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’
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
With a focus on possible war on Iran, TFF Associates argue that the US must – and can – be stopped. It doesn’t have a God-given exceptionalist status. It has become “too arrogant.” By Pascal Lottaz, Annette Schiffman and Jan Oberg, TFF ◆ We have just published this strong appeal statement on The Transnational and TFF on Substack. The Trump Regime must be stopped before … Continue reading 1035 – Neither the US and its allies nor any other state has a right to intervene in the domestic affairs of other nations.
February 17, 2025 So happy again to be on a show at Pascal’s Neutrality Studies and meet Ulrike Guérot. I’m advancing the idea – and not for the first time – that humanity, all of us, think far too much about the past and the present – so much so that there is no space and interest in how to define and search for a … Continue reading What to do pro-peace – and with Eutopia thinking
It’s all self-destructive. The West should join the world and become a good partner, not a dominator On February 10, 2025, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Anthony Fatseas, who runs the WTFinance Channel on YouTube. Interestingly, Anthony’s channel defines economy in a much broader, structural framework than most of the departments of ‘national economics.’ I would call it Real, social or cultural … Continue reading Western collapse thanks to militarism and the wish to dominate
It has great potentials and needs global citizens’ – your – support. November 4, 2024 Amid global conflicts escalating, why has the United Nations, tasked with maintaining peace, seemingly failed to fulfil its role? Why is a ceasefire agreement in Gaza proving elusive, and why does a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine remain distant? Professor Jan Oberg delves into the underlying reasons why achieving world … Continue reading NO! The UN is not useless. The REAL problem is members’ UN-despising and criminal behaviour.
A major peace publishing event across cultures: The cover story of the esteemed “China Investment” Magazine’s July 2023 edition. And now also an opinion piece in China’s Global Times: The world’s taxpayers pay US $ 2240 billion annually to their national military defence. That is the highest ever and more than 600 times the regular budget of the United Nations, 3 times the total trade … Continue reading ❗Towards a new peace and security thinking for the multi-polar, cooperative and peaceful world
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 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?
I’m very happy to announce that I have just agreed with The Citizen in New Delhi, India, to serve as an about-monthly columnist on global affairs and peace. The Citizen is an independent online news daily. As they write under About: “We believe that independent media can thrive, if it is citizen-led and funded. The Citizen is you.” That’s exactly the philosophy we have at … Continue reading New assignment – Regular columnist at The Citizen in India
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
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
November 23 and 24, 2020, marked an important event in the international academic/university history of peace and conflict research. The reason is that the Faculty of World Studies at Tehran University held a large – online – conference – “International Conference on Peace and Conflict Resolution (ICPCR)”. My colleague and friend there, associate professor Ali Akbar Alikhani, is the dynamic pioneer of this important endeavour … Continue reading Keynote speech for academic peace research in Iran