Articles by Jan Oberg
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“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.
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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 articleNegotiations with Iran Require Mutual Restraint
Jan Oberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Iran is a 7000 year old civilisation that deserves to be treated with respect. The P5+1 and Iran are in this together now. War and sanctions talk is immature.
→ read full articleGeneva Will Fail but Don’t Blame Only the Syrian Parties
Jan Oberg, TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The meeting in Geneva about Syria resumes today [24 Jan 2014]. It is destined to become a historic failure. Most observers will blame either of the armed Syrian parties – the government or the rebels – for adhering unbendingly to their mutually exclusive positions.
→ 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 […]
→ read full articleSCANDAL: OBAMA GETS THE “PEACE PRIZE”
Jan Oberg, Member of TRANSCEND,
10 Oct 2009
In his will, Alfred Nobel states the criteria for awarding the prize:Two general expressions, for all the five prizes: «during the preceding year» «has conferred the greatest benefit on mankind» and four expressions that apply particularly to the peace prize*:– "brotherhood among nations" – "abolition or reduction of standing armies" – "for the holding and […]
→ read full articleCONNECTING THE DOTS: G20 AND C5
Jan Oberg,
5 Apr 2009
Reality Show for Real Politicians? (Part 1) C5: Five huge crises coming together simultaneously:1-Economic (system breakdown). 2-Environmental (global warming +). 3-Cultural (intolerance, clash of religions, Western cultural dominance). 4-Political (democratic deficits everywhere, lack of hope and political interest in media and among young). 5-Security (drug-like, ever increasing military expenditures to satisfy the Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex, MIMAC […]
→ read full articleTHE RICHARD FALK CASE, ISRAELI AUTHORITARIANISM AND WESTERN MEDIA
Jan Oberg - Sweden,
18 Dec 2008
Israel Expels UN Rights Envoy Who Compared Israelis to Nazis (Notice how it says that Falk compared Israelis to Nazis. He never did. Notice how the Foreign Ministry’s Simona Helprin’s twisting of what she calls UN regulations goes unchallenged by the journalist). And in the coming days, we immediately saw a worldwide outcry, Western human […]
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TMS Interviews Jan Oberg
Jan Oberg,
11 Dec 2008
Jan Oberg is Co-Founder of TFF-Transnational Foundation of Peace and Future Research
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Jan Oberg - Member of the TRANSCEND Network,
7 Dec 2008
Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research-TFF hasobtained a copy, reproduced below, of a UN-NATO document held secret tothe general public. It is a Cooperation Declaration signed by the top leaders of the United Nations and NATO. Here follows the statement of the TFF Board, formulated as 9 questions,for everyone – including the media – […]
→ read full articleRe-Visiting Croatian Nationalism
Jan Oberg,
30 Sep 2008
Or, how nationalist can a country be that wants to join the European Union? I’m checking in at the reception of a hotel in Slavonia, Croatia. On the desk is a brochure about the local zoo with a tiger on the front. The receptionist, a kind man around 30, tells me what else to see […]
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