Iranians Enjoying Life 2016 © Jan Oberg A voice of true peace and human rights in Iran Elaheh Pooyandeh Peace and conflict researcher & TFF Associate March 11, 2026 I have many friends and colleagues in Iran. I have visited it a number of times, travelled around, spoken with people of all walks of life, taken photos and met an incredibly decent, hospitable and civilised … Continue reading These Targetted Attacks – Minab among them
“Love In Iran” © Jan Oberg A voice of true peace and human rights in Iran Elaheh Pooyandeh Peace and conflict researcher & TFF Associate March 9, 2026 I have many friends and colleagues in Iran. I have visited it a number of times, travelled around, spoken with people of all walks of life, taken photos and met an incredibly decent, hospitable and civilised nation. … Continue reading We Are Someone’s Dirty Work
Zyphyr is a Chinese academic, educated for over 10 years in the United States. He runs his own channel on China’s YouTube, called Bilibili. I’ve been told that he is followed by 4-5 million people in and outside China, but I do not know for how long; it can hardly be per day, but what do I know? Quite a few things are unbelievable in … Continue reading 1042 – Fun to be on Bilibili and talk about Trump, Greenland – and world peace
Mostly concerning Greenland, Europe’s irreparable crisis, Trump’s MAGAlomanic Empire and world order change and alternatives – only during the first couple of weeks of this year Al Jazeera Arabic. China’s YouTube – Bilibili, Zephyr’s Channel with over 5 million subscribers. RT’s Rick Sanchez “Effect.” RainTV, Holland – exile Russian. Zeitgeist in Sweden. China’s National TV CCTV. Soon Al Mayadeen, South Africa, Hong Kong and… And … Continue reading 1039 – Recent media conversations in the non-Western world
This is the first and second of five TFF-created idea portfolios designed to curb the global reach of the United States and, in both the short and long term, help catalyse a worldwide nonviolent resistance to what many observers describe as the Trump administration’s uniquely confrontational, destructive and world-threatening policies. These portfolios outline what governments and citizens across the world can do through dynamic diplomacy, creative initiatives, … Continue reading 1038 – Resist and Build Alternatives to the Trump Regime Now – Part 1 & 2/5
A series of proposals that you can advocate for, send in a letter to your government or do yourself. It’s called people’s power and citizen diplomacy. SHARE! Today, TFF has published the first of three appeals to use people’s power and the UN to stop Israel’s genocide on the Palestinian people. The idea is that you can pick and choose from a series of action … Continue reading 1011 – A Call to Citizens Everywhere #1/3: Choose Your Action for Justice
August 21, 2025 People’s criticism without offering any solutions and their focus on the past and present, but almost never on the future, are the two biggest obstacles to real change. And to making peace… Jan Oberg August 21, 2025 This conversation is not about Endless Militarism. The real title of Pascal Nottaz’ and my conversation is the one on top – “If You Want Peace, … Continue reading 1009 – “If You Want Peace, Be Creative and Focus on The Future.”
In December 2021, I was invited to become a regular contributor of opinion pieces to China Daily. It has more than 52 million clicks online daily and about 40 million followers on social media – according to the latest (2016) data. It serves more than 330 million readers all over the world and is a default choice for people who read about China in English. … Continue reading Analyses, comments and opinion pieces in various Chinese media
Keynote speech delivered on October 3, 2024, at the Global Changes Centre’s conference in Skopje, Macedonia. Despite the video’s title, this is not mainly about the decline and fall of the United States’ Empire. That will happen without my predictions… Instead, at this truly amazing conference, I present some major points for what I believe will be a much better world – a multipolar or … Continue reading Points for the better – future – world
Mehdi Hasan Video guest Mehdi Hasan is factual, ethical, and eloquent. Please SHARE widely to help people understand how the Western “free” media are fooling them. The Pravda Moment—as I call it when people find out that it was all propaganda serving an elite’s narrative—is approaching. You can help by sharing the link to this video with your friends. Thanks! Continue reading Mehdi Hasan Reveals Shocking Truth About Western Media’s Coverage Of The Palestine-Israel Conflict
Some weeks ago, a young lady from Swedish Television, SVT, called me. She said that SVT had understood that I had critical views of NATO and Sweden’s membership in the alliance (!) and was now calling around to get some critical voices and sound out possibilities of doing an interview. So, would I give her my main arguments? I said, “With pleasure” and then gave … Continue reading Two examples of how Swedish Television practices NATO-related, unscrupulous (self)censorship and lacks decent manners.
At least in the eyes of some Ukrainians… I was reminded of the US pre-invasion designation of a female Iraqi scientist as “Dr Germ” when a friend sent me a list from Ukraine of over 1,300 individuals and some 900 organizations in 19 European countries who are…. Yeah, man! We’re all revealed as agents, germs, bad guys – in the eyes of Ukrainian free and … Continue reading No less than 1300 Europeans and Jan Oberg are Russian “germs.”
Jan Oberg at China’s global television network CGTN – “The Point” with Liu Xin Originally broadcast on November 23, 2023 Go to the video too, and see the very positive comments there. People around the world are most receptive to thoughts on peace when they get a chance to listen to them – which they don’t anymore in the Western mainstream-militarist media. CGTN is one … Continue reading Look at the conflict, not the violence: How to achieve an enduring peace in Gaza
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”
It’s – only – about fighting against evil Russia/Putin and for Ukraine’s brilliant democracy… This brilliant 3-minute video documentary needs no introduction. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic. Continue reading “It is NOT about NATO”…
There could be several reasons, I told China’s national broadcasting, CCTV, on the anniversary day, September 26, 2023. [ 新闻直播间]“北溪”天然气管道爆炸事件一周年 智库人士：调查结论难产的原因众所周知 ] Click to see the short interview TFF 📌 Why is there still no truth published about Nord Stream?For at least three main reasons!Jan Oberg interviewed by 🇨🇳 CCTV – China National Broadcasting morning news – probably reaching a couple of hundred million people … Continue reading Why still no Nord Stream investigative report?
Here is a letter I wrote in July (and sent three times) to journalist Sara Cosar* at the public service, state media Sweden Television – Sveriges Television (SVT): “Hello Sara Cosar A question related to the article under which your name appears: Has SVT ever published a similar article with a number of foreign experts who are critical of NATO and/or Swedish membership? If yes … Continue reading Swedish Television knows well its pro-NATO tasks
Jan Oberg with two expert journalists – Misty Winston and Mike Jones – on “CrossTalk,” the flagship program with Peter Lavelle on RT (formerly Russia Today). July 14, 2023 There are other informed news and commentaries than those made by Western mainstream media (MSM) NATO mouthpieces which are either state or corporate. All three participants point to facts and perspectives that you won’t ever get … Continue reading RT’s CrossTalk about NATO’s Vilnius Summit
Former US presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich – the leading US peace politician for decades – talks with Afshin Rattansi on his program Going Underground. Kucinich who is also Robert F Kennedy’s presidential campaign manager, says very important things about the case of Julian Assange (which Western media write virtually nothing about and here is Nils Melzer’s indispensable book about it) and the US wars and … Continue reading Dennis Kucinich: US Foreign Policy Madness Will End When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is President
Fordi han kritiserer DRs inkompetente/falske brug af “eksperter” og kilder. Hvad foregår der egentlig på DR? Den 17. maj i år bragte DR.dk en analyse af russisk disinformation – “Er du stødt på russisk disinformation? Få fire eksempler på det her. Historierne, som ifølge eksperter er falske og med til at fremme russiske dagsordener, er spredt af et stort netværk.” Journalisten hedder Amalie Rokkedal Simonsen … Continue reading Det officielle Danmarks Radio mener at Øberg er forhenværende, banal og dum
Reuters’ senior correspondent for European security and diplomacy, Andrew Gray (and colleague Sabine Siebold) wrote a piece on March 21, 2023, on “NATO chief urges members to boost defence spending as only 7 hit target.” Please read it and then my email to Gray of May 15, 2023: “Dear Andrew Gray Has it ever been discussed among your professional colleagues whether it makes sense to … Continue reading Reuters remains silent on its deficient NATO military expenditure reporting
A couple of days ago, I got the idea of checking what the AI-based Chat GPT had to say about issues pertaining to the war in Ukraine. I must say that its answers were a pleasant surprise from the perspective that I hold dear – peace. Here is what I asked and what it answered – within a couple of seconds: How to make peace … Continue reading Peace and conflict resolution: Artificial intelligence (AI) seems more intelligent than human political intelligence (PI)
Western “intelligence” and the New York Times in deeper waters than usual, offering us a devious spin and fake story – sadly swallowed by the same media that omitted Hersh’s analysis. The New York Times – which has not written one word about the legendary US reporter Seymour Hersh’s Nord Stream report – breaks this one which it obviously finds more credible and newsworthy. That … Continue reading How stupid do they think we are? A small pro-Ukrainian group in a yacht did whaaaat?
I was happy to be on Heroes and Patriots on March 2, 2023 – an online radio program in northern California focusing on national security, intelligence and foreign policy. The show is streamed live on the first and fifth Thursday of each month, 9-10 a.m. at KMUD.ORG and hosted by Mary Massey and John Sakowicz. More about Heroes and Patriots here. They have interviewed many … Continue reading California Radio: NATO expansion, Ukraine and Sweden/Finland joining NATO
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.
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
I’ve always considered Microsoft’s Linkedin a serious platform, have used it a lot over the years, find the debates there much more constructive and dialogue-oriented than on, say, Twitter or Facebook. I think most who operate on Linkedin would agree. (About Linkedin here). There has always, as I see it, been a measure of tolerance – again compared with Twitter and Facebook – and I … Continue reading Linkedin attempts censorship concerning the Ukraine conflict history
“Ladies and Gentlemen: This is self-destructive idiocy, militarism and offensiveness the American Way. This is how we make peace and become loved all over the world! This is how we lead NATO, our DEFENSIVE alliance! Amen! And let us now sing in our Church of Militarism: “With God on our side”! The new B-21 bomber debuts. These intellectual dwarfs are unable to see that this … Continue reading Ladies and Gentlemen – This is The American Way!
Ukraine smears about 70 people around the world as part of the disinformation war My original article of July 30, 2022 The Center for Combating Disinformation seems to be tasked with telling the world who carries the truth and who are “Spokespeople who are pushing a rhetoric that is in tune with the Russian propaganda.” (This link no longer works, the document was taken down … Continue reading BREAKING NEWS: Jan Oberg and others are “information terrorists” and suspected “military criminals” – says Ukraine
What a pompous buffoon! In my view, he embodies the intellectual and moral decay of that elite-West which admires him as a leading philosopher and French intellectual in spite of the fact that he is unable to see a complex problem without making it into a black-and-white, good-and-evil thing and the West/US/NATO/France of curse always on the Good side. No matter where he goes. And … Continue reading Philosopher of fake pleasing the declining West
Two conversations on NATO’s expansion, Sweden and Finland The first is from Iran’s international PressTV from May 16, 2022. It’s a conversation with Marcus Papadopoulos, historian and political analyst in London, and myself. Note that it is on Urmedium because PressTV is has been censored out of Google-owned YouTube. The second one is from RT – once Russia Today. You may read my text to … Continue reading ‘Peace is not the goal of these people…’
… which Western malstrom media would never let you give It is virtually impossible to get into the mainstream – or malstrom – media today with a critical view of NATO and US foreign policy. Knowledge, experience and eloquence are no longer important criteria; it’s rather: Where do you stand? Are you with the US/NATO? If not 100% , you must be a “Putinist.” Analytical … Continue reading A one-minute comment on the Ukraine war as the NATO-Russia conflict
China’s prestigious “Global Times” interviews Jan Oberg and several topical themes are touched upon. Among them, he comments on China’s new higher military expenditures and says that China would be loved by the world if it proposes a new global system to replace NATO’s outdated and dangerous paradigm. Read the interview here. Continue reading Oberg in Global Times: “China should propose a new global, more civilian, security and peace system”
PressTV’s “Spotlight”, February 13, 2022 A conversation with Gloria La Riva in the United States, mediated by anchor Kaveh Taghvai. Continue reading US war hysteria over Ukraine
January 19, 2022 While this is being written, tension builds up around the more comprehensive Ukraine conflict formation. If this blows up in real war – God forbid! – the main reason will be three serious lies disseminated by the NATO side. Lies are used in so-called security politics when some militarist project doesn’t make any (common) sense to intelligent people, when the real motives … Continue reading Ukraine: The West Has Paved the Road to War with Lies
Collage © Jan Oberg 2021 How it fits CIA and the US ‘democracy”s global media war December 9, 2021 The Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony took place in Oslo on Friday the 10th of December 2021. Here are two critical articles about that today: It is simply not for peace. Fredrik Heffermehl: The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize: Freedom for the Press or for the US? Jan … Continue reading The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize is a scandal – again!
And a couple of words on my relations with the media. Thanks to the two research reports TFF has published, both with me as co-author, some leading media in China have taken interest in our work for peace and cooperation – rather than Cold War – between China/Orient and the US/Occident. The two reports are The Xinjiang Genocide Determination As Agenda and Behind the Smokescreen. … Continue reading My interview with China’s “Global Times”
October 29, 2021 A series of leading international news media reports that China has been told by 43 countries at the UN that its policies in Xinjiang are unacceptable. Here is the take of The South China Morning Post, SCMP, which is a very decent and well-edited daily made in Hong-Kong and moderately critical of Beijing: And here is how Muslim-friendly Al Jazeera covers it: … Continue reading And the anti-China accusation industry show must go on
Racism and psycho-political projection Look at it closely. China is destructive, hammering, in old Maoist – Communist – uniform, angry face, big boots. To make the lie perfect, it is destroying WeChat and TikTok itself. But who is it that tries to destroy Huawei, WeChat, TikTok? And the bottom is yellow – the Yellow Peril! Be aware that you are the object of unintelligent propaganda … Continue reading The daily dropping Sinophobia
I’d like to direct your attention to a new comprehensive analysis from The Transnational Foundation for Peace And Future Research, TFF, called “Behind The Smokescreen: An Analysis of the West’s Destructive China Cold War Agenda And Why It Must Stop” The authors are TFF Associates Gordon Dumoulin, Thore Vestby and I – Jan Oberg. Frankly, we have been shocked to learn – through meticulous research … Continue reading Pathbreaking analysis of the West’s new Cold War against China
For quite some time, I have been wondering why there are so relatively few reports in the Western media about the huge Covid catastrophe throughout India. After all, according to Western self-understanding, India belongs to the democratic world, and I’d expect our media over here to cover the devastating situation much more – to be curious about India’s fate in a way I would not … Continue reading Covid-ravaged India Hard Put to Cope with the Crisis
Or – it isn’t every day you address several hundred million people The TFF report “The Xinjiang Genocide Determination As Agenda” has reached more people in more countries than virtually anything else we have produced the last few years. That is, outside the West, in Asia in general and in China in particular. All leading Chinese media have paid substantial attention to it in both … Continue reading TFF’s Xinjiang Report analysis on China’s CCTV
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 strikes were authorised in response to recent attacks against American … Continue reading Biden bombs in Syria – helping to steal its oil but what is there to talk about?
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 January 25. Since then, two things have happened that make … Continue reading Facebook censorship spells the end of free speech, of democracy, if allowed to continue: JFK Jr’s Insta account
🆘 🇺🇸 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 Trump and the administration feel that some China-produced apps are … Continue reading U.S. Appparanoia
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 about Eastern Aleppo are available on my Exposure platform. I … Continue reading ⏰ Eastern Aleppo’s liberation
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. I warmly recommend that you visit and look around. Their … Continue reading Podcast – Oberg, peace and the media
🆘 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 and public education itself. It’s nothing new that media are … Continue reading Fox and CNN – the news media polarization that will destroy the finest aspect of a democracy
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 to see Trump out of the White House and getting … Continue reading Do US media provoke post-election chaos for Biden who also offers no hope?
March 20, 2020 It should be obvious that China and it’s 1400 million people have managed this grave challenge in a way that should make every thinking human curious. However a large segment of the Western politicians – Trump in particular – and media have shown no particular curiosity whereas much has been presented about authoritarian methods, repressing truthtellers in Wuhan and a considerable amount … Continue reading Learn how China managed COVID-19: A rolling guide