Amb. Jack Matlock Jr. was Ambassador to Moscow for the two U.S. Presidents who, between them, brought the extremely perilous, decades-long Cold War between the United States and the Soviet …
Burning truths for 2022 and beyond
For the past 13 months I’ve been engaged at my personal blog, Just World News, in an exploration of the origins of West-European settler colonialism, the process that led to …
Just World Ed and Covid’s 3rd Year
Humankind’s Covid-19 crisis is now entering its third year. Every nation on this planet has been drastically affected by it– at a time when nearly everyone around the world has …
How ‘The West’ was born
On January 1, I launched a new writing project, which is a sustained exploration of the last 500 years of human history. Its prime focus is on how exactly it …
Chinese strategic expert calls for revived US-Chinese dialogue
Ambassador He Yafei, a high-ranking former Chinese diplomat currently affiliated with a Beijing think-tank, warned recently that in the absence of any official strategic dialogue between the United States and …
Our July convo on China with Amb. Chas Freeman
Back in early July, I was lucky to have Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr. as my guest on Just World Ed’s “World After Covid” webinar series. Near the beginning of …
Discussing hard and soft power with Richard Falk
Back at the beginning of May, I started to look seriously on my personal Just World News blog at some of the ways in which the eruption of the Covid …
Algeria: Popular movement reaching turning point?
For 19 weeks now, every Friday has seen massive demonstrations filling the streets of cities across the large North African country of Algeria. These protests have been overwhelmingly nonviolent, with …
Algerian popular movement stays strong, united!
This past Friday (June 21) saw the 18th week of massive, peaceful protests filling the streets of cities all across Algeria. Midweek, the country’s much-criticized strongman Gen. Gaid Salah, had …
Algeria: Mass, peaceful protests continue, make slow gains
Friday May 31 was the 15th Friday in a row in which, across the massive North African country of Algeria, hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters have taken to the …