This year marks the 107th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. In the evening of October 25, 1917, the Winter Palace in…
It has been a safe assumption for generations that young people tend to be more liberal than their elders. However, in today’s…
For a while I have been talking on this channel about a heterodox definition of capitalism. A definition that does not discuss capitalism to be mainly…
“You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” —Pablo Neruda For over a year, the masters of…
Following the Johannesburg BRICS summit in August 2023, the new ‘BRICS+’ – whose leadership will be hosted by Vladimir Putin in Kazan…
An old theme within social theory holds that societies with very unequal distributions of wealth can sustain their social cohesion so long…
The term transform originates from the Latin transformare, meaning to modify or reshape something. Change, on the other hand, comes from cambiare, which…
This may seem like a big step away from the day’s main topics, the U.S. Israeli genocidal warism, the rising tide of…
This is a reply to the recent polemic against renewable energy by Peter Gelderloos. We agree with a number of the points…
“Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children who will fill your homes…
Each new week brings new calamities for people in the countries neighboring Israel, as its leaders try to bomb their way to…
What should people who hate Trump and Trumpism, fascism and genocide, misogyny, racism, capitalism and ecological suicide do in the upcoming U.S.…
Ahead of the 2024 US presidential elections, we at ZNetwork thought that now might be a good time to remind all our…
Recent times have given plenty of reason for pessimism. There have been many strong threats to three sources of stability and civility…
“I love working the polls!” a friend told me recently. “It strengthens my trust in the whole process. And it’s fun getting…
Writer and activist Arundhati Roy has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2024. This is an annual award set up by English…
With Election Day just three weeks off and voting already underway in some states, the race for president is down to the…
In response to the increasing global demand for resources and the economic pursuits that come with it, attention on the world’s oceans continues to grow.…
We have an economic system that is on trial. Those of us on the Left and progressives (L&P) have already reached a…
“When a state carries out aggression, its propaganda system has the responsibility to justify the act and suppress the reasons for it…
Have human institutions evolved sufficiently to cope with the modern world? When it comes to national security, the answer appears to be: …
Environmental activists rarely get to celebrate a major win for the planet, but that’s what happened in Ecuador in August last year.…
The following are several dispatches from Firestorm, a radical anarchist community center and cooperative bookstore in Asheville, NC, which in the aftermath…
Like many others I am at a loss to explain much less affect certain current events. I feel confused, like I did…
Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect…
In 1947, the moot question was whether the Muslim-majority Jammu & Kashmir, then a princely state, would follow the stipulations of the…
Colonialism is hardly a thing of the past – it’s alive and vibrant as ever . . . from the Middle East…
The last year of a relentless Israeli war on Gaza, and bloody raids and violence in the West Bank have been largely…
No one had expected that one year would be enough to recenter the Palestinian cause as the world’s most pressing issue, and…
A “Balkan union” is not a novel idea. It has been proposed in various forms in response to imperial aspirations, as a…
[This article is part of a series called Answering Ireland’s Call: Thoughts for a new republic (Freagairt ar Ghlaoch na hÉireann: Smaointe ar…
During the summer, the US Supreme Court issued multiple rulings that have generated a storm of hostility among progressives; for example, there…
Over the past year, mindful that I have been blessed to live under Oregon’s tranquil skies, I reflect upon the Palestinians and…
A few days ago a Marist Poll came out which reported an important finding as far as the Presidential race. It said: “80% of…
I am no psychic, but I can forecast a few basic things. For example, as a very casual baseball fan I am…
“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.”…
Now that Joe Biden is on his way into the history books as a president who refused to stop a genocide, we…
One year after the Hamas’s October 7 terror attacks, and with most of Gaza literally destroyed and the conflict in the Middle…
About a month ago I was watering plants in our family garden when a dragonfly landed on a plant just a few…
The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during the intense and deadly bombardment of September 20 in…
On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC),…
On 6th October 2023, I received an update on an education project at the half-way point of delivery in the Gaza strip…
After nearly a year since the Hamas-led terror attack on southern Israel that resulted in the deaths of close to 1200 people…
As the U.S. election nears, there is considerable controversy, confusion, consternation, and sometimes recrimination on the left. But most of all, there…
Everything is at stake. Everything is at stake with nuclear weapons. While working as a nuclear war planner for the Kennedy administration,…
My oldest born is a high school junior, taking his first steps into the hypercompetitive and bewildering world of undergraduate college applications…
The Biden-Harris genocide-facilitation team is celebrating the latest atrocities from Gaza to the West Bank to Lebanon, as is to be expected…
After the Second World War the Global north created a gilded age in modern capitalism. That era ended in the 1980s, when…
Two historical events regarding the Israeli occupation of Palestine have taken place on July 19 and September 18. The first was a…
“A ministry of risk goes unerringly to the side of the victims, to those threatened or destroyed by greed, prejudice, and…
