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John Feffer

John Feffer, a TomDispatch regular, is the author of the dystopian novel Splinterlands and the director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. Frostlands, a Dispatch Books original, is volume two of his Splinterlands series, and the final novel in the trilogy is Songlands. He has also written Right Across the World: The Global Networking of the Far-Right and the Left Response.

The Flight 93 Doctrine

Donald Trump’s Kamikaze Attack on Globalism

By John Feffer On July 22, 2018On May 15, 2021

Playing Trump for Peace

How the Korean Peninsula Could Become a Bright Spot in a World Gone Mad

By John Feffer On May 20, 2018On May 15, 2021

Trump to the International Community: Drop Dead

Washington Takes on the World

By John Feffer On March 25, 2018On May 15, 2021

What’s the Matter with Eastern Europe?

Welcome to the Birthplace of Trumpism

By John Feffer On December 5, 2017On December 5, 2017

The Crack-Up

Donald Trump and the Fourth Great Shattering

By John Feffer On October 24, 2017On May 15, 2021

Trump and the Geopolitics of Crazy

The Times They Are A-Changin’ in North Korea

By John Feffer On August 22, 2017On August 22, 2017

A Fairy Tale from 2050

Donald Trump and the Triumph of Anti-Politics

By John Feffer On July 18, 2017On May 15, 2021

Goodbye Pacific Pivot, Hello Pacific Retreat

Who Will Take America’s Place in Asia?

By John Feffer On June 1, 2017On May 15, 2021

Doubling Down on Dystopia

Preventing the Triumph of Trump’s Will

By John Feffer On March 12, 2017On May 15, 2021

Donald Trump Against the World

The Birth of a New Nationalist World Order

By John Feffer On January 24, 2017On May 15, 2021

Pulling the Lever for Doomsday

Or How Donald Trump Changed Everything (2016-2020)

By John Feffer On December 6, 2016On December 6, 2016

Trump the Arsonist

Evangelicals, Survivalists, the Alt-Right, and Hurricane Donald

By John Feffer On October 13, 2016On October 13, 2016

The Most Important Election of Your Life

(Is Not This Year)

By John Feffer On June 26, 2016On June 26, 2016

Splinterlands

The View from 2050

By John Feffer On November 10, 2015On May 15, 2021

Resisting the Lure of Intervention

The Search for Terrestrial Intelligence

By John Feffer On September 17, 2015On May 15, 2021

The Worst of All Possible Worlds

Did Market Leninism Win the Cold War?

By John Feffer On May 26, 2015On May 15, 2021

The Collapse of Europe?

The European Union May Be on the Verge of Regime Collapse

By John Feffer On January 27, 2015On January 27, 2015

The Pacific Pivot

Why America’s Strategic Rebalance is Really Just Retreat

By John Feffer On January 28, 2014On May 15, 2021

Dumb and Dumber

Obama’s “Smart Power” Foreign Policy Not Smart at All

By John Feffer On September 6, 2012On May 15, 2021

Creating the Muslim Manchurian Candidate

By John Feffer On March 29, 2012On May 15, 2021

Why 2012 Will Shake Up Asia and the World

By John Feffer On October 4, 2011On May 15, 2021

The Lies of Islamophobia 

By John Feffer On November 7, 2010On May 15, 2021

John Feffer, Pax Ottomanica?

By John Feffer On June 13, 2010On May 15, 2021

John Feffer, Can Japan Say No to Washington?

By John Feffer On March 4, 2010On March 4, 2010

John Feffer, Will NATO’s 60th Anniversary Be Its Last?

By John Feffer On September 29, 2009On May 15, 2021

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    Julian West, looking backwards from 2050, tries to understand why the world and his family have fallen apart. Part Field Notes from a Catastrophe, part 1984, part World War Z, John Feffer’s striking new dystopian novel, takes us deep into the battered, shattered world of 2050. The European Union has broken apart. Multiethnic great powers like Russia and… Read more

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    It’s 2051, and Arcadia is under attack. As the stand-alone sequel to Splinterlands begins, the sustainable compound in what was once Vermont is on high alert. Arcadia’s defense corps is mobilized to defend against what first appears to be a routine assault, one of the many that the community must repulse from para- military forces… Read more

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