Truthout, February 12, 2020: In an extraordinary joint press conference at the UN, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert outlined their objections to Trump’s so-called “peace plan” [to] allow Israel to annex large swathes of territory conquered in the 1967 war that it has since illegally colonized with Israeli settlers [and] leave small noncontiguous enclaves of remaining Palestinian territory surrounded by a greatly expanded Israel…
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INTERVIEWS: Trump ‘Peace Plan,’Middle East Update with Stephen Zunes
A “peace plan” for Israel-Palestine? War on Iran?
A way out of Afghanistan? East-West Conflict Over Syria?
Numerous tinderbox situations in the region are all made more dangerous by Trump’s impulsive, ill-informed actions.We take an authoritative look at the region’s many hot spots.
March 5, 2020 (58-min. video): Other Voices TV, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, hosted by Paul George, Director Emeritus, with Midpen Media Center, Palo Alto.
To the Brink of War with No Upside, January 17, 2020,
WhoWhatWhy.org Podcast interview with Stephen Zunes
Zunes debunks the Trump administration’s changing rationale for assassinating Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s response, and the risk of war. Among Zunes’s intriguing claims:
- Too little is said about Democrats’ role in the hostilities
- Exactly the same beefs the US has with Iran apply equally to many American allies
- Evidence does not support Trump’s key assertions about the Iranian general whose death he ordered.
Interview: Today’s US-Iran Crisis Is Rooted in the Decision to Invade Iraq
Truthout January 20, 2020. Listen at ScottHorton.org.
The ramifications of the illegal, unnecessary and predictably tragic U.S. decision to invade Iraq are still with us. This includes the ongoing crisis with Iran, which brought us perilously close to all-out war in early January, resulted in the tragic downing of a civilian airliner and remains in a hair-trigger situation..
Interview: Proof that Soleimani killed hundreds of Americans is “groundless”
There Is Zero Actual Evidence Iran Is Responsible for Killing Hundreds of Americans
TheProgressive.org, January 7, 2020 & Republished by:
CommonDreams.org, RadioFree.org, and GVWire.com (Fresno).
Trump’s Recognition of Israeli Settlements Is Rooted in Bipartisan Support
The Progressive, November 21, 2019: Three previous U.S. administrations all ignored the gross power asymmetry between the Palestinians under occupation and the Israeli occupiers—an imbalance compounded by the fact that as the chief mediator in negotiations, the U.S. is also the primary military, economic, and diplomatic supporter of the occupying power. [T]he illegality of the settlements couldn’t be clearer. Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention…
House of Representatives Finally Recognizes Armenian Genocide
The Progressive, November 20, 2019: For decades, the U.S. has refused to acknowledge the systematic killings of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I constituted genocide…
Biden’s Support of Iraq War Shows How He Would Run the White House
Truthout & OpEd News.org: [Biden] supported Bush’s decision to invade even after inspectors found no “weapons of mass destruction”… that says much about the kind of president he’d be…
Biden Has Defended US Allies’ Use of Lethal Force Against Civilians
Truthout November 4, 2019: Abu Hijleh and Saada were just two of scores of Palestinian activists murdered by Israeli assassins in the early 2000s…
Interview: BBC on Trump Impeachment
This Isn’t the First Time the US Has Abandoned the Kurds
Truthout October 10, 2019: Trump’s decision to give a green light for a Turkish invasion of Kurdish-populated regions of northern Syria has faced swift bipartisan opposition… following a conversation with authoritarian Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (one of a number of autocratic leaders with whom Trump has developed a close relationship)…
Biden Is Doubling Down on Iraq War Lies
Truthout & AntiWar.com, August 8 & 10, 2019: Biden has a long history of inaccurate claims regarding that oil-rich country… as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he insisted Iraq somehow reconstituted a vast arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, a nuclear weapons program and sophisticated delivery systems that had long since been eliminated…
Trump’s Threats towards Iran Aren’t Working. Here’s Why.
The Progressive, July 17, 2019: The Trump Administration has imposed sanctions against more than 1,000 Iranian entities… But recently it reversed course, backing off its threat to sanction a top Iranian diplomat in response to concerns it would foreclose any diplomatic recourse…
Also Dr. Zunes’ interview July 22, 2019 on KBOO
US Conflict with Iran: an anti-imperialist analysis
The Threat of War with Iran
The Progressive, May 15, 2019: The White House has ordered an aircraft carrier strike group off the coast of Iran and a fleet of bombers have flown to U.S. air bases near that country, while preliminary plans are apparently underway to send 120,000 U.S. troops to the region…
How Sudan’s Pro-Democracy Uprising Challenges Prevailing Myths about Civil Resistance
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, April 22, 2019: A powerful pro-democracy civil insurrection in Sudan which has ousted a longstanding dictator and his successor is still in progress, but Sudanese are hopeful for a full democratic transition…
Trump’s Controversial Decision on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
The Progressive, April 10, 2019: There is little question that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is bad news. Some of its units have engaged in severe repression of nonviolent dissidents, supported Assad’s brutal counter-insurgency operations in Syria, backed hardline Islamist militia in several foreign countries, and more…
INTERVIEW: Why Sudan’s Dictator Fell and What Comes Next?
On Rising Up With Sonali, Pacifica Radio network; April 12, 2019
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The Other Reason Biden Shouldn’t Run
The Progressive, April 22, 2019: As chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2002, Biden stated that Saddam Hussein had a sizable arsenal of chemical weapons as well as biological weapons, including anthrax, and that “he may have a strain” of smallpox, despite UN inspectors reporting that Iraq no longer appeared to have any weaponized chemical or biological agents…
U.S. Recognition of Israel’s Golan Annexation a Threat to World Order
March 25, 2019 in The Progrssive, AntiWar.com and Common Dreams: Trump’s decision to recognize Israel’s illegal annexation of the Golan Heights—Syrian territory seized in the June 1967 war—marks a serious violation of fundamental principles of international law…
‘More AIPAC Than J Street’: Kamala Harris Runs to the Right on Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy In Focus, January 28, 2019:
January 2017 Harris sided with Trump in criticizing the outgoing President Obama’s refusal to veto an otherwise-unanimous, very modest, and largely symbolic UN Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements. [Source]