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France and Saudi Arabia have led unprecedented diplomatic efforts at the UN to formally recognise Palestinian statehood and outline a post-war plan…
Meaningless gestures Israel’s most genocidal Western supporters are planning to “recognize” a “Palestinian state”. France, Britain, maybe even Canada if the Palestinian…
James Jones is a 54-year-old disabled Army veteran. After four years of active duty—some of it in the Gulf War—and four years…
Free speech stole the show last week during the joint press conference between US President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir…
“Perhaps the degradation of our rule-of-law regime would happen anyway,” Jackson wrote. “But this Court’s complicity in the creation of a culture…
The time to laugh at a certified egomaniacal buffoon is gone. Confusion about his destination is gone. Doubt that he is on…
In several influential European countries, solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian people is finally translating into action. Though such action may seem belated to…
“The proper way to respond” to white supremacist fascism “is to have a backbone,” says Tariq Khan, a historian and lecturer at Yale…
As we did last year, the ZStaff is publishing our annual financial and progress report. This is both for transparency and so…
In several influential European countries, solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian people is finally translating into action. Though such action may seem…
Tyrannical regimes from Serbia to the Philippines to Brazil and many other places have been brought down by nonviolent revolts that made…
Elphas Nkosi: It is now four minutes after 12 p.m. Central African time. Welcome to the Monday edition of the News Hour…
Imagine an okay High School Tennis player trying to comment usefully, publicly, on Carlos Alcaraz’s play. Or imagine a squirrel made suddenly…
The era of US-led capitalist globalization seems to be coming to an end. For Filipino scholar and activist Walden Bello, it’s time…
One needs only to examine the actions and rhetoric of the Israeli government to fully appreciate the profound significance of the solidarity…
This poem below was inspired by a meeting 6 Sept 2025, #62 of our monthly meetings with friends and supporters. Usually the…
[In what follows my prompts to the AI, ChatGPT, are in Italics. The AI’s responses appear in quotation marks. The text in…
How is Trump doing in the polls? Over the last week and a half, averaging polls done by CBS, NBC, The Economist,…
Europe’s second-largest economy has plunged into political paralysis again, as the French government has been overthrown by yet another no-confidence vote. This…
If the Western liberal political empire has been shamed beyond repair by the genocide in Palestine and the neoliberal project cannot be…
It has been 26 years since Hugo Chávez first assumed the presidency of Venezuela in 1999. Since then, Venezuela has gone through…
In his last minutes of freedom before Israeli Defense Forces arrested him, Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, clad in a medic’s white coat,…
Global Battlefields: Memoir of a Legendary Public Intellectual from the Global SouthBy: Walden BelloClarity Press, 2025 Walden Bello has long been one…
Is it finally happening? Is the West turning against Israel? Or are we, whether motivated by hope or driven by despair, simply…
One year ago, the UN General Assembly demanded that Israel must end its occupation of the Palestinian Territories within twelve months. The…
In many countries around the world, mass “people power” revolts have blocked authoritarian takeovers and eliminated dictatorial regimes. This commentary presents four…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a recruitment message on social media this summer saying, “America has been invaded by criminals and predators.…
Killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground can’t match. Far from its victims,…
In an important step toward the economic isolation of Israel due to its genocide in Gaza, Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global has…
In this wide-ranging conversation, political economist Patrick Bond joins me from Johannesburg to trace the lessons of South Africa’s struggles — from…
“In ‘Common Sense,’ Thomas Paine defines common sense as the fundamental ability of all people to reason and discern truth, regardless of…
As summer winds down, kids all over the United States are starting the school year. In addition to the standard back-to-school trepidation,…
This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic Party had a chance to…
Intro by Tom Engelhardt: [Note for TomDispatch readers: Back in 2014, Noam Chomsky — whose voice I miss terribly in this embattled Trumpian…
The killing of seven Palestinian journalists and media workers in Gaza on August 10 has prompted verbal condemnations, yet has inspired little…
Democrats in the United States hope and pray that when the pain from President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill begins to…
The case for the South African government to respect Boycott Divestment Sanctions and ‘Hague Group’ mandates against Glencore/ARM exports and all other…
“People might want us to just shut up and play, turn to look the other way, but we don’t believe that is…
Completely absent in any of the governmental efforts for the last three and a half years to end the war on Ukraine…
[This article is part of a short series on Marxism and its relevance for left resistance in today’s challenging geopolitical and ecological…
As Donald Trump is trying to stamp out everything that might power the world without fossil fuels, a “Greentech” revolution is making…
Artificial Intelligence is very much in the news these days, so I decided to do a critical analysis of one of works…
No Ice Agent or National Guard member headed to Washington DC, no IDF assassin shooting kids who seek food, no media person,…
Donald Trump came into office promising to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Now, six months later, his high stakes…
The consequences of the Israeli genocide in Gaza will be dire. An event of this degree of barbarity, sustained by an international…
It is crystal clear that millions of US Americans are prepared to organize and take action to fight the efforts of the…
I have been engaging with AI about itself in some recent RevolutionZ podcast episodes and in some written articles as well. This…
The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released a comprehensive report on July 27 describing the Israeli war on Gaza as genocide. However,…
De-industrialization in the northeast spawned a service sector that didn’t quite match the employment opportunities of the old, manufacturing-based economy. The resulting…
Six weeks ago I wrote a column entitled, Fighting Climate Meltdown and the Death Cult. In it I said, “This would-be fascist…
