Rethinking Nuclearism: Thirty Years Later
The worst offenders of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty are the nuclear weapons states who abuse it to maintain their own dominance over other nations.
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 | Oct 6, 2018 | News & Analysis, Politics, US |
The worst offenders of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty are the nuclear weapons states who abuse it to maintain their own dominance over other nations.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Sep 29, 2018 | News & Analysis, Politics, US |
The message from John Bolton’s denunciations of the ICC is that the US will not be subject to legal accountability for its violations international law.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Sep 11, 2018 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics, US |
Trump’s “Deal of the Century” is a bullying ploy intended to coerce the Palestinians into surrendering their internationally recognized rights.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jul 12, 2018 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics |
Viewing the Gulf Coalition’s actions against Qatar as a “Geopolitical Crime” may be useful for establishing peaceful relations.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jun 22, 2018 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics, US |
The Trump administration’s withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council, and the plainly bogus pretext for it, tells us more about the US than the UN body.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | May 17, 2018 | Palestine, Politics, Viewpoints |
After 70 years of Israeli statehood, this violent confirmation of our worst fears and perceptions, seals a negative destiny for Israel as far as the moral eye can see.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Apr 19, 2018 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics |
The breakthrough idea in the Charter is to limit as much as language can, discretion by states to decide on their own when to have recourse to acts of war. Syria is the latest indication that this hopeful idea has been crudely cast in the geopolitical wastebasket.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Mar 30, 2018 | Palestine, Politics, Viewpoints |
The world’s governments continue to endorse the ‘two-state solution’ while civil society observers realize that Israel is adamant in its refusal to allow an independent Palestinian state to feels no pressure from the US to change course.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Mar 26, 2018 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics |
The UN General Assembly’s endorsement of the plan to partition Palestine should be rightly viewed as a geopolitical crime for its facilitation of the ethnic cleansing by which Israel came into existence.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Mar 14, 2018 | Essays, Middle East, Politics |
The “13 Demands” from the coalition of states that have implemented a blockade of Qatar are incompatible with principles of international law.
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