Obama’s Half-Pivot to Asia
May 2, 2014 | If Obama thought his short pass through Pacific would boost the much-vaunted U.S. “pivot” to Asia, he soon discovered that the world is not cooperating with his best-laid plans.
Articles by John Feffer
Hungary’s U-Turn
May 2, 2014 | Hungary has turned its back on the European Union and is heading off on its own political and economic path.
Obama in the Funhouse
April 30, 2014 | To avoid the escalation in east-west tensions, both Putin and Obama need to view each other with a great deal more clarity and understanding.
Paying for the Climate Change Pivot
April 29, 2014 | Unless every nation ramps down military spending and invests in clean energy, we’ll all lose the next big war over the fate of the Earth without even firing a shot.
Roma Youth Organize in Slovakia
April 25, 2014 | Though discrimination is decreasing, Slovakia is unlikely to elect a Roma president any time soon!
Earth: Game Over?
April 23, 2014 | We're in the middle of a sixth mass extinction, and this will be the first one—and possibly the last—we will witness as human beings.
German Activism: Bridging the East-West Divide
April 18, 2014 | Twenty years ago, the West German Greens and the East German citizen movements created a political alliance that continues to this day.
World Cuts Back Military Spending, But Not Asia
April 17, 2014 | Driven by a rising China and arms exports from the United States, military spending in Asia is on the increase.
It’s Our Party
April 16, 2014 | Iranians have a sovereign right to choose whomever they want to represent them at the UN, just as Texans have the right to choose whatever Ivy League meathead they want to represent them in Congress.
Tripping on the Czech Jewish Fantastic: From the Golem to Kafka to Daniel Kumermann
April 11, 2014 | The Jew from Prague who began as a window washer and became an ambassador.