Americans are well-known for their ingenuity and many of them (including Pres. Donald J. Trump) love to crow about being “Number One!”
Join us in honoring Palestinian health care workers, June 1
Just World Educational is joining in the effort launched by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) to honor Palestinian health care workers on June 1, 2020.
New JWE video: “How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs”
How on earth did Britain and France “persuade” the world’s other governments to award them colonial-style “mandates” over a large chunk of the Arab world in the immediate aftermath of …
Who matters? Pandemic in a time of structural violence
Focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic as it impacts Israel/Palestine provides us with a unique case study of the realities of health care and public health in a racialized and unequal society.
Covid-19 sharply headbutts U.S. hegemony
Within just 100 days, the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly shifted the balance of power in the global system from the United States toward China.
Horizons (temporal, geopolitical, & otherwise) on Covid-19
There are, it seems to me, two distinct kinds of horizon that anyone considering the effects of Covid-19 on global politics and society needs to look at.
Triple Jeopardy: Refugees/Migrants/ Palestinian Prisoners
Recently reflecting on the plight of refugees fleeing war zones in the Middle East and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and Central America I was struck by the analogy to ‘double jeopardy.’
World Order and the COVID-19 pandemic
Given the urbanization and social complexity accompanying modernity, the need for intelligent, imaginative, and humane governance is a necessity in times of societal crisis, and its absence magnifies suffering.
Commonsense on Syria series continues challenging conversations
Just World Educational’s Commonsense on Syria project continues to spark fascinating discussions and engaged responses from a growing group of attendees and participants.
Lament for a leaderless world
Who speaks for Humanity? Each nation for itself, everyone alone isolated. Yet, COVID19 may be just the shock Humanity needed to exit a leaderless world, badly managed…