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A written interview with China Social Science Today, which is published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. Here is the Chinese version of May 29, 2026. June 16, 2026 Subject: An interview on the topic of “research productivity” from Chinese Social Sciences Today Dear Professor Jan Oberg:Last time I interviewed you about the […]

Jan Oberg TFF director June 11, 2026 A couple of months ago, I was invited to join the new Arete Youth Academy, AYA, as an advisor. I felt happy and honoured and immediately said yes, not least because the late Dr Daisaku Ikeda of Soka Gakkai International, SGI, in Japan has been a major source of inspiration for the Academy. […]

How Denmark’s public broadcaster DR drifted into NATO’s narrative machinery — from role conflicts to Russophobia and systematic exclusion of critical voices Jan Oberg TFF director This Danish text criticises a recent Danish Broadcasting, DR, news article responding to the Russian ambassador’s objections to DR’s documentary Krigsplan Europa. The article presented DR journalist Niels Fastrup as a neutral reporter […]

Nuclear weapons are undemocratic, useless, criminal, terrorist, and unethical – they cannot serve deterrence without being used, and their development steals the resources that should be used to solve real problems and secure humanity’s better future. Jan Oberg TFF director June 9, 2026 Global nuclear weapons spending reached an unprecedented 119 billion USD in 2025, […]

Farhang Jahanpour, TFF Associate June 5, 2026 Berkshire (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After the massive US and Israeli attacks on Iran on 28 February 2026, the second attack in the middle of negotiations within a year, with his characteristic modesty, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “The war on Iran fulfils my 40-year […]

Jan Oberg outlines why there are no professional, comprehensive threat analyses anymore and how enemies are created or invented to serve the MIMAC – the Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex. Instead, we now have the bizarre 5% of GNP set off for the military, no matter the real world’s threat environment. And now, all the Peace Pulses are […]

Jan Oberg, TFF director April 17, 2026 Danish-Chinese professor Li Xing – who has been at Aalborg University for many years, but is now in China and is also a new TFF Associate – and I have just published this Europe article in the prestigious China Daily. Towards the end, we also say a few things about what […]

Farhang Jahanpour April 17, 2026 If you only see one video to get the – broader – background to the US-Israel-Iran-ME conflicts and wars, this should be it. Jan Oberg, TFF director I am very pleased to give this in-depth interview with TFF Associate Farhang Jahanpour a reposting boost. Not only because he, based on his tremendous […]

Jan Oberg, TFF director April 16, 2026 These Peace Pulses will only be published here a few times. You will also not find them on YouTube and Vimeo because both platforms have blocked TFF and me; you know, peace is dangerous these days. Later, you will find them, along with many other TFF-created videos, on […]

A woman reacts inside her brother’s home, which was damaged by a strike, as the US-Israeli war on Iran continues, in Tehran, 30 March 2026 (Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters) in The Middle East Eye Elaheh Pooyandeh Peace researcher & TFF Associate April 8, 2026 “The deep roots of racism and colonialism have been successfully sustained […]

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 […]

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, […]