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President Obama’s August 31st remarks from the White House Rose Garden will long be remembered for their strangeness, but the final interpretation…
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.
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Informed opinion agrees that the response to the presumed Assad regime’s responsibility for the use on August 21st of chemical weapons in…
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Prefatory Note: I realize that some of the readers of this blog are unhappy with long blogs, and so I offer an…
Among those who comment influentially from the sidelines of power, there are new trends visible in thinking about American foreign policy. The…