Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

Donate

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google+
  • Email
  • RSS
  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2021 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

John Feffer

Donald Trump
America and the Mob

America and the Mob

John Feffer

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The far right has come out in support of Trump. After the failed coup attempt of January 6, what’s next? The United States began as a glint in the eyes of an English mob of oddballs, dissenters, and criminals let loose on what they considered virgin territory. Once secure […]

Climate Crisis
How America’s Denialism– Elections, COVID, Climate — is Leading to its Downfall

How America’s Denialism– Elections, COVID, Climate — is Leading to its Downfall

John Feffer

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The refusal of tens of millions of Americans to recognize the election results is part of a much larger denialism — of COVID-19, of climate change, and U.S. decline. The presidential election wasn’t close. Joe Biden won the popular vote by more than 7 million votes, which translates […]

Democratic Party
Republicans have become the Party of Zombies and Loss at Polls won’t stop them from Coming for Biden

Republicans have become the Party of Zombies and Loss at Polls won’t stop them from Coming for Biden

John Feffer

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – How else would you describe Americans who deny a pandemic that’s killed 250,000 people and the election that repudiated Trump? The 2017 film Bushwick begins like a lot of zombie flicks. An unsuspecting couple is walking through a subway station in the working-class neighborhood of Bushwick in Brooklyn. The […]

Donald Trump
After the Erratic Trump, can America Rejoin the World?

After the Erratic Trump, can America Rejoin the World?

John Feffer

By John Feffer | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – It simply doesn’t make a lot of sense to entrust leadership to a country with a severe personality disorder. America may well be divided about Donald Trump, but the rest of the world isn’t. The soon-to-be-former president has gotten high marks in the Philippines […]

Donald Trump
The Goldilocks Apocalypse: No Return to Normalcy after Trump

The Goldilocks Apocalypse: No Return to Normalcy after Trump

John Feffer

(Tomdispatch.com) – Imagine for a moment that Hillary Clinton had won the presidential election in 2016. Imagine, in other words, that the “blue wall” of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania had held firm four years ago. Claiming election fraud, Donald Trump would have insisted on a recount and Election Day would then, too, have stretched into […]

Bill of Rights
Roll up your Sleeves: It will take more than an Election to Restore American Democracy

Roll up your Sleeves: It will take more than an Election to Restore American Democracy

John Feffer

The Four-Year Rule?

Authoritarianism
Authoritarianism is Growing Around the World, but from Bolivia to Nigeria, People Power is pushing Back

Authoritarianism is Growing Around the World, but from Bolivia to Nigeria, People Power is pushing Back

John Feffer

Authoritarianism has been on the march for years, but people powered revolutions are pushing regimes toward democracy on nearly every continent. ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Despite all the obstacles, Americans are voting in huge numbers prior to Election Day. With a week to go, nearly 70 million voters have sent in their […]

Climate Crisis
Pandemic Pivot:  The Pandemic is a Wake-up Call for Truly Global Action

Pandemic Pivot: The Pandemic is a Wake-up Call for Truly Global Action

John Feffer

(Foreign Policy in Focus ) – If the current pandemic is a test of the global emergency response system, the international community is flunking big time. It has done just about everything wrong, from the failure to contain the virus early on to the lack of effective coordination thereafter. As the predicted second wave begins […]

Authoritarianism
The Mobster-in-Chief:  Will the November Election Be Decided in the Streets?

The Mobster-in-Chief: Will the November Election Be Decided in the Streets?

John Feffer

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The white mobs didn’t care whom they killed as long as the victims were Black. They murdered people in public with guns and rocks. They set fire to houses and slaughtered families trying to escape the flames. In East St. Louis in July 1917, white vigilantes lynched Blacks with impunity. It […]

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • …
  • Page 9
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Support Us

Help keep independent journalism alive and donate online, or make checks payable to:
"Juan Cole"
P. O. Box 4218,
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2548
(No parcels, please)

STAY INFORMED

Join our newsletter and have sharp analysis delivered to your inbox every day.


Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2021 All Rights Reserved