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America’s Ultimate Don Could Unleash a 21st Century Gangocracy

What’s happening in Haiti today could prefigure the future of the United States, too, if Donald Trump wins in November and continues to undermine...

19.04.2024 9

Common Dreams

John Feffer

The Return Of Terrorism? – OpEd

With its “war on terrorism,” the United States launched a global campaign against the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks as well as a number of...

04.04.2024 9

Eurasia Review

John Feffer

Destroying The Lawn In Gaza – OpEd

Ever since it withdrew its settlements in 2005, Israel has periodically attacked Gaza. This shelling of locations throughout the narrow strip of land...

14.03.2024 2

Eurasia Review

John Feffer

How To Deconstruct The New Iron Curtain – OpEd

The head of the U.S. Strategic Command told Congress last week that a powerful set of countries is ganging up against the United States and World War...

09.03.2024 10

Eurasia Review

John Feffer

The Foreign Policy Issue That Could Decide US Presidential Election – OpEd

Presidential elections in the United States are almost always decided by domestic issues. Once in a while a global concern like terrorism or a...

29.02.2024 6

Eurasia Review

John Feffer

Will There Be Imaginative Diplomacy or Escalating War in the Middle East?

The best scenario is to achieve some reduction of tensions, some release of hostages, some stepping away from the brink of a wider war.

22.02.2024 5

Common Dreams

John Feffer

How To Deal With An Insurrectionist – OpEd

When Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, it focused on embedding the civil rights of the formerly enslaved in the Constitution. But the...

19.02.2024 4

Eurasia Review

John Feffer

What Brazil Can Teach the US About Defending Democracy From Insurrectionists

While Americans are debating esoteric clauses of the Constitution in an effort to determine Trump’s place on or off the ballot, Brazil is taking far...

15.02.2024 4

Common Dreams

John Feffer

Are North Korea’s Latest Threats Rhetorical Or Real? – OpEd

The Korean War ended more than 70 years ago, and a tense peace has reigned ever since on the Korean peninsula. The two Koreas have exchanged artillery...

02.02.2024 10

Eurasia Review

John Feffer

A Right-Wing Takeover of the European Union Isn’t Far-Fetched

31.01.2024 10

The Nation

John Feffer

So much for moving to Europe: Trump's allies are plotting an EU takeover

It would be funny if it weren’t so potentially tragic — and consequential. No, I’m not thinking about Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential...

27.01.2024 20

Salon

John Feffer

Trump's Right-Wing Allies Plot Takeover of the European Union

The EU is still a beacon for progressives around the world, but for how long?

25.01.2024 5

Common Dreams

John Feffer

The End Of Europe? – OpEd

It would be funny if it weren’t so potentially tragic — and consequential. No, I’m not thinking about Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential...

25.01.2024 6

Eurasia Review

John Feffer

How Can Workers Ensure the ‘Just Transition’ Is Truly Just?

The global economy is already undergoing its most fundamental transformation since the Industrial Revolution; if workers and trade unions are at the...

13.01.2024 1

Common Dreams

John Feffer

Rescuing Realpolitik From Henry Kissinger – OpEd

Henry Kissinger wrote his doctoral dissertation about Europe’s “long peace” after the defeat of Napoleon, focusing on how conservative statesmen...

06.01.2024 3

Eurasia Review

John Feffer

The Planet Needs a New Realpolitik Free From Kissinger’s Toxic Legacy

A post-Kissinger realpolitik would acknowledge power politics and the ruthless reality of military force but would nevertheless find ways to assert...

10.12.2023 20

Common Dreams

John Feffer

Milei’s and Wilders’ Wins Suggest We Haven’t Reached Peak Populism

Instead of supporting candidates who promise truly transformational change, voters are backing fast-food populists who advertise options that are even...

03.12.2023 10

Common Dreams

John Feffer

The Return Of The Far Right – OpEd

Panic does not produce prudent politics. Panic produces provocative populists. And it reduces pundits to Seussian spluttering. How can voters

02.12.2023 5

Eurasia Review

John Feffer

Needed: A Cold War Therapy Session for the US and China

When a couple doesn’t trust each other, someone has to make a first attempt at reconciliation, however modest.

17.11.2023 3

Common Dreams

John Feffer

The Enduring Limits Of American Power – OpEd

The United States is the most powerful country on the earth. If you add together its nuclear arsenal, its unmatched array of conventional weaponry,...

30.10.2023 10

Eurasia Review

John Feffer

How the Left Overestimates US Power

Despite the military and non-military assistance it provides to Ukraine and Israel, the United States still can’t determine outcomes on the ground.

28.10.2023 2

Common Dreams

John Feffer

Cooling The Guns In The Middle East – OpEd

The Palestinian people have never really figured prominently in the calculations of U.S. administrations. The Middle East is a locus of power...

22.10.2023 3

Eurasia Review

John Feffer

Israel Should Learn From the US Response to 9/11

The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq might have satisfied an immediate desire for revenge, but keeping the guns hot ended up killing more than twice...

20.10.2023 4

Common Dreams

John Feffer

We Won't Survive Trump's Next War Against the United States of America

The only reason that Trump in a second term might not end up waging war on another country is because he’ll be too focused on destroying his own.

29.09.2023 2

Common Dreams

John Feffer

Trump World, 2025 – OpEd

It’s possible that he’ll be in prison. Or perhaps, because of poll numbers that fall as trial dates approach, the Republican Party won’t end up...

29.09.2023 4

Eurasia Review

John Feffer

More Butterflies, Fewer Billionaires: Unrigging The Global Economy – OpEd

In a fit of madness or just plain desperation, you’ve enrolled in a get-rich-quick scheme. All you have to do is sell some products, sign up some...

22.09.2023 2

Eurasia Review

John Feffer

Our Last Good Shot at Reducing Global Inequality and Saving the Planet

The rich cannot be allowed to sit on their billions while the planet burns.

20.09.2023 4

Common Dreams

John Feffer

Green Colonialism Has No Place in a Truly Just Transition

In a fit of foolishness or just plain desperation, you’ve enrolled in a get-rich-quick scheme. All you have to do is sell some products, sign up...

19.09.2023 2

Truthout

John Feffer

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