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Richard Falk, Princeton International Law Professor Emeritus, returns to Truth Jihad Radio to discuss his recent article on Biden's worldview (and competence or lack thereof), and the Gaza genocide.

Memorable quote: "The Netanyahu invitation (to once again address a Joint Session of Congress) is an edifying metaphor that confirms the dark foreboding of skeptics like myself critical of the US global role since the end of the Cold War and deeply pessimistic about the future of the country."

Richard Falk has been repeatedly and ineptly attacked for daring to come on my show and discuss third-rail topics.  He has positively reviewed David Ray Griffin's work on 9/11, served as UN Special Rapporteur to Palestine, and earned a reputation as an accomplished American academician of rare courage and integrity.

Rough transcript:

I am overjoyed to welcome back to the show a guest who's been on several other times and has been attacked by the usual suspects for even having the temerity, nay, the unmitigated audacity to talk to me. And that is Princeton International Law Professor Emeritus Richard Falk, one of the heroes of the American Academy, a truth seeker, truth speaker, and a man of integrity…so welcome, Richard Falk. It's great to have you back.

Good to be with you, Kevin. You've been doing a good job for a long time.

Well, thank you. I appreciate that. And that quote will undoubtedly be used against you by the New York Sun.

They can have it.

Okay. So...I'm not quite sure where to start, but I guess we could mention that you've been continually publishing very good, balanced, accurate commentaries on various topics. And most recently, you have a piece on Biden's worldview, the elections, the fact that Netanyahu is coming back to address a joint session of Congress, and that all this bodes ill for America and the world, and that you're feeling rather pessimistic. And I'm pretty sure you're not the only one. So maybe you could tell us how that feels.

Well, it doesn't feel as lonely as it might have felt a year or so ago. I think there's a lot of skepticism about how the Democrats are running their campaign, (with) a mentally challenged president who won't step aside, even for the benefit of the country, of having a candidate that has a good chance against Trump.

And a Democratic Party that doesn't want to talk about what the U.S. is doing in the world. It wants to proclaim, with some justification, what the Biden presidency has done in the United States by way of social programs and basically a liberal agenda. But that's not the whole story, given the futile and destructive war in Ukraine and the genocidal attacks on the Palestinian people in Gaza, and the spillover to the West Bank.

Do you think that what there is of democracy in America has gotten disconnected from these global issues, almost as if there's a deep state running these global issues in a profoundly mendacious and almost psychopathic way, and that the democratic process such as it is, and the official institutions under the constitutional arrangements,