📌 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 ❤️ and brain.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram lukker konti som aldrig før. Google overvåger og nedgraderer kontroversielle hjemmesider. Anonyme smagsdommere får fjernet "upassende" meninger og konti, udraderer mangfoldighed og skaber den enfoldighed, der dræber den sidste debat og demokratiet. Hvad i alverden foregår der? President Trump får sin Facebook og Twitter konto lukket med henvisning til at han har [...]
Læs lige den hér fra Danmark Radios public service - "Forsvarschef i opråb: Danmark er for sårbart 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 så alarmerende formuleret - "opråb" fra den højeste chef og Danmark er [...]
Welcome to my worldmoires – 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? I’m 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 året efter. De Radikale i 1905. Måske institutioner som politiske partier, der er op til 150 år gamle, bør erstattes af noget mere tidssvarende? Måske vi skal gøre noget nyt og bringe demokratiet up-to-date? Jeg mener, inden det hele falder sammen af kedsomhed og virksomheder, folk, [...]
📌 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, trådte traktaten, der forbyder atomvåben, formelt i kraft. Atomvåbnene, der [...]
🆘 🇺🇸 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 hører vi til lede hver dag. Men hvornår hørte du sidst nogen sige ordet ”fred” - i forskning, politik eller medier? Nej, om fred, forsoning, forhandling, tilgivelse, konfliktløsning og ikkevold taler det moderne menneske ikke. Det gjorde man før i tiden. [...]
Photo - Girl in the Jibrin reception center in Aleppo, December 2016 © Oberg PhotoGraphics ⏰ WAKE-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 børnebøger ikke den genre, jeg følger mest med i, men forleden faldt min øjne på en overskrift i Kristeligt Dagblad: Pipi Langstrømpe er lige udkommet på dansk i ny udgave på Gyldendal og ordet "neger" er nu fjernet. Jeg skrev samme dag på 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 karantæne på et hotelværelse i Kina. Det er Norges tidligere miljø- og udviklingsminister, Dag Solheim, der reflekterer over forskellene mellem den "østlige" og den "vestlige" måde at håndtere Coronaen på. Og det er disse forskelle, [...]
Overskriften i DR i dag er ikke til at tage fejl af - ’Kattepine’ for Danmark: USA brugte dansk adgang til at spionere mod vores nabolande.Det er en ren tabersag at sætte foden ned over for Danmarks vigtigste partner i efterretningsverdenen, vurderer eksperter. DR vælger bevidst at ikke interviewe nogen, der kunne være kritiske til [...]
🆘 The 🇺🇸 media polarization - or war - is given full blast. Concretely here, Fox versus CNN. This is where media should never go. Period! Worldview-shaping media corporations that - deliberately - choose to become an integral part of one or the other political campaign marks the decay and eventually the end of journalism [...]
Yesterday I wrote a longer analysis of the election process in the United States for my foundation's homepage, The Transnational. I do not think this process is worthy of a democracy. But, sadly, the media decision has become "the result" and all of European politicians and media have followed suit - as they can't wait [...]
23.oktober 2020 Den norske arkitekt og fredsforkæmper, Susanne Urban har forfattet en righoldig bog, som netop er udkommet for at markere at en af verdens absolut ledende samfundsforskere, Johan Galtung, fylder 90 den 24. oktober 2020. Han er matematiker, sociolog, freds- og fremtidsforsker med en utrolig produktion af foredrag, artikler, gæsteprofessorater og hederdoktorater bag sig [...]