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      <title>The wrong 'red line'</title>
      <description>The world we inhabit badly needs red lines, but "the right red lines", writes Falk.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 10:16:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Collective self-reflection in the wake of a national tragedy</title>
      <description>The American global domination project is bound to generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial world. </description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:59:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Obama, on what planet do you live?</title>
      <description>Obama looked "more interested in appealing to the folks in Washington" than to Palestinians trapped in the West Bank.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:21:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lessons to be learnt from the Iraq War</title>
      <description>The War was a serious setback for international law, the UN and world order, writes Falk. </description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>President Obama: The challenge of another four years</title>
      <description>Even if Obama delivers on everything he promised in his inaugural address, the country may find itself needing more.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Overdosing on 'Breaking Bad'</title>
      <description>Not only is the TV series 'Breaking Bad' great entertainment, but it speaks volumes about American culture as a whole.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 06:24:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Understanding Hamas after Khaled Meshaal's Gaza speech</title>
      <description>The lens through which Hamas is being viewed must be changed if we are to understand it going forward.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:05:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Palestine: Political violence is not the answer</title>
      <description>Remarks by Richard Falk delivered in Cairo at the UN/Arab League ceremony, marking the observance of Solidarity Day.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:09:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Welcoming the Gaza ceasefire: First impressions</title>
      <description>The latest ceasefire between Gaza and Israel portends to positive developments - if it lasts.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:31:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The latest Gaza catastrophe</title>
      <description>Many aspects of the current assault on Gaza pass under the radar screens of world conscience.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 08:59:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Interpreting Obama's victory</title>
      <description>Obama and the constituencies that supported him could be harbingers of a better future for the country, writes Falk. </description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:25:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A modest proposal: Establishing a 'future' capital of the world	</title>
      <description>By considering Istanbul as a "possible future global capital, we are heralding the advent of soft power geopolitics".</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:45:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>From hope to fear: 2008 versus 2012</title>
      <description>The stakes in the presidential election have been reversed - the upcoming election is "more about fear than hope".</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:19:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lifting the curse of Apollo: Climate change as metaphor and reality</title>
      <description>The threats posed by global warming are situated primarily in the future, despite some claims of present harm. </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 08:55:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Reconsidering Turkish foreign policy in the AKP years </title>
      <description>Turkey has a long way to go before it corrects many forms of "discrimination against women wearing headscarves".</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:53:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Is there a new geopolitics?</title>
      <description>A new form of geopolitics is threatening to dethrone the old paradigm of a hard power, West-centric world.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:19:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>When soft power is hard</title>
      <description>The "soft power" espoused by the US establishment should be viewed with suspicion.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2012 10:17:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Aurora, American violence, and amnesia</title>
      <description>The massacre at a Colorado movie theatre offers an opportunity - and a responsibility - for national soul-searching.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:31:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Pros and cons of Western Palestinian solidarity</title>
      <description>Sympathetic Westerners should avoid insisting on their own solutions, and let Palestinians lead instead.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The danger of nuclear deterrence</title>
      <description>The idea that Iran should have nuclear weapons puts too much faith on the rationality and prudence of leaders. </description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 12:49:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>If Europe is 'a culture of peace', why NATO?</title>
      <description>If Europe is genuinely a culture of peace, it needs to reconsider its security policies that arose during the Cold War.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:12:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Syria: The tragic space between the unacceptable and the impossible</title>
      <description>Labelling the Houla massacre as a 'tipping point' in the uprising is misleading and creates false hope, writes author.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 11:55:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Observing the Nakba</title>
      <description>It's a day not just for remembrance by Palestinians, it should become important for all persons of goodwill, worldwide.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 20:22:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Palestinian hunger strikes: Media missing in action</title>
      <description>Is the mass Palestinian prisoner hunger strike the beginning of the Palestinian Spring?</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 19:38:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Opening the other eye: Charles Taylor and selective accountability</title>
      <description>Leaders are typically held accountable to international criminal law when they block Western interests. </description>
      <link>http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/04/201243013194474832.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 19:25:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Selecting a World Bank president: The resilience of a West-centric world</title>
      <description>The governance of the world economy remains neoliberal and West-centric, and for this reason less than legitimate.</description>
      <link>http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/04/20124181088618623.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:15:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Nuclear weapons as instruments of peace?</title>
      <description>The support for nuclear weapons found among top scholars in the field is a warning sign of American cultural decadence.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:48:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hana's hunger strike ends, but her punishment continues</title>
      <description>Israel's forced relocation of activist simply expands the walls of her prison.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:23:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Why not get law and politics right in Iran?</title>
      <description>According to US intelligence estimates, Iran abandoned its nuclear weapons programme in 2003. </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:24:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hana Shalabi: Palestinian non-violence and global indifference</title>
      <description>The international community must ensure that Israel abandons the cruel practice of "administrative detention".</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:28:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Afghanistan: When war turns pathological, get out</title>
      <description>The US should withdraw from Afghanistan, for the sake of both the Afghan and the American people.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:33:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Quran burning: Mistake, crime, and metaphor</title>
      <description>The failure of the US to appreciate the seriousness of Quran burnings undermines claims of benevolence in Afghanistan.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:18:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Saving Khader Adnan's life and legacy</title>
      <description>Richard Falk discusses the end of Khader Adnan's hunger strike, and its potential consequences.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:15:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>When an 'NGO' is not an NGO: Twists and turns under Egyptian skies</title>
      <description>What motives are behind the US government's strong reaction to the arrest of NGO workers in Egypt?</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:25:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Saving Khader Adnan's life is saving our own soul</title>
      <description>The Palestinian prisoner's case is a microcosm of the unbearable cruelty of prolonged occupation.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A nuclear-free Middle East: Necessary, desirable and impossible</title>
      <description>A nuclear-free zone in the Middle East - with the participation of Israel - can avoid war in the region. </description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:11:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Confronting Iran: Warmongering in the Middle East</title>
      <description>The last time Iran attacked a neighbour was over 200 years ago, so what is the problem with the country going nuclear?</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:47:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Healing wounds: Seeking closure for the 1915 massacres</title>
      <description>Placing genocide within an appropriate legal context is the best path to reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia. </description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The best and the worst of 2011</title>
      <description>Princeton University professor reviews the Arab Spring, occupy movement, climate change and Palestine's statehood bid. </description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:35:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Christopher Hitchens: A political enigma</title>
      <description>Someone who constantly drinks hard liquor to bear the company of others is likely to be a bore, and a boor.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:17:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Welcoming Palestine to UNESCO</title>
      <description>With Palestine getting full membership to the UNESCO, it also serves as a political reminder of its bid for statehood. </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:43:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Is Israel guilty of the crime of apartheid? </title>
      <description>Richard Falk reflects on the Russell Tribunal on Palestine Session in Cape Town, South Africa.</description>
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      <title>Kuala Lumpur tribunal: Bush and Blair guilty</title>
      <description>A war crimes tribunal in Malaysia offers a devastating critique of international criminal law institutions today.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:37:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A jurisprudence of conscience </title>
      <description>An international double standard is dividing the international community between the victorious and the defeated.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:52:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Davutoglu's brilliant statecraft</title>
      <description>Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's diplomatic skills combine intellectual authority with moral sensibility.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:46:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Goldstone walks alone on a bridge to nowhere</title>
      <description>The former judge who wrote the Gaza War report recently - and wrongly - wrote that Israel does not practice apartheid.</description>
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      <title>Libya after Gaddafi: A dangerous precedent?</title>
      <description>The death of a dictator is being celebrated, but foreign intervention could prove problematic in the long-term. </description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:35:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Is politics from below 'class warfare'?</title>
      <description>Americans are slowly waking up from their passive state and speaking out against greed, corruption, and predatory wars.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:51:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Reflections on the Abbas statehood speech </title>
      <description>Regional developments that increasingly support Palestine may be Israel's historic opportunity for sustainable peace.</description>
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      <title>Statehood versus 'facts on the ground'</title>
      <description>If Israel really wants to make peace with Palestinians, why does it reject every Palestinian effort to do so?</description>
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