Z Weekly Digest February 2, 2024

February 1, 2024 - Bob Pease

An Interview with Bob Pease. The questions were compiled by Mark Evans who is a member of Real Utopia’s Outreach and Events Team. We are also exploring the possibility of…

January 31, 2024 - Medea Benjamin

The Trump administration dusted off the 19th century Monroe Doctrine that subjugates the nations of the region to U.S. interests. The Biden administration, instead of reversing course, followed suite, with…

January 31, 2024 - Nick Engelfried

Not many eras in modern U.S. history have been as turbulent for activists as the last 18 months. Grassroots organizers have had to contend with a lingering pandemic, increasingly unstable…

January 30, 2024 - Ramzy Baroud

Europe stayed silent when Israel began pounding the besieged Gaza Strip with the kind of ferocity that could only lead to a genocide. In fact, Europe remained silent when the…

January 29, 2024 - Neal Meyer

Neal Meyer is a national leader of Bread & Roses (B&R), a caucus of Marxist activists in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Based in New York City, he is on the editorial board…

Don’t Be Fooled By Biden’s Gas U-Turn

January 29, 2024 - Rachel Donald

Last week, the Biden administration announced it is pausing export approvals for Liquid Natural Gas (LNG). LNG, which has been branded a “transition fuel” by Western governments and fossil fuel companies, has…

January 28, 2024 - Boaventura de Sousa Santos

To understand the emergence and growth of far-right parties around the world, and especially in Europe, we need to go back to the end of the First World War and…

The Future of the European Left

January 28, 2024 - Thomas Klikauer

Even though conservatives, the right, right-wing extremists, and outright neofascists are seemingly on the fore-march in Europe, European progressive parties remain a force to be reckoned with. Whether in the…

January 26, 2024 - David Swanson

The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must cease its warmaking in Gaza — cease committing and inciting genocidal acts — and that the case charging Israel with…

Strategy Is A Craft

January 25, 2024 - Deepak Bhargava

In their new book,Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World, Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce argue that progressives need a strategy upgrade. As they explain, “We wrote this book…

January 24, 2024 - Kelly Hayes

Amid the struggle to survive Israel’s ongoing military attacks – which have left over 25,000 dead and more than 7,000 missing in Gaza – and the deprivations of a genocidal…

January 23, 2024 - Michel Moushabeck

There is very little more we can say that the thousands of reports and images of death, destruction and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza have not. Israel, without a doubt —…

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January 22, 2024 - Rachel Donald

Episode Highlights: The multiple crises the planet faces have solutions, says data scientist and head of research at Our World in Data, Hannah Ritchie. How to implement them remains a…

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February 2, 2024 - Juan Cole

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White of the Northern District of CaliforniaruledTuesday in a lawsuit brought by Palestinian-Americans and the Palestinian human rights group al-Haq against President Joe Biden, Secretary…

February 2, 2024 - Thomas Klikauer

It’s early February in 2024 and on the last 3 weekends in January hundreds of thousands of Germans took to the streets and rallied against the far-right AfD. Many politicians,…

February 2, 2024 - Luis Feliz León

Auto workers at Hyundai in Montgomery, Alabama, have signed up more than 30 percent of their nearly 4,000 co-workers in an ambitious drive to unionize. The Auto Workers (UAW) announced…

February 2, 2024 - Anne Farrell

According to Statistics Canada, student enrolment in the humanities has been declining since 2008. For all postsecondary students, humanities enrolments have dropped by 50 percent over the past 30 years.…

February 2, 2024 - Valen Iricibar

In Argentina, January is usually a quiet summer month, but this year began with a bang. The General Confederation of Labor (CGT, in its Spanish acronym) called a general strike,…

February 2, 2024 - Amnesty International

At least 11 states have decided to suspend funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), following allegations that some staff…

February 2, 2024 - Elizabeth Pancotti

Many Americans are still experiencing the sticker shock they first faced two years ago when inflation hit its peak. But if inflation isdownnow, why are families still feeling the pinch?…

February 2, 2024 - Grigory Yudin

Citizens in Russia saw a measurable chance for change — and immediately mobilized. Yes, this chance is measured in millionths of a percent — but it is intelligible. Had there…

February 2, 2024 - Eric Peterson

From the passage of Joe Biden’ssubsidy-laddeninfrastructure and climate legislation to calls from prominent liberals like Ezra Klein for a “supply-side progressivism,” Democrats appear to have rediscovered a long-standing tradition of…

February 2, 2024 - Jeannette Wicks-Lim

On January 1, 2024, the minimum wage increased from coast to coast. Indeed, 22 states and more than 40 cities and counties experienced wage increases in 2024 — most of…

February 2, 2024 - John Reynolds

The Israeli onslaught against Gaza has now killed more than twenty-seven thousand people. The main legal challenge to Israel’s war has come from South Africa’s case at the International Court…

February 1, 2024 - Marjorie Cohn

The judge noted that the US government doesn’t dispute the uncontradicted evidence of a “genocide in progress.” Mere hours after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found a plausible case…

Undoing Privilege

February 1, 2024 - Bob Pease

An Interview with Bob Pease. The questions were compiled by Mark Evans who is a member of Real Utopia’s Outreach and Events Team. We are also exploring the possibility of…

February 1, 2024 - Miles Kampf-Lassin

On Wednesday, Chicago became the largest city in the nation to endorse aresolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Israel’s war onGaza. The 24-23 vote came after full-throated debate among…

February 1, 2024 - Timothée Parrique

Economist Tim Parrique speaks with co-host Rachel Donald on this episode of the Mongabay Newscast about the economic model known as “degrowth.” According to the Lund University researcher, degrowth originated…

February 1, 2024 - Dave Kamper

Democracy is a central value of every trade union worth the name. But we shouldn’t assume that a more democratic union means a more militant union. Chris Bohner’s recent essay…

February 1, 2024 - Lynn Parramore

White House contenders ignore root causes threatening the program, potentially worsened by cuts. Is it due to reliance on wealthy donors? After the New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump and Nikki…

February 1, 2024 - Henry A. Giroux

Social movements are creating powerful new languages for confronting tyranny. We must resist the plague of silence. his week’s revelation that Donald Trump is already plotting new ways to try…

February 1, 2024 - Jonathan Cook

Israel has long plotted the downfall of UNRWA, aware that it is one of the biggest obstacles to eradicating the Palestinians as a people There is an important background to…

February 1, 2024 - Mattea Kramer

Amid ongoing emergencies, including a would-be autocrat on his way to possibly regaining the American presidency and Israel’s war on Gaza (not to mention the flare-ups of global climate change),…