Category: Disarmament
Interview: Trump Bombs Three Nuclear Sites in Iran
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 of San Francisco. He serves as founding director of the school’s Middle Eastern Studies Program, and is widely-regarded as one of the country’s leading scholars on U.S. Middle East policy.
“Since Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, they’ve not been limited in terms of reprocessing, so they have developed isotopes to a point where they could go in that direction within a couple years,” said Zunes. “But the idea that this was some kind of imminent threat that required military action at this time is nonsense. Not just because they could simply go back to the Iran Nuclear Deal, but even without that, they’re some time away from that…”
Power’s Prophet: Remembering Gene Sharp
The Progressive February 1, 2018: Dr. Gene Sharp, a Harvard University-based scholar, through his through analysis of centuries of nonviolent struggle, made a convincing case on utilitarian grounds that nonviolent struggle was a more effective and successful means of resistance than violence…
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Obama administration undermines UN disarmament efforts
National Catholic Reporter April 13, 2015
Though the United States may have taken the lead in the international diplomatic initiative against Iran’s nuclear program, the Obama administration has also taken the lead in undermining the United Nations’ efforts to promote nuclear arms control and disarmament elsewhere…
Interview: Chemical Weapons Watchdog Wins Nobel Peace Prize as U.S. Opposes Calls for WMD-Free Middle East (Video)
Democracy Now October 11, 2013; Video & Transcript
As the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, we look at international efforts to rid Syria and other countries — including the United States — of chemical weapons. Transcript