The Afghanistan War in the Mirror of the Tet Offensive: When ‘Defeat’ Became ‘Victory’
On January 31, 1968, the combined forces of North Vietnam (DRV or Democratic Force of Vietnam) and...
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 15, 2011 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
On January 31, 1968, the combined forces of North Vietnam (DRV or Democratic Force of Vietnam) and...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Aug 7, 2011 | Africa, Middle East, News & Analysis |
Not since the debate about the Kosovo War of 1999 has there been such widespread discussion of...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jul 28, 2011 | Culture, US |
There are several pressures that push war in the direction of the absolute, and imperil the human future. Perhaps the foremost of these is the emergence, use, retention, and proliferation of nuclear weapons, as well as the...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jul 18, 2011 | Africa, Middle East, News & Analysis, Regions |
The Arab Spring (and its troublesome, yet still hopeful, aftermath in Egypt), intervention in Libya, nonintervention in Syria and Bahrain, drone military operations in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the influx of unwanted immigrants...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jul 5, 2011 | News & Analysis, Palestine, US |
The reports that two of the foreign flagged ships planning to be part of the ten vessel Freedom...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jun 30, 2011 | Africa, Middle East, News & Analysis, US |
The International Criminal Court has formally agreed that warrants should be issued for the arrest of Col. Muammar Qaddafi, as well as his son, Seif al-Islam, who has been acting as Prime Minister along with Libya’s...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jun 25, 2011 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
There has been a dramatic shift in critical international responses to the current Turkish...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jun 17, 2011 | Regions, Reviews |
In Part One of Friederich Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra, there is a particularly provocative section entitled ‘Of the New Idol.’ Remembering that this pivotal writing of the great German...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jun 15, 2011 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis |
It is the first time since the founding of the republic by Kemal Ataturk that such widespread international interest was aroused by Turkey’s June 12th elections. Naturally it is a time for celebration by the AKP in view of its...
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jun 10, 2011 | Asia Pacific, Europe, News & Analysis |
The following article is written in collaboration with Hilal Elver, my Turkish wife. It is posted...
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