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The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Maria Popova November 28, 2022 “Nothing in the world is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on December 1, 2022No Comment

From Warfare to Peacefare Economic Thinking

Jan Oberg August 20, 2022 This analysis of warfare, peace and economic thinking was written at the invitation of the esteemed…

By JO on August 20, 20223 Comments

TFF’s “Behind The Smokescreen” Report

Gordon Dumoulin Jan Oberg Thore Vestby The Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research Lund, Sweden • TFF@transnational.org • The Transnational…

By JO on August 17, 202238 Comments

Claus Kold: Ukraine – The Need for A Global Peace Culture

Claus KoldTFF Associate July 4, 2022 All wars are different from other wars and, thus, it is impossible to use the…

By JO on July 4, 20223 Comments

Edward Curtin Review: John F. Kennedy – Destiny Betrayed

Edward Curtin April 5, 2022 Oliver Stone Documents the Past to Illuminate the Present The timing of the early March 2022…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on April 7, 2022No Comment

More weapons to Ukraine or ending the war now?

On February 3, 2023, professor Glenn Diesen, Norway, and Jan…

By JO on February 3, 2023No Comment

The Danish government’s last visit to Ukraine – the West’s last or penultimate war?

The Danish foreign, defence and the prime minister is greeted…

By JO on February 2, 20231 Comment

✅ TFF Miniblog, News & Notes from 2021 till today

Find here TFF-related media mentions, comments, videos and social media…

By JO on January 27, 2023No Comment

Jan Oberg: The Occident is now militarising itself to death for a second time

May others avoid that fate… Jan Oberg January 26, 2023…

By JO on January 26, 20232 Comments

✅ TFF Miniblog, News & Notes from 2021 till today

Find here TFF-related media mentions, comments, videos and social media posts published elsewhere but not on this homepage. It is only a fraction we happen to catch. When…

By JO on January 27, 2023No Comment

Edward Curtin: The New York Times is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth

“Ingsoc. The sacred principles of ingsoc. Newspeak, double-speak, the mutability of the past.” – George Orwell, 1984 Edward Curtin January 24, 2023 As today dawned, I was looking…

By JO on January 24, 2023No Comment

Peter Oborne: When journalists act as state propagandists

In advance of the invasion of Iraq 20 years ago, the UK media parroted government lies and fabrications uncritically and became an enthusiastic part of the state’s propaganda…

By JO on January 24, 2023No Comment

Researchers Find Massive Anti-Russian ‘Bot Army’

Peter Cronau – Declassified Australia January 11, 2023 An Australian university has unearthed millions of Tweets by fake accounts pushing disinformation on the Ukraine war, Peter Cronau reports. The sample size…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on January 12, 2023No Comment

Selling a war: Report exposes how German media stirs up militancy in society and works to prevent negotiations with Russia

An academic shock study exposes how the press is pushing for confrontation with Moscow in the EU’s most powerful state Felix Livshitz December 22, 2022 Last week, the…

By JO on December 23, 20221 Comment

Farhang Jahanpour: Women are the Victors in Iranian Officials’ Trial Balloon on Abolishing the Morals Police

An account of the situation and of the worst and best-case scenarios for Iran’s future Farhang Jahanpour, TFF…

By JO on December 7, 2022No Comment

Richard Falk: Biden’s Middle East Visit – An Orgy of Cynicism, Hypocrisy and Erasures

Richard Falk July 21, 2022 The U.S. Government at the highest level criticized Michelle Bachelet, the UN High…

By JO on July 21, 2022No Comment

Juan Cole: In Saudi Arabia, Biden Plays Defence Against Russia, China and Iran

Juan Cole July 21, 2022 Although President Joe Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia was ostensibly about petroleum and…

By JO on July 21, 2022No Comment

Chris Hedges: War With Iran

Biden at Bat – by Mr. Fish Chris Hedges July 18, 2022 The United States, Saudi Arabia and…

By JO on July 18, 20223 Comments

Syria’s Long History of U.S. Interference and Meddling Dating to the Late 1940s

Quwatli declaring Syria’s independence from France, 17 April 1946 (Licensed under the public domain) Shane Quinn June 2,…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on June 13, 2022No Comment

China’s CGTN: “The Point with Liu Xin” – On Sweden and Finland joining NATO

May 20, 2022 A 30 mins panel discussion led…

By JO on May 20, 2022

It is foolish for Finland and Sweden to join NATO and ignore both the real causes and consequences

Jan Oberg May 12, 2022 Here’s what the West…

By JO on May 12, 2022

Sverige kan försvaras utan våld

Erni & Ola Friholt TFF Associates och Fredsrörelsen på…

By JO on October 5, 2020

Sverige, krisen och värdlandet

Ola & Erni FriholtTFF Associerade & Fredsrörelsen på Orust…

By JO on August 26, 2020

The Danish government’s last visit to Ukraine – the West’s last or penultimate war?

The Danish foreign, defence and the prime minister is…

By JO on February 2, 2023

Richard Wolff: The Economics of the Ukraine War

January 24, 2023 Give yourself 38 min, and you’ll…

By JO on January 23, 2023

Baher Kamal: US Installs New Nukes in Europe: As Destructive as 83 Hiroshima Bombs

Baher Kamal, Human Wrongs Watch January 23, 2023 Or…

By JO on January 23, 2023

Jan Oberg: Why Europe won’t decouple from the United States – unless two things happen

Jan Oberg January 6, 2023 This article was published…

By JO on January 6, 2023

The U.S. ‘War on Terror’ Has Displaced 37 Million People

Here’s why we used the numbers we did —…

By Severine Renard on December 7, 2020

What if all migration was free? A video-based art and science project

Jan Oberg April 30, 2020 Last year, the Danish…

By JO on April 30, 2020

📌 Welcome to Bootprint – TFF’s online magazine on militarism and environment

By Jan Oberg February 14, 2020 Today TFF launches…

By JO on February 14, 2020

Western moral decay: Syria – the war, the loss and the silence

Child from Eastern Aleppo receiving food in the Jibrin…

By JO on December 20, 2019

Li Xing: Why the global democratic alliance is nothing more than a Western fantasy

Illustration: Craig Stephens Li Xing 19 January 2023 –…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on January 20, 2023

Paul Krugman: Fall of the American Empire

Paul Krugman June 19, 2018 – published here on…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on December 16, 2022

Jan Oberg: The West’s ”Sanctionitis,” Militarism and Other Self-destructive Impulses

Jan Oberg November 18, 2022 This article was written…

By JO on November 18, 2022

Richard Wolff: The Economics of the Ukraine War

January 24, 2023 Give yourself 38 min, and you’ll…

By JO on January 23, 2023

Pepe Escobar: Why BRI is back with a bang in 2023

Photo: The Cradle Pepe Escobar January 23, 2023 As…

By Severine Renard on January 23, 2023

Jan Oberg: The West’s ”Sanctionitis,” Militarism and Other Self-destructive Impulses

Jan Oberg November 18, 2022 This article was written…

By JO on November 18, 2022

From Warfare to Peacefare Economic Thinking

Jan Oberg August 20, 2022 This analysis of warfare,…

By JO on August 20, 2022

Why BRI is back with a bang in 2023

Photo Credit: The Cradle Pepe Escobar February 1, 2023 As Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative enters its 10th year, a strong Sino-Russian geostrategic partnership has…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on February 2, 2023No Comment

David Ferguson: Western bridgebuilder in China

January 28, 2023 Born and brought up in Scotland, David Ferguson moved to China to work and live in 2006. In 2008, he joined…

By JO on January 28, 2023No Comment

Pepe Escobar: Why BRI is back with a bang in 2023

Photo: The Cradle Pepe Escobar January 23, 2023 As Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative enters its 10th year, a strong Sino-Russian geostrategic partnership has…

By Severine Renard on January 23, 2023No Comment

Li Xing: Why the global democratic alliance is nothing more than a Western fantasy

Illustration: Craig Stephens Li Xing 19 January 2023 – The West likes to argue that market capitalism and political liberalism go hand in hand;…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on January 20, 2023No Comment

Wang Wen: Beyond China, as more nations reject the US-led order, 2022 will go down as the year of ‘de-Westernisation’

• From China’s socialist path to Latin America’s left turn and Asean’s neutral stance, more countries are quietly but firmly spurning the Western world…

By JO on January 6, 20231 Comment

Martin Jacques: Five key points that the West can learn from China’s governance

Martin Jacques December 28, 2022 The West could learn a great deal from China’s system of governance. It is highly unlikely this will happen,…

By JO on December 28, 2022No Comment

Bonhoeffer’s “theory of stupidity”: We have more to fear from stupid people than evil ones

Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity. Key Takeaways Jonny Thomson January 28, 2023 There’s an internet adage that goes, “Debating an idiot…

By JO on January 28, 20231 Comment