Z Friends & Staff Posts
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…
If you are not paying attention to the dramatic developments between China and the United States, you must understand that something consequential…
On International Working Womenās Day in 2025, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President NicolĆ”s Maduro, read a poem she wrote highlighting…
You get focused to resist and the target moves. It doesnāt just move. It morphs. Should you set aside one focus to…
The war on Iran has not merely opened a new military front in the Middle East. It has shattered long-standing myths that…
Democracy is invoked as moral legitimacy in war, while Iranās authority rests on layered political, religious, and historical foundations. Democracy, however, is…
When Daniel Ellsberg died in 2023, the world lost a unique voice of sanity. Five decades earlier, as a ānational securityā insider, he had…
It was the summer of 2003. I was employed at the time as the national coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network,…
ICE is terrorizing this country and threatening its long term survival. Yet still, many Americans don’t understand the magnitude of this existential…
Cuban exiles on a U.S.-registered speedboat attempted to enter Cuba undetected, but were confronted by border patrol in Cuban waters on Wednesday.…
When British author David Icke wrote his seminal work, The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World, published in 1999, he was…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau pull back the curtain to reveal the shifting tectonic plates of…
What sets Mamdani apart from other progressive mayors who promised to be tough on police is a democratic socialist vision of a…
Jeffrey Epstein was a horrifying but oddly ātalentedā specimen of humanity. He had some combination of āqualitiesā that facilitated his assembling an…
Organizers across the USA convened on February 16, 2026 to discuss the potential of social strikes in combatting Trump’s authoritarian juggernaut. Join…
Rebellions against injustice and poverty go back centuries, millenia, throughout the world. People āon the bottomā of human societies, sooner or later,…
A January 2026 Gallup poll showed that 89 percent of all Americans expect high levels of political conflict this year, as the…
Jesse Jacksonās two presidential campaigns (1984 and 1988) represented the pinnacle of the Black-led electoral upsurge which began in the late 1970s.…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
As leaders, generals and diplomats gather in Munich this weekend to debate Europeās security and the future of the transatlantic alliance, the…
Backroom Bargaining: Racketeering and Rebellion in New York Cityās Labor Unions By: Jane Latour University of Illinois Press, 2026 My first contact…
Look around. Day to day, steadily more Americans understand that we have to get Beyond Donald. It isnāt a done deal though…
“The lessons of the International Socialists can help point us in the right direction by sharing what has worked and what has…
A quarter of the way through this century, there is no doubt that the USA and the world are in deep trouble.…
We have an urgent responsibility. Our existing economic system is incapable of addressing the social and ecological crises we face in the…
Whatever happened to the āpolycrisisā? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting…
The trajectory of the Trump administrationās Iran policy has undergone a profound recalibration since the beginning of 2026, transitioning from expectations of…
While many nations occasionally resort to a “state of exception” to deal with temporary crises, Israel exists in a permanent state of…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
Marta JimĆ©nez, a hairdresser in Cubaās eastern city of HolguĆn, covered her face with her hands and broke down crying when I…
California Governor Gavin Newsom has made headlines this winter by vowing to defeat a proposal for a one-time 5 percent tax on…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sounded more like a populist leader than a former central banker during his address at the World Economic Forum…
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under…
āThese verdicts are a huge blow to government ministers who have tried to portray Palestine Action as a violent group to justify…
Two Human Rights Watch employeesāthe groupās entire Israel-Palestine teamāresigned after senior staffers blocked a report calling Israelās denial of Palestinian refugeesā right…
