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Articles by Richard Falk
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Richard Falk, BBC Hardtalk, May 2, 2008 - 3 videos
Hardtalk: Stephen Sackur talks to Professor Richard Falk, the UN Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories , about his suggestion that Israel has "genocidal tendancies".
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Israel denies visa to TFF Associate Richard Falk, appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate the Israeli-Palestinian human rights situation. Haaretz April 9, 2008. All articles over the years by Falk below.
Richard Falk, March 5, 2008
What to expect from the next American president in the Middle East
Richard Falk, February 11, 2008
Interpreting US-Iran relations
Richard Falk, September 26, 2007
Two models of democratization in the Middle East
Richard Falk, September 1, 2007
The real meaning of Turkey's elections
Richard Falk, August 31, 2007
Comments to the exchange of letter between Hans von Sponeck-Dennis Halliday and Louise Arbour, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
Richard Falk, July 17, 2007
Turkey's elections: An outsider's view
These elections are being intensely contested
and are viewed as crucial to the future of Turkey. I believe they are widely misinterpreted here and abroad as a contest between
Islam and secularism, whereas the real struggle going on is between two ideas of secularism.
Richard Falk, June 29, 2007
Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust
it is especially painful for me, as an American Jew, to feel compelled to portray the ongoing and intensifying abuse of the Palestinian people by Israel through a reliance on such an inflammatory metaphor as ‘holocaust.’
Richard
Falk, April 30, 2007
Responsible
scholarship in 'dark times'
Each of the concerns expressed here calls for a defiant
spirit of truthfulness that may entail some adverse consequences. There
are concerted campaigns afoot within the society to purge university
ranks of radical voices and to intimidate still further the rest of
the academic community. It is a historical moment that is severely testing
the vitality and moral wellbeing of academic professionalism.
Richard
Falk, April 6, 2007
The Genocide
in Bosnia: Lawyers' justice versus justice
Widespread disappointment has greeted the near unanimous decision of
the World Court in The Hague, formally known as the International Court
of Justice, to the effect that Serbia was not guilty of genocide in
Bosnia during the 1990s. The outcome although troubling in some aspects
should not be viewed as a
defeat for the Bosnian side.
Richard Falk, January 3,
2007
What
future for the Palestinians?
Richard Falk, January 1,
2007
The
flawed execution of Saddam Hussein
Richard Falk, December
8, 2006
On United Nations
reform: Where is Kofi Annan's "fork in the road"? Over the
horizon!
This essay contends that there is no fork in road, and that the metaphor
of choice is profoundly distorting. Within the United Nations System,
as now constituted, there is no reform choice, and no alternative to
the persistence of a geopolitically dominated reality. Outside the UN,
the commitment to UN reform by civil society actors is the only worthwhile
path, although the realization of its vision cannot even be imagined
at this point.
Richard Falk, December
4, 2006
An American
fiasco, an Iraqi tragedy
The Middle East is at a tipping-point: either allow the lethal drift
continue or acknowledge urgency by undertaking a drastic change of course.
One way out that is still possible would be a major regional conference.
Waiting for Washington appears to be waiting for Godot!
Richard Falk, November 6, 2006
The Saddam
Hussein death sentence
The American stage-managing of
this judicial process has been evident to observers all along. It always
seemed legally dubious to initiate a criminal trial against Saddam Hussein
while the American occupation was encountering such strong resistance
by Saddam loyalists. By now, even naïve America no longer listens
when Washington claims that another milestone establishes progress in
the war. As the milestones pile up, so do the bodies!
Richard Falk, August 31, 2006
World
Order after the Lebanon War
We should take care not tooverlook the extent to which war is becoming
dysfunctional. The Lebanon War is likely to be remembered not for the
birth pains of 'a new Middle East' (Condoleezza Rice), but as the death
throes of a system of world order that accepted war as the inevitable
basis of stability and change in relations among sovereign states.
PressInfo 241, August 15,
2006
Assessing
the United Nations after the Lebanon War
2006
The UN has become in these situations, sadly, more of a
geopolitical instrument than an instrument for the
enforcement of international law. This regression betrays
the vision that the guided the architects of the UN back in
1945, chief among whom were American diplomats. It is today
incapable of protecting any state that is the victim of an
aggressive war initiated by the United States or its close
allies.
Sad as it is, this assessment should not lead to a cynical
dismissal of the Organization. We need the UN - and there
are three ways in which we can help it be what it was meant
to be.
Richard Falk, July 25,
2006
Lurching
toward regional war in the Middle
East
Israeli moves toward all out war in Gaza and Lebanon seem
linked to wider dangers of a regional war with severe global
consequences.
I fear that what we are witnessing is an extremely risky set
of moves to shift the joint Israeli/American regional game
plan in an overtly military direction. Neither the UN, world
public opinion, nor regional opposition seem to have the
will or capacity to halt this slide toward regional war.
We can only hope that prudence somehow mysteriously remains
a restraining force, at least in Washington. Already there
are signs of blowback, with Hizbollah emerging as the
political winner, with Iran not far behind, given the degree
to which a central cleavage in the Middle East is now
shaping up as a contest between Iranian-led Shi'ias and
Saudi-led Sunnis.
Richard Falk, July 25,
2006
Israel's
war on Gaza
In a shocking display of disregard for the restraints of
international law and morality, Israel has been resorting to
a massive, flagrant, and cruel display of collective
punishment inflicted on the essentially helpless and captive
1.2 million population of Gaza.
Almost as shocking has been the silence of the world
community in the face of these criminal violations of the
Geneva Conventions.
The truth about the Middle East is the reverse of what we
are being told...
PressInfo 239, March 29,
2006
The
Non-Proliferation treaty is failing: What
now?
Lists the problems with the NPT and the states ignoring it.
"In effect, we are calling for two new treaties: a Nuclear
Disarmament Treaty and a Treaty Establishing an
International Sustainable Energy Agency. These are the only
initiatives that have a reasonable chance of moving us back
from the terrifying edge of the nuclear precipice. By
Richard Falk and David Krieger.
PressInfo 237, March 28,
2006
Israel,
Iran, and the Future of the Middle
East
One of the leading world order analysts links the issue of
nuclear weapons, Iran, Israel, Turkey, the Middle East and
their complex relations and warns that a devastating war
could break out if no one takes steps to head it off soon.
He also asks why we should accept the global nuclear
apartheid thinking that this whole affair is imbued with. By
Richard Falk.
PressInfo 230, December 4,
2005
Ending
the war on Iraq
The solutions proposed in the American political mainstream
are not convincing: wait until the Iraq military can bring
stability to the country seems like waiting for Godot. We
should have learned better from our Vietnam experience.
Mobilise the U.S. anti-war opinion, help Iraqi
reconciliation and consider the 8 balanced steps that must
be taken now to get us out and reshape our policies in the
region. By Richard
Falk.
Richard Falk, September 23,
2005
Reforming
the UN - A global civil society
perspective
Comprehensive analysis, a macro-perspective on the relations
between the UN on the one hand and governments and NGOs on
the other; review of recent reform proposals and panel
reports. Cautiously optimistic about the potentials of the
UN and global civil society co-operation. A must read for
any student of UN affairs and others concerned about global
governance in authoritarian times.
Richard Falk, September 23,
2005
Civil
society judges the Iraq War
Falk here gives an account of the World Tribunal on Iraq
that was ignored by virtually all mainstream Western media.
He places it in a historical perspective and highlights it
importance for normative global politics and governance. He
was one of four TFF Associates participating.
A
listing of Falk's books from the last few years -
impressive!
The
American Disaster in Iraq
What
is a Nation? What is a State? Exploring minority rights and
their limits
What
is Wrong with Kerry's Foreign and Domestic Policy...So
Far?
Foreword
to Griffin's "The New Pearl Habor"
A
New Gandhian Moment?
Reviving
Global Justice, Addressing Legitimate
Grievances
Gandhi,
Nonviolence and the Struggle Against War
When
Words Fail
On
Edward Said
Empowering
Inquiry: Our Debt to Edward Said
Questions
Posed by the Turkish Daily
News
Added
Responses to the Turkish Daily News
Reimagining
the Governance of Globalization
What
Future for the UN Charter System of War
Prevention?
The
Unconquerable World. Book Review
Resisting
the Global Domination
Project -
interview
A
Modest Proposal: Giving Bush and Blair a
Deadline - with
David Krieger
Will
the Empire be Fascist?
Challenging
the United Nations
Why
International Law Matters
The
Iraq Crisis and International
Law - with David
Krieger
Why
International Law Matters
A
Roadmap for War: A Flawed Debate
War
on Iraq: Not the president's
decision - with
David Krieger
Opposition
to War Against Iraq
Iraq,
the United States, and International Law: Beyond the
Sanctions
Impending
Constitutional Crisis: The Rush to War
No
War Against Iraq -
with David Krieger
Ending
the Death Dance
The
new Bush doctrine
Taming
the Nuclear Monster
- with David Krieger
Tämja
kärnvapenmonstret
- med David Krieger
The
United Nations System: Prospects for Renewal
Azmi
Bishara, the Right of Resistance and the Palestinian
Ordeal
The
First Normative Global Revolution?
Defining
a Just War
See
some the reactions to this controversial analysis in The
Nation.
A
just response
Mahatma
Gandhi and the Revival of Nonviolent Politics in the Late
20th Century
Meeting
the Political Challenge to Globalization
Kosovo:
One Year Later
The
Place of Criminal Accountability in Transitional Justice:
Reflections After Kosovo
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