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TFF Associates' articles
Jonathan Power
Exiting Iraq and Afghanistan
Jake Lynch, October 6, 2008
On the Military-Industrial Complex in Australia
Gandhi
Born 2nd October 139 years ago
Glenn Paige - Video
Nonkilling Society
Glenn Paige - Video
Nonkilling: A Better Way + Nonkilling For A Better World
Jan Oberg
Non-violence - the most viable and most ignored principle
Black 'Bailout' Monday
Johan Galtung
The U.S. economic crisis: 10 proposals
Jan Oberg
'Bailout' - psycho-economic denial.
Or are we all doomed to domino down the drain?
Hazel Henderson
Chicago Boys' curse comes home to Wall Street
The famous school of economics at the University of Chicago led by the late Milton Friedman spread its market fundamentalism worldwide. Greed, selfishness, individualism and short-termism were conflated with freedom and democracy and elevated to the status of moral philosophy. The fatal flaws of this ideology fueled the reckless risk-taking, greed and arrogance that led to Wall Street’s downfall.
Jonathan Power
America in this financial crisis must end its military dreams
Paul McCartney
TFF Honorary Friend
Paul McCartney
"My message is a peaceful one"
On September 25, Paul McCartney plays for the very first time in Israel. It's the "Friendship First" concert - 43 years after The Beatles were banned by Israel.
Here is his thoughts about the event and about peace in the Middle East.
BreakingNews video on CNN.
Jan Oberg
Paul McCartney should not have gone to Israel....really?
Georgia
Peter Jarman
Ossetia - Reflections on non-violence, peace-keeping and peace-building
Ken Coates
Tskhinvali - Shock and Awe
Editorial in The Spokesman from the Bertrand Russel Peace Foundation
It's a Must-Read in a time of propaganda!
Jonathan Power
The dreadful simplicity of today's war-mongers
Jonathan Power
After Georgia, get ethnic conflict in proportion
Jan Oberg
War in Georgia: It had to happen
TFF Fact-Finding Mission to Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia in 1994
Georgia On Our Minds
We warned that if this complex conflict formation was not brought up on the international agenda, it would explode. And we made proposals for a better situation than the one we see today (44 pages). PDF, 4,4 MB.
Jonathan Power
The long insult to Russia
Richard Falk
Assessing the Georgian crisis
Jonathan Power
How not to deal with Russia
Kai Brand-Jacobsen
Georgia-South Ossetia-Russia:
Proposals for Immediate Steps to be taken to End Hostilities and
Address Short and Long-Term Conflict and Humanitarian Impact
Michel Chossudovsky
War in the Caucasus: Towards a broader Russia-US military confrontation?
Read this one if you want a contrasting view to Western mainstream perspectives that this is the Russian bear coming back...
Per Gahrton
Georgia towards new crisis after manipulated elections.
Jonathan Power
Russia should be law-abiding with Georgia
9/11 & Afghanistan
Sören Sommelius
Ta hem trupperna - Afghanistan behöver civil hjälp i stället
Farhang Jahanpour
9/11 Conspiracy theories - and what we must do
Jan Oberg
September 11 seven years later and what we said at the time
Jonathan Power
Downhill in Afghanistan
Project Sweden - Integration
Conference
First announcement
Konferens 15:e oktober 2008 i Malmö
Föräldraskap och integration
Om att bygga broar mellan kulturer, föräldrar, ungdomar och barn
Readings on our troubled times
Martin Smedjeback
Avrustning av svensk vapenexport - ny blogg
Jonathan Power
America's love/hate relationship with the United Nations
Gunnar Westberg
Natos utvidgning ökar knappast säkerheten. Replik.
Maj Britt Theorin m.fl
Ta hem våra soldater från Afghanistan
Svensk trupp i Afghanistan står under Nato:s kommando. De svenska soldaterna bär Nato:s emblem och tvingas följa "rules-of-engagement" som vore otänkbara under ett rent FN-uppdrag.
Jan Oberg
So much peace knowledge, so little implementation
Thoughts at the new prestigious Encyclopaedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict
David Krieger
Congress has the last chance to say no to the US-India Nuclear Proliferation Deal
Gunnar Westberg & Anna Ek
Indien kapprustar - kan innebära slutet för nedrustningsregimen
TPU - Transcend Peace University
All the on-line courses this autumn - by Transcend and TFF Associates such as Johan Galtung, Jake Lynch, Jorgen Johansen, Ina Curic and Jan Oberg.
Register now!
Gudrun Schyman
Blog och TV8 - nya program
Richard Falk
Towards a necessary utopianism:
Democratic global governance
Richard Falk
Horizons of a grand theory of peace
The flagship of knowledge in peace studies...
Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict
2nd edition, soon out. Buy now and save 20%. Several TFF Associates contribute. Jan Oberg Associate Editor
Take an online course in peace
Transcend Peace University
Several TFF Associates teach this autumn. Register now!
Former Yugoslavia
Jan Oberg
Re-visiting Croatian nationalism (A)
Or, how nationalist can a country be that wants to join the European Union?
Jan Oberg
Re-visiting Croatian nationalism (B)
Observations in text and pictures from driving around in the country
Aleksandar Mitic
"Welcome to Kosovossetia"
The Kosoco Compromise Newsletter
August-September 2008
Biljana Vankovska
Kosovo - Macedonia's perspectives and dilemmas
Aleksandar Mitic, Iran's Press TV - Video
TV talk-show: “Kosovo six months on”
Together with Dr. Dusan Relic in Berlin
Iraq and Middle East
TFF's Board
Towards Peace In and With Iraq -
A 10-Point Plan
Jan Hjärpe
The power of a Jewish-Muslim narrative
What can be done to address disparate perceptions of history?
Richard Falk
Current Concerns
"Palestinians have been betrayed by the international community over the years"
TFF Associate and newly appointed Special Rapporteur on Palestine and Other Occupied Territories speaks to one of the leadingEuropean journals
Yusra Moshtat
Bagdad - en del av et liv jag förlorat
Per Gahrton
Israel är mest privilegierat
Jake Lynch
Peace journalism about Afghanistan
Farhang Jahanpour
The Elusiveness of Trust: The experience of Security Council and Iran
Burundi
Jan Oberg
Diary from Burundi # 6
Bridging cultural divides
Ina Curic
Fragments of life in Burundi..
TFF's projects in Burundi
Description of the project
"Amahoro - Consolidating Peace in Burundi 2008-2009"
This is our grant application text - purpose, goals, activities, background, our partners - the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the newly established AYC, Amahoro Youth Club. (Amahoro means peace).
We provide links to the AYC's own vision and its budget proposals, to the TFF budget and to the support letter from HE the Minister of Foreign Affairs herself.
Finally, you'll see how you can help TFF and the young Burundians succeed.
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The front page
50 years with peace studies
Johan Galtung
Johan Galtung
50 Years With Peace Studies
A short looking back to when Galtung decided to dedicate his life to peace in 1951, the two tracks in is life; the 5 basic requirements he sees in peace research - and why he is both happy and not so happy with peace research today.
Japan's future
Johan Galtung
Johan Galtung
Can Japan become sovereign and peaceful?
Japan's deep culture, its relations with its neighbours, why it is a client state of the U.S., and how it can change and become a factor for world peace
Future world order
Johan Galtung
Johan Galtung
Galtung's "True Worlds" - As Told
Between Two Planes
On the world after the U.S. Empire has gone, on civilizations, global governance, the UN - and the coming Muslim-Hindu conflict
Paul McCartney
A Day in the Life &
Give Peace A Chance
From the June 2008 concert in Liverpool
International law and
the nature of security
Richard Falk
Richard Falk
International law and the nature of security - a talk before the U.S. war on Iraq
Nuclear abolition
David Krieger
David Krieger
On the necessity of a nuclear-free world - and what the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is all about.
Media, war & Iraq - Jake Lynch
Jake Lynch - Part I of III
Conflict in media - Coalition of the Unwilling (I)
New videos from Burundi
Antoinette Batumubwira
Burundi's foreign minister
Antoinette Batumubwira speaks about the media and a good story out of Africa
An interview by Jan Oberg.
Burundi's foreign minister
Antoinette Batumubwira speaks about the role of women in Burundi and internationally
An interview by Jan Oberg.
Burundi's foreign minister
Antoinette Batumubwira speaks about peace and foreign policy
A interview by Jan Oberg.
TFF's Iraq Peace Plan -
Hans von Sponeck
Hans von Sponeck
TFF's Iraq peace plan
Presentation in London
TFF's Iraq Peace Plan -
Jan Oberg
Jan Oberg
TFF's Iraq peace plan
Presentation in Tokyo - 3 parts
Middle East
Hisae Nakanishi
Hisae Nakanishi
The US, Turkey, Iran and Turkey - 3 parts
NGOs and development
Norman Cook
Norman Cook
Challenges facing development NGOs - 2 parts
Jan Oberg
Intro to TFF VIdeo Channel
All TFF Associates
on video
All TFF Associates
Some 30 videos on global affairs
Playlists, for instance...
Iraq
Iran
Globalization
Media, war and peace
Inspiration, fun, surprising..
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Other writings & videos
NEW - Nobel's Will
Frederik Heffermehl
Nobels Vilje - Nobel's Will
En orienterende samling lænker om Heffermehls sensationelle analyse af Nobel-fredsprisen og den mediedebat den skabte fra oktober 2008 og fremad.
Nordic & English
Chalmers Johnson, The Real News
Three conversations about the Military-Industrial Complex:
The famous historian with the Blowback trilogy speaks about The encirclement of Russia - The Last Days of the US Republic - Massive US budget just passed.
John Pilger
The new world order - the silence is a lie
WorldPublicOpinon.org
International doubts about 9/11 perpetrators
Paul B. Farrell
'America's outrageous war economy!'
Mother Jones - Interactive map
U.S. Military presence Worldwide
Stephen Zunes
U.S. role in Georgia
Michael Klare
Russia and Georgia: All about oil
Global Research
Georgian Peace Committee denounces Georgia's aggression
EU Observer
The EU faces Georgian and Russian propaganda on who started the war
WorldPublicOpinion.org
Iraqi Public Opinion on the Presence of US Troops
Interesting counterpoints to US propaganda!
Simon Fisher & Lada Zimina
Open Letter to Peace-Builders:
Are we wasting our time?
A vitally important discussion has been started here by two extremely experienced and thoughtful personalities in our community!
A MUST READ !
Dennis Kucinich, D
Video interview about his impeachment of President Bush, about the situation in Iraq, about what peace is and his Department of Peace idea
Dennis Kucinich, D
Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to present 35 Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush.
There is a complete media blackout about this critically-important event, so please pass the info on through your various networks.
Unique conflict studies event
Understanding conflicts -
Cross-cultural perspectives
Global perspective, 300-400 participants...
Aarhus, Denmark, August 19-22, 2008
Chris Hedges, TruthDig
The Iran Trap
A very important analysis of Obama's views on the Middle East - and frightening too!
The Independent
Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US control
Bush wants 50 military bases, control of Iraqi airspace and legal immunity for all American soldiers and contractors.
Patrick Cockburn, The Independent
Hemligt avtal för USA-kontroll med Irak på obestämd tid
50 militärbaser, USA-kontroll av irakiskt luftrum
Åtals-immunitet för alla amerikanska trupper och entreprenörer...
Mikhail Gorbachev
'Every American president must wage war'
Dennis Kucinich on Israel at 60...
Rep. Kucinich’s statement from the Congressional Record on Israel and Palestinian human rights
If AmericansKnew.org
If Americans - and the rest of us in the West knew..about the Israeli-Palestine conflict
David Barstow, New York Times,
Behind TV analysts, Pentagon's hidden hand
Paul Craig Roberts
What the Iraq war is about
A must-read which connects the dots in one short article...
Tom Engelhardt, Commondreams.com
Unraveling Iraq
12 answers to questions no one is bothering to ask about Iraq
Peacemakers Trust, Canada
News and events on dispute resolution, conflict transformation and peacebuilding. We recommend!
Stephen Zunes
Nonviolent action and pro-democracy struggles
CNN
US economy could fall casualty to war
In 2008, its sixth year, the Iraq war will cost approximately $12 billion a month.
Global Issues
World military expenditures
Balkans features
TFF's selection of comments and analyses - particularly Kosovo
UNIFEM
Say NO to Violence Against Women
Sign on and by that you have donated 1 US dollar to the struggle against the most widespread type of violence...
The Middle Powers Initiative
Visible Intent. NATO's Responsibility to Nuclear Disarmament
Ian Traynor
Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, NATO told
PIPA, Program on International Policy Attitudes
American and Russian publics strongly support steps to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons
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