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John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, is the author of North Korea, South Korea: U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis (Seven Stories). His past essays, including for Tomdispatch.com, can be read at his website.

Despite its political triumphs worldwide, the radical right has a crucial weakness: it utterly lacks a credible respo...

It was supposed to be the greatest transition of modern times.Practically overnight, a dirty, inefficient, and unjust system that encompassed 11 time zones was to undergo an extreme makeover. Billions of dollars were available to speed the process. A new crew of transition experts came up with the b...

Originally posted at TomDispatch. The bad news stemming from the ill-planned and ill-managed U.S. evacuation of the Afghan capital just kept coming in. - Andrew Bacevich for Antiwar.com Original

Antiwar.com Original Originally posted at TomDispatch. This editor’s note introduced the single article that took up almost every inch of space in the August 31, 1946, New Yorker magazine: “TO OUR READERS: The New Yorker this week devotes its entire editorial space to an article on the almost complete obliteration of a city by one atomic bomb, and what happened to the people of that city. It does so in the conviction that few of us have yet comprehended the all b...

The hope of economic recovery can unravel very quickly if we give in to GOP pressure against a big infrastructure bill.

What's the answer to declining births, labor shortages, and spending shortfalls? Immigration. Just ask Germany.

See, earlier: Hungary, Poland Spend Money On Mot...

America has a serious infrastructure problem. Maybe when I say that what comes to mind are all the potholes on your street. Or the dismal state of public transportation in your city. Or crumbling bridges all over the country. But thats so twentieth century of you. Americas most urgent infrastructure vulnerability is largely invisible and unlikely to be fixed by the Biden administrations $2 trillion American Jobs Plan. Im thinking about vulnerabilities that lurk in your garage (your car), your h...

   W e know what keeps America safe at night — rough men on the walls stand ready to visit violence on those who would do us harm, duh. But what about Canada? Or say, Cambodia or Bolivia? This is by way of trying to figure out why Joe Biden bombed Syria and derailed the resumption of the Iran nuclear accord, and why he has called off, delayed, or stalled further withdrawals from the places like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria along the bloody trail of the old Global War of Terror. Canada (al...