Articles by Jan Oberg
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(Italiano) L’espansione della NATO nell’Indo-Pacifico è priva di legalità e buon senso
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Ottobre 2024 – Sud-Corea, Giappone, Australia, e Nuova Zelanda hanno inviato i propri ministri della difesa a una riunione NATO questo ottobre 2024, la prima volta per i ministri della difesa. Segnala che l’espansione della NATO in questa regione è un cosa seria.
→ read full articleNATO’s Indo-Pacific Expansion Lacks Legality and Common Sense
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
South Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand sent their defence ministers to a NATO meeting in Oct 2024, the first time these countries’ defence ministers joined. It signals that NATO is serious about its expansion into this region.
→ 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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A Whirlwind Visit to Beijing for the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
27 Jul 2024 – Let me take you on a swirling trip to Beijing – to a unique conference, to people, institutions, fun and beauty, street views, media, dinners and more.
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The Abolish NATO Catalogue
Jan Oberg and TFF Associates | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
NATO 75-year Summit, 9-11 Jul 2024: Abolish NATO or Convert It to Serve Peace–30 Arguments & 100s of Inspirations
→ read full articlePeace Researcher Johan Galtung’s Human Rights Violated as He Approached Death
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
17 May 2024 – Johan Galtung – my dear mentor, colleague, TFF Associate and friend over 50 years – died on February 17, this year in Norway, his native country. Now his caring daughter needs your help.
→ read full articleRussia Is Not a Threat to NATO or Neutral States. Full Stop.
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
NATO just turned 75. During all these years, we have heard repeatedly that the “Russians”–the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact/today’s Russia–are coming! Having been wrong all this time, why do we spend trillions guarding against a threat that never happens–a bit like waiting for Godot in Beckett’s equally absurd drama?
→ read full article37 Global 2024 Predictions
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
I do not pretend my predictions are scientific or based on a sophisticated social science methodology. They are intuitive and hypothetical, based on my knowledge and experience on international affairs over more than four decades. You may say they grow out of a Wright Mills-like sociological – and peace research – imagination.
→ read full articleFrom Planes and Trains to World Order Change
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
2 Dec 2023 – Two days ago, I returned from 30 days of traveling around China with my dear wife and TFF co-founder, Christina Spannar. From a visitor’s point of view, China is a service society where things work and people are remarkably kind and helpful (of course with the exception of a few who, like everywhere else, are rude, incompetent, or both).
→ 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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Nobel Peace Prize 2023 Is Not about Nobel’s Will
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
6 Oct 2023 – This year’s award again violates Nobel’s Will grossly, totally aligned with US/NATO interests. One must wonder how far the Committee can continue to deviate from its legal mandate without being investigated.
→ read full articleDenmark’s Prime Minister Frederiksen Knows Nothing about Ukraine, Conflict Understanding and Peace–She Wants War
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
22 Sep 2023 – The brief presentation of her views on Ukraine’s situation testifies to an ignorance – conscious, unconscious or opportunistic – that is not easily reconciled with State leadership in general and war participation in particular.
→ read full article(Italiano) Un sistema di pace e sicurezza per il futuro
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
I contribuenti mondiali danno alle proprie difese militari 2.240 miliardi di dollari (USA) annualmente, massimo storico, oltre 600 volte il bilancio regulare dell’ONU e tre volte il valore degli scambi commerciali complessivi fra Cina e USA. Tali sono le priorità perverse dei nostri governi; i cinque paesi che ci spendono di più sono: USA 39% del totale, Cina 13%, Russia 3,9%, India 3,6%, Arabia Saudita 3,1%.
→ read full articleHumanity Needs a Completely Different Peace and Security System in the Future
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
The world’s taxpayers give US$ 2,240 billion annually to their national military defenses. It is the highest ever, more than 600 times the UN budget and three times the total trade between China and the US. The five largest spenders are the USA 39% of the total, China 13%, Russia 3,9%, India 3,6% and Saudi Arabia 3,1%.
→ read full articleNonviolent Journalism: New Book Offers Pathbreaking Alternatives to Mainstream Media’s Embedded Militarism
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
22 Jul 2023 – Is there Nonviolent Journalism? Of course! But we live in a perverted militarist culture where nobody questions the concept of War Reporting and most would probably respond to “nonviolent journalism” with a: What?
→ read full articleThe US-Nordic Summit: NATO Expansion, Confusion and Repetition
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – It is extremely important to think of alternatives to the ongoing NATO militarism, re-think its triumphalistic, provocative expansion, and refer to words and concepts cancelled from the Western discourse: peace, cooperation, common security, reconciliation, media diversity.
→ read full article(Italiano) Vertice NATO di Vilnius: 30 anni di provocazioni di conflitti
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
4 Luglio 2023 – Il prossimo vertice NATO avrà luogo a Vilnius, Lituania, il 11-12 luglio 2023, quasi esattamente 26 anni dopo (8-9 luglio 1997) quello tenutosi a Madrid, che confermò ”L’atto di Fondazione di Mutui Rapporti, Cooperazione e Sicurezza fra la NATO e la Federazione Russa”.
→ read full articleNATO’s Vilnius Summit – 30 Years of Conflict Provocations
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
NATO’s next summit will be in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 11-12 July 2023. Almost on the day 26 years ago – July 8-9, 1997 – NATO held a summit in Madrid that confirmed ”The Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security Between NATO and the Russian Federation.”
→ read full articleProvocative NATO Undermines Security of the Nordic Region
Jan Oberg | Global Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
NATO has had the time since 1949 to make peace. We know now that it can’t. Joining it is a gift to militarism and future warfare instead of the much-needed and eminently possible peace with human security.
→ read full articleThe West’s State Media and Their Increasing Violence: The Hersh Affair
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
The disturbing truth behind the West State Media’s use of violence to maintain their grip on power and control public opinion. The explosive Hersh Affair and the dark forces it helped uncover.
→ read full articleThe Iraq War 20 Years Ago: No Shame. No Lessons Learned. No Arrest Order on NATO State Leaders.
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
19 Mar 2023 – Like other wars and interventions, this was no “mistake”. It was an unavoidable consequence of Western MIRE – Militarism, Imperialism, Racism, Exceptionalism. The West has learned nothing. Militarism is now its main cohesive force into its manifest destiny: Decline and fall.
→ read full articlePeace and Conflict Resolution: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Seems More Intelligent Than Human Political Intelligence (PI)
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
I got the idea of checking what the AI-based ChatGPT had to say about the war in Ukraine and its answers were a pleasant surprise from the perspective that I hold dear: peace. Here is what I asked and what it answered within a couple of seconds.
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How Stupid Do They Think We Are? A Small Pro-Ukrainian Group in a Yacht Did Whaaaat?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – Western “intelligence” and the New York Times in deeper waters than usual, offering us a devious spin and fake story – sadly swallowed by the same media that omitted Hersh’s analysis. Ominous.
→ read full articleAnalyses, Comments and Opinion Pieces in Various Chinese Media
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
I encourage you to go visit China Daily and see for yourself. We need to be curious and learn. Ignorant condemnations – particularly by people who have never studied or visited China – is wrong. Period. I accepted the invitation to be a contributing writer because I believe in dialogue and diversity.
→ read full articleUkraine: 1 Year of War on Top of 30 Years of Conflict Escalation
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – The Only Re-Armament Needed Is Intellectual and Moral – on All Sides – Beyond Russia, NATO/EU policies will prove morally wrong, unrealistic, dangerous and self-destructive.
→ read full articleThe Doomsday Clock: Deceptive and Rather an Indicator of US Foreign Policies
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
26 Jan 2023 – Like the Nobel Prizes, the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atom Scientists attracts enormous media attention. It simplifies a very complex issue into a time measure: How close is the world to global catastrophe?
→ read full articleThe Occident Is Now Militarising Itself to Death for a Second Time
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
May Others Learn to Avoid That Fate – If we survive the demise of the global US Empire and concomitantly of NATO, a new much more balanced, multipolar, cooperative and peaceful world becomes thinkable, desirable and possible.
→ read full articleWhy Europe Won’t Decouple from the United States – unless Two Things Happen
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
6 Jan 2023 – This article was published yesterday, 5 Jan, by the very important Chinese “Global Times” under the headline, ‘Two Reasons That Europe Would Be Forced to Decouple from the US.’
→ read full articleJan Oberg in China Daily: Abolish NATO and Build Peace Instead
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
While most organisations are evaluated and reformed as time goes by, NATO isn’t. It has become sacrosanct and criticism of its operations silenced. In Western media, it is always called the ”defensive” alliance. It does not see itself as party to the conflict with Russia…
→ read full articleBiden and Nuland Promised to Destroy Nordstream before the Russian Invasion
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
29 Sep 2022 – Surely, Russia has a tap – the kind you have on your kitchen sink – with which to stop the gas. Why then take the big risk with such a difficult and profound espionage attack? And if it was a signal to Denmark, why do it in international waters?
→ read full articleSanctionitis Bringing Europe Down
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
The European Commission has just decided on new sanctions against Russia – in fact the eighth round of such sanctions. This time the reason is that Russia has held referenda in the Donbas region of Ukraine. I sense we’re witnessing a new disease – Sanctionitis. The patient has foggy ideas about reality and his own strength, and exaggerates ad absurdum the positive effects of his supposedly noble deeds.
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From Warfare to Peacefare Economic Thinking
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
20 Aug 2022 – This analysis of warfare, peace and economic thinking was written at the invitation of the China Investment Magazine and published in its July 2022 issue in both Chinese and English.
→ read full articleThe TFF Abolish NATO Catalogue
Jan Oberg and TFF Associates | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – Abolish NATO or Convert It to Serve Peace – 30 Arguments & 100s of Inspirations
→ read full articleNancy Pelosi, Taiwan and the Changing World Order
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
4 Aug 2022 – Right after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taipei on 2 Aug, I was asked by Russia Today to comment on that tension-increasing event. 15-min Video
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(Italiano) Perché la NATO è antiquata, pericolosa e merita di essere abolita
Jan Oberg, Ph.D.| Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
13 Luglio 2022 – Da un punto di vista analitico del conflitto è ragionevole dire che la Russia è responsabile della guerra ma che la NATO con la sua espansione noncurante, contro tutte le promesse fatte alla Russia e una serie di ammonimenti d’esperti è responsabile del conflitto soggiacente. Discutiamo del mondo post-NATO.
→ read full articleWhy NATO Is Outdated, Dangerous and Deserves to Be Abolished
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
From a conflict-analytical point of view, it is reasonable to say that Russia is responsible for the War but that NATO with it reckless expansion against all promises given to Russia and a series of expert warnings is responsible for the underlying Conflict. Let’s discuss the post-NATO world.
→ read full articleOf Course, the UN’s Michelle Bachelet Should Be Criticised for Her Visit to China
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
31 May 2022 – After years of preparations, Michelle Bachelet went to China, had a zoom conversation with President Xi Jinping and visited Xinjiang. Why is she forced out? She did not adhere to the US Cold War agenda but established a dialogue with China instead of confrontation and provocation. She works for human rights – the Cold War campaigners use human rights as a political tool.
→ read full articleListen to Kissinger and CIA’s Burns and Compare with Populist Platitudes
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
19 May 2022 – This short article aims to merely illustrate – not prove – the difference between security political intellectualism and ignorance. It does not focus on peace simply because none of the personalities appearing below are in the business of peace.
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It Is Foolish for Finland and Sweden to Join NATO and Ignore both the Causes and Consequences
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
12 May 2022 – Today, Finland decided to become a full NATO member. Sweden will do the same next week. What caused this ill-considered and panicking but fateful policy change and what its consequences will be.
→ read full articleHow They Have Lied to You about the Russian Threat for the Last 30 Years
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
8 Apr 2022 – An indisputable authority on NATO affairs reveals the truth – without knowing he does and without the media understanding his sensational statements.
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(Italiano) Conflitto NATO/Russia in Ucraina
Jan Oberg, Ph.D.| Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Mar 2022 – La reazione “rettiliana” dell’Occidente si dimostrerà estremamente autodistruttiva: una lettura di Jan Oberg del conflitto NATO/Russia in Ucraina.
→ read full articleNATO/Russia Conflict in Ukraine: The West’s Spinal Cord Reaction Will Prove Extremely Self-Destructive
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Since Russia’s foolish and totally unacceptable war on Ukraine started, there no longer seems to be any limit to what can be said about Russians and Russia and what can be done to isolate the country and its people economically, culturally, socially, financially and in the media. The word ‘Putin’ explains everything as if by magic.
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(Italiano) La Russia non doveva bombardare l’Ucraina: c’erano alternative
Jan Oberg, Ph.D.| Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Marzo 2022 – Un giorno o due prima dell’attacco russo all’Ucraina, scrissi che la Russia NON avrebbe invaso l’Ucraina. La notizia del mattino del 24 febbraio francamente mi scioccò e mi intristì molto.
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There Were Alternatives: Why Russia Should Not Have Bombed Ukraine
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
A fundamentally different professional Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment/Solution approach that should have been tried – just bits of it – during the last 30 years.
→ read full articleNATO in Ukraine: Readings
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
20 Jan 2022 – Fake is one thing and people with knowledge and experience will smell when something is wrong. Much worse is omission /cancelling: Deliberately leaving out stories, perspectives, voices, experts and analyses that do not fit the single propaganda narrative. But sadly, the West is now moving towards its Pravda moment: Only one truth and more people by the day finding that they are being deceived.
→ read full articleUkraine: The West Has Paved the Road to War with Lies
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
While this is being written, tension builds up around the more comprehensive Ukraine conflict formation. If this blows up in real war – God forbid! – the main reason will be three serious lies disseminated by the NATO side.
→ read full articleWhat Shall We Call a State That Lets Its Soldiers Kill Lots of Innocent People without Punishing Even One?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – Did you hear about it? See it on your Western prime time news? This is a state that pretends to be a global leader and insists on teaching the world what human rights, democracy and justice are. In my view, only a criminal state does this, not one that adheres to the rule of international law.
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(Italiano) USA in declino fanno i prepotenti con Cina/Russia, Terra, spazio extra terrestre, sé stessi: letture per aprire gli occhi
Jan Oberg | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
9 Dicembre 2021 – Voi siete oggetto di una operazione psicologica per far sì che abbiate solo opinioni negative sulla Cina. E’ il più importante conflitto al mondo. Leggete il Sommario esecutivo TFF in 15 punti: “Dietro la cortina di fumo. Un’analisi della distruttiva Agenda Occidentale per la Guerra Fredda alla Cina e del perché deve cessare” *
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 Scandal: How It Fits the CIA and US ‘Democracy’ Global Media War
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – Imagine that the Nobel Prize in Literature is given to a book publisher or papermaker and the official motivation is that publishers or papermakers are preconditions for the writer writing and being read. Roughly, this is how the Nobel Peace Committee reasons – unreasonably.
→ read full articleDeclining USA Bullies China/Russia, Earth, Outer Space, Itself: Eye-opener Readings
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
2 Dec 2021 – As I write, serious tension is building–again–around Ukraine, Iran and Taiwan while we could live in a much more peaceful and thriving world. Who and what are the constant peace destroyers? You are the object of a psychological operation to make you have only negative views about China.
→ read full article(Italiano) Occidente, immagine del nemico e psichiatria
Jan Oberg, Ph.D.| Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
Evidentemente l’Occidente non sa vivere senza immagini di nemici – si faccia visitare da uno strizzacervelli, così vivremo tutti in pace: Occidente, immagine del nemico e psichiatria.
→ read full articleEvidently the West Cannot Live without Enemy Images–Go See a Shrink so We Shall All Live in Peace
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
I’m 70 now and all my life I’ve heard that the Russians would make a surprise attack and within 48 hours occupy the Eiffel Tower. We in the West were weak, or would be in five years, if we did not invest more in ”defence”. Well, these damn Russians haven’t come yet–another reason we shouldn’t trust them, I assume!
→ read full article(Italiano) 11 settembre 20 anni dopo: che cosa avrebbero dovuto fare gli USA
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
11/9/2021 – Quando mi si chiede che penso dell’11 settembre rispondo invariabilmente: “Non ho fatto ricerche personalmente, ma per me la spiegazione ufficiale lascia senza risposta troppi quesiti…
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Sep 11 Twenty Years Later: What the U.S. Should Have Done
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
11 Sep 2021 – Why was the discussion only about who did it and how did they do it but never about why did someone do this? If you look at the fact that the objects of the attacks were the centers of the US/world’s financial, military and political power – and not just a train station or some infrastructure – you’d have a diagnostic indicator.
→ read full article“After 20 years, mainstream media still only focus on the suffering of the United States and never on the victims of the response to 9/11: The US Global War on Terror. It’s simply disgraceful.”
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
Prof. Jan Oberg, Ph.D. is director of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research-TFF and a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment.
→ read full articleUS-Afghanistan August 15, 2021: Eight Conclusions and the Mean Words “What Was It We Said All the Time”?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
17 Aug 2021 – Back then, after September 11, 2001, in Washington and New York, everybody talked about who could have done it, how they did it and with what means. The only thing never brought to the fore was: WHY would somebody want to do something like 9/11 to the United States of America?
→ read full articleAfghanistan and the Mainstream Media Manipulation Methods
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
When it comes to Western mainstream media’s coverage of international affairs, I would today dare the hypothesis that 10-20% is truthful, 20-30% is fake and narratives and 50-70% is omitted.
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Behind the Smokescreen: West’s China Cold War Agenda
Gordon Dumoulin, Jan Oberg and Thore Vestby | TFF - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
An Analysis of the West’s Destructive China Cold War Agenda and Why It Must Stop
→ read full articleLend Self-Destructive U.S. a Hand
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
The new orchestrated China Cold War Agenda is suicidal for the US. That, instead of a policy of strategic cooperation, trust and peacebuilding, will be destructive to the whole world. Humanity’s extremely urgent problems cannot be solved with a Cold War between its two most influential powers. It must be stopped now. Particularly by those who love the USA. And can lend it a hand.
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The Xinjiang Genocide Determination as Agenda
Gordon Dumoulin, Jan Oberg and Thore Vestby | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
27 Apr 2021 – A Critical Analysis of a Report on China by the Newlines Institute and the Raoul Wallenberg Center – It has been produced with the contributions of, and upon consultation with, numerous independent experts, including 33 who have agreed to be identified publicly, as it is stated.
→ read full article(Italiano) Fermare la guerra fredda alla Cina e diventare partner – per il bene comune dell’umanità
Jan Oberg | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
11 Maggio 2021 – Il conflitto fra USA/Occidente e Cina plasmerà il futuro dell’umanità più che qualunque altro conflitto. Perciò non è una questione bilaterale ma un interesse globale. Credo che fermare la guerra fredda alla Cina dovrebbe essere in cima all’agenda delle istituzioni di ricerca sulla pace che non siano diventate dipendenti dagli stati e/o irreggimentate dagli USA.
→ read full articleStop the Cold War on China Now and Become Partners–for the Common Good of Humanity
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
The conflict between the US/West and China will shape humanity’s future more than any other conflict… The West must learn to live on an equal footing with The Rest, in unity of diversity not uniformity under US leadership/dominance.
→ read full articleUnless Miracles Happen, Iran Will Soon Be Bombed
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
The West-Iran conflict is extremely a-symmetric. It’s the West that historically sought to influence, change, threaten, demand obedience, and punish–with sanctions and more. It liquidated high-level politicians and scholars, shot down a civilian plane, demonised and excluded Iran. Not to speak of giving Saddam Hussein the chemical weapons and the green light for his war on Iran in 1980. Iran has not done similar harm to the West.
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Contrast Today’s Anti-Intellectual Peacelessness: John F. Kennedy’s “Peace Speech” in 1963
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
4 Feb 2021 – As the intellectual level of much politics has decreased dangerously, it may be useful to remember politicians who were leaders, visionaries, intellectually alert. We bring you this speech to establish some comparative standard and to ponder: Why is it that politics has become so boring? Why do today’s young people not queue up to participate in their country’s political work?
→ read full articleJan Oberg’s Prime Minister Speech on the Corona Crisis
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
1 Jan 2021 – Or your government leader’s Coronavirus speech that was never given. Do not believe the future will be better before you hear leaders say something like this…
→ read full articleThe Peace Discourse That Disappeared: Go on with Passion and Detachment
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
Look at and listen in to three spheres of contemporary Western society: politics, research and media. The word “peace” and related words, such as the UN Charter norm of “making peace by peaceful means”, nonviolence, negotiations, have disappeared. And with the words, the discourse. And with the discourse the interest, the education and expertise, the focus, the awareness, and the strategies.
→ read full articleRichard Falk, a Citizen Pilgrim in Search of Justice and Peace, Turns 90
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
13 Nov 2020 – We are blessed by having a number of peace and future scholars, world-leading in their professions, who have followed world events over many decades and continue to be committed to world order change and public education. I say “blessed” because I assume that the reader share my reverence for high age and the sharing of long life experience as well as the wisdom.
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At 75 – A U.N. of the Future in a Globalized Democracy
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
24 Oct 2020 – Today marks the 75th Anniversary of the world’s most important and visionary organisation, the United Nations. The UN Charter’s Article 1 states that peace shall be brought about by peaceful means. That is a typical Gandhian inspiration – “The means are the goals in-the-making. You cannot use destructive means to achieve constructive goals,” he said. Regrettably, many voices accuse “the UN” of being too expensive, too bureaucratic, too ineffective, too corrupt, too this and that.
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Why the US Is Falling–and Faster than You May Expect: A 40-Year-Old Prediction Coming True
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
30 Sep 2020 – In my view, the US no longer has the capacity to lead itself effectively and find solutions to its own multi-dimensional crisis be it the economy, democracy, climate change, warfare addiction, social polarization, racism and on top of it all the Covid-19 crisis. Not being able to lead itself, no one should wish that the US should lead the world. Neither does it have any right to.
→ read full articleThe Lost Peace Discourse and the Arts as a Possible Way Out?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
The discourse about, or for, peace has mostly disappeared in research, politics and the media. In foreign and security politics, it does not seem strange that decision-makers never obtain peace advice or consult peace experts. The fantasy-assumption is that if only there is enough military ‘security means’ applied to enough societal problems, peace will automatically come about.
→ read full articlePivot to Peace with China. Sign!
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
During the last few months, a systematic Sinophobic (anti-China) policy has been rolled out all over the world by the US and its obedient mainstream media. It is so uniform in content and style that it deserves to be categorized as a ‘campaign.’ It has nothing to do with critical media, questioning and diversity of perspectives. You are being taken for a ride!
→ read full articleCoronavirus as an Opportunity: Reboot Humanity and Change Security Thinking, Policies
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
Connecting dots is neither the trend of our times nor of day-to-day political decision-making. Over the years, time, space and intellectual focus has shrunk. It’s deplorable and dangerous for an increasingly complex world facing increasingly existential challenges.
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(Italiano) L’Occidente finge di non vedere mentre l’apartheid e altre illegalità d’Israele si sviluppano sempre più
Jan Oberg | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
1 luglio 2020: un altro tragico punto di svolta per l’Occidente – già decadente – in quanto civiltà. La sua irresponsabilità morale si esprime nel roboante silenzio su questa nettissima vistosa violazione del diritto internazionale e sul male fatto per decenni al popolo palestinese.
→ read full articleThe West Turns a Blind Eye as Israel’s Apartheid and Other Illegalities Develop Further
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
1 Jul 2020 – Another tragic turning point for the – falling – West as civilization. Its moral irresponsibility is expressed by its roaring silence on this crystal clear and gross violation of international law and evil done to the Palestinian people for decades.
→ read full articleThe Corona – An Opportunity to Replace Militarist Security with Common and Human Security (Part 4)
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
Parts 1 and 2: introductory, diagnosis
Part 3: the fraudulent threat analysis that fuels militarism
Part 4: some theories and concepts about human security and how those concepts differ fundamentally from state-anchored dominant military policies
Easy to Replace: The US Contribution to the WHO
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
It ought to be peanuts for the world’s countries and private donors to contribute more and thereby do two important good things:
*show their commitment to this world-important UN organisation by compensating the loss of the US contribution at least 100% in this situation, and
*thereby reduce or abolish US bullying and money-based attempt to dominate.
NATO’s Destruction of Serbia: And Where Is Serbia, China and the West Today?
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
24 Mar 2020 – It was NATO’s first out-of-area operation, against its own Treaty and without a UN mandate. On March 24, 1999. Independent Kosovo was established – against UN SC resolution 1244. Serbia suffered tremendously from the 78 days of indiscriminate, hard bombing. I know because I was there. Finally, Serbia and its president Milosevic was threatened with total destruction of Belgrade. He gave in. And today – 21 years later?
→ read full articleThe Corona – An Opportunity to Replace Militarist Security with Common and Human Security (Part 1)
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
2 Apr 2020 – Governments have spent trillions on preparing for military threats created by their own policies. No one prioritised human and societal security. The unique over-reaction to COVID-19 should worry us much more than the virus itself. It can be seen as a panicky attempt to cover-up the failure of an outdated militarist security policy.
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The Terrorism-Industrial Complex (TIC)
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
25 Feb 2020 -As we have a Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) or, rather, a Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex (MIMAC), the last 20 years have permitted the development of the Terrorism-Industrial Complex (TIC) – that is, intimately connected, wealthy elites who have a common interest in thriving and profiting in various ways from the Global War On Terror with a complete contempt for the rest of us, for democracy and security – and don’t mention peace, they don’t know that word.
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Why NATO Doesn’t Target Russia? Nepal Is the New Enemy, Stupid!
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
4 Feb 2020 – About 37,000 soldiers from 18 countries are to participate in the U.S.-run manoeuver dubbed Defender Europe 2020 in May and June. And just how do they get away with deceiving the world with their militarised mantra about stability, security and peace – no matter it is always about more weapons and offensive military strength – virtually without any important (if they are) mainstream media reporting it, not to mention ask questions about it?
→ read full articleNATO’s Deep Political and Legal Crises: The 2-Percent Goal as Defence Illiteracy
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
The total regular UN budget for the year 2016-17 was US $ 5.6 billion. That is, NATO countries spend 185 times more on the military than all the world does on the UN. Do you find that sane and in accordance with the problems humanity need to solve? This author does not. I stand by the word madness. There exists no rational academic, empirical analysis and no theory that can explain NATO’s military expenditures as rational or in service of the common good of humankind.
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The Venice Future Dialogues
Jan Oberg | Oberg Photo Graphics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
26 Oct 2019 – How the Silk Peace Art Road installation stimulates dialogues about the world and what a couple of thousand people from all over that world shared with me… This article is a report of what visitors to my installation in Venice have shared with me about the world, what they fear and hope.
→ read full articleThe Deepening Decay of the West – And the Brighter Post-West Future
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
25 Sep 2019 – It is entire systems approaching existential breakdown because of their own morally corrupt actions and policies – or system fatique. Two Western societies in contemporary history – a former Empire and the present one – increasingly look like failed states, failed societies, and failing their own ideals and laws. What we see is a decay of morals, an erosion of democracy and a downward spiraling chaos with an end but no solution in sight. The Occident has become an Accident. To itself and to the Rest.
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(Italiano) Al SIPRI parla il ministro degli esteri dell’Iran – e i media non colgono
Jan Oberg – Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
Il 21 agosto2019 il ministro degli esteri dell’Iran, Dr. Javad Zarif, ha tenuto una conferenza al SIPRI, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. La trattazione mediatica della visita in Svezia di Zarif è stata invariabilmente un’illustrazione che i liberi media occidentali oggi sostanzialmente definiscono la propria libertà come libertà di essere ignoranti, selettivi e partigiani come gli aggrada –e che l’omissione è almeno quanto la falsità un enorme problemi per le possibilità dei consumatori di media di capire gli affari internazionali.
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Speaks at SIPRI – And the Media Don’t Get It
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
On 21 Aug 2019, Iran’s foreign minister, Dr. Javad Zarif, gave a speech at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI. The media coverage of his visit to Sweden was yet another illustration of the ‘free’ Western media’s freedom to be ignorant, selective and biased – and that ‘omission,’ at least as much as ‘fake,’ is a huge problem for media consumers’ chances to understand international affairs.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to UN SG Concerning Iran
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
27 May 2019 – The repeated threats of war against and sanctions on Iran contain very dangerous dynamics – for Iran, the region and the world – that could easily spin out of control. The situation is such that the UN Secretary-General must be urged to take action in accordance with the UN Charter.
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Stop the Ongoing U.S. Economic Terrorism against Iran and Help Its People!
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
15 Apr 2019 – You have certainly not heard much about this in the West. And it didn’t get a fraction of the media attention (and none of the hundreds of millions of Euro pledges by the perversely rich) that the Notre Dame fire did.
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Denmark’s PM Admires a Killing Soldier’s Simplistic View of Good and Evil
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
11 Apr 2019 – An entertaining talk show, “Skavlan”, one of the largest in Europe with 2 million viewers. A dialogue between a prime minister and a UK Special Forces soldier who doesn’t regret that he has kicked in doors and “killed a lot” in Afghanistan. He justifies himself by the most primitive and long-ago debunked theory about Good and Evil in this world. After which the prime minister expresses his admiration and total agreement! Something is deeply wrong here. Disturbing. Do the issues of war and peace not require any intellectual capacity, knowledge or decent thinking? And how come that both the PM and the soldier seem to feel like victims in spite of having, directly and indirectly, themselves taken lives?
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NATO at 70: An Unlawful Organisation with Serious Psychological Problems
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
3 Apr 2019 – Western mainstream media and their carefully selected editors and commentators are likely to have only politically correct perspectives on the anniversary. We believe it is important to raise questions about its members and NATO itself: NATO’s huge, accelerating armaments from an already superior position, its nuclear weapons and doctrine, its post-1989 expansion and confrontational policies, its interventions without UN mandate, its role in the new Cold War and – not the least – NATO’s permanent operation in violation of its own Treaty.
→ read full articleNew EU Sanctions on Iran: The Plank in Your Own Eyes
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
9 Jan 2019 – European Union issues sanctions on Iran on January 8, 2019. The move puts the individuals and intelligence unit on the EU terrorist list – freezing their financial assets. It’s a brilliant example of Matthew 7:3-6: “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”
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At 70: A Few Problems with the Human Rights Concept
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
10 Dec 2018 – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 70 today. Thirty fine demands that, if you read them today, leaves a lot to be desired in all four corners of the world, including the Western. While people struggle to get them implemented and struggle against those who violate them, it may also be relevant to discuss the concept as such at an occasion such as this.
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The Global War on Terror – Another Predictable Fiasco Turns 17
Jan Oberg – The Transnational,
17 Sep 2018
11 Sep 2018 – Today marks the 17th anniversary of what could be called the most counter-productive, if not stupid, war in modern history: The Global War On Terror, GWOT. Today, THAT war is much much more dangerous to the world and its future than the terrorists it allegedly aims to hunt down. And it has caused thousands of times more suffering, death and destruction than September 11 did.
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Law Not War: Listen Very Carefully to Ben Ferencz
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
13 Aug 2018 – Listen to 99-year old Ben Ferencz sharing his crystal clear perception of the human stupidity of war. He is the last surviving Nuremberg Tribunal prosecutor and has thought more than probably anyone about the psychology and politics of evil. Ferencz is a staunch believer in abolishing wars as such and, of course, in nuclear weapons abolition.
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Ten Articles on the New Cold War and a Reflection
Jan Oberg – The Transnational,
20 Aug 2018
13 Aug 2018 – The new Cold War and the War on Terror both have significant, destructive effects on society, diminish its democracy and creativity, narrows the spectrum of opinions and bring us further and further away from the globally desired goals of freedom, democracy and of living in a more peaceful world. Security politics has come to mean destruction of the core fibres of what was to be secured.
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If You Want Peace, Don’t Focus on the Violence and the Evil Guy
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
A Personal Pledge Provoked by the Debates about Syria – Since this author is a peace and future researcher, I shall no longer participate in any discussion or debate about a conflict or war in which the main focus is on the direct violence and one or more participants point out that they know who the bad guy is and seek to frame or place me on this or that or the other side.
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Present Perverse Priorities Will Undermine the UN Even Further!
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
6 Aug 2018 – The news came a few days ago: “UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned member states that the organization is facing “troubling funding issues as a result of delayed dues payments that will force reductions in non-staff costs.” But who really cares? Any Trump tweet or football result is more important to our media and politicians. The members of the UN still give the world’s military about 340 times more than the UN for its core budget.
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NATO’s Crisis and the Transatlantic Conflict (Part 1)
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
10 Jul 2018 – On the occasion of the NATO Summit in Brussels and the Putin-Trump meeting in Helsinki. This analysis comes in two parts – one critical and one constructive: This one on “NATO’s crisis and the Transatlantic conflict” and the second on “Make NATO civilian and civilised.”
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Make NATO Civilian and Civilised (Part 2)
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
This is the second of two articles about the coming end of NATO as we know it and what can be done.
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The U.S. Just Declared War on Iran
Jan Oberg – The Transnational,
14 May 2018
8 May 2018 – Against all common sense, moral considerations and international law, U.S. President Donald Trump tonight decided to place the United States outside the international so-called community and isolate itself; not Iran. He withdrew the United States from what is one of the most important negotiated peace-oriented agreements that have ever been signed.
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A Piece of World Peace History In-The-Making
Jan Oberg – The Transnational,
30 Apr 2018
27 Apr 2017 – Please watch the video below carefully. What is most amazing in this clip is that Kim first steps over the border line into the South. Then – seemingly surprising Moon – invites Moon to step into the North, hand in hand. Hear the people nearby applauding. This is historic peace-making in-the-making.
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