John Feffer

John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, and author of North Korea, South Korea: U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis (Seven Stories). His past essays, including for Tomdispatch.com, can be read at his website.

Articles

The Right Wing’s Election-Year Islamophobia (US Politics, Religion, Conservatives and the American Right)

How some Republican are transforming a conspiracy theory into a policy position.

John Feffer

Why 2012 Will Shake Up Asia and the World (Politics, World)

Can Washington move from Pacific power to Pacific partner?

John Feffer

The Lies of Islamophobia (US Politics, US Military, US Wars and Military Action, War on Terrorism)

When it comes to US foreign policy and the Muslim world, it’s as if we remain fixed in the eleventh century in a perpetual battle of “us” against “them.”

John Feffer

Pax Ottomanica? (World)

How Turkey is chasing China to become the next big thing.

John Feffer

Apocalypse Later (Presidential Election 2008, Politics)

From 2016, a futurist looks back on 2008, where the seeds of the slow-mo apolcalypse now consuming the planet were planted.

John Feffer

The Big Yam (Regions and Countries, Cultural Criticism and Analysis, Globalization, Non-fiction)

Chinese hearts, minds and pocketbooks get a lot of attention from the Eastern and Western consumer markets.

John Feffer

Big Red Checkbook (Regions and Countries)

America's foreign-policy establishment is struggling to find an appropriate response to China's soft power.