Nuclear weapons are undemocratic, useless, criminal, terrorist, and unethical – they cannot serve deterrence without being used, and their development steals the resources that should be used to solve real problems and secure humanity’s better future. Jan Oberg TFF director June 9, 2026 Global nuclear weapons spending reached an unprecedented 119 billion USD in 2025, […]
Farhang Jahanpour, TFF Associate June 5, 2026 Berkshire (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After the massive US and Israeli attacks on Iran on 28 February 2026, the second attack in the middle of negotiations within a year, with his characteristic modesty, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “The war on Iran fulfils my 40-year […]
Jan Oberg May 15, 2026 Go to this Fox News page and scroll the whole way down: President Donald Trump tells the world that his meeting with President Xi Jinping yielded a lot of very concrete political and economic results – of course, only where the Chinese side, according to him, agreed with him. He does not mention the […]
Jan Oberg outlines why there are no professional, comprehensive threat analyses anymore and how enemies are created or invented to serve the MIMAC – the Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex. Instead, we now have the bizarre 5% of GNP set off for the military, no matter the real world’s threat environment. And now, all the Peace Pulses are […]
Lena Petrova of “World Affairs In Context” with more than half a million subscribers on YouTube wanted to explore what a peace researcher like me has to say about, among other things, the First and the Second Cold War and why eethics has disappeared from politics. I am particularly happy about this conversation that also […]
The MIMAC – Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex – drives the world’s rampant militarism and wars without end. Here is a short reflection of how it works against all interests of humanity. #5 deals with why there is no real enemy or threat images/analysis. It’s all ex-post constructions. And, btw, theTFF Peace Pulse is now on Rumble.
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 video comments and debates, we recommend that you go to the TFF Video Channel on Substack where many of them are reproduced. Jan Oberg is a contributor […]
Jan Oberg, TFF director April 28, 2026 In this third TFF Peace Pulse, I make the important distinction between the violence and the conflict that violence is a symptom of. If you want peace, focus on the underlying conflict because that is the key to resolution, peacemaking, and a better future for the parties. The […]
Jan Oberg, TFF director April 17, 2026 Danish-Chinese professor Li Xing – who has been at Aalborg University for many years, but is now in China and is also a new TFF Associate – and I have just published this Europe article in the prestigious China Daily. Towards the end, we also say a few things about what […]
Farhang Jahanpour April 17, 2026 If you only see one video to get the – broader – background to the US-Israel-Iran-ME conflicts and wars, this should be it. Jan Oberg, TFF director I am very pleased to give this in-depth interview with TFF Associate Farhang Jahanpour a reposting boost. Not only because he, based on his tremendous […]