Jan ObergTFF director ☮️ When this morning – August 19, 2026 – I saw the above new US Trump map, I came to think of Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention, who said that politics is the entertainment division of the Military-Industrial Complex. That formulation beats many academic analyses – as you will have understood […]
Farhang Jahanpour, TFF Associate June 23, 2026 Berkshire (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The MoU agreed by Iran and the United States has stunned the world. Oil prices have dropped from a high of $120 at the beginning of the Israeli-US war against Iran to $77 per barrel, slightly above their level before the […]
Jan Oberg May 15, 2026 Go to this Fox News page and scroll the whole way down: President Donald Trump tells the world that his meeting with President Xi Jinping yielded a lot of very concrete political and economic results – of course, only where the Chinese side, according to him, agreed with him. He does not mention the […]
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 […]
Jan Oberg, TFF director April 9, 2026 I was recently invited to have a good, long talk about the world – and, of course, about peace too – with Boris Malagurski on his Weight of Chains Channel on YouTube. It was a real joy and seems to have been greatly appreciated by the viewers too. Mr Malagurski and I […]
April 3, 2026 Hade nyligen det verkliga nöjet att få besök av Dissidentklubben/Podden i Sverige. Kerstin Ekström gjorde en intervju på över 60 minuter där vi kommer långt omkring och där jag också talar lite om vad fredsforskning är och hur underbart det är att ägna sig åt något så viktigt som fred – positiv […]
New documentary by Sladjana Zaric, RTS – Serbia’s Radio and Television Jan Oberg March 26, 2026 Those who have followed TFF over the decades will remember that we were engaged in conflict-mitigation in all parts of Yugoslavia from 1991 and beyond 2000. It is all to be found in our 2200-A4 pages equivalent online documentation, […]
Iranians enjoying life 2016 © Jan Oberg An Iranian voice of true peace “The brutal truth is:We are not citizens in this story.We are not even collateral damage.We are the targets.” Elaheh Pooyandeh, TFF Associate Written on February 28, 2026, and published on March 9, 2026. I’m a night owl. I usually get to work […]
Farhang Jahanpour TFF Associate since 2006 and former board member, Oxford, with this homepage. March 9, 2026 In a recent statement, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted that he felt very happy that after 40 years of trying to get the United States involved in a major war with Iran, he had finally succeeded in […]
“Love In Iran” © Jan Oberg A voice of true peace and human rights in Iran Elaheh Pooyandeh Peace and conflict researcher and TFF Associate March 3, 2026 [This piece was written after the recent deadly protests in Iran in January and before the new invasion by Israel and the USA in February and March […]