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Human activity in a profit-driven world divided by nation-states and those who have rights and those who donāt is the primary driver…
The Berlin-based Lawyersā Collective on Friday sued the German government in an effort to stop weapons transfers to Israel, whose government and…
Mexico on Friday night announced the suspension of diplomatic relations with Ecuador after police stormed the Mexican Embassy in Quito and kidnapped…
The three most critical heat-trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere again reached record levels last year, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday,…
A doctor at an Israeli field hospital inside a notorious detention center where hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are temporarily held is sounding the alarm…
Historically, wars unite Israelis. Not anymore. Not that Israelis do not agree with Benjamin Netanyahuās war; they simply do not believe that…
When the Washington Post revealed Friday afternoon that āthe Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs…
Those who admonish Palestinian Resistance, armed or otherwise, have little understanding of the psychological ramifications of resistance, such as a sense of…
In my first couple of years of progressive activism in the late 60ās, many of those I worked with who were also…
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has sent shock waves throughout the United States. The bridge was not…
Yanis Varoufakisās new film series explains how elites used the financial crisis to terrorize Europeās populations into submission.Ā āDebt is to capitalism…
Over 9,000 Palestinian women have beenĀ killedĀ since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. Mothers have been the largest share…
“What we saw on October 7 in Israel, and what we are seeing in Gaza now, represents the blatant violation of international…
The three major wars or conflicts that are ongoing today demonstrate the volatility of the intersection between the local and the global.…
Books about union presidents are usually penned by professional writers ā either academic historians, labor journalists, or paid flacks. Past accounts of…
Last week,Ā VarietyĀ reported that āmore than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazerās āThe Zone…
As India’s right-wing government cracks down on opposition ahead of next month’s general elections, Amnesty International on Friday urged authorities to “stop weaponizing the…
It seems that there has never been a better time than now to buy an electric vehicle in the United States, especially…
When the foreign policy of a country as large and significant as the United States is governed by a case of cognitive…
If we condemn Hamas for its October 7 attacks in Israel, weāre not accused of anti-Arab bigotry. Nor should we be. Nothing…
Throughout 2023 and into 2024, the North of Ireland [1] has witnessed the largest and most sustained public sector strikes in all…
Editorās Note: Recent studies of lawmakers in the United States have found that less than 2% of those serving on Capitol Hill…
In a work entitled āIrish Famine 4,ā Palestinian-American journalist and artist Sam Husseini combined grass and paint to commemorate a bitter time…
In addition to killing, maiming, and forcibly displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children, Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza has wrought tremendous psychological damage…
āInside every phone is the blood of a Congolese person.ā These words from Pascal Mirindi, a student and activist in Goma, Democratic…
President Biden began his State of the Union speech with an impassioned warning that failing to pass his $61 billion dollar weapons…
āAll we can do for Gaza is just offer our Duāa.ā This is an oft-repeated statement by enraged Arabs and Muslims who…
Social movements often find themselves locked into isolated silos, divided by internecine conflict, or even brutalizing each other in ācircular firing squads.ā…
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and author who served as Greek Finance Minister in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crash.…
There are many issues on the line this election year but one that gets little attention is former President Donald Trumpās 2017…
The effects of armed conflict in Palestine, since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, are devastating and long-lasting. The…
Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political and media analyst Norman Solomon as they discuss Solomonās important new book, War Made Invisible: How America…
Jared Kushner, a former US official whose relationship to power is that he married the wealthy daughter of a man who was…
One of the occupational hazards of being a labor activist is over-exposure to ācorporate bullshitāāon the job, in the community, and in…
In aĀ conversationĀ in 2020 with Princeton Professor Emeritus, Richard Falk, he told me that historically, colonized nations that have won the legitimacy war…
The Israeli genocide in Gaza will be remembered as the moral collapse of the West.Ā As soon as the Israeli war began,…
Israeli forcesĀ killed more than a hundred PalestiniansĀ and wounded more than 700 on February 29, 2024 during a distribution of food aid in…
Left to its own devices, Israel would never grant Palestinians their freedom. In the past, some, whether ignorantly or not, claimed that…
āLegendary organizer Bayard Rustin, a consummate practical radical, criticized two other dominant ways of approaching social change: āMy quarrel with the āno-winā…
Manos, a sixth-generation farmer from Thessaly, put it to me bluntly when I asked him to explain why he was prepared to…
I recently participated in a brief email exchange about āprivilegeā and it made me think a broader discussion might prove worthwhile.Ā Does…
Dear Z Community, Everyone who is a regular reader of Z has experienced the feeling of disbelief and exasperation when trying to…
The Palestinian city of Rafah is not only older than Israel, it is also as old as civilisation itself. Rafah has existed…
As we mark two full years since Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian government forces have withdrawn from Avdiivka, a town they first captured from…
Streaming television channels these days are increasingly inserting advertising into their paid subscriber content. Thus, I recently found myself sitting through several…
Did you see Trump say police incinerate homeless people? Did you see, Biden forgot his own name? Might AI deceptions so flood…
The problem is not the absence of a Palestinian state, but Zionism itself.Ā What is the use of a Palestinian state, if…
Interview with Michael Albert, author, co-founder of South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, and ZNet, conducted by Scott Harris
When the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001, it was meant as a counterpoint to the…
As we mark two full years since Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian government forces have withdrawn from Avdiivka, a town they first captured…
