Pope Francis’s Visit to Palestine
The Pope challenges all of us to act as citizen pilgrims, having a personal responsibility to act as best we can against bastions of flagrant injustice.
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 | May 29, 2014 | Palestine, Viewpoints |
The Pope challenges all of us to act as citizen pilgrims, having a personal responsibility to act as best we can against bastions of flagrant injustice.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | May 12, 2014 | US, Viewpoints |
Most American ‘citizens’ increasingly behave as ‘subjects,’ blithely acting as if a love of country is exhibited more by obedience than conscience.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | May 6, 2014 | News & Analysis, Palestine, US |
There is hope for Palestinians of a just and sustainable peace through the actions of people rather than governments and their “peace” talks.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Apr 29, 2014 | Asia Pacific, US, Viewpoints |
The Armenian campaign that will settle for nothing less than the unambiguous avowal that the Armenian ordeal was ‘genocide.’
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Apr 29, 2014 | Asia Pacific, US, Viewpoints |
From the Armenian perspective seeking redress for the 1915 genocide, is the recent show of American governmental support helpful or not?
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Apr 15, 2014 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis |
Extremely serious charges have been leveled against the Turkish government that could tip the balance against Erdogan as an acceptable political leader.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Feb 27, 2014 | Middle East, News & Analysis, US |
There is a new mood of moral desperation associated with the ongoing strife in Syria.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Feb 11, 2014 | Middle East, US, Viewpoints |
Ayatollah Khomeini was a true revolutionary even if his goal was to turn the clock back when it came to modernity, including secular values.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Feb 5, 2014 | Palestine, Reviews |
OMAR in some respects is superior even to PARADISE NOW, telling the story of what life under Israeli occupation means for how Palestinian lives are lived.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jan 27, 2014 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
The Meaning of a 98.1% Vote In mid-January, there was a vote in Egypt as to whether to approve a constitution drafted by a 50-person committee appointed by the interim government put in place after the military coup carried out...
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