On October 10, Just World Educational will be launching Phase 2 of its “World After Covid” project, in which it will be focusing on the rapidly shifting balance between the …
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 …
Interpreting the UAE/Israel Agreement on Suspending Annexation
Israel was motivated by Netanyahu’s effort to justify a delay in fulfilling his election promise to annex large portions of the occupied West Bank territory belonging to Palestine.
The pandemic’s savage political revelations, from the U.S. to Palestine
Much of the analysis of COVID-19 and Palestine examines the pandemic through a political lens.
Falk, Von Sponeck wrap up Phase 1 of “The World After Covid”
Just World Educational recently completed Phase 1 of its continuing “World After Covid” project, by presenting the eighth webinar in the weekly series on this topic that it has presented …
With John Lewis in Stockholm 1969
Moved by the iconic recognition of John Lewis’ exceptional courage and perseverance on behalf of human rights, non-violence, and opposition to American militarism, I recall a weekend spent together in Stockholm.
75 years since the United States launched the Age of Atomic Annihilation
This week will see the somber 75th anniversary of the two atomic bombs dropped, on August 6 and August 9th, 1945 respectively, of nuclear weapons on the heavily populated Japanese …
Will China be the New Russia? The Future of American Geopolitics
In the background of this look ahead is the extent to which China has spoiled the triumphalist narrative that was spun in the West after the collapse of the Soviet Union.