Stephen Zunes
@szunes.bsky.social
professor, parent, interests in peace, human rights, U.S. foreign policy
Stephen Zunes is an American international relations scholar specializing in Middle Eastern politics, U.S. foreign policy, and strategic nonviolent action. He is known internationally as a leading critic of United States policy in the Middle East, particularly under the George W. Bush administration, and an analyst of nonviolent civil insurrections against autocratic regimes. .. more
Political science
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Sociology
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A Harvard scholar’s ouster exposes a crisis of institutional integrity | Eric Reinhart
The dismissal of a a renowned health leader who refused to ignore Palestine highlights false claims of universality in human rights, global health and academia
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Harvard has forced the resignation of the distinguished public health scholar Dr Mary T Bassett as director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights due to her research and advocacy on the health and human rights of Palestinians.
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Neo-Nazi terror group steps up US operations as FBI pulls back
Online activity shows the Base, headed by alleged Russian asset Rinaldo Nazzaro, sees US and Ukraine as key centers
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Trump has ordered the FBI to step back from monitoring armed neo-Nazi groups while targeting anti-fascists (Antifa), which he has declared to be "terrorists."
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Georgetown University has removed Francesca Albanese, the respected Italian legal scholar who has served as a UN Special Rapporteur, from her position as an affiliated scholar at their School of Foreign Service due to her investigations into Israeli violations of international humanitarian law.
Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area | CNN
A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and c...
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The United States has bombed a Nigerian village with no ISIS presence and a history of good relations between its Muslim and Christian residents.
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Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure
Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.
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U.S.-backed Israeli occupation forces have bulldozed the seed‑multiplication unit of the only seed bank in the occupied territories, safeguarding over 70 varieties of indigenous heirloom seeds, many of which no longer exist elsewhere in the country.
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Both Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin (born Dino Crocetti) were the sons of Italian immigrants.
Trump’s pardon of an ex-Honduran president is shocking. So is the history of US support for him | Dana Frank
Obama, Trump, and Biden stood by their man in Tegucigalpa for the eight vicious, destructive years he was in power
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An important article on how the US., under both Republican and Democratic administrations, continued to support the corrupt, repressive Honduran strongman Hernández. He was finally sentenced to decades in jail for cocaine trafficking, only to be pardoned by Trump. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mhamed Hali:“Despite the dangers, bringing smiles to the faces of forgotten victims makes it worth continuing”
I was born in Laayoune, the largest city in Western Sahara, in 1987. I spent my childhood hearing stories of the grave violations committed against the Sahrawi people, my people, after the Moroccan mi...
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Inspiring story of the struggle by a prominent Sahrawi human rights lawyer in the face of persecution by the U.S.-backed Moroccan regime in occupied Western Sahara.
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Convicted felon Charles Kushner, whom Trump pardoned and then received a $1 million campaign contribution, is now U.S. ambassador to France. He's openly backing France's far right antisemitic opposition party while condemning France for not cracking down harder on pro-Palestinian Muslims & leftists.
Apparently, acknowledging institutionalized racism is now considered "apologizing for being white."
The now Trump-controlled Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has announced its priority now is going after alleged discrimination of white males.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." --U.S. Constitution
“The only thing that has truly served as an anchor of the United States of America is that we have been, and by the grace of God we always will be, a Christian nation.”
--J.D. Vance, Dec. 21, 2025
“The only thing that has truly served as an anchor of the United States of America is that we have been, and by the grace of God we always will be, a Christian nation.”
--J.D. Vance, Dec. 21, 2025
According to Trump administration, nursing, education, social work, and physical therapy--which are traditionally female and disproportionately minority fields--will no longer be considered “professional degrees” so are now limited in the amount of federal loans students can receive.