Articles by John Feffer

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NATO on Viagra

April 9, 2014 | At 65, NATO should get off its new meds and act its age. It’s time for downsizing and memoir-writing, not hanky-panky in the east.

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America’s Homegrown Terror

April 7, 2014 | Plagued by poor infrastructure, climate denialism, and a patchwork of unregulated fracking wells and nuclear waste sites, the U.S. is poised to topple itself with self-inflicted wounds.

Funding Roma Autonomy

April 4, 2014 | Despite a worldwide reduction in poverty, the economic situation of Roma in East-Central Europe has declined.

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Brown Is the New Black

March 26, 2014 | Fashions come and go. And this year, across the broad swath of Eurasia, fascism is in.

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If I Didn’t Have a Hammer

March 19, 2014 | U.S. foreign policy is anything but demilitarized. But where the Bush team saw every problem as a nail, the Obama team wields more than just a hammer.

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My Strategic Impatience

March 14, 2014 | For North Korea to rise higher on the list of U.S. priorities, Washington policymakers will have to stop considering it in isolation.