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28 minutes with John Pilger on RT December 22, 2018 Where does journalism end and satire – black jokes – begin? Link to the original on RT

By Jan ObergDecember 6, 2018 How interesting! President Trump tweets on December 3, that he believes that the present level of military expenditures are ‘crazy’ – and he wants to talk with China and Russia about reducing them. I was asked by Russia Today to comment on that and here is what I said – […]

By Liu Jian and Thore Vestby December 6, 2018 This small Chinese fund, soon a foundation, has been established as a result of mutual thinking by the founders. We believe that there is a common ground between all cultures and it is important to build on that instead of on the differences. Out of the […]

LIU Jian Born 12-10-1972 Co-Founder and Board Member of Ichi Foundation (under construction) Phone +86 18911274215 Address 17-1102, Sanlinxuan, Xishanjiayuan, Haidian District, Beijing, China. E-mail: liujian@ichifoundation.org WeChat: bjliujian1012 Positions Aug. 2018 Co-Founder and Board Member of Ichi Foundation (under construction) Jun. 2016—Aug. 2018 Co-Founder of Ichi Fund of YouChange Foundation Education Sept. 2000 -July 2003 […]

    By Farhang Jahanpour September 20, 2018   1. An ally in warfare and torture Although the tragic events in Syria are too close to us to pass a definitive judgement about what has happened there and we need some perspective before we can make any definitive statements, nevertheless, some of the outlines of […]

    By Farhang Jahanpour September 20, 2018   On 20 March 2018, the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was taken into police custody in Paris to be questioned over allegations that he received millions of Euros in illegal funding from Qadhafi for his presidential campaign. Investigators were examining claims that Qadhafi’s regime secretly gave […]

  Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward has covered nine White Houses going back to President Richard Nixon and Watergate. His latest book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” is revelatory in its look at chaos and discord within the current administration as witnessed by those inside the West Wing. In his first TV interview for his new book, Woodward talks with CBS News national security correspondent David Martin about the behavior of President Donald Trump and his staff that, his book suggests, may jeopardize America’s national or financial security.     The Transnational also recommends… Cooper to Woodward: This part of your book was terrifying Woodward and Bernstein compare Nixon and Trump Bob Woodward’s homepage  

  US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard discusses her attempt to remove 3 pages from the huge US defense bill that authorizes the United States to go to war with Iran – letting State Department and Pentagon devise and implement a plan for “countering” Iran. Guess what that means! Her amendment – taking that authorization out of the bill – got only 60 votes.       We also recommend this article and video about her condemning the Trump administration for de facto supporting Al-Aqaeda in Syria.    

Brajna Greenhalgh joined TFF as Associate in September 2018. She says: “I was born in Vukovar, Croatia, in what was at the time known as Yugoslavia. I grew up and lived there during the years of its dissolution wars. I first met Dr Jan Oberg in early spring 1998 when the TFF conflict-mitigation team came […]

  Tim Hayward became a TFF Associate in September 2018 He is Director of the Just World Institute and Professor of Environmental Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh. His academic work has focused on integrating ecological concerns into social and political theory. Publications in this field include the books Ecological Thought: An Introduction (Polity […]

    By Farhang Jahanpour September 6, 2018   1. The US Iran policy aims at nothing but conflict-building followed by economic, political and military violence From all the remarks made by President Donald Trump and his senior officials, it is clear that the United States is trying to manufacture another regime change in the […]

Curriculum vitae Thore Vestby – born May 30, 1951 in Norway – became a TFF Associate in August 2018. Occupation Hon. Mayor, former MP, Chairman Education 1972-2003 IT and business-related education by IBM in economy, sales, marketing and business development. 1971-1972 Military service 1968-1971 Gymnasium, mathematics and physics 1965-1968 High-school Political positions 2013-2017 Member of […]