Richard Falk is an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies and since 2005 chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He is the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal: Bush and Blair Guilty
In Kuala Lumpur, after two years of investigation by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC), a tribunal (Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal or KLWCT) consisting of five judges with…
Toward a Jurisprudence of Conscience
Ever since German and Japanese surviving leaders were prosecuted after World War II at Nuremberg and Tokyo, there has been a wide abyss separating the drive for criminal accountability on…
Torture: Language, Law, and Truth
“The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.” —Tomas Tranströmer, Night Duty Marjorie Cohn, a respected progressive commentator on the use and abuse…
On (Im)Balance and Credibility in America: Israel/Palestine
I could not begin to count the number of times friends, and adversaries, have given me the following general line of advice: your views on Israel/Palestine would gain a much…
Turkey’s Brilliant Statecraft: The Achievement of Ahmet Davutoglu
By a happy quirk of personal destiny I happened to be in Istanbul recently when the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu gave a talk at the opening dinner session of…
Criminalizing Diplomacy: Fanning the Flames of the Iran War Option
How many times have we heard in recent weeks either outright threats to attack Iran, mainly emanating from Israel, or the more muted posture adopted by the United States that…
Global Revolution After Tahrir Square
This history-making global Occupy Movement with a presence in over 900 cities would not have happened in form and substance without the revolutionary awakening of the world’s youth that resulted…
Rejecting Neoliberalism, Renewing the Utopian Imagination
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 two dismal consequences followed that have been rarely acknowledged: • Neoliberal orthodoxy became unchallenged and unchallengeable in the formation of global economic policy;…
Two Occupations
As someone who has witnessed the humiliations daily endured by Palestinians living decade after decade under ‘occupation’, the word occupation was for me an inalterably dirty word. I associated the…
Goldstone’s Folly: Disappointing and Perverse
Surely, the New York Times would not dare turn down a piece from the new Richard Goldstone, who had already recast himself as the self-appointed guardian of Israel’s world reputation…
UNESCO Membership and Palestinian Self-Determination
It may not ease the daily pain of occupation and blockade, or the endless anguish of refugee status and exile, or the continual humiliations of discrimination and second class citizenship,…
Libya After Muammar el-Qaddafi’s Execution
The death of the despised despot who ruled Libya for forty-two years naturally produced celebrations throughout the country. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s end was bloody and vindictive, but we should remember that his…
Missing the Point Twice: International Law as Empire’s Sunday Suit
In a recent speech at the Harvard Law School, John Brennan, President Obama’s chief advisor on counterterrorism and homeland security, boldly declared: “I’ve developed a profound appreciation for the role…
Drone Attacks: American Citizens and Foreign Civilians
The execution of Anwar al-Awlaki by drone attack in Yemen has generated a lively debate among liberally minded lawyers in the United States because al-Awlaki was an American citizen. The…
A Modest Proposal: Is It Time for the Non-Nuclear Community of States to Revolt?
There are 189 countries that are parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) that entered into force in 1970. Only India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea have remained outside the…
An American Awakening?
The exciting presence of protestors on Wall Street (and the spread of the Occupy Wall Street protest across the country) is a welcome respite from years of passivity in America,…
Reflections on the Abbas Statehood/Membership Speech to the UN General Assembly
There is a natural disposition for supporters of the Palestinian struggle for self-determination to suppose that the Palestinian statehood bid must be a positive initiative because it has generated such…
Rethinking Afghanistan after a Decade
Reading what I wrote about Afghanistan a decade ago reminded me of how much my understanding of the role of war and hard power in upholding security for the nation…
The American and Global Experience of 9/10, 9/11, 9/12 +10
There is unacknowledged freedom associated with any event inscribed in our individual and collective experience of profoundly disabling and disturbing public occurrences. For most older Americans, what is most vividly…
The Legal Flaws of the Palmer Commission Flotilla Report
The latest United Nations report on last year’s lethal flotilla incident – in which nine people were killed and many injured by Israeli commandos on board a humanitarian ship bound…
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Quid Pro Quo Diplomacy in US-Myanmar Relations
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No Bear Market In Gold
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Erdoğan’s Visit to Washington, D.C.
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A Scientific Theory of the WTC 7 Collapse
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The Myth of the U.N. Creation of Israel
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Bush Convicted of War Crimes in Absentia
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Ron Paul: Propagandist or Prophet?
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