https://znetwork.org/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:07:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-kings-how-to-win-a-ceasefire-end-trumpism-and-achieve-anything-everything-else-as-well/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-kings-how-to-win-a-ceasefire-end-trumpism-and-achieve-anything-everything-else-as-well/#respond Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:07:28 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295796 We win almost any social demand only when some elite figure(s) succumb and implement the sought change. We demand a higher wage, a new stop sign at a dangerous intersection, abortion rights, affirmative action, a wealth tax, an end to a war—whatever. In each case. the demand is either met or unmet when some elite [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-kings-how-to-win-a-ceasefire-end-trumpism-and-achieve-anything-everything-else-as-well/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-geography-of-hope-why-palestine-is-the-middle-easts-only-way-out/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-geography-of-hope-why-palestine-is-the-middle-easts-only-way-out/#respond Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:03:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295794 Let us imagine a liberated Palestine. Let us consider how justice for the Palestinian people would reshape not only the region but, indeed, the entire globe. This is not a conversation about a “political solution” in the narrow, bureaucratic sense. Such solutions require no particular genius: true justice can only occur when the Palestinian people [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-geography-of-hope-why-palestine-is-the-middle-easts-only-way-out/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defend-cuba-from-us-efforts-to-crush-it/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defend-cuba-from-us-efforts-to-crush-it/#respond Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:59:29 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295792 US president Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are seeking regime change in Cuba by the end of 2026. Their actions expose the hypocrisy of US policy toward Cuba over decades — claiming to champion human rights while imposing a blockade that denies Cubans access to vital resources. Trump openly backs the return of Cuba’s [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defend-cuba-from-us-efforts-to-crush-it/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/europe-the-war-on-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/europe-the-war-on-iran/#respond Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295789 European nations are joining the United States and Israel in their war on Iran. From providing economic and diplomatic support, to supplying military assistance to Washington, Europe is moving from a passive supporter to an active participant in the campaign to overthrow the Iranian government.  Chief among these actors is the United Kingdom, which is [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/europe-the-war-on-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/leading-us-papers-defend-the-indefensible-in-iran-aggression/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/leading-us-papers-defend-the-indefensible-in-iran-aggression/#respond Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:49:56 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295778 The United States and Israel are, for the second time in less than a year, committing “the supreme international crime” against Iran (FAIR.org, 7/3/25). Editorials in three of the United States’ most prominent newspapers, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, offered varying degrees of support for the aggression. The Times waffled about bombing Iran, the Journal enthusiastically supported it, and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/leading-us-papers-defend-the-indefensible-in-iran-aggression/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-democratic-party-has-made-a-religion-of-curated-facts/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-democratic-party-has-made-a-religion-of-curated-facts/#respond Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:39:08 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295775 Speaking at a conference in Washington, DC, late last year, former Barack Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz complained about the difficulty of having a “sane conversation with younger Jews” about Gaza. In attempting to “give data and information and facts and arguments,” she had found that she couldn’t get through to them because TikTok was “smashing our young [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-democratic-party-has-made-a-religion-of-curated-facts/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/bbc-editors-libel-case-against-owen-jones-falls-at-the-first-hurdle-heres-why/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/bbc-editors-libel-case-against-owen-jones-falls-at-the-first-hurdle-heres-why/#respond Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:29:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295769 The High Court’s preliminary ruling this week in the libel case brought by the BBC’s online Middle East editor, Raffi Berg, against journalist Owen Jones is highly significant. It doesn’t settle the case – in fact, Berg’s lawyers say they intend to continue to a full hearing – but it does strike a blow against the Israel [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/bbc-editors-libel-case-against-owen-jones-falls-at-the-first-hurdle-heres-why/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-tv-generals-have-something-to-sell-you-about-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-tv-generals-have-something-to-sell-you-about-iran/#respond Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:21:32 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295763 For all the fears about militarism creeping across America, the generals are already in command —on cable news. The Iran war is the TV generals’ new battlefield. But their real service is to their clients and themselves. Ever since the first Gulf War in 1991, every one of the big networks has hired some retired [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-tv-generals-have-something-to-sell-you-about-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/us-war-on-iran-is-not-about-israel-its-about-oil-and-dollar-dominance/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/us-war-on-iran-is-not-about-israel-its-about-oil-and-dollar-dominance/#respond Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:14:26 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1295760 Why is the USA waging war on Iran? It’s not just because of Israel. Washington wants to control the oil of the Middle East (West Asia) to maintain the petrodollar system. The Trump admin fears the dedollarization movement’s challenge to the global reserve currency, which is the US empire’s most powerful tool. Ben Norton explains.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/us-war-on-iran-is-not-about-israel-its-about-oil-and-dollar-dominance/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/punch-up-on-division-solidarity-and-who-we-fight/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/punch-up-on-division-solidarity-and-who-we-fight/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:27:41 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295747 Throughout history, those in power have relied on a familiar tactic: divide people against one another and often against their own best interests so they don’t look upward. Whether along lines of race, class, gender, immigration status, sexuality, ability, identity, or culture, the result is the same: ordinary people fighting sideways while systems of power [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/punch-up-on-division-solidarity-and-who-we-fight/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/im-no-longer-waiting-for-the-storm-to-pass/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/im-no-longer-waiting-for-the-storm-to-pass/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295732 Working as Noam Chomsky’s assistant, and in later years his fellow traveler, the lessons I learned spanned various domains and disciplines, but most valuably, I got to know Noam beyond the pedestal some had placed him on – a pedestal he never wanted. This statement will be seen by some merely as an act of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/im-no-longer-waiting-for-the-storm-to-pass/feed/ 18 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/resistance-is-history-resistance-is-life/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/resistance-is-history-resistance-is-life/#respond Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295719 Ramzy Baroud, editor of the Palestine Chronicle, which has been the most reliable English language news source regarding the conflict in Palestine since before October 2, 2023 and even more so since that date, writes history from the heart.  His stories of families (including his own) and their lives as refugees, freedom fighters, doctors and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/resistance-is-history-resistance-is-life/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rojava-the-solution-is-the-decentralisation-of-power/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rojava-the-solution-is-the-decentralisation-of-power/#respond Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295713 Interview with Kurdish filmmaker Sevînaz Evdikê about the situation of women in Rojava and the Islamist regime in Damascus. Sevînaz Evdikê (born 1992 in Serêkaniyê, Rojava) studied film in Northern Kurdistan and co-founded Komîna Fîlma a Rojava, a film collective from Western Kurdistan. As a filmmaker she participated in many of the collective’s projects and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rojava-the-solution-is-the-decentralisation-of-power/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-existential-threat-to-organized-labors-ability-to-help-people/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-existential-threat-to-organized-labors-ability-to-help-people/#respond Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295722 Rarely has a story filled me with such a profound sense of dread as Josh Dzieza’s New York Magazine piece this week headlined “The Laid-Off Scientists and Lawyers Training AI to Steal Their Careers.” More than anything I have read before, this story has begun to crystallize for me the exact ways that AI is [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-existential-threat-to-organized-labors-ability-to-help-people/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/julie-sus-plans-for-economic-justice/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/julie-sus-plans-for-economic-justice/#respond Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:51:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295716 Julie Su was the United States Secretary of Labor for the last two years of the Biden Administration. (Technically she was “acting” Secretary, since Republicans refused to confirm her). She began her career as an attorney fighting for immigrant workers in California, and went on serve as California’ Secretary of Labor under Gavin Newsom before [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/julie-sus-plans-for-economic-justice/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/workers-can-reverse-enshittification/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/workers-can-reverse-enshittification/#respond Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295724 The creeping enshittification of online platforms isn’t accidental but the inevitable consequence of the power of Big Tech. Only organised workers can reverse it. If you are the sort of person who noticed that Keir Starmer appointed former British head of Amazon Doug Gerr to lead the Competition and Markets Authority and wondered how that [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/workers-can-reverse-enshittification/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/they-attack-we-defend-how-the-media-toe-the-line-on-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/they-attack-we-defend-how-the-media-toe-the-line-on-iran/#respond Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295727 The UK media’s take on the use of ‘hard power’ depends entirely on who’s exercising it. The labelling of Russia’s war in Ukraine in February 2022 was clear from the start. According to the Nexis database, 12,700 stories across the UK media in the first week of the war were focused on what was unequivocally [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/they-attack-we-defend-how-the-media-toe-the-line-on-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-moment-kristi-noem-education-workers-and-the-war-in-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-moment-kristi-noem-education-workers-and-the-war-in-iran/#respond Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295729 You haven’t heard from the FOS Collective for a bit because like many other teachers, professors, parents, school workers, we’re been overwhelmed at navigating our personal and work responsibilities while seeing and trying to stop unending barbarisms. We might have been energized – but haven’t been, yet – to protest the War in Iran by [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-moment-kristi-noem-education-workers-and-the-war-in-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-class-and-political-roots-of-the-refugee-integration-crisis-in-denmark/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-class-and-political-roots-of-the-refugee-integration-crisis-in-denmark/#respond Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295737 A Note for the Reader: The Danish Party Landscape The Danish political scene is divided into two main blocs. The Blue Bloc on the right includes Venstre – the Liberal Party (the historical liberal party), and Dansk Folkeparti – the Danish People’s Party (the populist nationalist party) which, since the early 2000s, has established an [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-class-and-political-roots-of-the-refugee-integration-crisis-in-denmark/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-war-the-american-public-never-really-wanted/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-war-the-american-public-never-really-wanted/#respond Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:47:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295735 I keep coming back to one basic question: Who is this war actually for? It does not feel like it is for the average American family watching prices creep up again. It does not feel like it is for parents with children in uniform. It does not feel like it is for younger Americans who [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-war-the-american-public-never-really-wanted/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-the-warpath/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-the-warpath/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295711 Here is a conundrum. While stock exchanges across the world react nervously to the onslaught on Iran, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is booming. Here is another: while millions of people in the region dread the US-Israeli military operation and its consequences, Israeli society is jubilant. According to the latest polls, 93 per cent of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-the-warpath/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/wheres-the-resistance-to-the-iran-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/wheres-the-resistance-to-the-iran-war/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295708 A majority of Americans already oppose the war in Iran, but the bombs won’t stop until public opinion is converted into real pressure. Like many of you, I’ve spent the last week hyper-anxious, refreshing feeds, trying to stay level-headed. Except this time — unlike the many other wars started or supported by the United States [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/wheres-the-resistance-to-the-iran-war/feed/ 2 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/iran-is-not-gaza-read-arundhati-roys-scathing-speech-on-the-us-israeli-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/iran-is-not-gaza-read-arundhati-roys-scathing-speech-on-the-us-israeli-war/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295706 The award-winning Indian novelist warns that the world is on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse, and laments her own government’s gutlessness. Arundhati Roy, was in conversation in New Delhi on Monday about her recent book ‘Mother Mary Comes To Me.’ At the end of the event, Arundhati delivered impassioned remarks on the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/iran-is-not-gaza-read-arundhati-roys-scathing-speech-on-the-us-israeli-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-solomon-on-the-war-on-iran/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-solomon-on-the-war-on-iran/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1295688 This week on Talk World Radio, we’re talking about Iran. Norman Solomon is Co-Founder / National Director of RootsAction. He founded the Institute for Public Accuracy in 1997 and is its executive director. Immersed in anti-war, social justice and environmental movements since the late 1960s, he is the author of a dozen books including “War [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-solomon-on-the-war-on-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-informal-caregivers-use-storytelling-to-build-community-and-influence-policy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-informal-caregivers-use-storytelling-to-build-community-and-influence-policy/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295704 Caregiving is often a silent act of devotion—unseen, unacknowledged, and isolating. Millions of informal caregivers in the United States spend their time and energy supporting loved ones with age-related limitations, chronic illnesses, disabilities, or mental health challenges, often without pay or training. Their work sustains families, lightens the burden on health care systems, and contributes billions of dollars to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-informal-caregivers-use-storytelling-to-build-community-and-influence-policy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-ukraine/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-ukraine/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1295695 In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau target the orthodoxy of NATO’s post-1991 expansion as well as dismantling the prevailing narrative surrounding the war in Ukraine, including the logistical delusion of a Western victory and the dereliction of duty by European leadership that risks a global escalation.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-ukraine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-on-earth-do-you-justify-that-laura-kuenssbergs-selective-empathy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-on-earth-do-you-justify-that-laura-kuenssbergs-selective-empathy/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295684 On 8 March, on the BBC politics programme, ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’, the former BBC political editor put these impassioned words to Seyed Ali Mousavi, the Iranian ambassador to the UK: ‘Since we last spoke, your government has killed thousands of its own people in the streets who had the courage to stand up to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-on-earth-do-you-justify-that-laura-kuenssbergs-selective-empathy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-war-on-dei-and-the-scourge-of-white-supremacist-politics/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-war-on-dei-and-the-scourge-of-white-supremacist-politics/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295698 The campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion is not simply a dispute over campus bureaucracy or the specter of so-called “woke” politics. It is a struggle over the very meaning of citizenship. Beneath the language of neutrality and merit lurks a much older project rooted in the legacy of white supremacy. The attack on DEI attempts [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-war-on-dei-and-the-scourge-of-white-supremacist-politics/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-and-netanyahus-iran-war-could-trigger-a-new-economic-crisis/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-and-netanyahus-iran-war-could-trigger-a-new-economic-crisis/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295693 The Iran war could lead to rising food and fuel prices, supply chain shocks, and currency crises. And it’s happening just as the shadow banking system looks set to implode… Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s war has already caused untold damage to the global economy. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, combined with Iranian attacks on fossil [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-and-netanyahus-iran-war-could-trigger-a-new-economic-crisis/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jon-stewart-versus-the-resistance/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jon-stewart-versus-the-resistance/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:45:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295701 On Saturday, February 28, 2026, the U.S.-Israeli air force resumed bombing Iran. Among the first reported killed were over 165 people in an Iranian elementary school and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. On Monday evening, the late-night television hosts addressed the slaughter. “My immediate reaction when I saw this on Saturday,” Stephen Colbert said solemnly, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jon-stewart-versus-the-resistance/feed/ 0