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CNA/Channel News Asia, Singapore television, August 10, 2026: Zunes’s analysis on Netanyahu’s rejection of the Trump-backed “peace plan” for Gaza on a Singapore news program this morning.
Dagens Nyheter, a major Swedish newspaper, August 8, 2026, quotes Zunes about the growing power of the leftwing of the Democratic Party.
The Progressive, July 29, 2026: Haley Stevens, now a member of the House of Representatives, exudes hostility toward the International Criminal Court.
DemocracyNow.org April 23, 2026 (14 min.)
KPFA-FM Sunday Show, October 19, 2025: Full first hour.Also, on Pacifica Radio affiliated stations about the shaky Gaza ceasefire, the October 18 No Kings protests, and related issues.
Community or Chaos, New Zealand radio show/podcast, Sept. 1, 2025 One hour, while reporting live at Labor Day protests in Santa Cruz, CA.
VIDEO: Resistance with Metta Spencer July 2025, featuring Zunes, Jorgen Johansen, and Jill Carr-Harris, on the role of strategic nonviolent action in challenging the crises facing the world today. Also see his overview of recent developments: The Power and Value of…
May 17, 2025, Stephen Zunes’s keynoteaddress at the 2025 Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation Spring Assembly
VIDEO of Stephen Zunes and Rebecca Solnit in conversation at the University of San Francisco April 22, 2025 [1:12] on a variety of topics related to growing authoritarianism in the United States and the resistance.
Discussion with Dr. James Zogby of the Arab-American Institute, where we examined the trajectory of the pro-Palestinian movement over the past 50 years, including his history as an advocate for Palestinian rights from grassroots campaigns in the 1970s to his…
4 Keys to Defeat a Coup (5 mins.): Dr. Zunes’s animated summary of his research on coup resistance. Also at ChooseDemocracy.us, see “10 Ways to Ground Ourselves” & “Bringing Down a Dictator”.
Serf City Times included this transcript of Dr. Zunes’ speech at a rally in Santa Cruz protesting U.S. Rep. Jimmy Panetta’s strident support for Israel’s far right government, placing him further right than even the Biden administration — and the…
First view Dr. Zunes’ 5-minute animated summary (scroll down to third video), of his research on coup resistance; then his Lecture at the University of San Francisco on how to prepare for the aftermath of the election in the event…
News Lines Magazine October 8, 2024[Dr. Zunes urges readers to please circulate this important article widely, particularly to those in swing states who are reluctant to vote for Harris because of the Biden administration’s Middle East policy.] A detailed analysis…
Truthout August 21, 2024, by Daniel FalconeFormer President Donald Trump is sometimes depicted as having a less interventionist foreign policy than his Democratic rivals, but this is a myth, argues foreign policy scholar Stephen Zunes. The former president had an…
Community or Chaos with Marvin Hubbard, August 25, 2024A 50-minute interview for a New Zealand radio station.
KSQD-FM August 19, 2024; 55 minutes (Dr. Zunes’s segment starts at 5:40)
Al Jazeera quotes Stephen Zunes July 13+15, 2024 in:* FBI probing Trump shooting as ‘domestic terrorism’ as RNC opens Stephan Zunes, a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco, said the attempted assassination – and Trump’s response to…
The Progressive, July 26, 2024: While her Senate record was hawkish, Harris has signaled she’d make justice for Palestinians a higher priority than Biden… [source]
The Progressive June 5, 2024Zunes warns how Biden’s Gaza policy and the repression against student protests is creating a political environment similar to 1968, in which alienating young and minority voters could dampen voter.