Just World Podcasts

In this second episode of Just World Ed's project "Washington and the World: The New Chapter", JWE president Helena Cobban spoke with Dr. Josh Ruebner, the Policy Director at the IMEU Policy Project. They explored what the U.S. Congress should do to buttress Palestinian rights and end the U.S. war on Iran, and provided some handy guides as to what voters should be pressing for, to affect the policies both of the sitting (lame-duck) Congress and of the much more energetic and principled 120th ...

In the first episode of Washington & the World, a new project from Just World Educational, Helena Cobban spoke with veteran Middle East expert William B. Quandt about what the November 3 midterm elections mean for US policy in West Asia. They discussed what the new Democratic majorities could do about the war on Iran and the crisis in Gaza, before and after Congress changed hands on January 3. Key topics The midterm results. Quandt said the Democrats won a larger Senate majority tha...

On June 5, JWE president Helena Cobban sat down with the renowned economist and UN advisor Prof. Jeffrey Sachs to assess the impact of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, and the long-running Israeli genocide in Gaza on global governance and the global economy. In this convo Sachs was forthright in his denunciation of the stupidity of the Trump-Netanyahu decision to launch the war against Iran. He noted that while the war and the naval blockade that Washington set up around Iran's ports ...

On May 29, JWE president Helena Cobban sat down with the strategic analyst Elijah Magnier to assess the impact of the first 13 weeks of the (still somewhat ongoing) U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Early on in this Just World Ed project, Magnier had been both the first and the fourth contributor to this this project, both just before and just after the U.S. and Israel launched their assault on Iran on February 28. In this latest convo, he and Ms. Cobban revisited many of the key judgments he had mad...

On May 20, JWE president Helena Cobban sat down with Dr. Yingnan ("Chris") Yi, a Research Fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University in Beijing, to discuss the role that China has played and can play in finding a speedy, lasting, and equitable end to the U.S.-Iran war. This conversation came just a few days after the end of Pres. Trump's trip to Beijing where he held a notable series of summit-level meetings with Pres. Xi Jinping. This conversation took...