Z Friends & Staff Posts
Iran said Wednesday that it is blocking shipping through the Strait of Hormuz over Israelās escalating bombardment of Lebanon, actions that are…
The moment a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran was announcedābrokered through Pakistani mediation on April 7āIran declared that Lebanon was…
When I was in High School, I used to wonder how did the German people put up with Hitler and his regime?…
After decades of bipartisan deference to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the likely contenders for the next Democratic presidential nomination…
I was honored to be in Paris with 40,000 attendees at this amazing summit of changemakers towards a livable planet:Ā https://www.changenow.world/Ā I spoke to…
Trumpism is waging a war against the people of U.S. and the rest of the world. It is an authoritarian, bullying playbook…
Whatever happened to the āpolycrisisā? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting…
āIsrael must immediately release Gazan doctor Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya,ā UN experts said in a recent statement, in unequivocal terms. Dr. Abu Safiya…
In the aftermath of the āNo Kings Dayā demonstrations of March 28th, there has been renewed interestāand concernāthat in many cities the…
āI call up France, Macron ā whose wife treats him extremely badly. Still recovering from the right to the jaw.ā It is…
The war on Iran has caused the biggest oil supply disruption in history, as oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz…
Does President Donald Trump have an endgame in Iran? Are personality traits a factor in Trumpās foreign policy behavior? How different is Trump from…
Iām pretty certain, based on experiences and study, that a very big majority of US Americans who understand the need for progressive,…
Energy runs the world, and how energy is produced and used is undergoing a historic transformation. As UN secretary general AntĆ³nio Guterres…
You live somewhere. You care not only about there, but about elsewhere. You care about your home, neighborhood, state, country, region, continent,…
The judgment on the Trump administrationās war on Iran is already largely settled across mainstream media, public opinion, and much of the…
Some are expressing frustration that Iranās conditions to end the war have not explicitly and unequivocally included a demand to end the…
Those who had the misfortune of growing up in a war zone require no explanation. War is hell, it is trueābut for…
Had I not read Angus Deatonās Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality, I would not have learned…
Iāve been surprised the past week to hear some people, not many but some, telling me that they or people they know…
Whatever happened to the āpolycrisisā? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting…
Yes, for us to diminish and then end escalating wars, for us to stop and then end onrushing Fascism, and for us…
The Democratic Party has lost to Donald Trump and MAGA twice, and is continuing to lose working-class voters by clinging to corporate…
For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or ātargeted killingā as policy. Now, in its…
The origins of chess are contested, but few dispute that while the game began in India, it was the Sassanian Persian Empire…
Who better to tell the story of Palestine than a Palestinian? In his new book “Before the Flood: a Gaza Family Memoir,”…
I have always found it interesting, and at times revealing, when seasoned activists and intellectuals in the West, including those who see…
The war in Iran, besides being dangerous, is also very interesting because itās an example of asymmetric warfare. The US is obviously…
US President Donald Trump did not invent the phrase āfake news,ā but he undoubtedly transformed it into a political weapon, relentlessly accusing…
Every war led by Benjamin Netanyahu is framed not as policy, but as fate. āThere are moments in which a nation faces…
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring…
How do you bomb a country āwithout mercyāāand end up strengthening it? When US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that Washington would…
Joe Kentās resignation is not an anomaly but an alarm: elite dissent is surfacing early because this war is built on deception.…
When the governing body of the Democratic Party convenes next month, it will face a challenge to its support for Israel. The…
When Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu launched their military aggression against Iran on February 28, they appeared convinced that the war would…
Unpredictability is a core feature of the polycrisis. There is much speculation about what will come next in the world order, but…
Three months before taking power in 1949, Mao Tse-tung wrote of the solidarity required for the Chinese peopleās revolution, remarking that a āprincipal and…
Doubtless, the war launched by US President Donald Trump is not popular among ordinary Americans. According to the latest public opinion poll,…
We win almost any social demand only when some elite figure(s) succumb and implement the sought change. We demand a higher wage,…
Let us imagine a liberated Palestine. Let us consider how justice for the Palestinian people would reshape not only the region but,…
This week on Talk World Radio, weāre talking about Iran. Norman Solomon is Co-Founder / National Director of RootsAction. He founded the…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau target the orthodoxy of NATOās post-1991 expansion as well as dismantling…
In Part One of this planned series of articles, I wrote about the historical timeliness of a āthird forceā strategy. I said,…
Iranās Strategy in the Current War As the war on Iran continues to expand across multiple fronts, Tehran appears to be pursuing…
Origins of Israelās Psychological Warfare Wars are rarely fought only on battlefields. They are also fought in the minds of societies, in…
The United States has once again launched a war in the Middle East based on false claims about weapons of mass destruction.…
When the euro crisis hit in early 2010, with Greece the first domino to fall, all it took to surmise that Europe…
On our recent delegation to Venezuela, one quote echoed again and again ā a warning written nearly two centuries ago by SimĆ³n…
The year since Donald Trumpās accession to power has seen an intense augmentation of the global polycrisis. It has also seen a…
āA huge problem, up there at the top of the list, is that the history of efforts over the last many centuries…
