Z Friends & Staff Posts
To highlight past words often limits substance to what the past emphasized. Why not use our own words? Why not let “dead generations” rest in peace?
What we can learn from the 20 years between the 9/11 attacks and the January 6 coup attempt
Corporate power constrains just about everything, whether healthcare or education or housing or jobs or measures for responding to the climate emergency. What prevails is the political structure of the economy
No Bosses was released about two months ago. I want to thank the numerous reviewers and to take their comments seriously by responding
It’s a time when we really need the Bretton Woods Institutions to start a rapid winding down, as part of a true global effort to build back better
The U.S. and its allies have dropped 46 bombs and missiles per day on other countries for the past twenty years, all the while promoting the myth that U.S. militarism is a force for good in the world
The US committed the supreme international crime in Indochina
Trump’s “Big Lie” continues to hold sway over the overwhelming majority of Republicans voters, and the Republican Party itself is increasingly unwilling to accept defeat
California is not making sufficient progress to meet the 2030 emissions goals. With current policies, it could take easily at least a couple more decades before the 2030 goals are met
The current profit-seeking practice of big pharma and corporate compliant government that together obstruct vaccinating the whole planet is homicide for profit
Will disabled vets become the new welfare queens?
The bottom line is this. Participatory institutions propel us to freely be whoever we wish to be consistent with everyone else being equally free
People and the planet need action now, and working class people of all colors and cultures need to be given reasons to come out and vote
It is true that Israel operates outside the minimum standards of international and humanitarian laws, but it is the responsibility of the international community to protect Palestinians
What I do know is that Don’t Look Up raises a question too many activists and organizers ignore. How come our brilliant, courageous words, images, and actions delivered non-stop for decades haven’t generated wider and more sustained passenger participation to avoid cliffs and to redefine our super large vehicle?
Environmental and labor movements need to join forces by embracing the global Green New Deal
Interview on a variety of topics
The time has come for drastic measures to protect the environment and save the world from a climate catastrophe
What Drives the Rising Wave of World Protests?
New Lawsuit Challenges South Carolina’s Racial Redistricting
It was, indeed, a disastrous year, but we do have some reasons to cheer
Michael Albert and Yanis Varoufakis take part in an ongoing debate
The more we think about such revolutionary possibilities, the more plausible it is that at least some of our transformative visions will someday come to pass
Debate on a postcapitalism world
“We cannot be clearer: You must act now to protect every American’s freedom to vote without interference and with confidence that their ballot will be counted and honored.”
The Russia-Ukraine conflict is a solvable problem, but one wonders if the U.S. will remain dedicated to a “zombie policy” that could produce potentially awful consequences in the event of a diplomatic failure
The main lesson from the Cold War era is that it’s a virtual miracle that we have survived
“Michigan persists as one of 43 states with a legacy of slavery—a subminimum wage—and a very low overall wage of just under $10 an hour. Neither is enough for people to live on.”
Review of The Privatization of Everything: How The Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
“We have defeated Big Business and the right wing in their attempt to use… trumped-up charges against me personally in order to push back against the success of working-class movements in Seattle.”
“We fear, as aid groups do, that maintaining this policy could cause more civilian deaths in the coming year than were lost in 20 years of war”
Human solidarity may have to challenge the very legitimacy of the nation-state system
“While disappointing, Manchin laying his cards on the table is also a liberating force. Biden must go all-in with executive authority to address the climate emergency and do what he promised.”
The killings have resulted from policies that gave very low priority to prevention of civilian deaths
Let’s turn our sadness, anger and frustration into the organized power of the people which, alone, can win victories and bring into being a new world
“OSHA must act swiftly to extend lifesaving protections for health care workers and to create new Covid-19 safety rules for all workers.”brett wil
Owners gone. So, who decides what to do and how to do it?
Nuclear weapons are at the pinnacle of what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism.”
You’d think that Israel might feel obligated not to drag the United States into another disastrous military conflict in the Middle East
Helping Africa in its critical fight against the pandemic should have been done in a more systematic fashion as part of an inclusive global strategy
Interview on COP26 climate summit in Glasgow
“This is essentially a government handout of up to tens of billions of dollars to the fossil fuel industry.”
“Terrible news all around for the capitalist bums.”
Who among us is prepared to stand up rather than remain mere bystanders to an epic travesty such as the judicial kidnapping of Julian Assange?
The Biden presidency is still in its early days, but it’s not too early to point to areas in the foreign policy realm where we, as progressives, have been disappointed–or even infuriated.
“She’s inheriting a broken country, legal system and Supreme Court and is coming into an empty house that has been robbed.”
Whether right-wing, left-wing or center, Israel is committed to its military superiority, its racism and to the military occupation more than ever before
The third entry in an extended conversation/debate including Michael Albert and Yanis Varoufakis
“We must do everything we can to undo the destructive colonial legacy of extractivism, until we live in a world where people and the planet come before the profits of toxic fossil fuel companies.”
Interview on the framework for the economy that comes after a communist or socialist revolution
