John Feffer

5 days ago | juancole.com | John Feffer |Juan Cole

Netanyahu is about to escalate, yet again, his war crimes in Gaza. By ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Maybe you remember an incident like this from your schooldays. Someone in your class has done something wrong, like pass around a caricature of the principal, and the teacher decides to punish the whole class by taking away your recess. Maybe this is done to force the culprit to confess, or to pressure you and your classmates to point the finger.

6 days ago | resilience.org | John Feffer

Climate change, debt, and development have a caustic relationship, hindering economic justice and national advancement, but solutions exist. Imagine you are a low-income country. You suffer from a heavy debt burden. You’ve been trying to catch up to the more affluent countries for decades, but you’ve been unsuccessful, mainly because of that debt hanging around your neck like a giant millstone.

6 days ago | counterpunch.org | John Feffer

Maybe you remember an incident like this from your schooldays. Someone in your class has done something wrong, like pass around a caricature of the principal, and the teacher decides to punish the whole class by taking away your recess. Maybe this is done to force the culprit to confess, or to pressure you and your classmates to point the finger. It’s a clever method of drafting students to help police the classroom. Such tactics of collective punishment have fallen out of favor for obvious reasons.

6 days ago | nationofchange.org | John Feffer

Maybe you remember an incident like this from your schooldays. Someone in your class has done something wrong, like pass around a caricature of the principal, and the teacher decides to punish the whole class by taking away your recess. Maybe this is done to force the culprit to confess, or to pressure you and your classmates to point the finger. It’s a clever method of drafting students to help police the classroom. Such tactics of collective punishment have fallen out of favor for obvious reasons.

1 week ago | fpif.org | John Feffer

Among the Trump administration’s many disturbing shifts in foreign policy, one of its more shameful moves has been to use foreign aid as a tool for advancing U.S. national power. Rather than claiming that foreign aid stems from a genuine concern for the well-being of humanity, as previous administrations have done, the Trump administration has determined that U.S. assistance should be used to increase the power of the United States, if it is to be used at all.