Z Friends & Staff Posts
The Future Hope column below was published on July 5, 2020. It is essentially a review of the book, “Citizen Tom Paine,”…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington was no ordinary trip. The consensus among Israeli analysts, barring a few remaining…
Imagine you are about to crack open a new book and begin reading. The opening sentence goes like this: “It was the…
There are two important anniversaries at the end of this week. Saturday, April 19th is the day the American Revolution against King George…
Every four years, like clockwork, our two major parties serve up presidential candidates whose commitment to the cause of labor is more…
The ACLU on Friday revealed new details about the Trump administration’s plans to expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers in 10…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling with no noted dissents affirming a federal judge’s order compelling President Donald Trump’s…
While waiting for the EU’s response to the Trump Shock (don’t hold your breath for evidence of intelligent life from Brussels…), those…
In just 24 hours, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominated Eli Sharvit as the new chief of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, only…
We are passionate supporters of all but one of the items on the Hands Off agenda for the April 5 rallies. We couldn’t agree…
An Israeli human rights group on Monday published a report in which Israel Defense Forces officers and soldiers who took part in…
Something is in the air: A perception that American democracy and livable conditions for working people may only be saved by the…
One of the principal difficulties facing the Democratic Party establishment and most leaders of organized labor is a failure to accept a fundamental reality:…
“Millions” and “2.3 million”—these are the numbers I am seeing from national organizers of the historic April 5 Hands Off demonstrations yesterday…
Donald Trump’s paleo-conservative, isolationist attack on global capitalist trade is already having formidable impacts. If tariff levels and targeted announced on ‘Liberation…
On February 22, 2024, China’s Ambassador to The Hague, Zhang Jun, uttered the unexpected. His testimony, like that of a number of…
MLK was murdered 57 years ago today…and many of us have still not come to grips with the fact that there is…
The phrase “civil war” is one of the most dominant terms used by Israeli politicians today. What began as a mere warning from Israeli…
President Donald Trump has said “tariff” is “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” He claims tariffs will restore American trade supremacy,…
About ten years ago, I wrote an article titled Garbage Rises with which I meant to discuss the god awful reality of…
“Any city that doesn’t have a Tenderloin isn’t a city at all” – Herb Caen, longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist. Few San…
Recent news reports brought to my attention something that I completely missed when it first happened almost two months ago: JD Vance…
Beginning in March of 2017 and for the following eight years, at 11:00 a.m. on every Saturday morning, a group of New…
The doctor is in: diagnosing Europeans’ ‘imaginary American voter syndrome’ A necessary theoretical introduction: the least of Europe’s problems, or at least…
Explaining Arab political failure to challenge Israel through traditional analysis—such as disunity, general weakness, and a failure to prioritize Palestine—does not capture…
In a genocidal war that has spiraled into a struggle for political survival, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition and the global…
President Donald Trump promised to unleash mass deportations on immigrants during his presidential campaign. But he has gone much further, with the…
This past week was one for the history books. The German parliament amended the constitutional debt brake so as to enable unlimited…
Inducting Ukraine into NATO after forcing Russia back behind its pre-2014 borders has been the only strategic aim EU leaders have allowed…
Explaining Arab political failure to challenge Israel through traditional analysis—such as disunity, general weakness, and a failure to prioritize Palestine—does not capture…
Heads continue to turn northwestwards, here in South Africa. Eyes and ears are carefully tuned not only to the latest X.com and…
My journey into the realm of people’s history began during my teenage years when I first read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History…
U.S.-backed Israeli forces drew international condemnation Friday after bombing the only cancer hospital in the Gaza Strip, where more than 700 Palestinians including over…
I wonder how many people reading these words know the significance of April 19th to US Americans, and others, to all of us…
The South African ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, left Washington D.C. on March 21 after Secretary of State Marco Rubio…
It is crucial for any American administration to recognize that, regardless of political agendas, the views of the American public regarding the…
Earlier this month, Vietnam War veteran Paul Cox went to a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical center in St. Louis to…
The expulsion of South Africa’s ambassador to the United States highlights “diplomatic bullying” by the new U.S. administration, which should be opposed…
Israel’s renewed assault on Gaza comes several months after both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports concluding without equivocation that…
Resistance to Trumpest Fascism grows. Discussions, phone calls and emails, meetings, rallies, marches, and soon occupations and encampments. Desires, demands, confrontations, and…
The website of a certain pan-Arab media organization seems fixated on translating, commenting, or briefing its audience on everything that US and…
The attempted deportation of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, met with dramatic and widespread resistance, is one of the first, high profile, specifically…
“The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his tail,” warns a timeless Chinese proverb. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however,…
At times like these—who am I kidding, when were there times like these?—one wants to stay in bed, bury one’s head, dream…
Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman argued Tuesday for ethnically cleansing the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population so that the Jewish people can…
The United States is a country with a long history of violence and oppression against poor people, women and minorities. And by…
How much joy is in your life these days? How much play in your resistance to all the fear, repression, violence, burnout,…
The conversation on settler colonialism must not be limited to academic discussion. It is a political reality, clearly demonstrated in the everyday…
The Democratic Party may have twice stymied Sen. Bernie Sanders’ White House ambitions, but the National Tour to Fight Oligarchy launched last month by the…
When European Union leaders met in Brussels on February 6th to discuss the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron called this…
