Photo – Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash Jan Oberg December 30, 2023 ”It is difficult to make predictions, particularly about the future.”Unknown but wise person’s statement. I do not pretend my predictions below are scientific or based on a sophisticated social science methodology. They are merely intuitive and hypothetical and based on some of my accumulated […]
Becomes a TFF Associate in December 2023 Ali Akbar Alikhani was born in Iran in 1968 and serves as a Professor at the Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran, in the field of Islamic political thought, peace studies, ethics and justice. A part of Dr. Alikhani’s scholarly works is dedicated to the […]
Johan Galtung, 5 Oct 2009 Republished by Transcend Media Service on December 25, 2023 Published here on the birthday of Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976) Last October, we had two important anniversary messages. One came through loud and clear in the Western media: the anniversary of the triumph of the Chinese […]
Jan Oberg December 13, 2023 One of the enigmatic aspects of international politics is that big and militarily superior countries have systematically lost wars in smaller countries – the last 50 years, from Vietnam to Ukraine. ’Losing’ here means military defeat, being forced out, losing the struggle for the hearts and minds of the people, […]
Discuss problems and improvements as part of the celebrations Jan Oberg December 10, 2023 I was asked by American-French Michèle de Gastyne, who runs Musique Universelle Arc-En-Ciel in Paris, to do a short video about human rights for a seminar she also organises on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the Declaration. Michèle works […]
Jan Oberg December 9, 2023 Today, Ivana Nikolic Hughes, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, NAPF, sent us this message: “It is with a profound sense of loss that I write to inform you that David Krieger, co-founder and our beloved President Emeritus, passed away peacefully at his home on December 7, 2023. Our determination […]
As soon as possible, we shall stop working with PayPal and shall soon ask our supporters to switch to another money transfer service. Here is the story. Lund, Sweden – December 8, 2023 The Transnational Foundation, TFF is exclusively people-financed. Our supporters send their sums via PayPal. These payments are existentially necessary for TFF. Over […]
Jan Oberg 7 December, 2023 Without being a NATO member, Sweden enters into an extremely far-reaching agreement with the United States, which completely undermines the country’s ability to conduct an independent security policy. Decisions are made without debate and behind the backs of the Swedish people. The official threat perception is fake: Russia will not […]
The Occident is heading for an Accident: Some predictions Jan Oberg December 7, 2023 – two months into the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Introduction – the boomerangs from supporting Israel’s genocide I published the article below on TFF Substack on October 22, 2023. I had been waiting for someone to intervene and tell Israel to […]
Jan Oberg December 4, 2023 In 2020, I wrote an impressionistic article, ”Could everyday micro malfunctions be signs of a coming macro breakdown?” It was inspired by the brilliant sociologist C. Wright Mill’s concept of the sociological imagination. Out of many more, I selected 14 examples of everyday things that I had experienced simply did […]