Do you think it’s unfair that twelve men have more wealth than four billion people? Do you believe no-one should go hungry? Then you’re an anti-capitalist. Viral economist Clara Mattei explains.
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An incorrect argument is often made that immigration leads to decreases in wages. Wage stagnation is NOT caused by migrants, but IS a consequence of billionaire influence in politics, outsourcing of jobs, and declining labor protections. Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nKP...
What connects climate breakdown, capitalism, war, and media narratives? Today's trending Z Originals feature fresh analysis from Thomas Klikauer, Michael Albert, Jeremy Brecher, Majid Maleki Meighani, Lawrence S. Wittner, M. Reza Behnam, and more. znetwork.org/z_original/
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Home Z Original Editorial Philosophy Israel/Palestine The Price of Betraying Palestine: Moroccans Challenge Normalization with Israel By Ramzy
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What happens when governments know the risks—but choose not to tell the public? Robert Hunziker argues the biggest climate story isn’t just ecological breakdown—it’s political failure to confront it honestly. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
The Most Shocking Climate News of 2026
The UK Green Party’s former leader Caroline Lucas recently nailed the Labor Party for “burying the most explosive report” of the year by UK military and
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What would it actually take to phase out fossil fuels—not just expand clean energy? Jeremy Brecher argues that renewables alone aren't enough. Communities are using lawsuits, divestment, local organizing, and policy to directly challenge fossil fuel power. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
Phasing Out Fossil Folly
The previous commentaries have described how people in cities, states, and communities have been expanding fossil free energy production and reducing
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If mainstream progressives won't confront concentrated power, who will? Eric Blanc argues that lasting change won't come from any single elected official. It depends on building independent organizations capable of transforming politics from the ground up. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
If Not AOC, Then Who?
What do we do if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decides not to run for president in 2028? It makes sense that many leftists are currently focused
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What happens when US global dominance begins to weaken? Majid Maleki Meighani explores India's place in a shifting world order, the limits of "strategic autonomy," and why today's geopolitical choices are shaped by the crisis of American hegemony—not simply national ambition. tinyurl.com/yeybsa76
India in the Age of American Hegemonic Crisis
In 1947, newly independent India set out on one of the twentieth century's most consequential development experiments. Jawaharlal Nehru's government
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What would it actually take to move beyond capitalism? Jason Hickel joins Michael Mezzatesta to explore ecosocialism, China's development, Western imperialism, economic democracy, and how mass movements can make systemic change possible. znetwork.org/zvideo/how-t...
How to Overcome Capitalism - Jason Hickel on Socialism, China, and the West
My guest today is Dr. Jason Hickel – professor at the Institute for Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of
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What happens when young people stop accepting a broken system? Sonali Kolhatkar explores how India's Gen Z transformed outrage over exam scandals into a mass movement that forced the education minister to resign—and what it could mean for the future of democracy. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
India's Gen Z Flexed Its Power—and Won
Young people across India recently made international headlines for mass protests over the recurring leaks of entrance exams that help students qualify
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What changes when we understand Zionism as a settler-colonial project rather than simply a national conflict? @billfletcherjr.bsky.social reviews Confronting Zionism and examines how race, colonialism, and international law shape the struggle for Palestinian liberation. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
“We Bring With Us European Civilization”: Race, National Oppression and the Construction of a Settler-Colonial Myth
In the spring semester of 1969, my ninth-grade social studies teacher, Mrs. Schwartz, tasked me with leading the “Arab” side of a debating team on what
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The term 'economic migrant' is often used when discussing immigration, but what does this phrase really mean? Who are 'economic migrants' and why are they being forced to move in the first place? www.youtube.com/shorts/A9Jtk...
What Does 'Economic Migrant' Really Mean?
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Can participatory democracy survive beyond one popular mayor? Jared Abbott & Stephanie McNulty explore what Peru's decades-long experiment in participatory budgeting can teach progressive cities about building democratic institutions that outlast any one administration. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
Mamdani-Style Mayors Should Study Peru’s Democracy Experiment
Zohran Mamdani’s tenure as New York City mayor has raised hopes of a more invigorated, deeper form of democracy and posed a question facing
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Has the "war on drugs" always been more about power than drugs? Carlos Ron examines how drug enforcement has repeatedly been used to justify intervention, sanctions, and militarization—raising questions about who is really being targeted. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
The "War on Drugs" Had More to Do With War Than With Drugs
On July 14, at a summit in Orlando, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Director Terrance Cole declared that Mexican cartels and the
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The term 'economic migrant' is often used when discussing immigration, but what does this phrase really mean? Who are 'economic migrants' and why are they being forced to move in the first place? Watch the full video to find out more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nKP...
When people lose faith in institutions, what kind of politics emerges? Arundhati Roy examines India's "Cockroach" uprising and asks what happens when a generation decides fear is no longer enough to keep people silent. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous
Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The
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How are AI data centers in the US connected to surveillance and war abroad? Pam Russell argues Nevada's data centers don't just power AI—they help sustain a surveillance pipeline linking local policing, corporate tech, and Israel's war on Palestinians. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
From the Great Basin to Gaza: How Nevada’s Data Centers Power a Surveillance Pipeline That Ends at Our Doorstep
The Israeli military’s Orwellian use of artificial intelligence for surveillance, targeting, and execution of attacks against Palestinians in Gaza and the
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Why do people migrate? Most debates begin at the border. Our new video starts much earlier—with trade, labor, war, climate, and power. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nKP...
The Real Story Behind Immigration, Work, and Power
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Most conversations about immigration begin at the border. But what if that's already halfway through the story? New educational video from Z premieres July 30. www.youtube.com/shorts/iB1tN...
Preview: The Real Story Behind Immigration, Work, and Power
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Most conversations about immigration begin at the border. But what if that's already halfway through the story? New educational video from Z premieres July 30.
What if another future is actually possible? Ted Glick reflects on Michael Albert's The Wind Cries Freedom and asks what it would take to build movements capable of transforming society—not just resisting what's wrong. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
Imagining What Could Be: “The Wind Cries Freedom”
“The biggest shift in consciousness? I’d say it began in 2026. Really took off by 2028. That’s when the working-class vote for the far right started to
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What would it actually take to transform society—not just change governments? Today on Z: C.J. Polychroniou & Alexandra Boutri on radical change, plus new analysis on Palestine, Japan, war powers, international justice, political strategy, and more. znetwork.org
Is the US ready for radical change? C.J. Polychroniou argues that deepening crises are creating new possibilities—but real transformation depends on building movements capable of turning dissatisfaction into democratic power. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
Is the US Ready for Radical Change? Interview With C. J. Polychroniou
The US is the richest country in the world, yet an international outlier on many measures. Among industrialized nations, the US spends a lower percentage
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What does it actually take to build power—not just protest? Yotam Marom argues that movements need more than vision or resistance. They need strategy, organization, and institutions capable of changing society. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
How to Build a Real Strategy for Power
Most of Us Don’t Have a Strategy for Power The truth is, most of the groups and organizations that make up our movements do not have a strategy for
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What happens when even tech workers lose control over their work? Arielle Pardes examines how AI-driven layoffs, surveillance, and growing workloads are pushing workers once seen as "union-resistant" toward collective bargaining. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
How AI May Drive Union-Resistant Tech Workers to the Bargaining Table
For decades, the technology industry was a fortress that labor unions couldn’t breach. Tech workers already had cushy compensation packages, dream
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Why hasn't legal equality been enough to liberate women? Majid Maleki Meighani argues capitalism depends on unpaid care and unequal social relations—making genuine women's liberation impossible without structural change. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
Women's Liberation, the Family, and the Contradictions of Peripheral Capitalism
Beyond the Feminism-or-Family Dichotomy The relationship between feminism, the family, and capitalism has become one of the most contentious theoretical
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The insurance industry predicted 4 billion people could die this century from climate breakdown. Then went silent. We didn't. Here is our public briefing with Prof. Bill McGuire on what's coming and what we do about it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q93...
The Insurance Industry Predicts Mass Death: What Do We Do About It?
In January 2025, the British Insurance Industry predicted that 4 billion people could be dead in this century due to the breakdown of our climate. We're now a year and a half on from that report, and…
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The science was right. In 1988, Dr Syukuro Manabe predicted the Mediterranean region, North Africa and Southern California would all dry out in summers due to rising levels of greenhouse gases. In 2021 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics with two others for reliably predicting global heating.
Whether it be new wars or AI bubbles, world powers are again engaging in the same kinds of erroneous behavior. These nefarious actions, which focus on profit and domination for the select few, will result in dire consequences for the rest of us, those who do not get a say in the decision making.
What connects AI, climate, Gaza, war, and democracy? Today's Z features reporting and analysis on the systems shaping our world—and the people working to change them. znetwork.org
Who benefits from the AI boom—and who bears its costs? As data centers spread worldwide, communities are challenging their impact on land, water, energy, and local democracy. This article explores why resistance is growing alongside AI infrastructure. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
The Data Center Fight Is Going Global
Earlier this year, Gallup asked a national sample of Americans whether they would support an AI data center being built in their local area.
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