Articles by John Feffer

Containment Lite: U.S. Policy Toward Russia and Its Neighbors

June 1, 1999 | Instead of consulting with Russia over key foreign policy issues such as the Iraq bombings and allied policy toward former Yugoslavia, Washington has attempted to steer Moscow into a diplomatic backwater where it can exert little global influence.

U.S.-North Korea Relations

May 1, 1999 | The Pentagon has inflated the North Korean threat in order to rationalize its desire for a missile defense system, to justify a capacity to fight two wars simultaneously, and to explain the need to maintain 37,000 troops in South Korea.