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Feffer: The west also has jihad
Znet Article, September, 17 2009
John Feffer
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Armies and guerrilla movements both deploy suicide missions, and both sides believe in a shared culture of heroic sacrifice. The difference between a ‘just war’ and terrorist targeting of civilians has been blurred for a long time.
Feffer: Our Suicide Bombers
Znet Article, August, 09 2009
John Feffer
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. . . In America's first war against Islam, we were the ones who introduced the use of suicide bombers. Indeed, the American seamen who perished in the incident were among the U.S. military's first missing in action.
Feffer: Our Suicide Bombers
Znet Article, August, 07 2009
John Feffer
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The actor Will Smith is no one's image of a suicide bomber. With his boyish face, he has often played comic roles. Even as the last man on earth in I Am Legend, he retains a wise-cracking, ironic demeanor. And yet, surrounded by a horde of hyperac...
Feffer: Monsters vs. Aliens
Znet Article, April, 23 2009
John Feffer
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Conservatives have regularly tried to compare al-Qaeda to the Barbary pirates of the 1800s. They were wrong then as is their current conflating of terrorism and piracy.
Feffer: Tackling the Global Military Industrial Complex
Znet Article, December, 12 2008
John Feffer
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The headlines coming out of East Asia have been rather positive - compared to the horrors of Iraq and Afghanistan, melting glaciers, and plummeting stock markets. The Six Party Talks have been making progress toward ending the confrontation betwee...
Feffer: Interview with Daniel Heyman
Znet Article, October, 18 2008
John Feffer
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Daniel Heyman is a visual artist who has been capturing the images and words of Iraqi victims of torture from U.S. facilities like Abu Ghraib.
Feffer: Apocalypse Later
Znet Article, August, 21 2008
John Feffer
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Assessing the optimists and pessimists of 2008
Feffer: Mother Earth's Triple Whammy
Znet Article, June, 17 2008
John Feffer
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Right now you may be grumbling about the extra bucks you're shelling out at the pump and the grocery store; but, unless policymakers begin to address all three of these trends as one major crisis, it could get a whole lot worse. Just ask the N...
Feffer: Asia's Hidden Arms Race
Znet Article, February, 13 2008
John Feffer
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Behind the six-power talks on Korea is an arms race by the six powers in Asia.
Feffer: Seoul Searching
Znet Article, August, 15 2007
John Feffer
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Poor Roh Moo-Hyun. The South Korean president's popularity rating has dipped as low as 10% recen...
Feffer: Capitalism and Democracy: Iron Fist Economics
Znet Article, January, 15 2007
John Feffer
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Capitalism and Democracy: Iron Fist Economics
Feffer: The Contradictions of Kaesong
Commentary, May, 30 2006
John Feffer
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I admit that the issue of North Korea has scrambled my political compass. Ordinarily, I oppose nuclear power as an expensive, even dangerous source of energy. But I support civilian nuclear power plants in North Korea as part of a deal to end the ...
Feffer: Covering Indian Country
Znet Article, May, 27 2006
John Feffer
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In September 2005, after the San Juan Pueblo reverted to the community's traditional name of Ohkay Owingeh, a journalist asked the pueblo's governor Joe Garcia when the decision would become official. Garcia didn't understand what the journalist m...
Feffer: Sovereignty Matters
Znet Article, March, 31 2006
John Feffer
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It is a relatively poor country, but the people who live there are proud of their long history and rich culture. Aside from mining, there are few profitable enterprises, though recently casinos have begun to attract outsiders. Nevertheless, the ...
Feffer: Cartoon Fundamentalists
Commentary, March, 07 2006
John Feffer
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The recent brouhaha over the Mohammed cartoons seems, on the surface, to pit liberals against fundamentalists. On the one side are the defenders of such liberal values as free speech and freedom of the press. On the other side are an intolerant bu...
Feffer: Immigration Nation?
Commentary, February, 09 2006
John Feffer
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The fifteen Cubans thought they had made it to the United States. In early January, they sailed in a homemade boat from Cuba and reached an old bridge on the southern tip of Florida. According to the U.S. immigration policy known as "wet foot, d...
Feffer: Human Rights in North Korea and the U.S. Strategy of Linkage
Znet Article, January, 16 2006
John Feffer
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Though it would be difficult to find anyone in the United States who would praise North Korea for its dismal human rights record, this consensus by no means extends to practical foreign policy. In other words, there is broad agreement on what is w...
Feffer: The End of Anonymity
Commentary, November, 28 2005
John Feffer
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The Internet is a great place for anonymity. A woman can go into a chat room on the Web and pretend to be a man. A teenager can pretend to be a lawyer and give out free legal advice. A blogger with a pseudonym can dispense inside gossip about the ...
Feffer: The Perils of Imperial Indigestion
Commentary, August, 30 2005
John Feffer
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The United States currently spends more than $400 billion a year on the military. This is nearly one-half of the entire global expenditure on military affairs. Two nearest U.S. rivals in military spending, China and Russia, are not even close: c...
Feffer: Dealing with North Korea
Commentary, March, 03 2005
John Feffer
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North Korea's public declaration of nuclear status does not definitively prove that it possesses nuclear weapons. What's clear is that Pyongyang expects no changes in Bush administration policy. The nuclear announcement and North Korea's decision ...
