John Feffer is director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies.

He is the author, most recently, of Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Europe’s Broken Dreams (Zed Books). He is also the author of the dystopian novel Splinterlands (Dispatch Books) and its soon-to-be-released sequel Frostlands. He is the author of several other books, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, USAToday, Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, and many other publications.

He has been an Open Society fellow, a PanTech fellow in Korean Studies at Stanford University, a Herbert W. Scoville fellow, a writing fellow at Provisions Library in Washington, DC, and a writer in residence at Blue Mountain Center and the Wurlitzer Foundation.

He is a former associate editor of World Policy Journal. He has worked as an international affairs representative in Eastern Europe and East Asia for the American Friends Service Committee. He has studied in England and Russia, lived in Poland and Japan, and traveled widely throughout Europe and Asia.

John has been widely interviewed in print, on radio, and TV.

Learn more about him on his website.

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Clinton in Indonesia: What She Missed

Hillary Clinton had nothing but praise for Indonesia on her recent visit. Somehow she missed genocide, religious intolerance, and a growing split between rich and poor.

Foreign Policy In Fashion

You can come to your own conclusion about the administration’s new clothes.

Neocons 1, Obama 0

Chas Freeman was on his way to head up the National Intelligence Council – until the right-wing attacks began.

Thinking Big in Crisis Time

Japan has entered a season of grand strategising. Government commissions, business associations, leading foundations, and academic working groups are all developing blueprints for a new, 21st-century Japanese role in the world.

Radical Sound Activism

Ultra-red makes art at the speed of sound.

The War Online

The recent war in Gaza was also waged online, but with an important difference: People were talking to each other and sometimes even listening.

Don’t Move On Yet

Let’s say that President Barack Obama appointed me as his Karl Rove. My advice: Don’t move on.

Fashioning Resistance to Militarism

Runaway military spending meets runway anti-military clothing: a new way of looking at the fashioning of war.

Obama and Israel’s Military: Still Arm-in-Arm

Despite some hopeful movement on Middle East issues, the new administration is still lavishing military aid on Israel and, by extension, the U.S. defense industry.

Dealing with Burma Through China?

Here’s one way of breaking the impasse with Burma: Go through Beijing.

Turning European

With the United States on the verge of another Great Depression, the Know-Nothing opposition to the Obama administration should be worried that we are about to slip into the Third World.

Prosecuting the Bush Team?

Bush’s legal advisors facilitated the administration’s use of torture. Should we drag them in front of the court?

The Imperial Unconscious

Predators, reapers, and imperial graveyards: Washington’s language betrays its stubborn imperial ambitions.

Ploughshares into Swords

Why is South Korean military spending going up even at a time of global recession?

Pakistan, Proliferation, and U.S. Priorities

The release of A. Q. Khan reveals that nuclear proliferation takes a back seat to other U.S. priorities, columnist Zia Mian explains.

Obama in Canada

Obama makes his first foreign visit as president and gets the green light on Afghan escalation.

Listen: Afghanistan

After eight years of deafness, the White House is now listening. When it comes to Afghanistan, we just have to speak a little louder.

Afghanistan: Build Infrastructure, Not Bases

In this interview, Sakena Yacoobi of the Afghan Institute for Learning recommends that President Obama consider a surge in development assistance to her country.

North Korea Sends Message: ‘Don’t Ignore Us!’

President Obama needs to pay attention to North Korea.

A Multipolar Moment?

Will Obama’s multilateral resolve turn to stone or will his administration truly remap U.S. global relations?

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