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’
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
Av Erni & Ola Friholt * Fredsrörelsen på Orust i Sverige & TFF Associerede Med början i maj månad 2025 har under detta år 59 opinionsbildare, journalister och militärer blivit bannlysta av Europaunionen. Bland dessa finns den schweiziske översten och säkerhetsexperten Jacques Baud, med erfarenhet från Natouppdrag i Ukraina. Beslutsfattare är Europeiska rådet, som består av medlemsstaternas statschefer och statsministrar, möjligen i samförstånd med EUs … Continue reading Medeltidens återkomst
Discuss problems and improvements as part of the celebrations Jan Oberg December 10, 2023 I was asked by American-French Michèle de Gastyne, who runs Musique Universelle Arc-En-Ciel in Paris, to do a short video about human rights for a seminar she also organises on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the Declaration. Michèle works with a strong inspiration from the Japan-based lay Buddhist organisation, … Continue reading The UN Human Rights Declaration turns 75 today
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
Jan Oberg July 8, 2022 There have been lots of reports about how G7 leaders snubbed dinner, photo-op, handshake, concerts, etc. since Russia’s foreign minister Lavrov would also be present during the G20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia. Here is Lavrov’s comment to Tass: “This is how they understand protocol, politeness and code of conduct.” Here is another report. This is of course neither professional, good … Continue reading G7 Leaders’ Bullying Bali Behaviour
Foredrag holdt på møde arrangeret af Fredsministerium i Ubuntu-huset i Købmagergade i København den 20. november 2021. Videon optaget af Jacob Holdt “Vestverden må vælge: Freds uden militarisme eller nedgang og fald. Debat om den internationale udvikling, freden og fredens bevægelse.” Til forskel fra militarismens advokater – regeringer, NGOs, “tænketanke,” mainstream mikrofonholdere og statsfinancierede forsknings- eller snarere udrednings-institutter – så har min blog ingen andre … Continue reading Videoforedrag: “Vestverden må vælge: Fred uden militarisme eller nedgang og fald”.
Den 9:e juni 2021 höll jag ett kort och lite spontant föredrag om vad fred kan tänkas vara – hur tänker vi och varför har samtalet om fred försvunnit? Det gjorde jag för Rotary-klubben i Drøbak i Norge på invitation av min ven, Thore Vestby, där. Jag lägger upp det här till allmän inspiration – och det finns tillsammans med väldigt många andra föredrag på … Continue reading Vad kan fred tänkas vara?
30. april 2020 Jeg har her tidligere her på bloggen skrevet om kunstneren Gudrun Steen-Andersens særdeles innovative installation, Perpetuum Mobile, der inddrager forskere i et tankeeksperiment – “Hvad hvis al migration blev givet fri i verden?” – som de så besvarer i korte videoer. Det var 2019. I marts i år blev de samme personer bedt om at gentage sine svar men denne gang på … Continue reading What if worldwide migration was free…Hvis migration blev fri…
Om en tidsvigtig video-baseret kunstinstallation af Gudrun Steen-Andersen i Aarhus 7. juli 2019 Invandring og det fremtidige, blandede, multikulturelle samfund er et af tidens vigtigste spørgsmål – især hvis det kobles sammen med krigen som institution. For dén er jo den største producent af asylsøgende og flygtninge. Billedhuggeren Gudrun Steen-Andersen, der holder til i Aarhus, har fået den geniale idé at fokusere på denne problemstilling … Continue reading Hvad vil ske, hvis al ud- og indvandring blev givet fri worldwide?
Jan Øberg den 1. septembr 2017. Fredagscafé hos Enhedslisten i Esbjerg. Continue reading Hvorfor krigen mod terror er håbløs
Why is the UN still so important – in spite of having had its Charter violated repeatedly during the last 25 years? Why should we not – cynically – side with the cynical and powerful countries that want to undermine and marginalise the world’s finest organisation with the most Gandhian-like document ever signed by governments? What is the real UN and what does its Charter … Continue reading Why is the UN still so important – while it must also be reformed?
Jeg eksperimenterer for tiden med video – såvel vedrørende international politik og fred som foto og anden kunst. De skabes på min iPhone og jeg er fascineret af de muligheder, denne rivende hurtige tekniske udvikling giver os – for både at nyde, lære, skabe kontakter og lave alternativer til de traditionelle medier. Vil derfor lige nævne at jeg løbende poster videoer fra Basel – Art … Continue reading Video-rapporter fra Art Basel 2017
There should be a lower intellectual level to the statements by a US Secretary of Defence. There should be a debunking of the unethical behaviour that repeatedly state that there is only a political solution to Syria and continue to use only violence. There should be a discussion about international law here. There should be a discussion of what is morally defensible in this case, … Continue reading Intellectual nonsense about Syria
“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
This is TFF Live on Facebook – the live broadcast I do now and then because live broadcasts have a much larger dissemination than articles, images, texts and Youtube videos. You may find more here. I argue why I believe NATO belongs to the past and should have been dissolved when the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact dissolved in 1989. I also say a … Continue reading NATO should be dissolved – 8 arguments
Here I am with my friends Donald, Bibi, Sara and Melania… And speak a little about the stupidity of scapegoating Iran for everything, of giving Saudi Arabia even more weapons – and being bribed by it – of creating the preconditions for more warfare and about the fact that NATO is setting up shop in Kuwait and there are plans to have a Gulf NATO … Continue reading Discussing Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia
By Jan Oberg Proud to join “Middle East With Naskah Zada” at her program in New York and talking about the reasons that peace has become so ‘unpopular’. Touching also upon international law, the new Cold War and the increasing U.S. involvement in Syria. Continue reading Lost peace and fake news
Videoinspelning av Jan Öbergs föredrag i Stockholm februari 2017 Inspelningen är uppdelad i två delar: Del 1: Vittnesrapport från Aleppo60 min. Del 2: Debatt och vägar till fred i Syrien45 min. Bakgrund10-14:e december 2016 vistades Jan Öberg i Aleppo. Med sin unika erfarenhet från staden ifrågasätter han den gängse massmediarapporteringen, argumenterar för ett nytt sätt att se på konflikter på och ger förslag till den … Continue reading “Vittnesrapport från Aleppo, en annorlunda konfliktanalys och vägar till fred i Syrien”
A 30 min debate about NATO, Ukraine, Crimea, Yugoslavia, Syria the eternal enemy images and the – obsolete – philosophy on which NATO builds. Time for something new, I argue in the debate with former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defence under Reagon, Mr. Lawrence J. Korb who at the time was in command of 70% of Pentagon’s budget. Here in TFF PressInfo # 403 is … Continue reading Discussing NATO with a former U.S. Ass. Sec. of Defence
By Jan Oberg I shot this simple video out of the window on December 13, 2016. I wonder about Aleppo and say #keepfocusonaleppo © Jan Oberg 2016 Here in the Sheikh Najjar Industrial City outside Aleppo lived and worked 40,000 people. It had 50% of Syria’s industrial capacity. Today – after the occupation by Western-backed militants and terrorist groups – this is what is left. … Continue reading I wonder about Aleppo…
Human rights is not my field but we have to speak up against Trump’s personal endorsement of it. This is nothing new, the US has used it all the time. But isn’t it tragic that almost 70 years after torture was prohibited in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we see 141 countries still using torture – according to Amnesty International. Here my short comment … Continue reading On Trump endorsing torture
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