Den 20. januar 2022 udsendte det statsfinancierede DIIS – Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier – et nyhedsbrev i hvilket mit øje på et foto af en slags demonstration med en banderole på hvilken der står “Boycott Beijing 2022 The Genocide Games” (se herunder). Ordet “genocide” – folkemord – står i rødt og under opfordringen bruges de olympiske ringe. Som det fremgår ovenfor så illustrerer fotoet … Continue reading Ligesom USA mener DIIS tilsyneladende at der foregår et folkemord i Xinjiang
• The US military in 2019 was hiding Syria airstrikes that killed dozens of civilians The two attacks in 2019 led to the deaths of up to 64 women and children, a possible war crime The US military called the strikes ‘legitimate self-defence’, and said the victims could have been combatants as some, including at least one child, were armed We should thank the New … Continue reading Two everyday stories about the US’ ongoing militarist perversity and spiritual death
“Kill, kill, kill for peace…!” (Tuli Kupferberg) Arbejderen er naturligvis den eneste,der mener at den hér slags nyheder også er værd at bringe. Tak for det! Afghanistan – den forudsigelige våben- og krigsfiasko – må da danne et fint bagtæppe til denne messe: Våben er nyttige, neutrale og kan løse alle politiske og samfundsmæssige problemer, forbedre menneskerettighederne og bidrage til kvindefrigørelsen. Ik’? Kort sagt, alt … Continue reading Afghanistan-fiaskoen som bagtæppe for våbenkonference i Aalborg
Photo by Farid Ershad on Unsplash En kommentar og nogle eksempler på hvor galt det står til med Danmarks Radios dækning (1) Det officielle Danmark – danske regeringer, ministre, folketingsmedlemmer og mange andre – er medansvarlig for hver eneste af de forbrydelser og de lidelser, krigen mod Afghanistan har indebåret siden 7. oktober 2001. De er sket efter at Danmark, i 1999 med bombningen i … Continue reading USAs og Danmarks nederlag i Afghanistan
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
23. januar 2020 Den 3. januar fortalte DR’s Mellemøstenkorespondent, Puk Damsgaard, at den iranske “skyggegeneral” Soleimani, der netop var blevet likvideret i Bagdads lufthavn på ordre af præsident Trump selv, havde tusindvis af amerikanske soldaters blod på sine hænder. Klik på linket ovenfor – og så opdager du at jeg skriver tusindvis men at artiklens overskrift siger hundredvis. Men den er god nok. DR fandt … Continue reading Puk Damsgaard, kildefusk og DR’s amerikaniserede verdenbillede
Jan Oberg Comment A US war game/scenario being reported by The Intercept is pretty revealing for the lack of even the slightest re-thinking of what the Global War On Terror (GWOT) is really all about. The US military’s game is about violence-for-violence, tit-for-tat. The main result from this – anti-intellectual – attitude and policy is that there are about 80 times – yes, times – … Continue reading Main creator of terrorism is US war on terror, not terrorists
I read dozens of articles every day about various conflict zones, commentaries, war reports and – the few times it happens – possibilities of peace. I read about Syria in particular as I have since I visited Damascus and Aleppo in December 2016.
It’s important that one does not, over time, develop the disease called “psychic numbing” – an excellent concept developed by Robert Jay Lifton, a former TFF Associate.
I’m not going to discuss that article but would like to call your attention to this sentence – that Ignatius does not even dwell on:
One knowledgeable official estimates that the CIA-backed fighters may have killed or wounded 100,000 Syrian soldiers and their allies over the past four years.
I fail to understand it. I read it again. I’d urge you to do likewise.
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
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
“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 you too in the sense of clarifying two approaches and positions on Syria. Its focus is on the difference in media coverage of the terrible events in Khan Seykhoun and al-Rashideen but there is much more to it. I’ll keep on … Continue reading Syria – two perspectives illustrated
TFF LiveApril 12, 2017 The secretaries of state, Tillerson and Lavrov meet today. We seem to enter a stage of what must appropriately be perceived as a frosty new Cold War. In the worst of cases this can lead to a new Cuban Missile Crisis. God forbid! Continue reading The US/NATO confrontation with Russia is dangerous
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”
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
Commenting with David Swanson, leading and sharp peace intellectual, on the inauguration of Trump – also about the legacy of Barrack Obama. For Iran’s international PressTV. Posted on TFF’s blog. Continue reading From Obama to Trump
New year’s night, January 1, 2017 This girl had come out of Eastern Aleppo after four dark years of occupation by Western-backed terrorists – too many to name. People who for no reason had destroyed her home, her part of that beautiful city. Perhaps half of her life living in fear, perhaps having lost family members. I do not know. I met her on December 14 … Continue reading The little girl from Eastern Aleppo
Last night I had the opportunity to discuss nuclear weapons with an experienced, high-ranking security analyst who has been both a military, a scholar, an assistant secretary of defence, presidential adviser, a corporate man and now a think tank member, Lawrence J. Korb. We were discussing the issues touched upon in this and this article. I would assume that the debate – facilitated by Iran’s PressTV in … Continue reading U.S. nuclear policies – two world views
Hillary Rodham Clinton was nominated last night by the Democratic Party as its candidate for the U.S. Presidency. She may well win on November 8.
What a tragedy for Western democracy that the leader of what is still called the free, democratic world cannot produce better candidates than Trump and Clinton through a disgustingly commercialized and corrupt political process where candidates like Jill Stein – did you ever hear of that candidate? – doesn’t have a chance because she cannot mobilize the funds.
As a European intellectual with a life-long commitment to peace and democracy, I find little reason to celebrate.
And why the total focus on a few individuals at the top but not the structures that will run them both, such as the Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex (MIMAC); the cancer in many societies, including Russia, that President Eisenhower warned the world about in his farewell speech already in 1961?
How short the media memory! Hillary Clinton’s nomination celebrated all over the mainstream press as a victory for the party – preventing it from splitting – and for all women.
But how can people – women in particular – really believe in such genderism: that she will be a better president for the US and the world because she’s a woman? Hasn’t the world learnt anything from the inverse racism:that Obama would be a great presidentbecause he is black?
How blind the media to militarism, war and other violence: Not one media focuses on the Clinton’s well-documented fascination with violence and war.
It’s time to refresh the memory of the Clintons:
Bill Clinton’s record
From 1994 BC broke all promises made by his predecessors and other Western politician to Gorbachev about “not expanding NATO an inch”. He started out in Tblisi, Georgia. I happened to be there, spoke with the U.S. representative to the country and got a sense what was coming. Later too in Yugoslavia.
There is a straight line from that fatal arrogance to today’s Second Cold War in Europe, Ukraine having – predictably – to be the this-far-and-no-longer country of that mindless and reckless expansion that should never have happened.
Here is my take on the July 15 coup in Turkey – why it happened the way it did and what is the least unlikely hypothesis – followed by some examples of regional and international consequences this coup is bound to have. And it ends: NATO comes across as a very tired alliance that should have been closed down or re-invented itself 25 years ago … Continue reading Turkey’s coup – Another example of the West’s disintegration
Commenting on PressTv on July 22, 2016 after yet another tragedy in the Mediterranean. But how much did the media cover that in comparison with the Nice tragedy – and Hollande’s killing of 120 innocent civilians as revenge for Nice (which at the time was not known to have any connections to ISIS or similar). Continue reading EU’s so-called refugee crisis – and what should and must be done
Så skete det igen og mediedækningen valgte – som i de 15 onde år siden 9/11 – de politisk korrekte vinkler på hvem, der gjorde det, hvordan de gjorde og hvor – ikke på hovedspørgsmålet: Hvorfor?
Det samme skete i 2015 med de to politiske mord i København; i TV-debatten fra Christiansborg nægte samtlige partiledere uden undtagelse at diskutere hvorfor det skete. Og uden årsager/diagnose kan man ikke komme frem til en relevant løsning/behandling.
Det eneste, der er værre end terroren er vores egen ‘krig mod terroren.”
Det ville være vidunderligt hvis vi kunne hoppe af voldsspiralen siden 9/11 hvor vi startede krig mod noget, der var en apokalyptisk kriminel handling men ikke krig. Men intet tyder herpå. Europa mangler i den grad informeret politik, humanisme og lederskab.
Hvadder i Europa slapt kaldes en flygtningekrise er en kombi-krise med helt andre elementer: Islamofobi, managementkrise, manglende folkeretsrespekt og human vilje. 1,2 millioner er kommet ind til en befolkning på 508 millioner – altså 0,2%. Og vi klarer det bare ikke.
