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Featuring: U.S. moves toward war in Venezuela, Puerto Rico’s militarization, Gaza’s enduring resistance, Mamdani’s big win, & more...

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Although the world is experiencing severe global crises, there are new efforts underway to create a more effective means of coping with them. The crises are clear enough.  They include vast slaughter in horrific wars, w...
A Bold Campaign to Confront Global Crises
Although the world is experiencing severe global crises, there are new efforts underway to create a more effective means of coping with them. The crises
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November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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 ...
U.S Continues Campaign To Undermine South Africa And G20
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
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November 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each other safe. This story is part of ICE vs. LA, a collaborative reportin...
In South L.A., Black and Latino Neighbors Unite Against ICE as Systems Fail
As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each other
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November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The recent vote in the UN Security Council on Gaza – with Russia and China pointedly abstaining and the West once again attempting to choreograph the outcome – marked a moment that history may one day identify as a subt...
Transparent Colonialism and the Inalienability of Palestinian Sovereignty
The recent vote in the UN Security Council on Gaza – with Russia and China pointedly abstaining and the West once again attempting to choreograph the
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November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The Nov 2025 ZMagazine is out!

Featuring: U.S. moves toward war in Venezuela, Puerto Rico’s militarization, Gaza’s enduring resistance, Mamdani’s big win, & more...

New subscribers get their 1st issue FREE; sustainers get it monthly.
znetwork.org/about-suppor...
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The American system, still the most powerful in the world today, has decided to reward the work of a single entrepreneur (Musk) with $1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion dollars) for one year’s work. Furthermore, it allows ...
Maximum Violence
The American system, still the most powerful in the world today, has decided to reward the work of a single entrepreneur (Musk) with $1,000,000,000,000
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November 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
There is a painful truth in Balochistan that rarely reaches the outside world. Families who barely survive on low incomes still gather all their strength to send their children to study. A father sells his wife’s gold. ...
Baloch Students Fighting What They Should Never Face
There is a painful truth in Balochistan that rarely reaches the outside world. Families who barely survive on low incomes still gather all their strength
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November 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The crises of the modern world are multilayered: We are witnessing economic collapses, ecological destruction, and societal disintegration. Simultaneously, state violence, militarization, and the continuously reproduced...
Jineology: A Paradigmatic Rupture and the Quest For the Science Of Women's Liberation
The crises of the modern world are multilayered: We are witnessing economic collapses, ecological destruction, and societal disintegration.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This year, thousands of New Yorkers clawed political power out from establishment Democrats and brought it back home. When we elected Zohran Mamdani as mayor, we proved that the future of the city belongs to its people,...
Chi Ossé: Why I Became a Socialist
This year, thousands of New Yorkers clawed political power out from establishment Democrats and brought it back home. When we elected Zohran Mamdani as
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November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The Epstein list occupies a peculiar position in the contemporary political imagination: it is at once a genuine artifact of predatory criminality and a malleable instrument of elite power. Depending on who deploys it, ...
When Scandal Meets Structure: The Interlock of Epstein and Elite Societies
The Epstein list occupies a peculiar position in the contemporary political imagination: it is at once a genuine artifact of predatory criminality and a
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November 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
On Thursday dawn, Israeli settlers set fire to the Hajja Hamida Mosque in the Palestinian village of Deir Istiya in the north of the West Bank. Photographs taken at the scene showed racist, anti-Palestinian slogans spra...
The Ultimate Goal of Jewish Settler Violence in the West Bank
On Thursday dawn, Israeli settlers set fire to the Hajja Hamida Mosque in the Palestinian village of Deir Istiya in the north of the West Bank.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Staunchly following the dictum of Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels – “it will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy, that it gave its deadly enemies the means by which it was destroyed” – today’s...
German Works Council in 2026: 6 Strategies Against The Far-Right
Staunchly following the dictum of Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels – “it will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy, that it gave
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November 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The November 4 election gave us a huge boost. But for the 2026 midterms, success requires both electoral majorities and preparations for a popular uprising at vote-counting sites, state capitols, courthouses, workplaces...
For the Next Election, Prepare to Fight MAGA’s Steal
The November 4 election gave us a huge boost. But for the 2026 midterms, success requires both electoral majorities and preparations for a popular
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November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
As a kid, my favorite part of grocery shopping wasn’t the snacks or the cereal aisle, it was the tabloids at the checkout. I’d devour headlines about Batboy sightings, Bigfoot vacations, royal scandals, and the occasion...
America’s Peril: The Rot of Anti-Intellectualism and Demagoguery is Costing Us Our Future
As a kid, my favorite part of grocery shopping wasn’t the snacks or the cereal aisle, it was the tabloids at the checkout. I’d devour headlines about
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November 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“Down with communism,” they chanted while also waving the One Piece pirate flag, meant to be a symbol of resistance to elitist excess, corruption, and inequality. The right-wing march was also meant to be a Generation Z...
How The Right Wing Has Used AI And Influencers To Make Up An Anti-Government Movement In Mexico
"Down with communism," they chanted while also waving the One Piece pirate flag, meant to be a symbol of resistance to elitist excess, corruption, and
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November 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The United States’ decision to welcome Abu Muhammad al-Jolani (leader of the jihadist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS) into the White House while simultaneously branding ANTIFA-affiliated organizations as “foreign t...
Pro-Jihadist, Anti-Antifa
The United States’ decision to welcome Abu Muhammad al-Jolani (leader of the jihadist group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS) into the White House while
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November 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The origins of the Basque issue took shape after the Spanish Civil War. Following roughly three years of conflict between the Republicans and Nationalists, the fascist leader Franco established a dictatorship that laste...
How Did The “Peace Process” in The Basque Country Progress?
The origins of the Basque issue took shape after the Spanish Civil War. Following roughly three years of conflict between the Republicans and
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November 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Fifteen years after a landmark Supreme Court case turbocharged corporate spending in the political process, a group hopes it may have a way to finally rein in some of the outsized influence of the ultrawealthy. The 2010...
Montana Has an Ambitious Plan to End Dark Money in Elections
Fifteen years after a landmark Supreme Court case turbocharged corporate spending in the political process, a group hopes it may have a way to finally
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November 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The nuclear weapons thriller “A House of Dynamite,” directed by Kathryn Bigelow, depicts the catastrophic failure of U.S. anti-ballistic missiles to shoot down a long-range nuclear-armed missile, fired by unidentified a...
Missile Defense Fraud Goes Ballistic: Needless, Unworkable, Gold-Plated, Dangerous, & Corrupt
The nuclear weapons thriller “A House of Dynamite,” directed by Kathryn Bigelow, depicts the catastrophic failure of U.S. anti-ballistic missiles to shoot
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November 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
When the G20 meets in Johannesburg this November, President Cyril Ramaphosa will step into the spotlight as host. It is a historic first for Africa. With an agenda heavy on critical minerals, energy transition, and fina...
Whose Transition is it Anyway?
When the G20 meets in Johannesburg this November, President Cyril Ramaphosa will step into the spotlight as host. It is a historic first for Africa. With
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November 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
What lengths men will go in order to carry out, to their extreme limit, the rites of a collective self-worship which fills them with a sense of righteousness and complacent satisfaction in the midst of the most shocking...
Elimination by Other Means
What lengths men will go in order to carry out, to their extreme limit, the rites of a collective self-worship which fills them with a sense of
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November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Israel’s allies worldwide are desperately scrambling to help Tel Aviv re-establish a convincing narrative, not only concerning the Gaza genocide, but the entire legacy of Israeli colonialism in Palestine and the Middle ...
Polishing Genocide: Israel's Desperate War to Erase History
Israel’s allies worldwide are desperately scrambling to help Tel Aviv re-establish a convincing narrative, not only concerning the Gaza genocide, but the
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November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Ever since the Internet was born, along with Big Tech, in the 1990s, the world has had a sense that we have entered a new era in global political economy. Many have tried to place a finger on what this transformation is...
Have We Entered a New Feudal Era?
Ever since the Internet was born, along with Big Tech, in the 1990s, the world has had a sense that we have entered a new era in global political economy.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The imperialist exploitation of West Asia that accelerated after the First World War has never ceased. The effects on the region have been disastrous—wars, conflicts, ecocide and ultimately genocide.  They have left dee...
From Declaration to Dispossession: The Theft of Palestinian Land and the Birth of Israel
The imperialist exploitation of West Asia that accelerated after the First World War has never ceased. The effects on the region have been
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November 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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 i...
Europe Can’t Contain The Far-Right
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Wolfgang Munchau debunks the “cordon sanitaire” or "firewall" orthodoxy that European centrist parties must never form
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November 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM