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.
Hazards and Hopes of Limitless Freedom of Expression
One of the glories of the Western Enlightenment, especially as embodied in the lifeblood of political democracies, is freedom of expression, the right to give voice in public spaces to…
What Future for the Goldstone Report? Beyond the Name
Ever since it first struck the raw nerve of Israeli political consciousness, I thought it misleading to associate the Goldstone Report so exclusively with its chair, Judge Richard Goldstone. After…
Rethinking Germany
Not only the unforgettable Nazi past, but also the hard power materialism and reactionary politics of the German success story, made Germany in many respects the least lovable country in…
Obama’s Libyan Folly: To be or not to be…
The outcome in Libya remains uncertain, but what seems clear beyond reasonable doubt is that military intervention has not saved the day for either the shadowy opposition known as ‘the…
Qaddafi, Moral Interventionism, Libya, and the Arab Revolutionary Moment
Long ago, Qaddafi forfeited the legitimacy of his rule, creating the political conditions for an appropriate revolutionary challenge. Recently, he has confirmed this assessment, referring to his own people as…
Learning from Disaster? After Sendai
After atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was, in the West, especially in the United States, a short triumphal moment, crediting American science and military prowess with…
A Short Postscript to ‘Will We Ever Learn? Kicking the Intervention Habit’
Since ‘Will We Ever Learn? Kicking the Intervention Habit‘ was posted, several responses and developments led me to think further about the essential issues, but not to change course. It…
Will We Ever Learn? Kicking the Intervention Habit
What is immediately striking about the bipartisan call in Washington for a no-fly zone and air strikes designed to help rebel forces in Libya is the absence of any concern…
What is Winning? The Next Phase for the Revolutionary Uprisings
Early in the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings, it seemed that winning was understood by the massed demonstrators to mean getting rid of the hated leader, of Ben Ali in the…
The United States Stands Alone with Israel in the UN Security Council
In what appears to be as close to a consensus as the world community can ever hope to achieve, the United States reluctantly stood its ground on behalf of Israel…
Revolutionary Prospects After Mubarak
The Egyptian Revolution has already achieved extraordinary results: after only eighteen intense days of dramatic protests. It brought to an abrupt end Mubarak’s cruelly dictatorial and obscenely corrupt regime that…
Report of Special Rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council on Occupied Palestinian Territories
Citizen Pilgrimage — I am posting the official text of my most recent report to the UN Human Rights Council on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.…
The Toxic Residue of Colonialism: Protecting Interests, Disregarding Rights
At least overtly there has been no talk from either Washington or Tel Aviv, the governments with most to lose as the Egyptian Revolution unfolds, of military intervention. Such restraint…
Egypt’s Transformative Moment: Revolution, Counterrevolution, or Reform
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 there have been two further transformative events that have reshaped in enduring ways the global setting. When the Soviet empire collapsed…
The UN, Israel-Palestine and 9/11 Scholarship: A Discussion with Prof. Richard Falk
Globalization1492 — Dr. Richard Falk is Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University. He is the author, co-author or editor of about three dozen scholarly books. In 2008 Professor…
Supplemental Blog on Arizona Shootings
Because my blog prompted by the Arizona shootings has attracted many comments pro and con, and more recently has been the object of a more selective public attack on me…
Welcoming the Tunisian Revolution: Hopes and Fears
Almost six years ago, President George W. Bush’s otherwise inconsequential Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, gave a speech at the American University in Cairo that grabbed headlines. While lauding the…
On Jewish Identity
As someone who is both Jewish and supportive of the Palestinian struggle for a just and sustainable peace, I am often asked about my identity. The harshest critics of my…
Interrogating the Arizona Killings from a Safe Distance
I spent a year in Sweden a few years after the assassination of Olaf Palme in 1986, the controversial former prime minister of the country who, at the time of…
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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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As scandals deepen, Obama, his party, and Republicans will militarily intervene in Syria
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Afghanistan War May End By 2024… Maybe
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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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