by Richard Falk This piece is crossposted from Global Justice in the 21st Century, the blog of JWE Board Member Richard Falk. [Prefatory Note: The following text is the transcript of my …
Cobban writes more on Syria, its dilemmas & its (mis)representation
Our President, Helena Cobban, has been writing a lot about Syria recently– primarily at her personal “Just World News” blog, though many of her articles have been crossposted in full …
Meeting Ayatollah Khomeini 41 Years Ago
by Richard Falk This piece is crossposted from Global Justice in the 21st Century, the blog of JWE Board Member Richard Falk. [Prefatory Note: In February 1979, along with two others, I …
Syria and “Transitional Justice”
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 …
Pilger, Burchett and Assange: Three Extraordinary Australian Journalists That Spoke Truth to Power
by Rick Sterling This piece, by JWE Board Member Rick Sterling, is crossposted from Mint Press News. Australia has produced extraordinary journalists across three generations: Wilfred Burchett (deceased in 1983), …
A Beautiful but Deceptive Documentary: “For Sama”
by Rick Sterling This piece, by JWE Board Member, Rick Sterling, is crossposted from the American Herald Tribune. The documentary movie “For Sama” has won a host of awards in Europe and …
Did Washington use a false pretext for its recent escalation in Iraq?
by Helena Cobban This piece is crossposted from the Just World News blog of JWE President Helena Cobban. In a key piece of actual extensive, on-the-ground reporting, the New York Times’s Alissa Rubin has raised …
What the New York Times doesn’t want you to know about Idlib
by Helena Cobban This piece is crossposted from the Just World News blog of JWE President Helena Cobban If you rely only on the New York Times to understand events in Syria, …
A hierarchy of vulnerability
by Alice Rothchild This piece, by JWE Board Member Alice Rothchild, is crossposted from Mondoweiss. I was recently passing through customs where I popped my US passport face down on …