Fred är inte bara frånvaron av krig – det är ett sätt att leva

Fred är inte bara frånvaron av krig – det är ett sätt att leva

April 3, 2026 Hade nyligen det verkliga nöjet att få besök av Dissidentklubben/Podden i Sverige. Kerstin Ekström gjorde en intervju på över 60 minuter där vi kommer långt omkring och där jag också talar lite om vad fredsforskning är och hur underbart det är att ägna sig åt något så viktigt som fred – positiv […]

“Breaking Point: The War That Changed The Rules”

“Breaking Point: The War That Changed The Rules”

New documentary by Sladjana Zaric, RTS – Serbia’s Radio and Television Jan Oberg March 26, 2026 Those who have followed TFF over the decades will remember that we were engaged in conflict-mitigation in all parts of Yugoslavia from 1991 and beyond 2000. It is all to be found in our 2200-A4 pages equivalent online documentation, […]

SÄPO:s hotbild är en analytiskt avrustad tabloid-produkt: AI gör en mycket bättre på ett par minuter.

SÄPO:s hotbild är en analytiskt avrustad tabloid-produkt: AI gör en mycket bättre på ett par minuter.

Jan Öberg, TFF direktör 19:e mars 2026 Det talas ofta om att Sverige befinner sig i det allvarligaste säkerhetspolitiska läget sedan andra världskriget. Det kan mycket väl stämma. Men det är också sant att den hotbild som nu dominerar svensk politik är så naiv, snäv och NATO-militärt fixerad att den sannolikt gör oss mindre säkra, […]

What Mearsheimer Gets Right — and Wrong — About 38 Million Sanctions Deaths

What Mearsheimer Gets Right — and Wrong — About 38 Million Sanctions Deaths

A friendly quarrel while we agree that the US sanctions are a weapon of mass destruction and kill more people than wars do. And that we must talk much more about sanctions than we have so far. Jan Oberg, TFF director March 16, 2026 John Mearsheimer recently stated that U.S. sanctions murdered around 38 million […]

How the Information Environment Changed — And How TFF And Peace Were Pushed Aside

How the Information Environment Changed — And How TFF And Peace Were Pushed Aside

And how we make the necessary changes now to secure our future. “We witness the attempted abolition of the West’s relatively free media and open democratic debate about international affairs. War is peace, aggression is defence. The Internet and social media are no longer the open, decentralised public sphere they were twenty years ago. They […]

These Targetted Attacks – Minab among them

These Targetted Attacks – Minab among them

Iranians enjoying life 2016 © Jan Oberg An Iranian voice of true peace “The brutal truth is:We are not citizens in this story.We are not even collateral damage.We are the targets.” Elaheh Pooyandeh, TFF Associate Written on February 28, 2026, and published on March 9, 2026. I’m a night owl. I usually get to work […]

Anti-Iran policy as a sacred mission by Israeli propagandists

Anti-Iran policy as a sacred mission by Israeli propagandists

Farhang Jahanpour TFF Associate since 2006 and former board member, Oxford, with this homepage. March 9, 2026 In a recent statement, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted that he felt very happy that after 40 years of trying to get the United States involved in a major war with Iran, he had finally succeeded in […]

We Are Someone’s Dirty Work

We Are Someone’s Dirty Work

“Love In Iran” © Jan Oberg A voice of true peace and human rights in Iran Elaheh Pooyandeh Peace and conflict researcher and TFF Associate March 3, 2026 [This piece was written after the recent deadly protests in Iran in January and before the new invasion by Israel and the USA in February and March […]

Is a Nuclear Small State Possible? Or Why Does the Danish Prime Minister Not “Rule Out Any Ideas”?

Is a Nuclear Small State Possible? Or Why Does the Danish Prime Minister Not “Rule Out Any Ideas”?

Claus Kold TFF Associate February 2, 2026 Introduction This article was finalised on February 18, 2026. That was ten days before the US/Israeli attack o Iran. On March 2 – today – the Danish government announced that it had accepted the French proposal to discuss the extension of French nuclear forces to play a new, […]

Why Europe Remains Silent: After Gaza and Venezuela now also no criticism of the illegal war on Iran. Here is exactly what the EU should have stated

Why Europe Remains Silent: After Gaza and Venezuela now also no criticism of the illegal war on Iran. Here is exactly what the EU should have stated

Smilingly supporting gross violations of international law and the UN Charter again and again. It is the US, stupid! Jan Oberg March 2, 2026 Here is all that EU Presidents von der Leyen and Costa had to say on February 28, 2026: “The developments in Iran are greatly concerning. We remain in close contact with […]