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John Feffer

Elections
Can Democracy meet Challenge of Far Right Populism, from Brazil to Italy to India and US?

Can Democracy meet Challenge of Far Right Populism, from Brazil to Italy to India and US?

John Feffer

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – Democracy faces a global crisis. And this crisis couldn’t be coming at a worse time. If you’re a supporter of Donald Trump — or Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil or Matteo Salvini in Italy — you probably think that democracy has never been in better health. Recent elections in these countries […]

Iran
Bolton in Wonderland: Will his Iran Warmongering be too Much even for Trump?

Bolton in Wonderland: Will his Iran Warmongering be too Much even for Trump?

John Feffer

Bolton has what he wants: a pretext for launching a retaliatory strike against Iran

Far Right
Is the World Doomed to Far Rightwing Soft Dictatorship?

Is the World Doomed to Far Rightwing Soft Dictatorship?

John Feffer

(Tomdispatch.com) – In the Americas, the Trump tsunami has swept across both continents and the “pink tide” of progressivism has all but disappeared from the southern half of the hemisphere. In Europe, with the recent exception of Spain, the left has been banished to the political margins. In Africa and Asia, socialism has devolved into […]

Iran
Trump appointee Bolton inventing a new "Axis of Evil," including Iran, to put US on War Footing

Trump appointee Bolton inventing a new “Axis of Evil,” including Iran, to put US on War Footing

John Feffer

(Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Bolton’s broadsides against Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela hint at ambitions for much more dangerous geopolitical conflict — and nothing short of a new Cold War. If you’re in the market for a troika of tyranny, Donald Trump, John Bolton, and Mike Pompeo certainly fit the bill. Or, if you’d […]

Donald Trump
How Progressives can build on Trump Catastrophe to Remake America

How Progressives can build on Trump Catastrophe to Remake America

John Feffer

There’s finally a good chance that Congress will repeal the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF)

Climate Change
Answering the Attacks on the Green New Deal: *Not* Implementing it is too Expensive

Answering the Attacks on the Green New Deal: *Not* Implementing it is too Expensive

John Feffer

Compared to Asia and Europe, the United States is a transportation embarrassment

nationalism
The Geopolitics of Walls: The Sense of Security is an Illusion

The Geopolitics of Walls: The Sense of Security is an Illusion

John Feffer

The wall addresses a core psychological insecurity. Trump supporters — and many others — feel as if their own privileges are evaporating.

Syria
Trump Punts on Syria

Trump Punts on Syria

John Feffer

The forever war in the Middle East is far from over.

Climate Change
How the Right missed the Real Globalist Conspiracy, of Big Oil to Heat the Planet

How the Right missed the Real Globalist Conspiracy, of Big Oil to Heat the Planet

John Feffer

There is indeed a new global order. It’s called climate change

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