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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“Free trade” agreements have very little to do with trade and much to do with imposing corporate wish lists Read more →
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There are some common threads a commitment to change; to empowering people; to building leadership-and sharing it; to trying new models; and to looking at problems systematically, as inter-connected, and with a global perspective Read more →
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Wilpert: Time to Take a Stand on Venezuela
Instead of silence, neutrality, or indecision from the international left in the current conflict in Venezuela, what is needed is active solidarity with the Bolivarian socialist movement Read more →
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Imagine if the media only reported the good news that governments and corporations wanted you... Read more →
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Kelly: What Does War Generate?
War profiteers and self-marketing politicians have no interest in helping U.S. people understand that war itself is a tyrant Read more →
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Dolack: Republican ‘moderation’
On an even playing field, the brutality of the programs put forth by the Koch brothers and their fellow libertarian billionaires wouldn’t pass the laugh test Read more →
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Engler: Election Interference Hypocrisy
Perhaps it is time for a broader discussion about election meddling Read more →
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Chomsky: Myths of Globalization
Since the late 1970s, the world’s economy and dominant nations have been marching to the... Read more →
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Kelly: “Would you like a drink of water?”
This week, in New York City, representatives from more than100 countries will begin collaborating on... Read more →
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Kelly: Feed the Hungry, Treat the Sick: A Crucial Training
We should, individually and collectively, do all that we can to prohibit U.S. supported Saudi-led coalition onslaughts against Yemeni civilians Read more →
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Dolack: A climatic baby step forward beats a leap backward
Capitalism won’t offer people displaced from dirty industries new jobs, and if the only option someone has to feed their family is take a job in the oil sands or in a coal mine, it is pointless to blame those workers Read more →
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de Sousa Santos: Towards a sociology of absences
This is 1913, we are at the hub of Europe’s cultural and political life, a... Read more →
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New Report Shows Corporations and Western Governments Continue to Profit from Looting of Africa Read more →
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Cohn: The Meaning of Assange’s Persecution
Nearly five years ago, Ecuador granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange political asylum at its London... Read more →
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Biegon: Trump’s “War on Trade” in the Americas
Will Trump’s mercantilist approach to trade threaten a more coercive economic regime, or will it follow traditional conservative trade policy? Read more →
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Engler: Entrenching colonialism in Africa
The recent seizure of phosphate from a Moroccan state company in South Africa and Panama is a blow to corporate Canada and a victory for national independence struggles Read more →
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Cohn: Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike as Trump Visits Israel
Will Trump express concern about Israel's human rights violations, including those underlying the prisoners' hunger strike? Read more →
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[In 1963, historian Howard Zinn was fired from Spelman College, where he was chair of... Read more →
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Barber: Voucher programs will accelerate school resegregation
At the same time public schools are resegregating as a result of increased privatization, the Trump administration is taking other actions that will hurt school integration Read more →
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Wallerstein: Global Left vs. Global Right: From 1945 to Today
In the ongoing structural crisis of the modern world-system, which began in the 1970s and will probably last another 20-40 years, the issue is not the reform of capitalism, but its successor system Read more →
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Cohn: Did Trump Commit High Crimes and Misdemeanors?
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has responded to the crescendo of outrage by appointing former FBI... Read more →
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Engler: Canadian colonial dreams
Can cute Canadian Caribbean dreams about enchanted islands come true? Or is reality more complicated and Canada a far less benign actor than we imagine ourselves to be? Read more →
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Dolack: Housing is a human right
A basic problem of housing it this: Housing is a commodity instead of a human... Read more →
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At the World Economic Forum-Africa, Germany pitched a dubious new G20 corporate strategy Read more →
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Engler: A blight upon the planet
Would the world be better off if the world's largest gold miner ceased to exist? Read more →
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Pilger: The universal lesson of East Timor
For the weakest, globalisation is an insidious colonialism that enables transnational finance and its camp-followers to penetrate deeperjojohn pilg Read more →
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Rasmus: France Elects Its Banker, Macron, as President
Business interests were united, while the left and right alternative parties were divided Read more →
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