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.
Episodes
122 episodes
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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48:16
The Iran Crisis, #4: Elijah Magnier assess the impact of the war's first 60 hours, across West Asia and the world
In this March 2 convo with Helena Cobban, strategic analyst Elijah Magnier assessed the impact that the U.S.-Israeli aggression against Iran has been having within the Gulf region, in the rest of West Asia, and worldwide. His main conclu...
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Season 8
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Episode 4
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41:27
The Iran Crisis, #3: Ray McGovern on why Trump is unlikely to initiate war, on the Russian dimension, and more
In this convo conducted late on February 26, Helena's guest was Ray McGovern, a long-time peace activist, and before that a high-level Soviet-affairs analyst for the CIA. McGovern shared the reasons why, for some time now, he...
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Season 8
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Episode 3
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48:22
The Iran Crisis, #2: Bill Quandt on Trump's crazy decisionmaking, Gulf Arab politics, and more
In this February 26 convo, JWE President Helena Cobban and the veteran Middle East (West Asia) specialist Bill Quandt dissected the perils of Pres. Trump's decisionmaking chaos. They surveyed the possibly catastrophic costs of any eruption of w...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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33:30
The Iran Crisis, #1: Elijah Magnier on "The Countdown between Tehran & Washington"
In this February 25 convo, JWE President Helena Cobban and the strategic analyst Elijah Magnier explored issues raised in Magnier's crucial recent article
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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38:38
Helena talks U.S.-Iran with Elijah Magnier
On February 2, 2026 (U.S. Pacific Time), JWE President Helena Cobban conducted this wide-ranging conversation with the European strategic analyst Elijah J. Magnier. They discussed principally the points he'd raised in his Feb. 1 blog post
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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53:43
Trump’s Board of Peace, Gaza, and the Threat to the UN
Helena Cobban, President of Just World Educational, reads her January 24, 2026 newsletter that examined major political developments affecting Gaza, Iran, and the United Nations. She described Donald Trump’s launch of a new body called th...
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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16:56
Venezuela in Washington's Crosshairs, Ep. 3: Exposing the 'Donroe' Doctrine
This episode was the third in our timely 3-part series "Venezuela in Washington’s Crosshairs: Breaking the Information Blockade," which is co-hosted by Just World Ed's Helena Cobban and Roger Harris of Task Force on the Americas. ...
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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1:32:04
Venezuela in Washington's Crosshairs, Ep. 2: Geopolitics & Double Standards – Caracas to Gaza
This episode was the second in our timely 3-part series "Venezuela in Washington’s Crosshairs: Breaking the Information Blockade," which is co-hosted by Just World Ed's Helena Cobban and Roger Harris of Task Force on the Americas....
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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1:33:58
Venezuela in Washington's Crosshairs, Ep. 1: Why the U.S. is Attacking Venezuela
This episode inaugurated our timely series "Venezuela in Washington’s Crosshairs: Breaking the Information Blockade," which is co-hosted by Just World Ed's Helena Cobban and Roger Harris of Task Force on the Americas. The series i...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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1:30:48
Gaza & the World, Ep. 5: John Mearsheimer on "The UN Resolution that Betrayed Gaza"
In this episode of "Gaza & the World" JWE President Helena Cobban's guest was Prof. John Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and the co-...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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1:02:38
Gaza & the World, Ep.4, with Dr. Ghada Karmi
In this episode of our "Gaza & the World" series, Helena Cobban talked with Dr. Ghada Karmi about the intersection of the genocide in Gaza and the shifting global balance of power. D...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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47:19
Gaza & the World Ep. 3: Vijay Prashad on Gaza, China, and the Limits of Global Action
In this episode of our "Gaza & the World" series, Helena Cobban talked with Vijay Prashad about the intersection of the genocide in Gaza and the shifting global balance of ...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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1:04:55
Gaza & the World, Ep. 2, with Richard Falk
This is the second episode of "Gaza & the World," a weekly podcast from Just World Educational, hosted by our president, Helena Cobban. This project explores the many interactions between the ongoing, genocidal crisis in Gaza and the...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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57:09
Gaza & the World, Ep. 1, with Rami G. Khouri
This is the first episode of "Gaza & the World," a new weekly podcast from Just World Educational, hosted by our president, Helena Cobban. This series explores the crucial role that the two-year genocide & the horrendous ongoing ...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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54:31
Helena Cobban's talk "Palestinian resistance from the PLO to Hamas"
On June 13, 2024, JWE President Helena Cobban gave a talk at the Rossmoor community in Walnut Creek, CA, hosted by Rossmoor Voices for Justice in Palestine. The talk was titled "Palestinian resistance from the PLO to Hamas." In it Helena drew o...
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1:32:41
Understanding Hamas, Ep.5: Dr. Azzam Tamimi
This was the fifth and final session in a series of Public Conversations that Just World Ed presented in May 2024, on the theme of "Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters." The series as a whole was presented by JWE President Helena Cobban...
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1:21:32
Understanding Hamas, Ep.4: Mouin Rabbani
This was the fourth of a series of Public Conversations that Just World Ed is presenting in May 2024, on the theme of "Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters." The series is presented by JWE President Helena Cobban and board member ...
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1:15:12
Understanding Hamas, Ep.3: Dr. Jeroen Gunning
This was the third of a series of Public Conversations that Just World Ed is presenting in May 2024, on the theme of "Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters." The series is presented by JWE President Helena Cobban and board member R...
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1:10:39
Understanding Hamas, Ep.2: Dr. Khaled Hroub
This was the second of a series of Public Conversations that Just World Ed is presenting in May 2024, on the theme of "Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters." The series is presented by JWE President Helena Cobban and board member ...
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1:13:19
Understanding Hamas, Ep.1: Dr. Paola Caridi
This was the first of a series of Public Conversations that Just World Ed is presenting in May 2024, on the theme of "Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters." The series is presented by JWE President Helena Cobban and board member R...
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1:06:01
Helena Cobban, talk on Hamas at Westmoreland Church, April 21, 2024
In March 2024, the Middle East Committee of Westmoreland Church, which is a very active "UCC" congregation located on the borderline between Maryland and Washington DC, invited Helena to go and speak to their members on the topic "Hamas: ...
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1:22:12
PalCast: Episode 2, the shared Palestinian and Irish struggles
The second episode of Palcast discusses the shared struggle of the Palestinian and Irish peoples. From Captain Boycott, to Bloody Balfour, to hunger strikes, Dr Yousef Aljamal, Helena Cobban and Tony Groves delve into the shared struggle betwee...
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