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Editorial PhilosophyIn mid-November, the Biden administration (given his diminished mental capacity, whoever is now in charge) authorized the Kyiv regime to launch Lockheed…
When my grandfather was born there were neither cars, airplanes, nor phones. Yet, before he died, man had walked on the moon.…
Are you like me? Has getting out of bed become a serious challenge? Has getting back in bed become a beckoning distraction?…
MAGA Plan The country recently advanced to a pivotal time in its political history. A small group of profanely wealthy individuals that…
We are living under a system that carries with it sometimes crushing forms of coercion and oppression; very painful inequalities; hosts of…
“Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well,”…
A major problem in American thinking in the Middle East is the utter rejection of the notion that Palestinian rights are fundamental,…
” . . . slimy, dishonest, [a] stunning display of ignorance . . . [A] god-awful book.” —–Molecular biologist Dan Wilson reviewing…
A clear consensus has emerged that the economy was the key factor behind Trump’sstunning victory. However, that may not be a very…
The immigration issue has split and/or weakened both center and left parties and movements across many nations in recent years. Serious economic…
Disruptive climate protests annoy some people, but studies from the UK confirm that they have been effective at shifting public opinion and…
President Biden has never wavered from approving huge arms shipments to Israel during more than 13 months of mass murder and deliberate…
As a seemingly comforting phrase for those struggling with the results of the recent U.S. presidential election, I’ve heard variants of “It’s…
Leila Farsakh is professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts and the author of the pioneering work Palestinian Labour Migration…
Cooperation or Competition? On November 7, 2024, Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to President-elect Trump that said: “A stable, healthy, sustainably…
Trump’s victory is a serious loss for most people in the United States and globally. I disagreed before the election and now,…
“I took down your golden boy in a week.” -Mitch McConnell, on Matt Gaetz failed nomination After learning yesterday about Matt Gaetz…
In thousands of ways, we are taught to accept the world we live in as the only possible one, but thousands of…
How does one take seriously having a vaccine denier in charge of public health? How about having the world’s richest corporate owner…
The paradoxical phrase, ‘running away forward’ is one of the most apt descriptions that illustrates the state of Israeli affairs now. It…
In mid-November, New York’s Catholic Worker community, located in lower Manhattan, opened their sizable auditorium to host “Reap What You Sow: Don’t…
In July, after Donald Trump selected JD Vance as his vice-presidential running mate, Michael Lind took to the New York Times opinion…
We have to realize that we have a new reality and that progressives need to change their approach. A proto-fascist movement in…
Our times are fraught. This is especially glaring in the Middle East as the United States wrestles to maintain its control over…
In February, the public health specialist Muna Abed Alah published a paper in the journal Current Psychology titled “Shattered Hierarchy: How the…
Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment in…
Francesca Albanese did not mince her words. In a strongly worded speech at the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee on October…
We have just elected a cruel and ruthless monster who represents the worst of humanity and I feel my blood vessels pulsing…
The Biblical Book of Job chronicles a string of catastrophes relentlessly plaguing the main character, Job, who loses his prosperity, his home,…
The Democrats and those who inhabit the DNC orbit have been in a rush to skip all five stages of grief. My…
Recently, discussions have intensified about another possible prisoner exchange. Which Russian political prisoners are being considered for exchanging with whom is still…
Donald Trump’s latest rollout of his hyper nationalist “America First” policy underscores the world’s long-term slide toward catastrophe. Within nations, when conflicts inevitably erupt, there are…
Review of the Tenementals debut album, Glasgow: A History. The Tenementals are a Glasgow band led by Professor David Archibald from University of…
Dear Z Community, November 15th marks the two year anniversary of the relaunch of ZNetwork.org. As we did two years ago, we’d…
“Ultimately, what I have learned is that government repression can have a disruptive impact on our work, but we can turn a…
Trump won an election. Are we beaten? Will it be years and still more years until there is space for anything positive?…
Arab and Muslim American voters did not remove Democrats from office, nor did they cost Kamala Harris the Oval Office. They merely…
When some leading thinkers at the London School of Economics saw fascism take hold in the 1930s, Oxford history professor Ben Jackson said in…
Any new HIV prevention method is not meant to sit on the shelf but to be used by the people who need…
With the rise of far right populism and seen from a distance, right-wing anti-democratic forces may look a bit like real democrats.…
In case you have not heard, Donald Trump was just elected President of the United States for a second time. The United…
When Donald Trump takes office on January 20th, all his campaign promises to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and…
Stevens Students for Gaza ProtestRemarks by Stephen R. ShalomJewish Voice for Peace, Northern NJStevens Institute of Technology, Nov. 11, 2024 We are…
Trump’s victory is a desperate and historically understandable gesture by US society to halt the decline of the imperial prosperity it experienced…
Starting where we’re at Less than one week after a self-proclaimed dictator, climate change denier, and big oil-funded billionaire (among other equally…
Well, the Democrats failed to keep Donald Trump out of the presidency again. That’s going to hurt a lot of people. I…
§1. We are told that certain tactics by the European climate justice movement “alienate” the public. For all practical purposes, this discourse…
Hurricane Helene, which was a Category 4 hurricane, hit on September 26 and claimed around 227 lives as of October 5, 2024. The hurricane…
It’s now more than 48 hours after the election, the dust has settled, and the results are in except for a late…
Who, like me, witnessed the birth of the UN Convention on Biodiversity in Rio de Janeiro in May 1992 and has followed its performance…