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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,…
Starting where we’re at Less than one week after a self-proclaimed dictator, climate change denier, and big oil-funded billionaire (among other equally…
Bill Fletcher Jr. is one of the most revered political organizers of the last 40 years. He’s been an activist since his teen…
Nearly a month before the November 5 elections, I anticipated that Donald Trump would win and wrote about it in a couple…
What Happened? Got Up, got out of bed. Why? To start the next round. Why? Because the fight is not over. Trump…
It’s official. Neoliberal fascism has become mainstream in the United States. This is the only rational conclusion that one can draw from Trump’s…
A pair of quotes, separated by eight years, spotlight a chronic political mentality at the top of the Democratic Party: “The path…
On October 28, the Israeli Knesset passed a second reading of two bills that effectively ban the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA)…
The day before the big election I said to my wife that, if Trump ended up winning, it was important that a…
Last week, from Saturday October 26th through Saturday November 2, I took part in the Harris/Walz ground game in the Allentown, Pa. area.…
American politicians love to pose as defenders of factory workers threatened by globalization, corporate restructuring, and overseas outsourcing. But their campaign spiels rarely mention…
With just a few days left until Election Day, the fact that the race to the White House between U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former…
I have gotten feedback on what I have been doing. Questions. Criticisms. Anger. Even outrage. So perhaps it will be useful and…
On October 24th, a U.S. presidential candidate told an interviewer, “Our day one agenda… also includes picking up the phone and telling Bibi…
Under the slogan ‘Gaza is Ours, Forever’, a large number of Israeli extremists and right-wing politicians met in the settlement of Be’eri,…
Original Statement available here Three days ago I received a copy of an article titled “Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Progressive Democrats…
“Israel has the right to defend itself,” President Joseph Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and countless commentators have declared multiple times over…
Elon Musk’s recently announced scheme to bribe voters into backing his favorite presidential nominee, Donald Trump, is a symbol of the economic…
Iceland’s economy grew more than all but one other rich European nation and its workers reported higher well-being, lower stress, and better…
The conclusion that Donald Trump is a fascist has gone mainstream, gaining wide publicity and affirmation in recent weeks. Such understanding is…
Oddly, it was Israeli historian Benny Morris who got it right, when he offered a candid prediction of the future of his…
Israeli officials keep repeating that Israel is fighting on multiple fronts. The truth is that Israel chooses to fight on multiple fronts. The two…
Will the BRICS economic and political alliance change the world’s U.S.-centered balance of power? As the annual BRICS summit wraps up in Russia, we host a…
The recently concluded 2024 BRICS (an acronym for the combined economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit, hosted by Russian President Vladimir…
Over the years since I became a progressive activist and organizer in 1968 I’ve been part of an awful lot of coalitions…
You happen to live in Michigan or Wisconsin and perhaps even have a family member, friend, or loved one recently murdered by…
Some people on the left make the following argument: we need to vote for a third party in this election, even or…
Israeli officials keep repeating that Israel is fighting on multiple fronts. The truth is that Israel chooses to fight on multiple fronts.…
While the name of the next president is unknown, some outcomes of the election can be foreseen. For instance: Both Donald Trump…
This year marks the 107th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. In the evening of October 25, 1917, the Winter Palace in…
It has been a safe assumption for generations that young people tend to be more liberal than their elders. However, in today’s…
This column is particularly for those people who live in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, and…
Following the Johannesburg BRICS summit in August 2023, the new ‘BRICS+’ – whose leadership will be hosted by Vladimir Putin in Kazan…
This may seem like a big step away from the day’s main topics, the U.S. Israeli genocidal warism, the rising tide of…
“Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children who will fill your homes…
Each new week brings new calamities for people in the countries neighboring Israel, as its leaders try to bomb their way to…
Republicans are counting on fears of immigrants to draw white conservatives to the polls. This calculation is dangerous — and it lets…
What should people who hate Trump and Trumpism, fascism and genocide, misogyny, racism, capitalism and ecological suicide do in the upcoming U.S.…
Ahead of the 2024 US presidential elections, we at ZNetwork thought that now might be a good time to remind all our…
On a Saturday evening last spring, Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) co-chair Claudia Jimenez hosted a high-spirited rally and party with 200 supporters of her…
I was very surprised a few days ago to see the local bank where I have an account displaying a sign outside…
With Election Day just three weeks off and voting already underway in some states, the race for president is down to the…
Balancing grave concerns over the Biden-Harris administration’s support for Israel’s yearlong assault on Gaza against the dire prospects of a potential second administration of…
Like many others I am at a loss to explain much less affect certain current events. I feel confused, like I did…
The last year of a relentless Israeli war on Gaza, and bloody raids and violence in the West Bank have been largely…
War is a daily fixture of American life—the US military occupies at least 750 overseas bases, and it has executed military operations…
No one had expected that one year would be enough to recenter the Palestinian cause as the world’s most pressing issue, and…
