Contra Syria Attack
U.S. military action against Syria would be manifestly unlawful and illegitimate.
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 | Aug 30, 2013 | Middle East, US, Viewpoints |
U.S. military action against Syria would be manifestly unlawful and illegitimate.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Aug 26, 2013 | News & Analysis |
It has turned out to be a particularly bloody coup that is now being reinforced by a total lockdown of opposition forces and democratic options, including even dissenting opinions.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Aug 24, 2013 | News & Analysis |
In these morbid days, there are some home truths that are worth reflecting upon.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Aug 20, 2013 | Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, US, Viewpoints |
It is not just one thing that should worry us about the authoritarian tendencies of the Obama presidency, but one thing after another; the cumulative effect of it all.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Aug 17, 2013 | Americas, Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
Nothing better shows the hegemonic nature of the United States’ presence in the world than its unyielding refusal to grasp, let alone accept, this logic of reciprocity even in dealing with friends and neighbors.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Aug 9, 2013 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
‘Political Crimes’ are Non-Extraditable and Snowden’s Transfer to the United States for Prosecution would have been a Setback for Human Rights and International Law
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Aug 5, 2013 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis |
We may be living at a historical moment when democracy as the government of choice gives rise to horrifying spectacles of violence and abuse.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Aug 1, 2013 | Palestine, US, Viewpoints |
Does it not seem strange for the United States to rely exclusively for diplomatic guidance in this concerted effort to revive the peace talks on persons with such strong and unmistakable pro-Israeli credentials?
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jul 25, 2013 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
Among those who comment influentially from the sidelines of power, there are new trends visible in thinking about American foreign policy.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jul 16, 2013 | US, Viewpoints |
Whatever anger has been generated by the Snowden Affair should be directed at the United States for expecting other governments under the circumstances to transfer custody over Snowden.
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