https://znetwork.org/zvideo/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:36:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/zvideo/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-conversation-with-yanis-varoufakis/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-conversation-with-yanis-varoufakis/#respond Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1292284 In conversation with Yanis Varoufakis, Leader of MeRA25, the Greek political party belonging to DiEM25, Economist, Academic and Former Greek Finance Minister. Discussion on USA, Western Europe and Israel: United in Capitalism and Fascism.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/in-conversation-with-yanis-varoufakis/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-think-about-boycotts/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-think-about-boycotts/#respond Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:45:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1292239 Zackie Achmat is a veteran South African political activist and a leading authority on the role of boycotts in the anti-apartheid movement. Mazin Qumsiyeh is founder and volunteer director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University and the author of Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment, which chronicles non-violent protest in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-think-about-boycotts/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/sudan-nigerias-israel-problem-pan-africanism-resistance-from-burkina-faso-to-niger/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/sudan-nigerias-israel-problem-pan-africanism-resistance-from-burkina-faso-to-niger/#respond Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:23:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1292231 In this episode of MintCast- Host Mnar Adley invites Journalist- Ahmed Kaballo to discuss the truth about Africa’s resources and sovereignty. Ahmed, had his channel: African Stream removed from YouTube for speaking out on topics like this.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/sudan-nigerias-israel-problem-pan-africanism-resistance-from-burkina-faso-to-niger/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/new-national-security-strategy-is-a-renewed-plan-for-global-hegemony/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/new-national-security-strategy-is-a-renewed-plan-for-global-hegemony/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:20:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1292213 The Donald Trump administration revealed the US empire’s new plan for global dominance in the 2025 National Security Strategy. The goal is to impose hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, reviving the colonial Monroe Doctrine, to move supply chains out of Asia and bring manufacturing into Latin America via “nearshoring”, in order to economically decouple from [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/new-national-security-strategy-is-a-renewed-plan-for-global-hegemony/feed/ 3 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/new-us-national-security-strategy-is-repackaged-wolfowitz-doctrine/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/new-us-national-security-strategy-is-repackaged-wolfowitz-doctrine/#respond Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:18:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1292201 ]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/new-us-national-security-strategy-is-repackaged-wolfowitz-doctrine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/south-africa-blocked-from-g20/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/south-africa-blocked-from-g20/#respond Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:37:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1292104 South Africa says it will step back from next year’s G20 meetings after the U.S. indicated it won’t extend an invitation, citing concerns over alleged discrimination against the white Afrikaner minority. In this episode, Innocent Semosa speaks to Political Analyst Patrick Bond to unpack the politics behind the fallout, and later connects with DIRCO spokesperson [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/south-africa-blocked-from-g20/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-blueprint-for-system-change/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-blueprint-for-system-change/#respond Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291952 Ash Sarkar is joined by one of the most controversial political figures on the Left: Roger Hallam. Whether you like or loathe his tactics, it’s hard to deny the disruptive impact he has had through the activist organisations he has led;  Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil.  He joins us fresh from his latest stint [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-blueprint-for-system-change/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/jeremy-corbyn-addresses-the-first-your-party-conference/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/jeremy-corbyn-addresses-the-first-your-party-conference/#respond Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291955 Jeremy Corbyn Addresses The First Your Party Conference.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/jeremy-corbyn-addresses-the-first-your-party-conference/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/zack-polanski-is-coming-for-starmer-and-farage/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/zack-polanski-is-coming-for-starmer-and-farage/#respond Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291945 Support for the Green party in Britain has been steadily rising for the past few decades. However, few predicted that when Zack Polanski took office as Green party leader in September, membership would surge from 70,000 to 150,000 members in a matter of months. According to the latest polling, the party’s share of the vote [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/zack-polanski-is-coming-for-starmer-and-farage/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-europe-betraying-ukraine/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-europe-betraying-ukraine/#respond Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:51:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291948 In this livestream, Yanis Varoufakis and Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko explore how EU leaders are undermining Ukraine to justify their plans to re-arm Europe. If EU leaders won’t send troops and won’t negotiate, whom does their “solidarity” really serve? And why are some in Brussels worried that peace itself would threaten their new militarisation agenda?]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-europe-betraying-ukraine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-trump-cant-end-the-war-in-ukraine/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-trump-cant-end-the-war-in-ukraine/#respond Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:40:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291785 Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Russia’s top oil companies, but the United States still can’t stop the war in Ukraine. NATO’s goals cannot be met, as the world is increasingly multipolar and Western power is declining. To discuss in this episode of Geopolitical Economy Hour, geopolitical economist Radhika Desai analyzes the conflict with journalist Anatol [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-trump-cant-end-the-war-in-ukraine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-afl-cio-and-venezuela-a-history-of-subversion-and-counter-revolution/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-afl-cio-and-venezuela-a-history-of-subversion-and-counter-revolution/#respond Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:03:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291752 The threat of another US invasion of Venezuela is on the agenda under the fascist Trump government and this panel looks at that as well as the history of the AFL-CIO and US labor in supporting US imperialist interests in controlling the country’s wealth for US profits. The panel was hosted by Alex Wise and was sponsored [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-afl-cio-and-venezuela-a-history-of-subversion-and-counter-revolution/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-the-left-can-come-together-to-beat-reform-yanis-varoufakis-zack-polanski/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-the-left-can-come-together-to-beat-reform-yanis-varoufakis-zack-polanski/#comments Fri, 28 Nov 2025 04:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291706 How we lost the argument on Britain’s relationship with the European Union forever? What is the point in our nuclear weapons if Donald Trump’s America has such power over whether we can use them or not? What has the left learned from the formation of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s Your Party? Zack Polanski speaks [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-the-left-can-come-together-to-beat-reform-yanis-varoufakis-zack-polanski/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/climate-deal-excludes-fossil-fuel-phaseout-as-wealthy-nations-place-burden-on-the-backs-of-the-poor/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/climate-deal-excludes-fossil-fuel-phaseout-as-wealthy-nations-place-burden-on-the-backs-of-the-poor/#respond Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291669 Global negotiations at the annual U.N. climate summit ended Saturday in Belém, Brazil, with a watered-down agreement that does not even mention fossil fuels, let alone offer a roadmap to phase out what are the primary contributors to the climate crisis. The COP30 agreement also makes no new commitments to halt deforestation and does not [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/climate-deal-excludes-fossil-fuel-phaseout-as-wealthy-nations-place-burden-on-the-backs-of-the-poor/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/inviting-the-arsonists-indian-climate-activist-slams-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-at-u-n-climate-summit/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/inviting-the-arsonists-indian-climate-activist-slams-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-at-u-n-climate-summit/#respond Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:15:26 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291573 Nations are struggling to reach a final text agreement at the COP30 U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil. Decisions are made by consensus at COPs, requiring consent among 192 countries, and the biggest fight over the draft text is the exclusion of a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels. Reportedly Saudi Arabia, China, Russia and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/inviting-the-arsonists-indian-climate-activist-slams-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-at-u-n-climate-summit/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/trumps-gaza-plan-resistance-geopolitics-and-statehood/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/trumps-gaza-plan-resistance-geopolitics-and-statehood/#respond Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:04:16 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291547 In this deep and wide-ranging conversation, historian Rashid Khalidi breaks down the political landscape of Palestine today — from the legacy of the Oslo Accords and the failures of the PA to the rise of Hamas, the nature of armed resistance, and the meaning of Oct 7 (Al-Aqsa Flood). Khalidi explains how he understands Trump’s [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/trumps-gaza-plan-resistance-geopolitics-and-statehood/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/exposing-mexicos-astroturfed-gen-z-uprising/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/exposing-mexicos-astroturfed-gen-z-uprising/#respond Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:01:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291541 Kurt Hackbarth, host of Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast, exposes Mexico’s so-called Gen Z protests as a staged, astroturfed destabilization campaign. He breaks down the march, from the near absence of actual youth to violent scenes in the Zócalo, staged for international consumption — prompting Trump to say he’d be “okay” with airstrikes and the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/exposing-mexicos-astroturfed-gen-z-uprising/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-capitalist-class-is-violently-opening-new-markets-because-it-has-to/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-capitalist-class-is-violently-opening-new-markets-because-it-has-to/#respond Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291491 Sociologist William I. Robinson speaks at the CT Civil Liberties Defense Committee conference in Hartford, CT on Nov. 8, 2025]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-capitalist-class-is-violently-opening-new-markets-because-it-has-to/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/u-s-continues-campaign-to-undermine-south-africa-and-g20/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/u-s-continues-campaign-to-undermine-south-africa-and-g20/#respond Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291452 Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof Patrick Bond, Director of the Centre for Social Change in the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities at University of Johannesburg, about how the US continues to try to derail and undermine the G20 in South Africa.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/u-s-continues-campaign-to-undermine-south-africa-and-g20/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/jeffrey-epstein-how-millionaires-get-away-with-crime-in-america/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/jeffrey-epstein-how-millionaires-get-away-with-crime-in-america/#respond Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:42:47 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291233 Jeffrey Epstein was able to traffic and assault young women and girls for almost two decades, without consequence. How did he get away with this? The simple answer is wealth. But how did a college dropout who was quietly dismissed from his first job as a teacher at a private school acquire a private jet [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/jeffrey-epstein-how-millionaires-get-away-with-crime-in-america/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-1/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-1/#respond Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291203 Aaron Benanav discusses the first part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in the New Left Review. In this part he lays the groundwork for his proposal of a multi-criterial economy. SASE – Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics: https://sase.org/ SASE Network I: Alternatives to Capitalism (including CfP): https://sase.org/networks/i-alternati… Shownotes Aaron at Cornell University: https://cals.cornell.edu/people/aaron… [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-1/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-2/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-2/#respond Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291206 Aaron Benanav discusses the second part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in the New Left Review. In this part he lays out the institutional design of his proposal of a multi-criterial economy. SASE – Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics: https://sase.org/ SASE Network I: Alternatives to Capitalism (including CfP): https://sase.org/networks/i-alternati… Shownotes Aaron at Cornell [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-2/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/europe-cant-contain-the-far-right/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/europe-cant-contain-the-far-right/#respond Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291218 In this episode of The Econoclasts, Wolfgang Munchau debunks the “cordon sanitaire” or “firewall” orthodoxy that European centrist parties must never form coalitions with the far-Right, arguing that this failed tactic is a disaster that only guarantees the eventual rise of parties such as the AfD in Germany.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/europe-cant-contain-the-far-right/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/kai-heron-keir-milburn-and-bertie-russell-on-radical-abundance/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/kai-heron-keir-milburn-and-bertie-russell-on-radical-abundance/#respond Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1290916 Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell discuss Radical Abundance, transition and public-commons partnerships. Shownotes Heron, K., Milburn, K., Russel, B. (2025). Radical Abundance. How to Win a Green Democratic Future. Pluto Press. https://www.plutobooks.com/product/ra… Kai Heron at Lancaster University: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about… Keir Milburn’s contributions at Novara Media: https://novaramedia.com/contributor/k… Bertie Russell at the Autonomous University of Barcelona: [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/kai-heron-keir-milburn-and-bertie-russell-on-radical-abundance/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-the-cia-mossad-set-up-sudan-for-genocide-since-the-1990s/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-the-cia-mossad-set-up-sudan-for-genocide-since-the-1990s/#respond Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:14:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1290889 Sudan is being systematically destroyed – not by accident, but by design. This investigation reveals how US imperialism, through Israeli and UAE proxies, has engineered Sudan’s collapse since the 1990s to crush the axis of resistance, block China’s Belt and Road, and loot Africa’s resources families are killed, children starve, and the west profits.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-the-cia-mossad-set-up-sudan-for-genocide-since-the-1990s/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/mamdani-of-the-midwest-meet-omar-fateh-could-he-be-the-next-mayor-of-minneapolis/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/mamdani-of-the-midwest-meet-omar-fateh-could-he-be-the-next-mayor-of-minneapolis/#respond Sun, 02 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1290763 Omar Fateh, the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist, is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey. Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota’s state Senate. Fateh has run for mayor on [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/mamdani-of-the-midwest-meet-omar-fateh-could-he-be-the-next-mayor-of-minneapolis/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-israel-on-the-brink/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-israel-on-the-brink/#respond Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1290653 In spite of Israel’s military dominance over its regional foes, is the Zionist entity at its most vulnerable point in its short history? And more importantly — will its actions lead to the complete collapse of the Zionist project? Legendary Israeli historian Ilan Pappé provides some answers. Transcript Chris Hedges The Israeli historian Ilan Pappé [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/is-israel-on-the-brink/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/groundhog-day-israel-again-violates-ceasefire-in-gaza-killing-104-people-including-46-children/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/groundhog-day-israel-again-violates-ceasefire-in-gaza-killing-104-people-including-46-children/#respond Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:25:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1290584 Israel launched major airstrikes on Gaza, killing at least 104 people, including 46 children, in the deadliest attacks since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire was announced. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered “powerful strikes” on Gaza Tuesday after Israeli officials accused Hamas of killing an Israeli soldier in Rafah — which Hamas has denied. Netanyahu is trying [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/groundhog-day-israel-again-violates-ceasefire-in-gaza-killing-104-people-including-46-children/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/labeling-dissent-as-terrorism-under-nspm-7/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/labeling-dissent-as-terrorism-under-nspm-7/#respond Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:20:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1290583 Investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein discusses NSPM-7, a sweeping Trump directive ordering the DOJ, FBI, and 200+ Joint Terrorism Task Forces to target groups deemed “anti-Christian” or “anti-American” under the guise of combating domestic terrorism. Klippenstein – who first broke the story – explains the memo’s far-reaching implications and why the corporate-owned media and elected officials [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/labeling-dissent-as-terrorism-under-nspm-7/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/nelson-mandela-annual-lecture-by-francesca-albanese/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/nelson-mandela-annual-lecture-by-francesca-albanese/#respond Sun, 26 Oct 2025 13:21:53 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1290446 Enhancing peace and global cooperation.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/nelson-mandela-annual-lecture-by-francesca-albanese/feed/ 0