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KQSD FM, Mar 12, 2026, Moment of Truth with Ami Chen Mills (54 min.): UPDATES ON IRAN AND MINNESOTA: This show includes a conversation with an ordinary, working mom in Minnesota, Janine Sieja, about her experience with ICE chaos, abductions…
Two articles and an interview during the summer 2025 bombing of Iran:It’s Not About the BombMissed Opportunity on IranUpdates on the Iran-Israel War: Conversations with Leading Analysts Debunking Trump’s claim that Iranians were responsible for the deaths of thousands of…
Agence France Presse, March 3, 2026: Speaking with FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney, Zunes says, “even in the most controversial wars, like Iraq, when the war initiates, people tend to rally around the flag […] it’s remarkable at the very beginning…
KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco, Jan. 20, 2026 (6 min.)
KPFA-FM’s News/Pacifica Radio Network, Jan. 11, 2026 (1-min. starts at 11:30)
Zunes’s main talking points for a series of interviews on the protests in Iran, December 28-31: the protests are significant in that the bazaar is, traditionally a backbone of support for the regime, have been in the leadership of the…
BBC News Channel, 12/31/25: Iran’s uprising over rising prices, 5-mins.
The Nation, November 13, 2025: The international community must decide which principle will prevail: the right of self-determination or the right of conquest [ audio podcast 6 mins.]
Alice Liebowitz’s podcast “Conversations against Fascism,” October 27, 2025: A half-hour good overview of Zunes’s analysis.
WORT-FM, Madison, Wisconsin, October 26, 2025: Stephen Zunes Tells Activists for Palestine to Keep On, addresses Gaza ceasefire agreement and Israeli military and settler attacks in the West Bank…
KPFA-FM Sunday Show, October 19, 2025: Full first hour.Also, on Pacifica Radio affiliated stations about the shaky Gaza ceasefire, the October 18 No Kings protests, and related issues.
Santita Jackson Show, October 13, 2025: Zunes discusses the Gaza ceasefire with Rania Batrice and Phyllis Bennis.
Santita Jackson Show Sept. 28, 2025: Zunes’s segment’s at 34 mins.
Santa Cruz, CA, Sept. 5, 2025: Video 1:11; Zunes begins at 15 minutes
BBC Television, September 6, 2025, (4 mins.). Zunes’s analysis of latest developments in Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria.
Community or Chaos, New Zealand radio show/podcast, Sept. 1, 2025 One hour, while reporting live at Labor Day protests in Santa Cruz, CA.
In These Times, September 4, 2025, by Stephen Zunes Nearly two years in to the U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza, there are clear signals the Democratic Party’s base is moving far away from supporting the Israeli government and its war machine.…
WRFI Human Rights Show [1-hour]: Stephen Zunes discusses Western Sahara’s struggles for sovereignty and self-determination, and the human rights violations taking place by Morocco’s occupation forces.
KSQD Community Radio, August 18, 2025 [1-hour]: Zunes and Rabbi Chaim Schneider discuss the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the growing Jewish resistance to what is being done in their name. On Monday, August 11, roughly 18 San Francisco Bay…