Revisiting Don’t Think of a Republican: A Presidential Election Satire
Ahead of the 2024 US presidential elections, we at ZNetwork thought that now might be a good time to remind all our readers of an original series we ran back in 2022 called Don’t Think of a Republican....
View ArticleJewish Protesters Target Wall Street as Israeli Strikes Hit Hospitals in Gaza
Wall Street’s Monday began with Jewish protesters and anti-war advocates gathering outside the New York Stock Exchange in protest of U.S. funding for Israel’s attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, some...
View ArticleSeriously? Stein? Sawant? Suicide?
What should people who hate Trump and Trumpism, fascism and genocide, misogyny, racism, capitalism and ecological suicide do in the upcoming U.S. election? Of course that isn’t the only question people...
View ArticleIsrael ‘Desperately Wants’ a U.S.-Iran War
Israel is now waging war across Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and now Iran. Following Iran’s missile strike on Israeli military targets, Israel vowed to retaliate, with the US...
View ArticleHan Kang’s Nobel Prize Award Is a Cry for Palestine
South Korean novelist Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, beating short-listed literary heavyweights like Thomas Pynchon, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, Gerald Murnane, and the...
View ArticleThe Call Is Out for Mass, Simultaneous Strikes in 4 Years
There is a credible call for a general strike in the United States in four years. The call first came from the United Auto Workers after its fall 2023 stand-up strike, in which the union took on the...
View ArticleCostly Replacement of ICBMs With Sentinel Missiles Increases Risk of Nuclear War
At the September 10 presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris described her support for maintaining the “most lethal fighting force” in the world. Almost certainly that includes the United...
View ArticlePalestine – The Lessons of East Timor
Given the history of the Israeli invasion of Palestine it is easy to believe that the 19 July ruling by the International Court of Justice, which rules that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied...
View ArticleUS Support Has Assured Israel That It Can Kill With Impunity
Eleven days ago, Israel began a bombing campaign targeting the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, which has been home to over one hundred thousand Palestinians. Footage that Israeli soldiers —...
View ArticleBuilding Out the U.S. Hub-and-Spoke Empire in the Indo-Pacific
Focusing on its hub-and-spoke model, which it has used to keep itself positioned as the dominant hub of the Pacific, the United States is engaging in simultaneous efforts to facilitate cooperation...
View ArticleThe Environment Is the Economy, Stupid.
“If you choose to stay … you are going to die,” said the mayor of Tampa, Florida, two days before Hurricane Milton was predicted to make landfall—less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene wrought...
View ArticleScapegoating Immigrants Hurts All of Us — Except Elites
Republicans are counting on fears of immigrants to draw white conservatives to the polls. This calculation is dangerous — and it lets the real villains in our politics off the hook. There’s a direct...
View ArticleEx-U.S. Army Major Who Resigned Over Gaza Warns Against Biden Sending 100...
The Biden administration is sending an advanced anti-missile defense system and 100 U.S. troops to Israel in advance of expected retaliatory strikes against Iran. This marks the first significant...
View ArticleUN Troops in Lebanon Can Shoot Back at Israel
United Nations peacekeepers who have been fired upon by Israel can fire back at them according to a 2006 U.N. Security Council resolution. Paragraph 12 of Resolution 1701, which helped bring about an...
View ArticleBillionaires Are Not Going to Save Us
It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about heat (staggering records continue to be set across the American West) or storms (Category 5 hurricane Milton just followed Category 4 hurricane Helene...
View ArticleIndia is the Land of the Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi: Sonam Wangchuk Please...
Back in 2022, addressing the Rotary International World Convention virtually, Prime minister Narendra Modi had said “India is the land of the Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi who showed in action what living...
View ArticleThere Are Minimum Wages, Why Not A Maximum Wage?
Why don’t we have a maximum wage? Asking that question is another way of asking why some people can rake in millions while others struggle to earn enough to eat. A maximum wage might be one way to tamp...
View ArticleIsrael’s War on the United Nations
The United Nations is an easy body to hate. At times, it seems to be effusion without substance, body with no backbone. It was conceived in a fit of post-war idealism, when egos were humbled and...
View ArticleThe Salisbury Festival of Russophobia Opens
Today is the grand opening of the Salisbury Festival of Russophobia, otherwise known as the Public Inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, an unfortunate victim of imperialist spy games. Watch Day 1...
View ArticleJustice Not Evictions
We Live HereDetroit Eviction Defense and the Battle for Housing Justiceby Jeffrey Wilson and Bambi KramerSeven Stories Press, 2024, 238 pages, $16.95 paperback; ebook $10. WILSON AND KRAMER’s graphic...
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