Denmark’s UN ambassador’s disgraceful speech about Israel’s attack: It didn’t happen!

Denmark’s UN ambassador’s disgraceful speech about Israel’s attack: It didn’t happen!

Jan Oberg June 19, 2025 Does she think we are idiots? Does Denmark’s foreign policy establishment? I am a Danish citizen, and this fraudulent speech with a gross lie through omission is morally and politically unacceptable. H. E. Ambassador, Christina Markus Lassen, spoke at the UN Security Council’s urgent meeting caused by Israel’s attack on […]

Prediction with the main reasons: The US will bomb Iran to bring about a regime change.

Prediction with the main reasons: The US will bomb Iran to bring about a regime change.

Jan Oberg June 18, 2025 at 01:20 AM We’ve seen it repeatedly: You invent a pretext based on deliberate lies, fake news, exaggerations or a false flag operation which serves to construct a story that country or leader X is a threat to “us” which legitimates that we do a ‘preemptive’ strike against that – […]

How Syria Looks Under HTS Rule?

How Syria Looks Under HTS Rule?

Aleppo, December 2016 © Jan Oberg Kevork Almassian, Syriana Analysis & Kim Iversen December 13, 2024 We highly recommend Kevork Almassian’s extraordinarily well-informed and independent channel. An hour with him will teach you more relevant things than 10 hours with mainstream media in the – complicit and interventionist – West. Watch more videos on TFF […]

TFF Library: Syria 2013 till today – 560 articles, videos and photos

TFF Library: Syria 2013 till today – 560 articles, videos and photos

Eastern Aleppo. al-Nusra occupation. Photo © Jan Oberg 2016 TFF is also your go-to source for understanding the Syria catastrophe in the making from now on. Jan Oberg December 9, 2024 Introduction: The colonialist mentality Few things should surprise us anymore regarding the un-principled nature of the contemporary Western world. One day it sees a […]

NATO countries, Russia, Iran abandon Syria, its people and leadership while Israel laughs

NATO countries, Russia, Iran abandon Syria, its people and leadership while Israel laughs

The collective cynicism is ugly. The innocent Syrian people are now doomed. The author hopes that his predictions shall soon be proven wrong… Jan Oberg December 8, 2024 This article was published at 02:36, about 4 hours before the HTS terrorists occupied Damascus. • Lebanon-based al-Mayadeen reports tonight, December 8, 2024, that Russia, Iran, Turkey […]

October 7: A grim anniversary

October 7: A grim anniversary

Richard FalkPrinceton professor emeritus and TFF Associate since 1986. October 7, 2024 Israel has long been renowned for its ability to shape public discourse pertaining to its behaviour toward the Palestinians, particularly in the West. Its greatest triumph is undoubtedly the manner in which it managed the media treatment of its response to October 7 […]

Israel’s Exceptionalism Is Untenable

Israel’s Exceptionalism Is Untenable

Source: Getty Images As Western elites shape their countries’ relationship with the Jewish state, they should apply one standard for all. Michael Young* August 20, 2024 On August 5, Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich declared that starving 2 million Palestinians in Gaza “to death” might be the “right and moral” thing to do until Israeli […]

Why Ilan Pappe’s new book on the Israel lobby is a must-read

Why Ilan Pappe’s new book on the Israel lobby is a must-read

Few are better qualified to challenge the official orthodoxy that stifles any discussion of this topic Peter Oborne August 12, 2024 No review has yet been published of Professor Ilan Pappe’s magnificent and passionate new book on the Zionist lobby. This silence is no surprise. Even a passing reference to the lobby is liable to […]

The Fragmentation of the Middle East

The Fragmentation of the Middle East

By Farhang Jahanpour   May 7, 2024, marks the seventh-month anniversary of the horrendous attack by Hamas militants on Israel, killing 695 Israeli civilians, 71 foreign nationals, and 373 security forces. Hamas and other militant groups also took 230 Israelis and other foreign nationals as hostages.   The temporary ceasefire agreement in November 2023 saw […]

War on Gaza: Western powers never believed in a rules-based order

War on Gaza: Western powers never believed in a rules-based order

Liberal democracies remain shamefully complicit with Israel, despite its ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people Richard FalkTFF Associate April 26, 2024 Students of world politics have long understood that when it comes to the strategic interests of leading states, international law is marginalised unless it is useful in waging a propaganda war against adversaries.  Indeed, […]