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Richard FalkTFF Associate October 16, 2020 Introduction Below is a…

On the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize award

Fredrik HeffermehlThe Nobel Peace Prize Watch and TFF Oslo &…

Fredrik Heffermehl – TFF Associate

October 7, 2020 Fredrik Heffermehl, born on November 11, 1938,…

How the West lost

New cold war? Chinese soldiers march in Moscow on Victory…

Why the US is falling – and faster than you may expect: A 40-year-old prediction coming true

Image from Wikileaks Jan Oberg September 30, 2020 The unique,…

The End of Reality?

Edward Curtin September 25, 2020 In 1888, the year before…

PEACE

At 75 – A U.N. of the Future In A Globalized Democracy

Jan Oberg October 24, 2020 2020 marks the 75th Anniversary of the world’s most important and visionary organisation, the United Nations.…

By JO on October 23, 20201 Comment

Ny bog om Johan Galtung til 90 års dagen

Jan Øberg 23. oktober 2020 Den norske arkitekt og fredsforkæmper, Susanne Urban har forfattet en righoldig bog, som netop er udkommet…

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One-On-One+ with Johan Galtung

Johan Galtung 2010 © Jan Oberg Johan Galtung October 23, 2020 On the occasion of Galtung’s 90th birthday tomorrow on UN…

By JO on October 23, 20201 Comment

On the coming decline and fall of the US Empire

By Johan Galtung – TFF Associate October 23, 2020 This paper was written in 2015. Republished here on the occasion of…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on October 23, 20201 Comment

Acting is a wonderful way of avoiding feeling despair – A guide

Louis Kriesberg October 21, 2020 Louis Kriesberg This post also appears on the Beyond Intractability website. The blog is the Constructive…

By JO on October 21, 2020No Comment

TFF BLOG

At 75 – A U.N. of the Future In A Globalized Democracy

Jan Oberg October 24, 2020 2020 marks the 75th Anniversary…

By JO on October 23, 20201 Comment

Ny bog om Johan Galtung til 90 års dagen

Jan Øberg 23. oktober 2020 Den norske arkitekt og fredsforkæmper,…

By JO on October 23, 2020No Comment

One-On-One+ with Johan Galtung

Johan Galtung 2010 © Jan Oberg Johan Galtung October 23,…

By JO on October 23, 20201 Comment

The US – fascism or blossoming, or both?

Johan Galtung 2010 © Jan Oberg Johan Galtung October 23,…

By JO on October 23, 2020No Comment

On the coming decline and fall of the US Empire

By Johan Galtung – TFF Associate October 23, 2020 This…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on October 23, 20201 Comment

Ye Are Many, They Are Few!

John Scales Avery A new freely downloadable book I would…

By JO on October 22, 2020No Comment

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MEDIA

Leaked docs expose massive Syria propaganda operation by Western government contractors and media

Aleppo December 2016 Collage © Jan Oberg Ben Norton October 26, 2020 Western government-funded intelligence cutouts trained Syrian opposition leaders, planted stories in media outlets from BBC to…

By Severine Renard on October 26, 2020No Comment

Den frie presses skæbne bliver snart afgjort

Idag, den 7. september 2020, i London starter en retssag, som får betydning for den frie presse i vesten i fremtiden. Sagen drejer sig om journalist og stifter…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on September 8, 2020No Comment

Politikens parodi på perspektivrig udlandsdækning

Artiklen i Politiken den 9. maj 2020. Jesper Munk Jakobsen 30. juli 2020 Dette er en analyse af denne artikel fra Politiken den 9. maj 2020, som er skrevet af…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on July 29, 2020No Comment

ObergComment: How the West lost Iran to China and others – and why

📌 We know that many of our readers would like to see some short, pointed posts here. So, in contrast to the longer, more analytical articles we usually…

By JO on July 20, 20204 Comments

ObergComment: Today Israel’s apartheid and other illegalities develop further, the West turning its blind eye

📌 We know that many of our readers would like to see some short, pointed posts here. So, in contrast to the longer, more analytical articles we usually…

By JO on July 1, 20202 Comments

MIDDLE EAST

Leaked docs expose massive Syria propaganda operation by Western government contractors and media

Aleppo December 2016 Collage © Jan Oberg Ben Norton October 26, 2020 Western government-funded intelligence cutouts trained Syrian…

By Severine Renard on October 26, 2020No Comment

The Plot Against Libya – An Obama-Biden-Clinton Criminal Conspiracy

Photograph Source: Pete Souza, White House Official Photograph – CC BY 2.0 Eric Draitser September 15, 2020 The scorching…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on September 21, 20203 Comments

Will China’s bruited $400 bn. investment in Iran make Beijing an oil Gulf power?

Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) holds talks with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on September 3, 2020No Comment

The Kuwait War at 30: The birth of a unipolar world

KUWAIT. March 11, 1991. The bodies of dead Iraqi soldiers hang from a truck abandoned by the fleeing…

By JO on August 2, 20201 Comment

ObergComment: How the West lost Iran to China and others – and why

📌 We know that many of our readers would like to see some short, pointed posts here. So,…

By JO on July 20, 20204 Comments

On the single most significant post-1989 conflict

TFF worked with and in all of the Yugoslav space from September 1991.
This conflicts – the largest immediately after the 1989 end of the First Cold War – had larger consequences for law, NATO expansion, the UN, Western warfare, “humanitarian” intervention and regime change policies than even the fall of the Berlin Wall itself.
We did 70+ peace missions to all parts of former Yugoslavia, 3000+ interviews with all conflict parties and at all levels and courses, seminars, peace plans, press conferences, co-operation with all UN missions in the region, and more.
TFF published all Galtung, Oberg and Wiberg wrote, as they had written it, in 2015: about 2000 A4 pages in one blog, freely available.
It’s a work on world and European history and a major publication in peace research and peace politics – with constructive ideas for peace which, had anybody listened, could have saved thousands of lives. Click

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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

Ilfart mot framtiden

Erni & Ola FriholtTFF Associerade och Fredsrörelsen på Orust…

By JO on August 25, 2020

Politikens parodi på perspektivrig udlandsdækning

Artiklen i Politiken den 9. maj 2020. Jesper Munk…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on July 29, 2020

A Circle in the Darkness: Post-War Europe

Patrick Lawrence September 1, 2020 Diana Johnstone’s newly-published memoir…

By Severine Renard on September 1, 2020

NATO’s destruction of Serbia: And where are Serbia, China and the West today?

By Jan Oberg Lund, Sweden – March 24, 2020…

By JO on March 31, 2020

Umberto Eco’s list of the 14 common features of Fascism

By Umberto Eco February 24, 2020 One of the…

By Severine Renard on February 24, 2020

Why the New Silk Roads are a ‘threat’ to the US bloc

Photo: Facebook/AsiaTimes The Middle East is the key to…

By Jmj on February 17, 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

The Middle East: A complex re-alignment

By Conn M. Hallinan November 27, 2019 The fallout…

By Severine Renard on November 28, 2019

Ye Are Many, They Are Few!

John Scales Avery A new freely downloadable book I…

By JO on October 22, 2020

Den frie presses skæbne bliver snart afgjort

Idag, den 7. september 2020, i London starter en…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on September 8, 2020

Normalising the exceptional as a serious security threat

Jørgen Johansen argues that, like terrorism before it, the…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on September 8, 2020

Trumpism: What will 2020 bring?

Richard FalkTFF Associate August 15, 2020 During the height…

By Severine Renard on August 18, 2020

Ye Are Many, They Are Few!

John Scales Avery A new freely downloadable book I…

By JO on October 22, 2020

Chris Hedges: America’s Death March

(Photo: Art by Mr. Fish/Original to Scheerpost) Regardless of…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on September 3, 2020

ObergComment: How the West lost Iran to China and others – and why

📌 We know that many of our readers would…

By JO on July 20, 2020

China in the post-American world : Remarks to Le Cercle

Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.) Senior Fellow,…

By Severine Renard on March 8, 2020

CHINA & SILK

Will China’s bruited $400 bn. investment in Iran make Beijing an oil Gulf power?

Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) holds talks with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province, June 10, 2018. (Xinhua/Ding Lin)…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on September 3, 2020No Comment

China: Everything proceeds according to plan – Complete interruption of relations with the US

Pepe Escobar August 26, 2020 Let’s start with the story of an incredibly disappearing summit. Every August, the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party…

By JO on August 26, 2020No Comment

The China Fear Factor

August 24, 2020 Michael Wong Vice President of Veterans For Peace, Chapter 69 America vs. China: “A Clash of Civilizations” Hillary Clinton famously said,…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on August 25, 20201 Comment

In times of Corona, history’s train is speeding up: Reboot humanity!

Gordon Dumoulin July 27, 2020 While most people all over the world are debating the current health, geopolitical, and economic developments in the COVID19-era,…

By JO on July 27, 20204 Comments

ObergComment: How the West lost Iran to China and others – and why

📌 We know that many of our readers would like to see some short, pointed posts here. So, in contrast to the longer, more…

By JO on July 20, 20204 Comments

Why Xi won’t repeat Ming Dynasty mistakes

China has learned from its own rich history and is applying those lessons to re-emerge as a major 21st century power May 20, 2020…

By JO on May 19, 20201 Comment

CULTURE

Nothing ever happened: A review of “Seeking Truth In A Country of Lies” by Edward Curtin

John Steppling October 7, 2020 Some books demand slower reading than others. Ed Curtin’s new book is such a case. But then this assemblage of essays, many published…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on October 12, 2020No Comment