FWD from Stephen Zunes

My latest article examines the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and how the difficulty the United States has had in more successfully challenging Russian aggression has not been a lack of military leadership, but a lack of moral leadership as a result of the blatant hypocrisy and double-standards regarding international law and military intervention:	

http://fpif.org/u-s-leadership-russia-crippled-hypocrisy/

	Other articles of mine on Ukraine include this piece from June, co-authored by Erica Chenoweth of the University of Denver, in which we argue that nonviolent resistance by Ukrainians themselves is the most effective means of countering Russian aggrandizement: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/05/28/a_nonviolent_alternative_for_ukraine
	And this article from last March gives an overview of the uprising against Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and the U.S. role in the country’s internal conflict which challenges some of the myths coming from both the right and left: http://fpif.org/straight-talk-u-s-ukraine/

	Over the next couple of months, I will be giving a series of public talks in Minnesota, Colorado, and here in California (primarily addressing U.S. Middle East policy), including one coming up in San Francisco with Kathy Kelly on September 26. You can find my speaking schedule at: http://stephenzunes.org/lectures-appearances/upcoming-appearances/

	Finally, I realize that some of you are eager to hear my analysis of the war on Gaza, which—due to a busy travel schedule this summer—I am yet to write about. I will put together something in the next few weeks, however.

Stephen Zunes
University of San Francisco

ph: 415-422-6981
twitter: szunes



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The Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:
http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm
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My expanded/updated "Organizer's Book,"
JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- with a new 10,000
word introduction by me. Covers much of my 
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Forest Fires in the West (including the life of an old-time
fire lookout: http://hunterbear.org/forest_fires_in_the_west.htm