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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Time to Take a Stand on Venezuela
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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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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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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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Election Interference Hypocrisy
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Perhaps it is time for a broader discussion about election meddling Read more →
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Since the late 1970s, the world’s economy and dominant nations have been marching to the... Read more →
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“Would you like a drink of water?”
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This week, in New York City, representatives from more than100 countries will begin collaborating on... Read more →
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Feed the Hungry, Treat the Sick: A Crucial Training
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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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A climatic baby step forward beats a leap backward
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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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Towards a sociology of absences
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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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The Meaning of Assange’s Persecution
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Nearly five years ago, Ecuador granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange political asylum at its London... Read more →
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Trump’s “War on Trade” in the Americas
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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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Entrenching colonialism in Africa
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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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Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike as Trump Visits Israel
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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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Voucher programs will accelerate school resegregation
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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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Global Left vs. Global Right: From 1945 to Today
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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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Did Trump Commit High Crimes and Misdemeanors?
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has responded to the crescendo of outrage by appointing former FBI... Read more →
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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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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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Would the world be better off if the world's largest gold miner ceased to exist? Read more →
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The universal lesson of East Timor
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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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France Elects Its Banker, Macron, as President
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Business interests were united, while the left and right alternative parties were divided Read more →
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