It’s all self-destructive. The West should join the world and become a good partner, not a dominator February 13, 2025 On February 10, 2025, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Anthony Fatseas, who runs the WTFinance Channel on YouTube. Interestingly, Anthony’s channel defines economy in a much broader, structural framework than most of […]
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, […]
通过联合国改革实现全球民主治理： 面向未来的多极世界 Jan Oberg January 8, 2025 Last year, I was asked by the prestigious “China Investment” Magazine in Beijing to write a longer analysis of my own choice. It would become the cover story in the first 2025 issue. While I have written several things before (a) for China Investment, it was the first […]
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 […]
April 22, 2024 Jan Oberg’s 19-minute lecture held at the Memorial Conference marking the 25th anniversary of NATO’s unlawful bombing of Yugoslavia. Recorded on March 23, 2024. He first tells why he was in Belgrade during the bombing and then explains how that bombing was a turning point towards the new multipolar – and better […]
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 […]
Jan Oberg March 27, 2024 On March 18, Jan Oberg was a guest on CGTN’s “Dialogue” with Xu Qinduo. The conversation was related to the Global Democracy Forum, which was taking place around the same time ‘live’ in Beijing. Here is the link to YouTube where you can also find a few comments and a […]
Photo – Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash Jan Oberg December 30, 2023 ”It is difficult to make predictions, particularly about the future.”Unknown but wise person’s statement. I do not pretend my predictions below are scientific or based on a sophisticated social science methodology. They are merely intuitive and hypothetical and based on some of my accumulated […]
“Mops And More” © Jan Oberg 2023 Jan Oberg October 20, 2023 I assume that most readers here know me as a peace and conflict researcher and as co-founder and director of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, TFF. However, since 2009, I’ve also worked as an art photographer, done projects, and arranged […]
US lawmakers say the alliance’s movement into Asia is “inevitable.” It’s actually a completely avoidable, completely bad idea. Branko Marcetic September 15, 2023 A little over a century ago, rising inter-imperial tensions coupled with a complicated, evidence board–like set of alliances pulled Europe into the most disastrous, pointless war the world had ever seen up […]