Richard Falk, Professor emeritusTFF Associate since 1986 September 2, 2025 A slightly modified version of a text published on Sept. 1, 2025 in TMS. On August 25 Thomas Friedman, always a weathervane for political and economic establishment thinking in the West, wrote a notable column in the NY Times that was pragmatic in tone, misleading in substance, […]
Richard FalkTFF Associate since 1986 July 28, 2025 The text below was published in “The Nation” on July 15, 2025, appears here unmodified. The delay is due to a weak Internet here in Turkey. There has been much critical reaction to this US Government defamatory statement justifying the imposition of sanctions on this exceptional independent […]
Richard FalkTFF Associate since 1985, Professor emeritus of international law, Princeton University. June 24, 2025 The Gaza People’s Tribunal, at the end of its first public assembly in Sarajevo, issued a Declaration that expresses our commitment to peace and justice for the Palestinian people in their struggle to realize their basic rights, above all their […]
The “kitschy” center of Skopje, the capital of Macedonia © Jan Oberg December 19, 2024 We bring you two examples of the worldwide support, Professor Vankovska is now receiving upon being dismissed – at the moment of being dismissed without any official reason. First, Professor Richard Falk’s solidarity statement, then Biljana’s own account and, last, […]
Richard FalkPrinceton professor emeritus and TFF Associate since 1986. October 7, 2024 Israel has long been renowned for its ability to shape public discourse pertaining to its behaviour toward the Palestinians, particularly in the West. Its greatest triumph is undoubtedly the manner in which it managed the media treatment of its response to October 7 […]
Review of this new book by TFF Associates Richard Falk and Hans von Sponeck John Burley August 21, 2024 Contemporary reports of the birth of the United Nations in June 1945 in San Francisco warmly welcomed the news of its establishment and congratulated the United States for conceiving and delivering the new international organisation. President […]
Photo by Tim Mossholder “We’re the greatest nation on the face of the earth… I have never been more optimistic about the future of our country… There’s no country in the world better positioned to lead the world than America… Just remember who we are. We are the United States of America, for God’s sake.” […]
Richard FalkAnd TFF Associate and dear friend since 1986. June 5, 2024 An intriguing sideshow during the seven months of savage genocidal violence against the entrapped Palestinian population of an estimated 2.3 million has been the attention given to international law and to international procedures available for its interpretation and enforcement. To begin with, many […]
This is an urgently important initiative by the Geneva International Peace Research Institute, GIPRI. Two TFF Associates – Professor Richard Falk and TFF director Jan Oberg – have signed it. The initiative needs the widest possible readership. Over the past 48 hours, no Western mainstream media has found it newsworthy. So much for the free […]
Liberal democracies remain shamefully complicit with Israel, despite its ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people Richard FalkTFF Associate April 26, 2024 Students of world politics have long understood that when it comes to the strategic interests of leading states, international law is marginalised unless it is useful in waging a propaganda war against adversaries. Indeed, […]