Ukraine, Palestine, and other developments March 2025 (segment starts at 31:30) for a community radio station in northern California
Category: Ukraine
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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, thereby weakening our ability to stand up to Russian aggression. His earlier articles on Ukraine include:
- Getting Ukraine’s History Right Is Crucial for Anti-Imperialist Politics, Truthout Feb. 28, 2024: . Ten years after Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution, what should the left make of it? Zunes looks back at the 2014 popular uprising in Ukraine against the Yanukovych regime. While not uncritical of U.S. policy, he challenges the Russian line that the pro-democracy Maidan revolution was some kind of U.S. coup. [source]
- Thoughts on Ukraine By Stephen Zunes, Fall 2022: The Peace Chronicle The Magazine of the Peace and Justice Studies Association: Reflections written soon after the 2022 invasion. [source]
Interview: Ukraine Peace Negotiations
Russia & US Abuse UN Veto Power
Inter Press Service February 27, 2024: How both Russia and the United States abuse their veto power at the United Nations
(Dr. Stephen Zunes is quoted midway).
Russia vs Ukraine and Israel vs Hamas—have exposed once again the stark reality that the UN, created 79 years ago to maintain international peace and security, has failed in its political mission – while its credibility is at stake. Russia is accused of violating the UN charter by invading a sovereign nation state and causing hundreds and thousands of deaths over two years — with no signs of a peaceful settlement.
Accusations against Israel include war crimes, genocide, ethnic cleansing and disproportionate killings of over 30,000 civilians, mostly women and children in Gaza, in retaliation for 1,200 killings by Hamas last October. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who has taken a rightful stand on the two conflicts, has been criticized by both countries, with Israel calling for his resignation while ignoring his request for a meeting or a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. [Source]
Getting Ukraine’s History Right
Truthout 02/28/2024 by Stephen Zunes [Source]
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine, which ousted President Viktor Yanukovych and in turn prompted the Russian seizure of Crimea and the Russian-backed secessionist movement in the Donbas. It also marks the second anniversary of the Russian invasion eight years later. Western anti-imperialists have correctly recognized a number of provocative actions and other missteps by the United States and NATO which are a necessary part of the context for the ongoing tragedy. However, it is essential for us to get our criticisms right…
Bipartisan Bill for Middle East Peace Will Enable Dictatorships and Occupation
Truthout February 27, 2022 & Tikkun March 10, 2022 Part of the decades-long tradition of the U.S. propping up Arab dictatorships that suppress pro-democracy struggles while justifying support for Israel, calling it the region’s “sole democracy.”
Russian Aggression, US Hypocrisy & Is UAE a Safe Haven for Oligarchs?
There’s No Justification for Russia’s Aggression, But U.S. Double Standards on Illegal War Are Hard to Stomach: Nothing can excuse Putin’s invasion, but the hypocrisy could hardly be more striking. The Progressive March 1, 2022
Al Jazeera quotes Zunes March 7, 14 and 29
*The limits of Iran’s influence on Yemen’s Houthi rebels
*Analysis: Can the UAE be a safe haven for Russian oligarchs?
*Can Russia return to the world stage as other aggressors have?
Find more at Western-Sahara.org.
Radio Islam International: Ukraine Crisis
US Support for Invasions Should Disqualify It From Leading on Russia-Ukraine
Truthout, January 26, 2022: The U.S. is in no position to lead any international effort in defense of the right to self-determination.
KTVU News: Ukraine
13 August 2021: Video is no longer available,
but see Dr. Zunes on KTVU Feb. 21, 2022.
Resisting Stolen Elections: Lessons from the Philippines, Serbia, Ukraine, and Gambia
ICNC October 23, 2020: Recent precedents we can learn from about how to stop attempts to overturn election results include… one in Southeast Asia, one in Africa and two in Eastern Europe… through large-scale nonviolent direct action. This article looks at these cases, and identifies key lessons.
China Radio International – Iran Nuclear Negotiations Resume (Audio)
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China Radio International – Minsk Peace Talks on Ukraine Crisis Concludes (Audio)
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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…
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.
The U.S. and Georgia
Huffington Post, August 17, 2008, Reposted from Foreign Policy In Focus.
The international condemnation of Russian aggression against Georgia – and the concomitant assaults by Abkhazians and South Ossetians against ethnic Georgians within their territories – is in large part appropriate. But the self-righteous posturing coming out of Washington should be tempered by a sober recognition of the ways in which the United States has contributed to the crisis. [Source]
U.S. Role in Georgia Crisis
Foreign Policy in Focus/Intitute for Policy Studies,
August 14, 2008 By John Feffer, Stephen Zunes
The international condemnation of Russian aggression against Georgia – and the concomitant assaults by Abkhazians and South Ossetians against ethnic Georgians within their territories – is in large part appropriate. But the self-righteous posturing coming out of Washington should be tempered by a sober recognition of the ways in which the United States has contributed to the crisis. [Source]