Stories by Stephen Zunes
Stephen Zunes is a professor of Politics and chair of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco and serves as a senior policy analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus.
Pelosi has a history of voting for pro-war measures and supporting pro-war candidates. Her current behaviors should come as no surprise.
Posted on Jun 22, 2009
American conservatives and Iranian hard-liners need each other.
Posted on Jun 17, 2009
Can the United States speed the process for greater freedom in Iran? Yes. By staying out of the way as much as possible.
Posted on Jun 15, 2009
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.
Posted on Jun 13, 2009
Obama could use his enormous political leverage to cease Israel's illegal expansion into the West Bank. But will he?
Posted on Jun 9, 2009
Obama has inherited a difficult challenge in pushing Israel to end the expansion of its illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Posted on Jun 6, 2009
Threats by top Obama administration officials have not been well-received by the Lebanese.
Posted on May 26, 2009
Until the teachers union abandons its hawkish agenda, its credibility will continue to be compromised and embattled teachers will suffer.
Posted on May 13, 2009
To the dismay of human rights groups across the world, Obama decided to pander to right-wing hawks and boycott the historic gathering.
Posted on Apr 22, 2009
Caterpillar's equipment has been used to level homes, build Israel's illegal separation wall and, in some cases, kill innocent civilians.
Posted on Feb 14, 2009
Most of Obama's key foreign policy appointments seem more committed to military dominance than international law.
Posted on Jan 30, 2009
Obama has the ability to do a lot of good as long as we reject the temptation of feeling hopeless and cynical.
Posted on Jan 21, 2009
Congressional leaders are advancing a radical view of international law that would allow powerful countries to get away with war crimes.
Posted on Jan 13, 2009
Democrats have silenced dissent and offered unflinching support for Israeli actions, including gross violations of international law.
Posted on Jan 6, 2009
No one in the mainstream media or government is willing to acknowledge America's sordid role interfering in Palestinian politics.
Posted on Jan 3, 2009
What alarms most international observers is Clinton's penchant for military solutions.
Posted on Dec 2, 2008
Hillary Clinton is our new Secretary of State -- will she continue the United States' hypocrisy on human rights and the rule of law?
Posted on Dec 1, 2008
By the time it was over, eight people had been killed, at least seven of whom were civilians, including three children.
Posted on Nov 10, 2008
Obama has asked conservative Clinton vet Rahm Emanuel to be his chief of staff -- it's not a good sign for progressives.
Posted on Nov 7, 2008
Barack Obama's resounding victory has brought even this cynical observer of Democratic Party politics to dare to hope.
Posted on Nov 6, 2008
The latest in a series of guilt-by-association tactics by the GOP to make the staunchly pro-Israel Obama appear to be anti-Israel.
Posted on Nov 1, 2008
The choice of Biden calls into question whether Obama's offering a "change we can believe in."
Posted on Aug 24, 2008
The self-righteous posturing coming out of DC should be tempered by recognition of the ways in which the U.S. has contributed to the crisis.
Posted on Aug 18, 2008
'Whoever becomes the next president, this war will continue to impact your life for many years to come.'
Posted on Mar 21, 2008
Obama's views on foreign policy are a decidedly mixed bag.
Posted on Jan 15, 2008
Clinton's foreign policy is the definition of "Bush lite."
Posted on Dec 17, 2007
Clinton's position on Iraq is almost indistinguishable from Bush's.
Posted on Dec 13, 2007
A note to the 2008 candidates: support for the 2002 Iraq War resolution is not something that can simply be forgiven and forgotten.
Posted on Oct 16, 2007
Many hope that a Democratic victory in November will end the Iraq war. But Dem leaders seem content with more of the same.
Posted on Sep 12, 2006
The White House has long wanted to crush Hezbollah. Finally they persuaded someone else to do it for them.
Posted on Aug 25, 2006
Whatever one might think of Hezbollah, it didn't pose a serious enough threat to Israel's security to justify a pre-emptive war.
Posted on Aug 8, 2006
As the Bush administration spins stories on Iran, Americans are left to wonder whether we will be thrust into another war.
Posted on May 3, 2006
The government of Israel and its supporters deserve blame for many tragic policies in recent years; the U.S. invasion of Iraq, however, is not one of them.
Posted on Jan 14, 2006
The Bush administration decision that most directly contributed to the high numbers of unnecessary deaths from Katrina was the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Posted on Sep 4, 2005
The Bush Administration used Amnesty International's reports to push its case for war on Iraq. But when the organization criticized abuses in U.S. military prisons, the gloves came off.
Posted on Jun 9, 2005
The Democratic Party platform is exceptional only in its whole-hearted embrace of a rightwing foreign policy that would warm any neocon's heart.
Posted on Aug 10, 2004
When it comes to toeing Ariel Sharon's line, the Democratic leadership and its anointed heirs put the White House to shame.
Posted on Dec 24, 2003
Democrats failed the country by refusing to stand up to the Bush Administration on the only issue that mattered to the public: the war on Iraq.
Posted on Nov 7, 2002
The weakness of the Bush administration's case against Iraq became crystal clear in the president's address to the nation.
Posted on Oct 8, 2002
Bush's much-anticipated UN address was a brazen act of hypocrisy that failed to present any credible evidence for an attack on Iraq.
Posted on Sep 16, 2002
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