Znet

• The Death Count Trap: Why Tallying Victims Won’t Stop Israel’s Genocide

  The words ‘killed’, ‘injured’, ‘maimed’, and the like often lose a great part of their meaning when they are repeated so relentlessly. Take, for example, a headline like: “13 Palestinians Killed in Gaza, Others Wounded.” Though many of us can still feel a deep sense of sadness over such a tragedy, the news itself becomes

• Rot From Within: The Palace-to-Street Silence Consuming the Arab World

  The plight of Palestine has been the emotional heartbeat of the Arab imagination for decades. From Casablanca to Baghdad, millions have chanted slogans, waved flags and wept over the dispossession of their Palestinian brethren. Yet, when an industrial-scale invasion laid waste to Gaza, reducing neighborhoods to ash and children to statistics, the Arab world’s response

• Review of Michael Albert’s the Wind Cries Freedom

  Climate-focused progressive author Phil Wilson (ZNet, July 24, 2026) writes that “out of our current predicament there are two (and only two) possible outcomes – a world of stagnant oceans, burnt banana plantations, death camps and survival bunkers, or a world of unprecedented international cooperation.” Michael Albert’s new book The Wind Cries Freedom: An Oral History