Comment by Jan Oberg With a focus on the Saudi war on Yemen, this episode of PressTV’s News Line takes up the larger problem of the “weaponization” of conflicts that makes them almost impossible to solve. Syria would be another good example of this insanity. Jan Oberg has argued before that governments and private […]
By Jan Oberg March 20, 2018* Today marks the 15th Anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Neither solid analyses, moral reasoning and decent argument nor history’s probably largest pre-war, anti-war demonstrations worldwide had any discernible impact on the Bush and Blair Administrations’ decision to go to war and do so on a false […]
Asia and the Middle East lead rising trend in arms imports, US exports grow significantly, says SIPRI March 12, 2018 Via sipri.org Continuing the upward trend that began in the early 2000s, the volume of international transfers of major weapons in 2013-17 was 10 per cent higher than in 2008-12, according to new data on arms […]
By Jan Oberg March 9, 2018 Intro This short article documents how Facebook – in a non-dialoguing way – practices censorship. This and many other cases was a major reason that TFF launched The Transnational – a new multidimensional peace platform and try to push the debate about our issues out of Facebook and […]
By Jan Oberg March 5, 2018 About 1:50 into this video comment I suggest that we should think of elevating the idea of #MeToo to the international level and apply it when a country is abusing another country against its will – even to the extent that we can justifiably talk about rape and […]
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By Jan Oberg The New York Review of Books has published an Open Letter headlined “The World Must Act Now on Syria” – and about 200 people from the world of culture and academia, from Syria and the rest of the world, have signed. It’s also published by PulseMedia here – on February 27, […]
By Jan Oberg Comment on PressTV, February 17, 2018
By Jan Oberg Right after the very heavy fighting about East Ghouta and the UN Security Council’s ceasefire resolution, Dr. Marcus Papadopoulos is given what must be perceived as a very rare opportunity by a mainstream media – skyNews Australia – to present a completely different perspective. You do not have to agree with […]
Og igen på regimeforandringens og terroristernes side Af Jan Øberg Ved sin nøje tilrettelagte Syrien-demonstration på Rådhuspladsen den 25. februar 2018 støtter Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke igen: • systematisk brud på folkeretten – herunder splittelsen af en stat med voldelige midler – international våbenhandel og vestlig interventionism og regeringsforandring; • terroristgrupper som med udenlandsk militær og […]