We all send our deep congratulations to our board member (and friend), the distinguished international jurist Richard Falk, for having his 1971/1972 book This Endangered Planet named by Foreign Affairs …
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 …
Nuclear expert Ted Postol warned about fragility of current nuclear “balance”
In the first, audio-only session of Just World Ed’s ongoing project on “The urgency of banning nukes”, nuclear physicist Ted Postol warned about the extreme fragility of the current nuclear …
Burning truths for 2022 and beyond
For the past 13 months I’ve been engaged at my personal blog, Just World News, in an exploration of the origins of West-European settler colonialism, the process that led to …
Chinese strategic expert calls for revived US-Chinese dialogue
Ambassador He Yafei, a high-ranking former Chinese diplomat currently affiliated with a Beijing think-tank, warned recently that in the absence of any official strategic dialogue between the United States and …
Falk, Benjamin, Fletcher launch our new webinar series: “The World After Covid”
Just World Educational is pleased to announce the launch, next Wednesday (June 10) at 1 pm ET, of our latest online-learning project, a series of weekly livestreamed conversations on global …
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 …
Facing the Global Crisis
by Richard Falk This piece is crossposted from a portion of the interview as published on the personal blog of JWE Board member Richard Falk. [Prefatory Note by R. Falk: …
As U.S. Congress votes on war powers, Falk & Cobban join the discussion
This afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives is due to vote on a resolution (PDF text here) that, in the wake of the United States’ killing of Iranian General Qasem …
In Jesus’s birthplace, Palestinian Christians mark Christmas behind a Wall
by Helena Cobban, JWE president In 2019, the Palestinian Christians of Bethlehem– many of them descendants of some of Jesus’s or his disciples’ first converts– spent their 58th Christmas under …