Interview: Two-State Solution, Pacifica
KPFA and Pacifica affiliates, Nov. 17, 2023 [45 mins. Note Zunes’s segment starts at 9:50, interrupted by a ten-minute Internet gap, after which Zunes returns.]
Category: US Middle East Policy
Bipartisan Bill for Middle East Peace Will Enable Dictatorships and Occupation
Truthout, Feb. 27, 2022 and Tikkun March 10, 2022 [source] Part of the decades-long tradition of the U.S. propping up Arab dictatorships that suppress pro-democracy struggles while justifying support for Israel, calling it the region’s “sole democracy.”
Russian aggression, US hypocrisy and is UAE a safe haven for oligarchs?
The Progressive, March 1, 2022: There’s No Justification for Russia’s Aggression, But U.S. Double Standards on Illegal War Are Hard to Stomach: Nothing can excuse Putin’s invasion, but the hypocrisy could hardly be more striking. Al Jazeera quotes Zunes March…
Amnesty International Report and U.S. Reaction
Parallaxviews podcast, Feb. 8, 2022. Zunes analysis of the recent Amnesty International report (begins at 1:29:00; also at Amnesty.org) arguing Israel is in engaging in the practice of apartheid against Palestinians, especially in the Occupied Territories. Dr. Zunes will also…
The Pentagon Doesn’t Care About Civilian Casualties
In August 2019, thousands of refugees, prisoners, and families of ISIS fighters crowded into an encampment in the border town of Baghuz in eastern Syria, one of the last territories controlled by the so-called Islamic State. The United States, supported on the ground by an allied Kurdish and Arab militia, launched a massive air assault on the enclave.
Biden and Other Democrats Helped Colin Powell Spread George W. Bush’s Iraq Lies
Truthout, Oct. 19, 2021, by Stephen Zunes [source] While the death of former Secretary of State and retired Gen. Colin Powell has elicited praise-filled eulogies in the mainstream media and officials in Washington, many Americans still carry bitter feelings over…
WBAI: Colin Powell’s Legacy
18 October 2021: Item is no longer available. See Biden and Other Democrats Helped then Secretary of StateColin Powell Spread George W. Bush’s Iraq Lies about WMDs.
WORT: 9/11 Anniversary
September 9, 2021: Recording is no longer available. [Find best related links.]
WMNF: US and Afghanistan
2 September 2021: Recording is no longer available. [Find best related links.]
Interview: KPFA Talkies and Sunday Show, US and Afghanistan
KPFA and Pacifica Radio affiliates, August 31, 2021 A bomb kills Marines and Afghans trying to flee the Taliban—and the bomber was NOT Taliban. Lessons from the past, analysis of the present, and a peer into the future with Stephen…
Tazeen Hasan: Afghanistan
August 20, 2021 [Recording is no longer available] Find best Afghanistan links and TazeenHasan.net
CGTN Asia Today: Afghanistan
August 19, 2021 [Recording is no longer available] Find best Afghanistan related links
Interview, Media Sanctuary: U.S. and Afghanistan
MediaSanctuary.org, August 18, 2021 Prof. Stephen Zunes Shares Analysis of Afghanistan War, Withdrawal and History.
Radio: U.S. and Afghanistan
Radio Islam International, 17 August 2021: “U.S. Government Still Trying to Come to Terms with How Quickly Taliban Took Over Afghanistan.”
US Policy Toward Afghanistan Was a Recipe for Collapse From the Start
We must not allow the tragedy unfolding in Afghanistan to be used to rewrite history and teach the wrong lessons.
Radio: US and Afghanistan
Pacifica Radio Flashpoints, 16 August 2021:US and Afghanistan: Leaving is never easy…
If Biden Wants to Protect Troops, He Should Bring Them Home — Not Bomb Syria
Truthout, March 2, 2021, by Stephen Zunes [source] The US has bombed Syria more than 20,000 times over the past eight years, so last week’s attack on a border post in northeastern Syria, which killed 22 militiamen and apparently no…
Biden Bombs Iran-Backed Militias in Syria
Item is no longer available. [Find best related links.]
INTERVIEW: What Explains Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy?
In this edition of The Interview, Fair Observer talks to Stephen Zunes, a professor of politics and international studies at the University of San Francisco. By Kourosh Ziabari & Stephen Zunes
DNC Platform Condemns BDS But Not Israel’s Occupation of Palestine
Due to a series of decisions by the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC’s) platform committee, progressives are concerned that the Biden-led Democratic Party’s foreign policy toward Israel and Palestine will more closely resemble that of Republicans than that of the Democratic rank-and-file.