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There are two ways of responding to an invitation from an American president. I recall that when Amory Lovins, the guru of…
Richard Falk
Richard Anderson Falk (born November 13, 1930) is an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, and Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor's Chairman of the Board of Trustees. He is the author or coauthor of over 20 books and the editor or coeditor of another 20 volumes. In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Since 2005 he chairs the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
Recently I read On Western Terrorism: from Hiroshima to Drone Warfare, published in 2013 by Pluto Press here in London, and consisting…
Two apparently related and revealing incidents have turned public attention briefly back to Libya just after the second anniversary of the NATO…
Background If the politics of deflection exhibit the outward reach of Israel’s grand strategy of territorial expansionism and regional hegemony, the politics…
The carefully planned attack by al-Shabab on civilians in Nairobi's Westgate Mall carried the pathology of rage and the logic of fanaticism…
The Westgate Mall Massacre: The Rage of Fanaticism The carefully planned attack by al-Shabaab on civilians in Nairobi’s Westgate Mall carried the pathology of rage…
The Putin Moment: Not only did Vladimir Putin exhibit a new constructive role for Russia in 21st statecraft, spare Syria and the…
Prefatory Note: The following questions were put to me by Patricia Lombroso of the Italian publication, Il Manifesto. 1] How much you think…
[I am not sure this attempt at clarifying the present stage of the Syria debate adds much to my prior posts, yet…
There is something particularly distressing about the ongoing debate on authorizing an internationally illegal and immoral military attack on Syria: a show…