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Zunes: Democrats Share the Blame for Tragedy of Iraq War
Znet Article, March, 20 2013
Stephen Zunes
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Here on the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, it is important to remember that it was not just those in the Bush White House who were responsible for the tragedy
Zunes: The Mali Blowback: More to Come?
Znet Article, February, 03 2013
Stephen Zunes
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It was Western intervention—also ostensibly on humanitarian grounds—that was largely responsible for the Malian crisis in the first place
Zunes: Abetting Murder in Gaza
Znet Article, November, 27 2012
Stephen Zunes
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Those of us who supported Obama's re-election have a special obligation to challenge his unconscionable support for Israel's attacks against civilian population centers in the Gaza Strip
Zunes: Divesting from All Occupations
Znet Article, August, 07 2012
Stephen Zunes
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One target of the campaign has been the Caterpillar company, which has provided Israeli occupation forces with bulldozers
Zunes: Congress Pushes for War with Iran
Znet Article, June, 14 2012
Stephen Zunes
Zunes's ZSpace page
Congress has essentially told the president that nothing short of war or the threat of war is an acceptable policy
Zunes: Unarmed Resistance Still Syria's Best Hope
Znet Article, February, 01 2012
Stephen Zunes
Zunes's ZSpace page
The best hope for Syria is continued protests, strikes and other forms of nonviolent resistance
Zunes: Iraq: Remembering Those Responsible
Znet Article, January, 03 2012
Stephen Zunes
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To claim that invading Iraq was to support democracy, then, was as big a lie as the claim that Iraq still had "weapons of mass destruction"
Zunes: Arab Revolutions and the Power of Nonviolent Action
Znet Article, December, 07 2011
Stephen Zunes
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There is a long history of nonviolent resistance in the Middle East
Zunes: Lessons and False Lessons From Libya
Znet Article, September, 01 2011
Stephen Zunes
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Engaging in an armed struggle against took on Qaddafi where he was strongest rather than taking greater advantage of where he was weakest - his lack of popular support
Zunes: Iranian Detention of US Activist, Journalist Nears Two-Year Mark
Znet Article, August, 10 2011
Stephen Zunes
Zunes's ZSpace page
While the military threat posed by Iran is often greatly exaggerated, the repressive nature of the regime is not
Zunes: Obama's Mideast Speech: Two Steps Back, One Step Forward
Znet Article, May, 22 2011
Stephen Zunes
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Obama failed to consistently assert principled U.S. support for human rights, democracy, or international law
Zunes: Arming the Saudis
Znet Article, October, 04 2010
Stephen Zunes
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The Pentagon has announced a $60 billion arms package to the repressive family dictatorship in Saudi Arabia, the largest arms sale of its kind in history. Rejecting the broad consensus of arms control advocates that the Middle East is too militari...
S.: The Other Oil Spill
Znet Article, September, 08 2010
Zunes, S.
S.'s ZSpace page
When the victims of a massive oil spill are not the predominantly white residents along the northern shores of the Gulf of Mexico, but instead are Arabs living in the eastern Mediterranean, the reaction from Congress and environmentalists is very ...
Zunes: John Hall: Still the One?
Blog Post, March, 29 2010
Stephen Zunes
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John Hall, for years known as one of the leading progressive voices in pop music, was a regular in movement circles. Since being elected to the U.S. Congress in 2006, however, he has moved way to the right, becoming one of the leading defenders o...
Zunes: Obama Stumbles Responding to Human Rights Question
Blog Post, March, 11 2010
Stephen Zunes
Zunes's ZSpace page
Obama's awkward response to a college student's question at a town hall-style meeting about human rights abuses by the top two recipient governments of U.S. security assistance -- Israel and Egypt -- says much about his foreign policy priorities.
Zunes: Foreign Policy in Obama's State of the Union Address
Blog Post, February, 03 2010
Stephen Zunes
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The foreign policy segments of Obama's State of the Union address were striking both in terms of their brevity and his failure to link the economic problems at home with imperial overreach abroad. While an improvement over the neoconservative ori...
Zunes: Yemen: Latest U.S. Battleground
Blog Post, January, 31 2010
Stephen Zunes
Zunes's ZSpace page
As it has in the past, the United States appears to be focusing on a military solution to complex social, political and economic problems. The result may be to exacerbate the very problem of extremism the Obama administration hopes to suppress.
Zunes: Do I really support "massive American violence" and interventionism?
Blog Post, July, 01 2009
Stephen Zunes
Zunes's ZSpace page
A reply to David Peterson's defamatory attacks against me in his June 30 blog.
Zunes: The Iranian Uprising is Home Grown, and Must Stay That Way
Znet Article, June, 19 2009
Stephen Zunes
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The growing nonviolent insurrection in Iran against the efforts by the ruling clerics to return the ultra-conservative and increasingly autocratic incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinjead to power is growing. Whatever the outcome, it represents an...
Zunes: Has the Election Been Stolen in Iran?
Znet Article, June, 15 2009
Stephen Zunes
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If it is true that Ahmadinejad's victory is fraudulent, it'll be a dream come true for those pushing a more confrontational approach with Iran.
