John Feffer
John Feffer is the director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. His dystopian novel, Splinterlands, a Dispatch Books original (with Haymarket Books), will appear this fall. He is a TomDispatch regular.
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We can’t keep doing things “the old way’, especially when they don’t work. It’s time to make this critically important change.
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Medicare for All over militarism
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