Z Friends & Staff Posts
Peace advocates on ThursdayĀ slammed the House of Representatives’ passage of a mammoth $858 billion military spending bill as an early holiday gift…
Neoliberalism has reigned supreme as an economic philosophy for nearly half a century. But neoliberal policies have wreaked havoc around the world,…
I remember an interview I once did, back about five years, for a British outlet and its first, opening question, went like…
The problem with most Western mediaās political analyses is that they generally tend to be short-sighted and focused mostly on variables that…
We were mistaken to think that Palestine represents the central issue for all Arabs. Such language suggests that Palestine is an external…
John Pilger is one of the worldās most important investigative journalists and film makers. He has won an American TV Academy Award,…
The United States Senate acted in a show of rare unity recently in voting 80 to 15 to pass a bill forcing rail workers…
One of the great strengths of capitalism, weāre told, is the individual and corporate freedoms it gives. Compared to other systems, weāre…
Joe Biden has directed the Democratic National Committee to reduce the danger that progressives might effectively challenge him in the 2024 presidential…
A coalition of patientĀ advocacy groups on Monday urged members of Congress to include bipartisan legislation in the year-end budget package that proponents…
Barbara Ehrenreich died a few months ago. She was brilliantly clear, wise, and funny. She was one of the very few people…
In 1965, Ho Chi MinhĀ describedĀ U.S. President Lyndon Johnsonās half-baked $1 billion gift to the Vietnamese ā and simultaneous threat of endless bombing…
Peace and economic justice advocates responded to the imminent unveiling Friday of the United States Air Force’s new $750 million-per-plane nuclear bomber by…
Craig Murray is a former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan who blew the whistle and exposed the torture program of the Uzbek government…
Why NO BOSSES? Is this a utopian vision or a concrete and realizable roadmap? I think it a vision composed of five…
Speaking on the U.S. Senate floor Thursday before votes on a trio of bills affecting the nation’s freight rail employees, Sen. Bernie Sanders said he…
As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, many western governments…
Charles Dickens wrote, āConsider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.ā It was an advisory. An attitude. Your neighbor might write, āNothing…
As the war in Ukraine has dragged on for nine months and a cold winter is setting in, people all over the…
Part two of a two part interview between Michael Albert and ZNetwork.org. Part one of this interview is here. Noam Chomsky is…
Is the radical right pure hate and all emotion? Well, they may start from that, but humans that they are, some of…
Why did you and Lydia Sargent embark on South End Press and then later Z Magazine? Why did the magazine rise; why…
World-renowned philosopher Noam Chomsky commented on Turkey’s use of chemical weapons against Kurdistan. Chomsky said that the Turkish state would not accept…
Images of passing the torch can be stirring. President John Kennedy reached heights of inaugural oratory when he declared that āthe torch has been…
https://tedglick.com/2022/11/29/aoc-for-president/ Iām not close to her or any of her inner team, so this could be no more than a voice crying…
The recentĀ decisionĀ by the United States Department of Justice to open an investigation into the killing, last May, of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu…
Elon Musk had good reasons to feel unfulfilled enough to buy Twitter for $44 billion. He had pioneered online payments, upended the…
The recent decision by the United States Department of Justice to open an investigation into the killing, last May, of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu…
Protests have been raging in Iran since mid-September in response to the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died…
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War…
In a move thatĀ critics compared to former U.S. President Donald Trump’s unsuccessful efforts to overturn the 2020 election, far-right Brazilian President Jair…
Who the hell is Hope? Hope is, hopefully, you. But, if you are over 50, or perhaps over 40, maybe even over…
It is critical to support Ukraineās just war of self-defense against Russian aggression. Russiaās invasion was morally horrendous and blatantly illegal, resulting…
Declaring her intent toĀ “right the wrongs of a flawed, inequitable, and outdated criminal justice system,” outgoing Democratic Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on…
Vision can mean different things in different contexts but for the purposes of this essay the most appropriate definition of Vision is…
Final commentary for the first part of the debateĀ āEcological Catastrophe, Collapse, Democracy and Socialismā The following commentary was written by Marxist economist,…
Soon after arriving in Oslo, my taxi zigzagged through the cityās well-organized streets and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Large billboards advertised the worldās leading…
Capitalism has been around for such a long time that it is hard for people even to imagine a world without it.…
Nearly 50,000 academic workers at the University of California launched a historic strike on November 14 after contract negotiations with their employer…
Russiaās war in Ukraine has gone on for nearly nine months, and it has now escalated to highly lethal levels. Putin is…
Karen Bass on WednesdayĀ was projected the winner of Los Angeles’ mayoral race, defeating billionaire developer Rick Caruso, a former Republican who outspent…
1. Why is the principle of self-determination so important to understanding the conflict in Ukraine?Ā Ā There are three aspects to the question…
Alexandria: Welcome to the new ZNetwork.org, Andrew! Iām a fan of your art, and you are a fan of Zās work, which…
A major article by climate writer David Wallace-WellsĀ in the New York Times in late October, published just before the start of the…
Russiaās war in Ukraine has gone on for nearly nine months, and it has now escalated to highly lethal levels. Putin is…
Labor advocates on Tuesday applauded the passage of an Illinois state constitutional amendment enshrining what one proponent called “the strongest worker protections in…
Ā A Letter From Michael Albert Dear Z Community, I have worked on Z Magazine and ZNet, and before that on South…
The various Z Projects began with Z Magazine which grew out of the prior book publishing operation, South End Press, which was itself Z…
Around 48,000 unionized academicĀ workers at every University of California campus on Monday began what’s being called “the largest higher education strike in…
Demonstrations against Iran’s authoritarianĀ regime continued for the 58th straight day Sunday despite the rising number of people killed by state forces and…
