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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
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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: Netanyahu's Speech and Congressional Democrats' Embrace of Extremism
Znet Article, September, 06 2011
Stephen Zunes
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As Israeli opposition parties, peace and human rights activists, and editorialists denounced their prime minister's intransigence in the face of President Barack Obama's peace initiative, Congressional Democrats here in the United States have inst...
Zunes: Progressive Defense of Weiner Overlooks His Right-Wing Foreign Policy
Znet Article, September, 06 2011
Stephen Zunes
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A surprising number of progressives have been expressing regret at the resignation of Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-New York) over the "sexting" scandal, correctly noting how the grossly inflated media coverage has distracted from far more pressing issue...
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
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While the military threat posed by Iran is often greatly exaggerated, the repressive nature of the regime is not
Zunes: Congress and Its Colonialist Agenda
Znet Article, July, 15 2011
Stephen Zunes
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Up until the mid-20th century, Western attitudes regarding national freedom essentially went like this: the independence of white Western nations (Great Britain, France, the United States etc.) was a given. Independence for nonwhite, non-Western n...
Zunes: Washington Okays Attack on Unarmed U.S. Ship
Znet Article, July, 01 2011
Stephen Zunes
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The Obama administration appears to have given a green light to an Israeli attack on an unarmed flotilla carrying peace and human rights activists — including a vessel with 50 Americans on board — bound for the besieged Gaza Strip. At a press conf...
Zunes: Netanyahu's Speech and Congressional Democrats' Embrace of Extremism
Znet Article, June, 03 2011
Stephen Zunes
Zunes's ZSpace page
As Israeli opposition parties, peace and human rights activists, and editorialists denounced their prime minister's intransigence in the face of President Barack Obama's peace initiative, Congressional Democrats here in the United States have inst...
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: Obama's Mideast Speech: Two Steps Back, One Step Forward
Znet Article, May, 22 2011
Stephen Zunes
Zunes's ZSpace page
Although President Barack Obama's May 19 address on U.S. Middle East policy had a number of positive elements, overall it was a major disappointment. His speech served as yet another reminder that his administration's approach to the region differ...
Zunes: Mitchell's Inevitable Resignation
Znet Article, May, 16 2011
Stephen Zunes
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At age 77, George Mitchell's resignation as President Barack Obama's envoy on Arab-Israeli affairs may have indeed been for personal reasons, as he claimed. More likely, however, it came out of frustration at the Obama administration's failure to ...
Zunes: Yemen on the Edge
Znet Article, May, 13 2011
Stephen Zunes
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Since Obama came to office in January 2009, U.S. security assistance to the Yemeni regime has gone up 20-fold. Despite such large-scale unconditional support, however, the 32-year reign of autocratic President Ali Abdullah Saleh may finally be co...
Zunes: The Killing of Bin Laden and the Threat of Al Qaeda
Znet Article, May, 05 2011
Stephen Zunes
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The killing of Al-Qaeda founder and leader Osama bin Laden is not likely to have a profound impact one way or the other in the struggle against the terrorist organization and its allied groupings. On the one hand, Al-Qaeda may face a potential lea...
Zunes: Libya: Was Armed Revolt and Western Intervention the Only Option?
Znet Article, March, 31 2011
Stephen Zunes
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The decision by the United States and its Western allies to intervene militarily against the Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi may have averted a massacre, but it is fraught with serious risks of eventually costing even more lives. Furthermore, it ...
Zunes: Libya, the 'Responsibility to Protect,' and Double Standards
Znet Article, March, 28 2011
Stephen Zunes
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Reasonable people can disagree on the appropriateness of the decision by the United States and its NATO allies to attack Libya in the wake of the Gadaffi regime's offensive against rebel-held cities under the doctrine of "the responsibility to pro...
Zunes: My Support for Ralph Nader, Ten Years Later: Lessons Learned
Znet Article, November, 01 2010
Stephen Zunes
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Like many people who campaigned and voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, the upcoming tenth anniversary of that disastrous election and awareness of the tragic results continues to haunt me. While it was perhaps the most serious political misjudgment I ...
Zunes: A "Progressive Hero?" Time to Think Outside of the Boxer
Znet Article, October, 20 2010
Stephen Zunes
Zunes's ZSpace page
The failure of progressives to make major inroads in electoral politics in the United States today could not be better illustrated than a recent decision by Democracy for America, a million-member political action committee founded by former Vermo...
Zunes: Congress Defends Murder of American Peace Activist and Other War Crimes
Znet Article, October, 11 2010
Stephen Zunes
Zunes's ZSpace page
Despite revelations from a detailed investigation by a special commission of the United Nations Human Rights Council confirming that Israel committed war crimes, the overwhelming majority of both Republican and Democratic members of Congress remai...
S.: Senate Again Undermines Obama's Middle-East Peace Efforts
Znet Article, October, 04 2010
Zunes, S.
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Once again, as President Barack Obama began pressuring the right-wing Israeli government to freeze the expansion of its illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, leading Congressional Democrats have joined in with Republicans to try...
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.: Senate Again Undermines Obama's Middle-East Peace Efforts
Znet Article, October, 04 2010
Zunes, S.
S.'s ZSpace page
Once again, as President Barack Obama began pressuring the right-wing Israeli government to freeze the expansion of its illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, leading Congressional Democrats have joined in with Republicans to try...
S.: Iraq: The Democrats' War
Znet Article, September, 10 2010
Zunes, S.
S.'s ZSpace page
The ongoing presence of over 50,000 US troops, many thousands of civilian employees and tens of thousands of US-backed mercenaries raises serious questions over the significance of the partial withdrawal of US forces from Iraq. The August 31 deadl...
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 ...
