The Semantics of Struggle
While reporting to the UN on Israel’s violation of Palestinian rights, I became keenly aware of how official language is used to hide inconvenient truths.
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 | May 12, 2015 | Asia Pacific, Palestine, Viewpoints |
While reporting to the UN on Israel’s violation of Palestinian rights, I became keenly aware of how official language is used to hide inconvenient truths.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Apr 21, 2015 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis |
Armenians seek a formal acknowledgement by the Turkish government that the killings that occurred in 1915 should be regarded as “genocide”.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Apr 14, 2015 | News & Analysis, Regions, US |
International law has no overriding claim of authority with respect to sovereign states.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Apr 6, 2015 | Palestine, Viewpoints |
There is an intense struggle between efforts to hold states accountable for international crimes and geopolitical interests of the most powerful among them.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Mar 31, 2015 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
The United States operates globally in all regions to solidify its status as the only global imperial state.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Mar 27, 2015 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
The Philippines have long been beset by insurgent challenges, which also seem likely to continue indefinitely.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Mar 23, 2015 | Middle East, News & Analysis, Palestine |
Netanyahu’s victory may actually be helpful for Palestinian nationalism, but is definitely a setback for resolving the dispute with Iran.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Mar 19, 2015 | Middle East, News & Analysis, US |
The treatment of Iran’s nuclear program is less indicative of a commitment to nonproliferation than a shortsighted expression of geopolitical priorities.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Mar 4, 2015 | Middle East, US, Viewpoints |
One cost of Netanyahu speech to Congress is the distraction from the intolerable realities so long endured by Palestinians living under occupation.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Feb 24, 2015 | News & Analysis, Palestine, US |
As long as complex societies exist and actors have their own agendas and priorities, rules and procedures will be manipulated for the benefit of one or another actor.
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