Category: Foreign Policy
Interviews: US/Israeli war Iran & Yemen
KPFA-FM, Pacifica radio with Kris Welch, on the spreading Middle East war Oct. 16, 2026, 20-min. (starts at the 38:55) Also Sept. 18 on Yemen, (Starts at the 35:40) and how U.S. policy helped create this mess.
Why Navi Pillay’s Receiving Nobel Peace Prize Is So Important
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…
Interview: Houthis not simply Iran’s proxies, says analyst
Channel News Asia (CNA) Singapore, October 13, 2026, 8 mins.The Houthis are aligned with Iran, but they are not simply carrying out Tehran’s orders, says Stephen Zunes, professor of politics at the University of San Francisco. Speaking to CNA’s Asia…
Interview: US Midterms & authoritarian threat
New Zealand radio show and podcast, Community or Chaos, Oct. 11, 2026, 1 hour
Interview: Hamas October 7 attacks, shift in public opinion & ongoing turmoil in France
KTVU San Francisco Bay area television station Oct. 7, 2026, 6 mins.
Quoted re Iran & US violates agreement on leaders addressing UN
On the U.S. decision to violate its 1947 agreement with the United Nations to allow foreign leaders to address the world body; and on Iran’s threat to establish a broader restricted zone, further threatening international shipping.
Interviews: 4 on KPFA Pacifica Radio
* A primer on Yemen with history explaining how U.S. policy helped create this mess (20 mins. starts at the 35:40 with Kris Welch) * Israeli and U.S. denial of Israeli violations of the Genocide Treaty * U.S. rejection of…
Interviews: 4 on Yemen, US and Iran
Al Jazeera English, Sep. 2026: https://mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/ahns18lWQ4 https://mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/Kr35z52fgx https://mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/2rbWx1qU2B https://www.instagram.com/reel/DduJ-9QjeXw/
BBC Interview: Iran War Implications
BBC, September 3, 2026: implications of the escalating fighting between the United States and Iran.
Democratic Voters Say They Want Change but the Party Just Elevated More Hawks
Truthout, September 3, 2026: Party leaders are ignoring the three-quarters of registered Democrats who oppose providing military aid to Israel. House Democratic leadership has picked two prominent hawks to join the House Foreign Affairs Committee while also promoting an even…
Interviews, KPFA, Pacifica Radio, Bay Area
Iran War Update, September 4, 2026 (15 mins. starting at 1:24)Changing U.S. policy towards Israel/Palestine, August 28 (15 mins. starting at 1:25)Harsher U.S. sanctions on Iran & increasing settler violence in the occupied West Bank, August 25 (4-mins.)
Interview: Zunes on Palestine, Western Sahara, nonviolent resistance
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…
Quoted: Will the Future of the UN be Dictated by a Hostile US?
Inter Press Service, Sept. 1, 2026, By Thalif Deen, Quotes Zunes, who said the makeup of the Security Council, having the headquarters of the United Nations located in the United States, is an outdated relic of World War II. For…
Quoted: Operation Epstein Fury Part 17. Fronts of the Iran War.
Zunes is quoted at length on Iran War developments in the Wyoming Star News, Aug. 28, 2026.
Interview: Changing U.S. policy towards Israel/Palestine
KPFA-FM, Pacifica Radio, Bay Area, Aug. 28, 2026 (15-min, starting at 1:25:10)
Interview: Gaza peace plan: Netanyahu may use rejection to his political advantage, says analyst
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.
Interview: US-Iran War Updates
KPFA-FM News August 9, 2026, on the latest regarding the U.S. and Iran.
Quoted: Vänstersvängen en reaktion på Trump – men kan stå Demokraterna dyrt
Dagens Nyheter, a major Swedish newspaper, August 8, 2026, quotes Zunes about the growing power of the leftwing of the Democratic Party.