1036 – The Trump Regime’s “Peace Board” Is Another Brick in His Personal Occidental Empire
His Gaza proposal reveals a far larger and world-threatening project. It’s a bid to replace the UN — and this MAGAlomania must be stopped
1023 – Trumps “freds”plan for Gaza: En grusom vittighed i en verden, hvis ledere er komplet uvidende om konfliktløsning og fredsskabelse
“Fredens trone er nu tom og FN fases ud” • AI-genereret billede af Jan Øberg Det faktum, at Trumps bizarre og kvaksalveriske “freds”plan for
Points for the better – future – world
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
NO! The UN is not useless. The REAL problem is members’ UN-despising and criminal behaviour.
It has great potentials and needs global citizens’ – your – support. November 4, 2024 Amid global conflicts escalating, why has the United Nations,
On entering 2023
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
Danmarks sikkerhed og forsvar frem mod 2035: Hjernedødt forsvar for mere militarisme og krig
Som man ser på rapportens forsidebillede ovenfor er rapporten helt ude i skoven. Under udklippet findes naturligvis en panservogn. Rappporten, der blev offentliggjort i
Nej till NATO!
“Nej till NATO” är en svensk folkrörelse, som du bör känna till om du har det minsta intresset för säkerhetsfrågor och fred. Den arbetar
Time to stop visiting the United States
June 1, 2019 I’ve never been “anti-American.” I work with (North) Americans every day at the Transnational Foundation and much of my academic training
Why the Kim-Trump Summit was a – predictable – fiasco
February 28, 2019 Peace can never be achieved this way a) The issue is about peace, not only nuclear weapons. The US has not
Peace illiteracy
And why I am switching balances from the most noble and important – but momentarily meaningless – job to something more rewarding… February 1,
Why is the UN still so important – while it must also be reformed?
Why is the UN still so important – in spite of having had its Charter violated repeatedly during the last 25 years? Why should
Nuclear weapons must go like slavery and they will
Commenting on the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to ICAN
How many Americans has al-Assad killed?
I read dozens of articles every day about various conflict zones, commentaries, war reports and – the few times it happens – possibilities of
Intellectual nonsense about Syria
There should be a lower intellectual level to the statements by a US Secretary of Defence. There should be a debunking of the unethical
The future of U.S.-Europe relations
“The Debate” with Jim Walsh, MIT and Jan Oberg, TFF Lund, Sweden – May 30, 2017 Last night “The Debate” on PressTV was devoted
NATO should be dissolved – 8 arguments
This is TFF Live on Facebook – the live broadcast I do now and then because live broadcasts have a much larger dissemination than
Lost peace and fake news
By Jan Oberg Proud to join “Middle East With Naskah Zada” at her program in New York and talking about the reasons that peace
Safe zones in Syria – very problematic
Commenting on PressTV after President Erdogan’s and Putin’s meeting on May 3, 2017
Iran on nuclear deal and nuclear-free Middle East
I had the pleasure and honour to comment on the Iranian defence minister’s views on the nuclear deal, on a nuclear-free Middle East, terrorism
Syria – two perspectives illustrated
“The Debate” of April 16, 2017 on Iran’s PressTV between Richard Millett and myself is important to me. I think it will be for
The US/NATO confrontation with Russia is dangerous
TFF LiveApril 12, 2017 The secretaries of state, Tillerson and Lavrov meet today. We seem to enter a stage of what must appropriately be
Keep focus on Aleppo and global dimensions of Syria
TFF PressInfo # 405 Lund, Sweden – February 24, 2017Failed conflict analysis To analyse a conflict is as necessary as the diagnosis for
Discussing NATO with a former U.S. Ass. Sec. of Defence
A 30 min debate about NATO, Ukraine, Crimea, Yugoslavia, Syria the eternal enemy images and the – obsolete – philosophy on which NATO builds.
MS – Markedsført Sandhed og Syrien? Med tillæg om en god dialog
Introduktion tilføjet den 7. februar 2017 Som det fremgår i en kommentar under denne artikel blev både MS’ forkvinde, Helle Munk Ravnborg og generalsekretær, Tim Whyte,
“Shadow World” – on your tax money
I’ve felt deeply touched by Johan Grimonprez’ brilliant and frightening documentary “Shadow World” which is based on Andrew Feinstein’s book with the same name. I
Obama is urged to make closer ties with Iran
In an open letter – hardly mentioned by the Western mainstream press, a group of high-level and rather “Realpolitik” US diplomats, scholars, military and politicians urge
Much stronger than during the First Cold War: Why is NATO so irrational today?
By Jan Oberg The third article in the TFF series on The New Cold War We are witnessing a remarkable increase in tension between
“Peace, Conflict, Democracy”
The West leaves, a multi-polar world comes Jan Øberg – Video lecture – Part 1/3
NATO’s confrontational policy
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
On Obama’s visit to Hiroshima – TFF PressInfo # 373
TFF PressInfo # 373: What Obama should do in Hiroshima tomorrowArticles by Jonathan Power & Richard Falkhttp://bit.ly/1U8PEq3 With an intro by Jan Oberg.
The Western moral decay
The World Humanitarian Summit held in Istanbul, May 23-24, 2016 failed to achieve its fund-raising goals. No one from the richest countries – except
Sverige går före med att upphäva asylrätten
Just så. Sverige gör sig till huvudansvarig för en domino-effekt genom EU. Enligt Aftonbladet är även FN djupt bekymrad. Detta kan i
Burundi’s crisis: Complacency, inaction or racism – or all of it?
There is no end, it seems, to diplomats and government representatives who “express concern”, appeal, urge the parties to show restraint, warn, condemn etc.
Libya, “migrants” and EU military action
E.U. Seeks U.N. Backing for Military Action to Stop Wave of Migrants Fleeing Horrific Abuse in Libya | Democracy Now!I’ve been around for a
Yemen – the mainstream narrative is grossly misleading
TFF PressInfo # 317 – My introduction to four important articles by TFF Associates on the conflict and violence in Yemen.
The links between refugees and war
It’s our wars, stupid!A short interview on Russia Today about Europe’s woefully inadequate understanding of why refugees come here.Towards a solution: Deal with conflicts
The UN Yemen mediator resigns – conspicuously
UN Yemen envoy Jamal Benomar resigns amid crisis – Al Jazeera English How conspicuous that Benomar – whom I happen to know a little
Comments to Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Today Charles Krauhammer – a well-known extreme rightist usually advocating war – writes in the Washington Post under the headline “The Iran deal: The
Iran nuclear deal – a road to peace
Jan Oberg commenting on Iranian President Rouhani: “Tehran abides by commitments, if P5 1 fulfills promises” – YouTube/PressTV http://ow.ly/LbX3d In spite of the deal’s
16 years since NATO started its war on Yugoslavia – all criminals still at large
Today – 16 years since NATO began to bomb Serbia and did so mercilessly for 78 days to carve out Kosovo as an independent
EU agrees on sanctions on Russia – but what about peace?
EU agrees Russia sanctions to stay until Ukraine peace terms met (Reuters). Exactly as expected. If the EU can make a conflict-resolution mistake, rest
Syrien – hvad kunne være gjort og hvad kan stadig gøres?
Gad vide hvor mange mislykkede krige vi endnu skal igennem før især politikere og medier opdager det indlysende faktum, at der findes et temmeligt