The following is a mash-up of two, multi-slide Instagram posts that we created recently. The ‘forward arrows’ were put on to show when to swipe on Instagram. If you are …
Two-piece swimsuits and the trivialization of nuclear terror
This short recent essay by JWE President Helena Cobban is cross-posted from her personal blog “Just World News”. On August 6, 1945, the U.S. Air Force dropped a single atomic …
Indi Samarajiva’s dispatches from Sri Lanka
Back in March, two of the sessions in the 8-webinar series that Richard Falk and I co-hosted on the Ukraine crisis dealt with its international dimensions. In the 7th session, …
JWE’s new project: “Ukraine Crisis: Building a Just and Peaceful World”
In response to these turbulent times, Just World Educational is launching a new project that explores the global implications of the current crisis in Ukraine. After consultation with the board …
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 …
Our new podcast series: “The World From Palestine”
We’re pleased to announce that on January 21, Just World Educational will be releasing the first episode in our new podcast series “The World From Palestine.” In this series, JWE …
The Shared Struggle of Palestinian and Irish Hunger Strikers
by Richard Falk We are delighted to crosspost this piece from Global Justice in the 21st Century, the blog of JWE Board Member Richard Falk. The following is the foreword …
H. Cobban explores earliest decades of West-European imperialism
Just World Educational’s Executive President Helena Cobban has been continuing her exploration of the foundations of West Europe’s domination of the world’s trading systems, economies, and political power balance that …
Palestinian Culinary Resilience and Liberation
by Amelle Zeroug In this moment of new imagining for Palestine, how can we make a plate that brings us together? This was the theme of the expansive discussion via …
Adding Fuel to Fire: The Politics of Power Outages in Gaza
by Yousef Aljamal This following piece, by Palestinian rights activist, author and translator Yousef Aljamal is crossposted from Politics Today In late June 2006, and soon after Palestinian factions captured …