The Muslims were bloodthirsty and treacherous. They conducted a sneak attack against the French army and slaughtered every single soldier, 20,000 in…
John Feffer
Even before the polls opened for voting in the U.S. midterm elections, the finger-pointing had already begun. The Obama agenda, instead of…
The future is no longer in plastics, as the businessman in the 1967 film The Graduate insisted. Rather, the future is in China. If…
For a country with a pacifist constitution, Japan is bristling with weaponry. Indeed, that Asian land has long functioned as a huge…
Celebrating its 60th birthday this year, NATO is looking peaked and significantly worse for wear. Aggressive and ineffectual, the organization shows signs…
Armies and guerrilla movements both deploy suicide missions, and both sides believe in a shared culture of heroic sacrifice. The difference between…
[John Feffer is the co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies and writes its regular World Beat…
The actor Will Smith is no one’s image of a suicide bomber. With his boyish face, he has often played comic roles.…
In the comic books, bad guys often team up to fight the forces of good. The Masters of Evil battle the Avengers…
The headlines coming out of East Asiahave been rather positive – compared to the horrors of Iraqand , melting glaciers, and plummeting stock markets. The…