Learning from Disaster? After Sendai
After atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was, in the West, especially in...
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A Short Postscript to ‘Will We Ever Learn? Kicking the Intervention Habit’
Since ‘Will We Ever Learn? Kicking the Intervention Habit’ was posted, several responses and developments led me to think further about the essential issues, but not to change course. It has been suggested that,...
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What is immediately striking about the bipartisan call in Washington for a no-fly zone and air strikes designed to help rebel forces in Libya is the absence of any concern with the relevance of international law or the authority...
Read MoreWhat is Winning? The Next Phase for the Revolutionary Uprisings
Early in the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings, it seemed that winning was understood by the massed demonstrators to mean getting rid of the hated leader, of Ben Ali in the Tunisian case, and Mubarak in the Egyptian. But as the...
Read MoreThe United States Stands Alone with Israel in the UN Security Council
In what appears to be as close to a consensus as the world community can ever hope to achieve, the United States reluctantly stood its ground on behalf of Israel and on February 18, 2011 vetoed a resolution on the Israeli...
Read MoreRevolutionary Prospects After Mubarak
The Egyptian Revolution has already achieved extraordinary results: after only eighteen intense days of dramatic protests. It brought to an abrupt end Mubarak’s cruelly dictatorial and obscenely corrupt regime that had ruled the...
Read MoreReport of Special Rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council on Occupied Palestinian Territories
Citizen Pilgrimage — I am posting the official text of my most recent report to the UN Human Rights Council on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The period covered ends in December...
Read MoreThe Toxic Residue of Colonialism: Protecting Interests, Disregarding Rights
At least overtly there has been no talk from either Washington or Tel Aviv, the governments with most to lose as the Egyptian Revolution unfolds, of military intervention. Such restraint is more expressive of geopolitical sanity...
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Egypt’s Transformative Moment: Revolution, Counterrevolution, or Reform
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 there have been two further transformative events that...
Read MoreThe UN, Israel-Palestine and 9/11 Scholarship: A Discussion with Prof. Richard Falk
Globalization1492 — Dr. Richard Falk is Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University. He is the author, co-author or editor of about three dozen scholarly books. In 2008 Professor Falk was appointed to a...
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