Will the world ever be free of the menace of nuclear annihilation? There was a promising start along these lines during the…
My father was a family doctor in the mid-twentieth century whose main political issue was socialized medicine, which he preached against to…
ME: Could we start with a brief introduction. Can you tell the reader a bit about yourself, your age, background, where you…
The headline in the Times of Israel says it all: “For the First Time, Israel Just Lost a War.” Regardless of the…
Both Netanyahu and Trump have visions of building empires and discarding the remnants of international law and the UN. Will they succeed…
As the Trump administration, led ironically by former Obama administrator, and new “border czar” Thomas Homan, prepares its Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
Following every Israeli war on Gaza, numerous narratives emerge. Some claim victory for one side and defeat for the other, while others—knowingly…
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In the organizing meetings over the last two months leading up to and at yesterday’s positive March of Resistance in Newark, NJ,…
Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm existing means of navigating them. Then social…
Recent headline-making events in two of America’s most famous party-hardy cities sent us back to our well-thumbed copy of Touching the Dragon, a…
Qatari mediators’ announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza to begin on 19 January ending the 15-month genocide inflicted on the besieged and…
Most people perceive Donald Trump as a terrible individual, a terrible politician, and a terrible president. From a European standpoint, Donald Trump…
A plausible case can be made that in 2025 there has never before been a greater need for consciousness raising and engagement…
Donald Trump has always maintained that the laws don’t apply to him. But he failed to convince New York Supreme Court Justice…
Henry Pratt Fairchild (1880-1956, Ph.D. Yale University) spent the bulk of his academic career at New York University where he was on…
Thomas Jefferson, America’s third president, wisely wrote in 1789: “Whenever the people are well informed, they may be trusted with their own…
Scales are conventions about proportionalities and the relationships between them. The idea of human scale is ancient and present in all cultures.…
On January 20th, 2025, the Presidential Inauguration will fall on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Reflections on King reveal truths on the…
While Trump multiplies his warmongering declarations against Panama, Greenland, Canada or the Palestinians, chancelleries and the international media limit themselves to talking…
Elon Musk spent more than a quarter billion dollars to back Trump and other MAGA Republican candidates. He did so not simply…
A few days before the end of 2024, the independent magazine +972 reported that “Israeli army forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital compound in Beit…
President-elect Trump said on January 9th that he is planning a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine.…
In a just society, every child would be received as a gift and supported to grow and flourish. However, young people in…
Early 2025 is already a tough time for those expecting the consolidation of a multipolar alternative to polycrisis-riddled, Western-dominated, neoliberal multilateralism. It…
Over the past three years, a collective of volunteer researchers, lawyers, and commentators created The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, dedicated…
Donald Trump vowed to begin deporting undocumented migrants “on day one” of his administration, and day one is rapidly approaching. If Trump’s…
“I left you for God, Daddy.” Let those words resonate across the planet. The speaker is Yahya Al-Batran, a Palestinian man –…
Suddenly, Yoav Gallant, Israel’s notorious Minister of Defense, disappeared into obscurity. The man who served in his country’s military for about 35…
As President Biden greenlights another $8 billion in weapons to Israel in his last days in office and Secretary Blinken gives a…
[The following is a close transcript of the 319th episode of the podcast titled RevolutionZ.] Perhaps you are aware there is a…
Part 7 of this series contains the following chapters: 9. A Constructive Program for Social Self-Defense10. What Social Self-Defense Is Defending Defending…
5 January 2025 I adjusted my eyes. I wanted to know the time. Outside it is as dark as when I…
Regularly, Donald Trump is presented as a fascistic leader. Yet, he has no Italian-style Blackshirts roaming the streets and no Hitler-style SA…
When news broke over the weekend that President Biden just approved an $8 billion deal for shipping weapons to Israel, a nameless…
Over the past 14 months, I have received hundreds of messages from family members throughout the Gaza Strip. The nature of the…
Part 6 of this series contains the following chapters: 7. Non-Electoral Opposition8. The Social Strike Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus…
Part 5 of this series contains the following chapter: 6. Electoral Opposition Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a…
AI is already very nearly everywhere. So far, it is no big deal, right? It assembles data, controls this or that machine,…
Review of Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Jason Higgins (University of Massachusetts Press, 2024). Like old soldiers around…
Part 4 of this series contains the following chapter: 5. Strategy for Social Self-Defense Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for…
The following is an edited transcript of the speech and responses to questions given by Greg Yudin on the “The situation for…
Redlining, exclusionary zoning, and predatory lending schemes have put prospective Black homeowners at a severe disadvantage. As the Ballard Center for Social…
Part 3 of this series contains the following chapter: 4. Social Self-Defense in the First Trump Regime Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny:…
Part 2 of this series contains the following chapter: 3. What We Must Prepare For Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus…
On the last day of 2024, the deputy general counsel for the House of Representatives formally accepted delivery of a civil summons…
The latest news from the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) so-called “Protecting the Homeland” operation in the Jenin refugee camp paints a grim picture.…
[This is part II of a II part article about free market economics. Part I was published here.] In part I, I…
Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a report from the Labor Network for Sustainability, co-published by ZNetwork.org. Part…
By Jeremy Brecher A Report from the Labor Network for Sustainability, Co-published by ZNetwork.org January 1, 2025 Click to download the PDF…
