About Z Commentaries
Z Commentaries are sent every night to all Z Sustainers, and have been for many years. They are a kind of thank you mailing, you might say, for those who are supporting our overall operations.
Commentators are diverse and many. A few of the more prominent ones are listed in the top menu, to show just their work. In time we will add a left menu, up above this text area, and below the generic menu that now appears, with the same purpose, but for more people.
Latest Commentaries
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Rasmus: TPP Trade Negotiations At Critical Juncture
March 25, 2015
Concluding a TPP deal in 2015 is right up there—along with across the board corporate tax rate cuts—at the top of Corporate America’s ‘must have’ list for this year Read more →
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Dolack: Real unemployment is double the ‘official’ unemployment rate
March 23, 2015
How many people are really out of work? Read more →
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March 22, 2015
The most important event of this annual commemoration has been an angry march of tens of thousands of Greeks from the Polytechnic campus to the US embassy in Athens Read more →
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Emanuele: A Tragic Anniversary: Reflections on Iraq, Activism and Commitment
March 21, 2015
I'm not prescribing martyrdom for the movement. I'm simply wondering what sort of sacrifices, discipline and commitment it will take to stop the most powerful military machine in the world? Read more →
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March 20, 2015
People who live in glass, dollar-drenched houses of fake democracy should not throw stones Read more →
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Emersberger: When Our Monsters Speak, TV Journalists Go Deaf
March 19, 2015
A morally bankrupt alliance – one that also places westerners at risk – is passed over in silence. For lavishly paid TV journalists, the price is well worth it Read more →
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Barragan: The Dangers of Vintage Racism
March 17, 2015
The SAE anthem is the ugly veneer of the kind of institutional racism that led to the fact that over the past two years, the black residents of Ferguson accounted for 85% of all traffic stops Read more →
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Swanson: The Washington Post Will Kill Us All
March 16, 2015
When you're starting wars on the grounds that if you don't start a war now someone else could theoretically start one later, you have set up a logic of Armageddon Read more →
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Street: The IS Shock, the ‘New Cold War,’ and the Unmentionable History of US Empire
March 15, 2015
The United States’ complicity, along with its satellites and allies, in the rise of ISIS, goes back at least to the late Cold War era Read more →
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Dolack: The Art of Becoming Human
March 14, 2015
That 22 veterans commit suicide per day is a grim reminder not only of the harsh demands of military life but that the Pentagon effectively throws away its veterans after using them Read more →
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March 13, 2015
During my four stints in U.S. federal prisons, I've witnessed long-term inmates' unconquerably humane response when a newcomer arrives Read more →
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Scipes: Homan Square Police Site and the Mainstream Media’s Lack of Concern
March 12, 2015
Chicago Media Exposed for its Deceitfulness Read more →
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Street: Barack Obama, Monty Python, and the U.S. Threat to Venezuela
March 11, 2015
The United States President recently told his fellow US-of-Americans that Venezuela – yes, Venezuela – is an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States” Read more →
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Street: The Ruling Class Never Lost Its Way – or Its Power
March 10, 2015
US capital never lost its way or its dominant role in American society Read more →
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Roos: In Amsterdam, Rebellion Against the Neoliberal University
March 9, 2015
All these years, the neoliberal university quietly bred its own nemesis — now let’s rejoice as we join in the rebellion Read more →
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Brecher: Building people power before the Paris climate summit
March 8, 2015
The global climate protection movement does not need either to support or to block the Paris climate summit. It needs to raise the pressure on the governments and institutions of the world Read more →
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March 7, 2015
We need more public discussion of the woman-hating and of how—short of censorship—to combat it Read more →
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Fletcher: Chapel Hill and the Racialization of Murder
March 6, 2015
It is througha struggle around the racialization of murder that we have the opportunity to change not only the manner in which crimes are addressed and tolerated by the larger society Read more →
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Cohn: Netanyahu, ‘Censored Voices,’ and the False Narrative of Self-Defense
March 4, 2015
Referring to “the remarkable alliance between Israel and the United States” which includes “generous military assistance and missile defense,” Netanyahu failed to mention that Israel has an arsenal of 100 or 200 nuclear weapons Read more →
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Bond: South Africa’s Austerity Meets Opposition
March 3, 2015
Around 3000 protesters from the new United Front party recently marched to parliament against new economic plans Read more →
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Sitrin: “If We Can Stop Monsanto, We Can Change The World”
March 2, 2015
A conversation with Vanessa Satoris from The Malvinas Assembly in Argentina Read more →
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Street: Capitalist Cotton Slavery and a Case (One Would Think) for Reparations
March 1, 2015
Review of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, by Edward E. Baptist Read more →
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Swanson: Skipping The Speech for All the Wrong Reasons
February 28, 2015
Imagine if we had one Congress member who would say, "I'm skipping the speech because I'm opposed to killing Iranians" Read more →
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Roos: Greece: Time for Plan B?
February 26, 2015
The uncompromising stance of European creditors is rapidly shattering Greek trust in the Eurozone. Is it time to start preparing for Grexit? Read more →
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February 25, 2015
I believe Syriza is sincere, and I’m rooting for them, but they may have overestimated their own strength, while forgetting how the Mafia came to occupy its position Read more →
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Cook: Peter Oborne opens a media can of worms
February 23, 2015
Dependency on advertising is inherent in the very model of a so-called “free press” owned by profit-hungry media conglomerates Read more →
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Emanuele: Amusing the World: Media Consumption and Culture
February 22, 2015
The rest of the world is now consuming media at the same pace, and in the same forms, as those living in the United States Read more →
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Rasmus: Greek Debt as Labor Contract Negotiations
February 21, 2015
Negotiations over the Greek debt in Europe in recent weeks reveal noteworthy parallels with labor-management contract negotiations Read more →
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Dolack: Federal Reserve Says Your Wages Are Too High
February 20, 2015
Our need to sell our labor, the resulting reduction of human beings’ labor power to a commodity, and the endless competitive pressures on capitalists to boost profits underlie the present economic difficulties Read more →
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Sitrin: Education as Commons: Bachilleratos Populares in Argentina
February 19, 2015
Participants reflect that the self organized nature of the schools is directly connected to the horizontal and assembly based movements that came out of the popular rebellion of December 2001 Read more →
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