đ I'm a peace researcher and art photographer – I write for myself and for you – not for clicks, money, followers or fame – I may have something authentic to tell from both â€ïž and brain.
On Good Friday, my new art photography exhibition - the 26th in my studio - opened. Because of the Corona, only a few people can come and 90+ % of those who are interested in my artworks anyhow live around the globe far away. So what more natural but to create an easy, functioning and [...]
Folkekongressen Äbnede igÄr i verdens stÞrste og fremtidens vigtigste land i verden. Kun Information og Berlingske Tidende skriver om den pÄ en journalistisk mÄde men uden dybde. Hverken Weekendavisen, Jyllands-Posten eller Politiken nÊvner den pÄ sine forsider - men Taiwan, Hongkong, Xinjiang og andet negativt om Kina kan man ellers altid godt lÊse om. Den [...]
IgÄr publicerede jeg min klumme fra Arbejderen "Censuren, meningskontrollens og krÊnketheden treenighed" men inden Arbejderen havde kunnet trykke den dukkede der to sager op, der understreger hvad jeg sagde. Man vil huske den sorte unge digter Amanda Gorman, der lÊste sit eget digt pÄ Capitol Hill - "Demokratiets Tempel", som amerikanske medier ynder at kalde [...]
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram lukker konti som aldrig fÞr. Google overvÄger og nedgraderer kontroversielle hjemmesider. Anonyme smagsdommere fÄr fjernet "upassende" meninger og konti, udraderer mangfoldighed og skaber den enfoldighed, der drÊber den sidste debat og demokratiet. Hvad i alverden foregÄr der? President Trump fÄr sin Facebook og Twitter konto lukket med henvisning til at han har [...]
LÊs lige den hér fra Danmark Radios public service - "Forsvarschef i oprÄb: Danmark er for sÄrbart mod angreb fra luften - Den teknologiske udvikling har blottet en stor svaghed i rigets evne til at forsvare sig selv, advarer ekspert." Det er ret sÄ alarmerende formuleret - "oprÄb" fra den hÞjeste chef og Danmark er [...]
Welcome to my worldmoires â a word I have invented for the occasion. It means writing about my life in the perspective of global affairs and trends that have influenced my work and myself since I was born in the middle of the preceding century. And the occasion? Iâm approaching the 50th anniversary of my [...]
And Western media either don't tell you or operate as one megaphone for the administration and Pentagon. Pentagon on February 25, 2021: "At President Biden's direction, US military forces earlier this [Thursday] evening conducted airstrikes against infrastructure utilized by Iranian-backed militant groups in eastern Syria," said spokesman John Kirby in a statement on Friday. "These [...]
N E WListen to this as a podcast on one or more channels Some time ago I referred my readers to my rather extensive analysis on the TFF - the Transnational Foundation's homepage - about social media and why I am reducing my use of Facebook, Twitter and Google to an absolute minimum. That was [...]
4. februar 2021 Venstre blev skabt i 1870. Socialdemokratiet Ă„ret efter. De Radikale i 1905. MĂ„ske institutioner som politiske partier, der er op til 150 Ă„r gamle, bĂžr erstattes af noget mere tidssvarende? MĂ„ske vi skal gĂžre noget nyt og bringe demokratiet up-to-date? Jeg mener, inden det hele falder sammen af kedsomhed og virksomheder, folk, [...]
đ Announcement on social media use TFF and I, Jan Oberg, will change how we use social media from 2021 and onwards.The change comes as a result of certain social media trends and events that we do not want to be part of (see arguments below).We increasingly find Facebook, Twitter and Goggle a) politicising, b) [...]
Danmarks Radio har den ikke idag. Politiken har den ikke idag. Berlingske Tidende har den ikke i dag. Jyllands-Posten har den ikke i dag. Information har den ikke. TV-Avisen og Deadline har den heller ikke ... Nyheden er at i dag, den 22. januar 2021, trÄdte traktaten, der forbyder atomvÄben, formelt i kraft. AtomvÄbnene, der [...]
đ đșđž The US spends US$ 720 billion - that is 720 000 000 000 - on its conventional and nuclear military. In reality much more but we drop that here. You may see how much that is of all the world: Despite this fact, the world's militarily strongest power feels weak and vulnerable. Mr [...]
Ord som forsvar, sikkerhed, trussel, krig for de(t) gode mod de(t) onde og intervention hĂžrer vi til lede hver dag. Men hvornĂ„r hĂžrte du sidst nogen sige ordet âfredâ - i forskning, politik eller medier? Nej, om fred, forsoning, forhandling, tilgivelse, konfliktlĂžsning og ikkevold taler det moderne menneske ikke. Det gjorde man fĂžr i tiden. [...]
Photo - Girl in the Jibrin reception center in Aleppo, December 2016 © Oberg PhotoGraphics ⰠWAKE-UP CALL Eastern Aleppo was liberated four years ago, in mid-December 2016. Silence today. Denial today. I was one of the few witnesses on the ground, the only person from Scandinavia. My photos and some of my many texts [...]
On December 10 - which marks both the Nobel Peace Prize and Human Rights Day - the Transnational Foundation launched a campaign - perhaps unusual for a research outfit think tank rather than a movement. But we feel this is so urgent! Its main thrust is easy to grasp - indeed common sense. We argue [...]
Nu er bÞrnebÞger ikke den genre, jeg fÞlger mest med i, men forleden faldt min Þjne pÄ en overskrift i Kristeligt Dagblad: Pipi LangstrÞmpe er lige udkommet pÄ dansk i ny udgave pÄ Gyldendal og ordet "neger" er nu fjernet. Jeg skrev samme dag pÄ min Facebook-profil: Politisk korrekt kulturhistorisk rensning (KHR) - Det er [...]
The Global Press Coalition for Peace, GPCP, in Washington kindly turned to me and asked me to speak with them for a longer podcast. GPCP is a rather young but very innovative civil society organization that focuses on how the media deal with conflicts, war and peace - and how it can be done better. [...]
November 23 and 24, 2020, marked an important event in the international academic/university history of peace and conflict research. The reason is that the Faculty of World Studies at Tehran University held a large - online - conference - "International Conference on Peace and Conflict Resolution (ICPCR)". Professor Alikhani My colleague and friend there, associate [...]
Denne artikel kunne jeg selv have skrevet - og havde sikkert gjort det hvis jeg havde siddet to uger i karantÊne pÄ et hotelvÊrelse i Kina. Det er Norges tidligere miljÞ- og udviklingsminister, Dag Solheim, der reflekterer over forskellene mellem den "Þstlige" og den "vestlige" mÄde at hÄndtere Coronaen pÄ. Og det er disse forskelle, [...]
Overskriften i DR i dag er ikke til at tage fejl af - âKattepineâ for Danmark: USA brugte dansk adgang til at spionere mod vores nabolande.Det er en ren tabersag at sĂŠtte foden ned over for Danmarks vigtigste partner i efterretningsverdenen, vurderer eksperter. DR vĂŠlger bevidst at ikke interviewe nogen, der kunne vĂŠre kritiske til [...]