Criminalizing Diplomacy: Fanning the Flames of the Iran War Option
How many times have we heard in recent weeks either outright threats to attack Iran, mainly...
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 12, 2011 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Palestine, US |
How many times have we heard in recent weeks either outright threats to attack Iran, mainly...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Nov 10, 2011 | Africa, Middle East, US, Viewpoints |
This history-making global Occupy Movement with a presence in over 900 cities would not have happened in form and substance without the revolutionary awakening of the world’s youth that resulted from the riveting events...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Nov 10, 2011 | US, Viewpoints |
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 two dismal consequences followed that have been rarely acknowledged: • Neoliberal orthodoxy became unchallenged and unchallengeable in the formation of global economic policy; the World Economic...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Nov 7, 2011 | Europe, Palestine, US, Viewpoints |
As someone who has witnessed the humiliations daily endured by Palestinians living decade after decade under ‘occupation’, the word occupation was for me an inalterably dirty word. I associated the practice of occupation,...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Nov 5, 2011 | News & Analysis, Palestine, US |
Surely, the New York Times would not dare turn down a piece from the new Richard Goldstone, who...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Nov 4, 2011 | News & Analysis, Palestine, US |
It may not ease the daily pain of occupation and blockade, or the endless anguish of refugee...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Oct 31, 2011 | Africa, Europe, Middle East, News & Analysis, US |
The death of the despised despot who ruled Libya for forty-two years naturally produced celebrations throughout the country. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s end was bloody and vindictive, but we should remember that his rants against his...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Oct 17, 2011 | News & Analysis, US |
In a recent speech at the Harvard Law School, John Brennan, President Obama’s chief advisor on...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Oct 12, 2011 | Africa, Middle East, US, Viewpoints |
The execution of Anwar al-Awlaki by drone attack in Yemen has generated a lively debate among...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Oct 10, 2011 | Regions, US, Viewpoints |
There are 189 countries that are parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) that entered into force in 1970. Only India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea have remained outside the treaty regime so as to be free to...
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