The Pandemic Pivot

Posted by on Apr 4, 2021 in Articles, Books, Featured, Non-Fiction, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments If the current pandemic is a test of the global emergency response system, the international community is flunking big time. It has done just about everything wrong, from the failure to contain the virus early on to the lack of effective coordination thereafter. As the predicted second wave begins to build — the world is now adding over 400,000 new cases per day — it is truly disheartening to...
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Frostlands

Posted by on Dec 19, 2018 in Books, Featured, Fiction | 0 comments It’s 2051 and Arcadia is under attack. As the stand-alone sequel to Splinterlands begins, the sustainable compound in what was once Vermont is on high alert. Arcadia’s defense corps is mobilized against what appears to be a routine assault, one of many that the community repulses from paramilitary forces every year. But as sensors record a breach in the perimeter wall, even...
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The Energy of Delusion Podcast

Posted by on Oct 9, 2018 in Articles, Books, Featured, Fiction | 0 comments The Energy of Delusion brings you the latest imaginative writing from John Feffer, author of the Splinterlands series, the thriller Foamers, and numerous works of non-fiction. At the $1 level, The Energy of Delusion brings you the latest installment — in both print and audio versions — of The Third Return, a new thriller that involves two spies, the two Koreas, and the DC...
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Aftershock

Posted by on Nov 18, 2017 in Blog, Books, Eastern Europe, Featured, Non-Fiction | 0 comments Now out from Zed Books. Available here. A quarter of a century after the fall of communism, novelist and journalist John Feffer returned to Eastern Europe to track down the hundreds of people he spoke to in the initial atmosphere of optimism as the Iron Curtain fell. Aftershock is the sensational account of that journey. Revealing the broken dreams of a remarkable cast of characters, this is...
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A Fairy Tale from 2050

Posted by on Sep 2, 2017 in Articles, Books, Featured, Fiction, Security, Uncategorized | 0 comments Once upon a time, long, long ago, I testified before the great assembly of our land. When I describe this event to children today, it really does sound to them like a fairy tale. Once upon a time — a time before the world splintered into a million pieces and America became its current disunited states — this old woman was a young idealist who tried to persuade our mighty Congress that a...
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My Novel (Accidentally) Predicted Trump

Posted by on May 12, 2017 in Art, Articles, Books, Featured, Fiction | 0 comments It’s terrifying when your dystopian nightmares begin to come true. Donald Trump is consolidating a circle of extremist advisers. Hardline restrictions on immigration are going up, regulations on Wall Street are tumbling down, and ordinary Americans can no longer agree on simple truths, let alone politics. Abroad, Europe may be splintering, too, Asia looks volatile, and wars continue to rage in...
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