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October 26, 2026, CounterPunch: Stephen Zunes discusses with Daniel Falcone recent events surrounding the UN vote and the future of Western Sahara. Zunes looks at the political challenges posed by Morocco’s claims to the territory, UN peacekeeping the role of…
The Nation October 14, 2026/November 2026 Issue, by Stephen Zunes She believes that human rights and international law are universal principles that must be enforced regardless of violator’s ideology, ethnicity, or geostrategic alignment. With international law and human rights under…
Dr. Rod Berger Show, Sep. 4, 2026, 43 mins. Wide-ranging interview which not only covers a number of contemporary issues, but includes a bit about Zunes’s background and how he ended up doing my work on the Middle East, nonviolent…
The Majority Report, August 6, 2026 (Zunes begins at 20:40): w/ Stephen Zunes, Murtaza Hussain | MR Live
Middle East Eye podcast, August 6, 2026 (Zunes begins at 30-mins.)
BYLINE TIMES PODCAST, UK, August 4, 2026 (20 mins.)
The Nation, August 3, 2026: What was behind the border crisis in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Did the Israeli and US hostility toward Spain embolden Morocco to think it could get away with creating a border control crisis?
Al Jazeera English, August 4, 2026: On the Ceuta border crisis and EU
BBC, August 3, 2026 (5 mins.)
Global Continuity (GCF) July 25 2026, 45-mins. A good primer on Western Sahara.
Institute for Public Accuracy News Release, July 20, 2026, quotes Zunes: “In accepting generous subsidies from the Moroccan regime, the film’s producers have provided legitimacy to the illegal occupation. It would be the equivalent of filming in Israeli or Russian-occupied…
Arab Organisation for Human Rights in UK, May 23, 2026 full seminar, 55 min. Repression in Egypt is not happening in isolation, but is sustained through Washington’s continuous political and military support. Successive U.S. administrations have shielded the Egyptian government…
Counterpunch, April 27, 2026: by Bill Fletcher Jr. – Stephen Zunes.Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), along with Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Rick Scott R-FL), have introduced a bill targeting what they call the “Iranian Regime’s Polisario Front,” designating that popular North African…
Global Monitoring Center, March 5, 2026: Zunes is first of three panelists at this forum critically examining Morocco’s so-called “autonomy” proposal for the nation of Western Sahara, which it invaded, occupied, and illegally annexed in 1975. The US and several…
The Nation, November 13, 2025: The international community must decide which principle will prevail: the right of self-determination or the right of conquest [ audio podcast 6 mins.]
Inter Press Service, October 30, 2025, By Thalif Deen [quoting Stephen Zunes; source link] Described as a non-self-governing territory in northwestern Africa fighting for decolonization, Western Sahara is the last African colonial state yet to achieve independence… A former Spanish…
WRFI Human Rights Show [1-hour]: Stephen Zunes discusses Western Sahara’s struggles for sovereignty and self-determination, and the human rights violations taking place by Morocco’s occupation forces.
Pacifica Radio/WPFW, Washington DC, August 15, 2025 (56 mins.) Zunes and Professor Jacob Mundy (Colgate University, NY), his co-author of “Western Sahara: War, Nationalism and Conflict Irresolution,” critique the bogus attempted designation of Western Sahara as a “terrorist” entity.
Truthout, August 2, 2025, By Stephen Zunes [podcast & source] The UN treats the Polisario as the legitimate representative of the Western Sahara people. Washington’s designation of armed groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) has always been politicized, but it…
First published in the Santa Cruz Sentinel July 11, 2025, by Stephen Zunes:“My guest editorial from the Santa Cruz Sentinel takes on Rep. Jimmy Panetta for his bill that would designate the government of Western Sahara as a Foreign Terrorist…