by John Feffer | Jul 23, 2014 | Redev, War & Peace
The most bizarre conspiracy theory surrounding the recent downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine comes from a leading pro-Russian separatist, Igor Girkin. Relying on second-hand information, Girkin asserted that many of the passengers from the crash had already...
by Didier Jacobs | Jul 19, 2014 | Redev, War & Peace
Distracted by crises in Iraq, Syria, and Gaza—not to mention Ukraine and the South China Sea—the world forgets the countdown of a time bomb: the interim deal over Iran’s nuclear program expires on July 20. An extension is expected, but that only means rewinding the...
by John Feffer | Jul 18, 2014 | Democracy & Governance, Redev
Cross-posted from JohnFeffer.com. It wasn’t long after Francis Fukuyama published his “end of history” thesis that the war in Yugoslavia definitively wrecked his argument. How could the world be heading inexorably in the direction of market democracy when even the...
by John Feffer | Jul 2, 2014 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
Nathan Hale spied on the British in 1776 and was hanged because of it. Before he mounted the scaffold, he reportedly uttered the famous phrase, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” His country, the 13 former British colonies that formed a...
by John Feffer | Jun 18, 2014 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
Back in the 1950s, the far right-wing John Birch Society worried that Communists were secretly behind the fluoridation of the American drinking water. This particular conspiracy theory probably would have vanished into collective amnesia if it hadn’t been so pointedly...
