“Liberating the United Nations: Realism with Hope”

“Liberating the United Nations: Realism with Hope”

Review of this new book by TFF Associates Richard Falk and Hans von Sponeck John Burley August 21, 2024 Contemporary reports of the birth of the United Nations in June 1945 in San Francisco warmly welcomed the news of its establishment and congratulated the United States for conceiving and delivering the new international organisation. President […]

Service in Dissent: Joint Statement of U.S. Government Officials Who Have Resigned over U.S. policy towards Gaza, Palestine, and Israel

Service in Dissent: Joint Statement of U.S. Government Officials Who Have Resigned over U.S. policy towards Gaza, Palestine, and Israel

July 4, 2024 “Each of us has had our own experience of the cascading failures of process, leadership, and decision-making that have characterized this Administration’s intransigent response to this continuing calamity. Taken together, these paint a picture of an overlapping and systemic set of problems in this Administration’s policy approach, and a series of warnings […]

A Judicial Web of Confusion: the ICJ, ICC, and Civil Society or Peoples Tribunals

A Judicial Web of Confusion: the ICJ, ICC, and Civil Society or Peoples Tribunals

Richard FalkAnd TFF Associate and dear friend since 1986. June 5, 2024 An intriguing sideshow during the seven months of savage genocidal violence against the entrapped Palestinian population of an estimated 2.3 million has been the attention given to international law and to international procedures available for its interpretation and enforcement. To begin with, many […]

Putin is back for another six years, this is what his foreign policy will look like

Putin is back for another six years, this is what his foreign policy will look like

When he first took office, the Russian president was trying to integrate with the West, now the whole ball game has changed Fyodor Lukyanov May 30, 2024 The question of how Russia’s foreign policy will be managed during President Vladimir Putin’s new term seems redundant, if not irrelevant. The head of state is a man […]

Weaknesses of the U.S. National Security Strategy 2022: Equating security with superiority in a “race to the top.” 11 parts.

Weaknesses of the U.S. National Security Strategy 2022: Equating security with superiority in a “race to the top.” 11 parts.

Kristin Christman TFF Associate March 12, 2024 A major publishing event in the field of security studies A unique and very thorough 11-part analysis of the US National Security Strategy from October 2022. Christman began publishing it at the beginning of May 2023. If you want to know what the United States is up to […]

Morality challenged: The moral void of the West

Morality challenged: The moral void of the West

With the superego dissolved, there is no felt obligation to judge oneself in reference to any external or abstract standard. Narcissistic tendencies flourish. A similar psychology removes the requisite for experiencing shame. Michael Brenner* April 8, 2024 Is there now a moral void at the heart of Western societies?  That question haunts us as governments in […]

The West’s Coming Fall and the Rise of the New Multipolar World in 7 Minutes

The West’s Coming Fall and the Rise of the New Multipolar World in 7 Minutes

Jan Oberg April 8, 2024 This 7-minute video was shot by The China Academy in January 2024, posted on Wave Media on YouTube and then picked up by Taiwan’s CTi News and the Chinese Global Times magazine. This means a very large audience. Here is the link to see the many comments it created. I’m […]

Russia is not a threat to NATO or neutral states. Full stop.

Russia is not a threat to NATO or neutral states. Full stop.

Liberate yourself from NATO’s anti-intellectual and militarist fearmongering today! Why the omnipresent, massive, and uniform propagation of Russia as a threat against NATO is humbug. How a credible professional quality threat analysis is made instead. Why deciding military expenditures as a percentage of GDP is exemplary nonsense. Why NATO cannot be called ‘defensive’ and 17 […]

Pacifism Today: A Dialogue about Alternatives to War in Ukraine

Pacifism Today: A Dialogue about Alternatives to War in Ukraine

Majken Jul Sørensen March 11, 2024 Dedication To all the brave people who refuse to participate in war, in Ukraine, Russia and everywhere else. “War is a crime against humanity. I am therefore determined not to support any kind of war, and to strive for the removal of all causes of war” The pacifist declaration […]

Yugoslavia, NATO’s criminal bombing 25 years ago and why Jan Oberg became a peace researcher

Yugoslavia, NATO’s criminal bombing 25 years ago and why Jan Oberg became a peace researcher

March 6, 2024 A video conversation about those three connected themes was published in December 2023 on various Chinese Channels and on two YouTube channels, Wave Media and Thinkers Forum, where you may also see the viewers’ comments. In the first two months, they were seen by around 100,000 people and stimulated 1200 positive, even […]