On the afternoon of Friday, March 8, International Working Women’s Day, 200 activists gathered on Capitol Hill representing a broad range of…
Michigan’s longtime Senator Debbie Stabenow is retiring this year, meaning an open U.S. Senate seat is up for grabs. There is a…
The results of the last general elections on March 10 call for a reading that goes beyond the froth of the results.…
Alain Alameddine interviews Mohammad Zraiy, the Gaza coordinator for the One Democratic State Initiative and English teacher, about the situation in Gaza,…
To my Palestinian sisters, Despite the global rise of the feminist liberation movement launched decades ago to amplify the voices of women,…
Hosted by Evergreen State College, this webinar brings together four Jewish speakers, Rabbi David Basior, Peter Bohmer, Rabbi Seth Goldstein, and Nancy…
We, the undersigned, are University of Portsmouth (UoP) staff members, students and alumni who are deeply concerned about the actions of the…
“No explanation, no justification or excuse could ever cover up [the] horror [in Gaza]. It would be best if Israel’s [hasbara] machine…
“Liberals are doomed to destroy themselves inside out. And they are militantly out of touch with the rest of the world.” That’s…
Susan Crane, of the Redwood City, California Catholic Worker, has been sentenced to 229 days in prison in Germany for daring to…
First you call them terrorists. Then you say you’re defending yourself. Moral problem solved! You can kill as many of them as…
There are many issues on the line this election year but one that gets little attention is former President Donald Trump’s 2017…
Humberto Montes de Oca is the Secretary for Internal Relations of the Mexican Union of Electrical Workers (SME). He was originally a…
The richest, most powerful countries in the western world, those who believe themselves to be the keepers of the flame of the…
When Napoleon engaged Russia in a European land war, the Russians mounted a determined defense, and the French lost. When Hitler tried…
First you call them terrorists. Then you say you’re defending yourself. Moral problem solved! You can kill as many of them as…
Jared Kushner, a former US official whose relationship to power is that he married the wealthy daughter of a man who was…
Hamas was formed in the late 1980s as an armed wing of the Gaza branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood, a…
In a conversation in 2020 with Princeton Professor Emeritus, Richard Falk, he told me that historically, colonized nations that have won the legitimacy war…
The easiest way to cope with the news is to shrivel it into an us-vs.-them abstraction and, thus, to extract as much…
In one of the most violent cities in the Western hemisphere, we meet with immigrants in a shelter trying to make their way…
It has long been a particular irony of imperialist aggression in the Middle East that, thanks to decades-old geopolitical arrangements known as…
The Israeli genocide in Gaza will be remembered as the moral collapse of the West. As soon as the Israeli war began,…
Israeli forces killed more than a hundred Palestinians and wounded more than 700 on February 29, 2024 during a distribution of food aid in…
For the past five months, in every part of the globe, millions of people have participated in protest actions. They have been…
Aaron Bushnell the 25-year-old USAF active duty member who set himself on fire to renounce “aiding and abetting genocide” in Gaza, was…
Left to its own devices, Israel would never grant Palestinians their freedom. In the past, some, whether ignorantly or not, claimed that…
For quite some time now, many company bosses, managers, trade unions, academics, journalists, and workers in Europe have been talking about the…
Although the popular new Netflix film, Einstein and the Bomb, purports to tell the story of the great physicist’s relationship to nuclear weapons,…
“Brazilian diplomatic tradition relies on solving problems. The ‘incident’ with Israel takes the opposite direction and affects not only the image of…
Guess who threatened them? The Girl Scouts of the United States. Stories abound of retaliation against those who express concern over Israeli ethnic cleansing – from censoring news…
I recently participated in a brief email exchange about “privilege” and it made me think a broader discussion might prove worthwhile. Does…
Dear Z Community, Everyone who is a regular reader of Z has experienced the feeling of disbelief and exasperation when trying to…
Aaron Bushnell just couldn’t take any more. He couldn’t bear to see any more people eviscerated and incinerated by American bombs dropped…
The way we build our structures and organize our cities can have a significant impact on the way we live, interact, and…
This week, February 24, 2024 marks the beginning of the third year of the war in Ukraine. Hundreds, if not thousands, of…
Driving at 90 toward the cliff–that is such an irresponsible teen image. That’s the current Republican party. Thanks to the past fiscal…
The Palestinian city of Rafah is not only older than Israel, it is also as old as civilisation itself. Rafah has existed…
In 1947, Karl Jaspers published a short book entitled The Question of German Guilt (Die Schuldfrage)[1]. It was the time of a…
For its victims, war is . . . yes, hell. For the rest of us — the onlooking and supportive patriots —…
Streaming television channels these days are increasingly inserting advertising into their paid subscriber content. Thus, I recently found myself sitting through several…
The stories we do and don’t tell about ourselves and these times in which we’re living shape the direction of our lives…
Did you see Trump say police incinerate homeless people? Did you see, Biden forgot his own name? Might AI deceptions so flood…
It is horribly uncanny to witness how much of my world—my white, progressive world filled with nonprofit professionals and Unitarian Universalists and…
One of the dominant placards carried in the hundreds of Palestinian solidarity marches held in Ireland in recent weeks reads ‘No Shamrocks…
If the nations of the world–particularly the United States and the Arab countries–wanted to stop Israel’s slaughter, torture and ethnic cleansing in…
The problem is not the absence of a Palestinian state, but Zionism itself. What is the use of a Palestinian state, if…
France is faced with the reality of medical deserts, and finds itself unable to offer all its citizens sufficient medical coverage. A…
It is a historical fact that powerful elites do not wish to be diverted from pursuing their selfish interests by the public.…
The news that Silicon Valley titans have quietly purchased over 50,000 rural acres in Solano County to build a new city called…
