A Dangerous Contender for U.S. Senate in Michigan Primary
The Progressive, July 29, 2026: Haley Stevens, now a member of the House of Representatives, exudes hostility toward the International Criminal Court.
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Trump’s Deal with Iran is Good Enough
The Progressive, June 23, 2026: [click here for audio and text]The Memorandum of Understanding signed between the United States and Iran is indeed a better deal for the Islamic Republic than the 2015 JCPOA and what could have been agreed…
Democrats Should Embrace a Deal That Brings Trump’s Iran War to an End
Common Dreams, June 24, 2026; reposted from The Progressive[Audio and transcript] Too many congressional Democrats are demonstrating their own hypocrisy in claiming that they oppose the war while actively undermining efforts to end it.
Trump’s Disastrous War of Choice
The Progressive April 10, 2026: Whether, or not the ceasefire ends up failing, the erratic President has put the region and world in grave danger… [Audio transcripts; podcast]
US Cannot ‘Win’ a War on Iran
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…
Zunes’s key articles on Iran 2011-2025
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…
The Real Reason Trump Invaded Venezuela: It’s not drugs, democracy, or even oil. It’s power.
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…
Nancy Pelosi’s Dismal Record on Israel and Palestine
The Progressive, November 20, 2025, by Stephen Zunes There is much to admire about U.S. House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who recently announced her plan to retire in 2027 after thirty-nine years in office, including her progressive domestic agenda, superb…
A Shaky Ceasefire Is Better Than An Ongoing Genocide
By Stephen Zunes The Progressive, October 16, 2025; republished by CommonDreams.org, October 17, 2025, “It’s Up to the Global Community to Transform the Gaza Ceasefire Into a Lasting Peace.” But recent violations by Israel call the new deal into question.…
International Community Pushes for Palestinian Statehood—But US Won’t Have It
The Progressive, by Stephen Zunes, October 8, 2025: Neither U.S. political party actually supports a two-state solution, instead both essentially endorse Israeli control over all of historic Palestine.
It’s Not About the Bomb
The Progressive, August 5, 2025, by Stephen Zunes [source & audio] It would be a mistake to view the U.S. bombing of Iran and support for Israel’s twelve-day war on that country as simply about preventing the Iranian regime from…
Missed Opportunity on Iran
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 Silence of the Dems
The Progressive April 11, 2025: How Congressional Democrats are siding with Trump against their own constituents on U.S. Middle East policy [source]
A Long Legacy of Hypocrisy on Occupations
The Progressive March 6, 2025 (Please share widely)[source] While concurring that the outrage over Trump’s support for Putin is quite appropriate, Zunes notes how administrations of both parties have supported invasions and occupations when the aggressor has been an ally,…
Pro-Palestinian Student Protests Are Nothing New
The Progressive March 3, 2025 by Nyki Duda quoting Zunes: “Stephen Zunes, a veteran of the anti-apartheid movement in solidarity with Black South Africans in the 1980s and a regular contributor to The Progressive, sees parallels between that movement and…
What a Second Trump Presidency Could Mean for the Pro-Palestine Movement
The Progressive February 3, 2025 Examines how a Trump presidency will make U.S. policy towards Israel/Palestine even worse than under Biden, but how it might spawn a bigger backlash that could end up forcing real change in U.S. policy in…
Joe Biden’s Tragic Failure to Learn from the Past
The Progressive January 18, 2025: On Biden’s foreign policy legacy, comparing his support for a far right Middle Eastern government engaging in massive war crimes with Reagan’s support for far right Central American governments engaged in massive war crimes… [source]
Jimmy Carter Warned Us About Israeli Apartheid
The Progressive January 2, 2025: The late President Jimmy Carter… was met with intense criticism for insisting that standards of peace, human rights, and international law should apply not just to countries hostile to U.S. interests, but to U.S. allies…
Syria Background: Zunes’ Articles, Interviews and Videos Since 2011 Arab Spring
From Gaza to Aleppo: A Handy Guide for Defending War Crimes: This article notes the remarkable parallel in the language used by those defending war crimes by the Assad regime and war crimes by Israel Here’s an analysis also from…