March 2018 - Stephen Zunes

Mike Pompeo: Trump Is Handing the State Department Over from Exxon Mobil to the Tea Party

March 14, 2018 By admin

In These Times March 14, 2024: President Trump abruptly fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and plans to replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo [who] will only reinforce Trump’s most dangerous, reckless and militaristic instincts…

Global Journalist: Egypt’s Staged Election

March 9, 2018 By admin

[Zunes’ segment begins at 14 mins.] Global Journalist March 8, 2018: President Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi, who led a 2013 coup against Egypt’s first democratically elected leader, is expected to be handily re-elected. That’s because el-Sissi’s government has arrested or intimidated all…

Trump’s Middle East Policy: The Ironies of Hawkishness

March 8, 2018 By admin

Al Jazeera Report March 8, 2024: Despite broken campaign promises, Trump has pursued reckless and militaristic policies, deepening U.S. military involvement, backing the Israeli colonization and annexation of the occupied Palestinian territories, deepening ties to Arab autocrats, and threatening war…