Interview: US Midterms & authoritarian threat
New Zealand radio show and podcast, Community or Chaos, Oct. 11, 2026, 1 hour
Category: Republican
Republican Foreign Policy
US War on ICC Isn’t New, Isn’t Just Coming From GOP, and Isn’t Just About Israel
Truthout August 7, 2026, by Stephen Zunes: This is a disingenuous bipartisan effort to discredit the ICC and international humanitarian law as a whole. [Transcript & 15-min. audio podcast]
Book Review–America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region
Perspectives in Politics, June 26, 2026: of George Washington University Professor Marc Lynch’s excellent new book on U.S. Middle East Policy
Quoted: Will US Opposition to UN’s Socio-Economic Goals Play a Decisive Role in the Vote for Next Secretary-General?
Inter Press Service [UN] June 18, 2026Zunes is quoted in this analysis on the influence Trump will have on the choosing of the next UN Secretary General. He told IPS under both Democratic and Republican administrations, the United States has…
Changing Course: US Policy on Israel & Palestine with Dr. Stephen Zunes
Unitarian Universalist Church Center, San Francisco, June 14 (90 min.)
Interview: Fresh US strikes unlikely to bring Iran back to the table
Channel News Asia (CNA) Singapore, June 11, 2026, 7 min.: Zunes explains renewed US strikes on Iran are more likely to escalate the conflict than advance negotiations, raising risks for regional stability and global markets.
On Iran, Trump Has Backed Himself — and Much of the World — Into a Corner
Truthout May 5, 2026: The same kind of US hubris that led to the tragic wars in Vietnam and Iraq is manifesting itself with Iran today. U.S. efforts to force an end to the stalemate in the Strait of Hormuz…
Interview: US action risks return to full-scale war
KTVU, Bay Area Fox 2, May 5, 2026, 5 min.
The Strait of Hormuz and War in Iran: A Film Screening and Discussion
At Resource Center for Nonviolence, May 8, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz: Film screening of “Plate It With Silver,” and discussion led by Stephen Zunes (USF) and Nidhi Mahajan (UCSC), on the current war and histories of trade across the…
Has Senator Cruz been Misinformed About Western Sahara or What?
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…
Interview: How Hawkish Democrats, from Schumer to Harris, Paved the Way for War with Iran
DemocracyNow.org April 23, 2026 (14 min.)
Conversations on Iran & Israel negotiations with Robert Malley and Daniel Zougbhie
Panel Zunes hosted April 20. 2026 [1:16] with Robert Malley, a key figure in recent Democratic administrations in negotiations with Iran and with Israel & Palestine, and Daniel Zoughbie of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California-Berkeley.…
BBC Interview: Uncertainty over US-Iran peace talks
BBC April 21, 2026: Uncertainty over US-Iran peace talks.
Interview: Lebanon, Israel, ceasefire prospects
KPFA-FM, Pacifica Radio with Kris Welch, April 17, 2026 (begins at 15:35)
This Isn’t Just Trump’s War on Iran. Both Parties Paved the Way for Disaster
Truthout, April 17, 2026: Democrats share responsibility with the GOP for creating the climate that made such a war possible. Unlike the invasion of Iraq, which received the support of a sizable minority of congressional Democrats, Donald Trump’s war on…
Operation Epstein Fury Part 8. Is It Finally Over?
Zunes quoted in Wyoming Star, April 10, 2026, by Joe Yans: “Despite US and Israeli claims to the contrary, Pakistani mediators and others have confirmed that the agreement for a two-week halt to the fighting and the reopening of the…
Interviews since US-Israel began War on Iran
5-10 minute interviews on San Francisco Bay -area television stations: March 2, 2026, on KRON; KGO; KTVU; and again on KTVU Feb. 28, 2026