John Mearsheimer: World War is on our doorstep

John Mearsheimer: World War is on our doorstep

John Mearsheimer April 1, 2023 No introduction is needed. Professor Mearsheimer is a leading scholar of the realist school and, with his texts and lectures, has made himself a major source of an enlightened understanding of the conflicts that blew up in the proxy war now being fought out so tragically and cynically in Ukraine. […]

BRICS: The world is a-changing – and for the better

BRICS: The world is a-changing – and for the better

The story of the BRICS countries and their accelerating role in world affairs. Jan Oberg March 31, 2023 We bring you this 13:45 minutes video from US-based Sino Sphere on YouTube about BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Watch it with your colleagues, friends or family and ask yourself why you hear […]

Ben Norton: The West is out of touch with the rest of world politically, EU-funded study admits

Ben Norton: The West is out of touch with the rest of world politically, EU-funded study admits

Meetings of the G7 and NATO (top) and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (bottom) Ben Norton March 29, 2023 A study by the elite EU-funded European Council on Foreign Relations found the West is out of touch politically with the rest of the world. Most people in China, India, and Türkiye see Russia as an important ally, […]

Kristin Christman – Unsung Hero of Peace Research and Education

Kristin Christman – Unsung Hero of Peace Research and Education

Jan Oberg March 21, 2023 Letter from a soul-sister stranger for peace One autumn day in 2022, a mail winged into TFF’s inbox from a woman in the United States. Here first some excerpts; the first sentence reveals a sense of being in a larger world. ” I hope you’re feeling all right, even though […]

It’s your human right: Access Russian news and analyses sites in English if you want

It’s your human right: Access Russian news and analyses sites in English if you want

Collage © Jan Oberg 2023 A list to be updated if and when Jan Oberg March 16, 2023 The human right to freely seek information is laid down in the American Convention on Human Rights from 1968. Article 13 states that “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought and expression. This right includes freedom […]

Dmitry Trenin: One year on, here’s how the Ukraine conflict is changing the world order

Dmitry Trenin: One year on, here’s how the Ukraine conflict is changing the world order

© Sputnik / Maksim Blinov Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual address to the Federal Assembly, including lawmakers of the State Duma, members of the Federation Council, regional governors and other officials, in Moscow, Russia, on February 21, 2023. Dmitry Trenin March 8, 2023 The West’s failed Ukraine strategy has empowered the Global Majority […]

Anatol Lieven: For years, Putin did not invade Ukraine. What made him finally snap in 2022?

Anatol Lieven: For years, Putin did not invade Ukraine. What made him finally snap in 2022?

Photo collage by Jan Oberg 2023 Anatol Lieven March 11, 2023 Why did Vladimir Putin invade Ukraine and try to capture Kyiv in February 2022, and not years earlier? Moscow has always wanted to dominate Ukraine, and Putin has given the reasons for this in his speeches and writings. Why then did he not try […]

ACURA ViewPoint: Krishen Mehta: The Ukraine War viewed from the Global South

ACURA ViewPoint: Krishen Mehta: The Ukraine War viewed from the Global South

Map Shows Countries That Support Western Govt Sanctions Against Russia vs Those Who Do Not By Krishen Mehta February 22, 2023 In October 2022, about eight months after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the University of Cambridge in the UK harmonized surveys that asked the inhabitants of 137 countries about their views of […]

John Scales Avery: NATO’s Aggressive Militarism

John Scales Avery: NATO’s Aggressive Militarism

The Illegality of NATO: Violation of the UN Charter and the Nuremberg Principles John Scales Avery February 27, 2023 In recent years, participation in NATO has made European countries accomplices in US efforts to achieve global hegemony by means of military force, in violation of international law, and especially in violation of the UN Charter, […]

Branko Marcetic: Mission Creep? How the US role in Ukraine has slowly escalated

Branko Marcetic: Mission Creep? How the US role in Ukraine has slowly escalated

Photo by Master Sgt. Sean M. Worrell, U.S. Air Force via ABACAPRESS.COM Branko Marcetic February 22, 2023 The Biden team has quietly blown past red lines of involvement. The question now, is how far is it willing to go. When the United States involves itself militarily in a conflict, it often finds it hard to […]

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