Articles by Stephen Zunes

A Disaster Unfolding in Iraq

March 29, 2003 | The reality is that no matter how brutal a dictator may be, people tend to defend their homeland against foreign invaders.

The Bush Administration’s Attacks on the United Nations

February 14, 2003 | One would have to go to the annual convention of the John Birch Society to find as many invectives directed against the United Nations as have been spewed out in recent weeks by the Bush administration and its supporters in Congress and in the media

Addressing Iraqi Repression and the Need for a Change of Regime

January 30, 2003 | As the administration's rationales for invading Iraq--such as Baghdad's alleged ties to al Qaeda and claims of an imminent nuclear threat--have crumbled under closer scrutiny, the administration and its allies in Congress and the media are increasingly em

Bush Working to Ensure Sharon’s Re-election

January 21, 2003 | Israeli voters will be facing perhaps the most crucial vote in their nation's history between the right-wing incumbent prime minister Ariel Sharon of the Likud Bloc and the more moderate Amram Mitzna—a former general and mayor of Haifa—from the Labor Alig

The Abuse of the No-Fly Zones as an Excuse for War

December 1, 2002 | What began as an apparent humanitarian effort has turned into another excuse for continuing a low-level war against Iraq and perhaps now even as an excuse for a full-scale invasion of that country.