https://znetwork.org/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:03:27 +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/the-u-s-occupation-of-gaza-has-begun/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-u-s-occupation-of-gaza-has-begun/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:03:20 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294276 This week, Drop Site News revealed a draft resolution from Trump’s newly christened “Board of Peace.” The resolution outlines what is, in essence, Phase Two of Trump’s unrealistic peace plan that ushered in a new phase of horror in Gaza under the guise of a ceasefire.  The actions outlined in the resolution ignore realities on the ground [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-u-s-occupation-of-gaza-has-begun/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spain-shows-another-immigration-policy-is-possible/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spain-shows-another-immigration-policy-is-possible/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:56:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294274 The Spanish government has announced a regularization process for immigrants in an irregular administrative situation. It’s a move that could benefit more than five hundred thousand people currently living in Spain without legal status. With this measure, Pedro Sánchez’s broad-left government is swimming against the tide of Europe and the United States. The decision by [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/spain-shows-another-immigration-policy-is-possible/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hands-off-venezuela/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hands-off-venezuela/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:52:26 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294271 The underlying cause of the ongoing and horrific US intervention in Venezuela is capitalism and resource imperialism. This drives the US to control their resources and coerce Global South countries into submission. Those that do not submit get attacked. The U.S. current attacks on Venezuela are sadly not the exception but the rule— Iran, 1953, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hands-off-venezuela/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-board-of-peace-is-a-dystopia-in-motion/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-board-of-peace-is-a-dystopia-in-motion/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:47:49 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294268 While the sheer pomposity, Trumpian megalomania, and painfully paradoxical context surrounding the so-called “Board of Peace” (BoP) might tempt some to dismiss it as mere spectacle or farce, its criminal, inhumane, and hegemonic nature make it far too dangerous to ignore. Last week, Trump and his new, thuggish boys’ club of heads of state, publicly [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-board-of-peace-is-a-dystopia-in-motion/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-guardian-joins-the-cheerleading-for-a-war-of-aggression-against-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-guardian-joins-the-cheerleading-for-a-war-of-aggression-against-iran/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:43:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294265 International law is absolutely clear. If the US attacks Iran, it would be a war of aggression and the “supreme international crime”. The job of even supposedly liberal media like the Guardian is to persuade you this is not what is at stake. To disbelieve your lying eyes. Look at this astonishingly dishonest headline and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-guardian-joins-the-cheerleading-for-a-war-of-aggression-against-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/lemon-arrest-shows-being-near-protesters-can-make-you-an-enemy-of-the-state/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/lemon-arrest-shows-being-near-protesters-can-make-you-an-enemy-of-the-state/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:39:24 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294259 Two journalists—former CNN anchor Don Lemon and independent journalist Georgia Fort—were arrested by federal agents for their role in covering an anti-ICE protest at a St. Paul church. According to Deadline (1/30/26), a “Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said that Lemon was facing ‘conspiracy to Deprive Rights, and …interfering by force of someone’s First Amendment rights,’” meaning “Lemon could [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/lemon-arrest-shows-being-near-protesters-can-make-you-an-enemy-of-the-state/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-witnessed-many-ice-related-deaths-in-2026/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-witnessed-many-ice-related-deaths-in-2026/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:32:42 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294256 US witnessed many ICE-related deaths in 2026. This is a Power 98.7 podcast. Now we’re talking. Subscribe to Power 98.7 podcasts in iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. There’s more on Power987.co.za. Nine minutes past 11. You’re in Power Perspective with your host Tessa Dooms in the final hour of the show. We do have [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-witnessed-many-ice-related-deaths-in-2026/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/irans-currency-crisis-sparks-protests-and-attracts-foreign-meddling/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/irans-currency-crisis-sparks-protests-and-attracts-foreign-meddling/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:24:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294251 In early January, several currency trackers briefly displayed the Iranian rial’s value as “$0.00,” unable to process the speed and scale of the depreciation, making it unexchangeable on important international trading platforms. The fallout quickly translated into a protest in Teheran’s bazaar district and eventually led to a mass unrest. Unlike the 2019 fuel price [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/irans-currency-crisis-sparks-protests-and-attracts-foreign-meddling/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-spread-the-general-strike-beyond-the-twin-cities/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-spread-the-general-strike-beyond-the-twin-cities/#respond Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:14:16 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294246 On January 23, Minnesota unions and community organizations seized the public imagination with “a Day of Truth and Freedom,” an economic blackout that drew perhaps 100,000 marchers to downtown Minneapolis. The Twin Cities have been under siege from federal agents since December. Minnesotans have formed dense networks from the bottom up to patrol neighborhoods, feed the hungry, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-spread-the-general-strike-beyond-the-twin-cities/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beyond-corporate-media-journalists-are-stepping-up-and-speaking-up-about-ice/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beyond-corporate-media-journalists-are-stepping-up-and-speaking-up-about-ice/#respond Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:10:16 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294239 As millions around the world, fresh off watching real-time footage of federal law enforcement murdering Renee Good, saw federal agents murder Alex Pretti, CBS viewers got a headline (1/24/26): “Person Dead After Shooting in Minneapolis Involving Federal Immigration Agents.” You can check your calendar; it is 2026. And yet corporate media still think we’ll fall for that passive [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beyond-corporate-media-journalists-are-stepping-up-and-speaking-up-about-ice/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zohran-the-budget-crisis-is-real-workers-shouldnt-pay-for-it/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zohran-the-budget-crisis-is-real-workers-shouldnt-pay-for-it/#respond Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:01:55 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294236 Zohran Mamdani surely never thought that being mayor of New York City would be easy. Still, in his first month in office alone, he has had to confront daunting challenges, in addition to the usual harassment from mainstream media and the right-wing tabloids. Not long after being inaugurated, the new mayor has had to contend with a deadly winter [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zohran-the-budget-crisis-is-real-workers-shouldnt-pay-for-it/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-imperialism-madurismo-without-maduro-and-venezuelan-sovereignty-after-january-3/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-imperialism-madurismo-without-maduro-and-venezuelan-sovereignty-after-january-3/#respond Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:55:13 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294233 The US government’s January 3 military assault on Venezuela and kidnapping of then President Nicolás Maduro and National Assembly deputy Cilia Flores, sent shockwaves through the region. It has also sparked intense discussions about why and how it was able to occur, what the new Delcy Rodríguez government represents and what it all means for [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-imperialism-madurismo-without-maduro-and-venezuelan-sovereignty-after-january-3/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-trumps-spite-derailed-a-manufacturing-boom/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-trumps-spite-derailed-a-manufacturing-boom/#respond Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:49:44 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294231 It was just a few years ago that Cliff Tobey and other union miners on Minnesota’s Iron Range won significant wage increases and looked confidently to the future amid a thriving manufacturing economy. The federal government’s historic investments in infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, and cutting-edge industries galvanized demand for American-made materials and goods, including the taconite [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-trumps-spite-derailed-a-manufacturing-boom/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-bbc-pushes-the-case-for-an-illegal-war-on-iran-with-even-bigger-lies-than-trumps/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-bbc-pushes-the-case-for-an-illegal-war-on-iran-with-even-bigger-lies-than-trumps/#respond Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:58:29 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294228 Here is another example of utterly irresponsible journalism from the BBC on tonight’s News at Ten. Diplomatic correspondent Caroline Hawley starts by credulously amplifying a fantastical death toll of “tens of thousands of dead” from recent protests in Iran – figures provided by regime opponents. Contrast that with the BBC’s constant, two years of caution [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-bbc-pushes-the-case-for-an-illegal-war-on-iran-with-even-bigger-lies-than-trumps/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-campaign-to-make-east-jerusalem-unlivable/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-campaign-to-make-east-jerusalem-unlivable/#respond Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:48:40 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294225 Along with the constant violations of the ceasefire in Gaza, home demolitions are continuing apace in East Jerusalem. In Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood south of the Old City, the destruction does not come in the form of bombing, but as a routine administrative procedure. On December 22, shortly after dawn, Israeli authorities razed a thirteen-apartment [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-campaign-to-make-east-jerusalem-unlivable/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-kwame-nkrumah-knew-about-profit-shifting/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-kwame-nkrumah-knew-about-profit-shifting/#respond Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:41:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294222 You won’t find the words “tax haven” or “profit shifting” among the pages of Kwame Nkrumah’s Neocolonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism, published 60 years ago. Yet Ghana’s first president and pan-Africanist recounts a familiar story of corporate greed and capital flight, where imperial corporations with their complex multi-jurisdiction structures, aggressive tax practices, and clandestine deals are a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-kwame-nkrumah-knew-about-profit-shifting/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/hostile-takeovers-as-u-s-claims-venezuelas-oil-trump-seeks-vassal-states-across-the-world/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/hostile-takeovers-as-u-s-claims-venezuelas-oil-trump-seeks-vassal-states-across-the-world/#respond Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:36:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1294219 In the aftermath of the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, Venezuela has agreed to submit a monthly budget to the Trump administration, which will release money from an account funded by oil sales. It’s a deal for the interim government led by Delcy Rodriguéz that historian Greg Grandin calls [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/hostile-takeovers-as-u-s-claims-venezuelas-oil-trump-seeks-vassal-states-across-the-world/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-freeze-ice-state-power-and-the-cost-of-treating-people-as-problems/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-freeze-ice-state-power-and-the-cost-of-treating-people-as-problems/#respond Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:46:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294203 The shoes were placed carefully on the frozen sidewalk outside a downtown Minneapolis hotel. Hospital clogs. The kind worn by nurses who work long, unglamorous shifts keeping strangers alive. A handwritten sign leaned against them: Alex was here. Alex mattered. Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse and Minneapolis resident, was shot and killed by federal immigration [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-freeze-ice-state-power-and-the-cost-of-treating-people-as-problems/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/not-a-trump-anomaly-the-board-of-peace-and-americas-crisis-driven-power-plays/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/not-a-trump-anomaly-the-board-of-peace-and-americas-crisis-driven-power-plays/#respond Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:40:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294201 The history of American power is, in many ways, the history of reinventing rules—or designing new ones—to fit US strategic interests. This may sound harsh, but it is a necessary realization, particularly in light of US President Donald Trump’s latest political invention: the so-called Board of Peace. Some have hastily concluded that Trump’s newest political [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/not-a-trump-anomaly-the-board-of-peace-and-americas-crisis-driven-power-plays/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/police-states-are-terrifying-but-they-are-brittle-i-witnessed-this-in-tunisia/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/police-states-are-terrifying-but-they-are-brittle-i-witnessed-this-in-tunisia/#respond Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:37:22 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294198 Fifteen years ago this month, a mass movement in Tunisia overthrew the 24-year reign of U.S.-backed despot Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. What seemed impossible merely weeks prior became real. Today, living in the United States, things feel daunting, hopeless, terrifying: It is hard to imagine how to reverse the intensification of the police state, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/police-states-are-terrifying-but-they-are-brittle-i-witnessed-this-in-tunisia/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-in-our-communities-the-new-ku-klux-klan/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-in-our-communities-the-new-ku-klux-klan/#respond Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:30:31 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294195 The country is witnessing the revival of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a white supremacist, far-right hate group in the United States, through ICE and Border Patrol officers terrorizing our communities. The group is infamous for using terrorism, violence, and intimidation to promote white supremacy and oppress minority groups, particularly Black Americans. The KKK has [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-in-our-communities-the-new-ku-klux-klan/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-cannot-separate-imperialism-from-domestic-militarization-understanding-the-links-between-ice-gaza-and-u-s-foreign-policy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-cannot-separate-imperialism-from-domestic-militarization-understanding-the-links-between-ice-gaza-and-u-s-foreign-policy/#respond Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:22:21 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294193 This week, over 1,000 advocacy organizations sent a letter to Congress demanding that lawmakers stop funding United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol. The call comes amid widespread protests over the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. “How many more people have to die, how many more lies have [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-cannot-separate-imperialism-from-domestic-militarization-understanding-the-links-between-ice-gaza-and-u-s-foreign-policy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/iran-the-anatomy-of-dey/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/iran-the-anatomy-of-dey/#respond Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:16:52 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294191 When we speak of the “Dey uprising” — Dey in the Iranian calendar roughly corresponds to late December through mid-January — it is tempting to compress the whole episode into two images: the street and repression. That shortcut serves two audiences at once: the state, and lazy analysis. The state prefers to claim it was [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/iran-the-anatomy-of-dey/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/governing-crisis-sanctions-austerity-and-social-unrest-in-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/governing-crisis-sanctions-austerity-and-social-unrest-in-iran/#respond Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:10:17 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294189 On December 28, 2025, protests erupted across multiple cities in Iran in response to currency collapse and spiraling living costs. As the exchange rate grew more volatile, sections of Tehran’s Grand Bazaar and commercial centers shuttered. Rapidly shifting prices made imports, pricing and trade impossible. The state moved quickly to implement an emergency measure embedded in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/governing-crisis-sanctions-austerity-and-social-unrest-in-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-imperial-proto-fascism-can-only-be-defeated-through-a-united-front/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-imperial-proto-fascism-can-only-be-defeated-through-a-united-front/#respond Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:04:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294187 The United States is on a very dark path under President Donald Trump, argues political scientist, political economist, author, and journalist C. J. Polychroniou in the interview that follows with the independent French-Greek journalist Alexandra Boutri. Democratic rules and norms have virtually collapsed, and cruelty is the name of the game. Trump has used the military and federal [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-imperial-proto-fascism-can-only-be-defeated-through-a-united-front/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/water-sovereignty-is-not-a-supply-problem/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/water-sovereignty-is-not-a-supply-problem/#respond Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:00:29 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294185 Across much of Africa, water policy over recent decades has followed a familiar and seemingly rational path: build large dams, drill deeper wells, transfer water across basins, and increasingly rely on desalination. These investments were often necessary, and in many cases prevented immediate crises. But they also expose a deeper failure in how water security [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/water-sovereignty-is-not-a-supply-problem/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/you-said-you-wanted-a-fight-on-memory-solidarity-and-collective-struggle/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/you-said-you-wanted-a-fight-on-memory-solidarity-and-collective-struggle/#respond Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:55:57 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294162 “You Said You Wanted a Fight” is built around a simple idea: one of the most effective tools of power is making people forget how often collective struggle and solidarity have already worked. Across history, movements for abolition, labor rights, civil rights, environmental protection, disability access, and LGBTQ+ liberation were all declared impossible – until [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/you-said-you-wanted-a-fight-on-memory-solidarity-and-collective-struggle/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-nonviolent-resistance-doesnt-require-your-opponent-to-have-a-conscience/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-nonviolent-resistance-doesnt-require-your-opponent-to-have-a-conscience/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:48:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294179 One objection comes up often when discussing nonviolent resistance. “That only works if your opponents have a conscience. Trump and his allies have shown they have none.” It’s true – they revel in cruelty. But fortunately, this rests on a fundamental misconception about how this strategy actually works. The truth is more encouraging: nonviolent resistance [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-nonviolent-resistance-doesnt-require-your-opponent-to-have-a-conscience/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/our-power-is-organized-people/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/our-power-is-organized-people/#respond Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:35:56 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294176 Alex Pretti was participating in community defense when he was killed Saturday, Jan. 24, by federal agents in Minneapolis. The Trump administration has responded to the tragedy with only a slight change in tone, demoting a high-level Border Patrol official and discussing the ongoing crisis with Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey. These moves will [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/our-power-is-organized-people/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/latin-america-pushes-back-against-u-s-intervention/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/latin-america-pushes-back-against-u-s-intervention/#respond Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:34:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294182 When Senator Tim Kaine told Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a recent Senate hearing on Venezuela that the administration’s announcement of a new Monroe Doctrine “does not land well in the Americas,” he was putting it mildly. I just returned from an emergency gathering in Bogotá on January 24-25 with about 90 delegates from [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/latin-america-pushes-back-against-u-s-intervention/feed/ 0