Just World Podcasts
Just World Podcasts is an innovative podcast series on international affairs. In October 2025, we launched a new series titled "Gaza & the World." This series of public conversations hosted by Just World Ed president Helena Cobban explores the many intersections of the continuing Gaza crisis and the current deep shifts in the global balance.
JWP is run by the non-profit foundation Just World Educational.
Podcasting since 2010 • 124 episodes
Just World Podcasts
Latest Episodes
The Iran Crisis #9: Vijay Prashad on linkages of Iran war with Gaza, Lebanon, and globally
In this March 24 convo with Helena Cobban, Vijay Prashad, the director Tricontinental, drew on his extensive experience of the affairs of the Global South to assess the extent and roots of Iran's achievements in resisting the attack that...
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Season 8
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Episode 8
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54:15
The Iran Crisis #8: Thoughts from Helena Cobban on Day 21 of the War
In this March 20 talk, Just World Ed president Helena Cobban assessed the current state of the Israeli-US War on Iran at Day 21, and lessons that antiwar activists-- particularly those in the United States-- should take from what h...
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Season 8
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Episode 8
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27:44
The Iran Crisis #7: Barbara Slavin on Iran's durability, Israeli-U.S. war goals, and more
In this March 5 convo with Helena Cobban, longtime Iran specialist Barbara Slavin noted the survival of Iran's central governance structures even after the early assassination by the Israeli and U.S. war machine of the Supreme Leader and...
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Season 8
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Episode 7
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51:50
The Iran Crisis #6: Amb. Chas Freeman defines Iran's war objectives, prospects for West Asia, global, and U.S. politics
In this March 4 convo with Helena Cobban, the veteran U.S. diplomatist Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr. assessed Iran's objectives in the defensive war it is now waging in response to the massive Israeli-U.S. aggression of February 28, an...
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Season 8
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Episode 6
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57:20
The Iran Crisis #5: Rami G. Khouri on the regional and global impact of the U.S.-Israeli war
In this March 3 convo with Helena Cobban, JWE's board member the veteran analyst and thinker Rami G. Khouri discussed the sizeable impact that Iran's response to the U.S.-Israeli war of aggression is already having on Arab Gulf states, t...
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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