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The One-Word Explanation for Trump’s Stunning Victory?
Donald Trump’s commanding victory over Kamala Harris seems to have surprised a lot of people both in the U.S. and around the world. Yet, it’s not surprising that Trump pulled off this victory,...
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Antisemitism versus Anti-Zionism
Stevens Students for Gaza ProtestRemarks by Stephen R. ShalomJewish Voice for Peace, Northern NJStevens Institute of Technology, Nov. 11, 2024 We are living in the midst of one of the great...
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The Flagrant Illegality of Trump’s Threats to Use Military to Quash Protests...
Employing federal troops to suppress domestic protests and deport immigrants from U.S. soil en masse would be illegal, but Donald Trump has been pushing to do so since his first administration. The...
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Will Trump End or Escalate Biden’s Wars?
When Donald Trump takes office on January 20th, all his campaign promises to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and almost as quickly end Israel’s war on its neighbors will be put to the test. The...
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The Plague of Disaster Nationalism
In case you have not heard, Donald Trump was just elected President of the United States for a second time. The United States is in for some extremely difficult months and years ahead. The situation is...
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Four Ways to Repel Trump’s Far Right Populism – European Insights
With the rise of far right populism and seen from a distance, right-wing anti-democratic forces may look a bit like real democrats. But far right populism remains dead set at manipulating and hollowing...
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Inconvenient Question: Science Is Gifting Us New HIV Prevention Tools But Is...
Any new HIV prevention method is not meant to sit on the shelf but to be used by the people who need it to protect themselves from HIV. We have to ensure that new HIV prevention technologies that are...
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Journalism Is Not A Crime – Tell That To The British State
“Journalism is the lifeblood of democracy” proclaimed prime minister Keir Starmer in a comment piece for the Guardian at the end of October. “Just because journalists are brave does not mean they...
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The West Buries A Genocide – By Making Victims Of Israel’s Football Thugs
There has never been a harder time to do political and media analysis than right now. Each day, the western establishment unmoors itself further from reality. Its priorities are so inverted, so...
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A Democracy of Voices (If We Can Keep It)
I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the international magazine Index on Censorship. I wrote a book, Outspoken: Free Speech Stories, about controversies...
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Looming Fascism and the Question of Hope
When some leading thinkers at the London School of Economics saw fascism take hold in the 1930s, Oxford history professor Ben Jackson said in a recent BBC interview, they “argued that in those...
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Voting against Genocide – How Gaza Defeated the Democratic Establishment
Arab and Muslim American voters did not remove Democrats from office, nor did they cost Kamala Harris the Oval Office. They merely sent a strong message that Palestine matters, not only to Arabs and...
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Youth Resistance in the Age of Fascist Dream-Worlds
For too long, liberals have failed to recognize education for what it truly is: not merely a service or a tool for economic adaptation, but the very foundation of democratic life. Hyper-capitalism is...
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Spain’s Climate Catastrophe – A Glimpse Into The Near Future
In the 35 years since we first protested for action against climate change on the streets of London, we have often wondered what it is exactly we are trying to avert. Sometimes, notably in the wee...
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What REALLY Happened in Amsterdam
A look at misleading reporting on the incidents surrounding Israeli soccer ‘fans’ in Amsterdam.
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Dear Donald and MAGA: It’s Our Turn Now
Trump won an election. Are we beaten? Will it be years and still more years until there is space for anything positive? Is progressive activity now merely blowing into the wind? MAGA and more MAGA. I...
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“An Imagination Party”: How My Toddler Fuels My Vision for Liberation
“So,” says the cashier at 7-Eleven, squinting at my three-year-old child K.’s “A Is for Abolition” shirt as they wait patiently in their stroller for a small carton of Goldfish crackers. “What is...
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We Won’t Win Until We’re Troublemakers
Unions weren’t strong enough, in numbers or in influence with their members, to make a difference in this election. One sample showed union households at only 54 percent for Kamala Harris vs. 43...
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Dealing With Government Repression
“Ultimately, what I have learned is that government repression can have a disruptive impact on our work, but we can turn a negative into a positive. The extent to which we can creatively, intelligently...
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An Anniversary, an Affirmation, & Action
Dear Z Community, November 15th marks the two year anniversary of the relaunch of ZNetwork.org. As we did two years ago, we’d like to begin by recognizing and thanking everyone who has worked on and...
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