August 12, 2025 Professor Zhang Weiwei is a highly respected Chinese intellectual and professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. He is the director of its China Institute and also runs a series of conversations with many different people around the world. Here is what came out of their meetings there and in Skopje, Macedonia in […]
Farhang Jahanpour Professor emeritus, TFF Associate August 4, 2025 Oxford (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) The dam has burst. Netanyahu and his far-right regime have gone too far. Public pressure on politicians in Europe and many other countries has become irresistible, forcing them to change course. Most countries, 147 of the UN’s 193 members, have […]
Photo collage © Jan Oberg 2024 Launched on November 17, 2024Updated with new materials regularly TFF Associates Editor Jan Oberg TFF Board members Thore Vestby and Jan Oberg participated in a week-long Nordic fact-finding mission to the Xinjiang Province in China in September 2024. Everywhere, the delegation was met with a sincere wish to develop […]
Richard FalkTFF Associate since 1986 July 28, 2025 The text below was published in “The Nation” on July 15, 2025, appears here unmodified. The delay is due to a weak Internet here in Turkey. There has been much critical reaction to this US Government defamatory statement justifying the imposition of sanctions on this exceptional independent […]
Photo Jan Oberg Peter PeverelliTFF Associate July 28, 2025 China has recently garnered significant attention due to its advancements in various technological fields, such as quantum physics and artificial intelligence. In media discussions and my lectures on China, it is common to encounter objections asserting that the West, particularly the United States, is certainly ahead […]
Photo by Shahab Zolfaghari on Unsplash Farhang JahanpourTFF Associate since 2006, former Board member. Here his unique homepage. July 28, 2025 Transcript of a lecture given by Farhang Jahanpour during an online conference on the future of Iran on 16 March 2025. When we speak about “transition”, some people believe that in fact there is […]
By World BEYOND War July 14, 2025 Reposted from World BEYOND War, July 14, 2025 A new report by the global peace group World BEYOND War finds that military bases used by foreign militaries are growing in number, as are public protests and advocacy against those bases. Of 1,247 foreign military bases in the world, […]
◪ Brian C Barnett (2019) July 9, 2025 In times of rampant militarism and denial of every type of civilian conflict-resolution method, we must speed up our public education work about all the alternatives to military non-resolution of problems. This article is an excellent point to start – or refresh your knowledge about intelligent and […]
Foreword August 25, 2024 – July 7, 2025 The Board of The Transnational Foundation in Sweden has decided to publish an easy-to-read, scholarly anthology that addresses one of the most important – and potentially dangerous – issues of our time: Why are the political, economic, and medialised Western images of China so consistently negative – […]
David Swanson World BEYOND War,TFF Associate June 17, 2025 For years, World BEYOND War and other peace groups from around the world had been attending peace conferences in Cuba. When I visited Cuba this past January it was with a visa for that purpose. I published here the remarks I made at the conference. We shouted as loudly […]