This short recent essay by JWE President Helena Cobban is cross-posted from her personal blog “Just World News”. The image above shows some of the victims of the RAF’s “Battle …
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 …
Stories Matter, Not Numbers: The Ongoing War on Palestine
by Yousef Aljamal This following article by Palestinian rights activist, author, and translator Yousef Aljamal is crossposted from Politics Today. On August 1, Israel launched another military campaign against the …
Two Images of the NPT Review Conference
by Richard Falk We are pleased to crosspost this piece from JWE Board Member and International Jurist Richard Falk’s blog, Global Justice in the 21st Century. Prefatory Note: Every year since …
Mass Peace Action Nuclear Disarmament Public Speaking Training Workshop
Last week, the Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA) hosted a two-part Nuclear Disarmament Speaker Training Workshop. Both meetings were led by activist Ira Helfand, a member of the International Campaign to …
Handling International Crises: From JFK to Biden
by Rick Sterling We are pleased to crosspost this piece by JWE Board Member Rick Sterling which was first published by AntiWar.com There are significant parallels between the international crises …
Time to kill the NPT and its Nuclear Apartheid?
On August 1, representatives of the 191 states that are parties to the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) will be meeting in New York for the tenth of the “Review …
What’s so special about nuclear weapons? (Or, when did “WMDs” become a thing?)
by Helena Cobban We’re pleased to cross-post this article by our president, Helena Cobban. It was originally published on her personal blog, here. Throughout the present century, the corporate media …
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, …
Two important articles on Ukraine
by Helena Cobban We’re pleased to cross-post this article by our president, Helena Cobban. It was originally published on her personal blog, here. I want to note two recent articles …