Z Friends & Staff Posts
The United Nations Human Rights Committee on Friday published what the ACLU called a “scathing” report admonishing the United States’ record on a broad…
Gaza has changed the political equation in Palestine. Moreover, the repercussions of this devastating war are likely to alter the political equation…
Ihave seldom felt compelled to write a review or an essay after reading a book. I am often inspired, saddened, or reflective…
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaims in genocidal undertones his army’s “holy mission” to invade Gaza, Jewish American peace activists are ramping up…
On Friday, October 27, the nations of the world voted in the UN General Assembly, by a vote of 120 to 14,…
“Global efforts to address climate change are already clouded by bitterness and distrust among countries of the world. Now a widening gyre…
History will not forgive those who have remained silent, exhibited or expressed ‘balanced’ positions – or worse, defended Israel’s ongoing genocide in…
It’s rare that a union grievance settlement becomes a U.S. presidential campaign issue. But, thanks to the American Federation of Government Employee’s successful defense…
For three weeks, President Biden has played a key role in backing Israel’s war crimes while touting himself as a compassionate advocate…
“Y’all don’t live in our f—kin’ skin,” said Texas Democrat Armando Walle in an angry outburst at state Republicans in late October…
“Gaza is a tiny coastal enclave adjoining Israel. … The story of how people got there requires us to go back some…
The Rolling Stones have a new album. The NBA season is underway. Cable flows on. Barbie busts records. It’s binge heaven out…
“(Tutsis) are cockroaches. We will kill you.” Arabs are like “drugged cockroaches in a bottle.” The first quote was a line repeated…
Yanis Varoufakis, DiEM25 co-founder, is interviewed on Al Jazeera about the on-going occupation of Palestine and Israel’s siege of Gaza.
I’ve been arrested three times so far this year for nonviolent direct actions (nvda) on the climate crisis. I don’t think I’ve…
I remain optimistic on day 16 of the horrific onslaught on the people of Gaza; optimistic that we can stop large scale…
Labels are central to the politics of media. And no label has been more powerful than “terrorist.” A single standard of language…
Often what is vile hides itself. Denies itself. Alibis itself. Rationalizes itself. It even fades from awareness due to its being so…
While the Green New Deal is often thought of as a program for climate and jobs, justice has been a central element…
Israel had the perfect plan for Gaza – in fact, for all Palestinians, when it decided to redeploy its forces around the Occupied Gaza…
(This piece was revised and updated from its original text on October 30th to include more recent developments.) I want to share…
Patrick Bond broadens out his analysis of the BRICS countries engaging in what he terms “talk left, walk right.” He explains the…
At one time, the ‘Arab-Israeli Conflict’ was Arab and Israeli. Over the course of many years, however, it was rebranded. The media…
More than half a million fast-food workers in California are about to get a raise—not because of the voluntary generosity of their…
While the world watches Israel’s military pulverize Gaza amid anticipation of an imminent ground invasion of the besieged strip, Israeli soldiers and settlers—who are…
Real Utopia member Peter Bohmer discusses global justice and participatory socialism. This event was organised by Real Utopia’s Education and Skills Team.
Climate activists from across the Balkans and beyond came together at the end of August for the 2nd annual Adriatic Climate Camp,…
Regardless of the precise strategy of the Palestinian group Hamas, or any other Palestinian movement for that matter, the daring Palestinian military…
We are each and all ignorant of a great many things. How could it be otherwise. We are people with limited time,…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had often boasted about the readiness of his army to deal with, and to eliminate all threats…
When Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations spoke outside the Security Council on Sunday, he said: “This is Israel’s 9/11. This is Israel’s…
In his new book, ‘Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism’, Yanis Varoufakis explores how giant tech firms, both in the US and China are…
The first part of this two part essay, inspired by the multi authored Twenty Theses for Liberation, urged the need for flexible, continually…
Over the years, all of us on the Left have been engaged in a wide variety of mass movements —antiwar, labor, environmental,…
We are living through an historic moment where a number of crises– climate change, growing economic and cultural divide, virulent racism, and…
American society is steeped in narratives about economic prosperity shaped by capitalist ideas of individualism and a corporate culture of exploitation. Children…
Organized labor and the climate movement, often portrayed as opponents, have made an auspicious start toward cooperation in the autoworkers strike. The…
To some degree, next week’s Annual Meetings of the Bretton Woods Institutions (BWIs) in Marrakech will be focused on the tragic earthquake…
A new trend is emerging in the Israeli hasbara discourse targeting Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims: women’s rights. The word ‘new’ is not…
We who desire a better world act within countless organizations, projects, campaigns, and movements each siloed from and often even competing with…
A recent article by Bill McKibben in which I am quoted has motivated me to write a Future Hope column focused on the issue:…
The threat of a U.S. government shutdown was averted late last Saturday night after the House passed a 45-day stopgap funding bill,…
Patrick Bond, political economist, Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, and Director of the Centre for Social Change, discusses the…
The world is witnessing an epochal shift, according to Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis: from the now-dead capitalism, to “technofeudalism”. In his latest…
If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. follows through on his apparent plans to run for president in the fall 2024 general election, that…
The United States federal government in 2020 embarked on a grand and beautiful experiment: expanding the use of tax dollars to help…
Two interesting things happened at the BRICS summit in South Africa in August. Several new members were invited to join BRICS in…
In this video, Yanis Varoufakis explains the real reasons why the US dollar remains powerful and how America’s debt shapes the global…
What can leftists, by which I mean those who are consciously anticapitalist and progressive, do in the fight against the MAGA movement?…
Jericho does not belong to the Palestinians alone. It belongs to the whole of humanity. For Israel, however, the recognition by UNESCO of Jericho…
