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What is immediately striking about the bipartisan call in Washington for a no-fly zone and air strikes designed to help rebel forces…
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.
At least, overtly, there has been no talk from either Washington or Tel Aviv – the governments with most to lose as…
In what appears to be as close to a consensus as the world community can ever hope to achieve, the United States…
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, four transformative events have reshaped the global setting in enduring ways. When the…
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It is astonishing that despite the huge gaps between the maximum that Israel is willing to concede and the minimum that the…
Iran’s uranium enrichment program has drawn much criticism, and there has been talk in both Israel and the United States of possible…
Richard Falk is the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. In 2001…
This incident should serve as a wakeup call for a complicit international community. There are three political imperatives that need to emerge…
It may turn out that May 17, 2010 will be remembered as an important milestone on the road to a real new…