“A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree of certainty which the evidence warrants.” —Bertrand…
It may seem rational to ask the question: what is the point of releasing a few Palestinian detainees from Israeli prisons, if…
Forty years ago, across a dozen pages of The Nation magazine, I was in a debate with the English historian E. P. Thompson about…
On December 1, 2023, the story on the upper right side of the front page of the physical copy of the New…
On December 3, 2023, a large number of registered voters in Venezuela voted in a referendum over the Essequibo region that is…
Those unfamiliar with Gaza and its history are likely to always associate Gaza with destruction, rubble and Israeli genocide. And they can…
These are desperate times – with a divisive and demagogic Republican bent on revenge if he retakes the White House in January…
Even in the – otherwise seen as modern, enlightened, progressive, and liberal – Netherlands, freshly elected Tulip fascists like to wear petit…
Former U.S. secretary of state and national security adviser Henry Kissinger has died at the age of 100. He leaves behind a…
As we count down toward the 2024 general election, we should expect to hear from media pundits about candidates and their viability,…
Shortly after the start of a four-day ceasefire in the war on Gaza, the prime ministers of Spain and Belgium, Pedro Sanchez…
For U.S. mass media, Henry Kissinger’s quip that “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac” rang true. Influential reporters and pundits often expressed their…
American workers made great strides in 2023. Autoworkers, UPS drivers, Kaiser health workers, screenwriters, and actors all scored significant gains in earnings…
In Europe, the region of the world in which I find myself, within thirty years (between 1914-1945) there were two world wars…
The recent electoral defeat of a ballot referendum in the state of Maine which would have established the first consumer-owned state-wide public…
While Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has been frantically shuttling around the Middle East trying to stop the Israeli coflict in Gaza…
On October 15th, in Poland, elections took place. Many people believe that they have been the most important since 1989, when the…
Dear Z Community, Most of us on the ZStaff are new to the fundraising world, so for us it’s our first Giving Tuesday. …
Johannesburg – By late November, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, there were 15 000 recorded Israeli murders of…
Over the weekend, Politico published the latest in a tidal wave of stories about President Biden’s dwindling prospects for re-election. Under the…
Washington DC is a city designed to evoke emotions. Coming up from the Metro into the Main Hall of Union Station, on…
Argentina elected Javier Milei, a right-wing libertarian populist as its president on November 19th. Milei won because he represented a clear alternative…
For decades, the struggle for national liberation in Palestine was rightly understood to be part and parcel of a global struggle for…
It is simply inaccurate to claim that the ongoing Israeli attempt to displace all, or many Palestinian refugees from Gaza to Sinai…
As part of its genocidal onslaught on Gaza, Israel is killing media workers at an unprecedented rate, seemingly to prevent the world…
On November 13th in the northern district of California the Center for Constitutional Rights brought suit against U.S. President Joseph Biden, Secretary…
U.S. prosecutors have charged more penalties for activists revealing blatant animal mistreatment than they have charged factory farms with committing it. This…
In his final book The Drowned and The Saved, the writer and Holocaust survivor, Primo Levi, reflected on ‘useless’ forms of violence. …
Controversies over protests and counterprotests about actions in the Mideast now rage in communities across the U.S. and particularly, it seems, on…
ZNetwork staffer Bridget Meehan talks with Claire Mitchell. Claire is a writer and researcher from the North of Ireland. She is author…
Election day in November, 2023, was a disappointment for advocates of state-owned, community and nonprofit public utilities. The referendum on establishing a…
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution is a fascinating book that invites the attention of all activists…
Israeli forces have occupied the al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, since November 15, 2023, based on false claims…
After the re-election of Recep Erdogan as President in the Turkish general elections held in May 2023, serious disappointment and despair prevailed among a…
In October 2023, amid celebrations commemorating the 10th anniversary of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Beijing, Pakistan and Chinese leaders…
Americans are funding a genocide and no one asked our permission. We are being dragged, unwillingly, into a war that is decimating…
I’m not a scholar of the history or politics of Palestine or Israel. But I’m Jewish, queer, a mother, a feminist,…
The repeating Israeli airstrikes on the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza are beyond my own comprehension. For at least 10 of the…
The ongoing discussions on the Israeli military objectives in Gaza are largely focused on whether Israel is planning a long or a…
On Saturday, November 11, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari claimed in a press conference that Israel had killed a “terrorist” who had prevented 1,000…
’Tis the season for holiday shopping, and as American consumers ready their spending dollars, few of us are likely to link our…
The headline is provocative: “The Kremlin’s Efforts to Covertly Spread Disinformation in Latin America.” This was a statement on the U.S. State Department website,…
On November 11, 2023, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) stated that Israeli tanks were within twenty meters of the al-Quds hospital,…
This essay is adapted from a speech given at the Palestine Festival of Literature on Nov. 1, 2023. Good evening. My name…
RubbleAs I pull the covers up over me on this chilly November nightI settle in for sleep in the comfort of my…
During Trump’s tumultuous four-year reign (2017-2021), democratic norms in the U.S. experienced a huge shock. Almost overnight, the U.S. became a different…
On the front page of the Northwest Indiana Times this morning, November 11, 2023: a headline, top of page, “Middle East: Thousands…
Unhealthy societies tend to develop unhealthy people. 20th century philosopher Adorno once said, wrong life cannot be lived rightly. One indication of…
The downward slide of the major (Class 1) American freight railroads in recent years shows how capitalist ownership of the railway system…
Gaza is facing a humanitarian catastrophe as Israel continues its massive assault across the besieged region. More than 11,000 people have already…