Independent Panel Challenges OPCW Findings on 2018 Attack in Douma, Syria
An independent panel has issued a statement challenging the credibility of the OPCW’s findings regarding an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria.
Read MoreRichard 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. From 2008 until May 2014, he was the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
Posted by Richard Falk | Nov 1, 2019 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics, US |
An independent panel has issued a statement challenging the credibility of the OPCW’s findings regarding an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jul 12, 2019 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics |
The question that remains is ‘how much longer can the Zionist Project swim against the strong historical current of anti-colonialism?’
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Apr 19, 2019 | Palestine, Politics, Viewpoints |
I can no more turn away from the Palestinians than those closest to me. It would represent a tear in the fabric of the life and love I have lived and affirmed.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Apr 16, 2019 | News & Analysis, Politics, US |
We need to affirm WikiLeaks and whistleblowing as part of the legitimate architecture of constitutional democracy in the digital age.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Apr 1, 2019 | Middle East, Reviews, US, Viewpoints |
Joan Mellen’s book “Blood in the Water” argues that the US itself was complicit in Israel’s attack on the American ship the USS Liberty in June 1967.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Mar 1, 2019 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics |
It would seem that only a democratic and secular single state could uphold self-determination for both peoples, holding out a promise of sustainable peace.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jan 17, 2019 | Politics, US, Viewpoints |
CNN’s obsessive focus on Trump at the expense of reporting other news and perspectives is an increasingly tedious display of irrelevance.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jan 9, 2019 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics |
In the end the only question worth pondering is this: what kind of one-state will exist in the formerly mandated territory of Palestine?
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Dec 28, 2018 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics, US |
The bipartisan consensus that sustained the Cold War for more than four decades has never reconciled itself to the prospect of geopolitical peace.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Nov 23, 2018 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics |
One feature of the new anti-Semitism is its non-response to the well-evidenced allegations of crimes against humanity made by those labeled “anti-Semites”.
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