointed…
A quiet panic has broken out within immigrant communities across the United States ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025. Mixed-status…
On December 4, 1969, Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were drugged and murdered by the Chicago Police Department.…
“I have long believed that we need an alternative to the Democrat and Republican parties, and since 1974 I have acted on…
The ongoing war and genocide in Gaza is unprecedented. Nothing that Israel and its supporters can say or do will avoid the…
Online Talk for MIT Coalition Against Apartheid by Michael Albert, a radical political economist who was MIT student body president and a…
On November 26th, Israel and Lebanon signed an agreement for a 60-day truce, during which Israel and Hezbollah are both supposed to…
Are you like me? Has getting out of bed become a serious challenge? Has getting back in bed become a beckoning distraction?…
During his campaign, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump publicly promised to reward oil and gas executives handsomely in exchange for funding his campaign. Within weeks of…
The arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant are a diplomatic…
“Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well,”…
To resist and eventually overcome the looming authoritarian national government, we need to create bastions of what the Polish activists who overthrew…
The federal government, whether under Democratic or Republican leadership, has failed to address the climate crisis, instead investing in greater production of…
A major problem in American thinking in the Middle East is the utter rejection of the notion that Palestinian rights are fundamental,…
There are a number of certainties about the coming Trump administration. One is that it will be bad for the climate. Another…
A clear consensus has emerged that the economy was the key factor behind Trump’sstunning victory. However, that may not be a very…
You are one of several theorists, along with Cédric Durand, Jodi Dean, Mariana Mazzucato and others, who have speculated that the hegemony…
“The church is the church only when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property…
President Biden has never wavered from approving huge arms shipments to Israel during more than 13 months of mass murder and deliberate…
As Trump and Trumpism devastate the American political landscape, how can people counter this destructive juggernaut? For the past five years, I…
Trump’s victory is a serious loss for most people in the United States and globally. I disagreed before the election and now,…
The 2024 UN climate change conference, COP29, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, is now nearing its end and reports are that talks are…
“I took down your golden boy in a week.” -Mitch McConnell, on Matt Gaetz failed nomination After learning yesterday about Matt Gaetz…
“Polycrisis” is a word that has recently come into use to characterize the way crises in many different spheres – ranging from…
How does one take seriously having a vaccine denier in charge of public health? How about having the world’s richest corporate owner…
The paradoxical phrase, ‘running away forward’ is one of the most apt descriptions that illustrates the state of Israeli affairs now. It…
There are a number of certainties about the coming Trump administration. One is that it will be bad for the climate. Another…
In mid-November, New York’s Catholic Worker community, located in lower Manhattan, opened their sizable auditorium to host “Reap What You Sow: Don’t…
Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment in…
Francesca Albanese did not mince her words. In a strongly worded speech at the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee on October…
The Biblical Book of Job chronicles a string of catastrophes relentlessly plaguing the main character, Job, who loses his prosperity, his home,…
On the fourth day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP29, in Azerbaijan, green groups highlighted how fossil fuel companies…
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Wednesday his intention to bring a floor vote on resolutions aimed at blocking a series of proposed arms sales…
Dear Z Community, November 15th marks the two year anniversary of the relaunch of ZNetwork.org. As we did two years ago, we’d…
“Ultimately, what I have learned is that government repression can have a disruptive impact on our work, but we can turn a…
Trump won an election. Are we beaten? Will it be years and still more years until there is space for anything positive?…
Arab and Muslim American voters did not remove Democrats from office, nor did they cost Kamala Harris the Oval Office. They merely…
When some leading thinkers at the London School of Economics saw fascism take hold in the 1930s, Oxford history professor Ben Jackson said in…
When Donald Trump takes office on January 20th, all his campaign promises to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and…
Stevens Students for Gaza ProtestRemarks by Stephen R. ShalomJewish Voice for Peace, Northern NJStevens Institute of Technology, Nov. 11, 2024 We are…
Donald Trump’s commanding victory over Kamala Harris seems to have surprised a lot of people both in the U.S. and around the world. Yet,…
