…eller lad det falde med USA’s imperium… Selv om det er gået så galt for Vesten, så er alt håb bestemt ikke ude. Vi har netop nu en gylden chance for diskutere og derpå skabe et nyt Europa tilpasset fremtidens samarbejdende multipolære verden, skriver Jan Øberg. Min klumme i Arbejderen den 15. april 2026 Der er mere om dette forslag her i China Daily og … Continue reading 1066 – Skab en debat om Europas fremtid
These TFF Peace Pulses will only be published here a few times. You will also not find them on YouTube and Vimeo because both platforms have blocked TFF and me; you know, peace is dangerous these days. Later, you will find them, along with many other TFF-created videos, on Rumble. More info as I get that established. Europe is in its deepest crisis since 1945, … Continue reading 1065 – TFF Peace Pulse # 2 – We need an all-European debate about Europe’s future
I am very happy to tell you that 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 the EU ought to do now … Continue reading 1064 – Allies’ security myth: NATO is not making Europe safer
Claus Kold – freds- og sikkerhedspolitisk forsker, TFF-Associeret og ven gennem snart 40 år Mette Frederiksens nylige udtalelser ved sikkerhedskonferencen i München og hendes diplomatiske sonderinger i Paris peger på en opfattelse af, at afhængigheden af USA’s nukleare garanti ikke længere kan betragtes som stabil eller forudsigelig. Konflikten med USA om Grønland har blotlagt en dyb mistillid til, at stormagters sikkerhedsgarantier er uafhængige af deres … Continue reading Er en nuklear småstat mulig? Og hvor er Danmark på vej hen?
MSC’s lukkede militarisme tilbyder kun én recept — flere våben — samtidig med at rekordhøje militærudgifter, presset ud af skatteydere i økonomisk krise, underminerer diplomati og driver eskalationen mod de højeste krigsrisici i årtier. Fra dialogforum til militariseret ritual I årtier var Munich Security Conference (MSC) – som åbnede i dag og løber frem til søndag – et af de få steder, hvor modparter kunne … Continue reading 1048 – München Sikkerheds-konferencen er blevet et 20‑millioner-Euro dyrt ekkokammer for militaristisk gruppetænkning
I was delighted to be on London-based Anthony Fatseas’s WTFinance Channel on YouTube a couple of days ago. And below a nice little story about Google/YouTube’s surely innocent algorithm… Shortly after Anthony uploaded it and told me he had done so, viewers were met with the black-screen message below . It was never a private video. I mean, he has almost 50,000 subscribers. So what … Continue reading 1047 – How to stop the Trump regime before we militarise ourselves to bankruptcy
Rick Sanchez and I cover quite a few subjects in this high-temperature conversation. It was fun to work with him, and we start out joking about our wives some 13 minutes into the program 😉 Continue reading 1045 – ‘Trump does not understand that he is isolating the US’
◩ A delightful conversation on August 25, 2025, with Adam Lantz of DiEM25. Also found in TFF’s Video Collection on Substack here where there are many others by TFF Associates to reflect on. Enjoy and comment if you like. Continue reading 1013 – DiEM25 Video: What went wrong with Sweden?
Har lige lyttet til statsminister Mette Frederiksens ord til pressen ved ankomsten til NATOs topmøde – her på DR. Hun, NATO og EU kører nu den mest militaristiske politik siden 1945, baseret på en patologisk gruppeopfattelse af Rusland, som nødvendiggøres af NATOs unødvendige, provokative og løftebrydende ekspansion helt op til Ruslands grænser – noget som intet NATO-land selv ville acceptere. Der er tale om det … Continue reading 1005 – NATO/EU er i dag den alvorligste trussel mod verdens fremtid
Foto: Johan Nilsson/TT 105 människor med bred kunskap om fred och konflikt har i dag ett upprop i Aftonbladet. Det – och inte minst personerna – har kritiserats hårt i DN, GP och Arena – se nedan. “Nutidens hot kommer aldrig att bombas bort” Vi startar såhär: DEBATT. Europa har beslutat sig för att investera hisnande 800 miljarder euro i en genomgripande militär upprustning, med hänvisning till … Continue reading “Nutidens hot kommer aldrig att bombas bort.”
Den 21. marts, 2025, skrev jeg nedenstående til Per Bang Thomsen, der er DR’s EU-analytiker – altså ikke journalist – i Bruxelles. Det gjorde jeg fordi jeg syntes, at hans artikel den dag “Europa er truet, og nu har EU-landene givet hinanden fem år til ‘markent’ oprustning” var nok så problematisk – både ensidig og kontrafaktisk. Nu en måned senere forbliver mit brev ubesvaret, så … Continue reading DR’s EU-analytiker, Bang Thomsen, svarer ikke på om Europa virkelig er truet.
Eller hvorfor dansk “sikkerheds”-politik er en langt større trussel mod Danmarks fremtid end Rusland nogensinde var, er eller vil blive. Jeg skriver ofte på sociale medier hvor man, trods censur og algoritmer, stadig kan nå nogle få ligesindede. I denne artikel vil du finde en række poster fra Facebook, som har givet anledning til flere reaktioner, kommentarer, delinger, etc. end jeg havde forventet. Noget tyder … Continue reading Nedslag i regeringens stadigt farligere politik
China’s Global Times has asked four European experts to comment on what is happening in Europe. I am one of them, but I would not like to give the impression that I know exactly what is going on. It’s too outlandish and defies rational analysis. You may read the four comments here. My original contribution was a bit longer than the printed version: Thanks to … Continue reading Loyalty to US vs pursuit of strategic autonomy: Where will Europe head?
Jan Oberg February 21, 2025 How amazing! The Danish government seemed unprepared for the eventuality that President Trump, if elected, would insist once again on getting Greenland – and a few other “things.” Who was asleep – or much too occupied with hating Russia and helping Ukraine to see what was coming? Secondly, Trump – who is no peace-maker but has other motives – grabbed … Continue reading Trump Caught the EU Off Guard
A discussion with Oksana Boyko about violence and war where the focus is on principles, ideas, concepts and ways of thinking. A delightful exchange of views that would be difficult, if not impossible, to have in similar leading media in the NATO/EU countries. For once, actually, the focus is on how to think about peace…Broadcast on October 3, 2023. RT = Russia Today, the channel … Continue reading RT’s “Worlds Apart”
The Occident is heading for an Accident In civilisational terms, war is a backward, primitive thing; it solves no conflicts and creates no security – only hate, which fuels more war. It’s a system or structural evil – much more than a human evil. Equally primitive and uncultured is, of course, this type of black-and-white, simplified narrative: there is only one evil party – the … Continue reading The US/NATO/EU world now accepts defence through genocide
I must admit that I’ve always believed that it was the – unmentionable – United States of America. But the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, recently taught the world otherwise. When introducing the Japanese prime minister as the recipient of the militarist NATO-support organisation Atlantic Council’s Prize, she mentions that he comes from Hiroshima and that nuclear bombs fell on it … Continue reading Did you know that Russia bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Photo above: China’s National Television, CCTV, headquarters I’ve never done so much media work as I do these days – columns, interviews, panel debates, and short comments. Dailies, radio and TV. Below please find some glimpses – which you, my dear reader here, may also use as an opportunity to browse a bit and acquaint yourself with a world I am sure most of you … Continue reading Working with non-Western media on Nord Stream and Ukraine – and revealing my experiences with Western mainstream media manipulation methods
Cover of Seymour Hersh’s article on Substack Jan Oberg February 12, 2023 The Chinese news agency, Xinhua, asked me to comment – in text and video form – on Seymour Hersh’s analysis of how the Nordstream pipelines were destroyed. You’ll find this analysis on Substack, which means that no American mainstream media has been willing to publish it. After five days, this bombshell report goes … Continue reading Of course, Nordstream was blown up by the US and NATO allies: A US economic war on submissive allies.
Inden for bare et par døgn kan man se flere forene sig med militarismens massepsykotiske korståg – til endnu mere krig og massedød og et med tiden totalt ødelagt Ukraine. Det sker i midten, til højre og til venstre. Hånd i hånd den samme type af resonnement. Samme fejlslutninger som følge af manglende basal viden om hvordan man analyserer en konflikt og hvordan man skaber … Continue reading Militarismens nye korsfarer til højre og venstre i Norden.
In case you expect a kind of celebrative champagne toast-like text here, my apology at the outset. For me, this is a very different new year. Perhaps the most tragic new year in my life. Globally speaking, 2022 was nothing to celebrate. My prediction for 2023 is that it will, at best, not be worse. It’s been another year wasted for solving humanity’s most urgent … Continue reading On entering 2023
– Den spæde begyndelse til EU var tanken om at undgå en ny storkrig, skriver Claus Kold og tager pulsen på det fællesskab, Danmark meldte sig ind i for 50 år siden. Men hvor er freden så blevet af? EU’s mål er, at “… styrke den europæiske identitet og uafhængighed med det formål at fremme fred, sikkerhed og fremskridt i Europa og i verden som … Continue reading Hvorfor er EU’s tale om fred tavs?
Min klumme i Arbejderen den 17. august 2022 Vidste du at: • Alle vestlige ledere, inklusive NATO daværende chef, lovede Sovjetunionens sidste leder, Mikhail Gorbatjov, at NATO ikke ville blive udvidet med én tomme mod at han accepterede at Øst- og Vesttyskland blev forenet og at Øst – med over 300 000 sovjetiske tropper – dermed også blev NATO. • Clinton brød alle løfter og … Continue reading Nedlæg NATO: Ukraine er alliancens største fejltagelse
I recently had the joy and honour to speak with the newly established Perspective South which does stories, narratives and perspectives from developing countries of the Global South and which, interestingly enough, uses Instagram and YouTube as its main platforms. Here is what the interview with me looks like on Instagram. Here are just a couple of minutes of a much longer conversation with J. … Continue reading Why are we moving away from dialogue & diplomacy?
Ekstrabladet var så venlig at bede mig skrive en kort kommentar til den sektion, de kalder Nationen: Her er originalversionen af 30. marts 2022: Vestens reaktion på Ruslands invasion vil blive en boomerang Nu en måneds tid efter Ruslands invasion af Ukraine bliver Vestens strategiske, selvødelæggende brøler nok så klar: NATO pumper våben ind i Ukraine og ønsker at binde Rusland dér militært samtidig med … Continue reading Vestens reaktion på Ruslands invasion vil blive en boomerang
Ursula von der Leyen writes on Linkedin that the EU and China had a frank exchange and then she pours out that China should do this and that and the third. And that “China’s reputation is at stake.” One more example of this Western disease of lecturing others instead of dialoguing and listening. I thought it was an excellent opportunity to dialogue directly with the … Continue reading Why must EU’s von der Leyen lecture China?
Thorkild KjærgaardHistoriker, dr.phil. “Ukraine-krigen er en 100 procent unødvendig krig, som Vesten så let som ingenting kunne have forhindret. Men en sådan fravigelse fra værdipolitik på automatpilot til fordel for fleksibel, situationsbestemt international realpolitik kunne Vestens selvretfærdige politiske klasse ikke få sig selv til. Så hellere titusinder af døde, hundredtusinder af sårede og millioner af knuste menneskeskæbner ikke bare i Ukraine, men over hele verden.” … Continue reading Joe Biden burde have lært lidt af Nikita Khrusjtjov
Ulrik Tarp Jensen April 1, 2022 • 1 Kina ser på sanktioner ud fra andre præmisser end Vesten. • 2 Kinesisk samhandel er ofte på bilateralt statsligt niveau. • 3 Den kinesiske stat har anderledes adgang til at styre og mobilisere ressourcer. • 4 Med Putin-Xi kommunikéet den 4. februar blev Kinas politik fasttømret og kritik og ændringer er yderst vanskelige at gennemføre. • 5 … Continue reading Sanktioner på kinesisk og Ukraine-krisen
My Opinion piece in China’s Global Times on March 30, 2022 – related to the highest-level, one-day China-EU Summit on April 1, 2022. You may read one take on that Summit here from the South China Morning Post “At China-EU summit, Beijing will be reminded its support for Russian war in Ukraine comes at a cost.” The EU/West seems destined to lose this one too … Continue reading NATO-Russia Conflict in Ukraine Offers Lessons for EU on China Interactions
Den 20. marts 2022 kom mit interview med Jyllands-Posten så på – på forsiden. Som man ser overfor har avisen givet prioritet på sin forside til to sikkerhedspolitiske eksperter, der skal vurdere hvad jeg siger – balancere og nuancere, “modsige mig” og orientere læserne om at jeg i hvert fald på ét punkt “tager fejl.” Og det gør de såmænd udmærket – nok mindre kritisk … Continue reading Jyllands-Postens redaktionelle balancenummer omkring Ukraine-interview
Judged from his Wikipedia entry, Poland’s Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, seems to be a well-educated man. History is of course full of well-educated people who have done bad things but after the last two days, one must anyhow ask: Why does he want to make himself a kakistocratic embarrassment to the entire EU – kakistocracy meaning “government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens”? … Continue reading Middle Eastern refugees at EU-Poland’s border pay the inhuman price for EU’s kakistocracy and EU/NATO militarism
Det spørgsmål tager Arbejderen op på torsdag den 14. oktober – naturligvis som den eneste i dansk presse – og det skal avisen sørme have en stor og varm tak for: Emnet er enormt vigtigt i en tid hvor USA vender sig mod Kina i stedet for Europa – hvilket for så vidt bare viser hvorfor NATO eksisterer og ledes af USA: for USAs skyld, … Continue reading Er EU fredsskaber eller krigsmager?
2. april 2020 Læs lige hvad udenrigsminister Kofod den 1. aril 2020 siger til Danmarks Radio Kofod afviser at hjælpe Spanien og Italien, men kalder EU-samarbejde ‘vigtigt’ Flere partier har ellers efterlyst europæisk solidaritet hos regeringen. I de sidste godt 20 år har Danmark stillet op for diverse amerikanske forudsigelige-fiasko krige, deltaget aktivt i bombninger, død og ødelæggelser. Har vi nogensinde hørt at Danmark måske … Continue reading Jeg bliver så vred. Gør du?
17.marts 2020 Kære læserven! Jeg når ikke altid at poste min artikler fra vores stiftelses hjemmeside, The Transnational, hér. Det kræver tid – som jeg ofte ikke har – at kopiere tekster, redigere, lægge billeder ind og gøre andre ting, ting som du nok ikke tænker på når du blot læser medmindre du da selv blogger. Nogle af dem egner sig heller ikke altid til … Continue reading To nye artikler på “The Transnational” – Corona og de amerikanske sanktioner mod Iran og enorm militærøvelse midt i Corona-Europa
January 13, 2020 European allies of the U-S have turned down a request by the American President to leave the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, the JCPOA. France says it remains committed to the Iran deal, and will continue to work with other parties. Britain has pledged to remain committed too. Prime Minister Boris Johnson reaffirmed London’s support, in a phone call with Iran’s president … Continue reading EU words, words and words on the Iran nuclear deal: What about action?
Does the U.S. have anything constructive and benign to offer the world anymore?In this comment on PressTV I list a series of arguments against these new sanctions which were passed by the US Senate two days later. Continue reading New sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea
“The Debate” with Jim Walsh, MIT and Jan Oberg, TFF Lund, Sweden – May 30, 2017 Last night “The Debate” on PressTV was devoted to the future of European-US relations in the wake of the NATO Summit, President Trump’s words and omissions and the – historic – words, in particular, of Chancellor Angela Merkel immediately after. Undoubtedly, we are at a turning point in these … Continue reading The future of U.S.-Europe relations
Strong and weak aspects of the EUCommenting on the Rome Treaty turning 60The EU would be better for the peoples of Europe if it has been organised differently, taking diversity serious. Commenting on PressTV March 25, 2017 Continue reading The strong and weak aspects of the EU
TFF PressInfo # 405 Lund, Sweden – February 24, 2017Failed conflict analysis To analyse a conflict is as necessary as the diagnosis for the doctor: You either get to a solution/treatment or you don’t. If the diagnosis is deficient, you don’t. You instead risk killing the patient. And it’s deficient of you stare only at “evil” cells and blame the patient for a life … Continue reading Keep focus on Aleppo and global dimensions of Syria
Happy to speak positively about the EU foreign policy chief’s commitment to stand by the nuclear deal with Iran – a clear signal also to Trump. That’s good – the alternative could very well be war. Continue reading Good: EU will honour the deal with Iran
Here a few comments on Erdogan’s recent attack on the West for supplying arms to the Kurds. Funny that Turkey’s president should accuse someone else for weaponizing a conflict. At the same time as Turkey does it and is also involved in two wars outside itself – Iraq and Syria – and one inside against the Kurds. In this short interview I seek to raise … Continue reading Imagine a Middle East with no weapons!
Blogartikel til Arbejderen, 23. oktober 2016
Den nuværende periode i menneskehedens historie vil blive svær at forklare for fremtidens historikere – hvis der da findes nogle.
Hvordan kunne det gå så skridt så hurtigt og på alle fronter for dén Vestverden, der efter 2. verdenskrig stod med alle kortene på hånden?
Hvordan kunne det amerikanske imperium, der byggede på frihed og demokrati, overhovedet styrte sammen dér tilbage i 2026?
Den vestlige NATO-baserede verden kunne ånde lettet op da Sovjetunionen og Warszawapagten var blevet opløst i 1989. Den havde vundet ideologisk – ingen ville siden have sovjetkommunisme – og økonomisk – Rusland producerede ingen attraktive forbrugsvarer – og militært. Ruslands militærudgifter var bare 8% af NATOs mod Warszawapagtens 75% af NATO førhen.
Den Kolde krig forsvandt lykkeligt nok uden Varm Krig eller atomvåbenbrug. En ny verden blev mulig. Ondskabens imperium, som præsident Reagan havde kaldt Kreml-systemet, var borte. Alle talte om fredens ”dividende”.
Men kun godt 25 år senere var verden gennemsyret af angst, terror, konfrontation, had, racisme, miljøkatastrofer, flygtningestrømme, markeds-økonomisme, militarisme og ting som ufatteligt dybe indkomstkløfter, mindskende velfærd og en vigende tro på demokratiet – samt indskrænkelser hele vejen rundt af den frihed, som netop denne ’frie verden’ stod for.
Continue reading “Den nye verden”Jan Oberg comments on Iranian PressTV (July 19, 2016) some 11 minutes into this program. “The War On Terror is history’s most stupid and counterproductive. If the terrorism problem has increased about 80 times since 2001 we should be intellectual and decent enough to ask ourselves: What are we doing wrong? Nobody asks this question and it will end us up in hell.” Continue reading The horror in Nice and elsewhere
Comment on Russia Today, July 16, 2016 Continue reading Turkey coup as one more problem for NATO
Fransk statsanklager i spidsen for ren humbug! Sådan vil jeg betegne indholdet i en helt ukritisk artikel på DR.dk.
I dagens Frankrig er det nok at du har surfet på nettet om IS og Orlando så er du sandsynligvis terrorist. (Jeg melder mig omgående i rækkerne!).
Og dét uanset at ingen har kunnet finde mindste bevis herfor. Tværtimod tyder hele hans personhistorie på flere/alle andre mulige faktorer end de politiske.
Nu skal vi så tro at han sådan lige blev radikaliseret da han sad dér i lastbilen.
Siden 9/11 har politiske ledere kaldt alt muligt for ‘terrorisme’ – og medier plapret efter.
Continue reading “Fransk stats-terrorisme som svar på en syg mands gerning”Published on July 8, 2016, the day of the NATO Summit in Warsaw. It’s the 5th in the TFF Series “The New Cold War” Russia and NATO have offensive capacities and MIMACs (Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex) but NATO’s is a much larger potential threat to Russia than the other way around Why does an alliance with such an overwhelming superiority shout and scream and see ghosts on … Continue reading Fearology and militarism – But the real enemy is us
The West leaves, a multi-polar world comes Jan Øberg – Video lecture – Part 1/3 Continue reading “Peace, Conflict, Democracy”
On June 15, 2016 I participated in a discussion with Mike O’Hanlon from the Brookings Institution on CCTV America – China’s international TV station in the U.S. with up to 75 million viewers. The discussion was lead by Anand Naidoo.You can watch it here. Continue reading NATO’s confrontational policy