by Helena Cobban This piece is crossposted from the Just World News blog of JWE President Helena Cobban. Almost from the beginning of the US-supported regime-change project in Syria, US policymakers have …
60th anniversary of 1st French nuclear test in Algeria
Sixty years ago today, the French military launched its first nuclear test in Reggane, in the south of Algeria– at a time when the French government still considered that the …
Barometer: US-Iran war prospects
by Helena Cobban This piece is crossposted from the Just World News blog of JWE President Helena Cobban Three weeks after the United States’ January 3 assassination of Gen. Qasem …
What Do Iraqi Protesters Want?
By Raed Jarrar (@raedjarrar) During the last 6 weeks, over 300 Iraqis have been killed and over 15,000 injured in a bloody uprising that has been absent from US headlines. …
Congressional progressive leader on caucus’s commitment to Palestine
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) recently told an audience in his Madison WI district that the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), of which he is co-chair, is planning (depending how Israel’s government-forming …
Yousef Aljamal to speak on Gaza, detention of Palestinian kids, in USA, October
Just World Ed is delighted that October 13-29 we will be hosting Palestinian rights activist Yousef Aljamal on a speaking tour that will take him to the Greater NYC area, …
U.S.antiwar activists launch Vietnamese-language version of memoir… in Hanoi!
Editors and contributors of The People Make the Peace: Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar Movement will formally launch the Vietnamese edition of their book in Hanoi this month. The Gioi …
Miko Peled talks Jerusalem, Trump ‘deal’, in Istanbul
by Yousef Aljamal Istanbul, May 29– Israeli-American author and activist Miko Peled recently gave a seminar titled “Deal of the Century and the Fate of Jerusalem,” at the Center for …
Algeria’s amazing mass movement makes gains…
The Arab world is seeing a wave of mass popular movements that we might even call “Arab Spring 2.0.” In Gaza, protesters have marched weekly for over a year now …
The two teenage demonstrators killed by Israel on February 8
by Wafa Aludaini* Last Friday, February 8, Israeli snipers killed Hasan Shalabi, 14, and Hamza Ishtaiwi, 17, as they took part in the “Great March of Return”, a mass nonviolent …