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John Feffer

Food Security
The Turkey-Russia-Ukraine Grain Agreement and the Weaponization of Food

The Turkey-Russia-Ukraine Grain Agreement and the Weaponization of Food

John Feffer

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – When Russia bombed the port in Odesa last week, it was not an auspicious beginning to the new deal on grain exports. If anyone believed that this agreement between Moscow and Kyiv would have some positive spillover effect on the war grinding on elsewhere in Ukraine, the Russian […]

Joe Biden
The Fateful Fist Bump

The Fateful Fist Bump

John Feffer

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – If you thought the polarization of politics in the United States was corrosive, brace yourself for the even more corrosive polarization of geopolitics. By John Feffer | July 20, 2022 The fist bump has been the default method of person-to-person contact in the COVID era. Shaking hands is […]

China
Why China Will Decide the Outcome of Russia v. the West

Why China Will Decide the Outcome of Russia v. the West

John Feffer

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In its attempt to swallow Ukraine whole, Russia has so far managed to bite off only the eastern Donbas region and a portion of its southern coast. The rest of the country remains independent, with its capital Kyiv intact. No one knows how this meal will end. Ukraine is eager to […]

China
Biden’s Golden Opportunity to Reverse Course on China

Biden’s Golden Opportunity to Reverse Course on China

John Feffer

Originally published in Hankyoreh. ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Joe Biden has wrapped up his first trip to Asia. He met with new South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol to shore up the U.S.-ROK alliance. He traveled to Tokyo to reinvigorate the Quad grouping with Japan, Australia, and India. And he peddled the new […]

Climate Crisis
What Remains of the U.S. Green New Deal?

What Remains of the U.S. Green New Deal?

John Feffer

By John Feffer | – In November 2018, the Green New Deal became a rallying cry for climate activists when members of the Sunrise Movement occupied House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and adopted the slogan as their unifying message. A few months later, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who had joined the young activists in Pelosi’s […]

Natural Gas
Bin Putin?  How Russia is increasingly becoming the Saudi Arabia of the North

Bin Putin? How Russia is increasingly becoming the Saudi Arabia of the North

John Feffer

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – A failed military intervention. The genocidal killing of citizens. Economic isolation by the international community. The arrests of anti-war protestors at home and the shuttering of independent media. Any one of these factors could mark the end of an ordinary political leader. Yet Russian President Vladimir Putin has not […]

Climate Crisis
The Five Horsemen of Today’s Apocalypse

The Five Horsemen of Today’s Apocalypse

John Feffer

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Once upon a time, the tutelary gods of nationalism and internationalism met for a chat. They had a superb perch above the clouds. From there, they could see everything happening on the Earth below and they set to arguing, as they so often did. Sophia, the goddess of internationalism, began by […]

Russia
Ending the War in Ukraine:  No diplomatic solution is possible without serious pressure on Putin

Ending the War in Ukraine: No diplomatic solution is possible without serious pressure on Putin

John Feffer

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Vladimir Putin has a very clear strategy for ending his war in Ukraine. He intends to wipe the country off the map. Initially, he’d hoped to do so by seizing Kyiv, replacing the government, and absorbing as much of Ukrainian territory into Russia as he thought feasible. Now, […]

Donald Trump
Will the Ukraine War be the Nail in the Coffin for the Putin-Loving Alt-Right?

Will the Ukraine War be the Nail in the Coffin for the Putin-Loving Alt-Right?

John Feffer

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Most of the leaders of the alt-right are scrambling to distance themselves from Vladimir Putin. It might be too late. By John Feffer | March 16, 2022 Many figures on the new right sold their already discounted souls to Vladimir Putin over the last decade. Now, after the invasion […]

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