Peter Ford, who was Britain’s ambassador to Syria 2003-2006, gave a scathing assessment of the work of Syria’s Western-backed “White Helmets” organization and other aspects of Western countries’ regime-change project …
Richard Falk on implications of Pres. Erdogan’s new term for Turkey and the Middle East
On July 9, Recep Tayyip Erdogan started a new term as Turkey’s president– and his first with the enhanced powers that came from constitutional changes that he had sought and …
Syria’s Bosra region: Memories and hopes
We are pleased to publish the following essay by Daniel Demeter, whose book Lens on Syria: A Photographic Tour of Its Ancient and Modern Culture was published by Just World …
Richard Falk on Turkey’s elections (& its Western media coverage)
We are very happy to crosspost here from his own blog, this reflection on Turkey’s recent elections by our board member Richard Falk, who also supplied his own prefatory note …
Gaza & other Palestinian crises need political action, not just “Bandaids”
For the past eleven years of the Israeli siege of Gaza– or actually, for the past 70 years of the Palestinian refugee crisis in Gaza and elsewhere– numerous well-meaning people …
Cartoonist Sabaaneh intensifies his international activities
The ace, Ramallah-based Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh has stepped up his international activities in recent months, continuing his campaign to raise worldwide awareness of the plight of the Palestinians and …
Internat’l psychoanalysts’ group tries to squelch discussion of Palestinian mental health
In a breathtakingly Kafkaesque move, a body called the International Association for “Relational” Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy has been working hard to muzzle discussion of the much-stressed mental-health situation of the …
Pressure mounts to investigate Israel’s killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza
On June 1, Israeli snipers deployed along Israel’s 1949 Armistice Line with the Gaza Strip shot dead 21-year-old Palestinian paramedic Razan al-Najjar, who like her colleagues was wearing a vest …
Gaza/Palestine: Hannah Arendt, statelessness and the “right to have rights”
i. The Great Return March and the Right of Return The unarmed civilian mass protests that have rocked Gaza since March 30– and have been met with horrific levels of …
Combating Militarism on Earth Day: A Conversation with Jackie Cabasso and Gar Smith
As a prelude to Earth Day, on Thursday, April 19th Just World Educational hosted a Facebook Live discussion on the Earth Day Appeal that we launched last month, titled “To …