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 […]
Richard FalkTFF Associate since 1986 July 28, 2025 The text below was published in “The Nation” on July 15, 2025, appears here unmodified. The delay is due to a weak Internet here in Turkey. There has been much critical reaction to this US Government defamatory statement justifying the imposition of sanctions on this exceptional independent […]
Jan Oberg June 19, 2025 Does she think we are idiots? Does Denmark’s foreign policy establishment? I am a Danish citizen, and this fraudulent speech with a gross lie through omission is morally and politically unacceptable. H. E. Ambassador, Christina Markus Lassen, spoke at the UN Security Council’s urgent meeting caused by Israel’s attack on […]
War-preparation and militarism are now the main factors that keep the West together, and will make it fall faster. Jan Oberg June 3, 2025 The Western world has lost its consciousness, perception, and instruments of conflict analysis, resolution, peace-making, and reconciliation. They’ve been squeezed out by militarism’s kakistocrats – a political science term that means […]
It has great potentials and needs global citizens’ – your – support. November 4, 2024 Amid global conflicts escalating, why has the United Nations, tasked with maintaining peace, seemingly failed to fulfill its role? Why is a ceasefire agreement in Gaza proving elusive, and why does a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine remain distant? Professor […]
Claus KoldPhD, co-founder of TurningPoints and TFF Associate October 15, 2024 Even if you are not familiar with the philosophical logic of Aristotle, you probably would agree with him that ‘up’ cannot mean ‘down’, that ‘left’ cannot mean ‘right’, and that ‘white’ cannot mean ‘black’. This means also that ‘war’ cannot mean ‘peace’. In 2000, […]
Sustainable peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of development, justice and harmony LI XING and JAN OBERG and LI QING September 27, 2024 The three authors were published today by China Watch & China Daily’s English edition. It will also be published in Chinese and thereby reach a very large […]
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 […]
H. Peter Langille February 14, 2024 Now more than ever, we need a more effective United Nations; one with an appropriate instrument for preventing armed conflict and advancing sustainable common security. Despite having primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, the UN still lacks a dedicated capacity to respond rapidly and reliably […]
Khalid Malik* August 8, 2023 In the 17th century, Ming China represented roughly one-third of global output, and Mughal India a little less. Together the two countries accounted for more than half of the world’s output, with a corresponding size of populations (as a proportion of the total global population). By the 1950s, Mao China […]