John Wight, Author at Foreign Policy Journal

About the Author

John Wight

John Wight's work on politics and international affairs, particularly events taking place in the Muslim and Arab world, appears regularly in the Huffington Post, Morning Star, and Socialist Unity blog. It has also appeared at Counterpunch.

Syria Today is Spain in the 1930s

Posted by John Wight | Jun 19, 2013 | Middle East, US, Viewpoints |

As with Spain, the outcome of the conflict in Syria will have consequences that extend beyond its borders to engulf the entire region for years to come.

Woolwich

Posted by John Wight | May 26, 2013 | Europe, Middle East, Viewpoints |

What deserves to be put in the dock is a foreign policy that on the one hand fuels and courts extremism and extremists, while on the other wages war on it with the blunt instruments of drone strikes, missile strikes, and wars of occupation.