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Toward a fundamental security shift

Sustainable peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of development, justice and harmony LI XING and JAN…

By JO on September 27, 20241 Comment

“If You Want To Understand China” – Foreword and Introduction to a TFF anthology in the making

Foreword August 25, 2024 The Board of The Transnational Foundation in Sweden has decided to publish an easy-to-read, scholarly anthology that…

By JO on August 25, 20242 Comments

“Liberating the United Nations: Realism with Hope”

Review of this new book by TFF Associates Richard Falk and Hans von Sponeck John Burley August 21, 2024 Contemporary reports…

By JO on August 21, 2024No Comment

The Injustice and Tragic Circumstances Surrounding Johan Galtung’s Death

Johan and Irene Galtung Where Law Ends, Tyranny Begins Dr Irene Galtung August 6, Hiroshima Day, 2024 Foreword by Jan Oberg,…

By JO on August 6, 20243 Comments

Religions: There Is Gentle Wisdom In Them All

Easter Island Rapa Nui Johan Galtung July 11, 2024 “Best wishes for the Season,” we easily write and read these days.…

By JO on July 11, 2024No Comment

October 7: A grim anniversary

Richard FalkPrinceton professor emeritus and TFF Associate since 1986. October…

By JO on October 7, 2024No Comment

East Wind, West Wind

October 1, 2024, marks China’s 75th Anniversary Biljana Vankovska Political…

By JO on September 30, 20241 Comment

✅ TFF Share Blog, News & Notes from 2021 till today

Below are TFF-related media mentions, comments, videos and social media…

By JO on September 26, 20241 Comment

China’s comparative advantage in knowledge about the West

And its positive attitude to the West Jan Oberg Shanghai,…

By JO on September 22, 2024No Comment

✅ TFF Share Blog, News & Notes from 2021 till today

Below are TFF-related media mentions, comments, videos and social media posts published elsewhere but not on this homepage. We happen to catch and list only a fraction. Regarding…

By JO on September 26, 20241 Comment

France: The New Authoritarian Journalism

Photo by Nijwam Swargiary on Unsplash Western media’s reporting of the war in Gaza makes little pretence of impartiality. In French newsrooms and radio studios, unconditional support for…

By JO on February 28, 2024No Comment

Still talking about the U.S. military-industrial complex? It’s evolved!

Jan Oberg Interview on CGTN’s “First Voice.” CGTN is China’s main global TV network. At present, CGTN Digital has over 150 million followers across the globe. Instead of…

By JO on January 30, 2024No Comment

Unbelievable Reality

Todd Hayen October 23, 2023 We have finally reached a point in the advancement of our technology where we no longer can believe anything we see or hear.…

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on October 23, 2023No Comment

“It’s NOT about NATO expansion”

It’s about fighting against evil/Putin/Hitler and fighting for democracy… NATO’s Jens Stoltenberg admits that Russia was motivated by NATO to invade Ukraine. Video creator Matt Orfalea shows how…

By JO on October 2, 2023No Comment

October 7: A grim anniversary

Richard FalkPrinceton professor emeritus and TFF Associate since 1986. October 7, 2024 Israel has long been renowned for…

By JO on October 7, 2024No Comment

Israel’s Exceptionalism Is Untenable

Source: Getty Images As Western elites shape their countries’ relationship with the Jewish state, they should apply one…

By JO on August 20, 2024No Comment

Why Ilan Pappe’s new book on the Israel lobby is a must-read

Few are better qualified to challenge the official orthodoxy that stifles any discussion of this topic Peter Oborne…

By JO on August 12, 2024No Comment

The Fragmentation of the Middle East

By Farhang Jahanpour May 7, 2024, marks the seventh-month anniversary of the horrendous attack by Hamas militants…

By JO on May 14, 2024No Comment

War on Gaza: Western powers never believed in a rules-based order

Liberal democracies remain shamefully complicit with Israel, despite its ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people Richard FalkTFF Associate…

By JO on April 25, 20241 Comment

Sweden closes down its Nord Stream investigation – and with a weird argument.

Jan Oberg February 9, 2024 Quite as could be…

By JO on February 9, 2024

Sweden signs extreme military agreement with the US.

Jan Oberg 7 December, 2023 Without being a NATO…

By JO on December 7, 2023

The US-Nordic Summit: NATO expansion, confusion and repetition

Jan Oberg July 13, 2023 After the NATO Summit…

By JO on July 13, 2023

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

NATO believes we don’t need a foreign policy

A “Thinkers Forum” interview with TFF Associate Biljana Vankovska,…

By JO on August 21, 2024

Who Caused the Ukraine War?

John J. Mearsheimer Aug 05, 2024 The question of…

By JO on August 6, 2024

Piqued with China’s Influence in the Western Balkans: The Methods of Western Appropriation

Photo by Shubham Dhage on Unsplash Biljana Vankovska* July…

By JO on July 6, 2024

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

The Pursuit of Global Democracy & Global Governance

Jan Oberg March 27, 2024 On March 18, Jan…

By JO on March 27, 2024

Interview: The West will militarise itself to death.

Jan Oberg with Ania Konieczek on her YouTube Channel…

By JO on February 13, 2024

Sweden signs extreme military agreement with the US.

Jan Oberg 7 December, 2023 Without being a NATO…

By JO on December 7, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for US President: An Introduction to the Kennedy Campaign

Kristin Christman, TFF Associate September 20, 2023 Kristin Christman…

By JO on September 20, 2023

The US economic war on China

It’s an old US playbook. My assessment is that…

By JO on September 18, 2023

Better World Info – Unique Platform for Peace Activists

Be a Peace Warrior – The Online Participatory Peace…

By JO on September 4, 2023

Dennis Argall: At war, the US dollar is on the brink of collapse

Dennis Argall February 13th, 2023 The US is at…

By Severine Renard on February 14, 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

China’s ‘wiser’ long-term strategy paves the way to No. 1 world power

Veteran Singapore envoy on what the West gets wrong about China, Asean as a bellwether region and why the US should prepare for No.…

By JO on October 8, 2024No Comment

East Wind, West Wind

October 1, 2024, marks China’s 75th Anniversary Biljana Vankovska Political scientist specialised in peace and conflict research. Professor and Head of the Global Changes…

By JO on September 30, 20241 Comment

Toward a fundamental security shift

Sustainable peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of development, justice and harmony LI XING and JAN OBERG and LI…

By JO on September 27, 20241 Comment

Why don’t we have China trains in Norway?

Thore Vestby & Arild Vollan September 26, 2024 Visiting today’s China is like travelling into the future. So much has happened in the last…

By JO on September 26, 2024No Comment

Why minority languages are disappearing from some classrooms in Xinjiang but not Tibet

Ethnic minorities expert Barry Sautman gives his take on education, the next Dalai Lama, Han chauvinism and Beijing’s treatment of Uygurs September 24, 2024…

By JO on September 24, 2024No Comment

Departing NATO chief doubles down on expansion into Asia

Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance is ‘not just regional but global’, a Western overreach that will be dangerous and destabilising Alex Lo September 24,…

By JO on September 24, 2024No Comment

The banality of evil redux

Daryl Guppy April 11, 2024 This article, first published by Pearls & Irritations on April 4, 2024, focuses on Australia but there is no reason that you could…

By JO on April 11, 2024No Comment

The Self-Isolation of the West

Gordon Hahn November 10, 2023 The world split is quickly evolving into something less like a split –…

By JO on November 10, 2023

How Blinken turned the diplomatic corps into a wing of the military

In 2021 the administration said it would pursue ‘relentless diplomacy.’ They call it something else today in Ukraine.…

By JO on October 9, 2024

“If You Want To Understand China” – Foreword and Introduction to a TFF anthology in the making

Foreword August 25, 2024 The Board of The Transnational Foundation in Sweden has decided to publish an easy-to-read,…

By JO on August 25, 2024

David Krieger, TFF Associate for decades, has passed away.

Jan Oberg December 9, 2023 Today, Ivana Nikolic Hughes, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, NAPF, sent…

By JO on December 9, 2023

China’s ‘wiser’ long-term strategy paves the way to No. 1 world power

Veteran Singapore envoy on what the West gets wrong about China, Asean as a bellwether region and why…

By JO on October 8, 2024

I Piper & J Dyke: Tens of thousands of civilians likely killed by US in ‘Forever Wars’

Relatives mourn as bodies of Iraqi residents of west Mosul killed in an airstrike are placed and covered…

By Severine Renard on October 31, 2021