Before We Think: Culturally Encoded

Before We Think: Culturally Encoded

On the invisible codes of culture that shape our worldviews long before memory or reason. Gordon DumoulinTFF Board member May 26, 2025 This analysis was initially published on the author’s “China21 Journal” which contains several analyses of related issues, China-Western relations and how to increase knowledge and mutual understanding. Last week, we picked up our […]

Living with genocide

Living with genocide

Biljana Vankovska TFF board member May 19, 2025 If we’re being honest, with few exceptions, most of us have stopped counting the days since the genocide in Gaza began. We’ve also lost track of the death toll—especially the number of children. We can offer excuses: being overwhelmed with our personal and professional lives, the sheer […]

If we did learn from history, this would be one lesson (but we don’t).

If we did learn from history, this would be one lesson (but we don’t).

AI generated imagine on Freepik Jan Oberg May 7, 2025 A 2-minute “appetiser” for an extended interview by China’s CGTN. More to come!

SIPRI’s ongoing decay from peace to mainstream military security – its new director

SIPRI’s ongoing decay from peace to mainstream military security – its new director

Naturally, nobody cares about that fraud in today’s Sweden. Jan Oberg April 15, 2025 SIPRI is the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, established in 1966. Read about it here and see how it has twisted its aims to not include the words ‘peace research.’ Because here is what it should do according to § 2 […]

Have militarist ‘culture,’ enemy images, and threats of war become the unifying force in our society?

Have militarist ‘culture,’ enemy images, and threats of war become the unifying force in our society?

Jan Oberg April 10, 2025 Today is 9 April. It marks the 80th Anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Denmark. Denmark’s Radio reports today on how the country’s war museums have become ‘attractions’ where people queue to get in and go on guided tours, and ticket sales are booming. Of course, it never occurs to anyone […]

On the Unavoidable, Ongoing Decline – and Fall – of the US Empire

On the Unavoidable, Ongoing Decline – and Fall – of the US Empire

Johan Galtung – 1930-2024 March 31, 2025 – This analysis was written in 2003 and expanded upon in 2015. 1.  Definitions and Hypotheses: An Overview Definition: An empire is a transboundary Center-Periphery system, in macro-space and in macro-time, with a culture legitimizing a structure of unequal exchange between center and periphery: Empires have different profiles.  […]

Greenland in Denmark’s American Puppet Theatre

Greenland in Denmark’s American Puppet Theatre

The article below was published on Jan Oberg’s blog on April 20, 2020. It points to the scandalous situation the Trump Regime is now causing in 2025. Re-published on March 30, 2025 With Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod at the helm, Denmark is now heading for its biggest foreign policy scandal – and that’s saying a […]

The Trump Regime’s 2025 Threats Against NATO Allies Greenland and Denmark & the 2004 Igaliku Agreement

The Trump Regime’s 2025 Threats Against NATO Allies Greenland and Denmark & the 2004 Igaliku Agreement

Aannguaq Reimer-Johansen/facebook.com has created the popular hat My 20-year-old analysis of the military Igaliku Agreement signed between the US, Denmark and Greenland in 2004. I emphasise Greenland’s role as a leg in the Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD), suggest that it could drive a parallel international peace policy, and I raise the possibility of a future […]

How to treat others? On the traditional Chinese political wisdom. 


How to treat others? On the traditional Chinese political wisdom. 


Wang Yuewei(王玥玮) March 24, 2025 This is a chapter in a TFF anthology in the making “If You Want To Understand China.” Foreword, Introduction, Authors and Table of Content here. How to treat others is a core issue in a nation’s foreign policy and a direct reflection of its moral tradition. Throughout history, the performance […]

Greenland: It’s time for the international community to step in

Greenland: It’s time for the international community to step in

– We in Greenland have done everything we can to make the Americans understand that they are violating us as a people and our sovereignty through their constant pressure. But nothing has got through to the Trump administration; on the contrary, they are increasing the pressure with each passing day, and now the international community, […]

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