Expert Analyst: International Politics, Middle East & Nonviolent Action
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…
BBC April 6, 2026, 4 minutes:
KTVU Bay Area Fox 2, April 6, 2026 [6 mins.]
UK-based Arab Organization for Human Rights panel, April 4, 2026:How the Iran War is used as cover for record high Israeli violence in the occupied West Bank.
The Progressive, April 3, 2026: U.S. and Israeli forces have targeted schools, hospitals, city parks, and cultural sites along with military and governmental facilities. This will likely lead to only greater resistance…
Redneck Gone Green/David Cobb, March 16, 2026 [1 hour]: Iran, current US foreign policy, and criminalization of dissent.
KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco/West Coast Wrap, April 2, 2026 [2:00-6:40]
WPFW, DC, Make it Plain with Mark Thompson, March 10, 2026 (55-min.)
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…
The Progressive, January 6, 2026 and republished by Common Dreams as, Until Democrats Confront the Lawlessness of Trump’s Venezuela Assault, Expect More War. The U.S. attack resulted from having an incredibly corrupt and autocratic-minded President using his office to enrich…
WORT FM, Madison, January 8, 2026 (48-min): The Monroe Doctrine Rises Again in Venezuela. Host Allen Ruff and Professor Stephen Zunes discuss his recent article in The Progressive, “The Real Reason Trump Invaded Venezuela: It’s not drugs, democracy, or even…
KTVU July 21, 2025, Bay Area network affiliate [begins at 2:00] As fears of hunger in Gaza grow, countries are calling for an end to the war. In a joint statement on Monday. Twenty-five nations have described recent deaths in…
The Progressive June 19, 2025 and June 21 at PeaceandJustice.org & SmirkingChimp.com asTrump (and Biden) Could Have Forestalled War With Iran If They Wanted.How the war on Iran isn’t really about containing Iran’s nuclear program, since staying in the 2015…
The Progressive, March 27, 2023 [source]Twenty years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the country remains unstable, with one of the most corrupt and dysfunctional governments in the world…
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.
Al Jazeera Report March 8, 2024: Despite broken campaign promises, Trump has pursued reckless and militaristic policies, deepening U.S. military involvement, backing the Israeli colonization and annexation of the occupied Palestinian territories, deepening ties to Arab autocrats, and threatening war…
Gene Sharp, an 80-year-old scholar of strategic nonviolent action and veteran of radical pacifist causes, is under attack by a number of foreign governments that claim that he and his small research institute are key players in a Bush administration plot against them….
Dear Kalila,
It has been five years since you, as a 12-year old 7th grader, joined your classmates in a walk-out at your school in protest of the impending invasion of Iraq….