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Mar 2, 2026 - News, analysis, & commentary from ZNetwork, a leading independent media outlet since 1977, dedicated to advancing vision & strategy for a better world.

A Visit to El Maizal Commune in Venezuela

On Friday, October 25, at a town hall held on his social media platform X, Elon Musk told the audience that if Trump wins, he expects to work in a

(17 December 2007) After the initial forecasts that Bharatiya Janata Party was set to win the elections in the Indian state of Gujarat, the tide

This week on Talk World Radio, we are welcoming back Alfred de Zayas, who is a law professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and served as a United

Assange is a special category created for content of reporting and analysis relating to Julian Assange, ethnical hacker and founder of WikiLeaks. Assange is...

The Democrats made full use of the situation in Iraq in their successful campaign for Senate and House seats in the mid-term elections. Although George

I visited Baghdad as a reporter a few years before the US invasion. There were posters and statues of the ousted President Saddam Hussein everywhere. But

Several months ago I attended the "State of the Black World Conference" in Atlanta Georgia. Among those present were black activists, politicians,

From the very beginning of the revolt in south-eastern Ukraine the presidential administration in the Kremlin set out to establish its control

Few would argue with the fact that journalistic standards in the west have collapsed to the point of non-existence. In the US this has occurred since

Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on or emanating from Chile.

An estimated 16,000 unionized nurses from private hospitals across the New York City metropolitan area announced strike authorizations on Friday as

Kristen L. Buras, contributor at ZNetwork

Rami Alhames, contributor at ZNetwork

Can an alliance of social movements defeat racist legislation and authoritarian takeover? What happened a decade ago in North Carolina provides

ZStaff Picks: Who says capitalism doesn't work? I think it works a dream for the capitalists and their cronies. This video from the Led by Donkeys activists...

Here comes the most fascinating election of 2002: Robert Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe through guerrilla war to liberation from Rhodesian colonists in 1980,

Badri Raina is a well-known commentator on politics, culture and society. His columns on the Znet have a global following. Raina taught English literature at...

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 145,000 Venezuelans immigrated to the U.S. from 1990 to 2011

The Constitutional Law of Productive Councils of Workers gives legal status to bodies which already exist in many workplaces and is aimed at giving workers...

Taxpayer-Funded Drug Research Should Require Open-Source Sharing by BigPharma, Not Profiteering Patents. Let's Start With the Coronavirus Vaccine

It was beautiful to see in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, the largest gatherings in recent times of representatives of native peoples from many tribes in defense...

Billy Nessen, contributor at ZNetwork

The open arms with which corporations are welcomed stands in stark contrast to the treatment of civil society this year, who, beyond being exiled en masse on...

Note: This article is derived from a speech, "The Next Four Years: Building Our Movements in Dangerous Times," given by the author at a conference in

Biden the Bold vs. Joe the Timid

Trump is seeking to scuttle the accord as part of a major anti-Iran offensive. The Trump administration equates Shia Muslim Iran with the Sunni extremist group...

Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on or emanating from Spain.

Sharif Abdel Kouddous has reported from across the Arab world, including Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, Bahrain, and Algeria, as well from across...

If you are like most people, you know a lot more about how farm animals are treated on factory farms than dogs, primates and other animals are treated in US...

When President Trump announced that the CIA had been authorized to conduct operations inside Venezuela, just as U.S drones struck another small boat off

The popular podcaster holds some ugly reactionary views and needs to do more research before he speaks. But his audience are people that leftists should want...

Fighting in Iraq Until Hell Freezes Over

With nations first caucus less than two weeks away, poll shows Sanders making gains for strong proposals like Medicare for All and holding Wall Street...

Mediachannel.org DOHA, QATAR February 5: World be warned: the modern centurions in the Pentagon have finally surfaced their plans for "long war," a

Does getting involved in social change work help you meet people, make friends and even find love? And would it matter if it did? If the goal is to grow

The debt ceiling drama seems to be nearing its end, as the US House of Representatives passed legislation that would lift the debt ceiling in accordance

New data and the health care debate reveal how Republicans feel about poor people who get sick: They think they deserve it

The clock is ticking for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the hapless, feckless leader of the Shiite fundamentalist party Al Dawa. From Washington,

Jason Stanley, contributor at ZNetwork

Many people around the world are disturbed by U.S. drone attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and elsewhere. The illusion that American

Michael Grabell, Bernice Yeung and Maryam Jameel, contributor at ZNetwork

In a twist of fate, obituaries appeared for the inventor of the Barbie doll just as a $50 million advertising campaign got underway for an anti-wrinkle

In 1962, the historian Barbara Tuchman published a book about the start of World War I and called it The Guns of August. It went on to win a Pulitzer

A group of congressional Democrats and Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday highlighted dozens of profitable U.S. corporations that have paid their

Jon Queally is managing editor of Common Dreams.

CJ Polychroniou: Noam, the unthinkable has happened: in contrast to all forecasts, Donald Trump scored a decisive victory over Hillary Clinton and the man

The people are on the path to build a powerful political movement against both corporate-controlled parties to fight for a government that represents the...

George Monbiot and the Guardian of London on "Genocide Denial" and "Revisionism" Edward S. Herman and David Peterson On

Interview on What Will Happen Next

Daniel Falcone, contributor at ZNetwork

In April 2023, a war broke out in Sudan between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese National Army. Its impact has been devastating, millions

Danny Antonelli, contributor at ZNetwork

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Denis Moynihan, contributor at ZNetwork

We are endlessly and repetitively treated to sermons on the wonders of capitalism. Everybody will be taken care of, with the proviso that you are willing

What can we do to turn around decades of union decline? This is the key challenge of our era, because the power of a revitalized labor movement is needed

THE PLAYWRIGHT and outspoken political activist Harold Pinter died December 24 in London at the age of 78, after a battle with cancer of the

One year after media reports that Aso Mining used 300 Allied prisoners of war for forced labor in 1945, Foreign Minister Aso Taro is refusing to confirm

Andrea M, contributor at ZNetwork

William Boardman, contributor at ZNetwork

Multiple things can be true at once. The Iranian people are engaged in a legitimate popular struggle against an entrenched political elite that has failed

Chief of Strategic Communications and Spokesperson for United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

Chris Maisano, contributor at ZNetwork

Perhaps it is time for a broader discussion about election meddling

he idea that we would not address pressing needs, like climate change, child care, and health care because we are concerned about the debt burden is close to...

It was up to us to face the Trumps of the world and their police. And we are doing just that

Indymedia, Israel October 25, 2001 For a whole week now, The Israeli army has been terrorizing cities and villages in the West Bank. As in the darkest

In his State of the Union address a few weeks ago President Obama called for a raise in the federally mandated minimum wage from $7.25 to $9.00 an hour.

Chauntey Wilson, a formerly incarcerated transgender woman, got the health care she needed while Donald Trump was president. She fears others may not be

Faced with shuttered schools and top-down, profit-motivated reforms, parents and students in Chicago, Ill., are looking to autonomous pedagogical

Who governs? For socialists, the answer is often an obvious one: the capitalist class governs, of course. But upon closer inspection, the composition of

By the end of 2013, the number of workers in the solar energy industry in the US had grown to 143,000

On April 8, a hybrid helicopter-airplane known as the V-22 Osprey crashed in Arizona, killing all 19 Marines aboard. It was, said Air Force

Chris Williams, contributor at ZNetwork

Bailouts in the Time of Coronavirus

There is no denying the far right has emerged as a formidable political force around the world. Take the June European parliamentary elections, where

Interview on two recent elections in Latin America with historic implications

This fall, in the lead-up to the midterm elections, a group of Catholic nuns, Protestant ministers, and other faith leaders caravanned around South Dakota

NANCY FOLBRE is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research explores the interface between political economy and

The day before Hurricane Ian hit Cuba, 50,000 people were evacuated and taken to 55 shelters. By October 1, less than five days after landfall, 82% of the...

If we said we could predict the winners in three-quarters of the horse races at Suffolk Downs, you'd say the fix is in. But when it comes to the 435 races

Israeli settlers attacked and chased away CNN journalists in the occupied West Bank who were reporting on the Israeli killing of 20-year-old Palestinian

In response to the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) created jobs for over 8 million people between 1935 and 1943. While data on

This letter is being sent to you by citizens of the state of Israel who are active in various Left groups and on a variety of topics throughout Israel/Palestine

For more than 50 years, Staughton Lynd has been a leading radical in the United States

/Keep to forgiveness (O Mohammed), and enjoin kindness, and turn away from the ignorant. /- The Koran, Chapter 7, Verse 199 During his lifetime, Prophet

The Inflation and Rising Interest Rates That Never Showed Up

""The similarities between the Vietnam and Iraq wars become more marked with each passing week.We are now told that the U.S. forces have surrounded

Kevin B. Anderson is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a distinguished scholar and writer known for his profound...

Carmen Navas Reyes, contributor at ZNetwork

At the beginning of 1968, I was living in a communal house in Hackney musing on being, nothingness, confused love affairs and mounting piles of washing

As the methods of deceit are the commercial backbone of the internet and more broadly, modern commerce, there would ultimately be less to recover than is...

Kyodo news service, contributor at ZNetwork

Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on or emanating from Jamaica.

Glenn Beck and his partner, David Barton, are holding training camps to teach fake history to a generation of students

A democratic Greece under Syriza would represent what democratic Spain represented for the international left in the 1930s

Kent Paterson, contributor at ZNetwork