Z Friends & Staff Posts
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had often boasted about the readiness of his army to deal with, and to eliminate all threats…
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…
The threat of a U.S. government shutdown was averted late last Saturday night after the House passed a 45-day stopgap funding bill,…
A recent article by Bill McKibben in which I am quoted has motivated me to write a Future Hope column focused on the issue:…
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…
Who controls the U.S. military and decides when we go to war? The Constitution says the people via Congress have war-making powers.…
As it did last year, the 2023 United Nations General Assembly has been debating what role the United Nations and its members…
The Third Way is a political term that gained currency in the late 1970s and early 1980s and is associated with the…
Last month CNN published a poll revealing 55% of people surveyed in the United States do not support spending more money on the Ukraine war. A…
Recent news reports have been filled with results of one poll after another after another showing that President Biden continues to weaken as a candidate for re-election. With…
Two island nations on Saturday joined the growing bloc of countries endorsing a fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty amid a worsening climate emergency…
Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. John Fetterman on Saturday joined a growing list of Democrats calling on Sen. Bob Menendez to step down in the wake…
Listen to the audio version >> While protecting the climate will require millions of jobs, there is no guarantee that those jobs…
From its very onset, Israel has constructed a brand for itself, a powerful gimmick that was predicated on two main pillars: democracy…
The first time I heard the chant it was while helping to block the street in front of leading fossil fuel financer…
Rich Men North Of Richmond is the title of the hugely popular Oliver Anthony folk/country song that has incredibly rocketed to number…
When Joe Biden flew out of Hanoi last week, he was leaving a country where U.S. warfare caused roughly 3.8 million Vietnamese deaths. But,…
What if the “epidemic of coups” in West and Central Africa is not that at all, but a direct outcome of outright…
Since 9/11, US wars have become widespread, everyday affairs that most Americans know next to nothing about. The largest wars like Iraq,…
What happens when corporate values intersect with health care and labor organizing? Members and stakeholders of Kaiser Permanente (KP), one of the…
The humiliation of Palestinian women by Israeli soldiers in the occupied city of Al-Khalil (Hebron) on July 10 was not the first…
When I heard that Salvador Allende won the Chilean presidential elections in September 1970 and sought to bring his country to socialism…
Autoworkers are readying themselves for a potential strike as contract negotiations with the so-called “Big Three” drag on. The United Auto Workers…
Israel kills Palestinian children as a matter of policy. This claim can easily be demonstrated and is supported by the latest findings…
The day after the U.S. government began routinely bombing faraway places, the lead editorial in the New York Times expressed some gratification. Nearly four…
Lost in a chaotic hall of mirrors of its own creation, the CIA has generally failed in its one and only legitimate…
There is a refugee trail that goes from the Sahel drought region in Africa, into war-ravaged Yemen, and up through Saudi Arabia…
At the zenith of the mass protests in Egypt on January 25, 2011, Twitter, Facebook and other Western-based social media platforms appeared…
‘Panem et circenses’, said the Romans – ‘Bread and circuses’. This maxim served the Romans well. In times of crisis and whenever…
Strategic locations, key occupations, networked relations—all bring workers power. “Labor Power and Strategy” offers an extended conversation among veteran organizers on how…
Three weeks ago there were 370 organizations which had endorsed the March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City on September 17. Today,…
Having an analytical framework to understand the key relationships that define the social conditions and political battles we face can guide us…
Review of Purple Power: The History and Global Impact of SEIU edited by Louis Aguiar and Joseph McCartin (University of Illinois Press, 2023) and The…
What do billionaires do with all their money? Maybe they buy off a Supreme Court justice. Maybe they get their kicks from diving…
Despite their complicated and often uneasy relationship, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant agree on one thing:…
