Z Friends & Staff Posts
Albert interviews Early and Wilson on impressions of and involvement with the Sanders campaign.
Those who are anticipating the supposed liberal democratic forces in Israel to rise against the destructive rightwing machine should reconsider
āKissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized, and excludedā
Subsidized white capitalists and oppressed activists are amongst those who must ānot be namedā
āThe U.S. has announced funding for a new Plan Colombia as the country moves towards a resolution to its civil war. What is its real purpose?
The conceit that itās possible to defend press freedom while turning a cold shoulder to whistleblowers is short-sighted
Noam Chomsky talks about the gladiatorial spectacle before us, re-lives his early love affair with baseball, talks about the phenomena of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, and his Super Bowl pick
On what logic should we base our attitude to the Sanders campaign? And once our attitude is clear, what should we do about it?
The Assange case is rooted across the Atlantic in Pentagon-dominated Washington, obsessed with pursuing and prosecuting whistleblowers,
What all of these former hunger strikers seem to have in common is their concern with the freedom of an entire group of desperate, oppressed and outraged people
The Bernie campaign could be a watershed for progressive organizing through the rest of this decade and beyond. That will largely depend on what activists do — in the next weeks, months and years
This program that was agreed to in August was designed to fail
Antiwar sentiment may mostly have evaporated, but war is as horrible as ever
Is any European democrat happy with the situation in which all important decisions are taken in complete darkness and secrecy?
Brazil, Russia, India and China quietly step on African heads to get more IMF voting power, as one instance of the anti-Western rhetorical charade
Dealing with finance capital yesterday and tomorrow
There are the beginnings of signs that all of this pressure may be causing small cracks in FERCās rigid unwillingness to serve the public interest
Elite media often blur distinctions between right-wing populism and progressive populism
Interview on why he is launching a pan-European movement for democracy, to save Europe before it’s too late
Interview on his public spat with the Turkish president, the war against ISIL and Russiaās annexation of Crimea
A labor climate program can draw together workers, unions, and allies around protecting jobs by protecting the climate
Interview on Europe’s migration and refugee crisis and other current European developments, including the ongoing financial crisis in Greece
One by-product of the Sanders-Clinton contest is a bulging āBernie bookshelf.ā
Last week it was announced that Immigration officials had spent $400,000 on medals which they will award their heroic selves
In his last year in office, Obama should push Morocco to respect Saharawi self-determination
People are very atomized and isolated. Thereās very little in the way of any kind of organization
Donald Trump’s championing of the “anti-vaxer” cause takes advantage of scientific illiteracy
We can work to ensure that the future of Venezuela is in Venezuelan hands
The Chinese financial meltdown is another instance of the systemās core contradictions, but one potentially big enough to pull it all down
Actions in more than a dozen countries from the US to Turkey and from South Africa to Australia will āshut down the worldās most dangerous fossil fuel projects and support the most ambitious climate solutionsā
Is South Africa finally maturing to the point that the economic – not just political – compromises of the 1990s democratic transition can be reconsidered?
The U.S. invests billions in āintelligenceā yet young Afghans provide more useful information about the majority of Afghans
People now fighting economic injustice have no right to decide how future people should live
2016 will see the start of a promotion / recruitment drive for a new UK based pressure group named, What About Classism?
Age discrimination is certainly nothing that social justice activists had to worry about in liberal and progressive sectors, right?
A starting point would be a unified leadership in the Occupied Territories that manages the Intifada outside the confines of factions
The biggest blowback from U.S. policies abroad has been the erosion of the countryās democratic processes
The path out of war seems to involve creating peace where we can, in earnest community with people whose basic needs arenāt met
The countryās surface-level political drama should not distract from deeper fissures
Independent of any particular Presidential campaigns, there are critical, issue-based, national mass movements that are visible, have deep roots and are winning victories
There are structural impediments to women taking their rightful place as citizens in the United States
When I was a little boy, I used to dream of being reborn outside the hardship of the Refugee Camp in Gaza,…
The world the diplomats inhabit couldnāt be farther removed from the places where the impacts of continuing climate chaos are felt the most
Popular outrage in Afghanistan sees the Islamic State avoiding responsibility for beheadings
The U.S. involvement in the Yemen crisis can be summed up in four words: allegiance to Saudi Arabia
Here in Kabul, young friends with the Afghan Peace Volunteers look forward to learning more about āThe Tea Projectā
Extreme philanthropy is not the answer to extreme inequality
The neo-conservatives should never be allowed access to the Middle East discourse, and their visions, those of doom and destruction, should remain confined to their ever mushrooming think tanks
Saudi Arabiaās involvement in Yemen has only destroyed lives and created a state of total chaos, and the U.S. government is complicit in the carnage
How does the Bolivarian revolution come back from its recent electoral loss?



