Richard Falk

IC911’s inaugural ‘David Ray Griffin Annual Lecture’ with Dr Daniele Ganser

Dr Piers Robinson I’m delighted to announce that the International Center for 9/11 Justice is initiating an annual lecture, dedicated to the late Professor David Ray Griffin. This coming December, on Sunday the 3rd, Dr Daniele Ganser will be delivering the inaugural lecture based on his book USA: Ruthless Empire. Ganser is best known for his book NATO’s Secret Armies: …

Add Homo sapiens to the Endangered Species List

Preventing extinction of species is a major concern of many countries in the world today. Legislation to accomplish this is usually based on an endangered species list. Such a list should include any animal or plant species that has been deemed likely to go extinct in a few generations. Listing would normally trigger protective actions to […]

TOWARD GLOBAL SOLIDARITY: A POLITICS OF IMPOSSIBILITY

[Prefatory Note: The post below is my stimulus essay for a Forum sponsored by Great Transition Initiative, a project of the Tellus Institute, dedicated to the exploration of humane and ecologically resonant adjustments to the challenges and threats posed by the onset of the Anthropocentric Age. The text of the full Forum can be found […]

Who Was Edward Said? Biographically Interpreted and Existentially Recollected

[Prefatory Note: This post is an edited text of Remarks on 30 June 2021 at the opening on the Book Launch of Timothy Brennan’s PLACES OF MIND: A LIFE OF EDWARD SAID (2021), an event under the auspices of the Cambridge Centre of Palestinian Studies, moderated by its director, Dr. Makram Khoury-Machool. Also participating in […]

A New Different Cold War, An Old Geopolitics

[ Prefatory Note: The text below is based on responses to questions posed by C.J. Polychroniou, a skilled interpreter of the global scene andnoted author and interviewer. His book of interviews with Noam  Chomsky was published in 2017 under the title Optimism over Despair. “Great Power Competition Is Escalating to Dangerous Levels: An Interview with […]

imagining a better world

[PREFATORY NOTE; a conversation in a non-Western setting about my memoir and Stuart Rees’s pioneering study of cruelty and its transcendence as analyzed and understood in part with the help of illuminating poems. IMAGINING A BETTER WORLD RICHARD FALK & STUART REES IN CONVERSATION WITH JOSEPH CAMILLERI PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL Described by some as the most […]

Reflections on a Political Memoir

[Prefatory note:  originally published May 7th, Counterpunch, later in Transcend media service (TMS); a review in the form of an interview, or more accurately, a conversation in which I do most of the talking}} The Fascinating Memoir of a “Citizen Pilgrim”: Q&A with Richard Falk BY BUSRA CICEK – DANIEL FALCONE FacebookTwitterRedditEmail Image Source: Cover art […]

Citizen Pilgrim: To Be or Not to Be

Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim – A Conversation with Richard Falk, Noura Erakat, Victoria Brittain and Jeremy Corbyn When: Monday, May 17, 2021, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PMWhere: Online, Book now The International State Crime Initiative is delighted to host a conversation with Professor Richard Falk—preeminent international legal scholar, activist, and thinker on peace and justice—on his […]

On Being a Citizen Pilgrim

[Prefatory Note: The following interview was published  on May 7, 2021, https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/07/the-fascinating-memoir-of-a-cit… I apologize for the self-promotion but I suppose that is what a blog of this sort is inevitably partially about.] The Fascinating Memoir of a “Citizen Pilgrim”: Q&A with Richard Falk BY BUSRA CICEK – DANIEL FALCONE Image Source: Cover art for the book Public […]