How Denmark’s public broadcaster DR drifted into NATO’s narrative machinery — from role conflicts to Russophobia and systematic exclusion of critical voices Jan Oberg TFF director This Danish text criticises a recent Danish Broadcasting, DR, news article responding to the Russian ambassador’s objections to DR’s documentary Krigsplan Europa. The article presented DR journalist Niels Fastrup as a neutral reporter […]
The MIMAC – Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex – drives the world’s rampant militarism and wars without end. Here is a short reflection of how it works against all interests of humanity. #5 deals with why there is no real enemy or threat images/analysis. It’s all ex-post constructions. And, btw, theTFF Peace Pulse is now on Rumble.
Jan Oberg, TFF director April 17, 2026 Danish-Chinese professor Li Xing – who has been at Aalborg University for many years, but is now in China and is also a new TFF Associate – and I have just published this Europe article in the prestigious China Daily. Towards the end, we also say a few things about what […]
Li Xing Professor at Guangdong, China We are happy to announce that Professor Li Xing has accepted to become a TFF Associate upon our invitation to him in February 2026. Li Xing, born 1962, is a Danish national. Since the summer of 2024, has been appointed as Yunshan Leading Scholar, Distinguished Professor, Director of the […]
Smilingly supporting gross violations of international law and the UN Charter again and again. It is the US, stupid! Jan Oberg March 2, 2026 Here is all that EU Presidents von der Leyen and Costa had to say on February 28, 2026: “The developments in Iran are greatly concerning. We remain in close contact with […]
Jan Oberg November 12, 2025 I’m very happy to present a few videos on existential global issues produced by the excellent media corporation, The China Academy, which were filmed during my visit to Shanghai in October 2025. Here is the first. Your comments, whether below or on YouTube, are most welcome.
August 12, 2025 Professor Zhang Weiwei is a highly respected Chinese intellectual and professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. He is the director of its China Institute and also runs a series of conversations with many different people around the world. Here is what came out of their meetings there and in Skopje, Macedonia in […]
Photo by Shahab Zolfaghari on Unsplash Farhang JahanpourTFF Associate since 2006, former Board member. Here his unique homepage. July 28, 2025 Transcript of a lecture given by Farhang Jahanpour during an online conference on the future of Iran on 16 March 2025. When we speak about “transition”, some people believe that in fact there is […]
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 […]
But does the West want to understand China? Jan Oberg February 7, 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. We learn about other cultures than our own mostly through our media – however, in many cases, […]