No study has ever shown that military spending outperforms civilian investment. And researchers do not dare to say so… Jan Oberg July 6, 2026 European leaders now speak openly about transforming Europe’s economy into a war economy. This is not a metaphor. It is the stated ambition of governments, EU commissioners, and NATO officials. Denmark’s […]
It is time for research, media, politics and citizens to stop and think: What is it we do too much and what is it we do too little Jan Oberg June 27, 2026 We live in a time saturated with negative energy. Accidents dominate headlines, bad news is good news, and social media are full […]
Farhang Jahanpour, TFF Associate June 23, 2026 Berkshire (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The MoU agreed by Iran and the United States has stunned the world. Oil prices have dropped from a high of $120 at the beginning of the Israeli-US war against Iran to $77 per barrel, slightly above their level before the […]
A written interview with China Social Science Today, which is published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. Here is the Chinese version of May 29, 2026. June 16, 2026 Subject: An interview on the topic of “research productivity” from Chinese Social Sciences Today Dear Professor Jan Oberg:Last time I interviewed you about the […]
Jan Oberg TFF director June 11, 2026 A couple of months ago, I was invited to join the new Arete Youth Academy, AYA, as an advisor. I felt happy and honoured and immediately said yes, not least because the late Dr Daisaku Ikeda of Soka Gakkai International, SGI, in Japan has been a major source of inspiration for the Academy. […]
How Denmark’s public broadcaster DR drifted into NATO’s narrative machinery — from role conflicts to Russophobia and systematic exclusion of critical voices Jan Oberg TFF director This Danish text criticises a recent Danish Broadcasting, DR, news article responding to the Russian ambassador’s objections to DR’s documentary Krigsplan Europa. The article presented DR journalist Niels Fastrup as a neutral reporter […]
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 […]