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!
Cooperative Multipolar System: In Quest of a New World Order
A new, innovative, and visionary anthology about the world that is unfolding behind the doom and gloom that the media and politicians try to foist on you. It’s edited by Bijana Vankovska, Richard Sakwa, Weiwei Zhang and Toni Mileski and obviously provocative in the eyes of some (lesser minds). Biljana Vankovska and Toni Mileski April […]
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?
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
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
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
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.
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
– 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, […]
How the Western media try to manipulate our impressions about China.
Peter Peverelli 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. Cultural bias Before looking at concrete patterns of manipulation, it is necessary to point at the cultural bias that is partly driving the manipulation. Not […]