The Biggest International Stories of 2019

FEATURING JOHN FEFFER –  As we end the year 2019, we’ll reflect on the biggest international stories of the year. One of the most dispiriting aspect of this past year was how right-wing dictators took hold of their constituencies, consolidated power, and boosted one another across borders. But equally inspiring were the people-powered movements that shut down cities, demanded change, and in some cases, altered the course of their nations – movements like those in Hong Kong, Sudan, Lebanon, and more.

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John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. and a TomDispatch regular. He is also the author of a new IPS report called The Battle for Another World: The Progressive Response to the New Right.