RT’s “Worlds Apart” with Jan Oberg

RT’s “Worlds Apart” with Jan Oberg

A discussion with Oksana Boyko about violence and war where the focus is on principles, ideas, concepts and ways of thinking. A delightful exchange of views that would be difficult, if not impossible, to have in similar leading media in the NATO/EU countries. For once, actually, the focus is on how to think about peace… […]

Luna Rossa: Sacred Blood, Cycle Wisdom & Peace Awareness

Luna Rossa: Sacred Blood, Cycle Wisdom & Peace Awareness

Ina Curic TFF Associate and more… September 20, 2023 Luna Rossa: Sacred Blood, Cycle Wisdom – an art journal and peace offering – publication. Here is the pre-order campaign and free online events on feminine health & power themes with a deep cyclical understanding of how inner and outer peace can combine.. I’m inviting you… […]

Enough of the Blaming Game: Let’s For Once Try Talking To Each Other

Enough of the Blaming Game: Let’s For Once Try Talking To Each Other

Ger van Elk, Symmetry of Diplomacy, 1975, Groninger Museum   Alfred de Zayas   July 31, 2023   The blaming game has always been counter-productive. In the UN Human Rights Council, the practice is known as “naming and shaming”, as if the States engaging in “naming” would possess a higher moral authority over those “named”, […]

Towards a new peace and security thinking for the multi-polar, cooperative and peaceful world

Towards a new peace and security thinking for the multi-polar, cooperative and peaceful world

A major peace publishing event across cultures: The cover story of the esteemed “China Investment” Magazine’s July 2023 edition Jan Oberg July 23, 2023 Can you imagine a leading economics, finance and investment magazine in the Western world publishing a 30 A4-page (10 000 words) article about the future peace and security world order – […]

Nonviolent journalism: A new book from Pressenza offers pathbreaking alternatives to the embedded militarism of the mainstream

Nonviolent journalism: A new book from Pressenza offers pathbreaking alternatives to the embedded militarism of the mainstream

Jan Oberg July 22, 2023 Is there such a thing: Nonviolent journalism? Of course, there is. It’s only that we live in a perverted militarist culture and era in which nobody questions the concept of war reporting – rampant everywhere – but in which most people would probably respond to “nonviolent journalism” with a: What? […]

The Problem of Peaceful Societies for the Belief in the Necessity of War

The Problem of Peaceful Societies for the Belief in the Necessity of War

David SwansonWorld Beyond War & TFF Associate June 12, 2023 For any given war, one can examine the months or years or decades during which one or both sides worked diligently to make it happen, and both sides conspicuously failed to develop peaceful alternatives. Even in the moment of greatest violence, one can consider the […]

Three important Chinese documents about global peace – ignored, twisted or turned down by the West

Three important Chinese documents about global peace – ignored, twisted or turned down by the West

Photo: The Beijinger, Robert Rauschenberg in China If the West were not absorbed by negative energy – threats, sanctions, confrontation, re-armament and war – and if it understood the emerging multi-polar world – the West could produce similar documents and we could have a global dialogue. Jan Oberg March 2, 2023 As the editor of […]

Tony Robinson: We must stop the march towards World War III, now!

Tony Robinson: We must stop the march towards World War III, now!

Image by Loco Steve on Flickr Tony Robinson March 1, 2023 In Europe, North America and a few other countries that feed themselves with information from the western media, it can have escaped no one’s attention that we are actually on the march towards World War III. The similarities with the 1930s are terrifying: Yes, […]

Jan Oberg: Looking ahead, where does trust come from?

Jan Oberg: Looking ahead, where does trust come from?

Image from searchwizards Jan Oberg February 17, 2023 This rather long text was written on the invitation of the distinguished “China Investment” magazine, which is sponsored by China’s National Development and Reform Commission. In spite of its name, it has consistently asked me to write on subjects that are not often connected with economics in […]

David Ferguson: Western bridgebuilder in China

David Ferguson: Western bridgebuilder in China

January 28, 2023 Born and brought up in Scotland, David Ferguson moved to China to work and live in 2006. In 2008, he joined the Foreign Languages Press, covering major issues, including the Wenchuan earthquake, the Beijing Olympic Games and the Shanghai World Expo. “I spend quite a lot of my time writing about China. […]

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