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TFF Associates' articles
New and urgent
Jonathan Power
The Obama-Medvedev Summit of July 7th
Jonathan Power
Can Obama and Medvedev press the reset button at their July 6th summit?
Chaiwat Satha-Anand
The power of words: Understanding Obama's speech in Cairo
An originally conceived analysis of what Obama does with words...
Annette Schiffmann
Please support Troy Davis
Davis has been 18 years on death row for a murder he did not commit. Here is one background story, Newsweek and here the petition. (A few days later, his execution was once again postponed).
Iran
Farhang Jahanpour
Iran's Supreme Leader silences the opposition
Farhang Jahanpour at DemocracyNow
Iran's stolen elections, and what comes next
Afghanistan and Pakistan
Farhang Jahanpour
How to end the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Reminds us about the contemporary history of these countries and about the West's involvement back in time - which is vitally important for understanding today's situation. And end with a series of constructive proposals as to what can be done, rather much in contrast to what President Obama seems to try to do. A must read if you want the larger picture.
Hazel Henderson
Pashtunistan - a new member of the United Nations?
TFF Associate's thought-provoking out-of-the-box scenario
Michel Chossudovsky
US-NATO military agenda: The destabilization of Pakistan
Recent developments point to a broadening of the Afghan war theater, which now encompasses parts of Pakistan. The underlying tendency is towards an Afghan-Pakistani war.
North Korea and the Western response
Gunnar Westberg
Dangerous power struggle in North Korea?
Is the North Korean military gaining the upper hand and how dangerous would that be?
Gunnar Westberg
Questions about North Korea's nuclear weapons and the international response to it
David Krieger
North Korea's nuclear test message
Gunnar Westberg
North Korea - The United States and Russia are greater global threats
Gunnar Westberg, Aftonbladet
Nordkoreas tragiska misstag
Gunnar Westberg
Vad bråkar Nordkorea om?
Global economic crisis
Hazel Henderson
The Politics of Economics
A fascinating account of 30+ years of her own attempt and that of many other alternative thinking economists' to make the high priests of market economy and of politics to listen. They didn't, and thus we are where we are now. If you think it is indeed time to question economy as a "science"...begin here!
Hazel Henderson
Who are the new financiers?
Hazel Henderson
More advice for Summiteers on reforming the global casino
Prepared for the Emergency Congress – “From Crisis to a Just and Sustainable World Economy” London
Jan Oberg
G20 and C5 - Connecting the dots?
Reality Show for Real Politicians? -
Part 1
Riane Eisler
Peaceful Revolution: Investing in our human infrastructure
Let's invest in human capacity development.
Johan Galtung
G20. NATO. And the world
The West is behind. Do not be surprised if the rest of the world is not waiting, but finds its own way.
Johan Galtung
The Energy-Environment-Development Triad
Concluding talk, Energy Pact Conference, Geneva
Comments and analyses of the global economic crisis by TFF Associates here
Various...
Jonathan Power
Europe, the great republic?
Jonathan Power
Can Obama marry the history of Islam with the politics of today?
Jan Øberg, Danmarks Radio, "Apropos"
Globalisering og fred
27 min især om den hemmelige samarbejdsaftale mellem FN og NATO i et videre perspektiv.
Vicky Samantha Rossi
Liberating the Oppressor
Rossi interviews Sami Awad about the power of nonviolence.
Annette Schiffmann & Jan Oberg
War anniversaries: It is all going so well in Iraq and the Balkans - isn't it?
March 20 marks the 6th anniversary of the Iraq War and March 24 the 10th anniversary of the destruction of Yugoslavia...
Martin Smedjeback
I got four months in prison for my non-violent action against Swedish arms exports - and for climbing a fence...(in Swedish).
TFF Associate imprisoned for non-violent action. Not those who produce and use Sweden's weapons.
Scilla Elworthy
Insider Power
Pathbreaking background analysis of the gross imbalances in global funds available for war and for peace - coupled with the constructive new concept of insider power.
Buddhism & peace
Daisaku Ikeda - Soka Gakkai International
The Buddhist leader's 2009 peace proposal
Toward Humanitarian Competition: A New Current in History
It also highlights nuclear abolition and many other constructive proposals for a better world.
Daisaku Ikeda
Faith in revolution
It is precisely because we are able to muster faith in the Buddha-nature of the other person that we can bring forth compassion from within ourselves and, desiring happiness for all, continue an earnest and respect-filled process of dialogue.
Burundi
Blog - The Amahoro Youth Club, AYC
Learn about TFF's project in Burundi which aims to build a new type of civil society organisation for peace education and sustainable development.
The Amahoro Youth Club presentation on TFF Video Channel on YouTube
TFF's Burundi section
Nuclearism, NATO & the UN
Farhang Jahanpour
What future for nuclear weapons?
David Krieger
The 100-Day Nuclear Disarmament Agenda
President Obama scores high
David Krieger
The Sunflower - from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
The monthly e-newsletter providing educational information on nuclear weapons abolition and other issues relating to global security - one of the most trustworthy, clear-sighted and persistent efforts to create a saner world.
Hans von Sponeck
The United Nations and NATO:
Which security for and for whom?
Jan Oberg
A 10 min. argument for nuclear abolition
About mega-terrorism, how the Ballistic Missile Defence really works and what is needed to get rid of nuclearism.
And the most illuminating international opinion poll on nuclear weapons:
World Public Opinion.org
Publics around the word favour international agreement to eliminate all nuclear weapons
Gunnar Westberg
Learn About Nuclear Weapons
Westberg recommends " Learn About Nuclear Weapons" a brand new education-site produced by the
Swedish Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
Jonathan Power
Can Obama do better than Reagan on nuclear arms control?
TFF Board
Secret UN-NATO Cooperation Declaration
The TFF Board statement with 9 questions that express our deep concern about this document and its implications for the future of the UN.
Her på dansk
Gunnar Westberg
North Korea - The United States and Russia are greater global threats
Gunnar Westberg
Vad bråkar Nordkorea om?
Gunnar Westberg, Newsmill
Hemlig samarbetsavtal mellan FN och NATO äventyrar FN:s självständighet
Gunnar Westberg
Hör nu på!
Hör nu på go’vänner så skall jag för er berätta hur man avskaffar alla världens
kärnvapen före år 2020!
Gunnar Westberg
Kärnvapnen - Hoppet och hoten
The Middle East
Jan Hjärpe, at Swedish Television
24 Direct
Speech at seminar on religion and peace
Hans von Sponeck
A Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iraq
Open letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Ken Coates
Support the new Russell Tribunal on Palestine
This TFF Associate is among those who have taken this immensely important initiative.
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?
The flagship of knowledge in peace studies...
Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict
Several TFF Associates contribute. Jan Oberg Associate Editor
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NEW! Farhang Jahanpour
The necessity of global nuclear disarmament
Armand Giramahoro
The Amahoro Youth Club, AYC in Burundi - TFF Video Channel
Jan Oberg
Transcend Media Service
The collision of a French and a British nuclear submarine in the Atlantic in early February 9 and the inadequate media coverage
Jan Oberg
Transcend Media Service
Nuclear abolition more important than non-proliferation - and why the Ballistic Missile Defence is offensive.
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 his 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?
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
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
Selected for their importance...
The Medvedev - Obama Summit
Medvedev's proposals for a new European security system
How much attention did these excellent ideas of October last year get in Western press?
Middle East - Iran & Iraq
Aljazeera Panel discussion, June 29
Iraqi's Oil for sale
A mind-boggling backgrounder. And the type of discussion largely suppressed in Western media.
Patrick Cockburn, TruthOut
Iraqi oil minister accused of Mother of All Sell-Outs
Reece Ehrlich on The Real News
Iran is not a Twitter revolution
The uprising crosses all classes, it is neither the result of Internet access nor of CIA involvement
Jeremy Hammond,
Foreign Policy Journal
Has the U.S. fomented unrest during Iran's election?
It certainly seems possible, even likely, that the U.S. had a significant role to play in helping to bring about the recent turmoil in an effort to undermine the government of the Islamic Republic
Stephen Zunes, FPIF
Obama's speech: How not to support democracy in the Middle East
"Imagine the positive reaction Obama would have received throughout the Arab and Islamic world if, instead of simply expressing eloquent but vague words in support of freedom and democracy, he had said something like this..."
Paul Craig Roberts in CounterPunch
Are the Iranian protests another US orchestrated "Color Revolution"?
Is this the culmination of two years of destabilization?
Paul Craig Roberts in Counterpunch
Are you ready for war with a demonized Iran?
Anthony DiMaggio in CounterPunch
The Iranian elections and the faith-based media
Patrick Cockburn in CounterPunch
Who will control Iraq's oil?
Tom Hayden, The Nation, May 26, 2009
The silence of MoveOn
The most powerful grassroots organization of the peace movement, MoveOn, remains silent as the American wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan simmer or escalate.
Current Concerns - Special
The 10th Anniversary of NATO aggression on Serbia. "It began with a lie - and the lie continues."
John Pilger
Distant voices, desparate lives
About Sri Lanka and the international response to the slaughter.
Al Burke
Open Letter to the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI):
The Institute and USA/NATO
An analysis of the consistent pro-NATO/US bias of the institute that prevents it from being independent and fulfil its obligations to the public. The response by director Tomas Ries is an intellectually poor denial of the obvious.
Centre d'Estudis per la Pau JM. Delàs
Barcelona
Alliance of Barbarities. Afghanistan 2001-2008. 10 Reasons to question (and rethink) foreign involvement.
If you are looking for one report that offers all the documented facts, this is it!
Jonathan Schell on The Real News Network
Obama's world without nuclear weapons
Schell: It is yet unclear whether Obama's commitment to a world free of nuclear weapons is real
Part 2: Obama must take concrete steps
Stephen Zunes
The war on Yugoslavia 10 years later
Ian Bancroft
Serbia's anniversary is a timely reminder
NATO's intervention over Kosovo in 1999 was an important precursor to the invasion of Iraq four years later
Nato's intervention over Kosovo in 1999 represented a collective failure of both diplomatic will and conception.
Stephen Zunes
The U.S. budget's foreign policy handcuffs
Hopes that a Democratic administration might lead to a more ethical, rational, and progressive foreign policy are challenged - read all the provisions on the Middle East!
International Herald Tribune
Foreign companies would get majority stake in Iraq oil and gas projects
Up to 75%!
Mordechai Vanunu
No thanks to be nomnated for Nobel's Peace Prize
'I cannot be part of a list of laureates that includes Shimon Peres' - he was the man behind Israel nuclear bomb.
Berghof Stiftung
Handbook for Conflict Transformation
Particularly # 7: Peacebuilding at a Crossroads, built arund Simon Fisher's and Lada Zimina's pathbreaking 2008 article.
Jonathan Steel, The Guardian
Nato is deeper in its Afghan mire than Russia ever was
Two decades after the Soviet withdrawal, ever more resources are being poured into a war with scant chance of success.
Global Issues
Today, over 26,500 children died around the world
One of the best collections of knowledge and insights on the global economic crisis
Foreign Policy in Focus, FPIF
Obama's top three foreign policy priorities
A series of short statements by senior analysts - inspiring, so much to be done!
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
WorldPublicOpinion.org
Iraqi Public Opinion on the Presence of US Troops
Interesting counterpoints to US propaganda!
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'
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
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
The Middle Powers Initiative
Visible Intent. NATO's Responsibility to Nuclear Disarmament
Ian Traynor
Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, NATO told
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