Expert Analyst: International Politics, Middle East & Nonviolent Action
Trump Foreign Policy
Civic Media Breaking News Jnne 21, 2025[24 mins., also on Facebook and YouTube] Civic Media carried a special report Saturday evening, anchored by Todd Allbaugh and joined by Stephen Zunes, a professor of politics and international studies at the University…
Kianistan June 17, 2025
Americans for Middle East Understanding, April 27, 2025The Trump administration will certainly take a more hardline policy in support of Israel’s right-wing leadership and in opposition to Palestinian rights. Given President Biden’s strident support for Netanyahu’s wars on Palestinian and…
*Al Jazeera English, June 19, 2025 *For a Bay Area TV network affiliate, KTVU, June 13, 2025*A 50-minute interview for a British podcast*A ten-minute interview for a radio show/podcast in upstate New York*For a national Indian news show, June 13…
Al Jazeera June 20, 2025: One of three panelists in this half-hour television news show analyzing the U.S. veto of an otherwise-unanimous UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the hostages
CNA/Channel News Asia television in Singapore (Mediacorp)7-min. Video: Restoring US-Syria ties may depend on battling terrorism and ensuring Israel’s security.
* 20-minute interview with Kris Welch on recent Middle East developments [May 30, segment starts 1:06:45]* Two on recent developments in Israel’s war on Gaza, U.S. policy, repression of student activists, related issues: June 8 begins at 10:20 and May…
Inter Press Service, UN April 18, 2025, Quoted by Thalif Deen [source] “Dr. Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, who has written extensively on the politics of the UN, told…
The Progressive April 11, 2025: How Congressional Democrats are siding with Trump against their own constituents on U.S. Middle East policy [source]
Singapore major morning news show (CNA Media Corps. 7 mins)
KQSD-FM March 2025 (30 mins.) on the crackdown on antiwar student activists and related issues
KPFA-FM news March 23, 2025 (segment starts at the 10:30)
Community of Chaos, New Zealand radio, March 18, 2025Hosted by an American expat, podcast in which Zunes discusses Trump policies ranging from Israel/Palestine to his dangerous domestic power grab
Al-Jazeera Media View, March 2025: On the onset of the U.S. bombing of Yemen [source link is no longer accessible]
KPFA-FM News March 9, 2025: Interview on recent developments (begins 2:30-6:30)
U.S. support for Israel‘s breaking the ceasefire agreement and unleashing the terror bombing on Gaza, 12-minute video from a forum held March 2025 by the Arab Organization on Human Rights (UK-based)
The Progressive March 6, 2025 (Please share widely)[source] While concurring that the outrage over Trump’s support for Putin is quite appropriate, Zunes notes how administrations of both parties have supported invasions and occupations when the aggressor has been an ally,…
Al-Jazeera English March 5, 2025 (28 mins.): On the Arab League’s summit and quite reasonable reconstruction and administrative plan for Gaza, which both Israel and the United States have rejected. This follows US President Donald Trump’s proposal to forcibly expel…
Al Jazeera English, Feb. 27, 2025 [source link is unavailable.]
A comprehensive overview, late 2024 with USFCA colleague Dr. Assim Al-Khawaja.