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Zunes: As Obama Tries to Shift the Debate, Will Democrats Continue to Endorse Israel's Colonization of the West Bank?
Znet Article, June, 11 2009
Stephen Zunes
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President Barack Obama has inherited a difficult challenge in pushing Israel to end the expansion of its illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. With the right-wing Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu categorically rejec...
Zunes: Obama and Israel's Military: Still Arm-in-Arm
Znet Article, March, 06 2009
Stephen Zunes
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In the wake of Israel's massive assault on heavily populated civilian areas of the Gaza Strip earlier this year, Amnesty International called for the United States to suspend military aid to Israel on human rights grounds. Amnesty has also called ...
Zunes: The U.S. and Afghan Tragedy
Znet Article, February, 20 2009
Stephen Zunes
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One of the first difficult foreign policy decisions of the Obama administration will be what the United States should do about Afghanistan. Escalating the war, as National Security Advisor Jim Jones has been encouraging, will likely make matters w...
Zunes: Obama's Caterpillar Visit a Thumb in the Eye for Human Rights Activists
Znet Article, February, 15 2009
Stephen Zunes
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Over the objections of church groups, peace organizations and human rights activists, President Barack Obama decided to return to Illinois to visit the headquarters of the Caterpillar company, which for years has violated international law, U.S. l...
Zunes: America's Hidden Role in Hamas's Rise to Power
Znet Article, January, 04 2009
Stephen Zunes
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No one in the mainstream media or government is willing to acknowledge America's sordid role interfering in Palestinian politics.
Zunes: The Hope of Obama
Znet Article, November, 06 2008
Stephen Zunes
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Barack Obama's resounding victory has brought even this cynical observer of Democratic Party politics to dare to hope, believing that -- as a child of the Eisenhower era -- I will soon be witnessing the most progressive presidential administration...
Zunes: Khalidi: The Republicans' Latest Smear Against Obama
Znet Article, November, 01 2008
Stephen Zunes
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The smear campaign by John McCain, Sarah Palin and their supporters reached a new low this past week with their attacks on Democratic nominee Barack Obama for his former ties with Palestinian American scholar Rashid Khalidi. This is just one of a ...
Zunes: Haidar's Struggle
Znet Article, October, 11 2008
Stephen Zunes
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Aminatou Haidar, a nonviolent activist from Western Sahara and a key leader in her nation's struggle against the 33-year-old U.S.-backed Moroccan occupation of her country, won this year's Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.
Zunes: The United States and Bolivia
Znet Article, September, 20 2008
Stephen Zunes
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Background to recent events in Bolivia.
Zunes: U.S. Role in Georgia Crisis
Znet Article, August, 19 2008
Stephen Zunes
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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.
Zunes: African Dictatorships and Double-Standards
Znet Article, July, 07 2008
Stephen Zunes
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The Bush administration has justifiably criticized the Zimbabwean regime of liberator-turned-dictator Robert Mugabe. It has joined a unanimous UN Security Council resolution condemning the campaign of violence unleashed upon pro-democracy activist...
Zunes: Why Obama Won
Znet Article, June, 07 2008
Stephen Zunes
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Barack Obama has won the race for the Democratic nomination for president against Hillary Clinton on the issues. Sort of...
Zunes: Pakistan's Dictatorships and the United States
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Stephen Zunes
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In his 2005 inaugural address, President George W. Bush declared that the United States would support democratic movements around the world and work to end tyranny. Furthermore, he pledged to those struggling for freedom that the United States wou...
Zunes: Broken Peace Process
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Stephen Zunes
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There's little reason to hope for a breakthrough at the Middle East peace summit in Annapolis, unless there is a fundamental shift in U.S. policy in addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And there's little evidence to suggest such a change ...
Zunes: A Reply to Stephen Gowans' False Allegations against Stephen Zunes
Znet Article, February, 24 2008
Stephen Zunes
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Stephen Gowans has written an article "Stephen Zunes and the Struggle for Overseas Profits." This is Zunes' reply.
Zunes: Kosovo and the Politics of Recognition
Znet Article, February, 21 2008
Stephen Zunes
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Even among longstanding supporters of national self-determination for Kosovo, the eagerness with which the Bush administration extended diplomatic recognition immediately upon that country’s declaration of independence on February 17 has raised se...
Zunes: Nonviolent Action and Pro-Democracy Struggles
Znet Article, February, 16 2008
Stephen Zunes
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The United States has done for the cause of democracy what the Soviet Union did for the cause of socialism. Not only has the Bush administration given democracy a bad name in much of the world, but its high-profile and highly suspect "democracy pr...
Zunes: Bush's Last State of the Union
Znet Article, January, 30 2008
Stephen Zunes
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On January 28, President George W. Bush gave the last State of the Union address of his two-term tenure. Many of his remarks centered on foreign policy. FPIF’s Stephen Zunes annotates the president’s claims and statements.
Zunes: Barack Obama on the Middle East
Znet Article, January, 12 2008
Stephen Zunes
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The strong showings by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois in the early contests for the Democratic presidential nomination don’t just mark a repudiation of the Bush administration’s Iraq policy and “war on terrorism.” They also indicate a rejection ...
Zunes: The rise and rise of Hamas
Znet Article, July, 07 2007
Stephen Zunes
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Ironically, it was Israel which encouraged the rise of the Palestinian Islami...
