Articles by John Feffer
Participatory Totalitarianism
June 4, 2014 | We are not passive objects of the surveillance state. We are active subjects of our own YouTube channels.
Red Mud and Other Messes
May 29, 2014 | In 2010, Hungary suffered a massive toxic sludge spill, from which it's still recovering.
Coup Fever
May 28, 2014 | Despite the lip service given to democracy the world over, coups remain a popular last resort. Here's why.
Romania’s Fragile New Left
May 23, 2014 | Unlike Poland, Hungary or Yugoslavia, Romania saw no critical socialist movement emerge in response to the orthodox Communists in power.
Piketty in Elysium
May 21, 2014 | If inequality sells in bookstores and box offices, it will sell at the polls as well.
The First Roma Feminist
May 16, 2014 | Roma women must confront not only the prejudices of society as a whole but also discrimination within traditional Roma families.
The Three-War Doctrine
May 14, 2014 | Hyping threats from Russia, China, and the rest of the world, the U.S. War Party is gearing up to reassert American power.
Breaking the Rules
May 13, 2014 | Both Koreas have recognized at some deep level that the rules of the game are rigged in favor of the already powerful.
Toward a Roma Cosmopolitanism
May 9, 2014 | The late Romanian sociologist Nicolae Gheorghe hoped to see the Roma model a transnational society, broader and freer than nation-states.