The Nation and Rethinking Foreign Policy, March 20, 2020:
Middle East scholar Stephen Zunes… January 2020, traveled to Sudan to learn about the protest movement that ousted longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir last year. While the military regime Bashir headed is still a powerful force in Sudan, it has been pressed into sharing power with a civilian government in formation. Sudan’s future remains undecided… Sudan is still under strict US sanctions [d]espite now having a moderate, secular, civilian-led government… still listed as a state sponsor of terror. The U.S. spends billions to prop up a military dictatorship in Egypt and sells billions in arms to the Saudis and Emiratis in the Gulf, while a nearby democratic experiment is being punished by sanctions.
Category: Interviews
interviews
Interview: Today’s US-Iran Crisis Is Rooted in the Decision to Invade Iraq
Truthout January 20, 2020. Listen at ScottHorton.org.
The ramifications of the illegal, unnecessary and predictably tragic U.S. decision to invade Iraq are still with us. This includes the ongoing crisis with Iran, which brought us perilously close to all-out war in early January, resulted in the tragic downing of a civilian airliner and remains in a hair-trigger situation..
Interview: Proof that Soleimani killed hundreds of Americans is “groundless”
Interview: BBC on Trump Impeachment
The Robust Opposition: The Modern History of Israel/Palestine
Video interview with Lauren Steiner, May 19, 2018: Overview of the Zionist project, the wars of 1948, 1967, the first and second Intifada, the various peace talks, the change in Israel over the years making it harder and harder to achieve peace and how any real solution must be precipitated by American Jews pressuring their elected officials.
Interview: Commentary on the OPCW and the Nobel Peace Prize
Institute for Public Accuracy October 27, 2013
Nobel Prize for OPCW: Examining Both Organizations,
Institute for Public Accuracy October 11, 2013
STEPHEN ZUNES, Professor of politics and chair of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco, wrote the piece “The U.S. and Chemical Weapons: No Leg to Stand On.”Syria and the likely disastrous consequences that would have resulted.”
Interview: On Possible U.S. Intervention in Syria
Wisconsin Public Radio August 28, 2013
The source link is no longer available. More Zunes Syria articles.
Interview: What should be the US’s next step in Syria? (89.3 KPCC, National Public Radio Los Angeles audio)
KPCC (NPR) LAist AirTalk August 27, 2013
In a statement yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry called the use of chemical weapons in Syria “a moral obscenity” that demands action from the U.S. Now the question is what action the U.S. will take against Syria for crossing the “red line” President Obama outlined against the use of chemical weapons?
Interview: International News Net: World Report (audio)
Interview: International News Net: World Report August 23, 2013
Dr. Zunes’s commentary on Egypt and other topics begins at 36-minutes.
Interview: WNUR-FM (audio)
WNUR-FM Chicago August 21, 2013
Dr. Stephen Zunes discusses the Bradley Manning verdict beginning at the 15:30 minute mark.
Interview: Israel and Palestine Talks
China Radio International, July 31, 2013
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Interview: Syria Latest (audio)
China Radio International May 9, 2013
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More Zunes Syria articles.
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More Zunes Syria articles.
Interview: On Syria (audio)
KPFA Pacifica Radio, Stephen Zunes on Syria
On Sojourner Truth Radio May 7, 2013
Interview: Scope of Syrian War Widens Following Deadly Israeli Strikes on Damascus (audio)
Free Speech Radio News May 6, 2013
Last week’s Israeli airstrikes [killed] least 100 Syrian soldiers… a UN human rights commission investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria said it had “no conclusive findings.” Read Stephen Zunes’s article, “The US Has No Credibility Dealing With Chemical Weapons”
Last week’s Israeli airstrikes [killed] least 100 Syrian soldiers… a UN human rights commission investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria said it had “no conclusive findings.” Read Stephen Zunes’s article, “The US Has No Credibility Dealing With Chemical Weapons”
Interview: Talking about Boston Marathon Bombings & Background on Chechnya
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Interview: Reaction to Boston Tragedy
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Interview: The Case Against Kerry (video)
The Real News Network, January 14, 2013
Also see associated articles and Zunes’s interviews on CBS-KDKA Pittsburgh, the Peter Collins Show, and two Zunes articles from Institute for Public Accuracy: Clinton and Kerry (February 1, 2013) and Kerry’s Judgment Questioned Because of Pro-War Vote (December 21, 2012)
With all the attention on the nomination by President Obama of Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense, there hasn’t been quite as much discussion about his nomination of John Kerry for Secretary of State. I guess that’s partly because he seems rather beloved by the Republicans and is likely to get passed without much issue. But there are issues, according to our next guest, Stephen Zunes… [YouTube]
Interview: French Military Incursion in Mali (audio)
The Scott Horton Show January 18, 2013
Zunes discusses the French military incursion in Mali; the hostage disaster in Algeria; the cascading failure of interventions from Libya to Mali and Algeria; why the US favors the tyrannical government in Morocco instead of the pro-democracy protestors; and how a heavy-handed foreign policy bolsters the most radical opposition groups…
Interview: The Threat of Western Military Intervention in Mali (audio)
The Scott Horton Show January 11, 2013
In part 1, Zune discusses the threat of Western military intervention in Mali; the next generation of Islamic extremists motivated by Saudi-funded madrassas and the U.S. occupation of Iraq; and the non-governmental militias fighting for the spoils in Libya.
Syrian Conflict Turns Into Full Blown Civil War (audio)
Uprising Radio October 29, 2012: Government forces in Syria today launched their heaviest air strikes yet during the 19-month-long conflict… A tenuous ceasefire, Eid was violated from the very first day… At least 30,000 people have been killed in the ongoing conflict that has been now officially described as a “full-blown civil war.” A seriously fractured opposition is seen as one major stumbling block in efforts to efficiently counter the Syrian regime of Bashar Al Assad.