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 …
What Do Iraqi Protesters Want?
By Raed Jarrar (@raedjarrar) During the last 6 weeks, over 300 Iraqis have been killed and over 15,000 injured in a bloody uprising that has been absent from US headlines. …
Yousef Aljamal brings his Palestinian witness to U.S. Congress members, public
Writer, translator, and social activist Yousef Aljamal brought his witness as a Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Israeli-occupied Gaza and has spent most of his life …
U.S.antiwar activists launch Vietnamese-language version of memoir… in Hanoi!
Editors and contributors of The People Make the Peace: Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar Movement will formally launch the Vietnamese edition of their book in Hanoi this month. The Gioi …
Miko Peled talks Jerusalem, Trump ‘deal’, in Istanbul
by Yousef Aljamal Istanbul, May 29– Israeli-American author and activist Miko Peled recently gave a seminar titled “Deal of the Century and the Fate of Jerusalem,” at the Center for …
Amb. Chas Freeman warns of global consequences of any US war on Iran
Washington DC, May 18– Any U.S. military attack against Iran could very well trigger Iranian retaliation using such means as bombings and cyber attacks, and if these in turn should …
Quandt, Tamimi are guests on JWE podcast episodes
In the second half of each of the two latest episodes of the “Story/Backstory” podcast, Just World Ed president Helena Cobban presented a conversation with an invited guest. In Episode …
Episode 2 of “Story/Backstory” looks at US role in Palestine-Israel peacemaking
This week, in Episode 2 of our “Story/Backstory” project, JWE President Helena Cobban explored Washington’s 45-year-long monopolization of all peacemaking between Israel and its Arab neighbors (with a special focus …
JWE and Helena Cobban launch new “text+voice” project
Just World Educational is pleased to announce the launch of a new multimedia project, featuring the work of JWE’s president Helena Cobban. The project is titled “Story/Backstory”. Each week, Helena …
The Green New Deal offers a plan to fight the war machine in 2019
The Green New Deal, one of the hottest topics in Washington, D.C., offers critics of militarism a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take a bite out of the United States’ war machine. …