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Zen wisdom tells us that the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. Yet it’s easy to fall into the…
Law number one in the ‘law of holes’, is that “if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” Law number two,…
My background causes me to support the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupation of Palestine including Gaza, the West Bank and East…
Workers in the Great Depression were beaten down but desperate for change. When a militant new labor federation, the Congress of Industrial…
Rome, Venice, Milan, Turin, Bologna, & Bari, Italy | In a dimly lit room at the back of a little independent bookstore, two…
Who taught leading South Africa sports officials and politicians world-class corruption; specifically, how to buy hosting rights to the FIFA Soccer World…
When United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain called for a ceasefire in Israel’s assault on Gaza in mid-December, his union was…
Have you heard the one about the U.S. government wanting a “rules-based international order”? It’s grimly laughable, but the nation’s media outlets…
On Jan 11, South Africa presented its case against Israel at the ICJ. Here are two important clips from the case: Notable…
Union or Bust interview Bill Fletcher Jr. highlighting the role that labor can play in achieving a ceasefire in Gaza.
On January 11th, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague is holding its first hearing in South Africa’s case against…
Thousands of miles separate Uganda and Congo from the Gaza Strip, but these places are connected to Palestine in ways that traditional…
Johannesburg – John Pilger, who died in his hometown of Sydney aged 84 on December 30, was a unique journalist, equipped with…
The vast majority of Congress members have refused to call for a ceasefire in Gaza during three months of slaughter by Israel’s…
This article was written shortly before Israel assassinated the Deputy Head of Hamas Political Bureau Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut on January 2.…
Americans have been on a vacation binge since the easing of COVID-19 lockdowns, traveling for leisure in record numbers, and generating a major boom…
Did that get your attention? A new Netflix series on John Gotti, the notorious late leader of the Cosa Nostra’s (Mafia’s) Gambino…
The Green New Deal from Below is not a random collection of isolated initiatives; it is a set of synergistic policies determined…
What value remains in the concept of imperialism? The idea of imperialism was classically associated with competitive internecine battles between a few…
It was early September in 1971. My mother had taken me in a taxi to a boutique hotel in a leafy northern…
A famous quote by Franz Kafka says, “Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love…
It would have been outlandish to suggest that a small region like Gaza, seemingly bereft of significant natural resources, political will of…
This video evidentiary episode of the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal contains a unique interview conducted in May 2023 by the…
Dear Z Community, As 2023 comes to a close, we’d like to thank you – this is a truly incredible community of…
Patrick Bond, political economist, Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, and Director of the Centre for Social Change, expands on…
The Biden administration on Thursday warned it will sue Texas unless Republican Gov. Greg Abbott backs down on enforcing an anti-migrant law the U.S.…
As we count down toward the 2024 general election, we should expect to hear from media pundits about candidates and their viability, swing states…
The dramatic, earth-shattering events in Palestine starting on October 7 have taken many people by surprise. However, attentive observers are not. Few…
A young Israeli man was sentenced Tuesday to 30 days behind bars for refusing to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces as…
To Gaza’s little angels – in heaven, and here on earth. My name is Omar. I am 5. Today I washed the…
To: President Joe Biden You’ve often spoken of how much you care about children and how terrible it is when they’re murdered.…
As the Palestinian death toll from Israel’s 10-week annihilation of the Gaza Strip passed 20,000, warfare experts said this weekend that the…
Patrick Bond is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, as well as a political economist, political ecologist and…
Journalists are being slain during Israel’s current assault on Gaza at a rate unseen in modern history—with more killed in the last…
A review of A.K. 47: 47 Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai In this ongoing podcast, Kristen Ghodsee (author of 12…
Golda Meir (previous Prime Minister of Israel) was reputed to have said “wewould rather be feared than loved”. This is actually in…
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Arrests were reported after hundreds of activists occupied the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, where they sang and chanted slogans including “not in our…
When Zionist militias, using advanced Western arms, conquered historic Palestine in 1947-48, they expressed their victory through the deliberate humiliation of Palestinians.…
In High School, in the early 1960s, despite having watched all too many movies about World War Two, Nazis, and “Good Germans,”…
The outcome of global climate summits has barely changed since the United Nations held the first Conference of the Parties (COP) in…
Is the trade union movement a force to combat right-wing authoritarianism? That’s the question I posed in mid-October to University of Florida history professor Paul…
The Man Who Changed Colors is a murder mystery revolving around race, justice, revenge, Cape Verdean Americans and evolving relationships. It is set in 1978-79 in…
The nation’s biggest investment in the past decade to fix police abuses has failed. The New York Times, in collaboration with ProPublica…
Sasimwani, Kenya | You’ve heard of blood diamonds – extracted by violence, slavery, and displacement then processed through accounting magic and slick…
The most publicized sentence from the final COP28 document – the first ‘Global Stocktake’ (GST), presided over by oil man Sultan Al-Jaber…
We have been writing annual Christmas messages of peace, for human rights,and relating sometimes what happened in the passing year for decades.…
Three months ago about 600,000 people took action in New York City and in 700 other localities around the world calling for…
Top American officials in the “national security” establishment are notably good at smooth rhetoric and convenient silences. Their scant regard for truth…
What is taking place in Gaza is meant for the history books: an epic tale of a small nation under a long,…
