Opposing Hillary Clinton, Supporting Bernie Sanders
Being less distasteful on these litmus issues than the Republicans is not sufficient to warrant support.
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 | Jul 15, 2015 | US, Viewpoints |
Being less distasteful on these litmus issues than the Republicans is not sufficient to warrant support.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jul 14, 2015 | US, Viewpoints |
The primary duty of citizens in a democratic society is to be responsive to their conscience rather than to attempt pragmatic calculations that serve to legitimize evil.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jul 7, 2015 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Palestine |
Richard Kemp starts with the premise that Israel doesn’t commit war crimes and misinterprets international law accordingly.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jul 6, 2015 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Palestine |
Strengths and weaknesses of the UN Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Operation Protective Edge
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jun 23, 2015 | Palestine, Reviews |
What Walzer represents as ‘national liberation’ of the Jewish people is more objectively presented as the ‘national oppression’ of the Palestinian people.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jun 15, 2015 | Middle East, News & Analysis, US |
The colonialist idea of the US “losing” a country or a whole region should be banned from the political discourse of the 21st century.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jun 12, 2015 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis |
The enmity between Erdoğan and Peres dates to Israel’s murder of civilians during Operation Cast Lead and subsequent attack on the Mavi Marmara.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jun 9, 2015 | Asia Pacific, Viewpoints |
The undermining of electoral results is one of the most dangerous games being played by certain elements in the United States and the Middle East.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jun 5, 2015 | Palestine, Viewpoints |
Palestinians are inspirational in their perseverance in the face of a long litany of unspeakable abuses that would have broken the will of many peoples.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | May 15, 2015 | News & Analysis, Palestine, US |
Attributing equal responsibility to the Palestinians as Israelis for the persisting conflict exhibits a fundamental misunderstanding about its true nature.
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