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…
Gaza is facing a humanitarian catastrophe as Israel continues its massive assault across the besieged region. More than 11,000 people have already…
What does it mean to US democracy that Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House, third in line of succession to be…
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…
This interview is a behind the scenes follow up to DC’s Got a Gas Problem, and They’re Not the Only Ones. From…
We have both been reporting on and protesting against U.S. war crimes for many years, and against identical crimes committed by U.S.…
“Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of…
Spartacus was a 1960 Hollywood film based on a book written secretly by the blacklisted novelist Howard Fast, and adapted by the…
Operation Cast Lead, an Israeli aerial assault and massacre of Gazans begun on December 27, 2008, lasted for 22 days. The Israeli…
On September 9, 2023, during the G20 meeting in New Delhi, the governments of seven countries and the European Union signed a memorandum of…
“We are witnessing the sick relationship between the United States and Israel.” —–Egyptian podcaster Rahma Zain The outpouring of support for Palestine…
On October 20, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, stood on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing, between Egypt and…
Last week, U.S. President Biden took a break from discussing Israel to hold a press conference with the Australian Prime Minister on bilateral security…
Europe is a small corner of a vast continent called Eurasia stretching from Cape Roca to Cape Dezhnyov – a vast continent…
“This is *us* [(i.e. Israel, U.S., …)], and that is *them* [(i.e. Palestinians, Russians,…)]. This crucial principle, deeply embedded in Western culture,…
“If the spectacle — understood in the limited sense of those ‘mass media’ that are its most stultifying superficial manifestation — seems…
Today’s on-going horrors have been endlessly self-servingly obscured, rationalized, ritualized, and idealized. Today’s on-going horrors have been occasionally humanely wisely, soberly, and…
The governments of Israel and the United States are now in disagreement over how many Palestinian civilians it’s okay to kill. Last…
Presidents always face uncomfortable choices: supporting human rights versus providing weapons to governments that consistently violate human rights; adding to the nuclear…
As a long-time leader in higher ed unionism, I was recently asked to comment on the transformative changes taking place in American…
Perhaps it was not quite a revolution but the last decade or so – from 2010 to 2022 – has seen an…
One night in 1997, as Americans were parked on the couch in front of an episode of Touched by an Angel, they…
“More and more, we see that you can’t conduct a war without war crimes. And that raises a whole other issue about whether war…
A prominent writer and political activist Majed Abusalama is a co-founder of numerous organizations, one of them being Palestine speaks in Germany.…
If you get your news from Biden-protecting outlets (MSNBC is just the most extreme of many), you’ve been warned daily that the…
A dangerous new phase in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is currently underway. Following Hamas’s vicious October 7 attacks inside Israeli territory, the Netanyahu…
“Thirty years ago,” Damon Linker told The Guardian, “if I told you that a bunch of billionaires and intellectuals on the right…
Gaza has changed the political equation in Palestine. Moreover, the repercussions of this devastating war are likely to alter the political equation…
Election day in the US is November 5 and as we get closer to that day there is much greater awareness and…
Today’s siege of Gaza is the latest iteration of a more than century-long effort to instill a controlling fear of, and “respect”…
