David Swanson World BEYOND War,TFF Associate June 17, 2025 For years, World BEYOND War and other peace groups from around the world had been attending peace conferences in Cuba. When I visited Cuba this past January it was with a visa for that purpose. I published here the remarks I made at the conference. We shouted as loudly […]
With a few words about the US’ domestic authoritarianism and NATO’s reckless expansion and re-armament where everything else but that is needed. Farhang Jahanpour * June 11, 2025 George Orwell’s prophetic book, 1984, was written in 1948 and was published on 9 June 1949. So, today is the 76th anniversary of the publication of that important […]
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. […]
Macedonian Professor Biljana Vankovska, TFF Board member, speaks at length with Thomas Karat on his YouTube Channel – peace research, Macedonia, Gaza, Ukraine, NATO and Western Hypocrisy January 23, 2025
The West’s Dominance is over! Jan Oberg on Gaza, Ukraine and Sweden’s NATO Shift January 19, 2025 I am very pleased with Thomas Karat’s very well-conducted interview and the perspectives he chose to focus on with me. I recommend his fine YouTube Channel warmly. I hope you will like it and share it – and, […]
“No Extermination without Representation,” Digital, Midjourney / Clip2Comic, 2024 Farhang Jahanpour TFF Associate & former Board member November 3, 2024 On November 5, the American people go to the polls in one of the most consequential elections for the United States and the world. Normally, outsiders should not interfere in other countries’ elections, although the […]
In 2021 the administration said it would pursue ‘relentless diplomacy.’ They call it something else today in Ukraine. Ted Snider October 9, 2024 It is said that Henry Kissinger asserted that little can be won at the negotiating table that isn’t earned on the battlefield. In several wars in recent weeks, U.S. officials have echoed […]
Jan Oberg July 26, 2024 In its recent analysis – “How Four US Presidents Unleashed Economic Warfare Across the Globe” – The Washington Post illustrates what I have called “sanctionitis” – the disease of (over)using sanctions as a means to conduct foreign policy and cause great harm to the world economy, the US economy but […]
Photo by Tim Mossholder “We’re the greatest nation on the face of the earth… I have never been more optimistic about the future of our country… There’s no country in the world better positioned to lead the world than America… Just remember who we are. We are the United States of America, for God’s sake.” […]
Michael Brenner June 4, 2024 Is the West launching an all-out war against global ‘South,’ against the BRICS – plus, against the ‘other’? Are we in the first stages of a civilizational struggle initiated by the U.S.-led assemblage we call the “collective West”? That would have seemed an absurd idea until very recently. How can one […]