Z Friends & Staff Posts
Hundreds of University of Illinois Chicago faculty members went on strike Tuesday after nine months of deadlocked contract negotiations over pay and…
Have you ever heard a fellow progressive, leftist, radical, or revolutionary say, āI remain on the left despite the left, not because…
In a self-congratulatory article published in the Atlantic in 2017, Yossi Klein Halevi describes Israeli behavior at the just-conquered holy Muslim shrines…
To mark Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, leaders of a modern iteration of the slain civil rights champion’s final…
For many months, conventional media wisdom has told us that Joe Biden would be the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump in…
When the Russians began their invasion of Ukraine, it seemed to me to be a no-brainer regarding how progressive forces should respond. After…
In an influential 1963 pamphlet titled āThe Two Souls of Socialism,ā the Marxist revolutionary, Hal Draper, said āsocialismā encompassed three tendencies. First,…
The World Economic Forum is meeting in Davos this week. The gathering of many of the wealthiest corporate elites and state leaders…
The current notion of a āmoderate Republicanā is an oxymoron that helps to move the country rightward. Last week, every one of…
Once more, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will offer a legal opinion on the consequences of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine.…
āI think itās important to understand that the quality of the process you use to get to a place determines the ends,…
This is a three part interview series with Russian anti war activists: Ivan in Kazakhstan, Dima in Moscow, & Shamil in Dagestan.…
This is a three part interview series with Russian anti war activists: Ivan in Kazakhstan, Dima in Moscow, & Shamil in Dagestan.…
Letās start with my admission that I do not read horror. While I loved all of theĀ AlienĀ films and I was enthralled by…
This is a three part interview series with Russian anti war activists: Ivan in Kazakhstan, Dima in Moscow, & Shamil in Dagestan.…
A famous economist Lionel Robbins, who was no radical, wrote āā¦the validity of a particular theory is a matter of its logical…
Even before the new Israeli government was officially sworn in on December 29, angry reactions began emerging, not only among Palestinians and other Middle…
When the newsstand of Giuseppe Trani was swept away by massive flooding that devastated the southern Italian town of Casamicciola, near Naples,…
With 2023 underway, Democrats in office are still dodging the key fact that most of their partyās voters donāt want President Biden…
There is a common feeling that many of us have experienced in professional or academic environments, especially when we struggle against gender…
Midterm wins bought organizing time for pro-democracy forces, but MAGA authoritarianism still menaces US politics. In āPro-democracy Organizing Against Autocracy in the…
āWhat went through my mind was this was my last hour on earth,ā Leila de Lima told me as she recounted her…
Even before the new Israeli government was officially sworn in on December 29, angry reactions began emerging, not only among Palestinians and…
Itās a truism that the world is in a dismal state; indeed, there are too many great challenges facing our world and…
Palestine, the War and the Arabs The Russia-Ukraine warĀ startingĀ in February pressured many political entities, including Palestinians, to take sides or, at least,…
States have the power to implement much of the Green New Deal ā and some states are using that power. States regulate…
Happy New Year from Z Friend, Ted Glick and BeyondExtremeEnergy @BXEAction A rain-soaked, straggly but passionate group of 8 climate justice activists,…
Two years ago, Morocco and Israel signed the US-brokered āJoint Declarationā, thus officially recognizing Israel and instating diplomatic ties. Though other Arab…
Days after a U.S. warplaneĀ bombedĀ a Doctors Without Borders/MĆ©decins Sans FrontiĆØres (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing forty-two people, twenty-four of them patients,…
Investment behemoth BlackRock was accused Thursday of what author Naomi Klein termed “disaster capitalism” after war-ravaged Ukraine’s president announced he would work…
On December 27 2022, both Russia and Ukraine issued calls for ending the war in Ukraine, but only on non-negotiable terms that…
Three times in the last month I have quoted the Golden Rule, āDo unto others as you would have done unto you,ā…
Without a hairsā breadth in between, the world lurched from a global pandemic into a cost of living crisis and the worst…
Michael Albert is interviewed by Matic Primc (first posted by Dialogi) As crises around the world threaten ultimate calamity, what can we…
This video compiles excerpts from interviews we published on our channel about the Julian Assange case. To see the full interviews Watch…
In a dramatic scientific and engineering breakthrough, researchers at the Bay Areaās Lawrence Livermore National Lab recently achieved the long-sought goal of…
While many University of California graduate student workers welcomed Friday’s strike-ending ratification of a new labor agreement that delivers increased pay and…
My friend is not an elitist. To the contrary, he has spent decades of his life fighting social inequality, racism and championing…
Hundreds of workers at Macy’s San Francisco flagship store walked off the job Friday amid the last-minute holiday shopping rush for a…
Palestinian officials and supporters welcomed leftist Chilean President Gabriel Boric’s announcement this week that his country will open an embassy in the…
Itās now more than 300 days since Russiaās invasion of Ukraine, and the conflict has intensified rather than subsided, with Ukrainian leaders expressing…
Americans are being slammed by a ātripledemicā this holiday season as three major respiratory illnessesāCOVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)āare spreading…
Just when Israel, and even some Palestinians, began talking about the Lionsā Den phenomenon in the past tense, a large number of…
With wars raging in Ukraine, Yemen, Somalia and elsewhere, Roe v. Wade overturned and our resources being wasted on militarism instead of…
While many activists welcomed Monday’s official apology by Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte for his country’s 250-year history of enslaving Africans, some Dutch…
This article is an introduction to Solarpunk as a vision, culture and movement of radical hope. Part explainer, part analysis, and part…
Several months ago I heard long-time progressive activistĀ George LakeyĀ speak on a zoom call. One of the main issues he addressed was political…
As the war in Ukraine drags on and a cold winter sets in, people all over the world areĀ callingĀ for a Christmas truce,…
The underlying theme of this essay is that new ideas have intellectual value largely in proportion to their impact on further new…
In DecemberĀ 1972, coal miners rocked the American labor movement by electing three reformers as top officers of the United Mine Workers of…
