Z Friends & Staff Posts
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Tel Aviv for Rome on March 9, he was flown to Ben Gurion airport in…
The title, The Old Folks Home at the College, is from a song lyric. I bet you can guess, or know, the author.…
Perhaps itās coincidence, or perhaps it has been of my own subconscious making, but there has been a community of people right…
March 20, 2023, marks the 20-year anniversary of the illegal US invasion of Iraq. Two decades later, over a million Iraqis have…
Michigan is expected very soon to reverse its so-called āright-to-workā (RTW) law. The repeal, led by Democrats and passing along strictly partisan lines, is…
At least tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of cities and towns across Greece Thursday to protest the government’s…
In a hypothetical race to claim the mantle of biggest threat to humanity, nuclear war, ecological catastrophe, rising authoritarianism, and new pandemics…
Recovering from a brutal assault that left him with a broken nose and cheekbone, leftist Greek lawmaker Yanis Varoufakis on Tuesday urged…
As hundreds of thousands, throughout Israel, joined anti-government protests, questions began to arise regarding how this movement would affect, or possibly merge,…
The extraordinary March 10, 2023 announcement that Chinaās top diplomat, Mr. Wang Yi, helped broker a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran…
Fears of an escalation between nuclear superpowers Russia and the United States mounted Tuesday after a U.S. Air Force Reaper drone went…
March 19th marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. and British invasion of Iraq. This seminal event in the short history of…
“The impacts of the global arms trade aren’t just about the volume of weapons delivered,” said one expert, citing “a few examples…
Even in the era of identity politics, one category of identity is much ignored: what journalist Joe Glenton calls āveteranhood.ā In the U.S.,…
Vast quantities of lies from top U.S. government officials led up to the Iraq invasion. Now, marking its 20th anniversary, the same media outlets…
While advocates of peace and a multipolar world order welcomed Friday’s China-brokered agreement reestablishing diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, U.S.…
āMy creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force. It has no room for cowardice or even weakness. There is hope for…
As is the case of long wars, the warring parties and their affiliated media in the Russia-Ukraine conflict have painted each other…
Is it Russian imperialism or great-power politics that explains Putinās invasion of Ukraine? And how likely is it that we could see…
I have known Julian Assange since I first interviewed him in London in 2010. I immediately liked his dry, dark sense of…
The right has narrowed the parameters of discussion on student debt forgiveness, and President Biden is not fighting back aggressively enough. We…
The following text tells the whole story of what pro-Palestinian communities around the world are fighting for, and what pro-Israelis are fighting…
Jorge Luis Borges once wrote that to live in a time of great peril and promise is to experience both tragedy and…
This week, when the New York Times featured anĀ opinion pieceĀ by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, it harmonized with a crescendo of other recent pleas…
Independent journalist and commentator Richard Medhurst interviews Noam Chomsky about his opinion on the current protests by Israelis against Netanyahu and the…
Some time back, I opened the Sunday New York Times. The main headline, front page, top right, was āAt many nursing homes,…
Noam Chomsky Interview with Richard Medhurst: Ukraine, China, BRICS & Middle East
In France, again, the public rebels as we ought to everywhere. Will the French strike widen? Will the French occupy, expand, diversify,…
Daniel Ellsberg, whose leaking of the Pentagon Papers and decades of anti-war activity have inspired generations of whistleblowers and activists, said Wednesday that he…
Thereās something irrational about President Bidenās knee-jerk dismissal of Chinaās 12-point peace proposal titled āChinaās Position on the Political Settlement of the…
Rarely does the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations make an official remark expressing happiness over any UN proceeding concerning the Israeli…
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, in a recent interview with CNNās Poppy Harlow, proudly showed off his newest invention: a tablespoon of olive…
Noam Chomsky on the Ukraine war and how the world outside the west perceives it and how western narrative is being shaped.…
A coalition of more than 240 advocacy groups on Wednesday launched aĀ “Shareholder Showdown”Ā campaign in support of shareholder resolutions urging climate action and…
“We’re not the subjugated and disenfranchised people that we were,” said one Ponca elder who took part in the 1973 revolt. “Wounded…
Workers in the logistics industry often make headlines when their handling of goods is disrupted by pandemic conditions or labor conflicts. Thanks…
Media and individuals too often field too few questions about the systemic causes of trends and events. More often they ask about…
To understand the current fierce attacks on the progressive leadership of the Nevada Democratic Party, itās helpful to recall the panicked reaction…
On February 20, the United Nations Security Council approved a statement, described in the media as a āwatered-downā version of an earlier…
125 years ago the USAās imperialist/militarist interventions outside the borders of the continental United States began in earnest with the Spanish American…
Though it has been argued that the so-called American dream is long dead, Nikki Haley is proof that the dream is still…
The war in Ukraine is almost a year old, with no end in sight to the fighting, suffering and destruction. In fact,…
While the national media have largely gone silent on the Green New Deal, evidence shows that its vision remains vibrant with much…
Creative Society Project interviews Michael Albert on a variety of issues.
With the Ukraine war now reaching its one-year mark on February 24, the Russians have not achieved a military victory but neither…
On February 7, a funeral was held in the northern Syrian town of Jinderis. It was one of numerous such funerals to…
Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, media coverage of the war hasnāt included even the slightest mention of intercontinental ballistic…
President Biden made a surprise visit to Ukraine ahead of this weekās first anniversary of Russiaās invasion and announced another $500 million…
In January 2023, after five police officersĀ killedĀ Tyre Nichols, President Joe Biden quickly issued a statementĀ calling on protesters to stay nonviolent. āAs Americans…
One of the things that new visitors to the United States learnābut often donāt understandāis that they areĀ expected to tipĀ nearly every service…
