Honoring Henry Kissinger at Oslo
For the Nobel Peace Prize authorities to treat Kissinger as though he was a source of guidance and wisdom on world peace is distressingly Orwellian.
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 | Dec 10, 2016 | News & Analysis, Europe, Politics, US |
For the Nobel Peace Prize authorities to treat Kissinger as though he was a source of guidance and wisdom on world peace is distressingly Orwellian.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Dec 9, 2016 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Politics |
Turkey’s leaders are reconsidering the country’s relations with neighbors and leading geopolitical actors. What would it mean?
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Oct 12, 2016 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Politics, US |
Okinawa has been a mostly unhappy host of American military bases, and the issue has been prominent at times on the agenda of the Japanese peace movement.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Oct 7, 2016 | News & Analysis, Middle East, Politics |
Western leaders’ and media commentators’ eulogies for Shimon Peres obscure his true legacy of further entrenching the Israeli occupation regime.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Sep 23, 2016 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Politics, US |
Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan and Barack Obama met in Hangzhou, China, to take a welcome step toward restoring good relations between the two countries.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Sep 9, 2016 | Viewpoints, Middle East, Politics, US |
A close look at the choice between the two candidates isn’t as obvious as it might otherwise seem if the focus is limited to the Middle East.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jul 8, 2016 | Viewpoints, Middle East, Palestine |
That Israel and Zionist hardliners should be opposing BDS by an ugly smear campaign exposes the illegitimacy of its policies and practices.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jun 10, 2016 | Viewpoints, Middle East, Palestine |
The deadly dance between Zionism and the UN has now come full circle.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | May 24, 2016 | US, Viewpoints |
Such is Henry Kissinger’s lofty reputation that no amount of crimes or horrific errors of judgment can diminish his public stature.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Apr 29, 2016 | US, Asia Pacific, News & Analysis |
If Barack Obama is serious about nuclear non-proliferation, he will visit Hiroshima.
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