Dissent on Mars is the latest game to be developed by Michael Hicks. It is a unique game in the simulation genre…
Before the August 22-24 summit in Johannesburg raised expectations for a new counterbalancing force in global politics – and struck fear into…
War is not innate to humanity; it is learned culturally, and intentional systems of peace can prevent it from happening, according to…
The impact of agriculture on climate change is significant. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the agriculture sector is responsible for…
(Image: Em Espey, from moco360 website) Two years ago, we began experimenting with a new approach to diversify and strengthen local climate…
(Image of: Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin by Giuseppe Milo) Back in April of this year, Joe Biden paid a presidential visit to Ireland…
Boris Kagarlitsky, an internationally renowned scholar and political activist, was arrested on July 25 by the Russian Federal Security Service. Despite his…
President Biden wrote in the New York Times in June 2022 that the United States was arming Ukraine to “fight on the…
It is feasible for China to continue playing an important role in mediating Middle East conflicts. In fact, it already has. In…
Imagine you receive hundreds of millions of dollars tomorrow. What would you do with it? Suppose you decide to generate desirable outcomes.…
The work I have been doing the last two months helping to organize a massive March to End Fossil Fuels September 17…
When the US gives arms to other nations, that is touted as diplomacy. If so, diplomacy needs a major makeover. In 1978,…
Fernando Villavicencio, who was running for president of Ecuador on an anti-corruption was assassinated in broad daylight on August 9th. Who stands…
As the world marks 78 years since the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we speak with two activists arrested while…
During a recent visit to Portland, Oregon, my husband and I watched a private security guard help up an unhoused man from…
At least in the European context, a text with this title has to start with a caveat: when I speak of socialism…
Ain Al-Hilweh is known as the “Capital of Palestinian Shatat.” The term might not stir many emotions among those who do not…
“The greatest danger to human civilization and the planet is the inability to believe that tomorrow can be different . . .”…
On July 11th, the article Students Step Up by Michael Albert was published on ZNetwork, where I happen to be a staff…
The Democratic Party is at it again. The Democrats act with abandon trying to create the illusion they are the only political…
In this episode we discuss the 20 Theses for Liberation with co-authors Matic Primc, Bridget Meehan and Michael Albert . Questions covered…
On Sunday, June 25th I awoke to the smell of a smoldering campfire, a scent most people associate with our earliest, often happiest,…
Journalism in Canada has suffered countless setbacks over the past decade. Postmedia has tightened its grip on the industry, scooping up publications and chains,…
The late Israeli commentator, Uri Avnery, wrote, “I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle … is assuming a more and more…
Sergeant Jackie E. Garland, twice wounded during combat in Vietnam, returned home only to face even more battles that battered his spirit…
America is one of the wealthiest nations in the world. Yet when compared to other advanced industrialized countries, it fares dismally in…
On Monday 31 July, a road blockade – the strike of the poor – was organised by residents of the Slovo Park…
The provocative film Oppenheimer weaves together stories of America’s past that also reflect our present. The narrative threads include: the rise and fall of…
The word intelligent maybe far fetched when connected to artificial intelligence (AI). If anything, the term machine intelligence might be a better…
In 1980, when I asked the press office at the U.S. Department of Energy to send me a listing of nuclear bomb…
(Image by Lorie Shaull) As fate or nature would have it, I was born a white man in the Middle West of…
If you ask most people my age about Rwanda the only thing they remember is the 1994 genocide. The United Nations reports…
In a recent speech, China’s highest-ranking diplomat, Wang Yi, spoke of a ‘united Asia’ and its need to develop a “strategic autonomy”.…
Israeli President Isaac Herzog added nothing of great value in his speech at the United States Congress on July 19. His was…
In this article, Z Staff member Bridget Meehan talks to Caroline Whyte, an ecological economist whose interests include financial system reform and…
“A 4-year-old girl passed out in 100-degree heat after she was pushed back toward Mexico by Texas National Guard personnel. A pregnant…
Like almost everything under capitalism, ChatGPT too, serves an ideological function. Seen from such a functional perspective, an ideology needs to achieve…
Twenty years ago I helped set up a small activist collective called Block the Empire to oppose Canada’s contribution to the invasion…
An Oppenheimer Review Through the Lens of an Anti-War Activist The ground-breaking movie Oppenheimer, despite its unsympathetic protagonist, packs a powerful anti-nuclear…
Israel’s Knesset, or parliament, has passed the first law to scale back judicial independence, in line with the ambitions of Benjamin Netanyahu’s…
[Along with other intellectuals, I was asked by a New Zealand solidarity group to share a few ideas on what meaningful solidarity…
“We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.” —Kurt Vonnegut One summer when I…
In 2023, different climatic anomalies have been recorded that set new historical records in the tragic progression of climate change at the…
Student activists are traveling thousands of miles across the Democratic Republic of Congo to mobilize communities against the expansion of Big Oil.…
China’s economy is going through some of the same growing pains that Japan once experienced: lower consumer spending, overbuilding on homes and…
“. . . we need to do everything we can to keep (global) warming as low as possible.” When it comes to climate change,…
Early U.S. capitalism was centered in New England. After some time, the pursuit of profit led many capitalists to leave that area…
This is the perfect opportunity for Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, to exit the stage. But he will not. Abbas’ brief visit…
Work from home arrangements proliferated during the pandemic and became very popular among white-collar workers. They are now the subject of a…
In 1918 the painter John Singer Sargent was commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee to visit the fields of France to…
