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Znet Article Falk: Acting Beyond the UN Mandate

Znet Article, September, 08 2011 Richard Falk
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The majority of the Libyan people undoubtedly have strong expectations that their human rights will now be upheld

Znet Article Falk: The Tet Offensive in the Rear View Mirror of the Afghanistan War

Znet Article, August, 26 2011 Richard Falk
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This American and NATO learning disability has led directly to embarking upon subsequent legally and strategically problematic interventions

Znet Article Falk: Turkey, the Region, and the West after the Elections

Znet Article, June, 25 2011 Richard Falk
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There has been a dramatic shift in critical international responses to the current Turkish political leadership

Znet Article Falk: Is The State a Monster? Pro and Contra Nietzsche

Znet Article, June, 18 2011 Richard Falk
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The coldness of the state, so far as human solidarity is concerned, is often most vividly revealed by extreme behavior

Znet Article Falk: A Shameless Secretary General vs. Freedom Flotilla 2

Znet Article, June, 04 2011 Richard Falk
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It is expected that at the end of June, Freedom Flotilla 2 will set sail for Gaza

Znet Article Falk: Obama’s AIPAC Speech: A Further Betrayal of the Palestinian People

Znet Article, May, 28 2011 Richard Falk
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It was a shockingly partisan speech to the extremist lobbying group that has the entire U.S. Congress in an unprecedented headlock

Znet Article Falk: Obama’s Flawed Approach to the Israel/Palestine Conflict

Znet Article, May, 24 2011 Richard Falk
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Obama continues to seek approval, as he has throughout his presidency, from the hawks in the State Department

Znet Article Falk: Is the Arab Spring a Black Swan?

Znet Article, May, 08 2011 Richard Falk
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These movements are seen as posing possibly serious threats to U.S. and European economic and strategic interests

Znet Article Falk: Rethinking Germany

Znet Article, April, 16 2011 Richard Falk
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Not only the unforgettable Nazi past, but also the hard power materialism and reactionary politics of the German success story, made Germany in many respects the least lovable country in the Western world.

Znet Article Falk: Obama's Libyan Folly

Znet Article, April, 06 2011 Richard Falk
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The NATO led intervention in Libya is hampered by a lack of foresight and clearly defined objectives, scholar argues.

Znet Article Falk: Kicking the intervention habit

Znet Article, March, 13 2011 Richard Falk
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Should talks of intervention in Libya turn into action, it would be illegal, immoral and hypocritical.

Znet Article Falk: The United States Stands Alone with Israel in the UN Security Council [or How (Dis)honest is the Honest Broker?]

Znet Article, February, 21 2011 Richard Falk
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In what appears to be as close to a consensus as the world community can ever hope to achieve, the United States reluctantly stood its ground on behalf of Israel and on February 18, 2011 vetoed a resolution on the Israeli settlements in the West ...

Znet Article Falk: Egypt's Berlin Wall Moment

Znet Article, February, 10 2011 Richard Falk
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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, four transformative events have reshaped the global setting in enduring ways.

Znet Article Falk: Israel’s Violence Against Separation Wall Protests

Znet Article, January, 10 2011 Richard Falk
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One of the flashpoints in Occupied Palestine in recent years has involved peaceful weekly protests against continued Israeli construction of a separation wall extending throughout the whole of the West Bank.

Znet Article Falk: The Delusions Of The Peace Process

Znet Article, December, 20 2010 Richard Falk
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The politics of the peace process have emphatically ensured that the mere prospect for producing peace is nonexistent.

Znet Article Falk: Flotilla Attack Reinforced The Campaign to de-Legitimize Israel

Znet Article, June, 21 2010 Richard Falk
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Richard Falk is the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. In 2001 Falk served on a United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Inquiry Commission for the Palestinia...

Znet Article Falk: “Those Responsible Must Be Held Criminally Accountable”

Znet Article, June, 01 2010 Richard Falk
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The UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, urged Monday the international community to bring to justice those responsible for the killing of some 16 unarmed peace activist, when Israeli armed commandos storme...

Znet Article Falk: Rebalancing The World

Znet Article, May, 31 2010 Richard Falk
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It may turn out that May 17, 2010 will be remembered as an important milestone on the road to a real new world order. Remember that the phrase ‘new world order’ came to prominence in 1990 after Iraq’s invasion and annexation of Kuwait. It was used...

Znet Article Falk: The Palestinians are winning the legitimacy war: will it matter?

Znet Article, April, 16 2010 Richard Falk
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Richard Falk argues that a Palestinian victory in the legitimacy war with Israel would not necessarily produce the desired political results and that it is vital that the Palestinians exercise "patience, resolve, leadership and vision, as well as ...

Znet Article Tanaka: The Atomic Bombing, The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and the Shimoda Case: Lessons for Anti-Nuclear Legal Movements

Znet Article, November, 10 2009 Yuki Tanaka
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An analysis of the some legal challenges to the atomic bomb

Znet Article Falk: Why The Goldstone Report Matters

Znet Article, September, 24 2009 Richard Falk
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Richard Goldstone, former judge of South Aftica’s Constitutional Court, the first prosecutor at The Hague on behalf of the International Criminal Court for Former Yugolavia, and anti-apartheid campaigner reports that he was most reluctant to tak...

Znet Article Falk: Israel's War Crimes

Znet Article, March, 11 2009 Richard Falk
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Israel blamed its earlier wars on the threat to its security, even that against Lebanon in 1982. However, its assault on Gaza was not justified and there are international calls for an investigation. But is there the political will to make Israel ...

Znet Article Falk: Statement Of Special Raporteur For The Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967

Znet Article, January, 10 2009 Richard Falk
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For Presentation To The Special Session Of The Human Rights Council On The Situation In The Gaza Strip, 9 January 2009.

Znet Article Falk: Understanding the Gaza Catastrophe

Znet Article, January, 03 2009 Richard Falk
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For eighteen months the entire 1.5 million people of Gaza experienced a punishing blockade imposed by Israel, and a variety of traumatizing challenges to the normalcy of daily life. A flicker of hope emerged some six months ago when an Egyptian ar...

Znet Article Falk: Statement by Prof. Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

Znet Article, December, 30 2008 Richard Falk
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The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the obligations of an Occupying Power and in the requirements of the laws of...

Znet Article Falk: Championing Global Human Rights

Znet Article, December, 24 2008 Richard Falk
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Earlier this month, Israeli authorities deported Professor Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, who had arrived in the country to conduct his duties to investigate rights abuses ...

Znet Article Falk: My Expulsion from Israel

Znet Article, December, 21 2008 Richard Falk
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When I arrived in Israel as a UN representative I knew there might be problems at the airport. And there were.

Znet Article Falk: Assessing the Georgian Crisis

Znet Article, September, 13 2008 Richard Falk
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The confrontation over South Ossetia represents a collision of US and Russian geopolitical logics which poses great dangers for regional and world peace, as well as to the wellbeing of the peoples of the world.

Znet Article Falk: Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust

Znet Article, July, 05 2007 Richard Falk
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  And what rou...

Znet Article Falk: Lurching Toward Regional War in the Middle East

Znet Article, July, 30 2006 Richard Falk
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Israeli moves toward all out war in Gaza and Lebanon seem linked to wider dangers of a regional war with severe global consequences. By interpreting these wider dangers it is not meant to minimize the human suffering and regressive political effec...

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