Z Friends & Staff Posts
Before the August 22-24 summit in Johannesburg raised expectations for a new counterbalancing force in global politics ā and struck fear into…
(Image of: Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin by Giuseppe Milo) Back in April of this year, Joe Biden paid a presidential visit to Ireland…
President Biden wrote in the New York Times in June 2022 that the United States was arming Ukraine to āfight on the…
Listen to the audio version >> BorisĀ Kagarlitsky, an internationally known scholar and a longtime political activist, was arrested by the Russian Federal…
It is feasible for China to continue playing an important role in mediating Middle East conflicts. In fact, it already has. In…
Imagine you receive hundreds of millions of dollars tomorrow. What would you do with it? Suppose you decide to generate desirable outcomes.…
The work I have been doing the last two months helping to organize a massive March to End Fossil Fuels September 17…
During a recent visit to Portland, Oregon, my husband and I watched a private security guard help up an unhoused man from…
As temperatures soar in the United States this summer, some among us are lucky enough to be able to remain in air-conditioned…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be defined as machines generating human-like outcomes for tasks that we humans do with our brains. AI began…
Ain Al-Hilweh is known as the “Capital of Palestinian Shatat.” The term might not stir many emotions among those who do not…
On July 11th, the article Students Step Up by Michael Albert was published on ZNetwork, where I happen to be a staff…
The force pushing humanity towards destructive wars and climate catastrophe is āvery simple,ā Noam Chomsky says. Itās āthe word weāre not allowed…
Hundreds of thousands of creative workers in the film and television industry are currently flexing their labor power. For the first time…
āMeanwhile, remember that attitude is everything. Live simply, be kinder than necessary, offer compassion, for everyone is fighting some kind of battle.…
When I was a little girl, my parents bought me a Barbie ā a blonde, blue-eyed doll who I played with for…
Emergency room visits by people suffering heart attacks and strokes significantly decreased almost immediately after one of the largest coal-processing plants in…
The late Israeli commentator, Uri Avnery, wrote, “I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle ā¦ is assuming a more and more…
Listen to the audio version >> While the Green New Deal has been largely blocked at the national level, it is thriving…
In 1980, when I asked the press office at the U.S. Department of Energy to send me a listing of nuclear bomb…
In a recent speech, China’s highest-ranking diplomat, Wang Yi, spoke of a ‘united Asia’ and its need to develop a āstrategic autonomyā.…
Another summer is upon us and heatwaves are scorching many parts of the world, smashing thousands of temperature records. Even the worldās ocean surface temperature is…
Narrowly avoiding, for now, what might have been the largest strike in United States history of workers employed by a single corporation, the International…
Satoko Kishimoto returned to her native Japan in April 2022. She was 47, and for 22 of those years she had been in…
Israeli President Isaac Herzog added nothing of great value in his speech at the United States Congress on July 19. His was…
Norman Solomon talks to Katie Halper about how America hides the human toll of its military machine. Norman Solomon is co-founder of…
An article in The GuardianĀ caught my attention this morning. The title of the article was, āāAnger and radicalizationā: rising number of Americans…
A few months ago, my two sons, aged 10 and 15, told me they were excited to see the newĀ BarbieĀ film. I was…
[Along with other intellectuals, I was asked by a New Zealand solidarity group to share a few ideas on what meaningful solidarity…
More than 1,100 Israeli air force reservists on Friday threatened to not report for duty if the country’s far-right government proceeds with…
Student activists are traveling thousands of miles across the Democratic Republic of Congo to mobilize communities against the expansion of Big Oil.…
This is the perfect opportunity for Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, to exit the stage. But he will not.Ā Abbasā brief visit…
Work from home arrangements proliferated during the pandemic and became very popular among white-collar workers. They are now the subject of a…
Who will benefit from the Supreme Courtās recent ruling striking down race as a factor in college admissions? Mostly, just wealthy white people. Thatās…
Successive economic shocks over the past three yearsāincluding the Covid-19 pandemic, wars and other violence, and extreme weather disasters driven by human-caused…
The deadly Israeli invasion of Jenin on July 3 was not a surprise. Also, unsurprising is the fact that the killing of…
At his speech during the NATO Summit in Lithuania, President Biden called the U.S. and Europe āanchors for global securityā when in…
āIn a dark time,ā poet Theodore RoethkeĀ wrote, āthe eye begins to see.ā Stanley KunitzĀ observed: āIn a murderous time / the heart breaks…
The Biden Administrationās recent decisions to send deadly cluster bombs to Ukraine and to appoint despicable imperialist Elliott Abrams to a State…
Roughly ten weeks until U.S. students will trek back to school, including college. Whatās coming to NYU, Wisconsin, SF State, MIT, Howard,…
In March, the South Africa Communist Party (SACP) denounced what it described as the āimperialist bias’ of the International Criminal Court (ICC).…
Work from home arrangements that proliferated during the Covid pandemic and became very popular among white-collar workers are now the subject of…
President Biden may have crossed a new red line for the Democratic Party when he announced he would send banned cluster munitions…
The government watchdog Accountable.US reported Friday that a majority of incumbent members in the U.S. House of Representatives filed extensions this year…
As the West Bank reels from the latest attacks by Israeli soldiers and settlers, more than 70 U.S.-based advocacy groups on Wednesday…
California is home to Hollywood and Disneyland, sun and sand, andā¦ nearly one-third of all unhoused people in the entire nation. Compare…
Desecrating, then burning the Holy Quran in Sweden has, once again, raised a political storm of condemnation, but also of justification, if…
Israel is using major firepower against the Palestinian people living in the West Bank and the U.S. says that they support this.…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not just against the establishment of a Palestinian state, he wants to eliminate the very aspirations…
Midway through his cumulatively stunning new book āSoldiers Donāt Go Mad,ā author Charles Glass quotes a declaration from The Times of London…
