Articles by Transnational Foundation
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‘Lay Down Your Arms Peace Prize’ 2025 to Francesca Albanese
Jan Oberg | TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
Francesca Albanese has forcefully and unwaveringly worked against Israel’s full-scale war on the occupied Palestinian territories, in particular Israel´s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.
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Denmark, Drones & Deception: Europe’s Staged Panic Over False Flag Non-Russian Drones?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
6 Oct 2025 – Officially, the drones were not identified. By simply thinking critically – which journalists and selected experts no longer do – there may be a good reason for that. And this article will never be mentioned in Denmark…
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Nobel ‘Peace’ Committee – A Prize for US Military Regime Change
Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
10 Oct 2025 — The board of the Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research (TFF) strongly condemns the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has once again violated Alfred Nobel’s original mandate by honouring a figure who openly advocates foreign military intervention.
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Don’t Be Fooled: Others Could Have More Interest in Sending Drones to the Nordic Countries Than Russia
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
29 Sep 2025 – Drones over Nordic airports. No damage. No trace. No answers. Most assume Russia—but what if that’s not so? Why is there so much we are not told? Who else might benefit from sending drones into NATO airspace?
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A Call to Citizens Everywhere: Choose Your Action for Justice
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. et al. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
9 Sep 2025 – 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 or citizens’ diplomacy. SHARE!
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Pursuing Fake Peace: Alaska Summit Shows just How Intellectually Peace-poor the Western World Has Become
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
16 Aug 2025 – Perhaps the most amazing thing is that media, commentators and many others seem to believe that peace might appear from such a bread and circus show…
→ read full articleNATO’s 5% of GDP Military Expenditures Is a 100% Indefensible and Stupid Idea
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
26 Jun 2025 – Currently, none of these NATO/EU leaders have a clue about how to finance it except by taking loans (to be paid back by future generations) and reducing expenditures for a broad range of civilian purposes, such as health, education, and culture.
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Prediction with the Main Reasons: The US Will Bomb Iran to Bring about a Regime Change
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
18 Jun 2025 – We’ve seen it repeatedly: You invent a pretext based on deliberate lies, fake news, exaggerations or a false flag operation which serves to construct a story that country or leader X is a threat to “us” which legitimates that we do a ‘preemptive’ strike against that – obviously invented – threat to eliminate it.
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The Middle East as a Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2025
Why the focus ought to be on Israel, not Iran. Israel has 90-400 nuclear weapons. Here is what a simple AI dialogue yields. Any journalist could do it. No one does.
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SIPRI’s Ongoing Decay from Peace to Mainstream Military Security – Its New Director
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
16 Apr 2025 – Naturally, nobody cares about that fraud in today’s Sweden.
→ read full articleHave Militaristic ‘Culture,’ Enemy Images, and Threats of War Become the Unifying Force in Our Society?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
Today is 9 April. It marks the 80th Anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Denmark. Even though this article focuses on Denmark and Sweden, this applies to the Western world as a whole.
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Mineral Deal Gives the US Total Control over Ukraine’s Future
TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
29 Mar 2025 – Imagine Russia or China had suggested a deal with this content and these intentions, depriving Ukraine of its sovereignty.
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Putin Is No Hitler
Craig Murray | Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
16 Mar 2025 – The economies of Western Europe are being realigned onto a war footing, led by the utterly transformed European Union, whose leaders are now channeling an atavistic hereditary hatred of Russia.
→ read full articleMilitary Expenditures as a Percentage of GDP: A 100% Indefensible and Stupid Idea
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
– that everybody seems to love.
→ read full articleHappy 75th Birthday, Dear China!
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – Today marks the 75th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s proclamation of the People’s Republic of China. There are many reasons to congratulate China.
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Why Is NATO Expanding Its Nuclear Force?
Stephen Bryen | TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
Is Washington Extending the Nuclear Umbrella to Ukraine?
→ read full articleThe US/NATO/EU World Now Accepts Defence through Genocide
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
21 Oct 2023 – In civilisational terms war is a backward, primitive thing that solves no conflicts and creates no security. It’s a system of structural evil. Equally primitive and uncultured is the black-and-white, simplified narrative that there is only one evil party: Gazans/Hamas.
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If You Want Peace, Don’t Focus on the Violence and the Evil Guy
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
A Personal Pledge Provoked by the Debates about Syria – About 95% of all debates about conflicts and war that we see in politics, mainstream media, the Internet and social media focus on the violence, who uses more or less of it and who is, therefore, the evil party.
→ read full articleThe US Syria “Strategy” – Recipe for Continued Disaster Even for the US
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
We’ve of course seen it all before. It’s about bases (like, say, Kosovo), about control of resources (like, say, Iraq), about regime change (like, say Saddam Hussein and Moamar Khadafi) and it’s about the exceptionalist belief that God’s own country has God’s mandate to create US Imperial peace everywhere – no matter how many times it has already gone madly wrong and no matter how many innocent people are killed and wounded in the process.
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Johan Galtung Is Awarded Peace Prize in Nobel’s Spirit
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
On 2 December 2017 Johan Galtung is awarded the alternative peace prize, The People’s Peace Prize In Accordance With Nobel’s Will.
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What Makes Google’s Eric Schmidt so Afraid? And What Should He Be Afraid of?
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
21 Nov 2017 – This very powerful corporate leader with an open political orientation has decided that the Internet and his hugely dominating search engine,
a) shall cave in to political pressure,
b) de-rank at least these two Russian media organizations because
c) he knows they are “propaganda outlets” (it isn’t discussed at all or compared with US or other countries’ media) and
d) in the name of political correctness it is OK to limit the freedom of opinion-formation.
Trump Moves towards War with Iran
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
12 Oct 2017 – With his speech today–half an hour ago–U.S. President Trump has taken a huge step into uncharted territories. One that implies a 60-75% risk of leading to a US attack on Iran. Behind him stand the hardline militarists whom he has himself appointed. Indeed, God help America! Mostly from itself!
→ read full articleNobel’s Peace Prize to ICAN: Thank You to the Nobel Committee!
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
Our thanks to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee for awarding its 2017 Prize to ICAN – the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
→ read full articleYou’re Invited to the Nuclear Denial Party!
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
6 Aug 2017 – Since marketing, omitted and fake news have – to a worrying extent – replaced knowledge and ethics, why not celebrate that the media have omitted every mention of Hiroshima Day today? Welcome to the Nuclear Denial Party!!
→ read full articleOn The Mainstream Media Coverage of Nuclear War Risks and Nuclear Abolition
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
30 Jun 2017 – Ask yourself whether you remember to have seen one or more of these essentially important initiatives and reports recently, all pertaining to nuclear weapons, the risk of nuclear war and advocacy of nuclear abolition.
→ read full articleWashington’s New Threat against Syria, Russia and Iran: Invitation to False Flag Operation
Farhang Jahanpour | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
29 Jun 2017 – The world is poised at a very critical juncture. The events in Syria could either lead to the restoration of stability in that war-torn country whose people have gone through unimaginable hardships, or it can pave the way for a global confrontation the outcome of which is too frightening to contemplate.
→ read full articleTrump in Riyadh – A Gulf NATO to Gang Up against Iran and Syria
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
His visit must be seen in the light of a number of events and trends, and in what follows we do like the military when it scans the horizon for enemies: we look for patterns – not the least Saudi Arabia’s “surprising new military goals” as Forbes’ Ellen Wald appropriately calls them. Or, as they say – we connect some dots that, invariably, Western mainstream media have no capacity and probably also no interest in connecting.
→ read full articleWhy Everyone but NATO Live Happily with Russia
Jonathan Power | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
Jonathan Power turns around the perspective – something seldom done in Western debate: What’s the reason that NATO is the only one around the world that has a negative relation to Russia today? And insists on having it? Trump proposes a huge increase in military spending but the U.S. already spends more than the next seven biggest spenders combined, China and Russia included!
→ read full articleUnique Aleppo Photos Seen by over 100.000 People but Not in Mainstream Media
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
21 Feb 2017 – It’s probably unusual that a research organisation’s photos go viral – and do so in spite of the mainstream media’s manifest lack of interest in their story. But the photos I took in Aleppo in Syria December 10-14, 2016 have been seen here by well over 100.000 people around the world, exclusively by organic, non-paid online sharing.
→ read full articleKeep Focus on Aleppo and Global Dimensions of Syria
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
24 Feb 2017 – Three Perspectives on the Syrian Conflict Formation – The Syrian conflict formation is hugely more complicated than we’ve been told by Western politicians (all mainstream in spite of democratic features) and mainstream/dependent media.
→ read full articleMoscow & Washington – Last Chance to Get It Right?
Jonathan Power | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Russia and the US have never fought each other in the 200 years of their relationship. Russia aided the North during the Civil War and sent warships to prevent England and France supporting the confederacy. During the World Wars the two were close allies.
→ read full articleUS Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D) Visits Syria
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
30 Jan 2017
26 Jan 2017 – Tulsi Gabbard and former peace presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich have just visited Aleppo and Damascus in Syria and met citizens, religious leaders and President Assad. A brilliant blow to US/NATO policies and mainstream media.
→ read full articleAleppo’s Evil Humanitarians
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
Aleppo Shall Not Be Forgotten – Eyewitness to who helped the Aleppians, Dec 11-14, 2016. This eyewitness report and documentation contradicts the major Western mainstream media’s narrative. In spite of the world historic dimension of this liberation, the tragedy of these innocent war victims and the heartbreakingly vast proportions of the systematic destruction of this dynamic city, none of their media were present in Aleppo there and then.
→ read full articleSyria’s Destruction – When Everybody Thinks Power and No One Thinks Peace
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2016
The consequences of ignoring every known and simple conflict and peace method and pursuing nationalist, racist and militarist policies. Peace was never an important factor in anything Western countries have done in and to Syria. No matter what they say. If it were, this would not be the result. It’s easy to blame Syria and Russia for the destruction of Aleppo. Far far too easy.
→ read full articleKissinger and Brzezinski to Be Honoured by Nobel Institute and Oslo University
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
These two top officials behind major US wars (Iran/Afghanistan and Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos) and regime change (against Allende, Chile) will speak at the first of a new event, The Nobel Peace Prize Forum Oslo, created by the Nobel Institute in Oslo. One way to go: Boycott the event and let Kissinger, Brzezinski, Njölstad and Ottersen be the only ones who turn up in that huge hall on December 11th. Or, go there – students, media and civil society – and raise all the questions any independent, decent academic must.
→ read full articleJust How Grey Are the White Helmets and Their Backers? (Part 2)
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
• The – bizarre – White Helmet Mannequin Challenge video;
• The Swedish Institute of International Affairs’s event with the White Helmets on November 24;
• The Right Livelihood Award Foundation’s Award Ceremony to take place on November 25
Just How Grey Are the White Helmets and Their Backers? (Part 1)
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
While thousands of humanitarian organisations around the world are struggling fiercely with diminishing support from governments and the public, one has achieved a surprising amount of support from Western governments in a surprisingly short period of time and gained a surprising attention from mainstream media and ditto political elites: The Syrian Civil Defence or White Helmets. Their name of course makes you think of the UN’s Blue Helmet and white is the colour of those who should be protected in harm’s way – and the colour of innocence.
→ read full articleStockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, at 50. Now Change Name to SIMSI
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
I have a proposal for this mainly government-financed and not exactly independent institute. Since its work has so conspicuously little to do with peace thinking and re-search into the vast and fascinating field called world peace, perhaps change its name to Stockholm International Military Security Institute, SIMSI?
→ read full articleUkraine as the Border of NATO Expansion
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
3 Oct 2016
And Why Russia Doesn’t Have to Be a Threat to the West
→ read full articleHow Did Western Europe Cope with a Much Stronger Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact?
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
5 Sep 2016
How did Western Europe survive the much stronger Soviet Union & Warsaw Pact 30-40 years ago? A pact that had about 70% of NATO’s military expenditures where today’s Russia has 8%? How did we get on after the Soviet invasion of Hungary and Czechoslovakia – and a Union with much more global military and political influence?
→ read full articleThe Clintons Celebrated – But Likely Disastrous for the World
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
1 Aug 2016
I can only hope that I am wrong but I fear that Hillary Clinton – if she becomes the next President of the United States – is likely to be yet another militarist disaster for the world. And for the US itself whose manifest destiny is now manifest decline, caused mainly by all the failed wars, the cost of militarism and their consequences and blowback effects.
→ read full articleFearology and Militarism but the Real Enemy Is Us
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
11 Jul 2016
NATO: Why does an alliance with such an overwhelming superiority shout and scream and see ghosts on the horizon when, in reality, there are none? Why does it seem to be intellectually unable to see things from the side of its opponent? Is the show of strength in reality a sign of weakness?
→ read full articleCheating Moscow – NATO’s Dangerous Expansion
Jonathan Power - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
11 Jul 2016
On Sunday [26 Jun] the foreign minister of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said, “Anyone who believes the symbolic tank parades on the Alliance’s eastern border will increase security is wrong”. Apart from the appalling fact that the West is contemplating all out war against Russia there is the plain fact that it has expanded NATO in contravention of the solemn understandings given the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War.
→ read full articleMuch Stronger Than During the First Cold War – Why Is NATO So Irrational?
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
4 Jul 2016
Why is the new tension rising in Europe between US/NATO and Russia so manifestly dangerous and – with the exception of the Cuban Missile Crisis worse than during the First Cold War?… One must indeed wonder why the West that has much less to fear militarily than ever since 1945 either ‘pretends’ to be so fearful or acts with such out-of-proportion ‘irrationality and alarmism.’
→ read full articleThe Brexit Shock – Now All Is Up in the Air!
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
27 Jun 2016
24 Jun 2016 – The UK, Europe and the rest of the world will be affected. But there has been no planning for this anywhere. It’s now all up in the air what this Brexit vote will be the starting point of. All we can safely predict is that we are in for interesting times! ”May you live in interesting times” as the English say, considering it a curse.
→ read full articleA Sunni-Salafist-Zionist Coalition Changing Middle East?
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
4 Apr 2016
Countries that do something good for themselves and for the world – positive sum – will win even where others are playing win-lose – zero sum – games. In today’s world the paradigm of security against others is only for intellectual, political and moral losers. What was meant to secure us all has turned into the greatest threat to us all.
→ read full articleRussian Withdrawal from Syria: Could It Be the Beginning of the End?
Farhang Jahanpour - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
21 Mar 2016
One of the reasons for the negative and cynical comments about the Russian move is that in five months President Putin has achieved more in halting the advance of the terrorists in Syria than the West had achieved in five years, if indeed it had been the West’s real intention to defeat the terrorists.
→ read full articleWill the EU Become a Criminal Union Tomorrow?
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
21 Mar 2016
We live in times where little shall surprise us anymore. The answer to the question – will EU become a criminal in international law terms? – will be answered on March 17 and 18 when the EU Council meets to decide whether or not to carry through the agreement with Turkey about how to handle refugees.
→ read full articleCan We Give Meaning to the Destruction of Syria?
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
7 Mar 2016
In 2011 when it all began, an educated conflict analyst or otherwise conflict competent person would have said about the conflict in Syria that it was a very complex thing, caused by history, environment, traumas, external factors, the economic situation, etc. And that al-Assad and his government was certainly an important reason but far from the only one.
→ read full articleThe Deeper Reason Syria Negotiations Are Doomed
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
1 Feb 2016
Governments are still so much more professional and resourceful when it comes to wars and militarism than they are when it comes to conflict-resolution and peace. The main reason everywhere is the vested elite interests in MIMAC, the Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex – a cancer that kills hundreds of thousands of people, create refugees and work against both democracy and peace.
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons and Nuclearism: Abolish or Be Abolished
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
1 Feb 2016
The nuclear age is an age of terror. Nuclear weapons are the ultimate weapons of terror. You can’t use them without killing millions of innocent people. Targetting innocent people, people who are not part of a conflict, is a central defining characteristics of terrorism.
→ read full articleBurundi’s Crisis and the World’s Inability to Prevent Violence
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
9 Nov 2015
9 Nov 2015 – The big – not great – powers of the world have embassies everywhere, plenty of intelligence services, special forces on the ground and satellites in space. They can even hit and kill individuals they don’t like.
→ read full articleTen Articles on the Nuclear Treaty with Iran
Farhang Jahanpour - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
26 Oct 2015
Given the generally insufficient and/or biased knowledge in media and politics about Iran and this cluster of issues, we have a world renowned expert with Iranian roots sharing his knowledge: Dr. Farhang Jahanpour, Oxford University.
→ read full articleIran’s Nuclear Deal, a Great Achievement, but Hard Work Ahead
Prof. Farhang Jahanpour - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
20 Jul 2015
14 Jul 2015 – The announcement of the nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers is a rare moment in history that gives us hope and provides a basis for optimism. By contemplating what the alternative would have entailed, any agreement, no matter how defective, is a great achievement and has to be welcomed.
→ read full articleCongratulations and Thank You, Iran!
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
20 Jul 2015
It is a revolution – namely, solving problems at the table rather than through yet another failed, counterproductive and self-defeating Western war on a Middle Eastern country. A victory for nonviolence and intelligence over violence and human folly; for civilisation, for civilised manners – and with the “object” itself being a civilisation.
→ read full articleOutrageus Attempt at Killing a Deal with Iran
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
29 Jun 2015
25 Jun 2015 – Internal elite power games in Washington are now putting Middle Eastern and global stability and peace at stake. The Iran nuclear issue can only be solved through mutual respect, dialogue and fairness and a principled policy that precludes the idea of “one set of rules for you and one for us”.
→ read full articleBreaking the Promise to Russia
Jonathan Power - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
8 Jun 2015
President Bill Clinton decided to expand NATO’s membership to former members of the Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact. George Kennan, America’s elder statesman on Russian issues, characterized it as the most dangerous foreign policy decision that the US had made since the end of the Second World War.
→ read full articleThe Friends of Nukes Are Losing
Gunnar Westberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
1 Jun 2015
There is more hope today for a ban on nuclear weapons than we have seen for twenty years. No less than 159 states agreed that they must be abolished. Even more important, 107 countries asked for legal measures for a prohibition of nuclear weapons – use, threat, production, storage.
→ read full articleBurundi: Plan Genuine Humanitarian Intervention Now!
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
18 May 2015
The coup d’etat of May 13 [2015] has failed, its masters being arrested. President Nkurunziza who was in Tanzania when ousted will return as soon as he feels he can trust enough loyalists; there may well be increased repression of the people everywhere and violence between loyalists and opposition. Toward civil war? Toward genocide?
→ read full articleToday’s V-Day as a Lost Opportunity for Peace-Making
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
11 May 2015
Today, May 9, Russia commemorates V-Day – 70 years ago they won over Nazi Germany. The price they paid were 20-26 million human beings of which 9 million soldiers. But on the order of Washington, all European leaders–recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize–with the remarkable exception of Chancellor Merkel, today ignore the sufferings of the Soviet citizens and stay away as a protest. Permit me to call it insensitive, shortsighted and narrow-minded.
→ read full articleBurundi: Denying or Hoping Won’t Do
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
11 May 2015
Everyone who cares will see all the red lamps and hear the alarm bells. We have a history of genocide in this country and neighbouring Rwanda just a few years ago. There is something to build our early warnings on. But who is listening? Who is taking action, serious political action?
→ read full articleBehind Every Refugee Stands an Arms Trader
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
4 May 2015
These boat refugees run away to another continent without shoes, money or belongings because their lives are unbearable and they have absolutely no hope. Refugees are not happiness-seekers. Using “migrants” instead of “refugees” takes away our attention from why they flee, from our own complicity in all this and it reduces our responsibility to protect refugees.
→ read full articleBurundi: Early Warning and Violence Prevention
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
4 May 2015
The present conflict is rooted in power politics, structural-economic inequality throughout society and in woefully inadequate international attention and assistance. The Hutu-Tutsi difference is not a basic cause, but, of course, cynical manipulators may later use it to mobilise energy for violence.
→ read full articleIran Nuclear Deal – They’ve Done It!
Farhang Jahanpour - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
13 Apr 2015
The truth of the matter is that both sides have made some concessions and sacrifices, with Iran making the greatest concessions in return for as yet uncertain rewards. However, under the present circumstances and in the current highly charged climate this was the best outcome that one could hope for.
→ read full articleFrom Preventing to Making Peace in Ukraine
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
16 Mar 2015
You’ve heard everybody involved in the Ukraine conflict solemnly declared that there is no military solution. And what do they all do? Right, they militarise the situation further, use bellicose language, speak bad about each other, take provocative steps, use propaganda and flex their military muscles. These men – sorry, but they are all men – who are competent in war and violence run our world.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize Watch Launched
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
9 Mar 2015
On March 3, 2015 major news sources broke the quite extraordinary story that the chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee had been demoted; it’s the first time it has ever happened. The ‘Lay Down Your Arms Association’ was incorporated and registered in Sweden and set up the Nobel Peace Prize Watch where you can acquaint yourself with the Prize, its history, background, the criticism over time, etc.
→ read full articleIslam Is Not the Problem – But Keep Your Own House in Order
Jonathan Power - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
9 Feb 2015
The revolts of the so-called Arab Spring show that most Muslims of the Middle East want democracy even though they also want their country to be Islamist. An overwhelming majority of the worldwide community of close to 2 billion Muslims abhor both authoritarianism and terrorism. (Not to be overlooked is that as recently as 1945 there were only 10 democracies in the Western world.)
→ read full articleOpen Letter to Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum
Kamran Mofid - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
26 Jan 2015
I notice that you hope the 2015 WEF meeting will be a “starting point for a renaissance of global trust”. This is a noble aim, very important and timely. Trust surely comes from the experience of a relationship – an in-depth experience – which by its nature is rooted in values that are not necessarily economic or monetary.
→ read full articleInterview with “Iran Review” – And a Word about Intellectual Freedom
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
26 Jan 2015
TFF has been engaged with an in Iran the last three years. We believe that the general image in Western media – covering almost only Iran’s nuclear program, human rights violations and Iran as a threat to the world – is neither objective nor fair.
→ read full article“We Are All Charlie” – But Is That Story so Simple?
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
19 Jan 2015
U.S., NATO and EU’s agenda at the moment is – “we kill people who kill people because it is wrong to kill people” and thus we bomb IS, fight terrorist groups we have nurtured to quite an extent ourselves and move from one crisis (mis)management to the next.
→ read full articleSolve the Ukraine Crisis Now
Jonathan Power - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
5 Jan 2015
Moscow no longer trusts verbal understandings that can be broken, as when the Reagan Administration gave President Mikhail Gorbachev the distinct impression that the US would not take advantage of the Soviet Union now that the Cold War was over. But it did. President Bill Clinton provocatively began the expansion of NATO which has now reached right up to Russia’s borders.
→ read full articleMisleading the World on Iran’s “Bomb”
Jonathan Power - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
23 Dec 2014
Over many years the US with European connivance most – not always – of the time manufactured and manipulated the whole crisis. To overcome the suspicions aroused by that, now past, tactic is not easy. That is not just my opinion after following this subject for 30 years.
→ read full articleBrisbane – A Show of Western Weakness
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
24 Nov 2014
No matter what you may think of Putin and Russia this is simply not the way international politics should be conducted, particularly not at the personal level. If it wasn’t an offence to children, one would aptly characterise it as childish behaviour.
→ read full articleWhy Russia Is Growing Tough • Berlin Wall Down 25 Years
Jonathan Power - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
10 Nov 2014
Is it his early economic success? Or is it because of a new stability? Or the nation’s growing self-respect after the ignominious years that followed the demise of the Soviet Union? Or is it a sense of besieged defensiveness because of the advantage the West undoubtedly took of Russia after that demise. The answer is a bit of all these. Now Russia, not just Putin, is in a very assertive mood.
→ read full articleWhat Submarine in Sweden?
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
27 Oct 2014
You have heard that Sweden is hunting a”submarine” and that it is”presumed to be Russian”. Not the slightest evidence.
→ read full articleNobel’s Peace Prize Is Not a Human Rights Prize
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
13 Oct 2014
The Nobel Committee Again Ignores Nobel’s Will – This prize is not a human rights or do-good prize. Change from an amateur to a professional committee.
→ read full articleInstead of bombing IS: Concrete Proposals (Part B)
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
13 Oct 2014
Stop the financing of ISIS – sadly it is non-democratic allies of the West – Saudi-Arabia, Qatar, UAE etc – that seem to pay its bills. Joe Biden apologised – for being truthful.
→ read full articleDanish F16s to Fight ISIS: Government More Loyal to the U.S. Than to Its Own Citizens
Jan Oberg –Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research-TFF,
29 Sep 2014
During the last good 15 years Denmark has participated in wars in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan, was an occupying force in Iraq for four years and a main bomber of Libya. Denmark is a rogue state. Rogue states, big and small, are a problem to the whole world. And the sooner they change the better for all.
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Jonathan Power - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research-TFF,
22 Sep 2014
There seems to have been a total breakdown in communication compared with the Cold War when high-level discussions were held at regular intervals.
→ read full articleSeptember 11: The War on Terror Is a – Predictable – Fiasco
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research-TFF,
15 Sep 2014
Sep 11, 2014 – President Obama’s speech last night was a record low in terms of moral and intellectual analysis: What it boils down to is war – i.e. killing every single ISIS person anywhere, people who he compares to cancer cells.
→ read full articleAfter All This, What? A Couple of Messages to NATO’s Summit
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research-TFF,
8 Sep 2014
The malaise of the world is not conflicts but violence – and that people and media mix the two. Conflicts – that we want different things and see the world in different ways – are good, the stuff life and democracy is made of. Violence is what must be abhorred, condemned and treated normatively as we do slavery, cannibalism, pedophilia.
→ read full articleCeasefire in Eastern Ukraine: Now Withdrawal by Russia, the UN In, and NATO Out
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research-TFF,
8 Sep 2014
Firstly, an agreement over a phone is only a beginning; the devil is in the details. Secondly, there is no mention – yet – of the East Ukrainian fighters are onboard. Thirdly, a credible ceasefire should be monitored by neutral observers and competent people. The only ones who can do that are the UN peacekeepers.
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Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
25 Aug 2014
We are drifting towards a new Cold War. The reason is the woefully incompetent way in which politicians and media focus on violence and ignore underlying conflicts and civilian means – of course there are exceptions but… Escalation doesn’t create peace.
→ read full articleUse Malaysia’s MH17 To Make Peace Instead
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
28 Jul 2014
The government of Ukraine as well as the separatists, NATO/U.S. and very many leading Western mainstream media seem all to know who has caused the tragedy.
→ read full articleViolence against Children Has Become an Epidemic
Jonathan Power – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
14 Jul 2014
Three Israeli teenagers murdered. One Palestinian boy burnt to death whilst alive. Violence against children is seen as an easy way of cowing a population and as a cheap means of recruiting disposable soldiers. The UN membership must refer errant countries or the movements within them to the International Criminal Court for prosecution.
→ read full articleIf Militarism Continues, Humankind Is Doomed
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
30 Jun 2014
Weapons don’t belong to a market, there is no competition – the state is the only buyer – and thus taxpayers must cover the systematic cost overruns.
→ read full articleWhy Obama’s Speech Should Make You Think
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
2 Jun 2014
Obama’s speech can be analysed as both offending to the rest of us and – exceptionally – weak. It caused no enthusiasm among the future army officers he spoke to and no enthusiasm among leading Western media. I will argue that…
→ read full articlePsycho Politics in the Age of Imperial Decline
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
26 May 2014
”Realpolitik” has become a mixture of marketing soundbites, propaganda and leaders making statement that borders on the Theatre of the Absurd. Thinner and thinner links to Real-ity. This is what happens when decline in being denied.
→ read full articleUkraine: Stop Escalation and Think Peace
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
12 May 2014
Vladimir Putin’s statements that separatists should not hold referendums on May 11 [2014], that he welcomes the elections in Ukraine on May 25 and that Russia is withdrawing troops from the border with Ukraine should be welcomed. If he has been ”aggressive” and this is a ”turnabout” as many in the West believe, this turnabout is even more welcome.
→ read full articleThe West’s Hypocrisy in Ukraine
Jonathan Power – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
5 May 2014
When it comes to Ukraine the US and the EU are adopting a holier than thou attitude which, unfortunately, leads them not to worship at the altar of truth. Take the issue of the fuss made over alleged soldiers wearing Russian uniforms.
→ read full articleHere Is How We Are Fooled About the Threat of Nuclear Iran
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
31 Mar 2014
What about a solid research report by a world expert documenting that all you’ve heard about Iran going nuclear is based on fake documents? What about evidence that it is Israeli disinformation of world media and political establishments?
→ read full articleKosovo 15 Years Later: A Personal Memory and a Word about Free Research
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
24 Mar 2014
Media with a pro-Western bias usually remind us of Sep/11 based on a victim narrative. We just passed Mar/20 – the 11th anniversary of the war on Iraq. Every year they forget Oct/7 (Afghanistan) and Mar/24, the destruction of Serbia-Kosovo in 1999.
→ read full articleCrimea: The Referendum, the Mote and the Beam
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
17 Mar 2014
Generally, citizens-decided conflict-resolution is likely to last longer and help healing wounds of the past than any type of solution imposed by outside actors. In Switzerland citizens go and vote on all kinds of issues on many a Sunday throughout the year.
→ read full article“We Don’t See Things As They Are but As We Are”
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
10 Mar 2014
Stop It! Dangerous Reductionism about Ukraine – How can we begin to understand the events in Ukraine? Who are the conflict parties and elements? Here is a quick checklist of 13, just a selection.
→ read full articleUkraine – What Would YOU Like to Know about It?
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
3 Mar 2014
Like millions of other citizens, I rely on media reports to understand at least some of the very serious developments. Why do I feel so frustrated at what I get? Why do I have so many questions still after weeks of coverage? And how much will fellow-citizens who have just a few minutes per day to acquaint themselves with issues such as this understand (except that Putin is a bad guy)?
→ read full articleAny Attack on Syria Will Be Counterproductive and Illegal – A Result of Failed Conflict Management
The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Any U.S. attack on Syria will be an indisputable violation of international law, an attack on a sovereign state that has not invaded any other state. An aggression on Syria can only take place in complete defiance of Article 1 of the UN Charter which spells out that peace shall be established by peaceful means and only when every civilian means has been tried and found in vain can an international military action be considered – but then only under command of the UN itself.
→ read full articleObama’s Diplomatic Blunder, the Cowardice of Western Democracies and What Sweden Should Do
Board Members, The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research-TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
President Obama’s decision to cancel the meeting with Putin is yet another indicator of Washington’s intellectual weakness and the U.S. empire’s future dissolution. People like Assange, Manning and Snowden should be seen as heroes and treated with respect. Before the Swedish prime minister meets Obama he should announce that Sweden is willing to host Snowden.
→ read full articleWhat’s The Problem With Iran?
Transnational Foundation-TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
On Tuesday February 26, 2013 in Kazakhstan, a new round of negotiations is due between Iran and the Five Permanent UN Security Council members + Germany. We’d like to bring the following expert statement to your attention.
→ read full articlePreventing More Ethnic Disputes
Jonathan Power – Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research,
22 Nov 2010
Just before he died at the end of the twentieth century, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin said, “It was the worst century that Europe ever had. Worse, I suspect, even than the days of the Huns. And why? Because in our modern age nationalism is not resurgent; it never died. Neither did racism. They are the most powerful movements in the world today cutting across many social systems”.
→ read full articleIS FREE PEACE RESEARCH POSSIBLE? IMPOSSIBILITY OF FUNDING PEACE RESEARCH THAT REFUSES TO BE INTELLECTUALLY “EMBEDDED”
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research,
14 Dec 2009
Reflections on the increasing impossibility of funding peace research that refuses to be intellectual ‘embedding’ in power. SUMMARY This analysis has come about for four reasons: 1. Over the last couple of decades, it has become virtually impossible to do research that is truly free. This applies particularly to smaller organizations which, if they do […]
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