Stephen Zunes

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professor, parent, interests in peace, human rights, U.S. foreign policy

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Polling data has shown that enough progressives, Muslims, Arab-Americans, and younger voters refused to vote for Harris over the Gaza war that it caused her to lose swing states she otherwise would have won. If she had said this in the fall of 2024, Trump would not be president.

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While Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries publicly congratulated last year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, the rightwing Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, Democratic leaders have been conspicuously silent about human rights advocate Navi Pillay winning this year's award.

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In reaction to a statement on the anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attacks and his appearance at a memorial gathering, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is being attacked by both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian extremists. I know the feeling...

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A new book shows the arrogance of Biden administration officials in their support for Israel's genocidal war on Gaza. One example was National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, when told of how U.S. policy was alienating influential countries like South Africa, he replied "Fuck South Africa!"

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The U.S. war in Afghanistan began 25 years ago today. Two weeks earlier, I wrote in USA Today that if the U.S. did intervene, most Taliban leaders would survive to fight again, large numbers of civilians would be killed, and the U.S. would become embroiled in "an unwinnable counterinsurgency war."

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