An American Awakening?
The exciting presence of protestors on Wall Street (and the spread of the Occupy Wall Street...
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, 2011 | Palestine, US, Viewpoints |
The exciting presence of protestors on Wall Street (and the spread of the Occupy Wall Street...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Sep 30, 2011 | News & Analysis, Palestine, US |
There is a natural disposition for supporters of the Palestinian struggle for self-determination...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Sep 20, 2011 | Asia Pacific, US, Viewpoints |
Reading what I wrote about Afghanistan a decade ago reminded me of how much my understanding of the role of war and hard power in upholding security for the nation and the world has changed. Actually, it seems clear to me that...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Sep 17, 2011 | US, Viewpoints |
There is unacknowledged freedom associated with any event inscribed in our individual and collective experience of profoundly disabling and disturbing public occurrences. For most older Americans, what is most vividly remembered...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Sep 14, 2011 | News & Analysis, Palestine |
The latest United Nations report on last year’s lethal flotilla incident – in which nine people...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Sep 12, 2011 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Palestine |
When the UN Secretary General announced on 2 August 2010 that a Panel of Inquiry had been established to investigate the Israeli attacks of 31 May on the Mavi Marmara and five other ships carrying humanitarian aid to the...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Sep 8, 2011 | Africa, Middle East, News & Analysis, US |
In Western circles of influential opinion, the outcome of the NATO intervention in Libya has...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Aug 28, 2011 | Africa, Asia Pacific, News & Analysis |
The unfolding tragedy in East Africa is a dramatic indicator of what humanity as a whole can expect in the near future ‘if business as usual’ continues to be the phrase that most accurately expresses global climate change...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Aug 28, 2011 | Africa, Middle East, News & Analysis, US |
There is so much spin surrounding the Transitional National Council (TNC) victory in Libya that it is difficult to interpret the outcome, and perhaps premature to do so at this point, considering that the fighting continues and...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Aug 20, 2011 | Middle East, News & Analysis, US |
On August 18th, President Barack Obama rendered judgment and gave guidance. While affirming that “[t]he future of Syria must be determined by its own people”, he added these words: “Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way.” And...
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