https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:58:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-water-decides-securing-national-ambitions-through-the-hydrological-cycle/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-water-decides-securing-national-ambitions-through-the-hydrological-cycle/#respond Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:31:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293840 Algeria has embarked on major and strategic undertakings: agricultural revitalization, ambitious housing programs, development of the South, and the strengthening of food and territorial sovereignty. These orientations respond to real needs and reflect a strong political will to build a stable, productive, and sovereign country. For these large-scale investments to fully achieve their objectives over [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-water-decides-securing-national-ambitions-through-the-hydrological-cycle/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-the-headlines-fade-gaza-abandoned-while-the-genocide-persists/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-the-headlines-fade-gaza-abandoned-while-the-genocide-persists/#respond Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:31:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293822 A colleague, an editor at a widely read outlet that centered Gaza throughout the two-year genocide, recently voiced his frustration that Gaza is no longer a main focus in the news. He hardly needed to say it. It is evident that Gaza has already been pushed to the margins of coverage — not only by [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-the-headlines-fade-gaza-abandoned-while-the-genocide-persists/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/liquidationist-logic-and-ungovernable-freedom-rojava/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/liquidationist-logic-and-ungovernable-freedom-rojava/#respond Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293794 I am not seeking a balance here. I make no claim to neutrality. I consciously reject the language of “both sides.” Because I am a warrior of my people. Because in the face of the attacks directed at the Rojava Revolution, neutrality is not merely political naivety; it is functional complicity. At certain moments in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/liquidationist-logic-and-ungovernable-freedom-rojava/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/can-trump-demilitarize-gaza-with-night-raids-and-death-squads/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/can-trump-demilitarize-gaza-with-night-raids-and-death-squads/#respond Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293844 At the opening ceremony for Donald Trump’s so-called Board of Peace in Davos, Jared Kushner unveiled glossy images of his vision for a “new Gaza”: shining apartment towers, luxury developments, and sweeping views of the Mediterranean. There were no Palestinians at the ceremony—and none on the Board of Peace itself. In Kushner’s fantasy, Palestinians appear [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/can-trump-demilitarize-gaza-with-night-raids-and-death-squads/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-hydra-of-authoritarian-violence/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-hydra-of-authoritarian-violence/#respond Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293848 The violence is interconnected. U.S. military forces attack Caracas to extract its president, killing as many as 80 people in the course of their operation. An ICE agent shoots and kills a poet, a mother of three, on a street in Minneapolis. A 43-year-old disabled widow, burdened by medical debt from her husband’s and her [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-hydra-of-authoritarian-violence/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-intertwining-of-earth-and-humans/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-intertwining-of-earth-and-humans/#respond Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293838 Let’s put ICE and, indeed, war itself –the smugly violent certainty of militarism – into the largest perspective possible. I suggest this as the only way to maintain my sanity: to believe that we, that our children, actually have a future. This is one planet. Every living being, every pulse of life, every molecule of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-intertwining-of-earth-and-humans/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-the-revival-of-regime-change/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-the-revival-of-regime-change/#respond Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293850 The Trump administration’s exercise in armed regime change in Venezuela should have come as no surprise. The U.S. naval buildup in the Caribbean and the attacks on defenseless boats off the Venezuelan coast — based on unproven allegations that they contained drug traffickers — had been underway for more than three months. By the end of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-the-revival-of-regime-change/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-does-trumps-monroe-moment-in-venezuela-reveal-about-brics-grouping/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-does-trumps-monroe-moment-in-venezuela-reveal-about-brics-grouping/#respond Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293836 Donald Trump’s Venezuela gambit signals far more than an isolated intervention. It followed the newly drafted National Security Strategy, 2025, which explicitly calls on the United States to reassert and reinforce the nineteenth-century Monroe Doctrine—once again treating Latin America as an unparalleled and uncontested US geopolitical sphere of influence and restoring American preeminence in the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-does-trumps-monroe-moment-in-venezuela-reveal-about-brics-grouping/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-people-vote-for-trump-10-ideologies/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-people-vote-for-trump-10-ideologies/#respond Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293842 One of the most challenging questions of democracy might indeed be: why did so many people vote for Adolf Hitler even though he acted against their interests? Virtually the same can be said for those who voted for Brexit in the UK, voted for Germany’s neo-fascist AfD – even when Germany’s capital side openly stated [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-people-vote-for-trump-10-ideologies/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/guarantee-to-live-is-alive-in-kerala/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/guarantee-to-live-is-alive-in-kerala/#respond Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293834 In 1945, two years prior to India’s independence, the current Chief Minister of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, was born into a working-class family in northern Kerala. He was his mother’s fourteenth child; of the thirteen siblings born before him, only two survived. His mother was an agricultural labourer and his father a toddy tapper. They belonged [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/guarantee-to-live-is-alive-in-kerala/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-destruction-of-unrwa-is-a-warning-to-indonesia-the-two-state-solution-is-dead-2/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-destruction-of-unrwa-is-a-warning-to-indonesia-the-two-state-solution-is-dead-2/#respond Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:29:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293846 By destroying facilities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in occupied East Jerusalem, Israel has done more than demolish buildings. It has shattered, yet again, the illusion that the two-state solution remains viable—and exposed the moral bankruptcy of an international order that continues to pretend otherwise. For Indonesia, a country long committed [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-destruction-of-unrwa-is-a-warning-to-indonesia-the-two-state-solution-is-dead-2/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-greenland-delusion-runs-aground-in-davos/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-greenland-delusion-runs-aground-in-davos/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:58:41 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293791 Trump is a narcissistic, psychopathic bully. But a weak one.  I started listening to Trump’s speech at Davos with anger and outrage. But as he went on and on, I slowly felt a growing sense of relief. I realised that all his bullying, taunts and threats reflected weakness. He sounded like a needy, spoilt child [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-greenland-delusion-runs-aground-in-davos/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-minneapolis-to-portland-state-violence-and-how-communities-are-responding/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-minneapolis-to-portland-state-violence-and-how-communities-are-responding/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293789 The killing this January of unarmed Minnesota woman Renee Nicole Good in her car by an ICE agent has sparked nationwide alarm and civil protest. It marks the latest escalation in the political violence risk environment in the United States, which in just the last year has seen high-profile political assassinations, a rise in death [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-minneapolis-to-portland-state-violence-and-how-communities-are-responding/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whats-it-going-to-take-to-get-to-mass-strikes/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whats-it-going-to-take-to-get-to-mass-strikes/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293786 On Jan. 23, Minnesotans will witness a new tactical experiment in resisting authoritarian consolidation: a one-day call for no work, no school, no shopping — an economic blackout across the state (www.iceoutnowmn.com). The call is coming from a rapidly growing coalition that includes the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, Service Employees International Union Local 26, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whats-it-going-to-take-to-get-to-mass-strikes/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-climate-change-an-externality/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-climate-change-an-externality/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293784 This post is part of a symposium on Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** In Free Gifts, Alyssa Battistoni traces the concept of the “externality” across the past century. This history begins in 1920, when the economist Alfred Pigou observed how private market transactions could impose [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-climate-change-an-externality/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-left-needs-bureaucrats/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-left-needs-bureaucrats/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293764 After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better. With Zohran Mamdani’s ascent to Gracie Mansion, a democratic socialist is now chief executive for the largest municipal bureaucracy in the United States, meaning that he [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-left-needs-bureaucrats/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-sun-sets-on-the-syrian-kurdish-rebellion/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-sun-sets-on-the-syrian-kurdish-rebellion/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293776 The agreement that terminated the Syrian Kurdish enclave was presented by its signatories as a pragmatic settlement. But, in fact, the deal is a major political defeat for the Syrian Kurdish political formations. Certainly, the rapid advance of the Syrian armed groups loyal to President Ahmad al-Sharaa broke the resistance of the Syrian Democratic Forces [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-sun-sets-on-the-syrian-kurdish-rebellion/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-disconnected-present-neoliberal-fascism-and-the-politics-of-erasure/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-disconnected-present-neoliberal-fascism-and-the-politics-of-erasure/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293781 Weaponizing Distraction: Spectacle as Governance Under the Trump administration, the politics of diversion has hardened into a governing strategy and been normalized by a compliant mainstream media ecosystem. As James Oliphant observes in Reuters, “Donald Trump is a human hurricane,” generating so many simultaneous controversies that tracking any single event becomes nearly impossible. Oliphant is only partly [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-disconnected-present-neoliberal-fascism-and-the-politics-of-erasure/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-aggression-uk-support-the-special-relationship/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-aggression-uk-support-the-special-relationship/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293778 Forty years ago, US warplanes bombed Libya, attempting to assassinate its leader Muammar Gaddafi. Failing in that task, they managed to kill dozens of civilians in Tripoli, Libya’s capital. The attacks, which were in response to the bombing of a Berlin nightclub blamed on Gaddafi, were strongly supported by Margaret Thatcher’s government. Indeed, she allowed [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-aggression-uk-support-the-special-relationship/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/europe-pretends-to-talk-about-self-respect-while-coated-with-u-s-military-bases/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/europe-pretends-to-talk-about-self-respect-while-coated-with-u-s-military-bases/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:47:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293769 Dear European governments, look at the map of U.S. military bases above and tell us again about your self-respect, about how you’re going to fight Trump in Greenland (where he also has a military base), about all the military violence metaphors in your newspapers’ columns about trade policies, but understand that we know about the thing you’ve [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/europe-pretends-to-talk-about-self-respect-while-coated-with-u-s-military-bases/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/military-bases-prove-new-york-times-to-be-lying-about-greenland/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/military-bases-prove-new-york-times-to-be-lying-about-greenland/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:46:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293772 This was a headline in the New York Times on Tuesday: “With Threats to Greenland, Trump Sets America on the Road to Conquest: After a century of defending other countries against foreign aggression, the United States is now positioned as an imperial power trying to seize another nation’s land.” Here is a sentence from the article that [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/military-bases-prove-new-york-times-to-be-lying-about-greenland/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-destruction-of-unrwa-is-a-warning-to-indonesia-the-two-state-solution-is-dead/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-destruction-of-unrwa-is-a-warning-to-indonesia-the-two-state-solution-is-dead/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:45:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293807 By destroying facilities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in occupied East Jerusalem, Israel has done more than demolish buildings. It has shattered, yet again, the illusion that the two-state solution remains viable—and exposed the moral bankruptcy of an international order that continues to pretend otherwise. For Indonesia, a country long committed [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-destruction-of-unrwa-is-a-warning-to-indonesia-the-two-state-solution-is-dead/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-us-israel-hybrid-war-against-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-us-israel-hybrid-war-against-iran/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:10:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293747 The question is not if the US and Israel will attack Iran, but when. In the nuclear age, the US refrains from all-out war, since it can easily lead to nuclear escalation. Instead, the US and Israel are waging war against Iran through a combination of crushing economic sanctions, targeted military strikes, cyberwarfare, stoking unrest, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-us-israel-hybrid-war-against-iran/feed/ 2 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/review-of-james-douglass-martyrs-to-the-unspeakable/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/review-of-james-douglass-martyrs-to-the-unspeakable/#respond Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:00:00 +0000 James Douglass, longtime antinuclear activist and author of the bestselling JFK and the Unspeakable, has written his life’s work. Martyrs to the Unspeakable builds on the work of its predecessor, which detailed Kennedy’s turn toward peace during the Cold War and his resulting death at the hands of his own government. Martyrs broadens and deepens [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/review-of-james-douglass-martyrs-to-the-unspeakable/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-has-built-his-own-fascist-paramilitary-squad/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-has-built-his-own-fascist-paramilitary-squad/#respond Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293733 Exactly a year ago today, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. He took over a nation with strong imperialistic tendencies and a democratic polity but with widespread illiberal features throughout its history and, in less than a year, succeeded in establishing a 21st-century US variant of fascism while [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-has-built-his-own-fascist-paramilitary-squad/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-past-year-has-seen-an-unprecedented-displacement-of-palestinian-communities-in-the-west-bank/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-past-year-has-seen-an-unprecedented-displacement-of-palestinian-communities-in-the-west-bank/#respond Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293749 The year 2025 saw the unprecedented displacement of Palestinian rural communities by Israeli settlers, who enjoy the Israeli army’s backing. At least 13 rural Palestinian communities in the West Bank were completely wiped off the map. This impacted at least 190 families and 1,090 individuals.  The wave of settler attacks has continued into 2026, with [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-past-year-has-seen-an-unprecedented-displacement-of-palestinian-communities-in-the-west-bank/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/historians-have-a-duty-to-condemn-scholasticide-in-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/historians-have-a-duty-to-condemn-scholasticide-in-gaza/#respond Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293731 Earlier this month, the American Historical Association’s (AHA) leadership once again overruled its own members, blocking a resolution on scholasticide in Gaza and vetoing a second resolution concerning the escalating repression of scholars in the United States — particularly those who have spoken out about this destruction. The votes were not close. Nearly 80 percent [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/historians-have-a-duty-to-condemn-scholasticide-in-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-bondi-australia-faces-a-foreign-policy-choice/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-bondi-australia-faces-a-foreign-policy-choice/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293724 Australia has entered one of those rare diplomatic moments when grief at home collides with moral judgment abroad, and when a single invitation carries meanings far beyond the bounds of protocol. The decision to host Israeli President Isaac Herzog in the aftermath of the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre has become more than an act of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-bondi-australia-faces-a-foreign-policy-choice/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-train-of-regeneration-green-peace-for-the-oases-from-bechar-to-tindouf/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-train-of-regeneration-green-peace-for-the-oases-from-bechar-to-tindouf/#respond Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293725 Facing the strategic challenges in Algeria’s Southwest — water security, sustainable resource management, territorial stability, and socio-economic development — it is essential to complement major national projects with integrated approaches capable of amplifying their long-term benefits. This contribution aims to do just that. It offers a complementary perspective on a state-led infrastructure project, exploring how [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-train-of-regeneration-green-peace-for-the-oases-from-bechar-to-tindouf/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-dangerous-attack-on-free-speech-matt-taibbi-sues-for-defamation/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-dangerous-attack-on-free-speech-matt-taibbi-sues-for-defamation/#respond Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293732 In November of last year, in an egregious abuse of defamation law, former progressive journalist  (and current right wing influencer) Matt Taibbi launched a lawsuit–presently ongoing–claiming to have been defamed by leftist journalist Eoin Higgins (and Higgins’s publisher Hachette Book Group), ludicrously alleging “reputational and financial damages”, according to the official legal complaint, “in excess [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-dangerous-attack-on-free-speech-matt-taibbi-sues-for-defamation/feed/ 0