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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Here is Trump’s disturbing 8-min speech with an analysis of all the classical psycho-political delusions, hubris, arrogance and the blindness of military power. It can only go wrong now… Jan Oberg, TFF director February 28, 2026 There were only two things that surprised me – and would have been fitting – namely that he had […]
Jan Oberg TFF director February 28, 2026 Today, USrael attacked Iran, for the second time within just one year. Today also marks the 40th Anniversary of the murder of Swedish PM Olof Palme (1927-1986). In the video below, Palme condemns the US bombings of Hanoi, Vietnam, at Xmas 1972. He paid a price for it. […]
Jan Oberg February 19, 2026 What a thrill to be interviewed by former British diplomat Ian Proud! Don’t waste a minute: acquaint yourself with him here on his homepage, which he elegantly calls “Proud Diplomat.” Notice also his book, A Misfit In Moscow. Ian is, of course, also on Substack, where he calls himself The […]