John Feffer

John Feffer (born 1963) is an author and currently co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is a fellow at the Open Society Foundations. His books include Crusade 2.0, (City Lights, 2012), a description of contemporary attacks on Islam, North Korea/South Korea: US Policy and the Korean Peninsula, a description of current U.S. policy towards Korea and its limitations, Power Trip, a narrative of American unilateralism during the George W. Bush administration, and Living in Hope, a description of creative responses by local communities to the challenges of globalization.

Quotes

Trumpism is here to stay: America’s neo-fascist fever dream has only just begun (2016)

Trumpism is here to stay: America’s neo-fascist fever dream has only just begun, Salon (June 28, 2016)

  • The voters vowed to take their revenge at the polls. They’d missed out on the country’s vaunted prosperity. They were disgusted with the liberal direction of the previous administration. They were anti-abortion and pro-religion. They were suspicious of immigrants, haughty intellectuals, and intrusive international institutions. And they very much wanted to make their nation great again.
  • Trump was, they concluded, sui generis, a peculiar mutation of the American political system generated by the unholy coupling of reality television and the Tea Party revolt. But Trump is not, in fact, a sport of nature. He reflects trends taking place around the world.
  • His opponents have tried to argue that America is already great, has been great, and will always be great. But the truth is, for many Americans, things have not been so great for at least the last two decades.
  • Then it will matter little how much both liberals and conservatives rail against “stupid” and “crazy” voters. Nor will they have Donald Trump to kick around any more. In the end, they will have no one to blame but themselves.

Trump’s Dirty Money (June 28, 2016)

Russian money saved Trump when his projects were on the verge of collapse. Will it now be the cause of his political demise? (Jul 25, 2018) Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) a project of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPF) (Jul 25, 2018) Source.

  • An astounding number of his... business ventures have gone belly up...
  • Only one institution, Deutsche Bank, continued to supply him with credit. ...Trump began to rely on ...questionable characters and networks.
  • [H]e started to use large amounts of cash... since 2006...
  • Many of the purchasers of Trump properties are Russian.
  • In 2015, federal authorities fined the... bankrupt Trump Taj Mahal $10 million for violations of anti-money-laundering laws. ...In a 1998 [$450,000] settlement... the Taj Mahal was cited for breaking anti-money-laundering laws 106 times in... 18 months of operation.

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