KPFA March 4, 2015: Dr. Stephen Zunes’ segment begins at 36 minutes.
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Netanyahu Still Swaying U.S. Congress
The Progressive, March 4, 2015: Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of Congress on March 3 was rare and unprecedented in many ways.
• It constituted a major breach of protocol
• It took place just two weeks prior to national elections in the foreign leader’s home country
• Most strikingly, Netanyahu is the only foreign leader to have been invited to address a joint session of Congress with the express purpose of undermining U.S. foreign policy…
China Radio International – Iran Nuclear Negotiations Resume (Audio)
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US support for Saudis belies claims of supporting democracy
Santa Cruz Sentinel February 20, 2015
One of the greatest myths is that the U.S. government supports democracy. In reality, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, the U.S. remains the world’s No. 1 military, financial, and diplomatic supporter of authoritarian regimes and occupying armies.
China Radio International – Minsk Peace Talks on Ukraine Crisis Concludes (Audio)
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Uprising Radio: The threat from ISIS
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Opposition to Israeli occupation consistent with other human rights struggles
Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 6, 2015
In my late teens, I was active in the movement opposing South Africa’s illegal occupation of Namibia, calling for boycotts and divestment of companies supporting the occupation and sanctions against the occupying power. I was involved in similar efforts during the 1990s against the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. These movements played a role in winning these countries their freedom. More recently, I have supported boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. Many of us who have been involved in such campaigns over the years including UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita Angela Davis, the speaker at this year’s Martin Luther King convocation, now support boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against the Israeli occupation…
The Latest Blow to Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Foreign Policy In Focus and Antiwar.com January 13, 2015
The Obama administration is responsible for the defeat of a draft UN Security Council resolution calling for a “just, lasting and comprehensive peaceful solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Gaza and the Bipartisan War on Human Rights
Foreign Policy In Focus, October 17, 2014
[Republished by Counterpunch, Lobe Log, Militarist-Monitor, and URUKNET.info]
During and after Israel’s war on Gaza, bipartisan congressional majorities have worked to undermine war crimes investigations by the UN and human rights groups. Yet Americans found Israel’s seven weeks of attacks to be disproportionate and unnecessary, killing up to 1,500 Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
U.S. Leadership Against Russia Crippled By Its Own Hypocrisy
Foreign Policy In Focus, September 15, 2014
[Republished by Common Dreams and Transnational.org]
The U.S. and ISIS
The Progressive August 26, 2014: Already U.S. planes and missiles have been attacking ISIS forces in northern Iraq. Given the real threat of a heightened genocidal campaign against Yazidis and other minorities and the risks of ISIS control expanding into the Kurdish region, even some of those normally averse to unilateral U.S. military intervention abroad were willing to acknowledge it may have been the least bad option. Within days, however, there were already indications of “mission creep”…
Netanyahu’s Ugly Game in Gaza
The Progressive and Transnational.org July 9, 2014
The right-wing Israeli government took advantage of the murder of three Israeli teen members of an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Back to whip up ultra-nationalist sentiments, engage in a new wave of repression in the occupied West Bank.
The United States’ Tragic Role in Iraq
The Progressive, June 20, 2014 [Republished by Common Dreams]
The dramatic rise of the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)—which even al-Qaeda deemed too extreme to remain part of its network—is a tragedy by any measure. It would also be tragic if we allowed the very forces that created this mess to explain it away.
Understanding Elections, Democracy, and Prospects for Peace in the Arab World
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Hinckley Forum: The Kerry Initiative
KUER: NPR Utah, March 21, 2014, featuring Stephen Zunes:
The Kerry Initiative: Hope for Resolution of the Israel – Palestine Conflict?
Co-sponsored by Peace Advocacy Coalition (PAC) and the Barbara L. and Norman C. Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human Rights Advocacy.
U.S. Culpability in the Failure of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
Foreign Policy In Focus June 5, 2014, also by Huffington Post and Uruknet, then a revised version July 6 by the Santa Cruz Sentinel, republished by Antiwar.com, Common Dreams, FreedomsPhoenix, and Znetwork.org
A Nonviolent Alternative for Ukraine
Foreign Policy May 28, 2014
On May 15, thousands of unarmed residents and steelworkers of the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol did nonviolently what a bloody attack by Ukrainian troops six days earlier was unable to: rid the region’s second-largest city of armed pro-Russian separatists who had held key buildings and other parts of the city for weeks. Smaller protests have taken place in other cities…
Why Nonviolent Resistance Wins
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Straight Talk on the U.S. and Ukraine
Foreign Policy In Focus, March 13, 2014
Given the limits of its power and its own compromised relationship with international law, the U.S. isn’t in a position to do much about Ukraine.
Egypt’s military government increases repression amid growing paranoia
Santa Cruz Sentinel and National Catholic Reporter Feb. 28, 2014
Since the military coup in Egypt against the unpopular but democratically elected government of Mohammed Morsi last July, more than 1,000 regime opponents have been killed, thousands more have been hauled before military courts on political charges, and a repressive anti-protest law has been enacted, severely limiting the right of peaceful assembly.