Author: John Feffer

In Defense of Ukraine’s Right to Self-Defense

By: John Feffer Summer 2024

John Feffer speaks for the Ukrainian war of self-defense against the Russian invasion, as a struggle of an oppressed people against imperialism.

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The Flat World and the Flat-Worlders

By: John Feffer Winter 2024

John Feffer reviews Kevin Funk’s “Rooted Globalism”, on the persistence of the national character of each capitalist class amidst globalization.

The Peace Movement and Ukraine: John Feffer Replies to Critics

By: John FefferJune 30, 2023

John Feffer responds in an interview to peace movement critics regarding the war in Ukraine

Russiagate or Deep State? What Some Progressives Get Wrong on Russia

The bizarre denialism of some on the left and right about Russiagate doesn’t bode well for the future of American politics

By: John FefferFebruary 19, 2018

When it comes to the Russiagate scandal, progressives usually take one of two positions.

They either dismiss the scandal as a lot of hooey, a “nothingburger,” just a way for warmongers and the “Deep State” to revive a cold war between Washington and Moscow. Or they treat the scandal as just a means to an end, a way to cast doubt on the 2016 presidential election, implicate the administration in a variety of crimes, and ultimately impeach the president.

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