March 2026

New documentary by Sladjana Zaric, RTS – Serbia’s Radio and Television Jan Oberg March 26, 2026 Those who have followed TFF over the decades will remember that we were engaged in conflict-mitigation in all parts of Yugoslavia from 1991 and beyond 2000. It is all to be found in our 2200-A4 pages equivalent online documentation, […]

Jan Öberg, TFF direktör 19:e mars 2026 Det talas ofta om att Sverige befinner sig i det allvarligaste säkerhetspolitiska läget sedan andra världskriget. Det kan mycket väl stämma. Men det är också sant att den hotbild som nu dominerar svensk politik är så naiv, snäv och NATO-militärt fixerad att den sannolikt gör oss mindre säkra, […]

A friendly quarrel while we agree that the US sanctions are a weapon of mass destruction and kill more people than wars do. And that we must talk much more about sanctions than we have so far. Jan Oberg, TFF director March 16, 2026 John Mearsheimer recently stated that U.S. sanctions murdered around 38 million people between 1971 and 2021 – see the video below. It is a dramatic figure, and it has spread quickly because it captures, in one sentence, the enormous human cost of modern sanctions. I share his concern about the destructive effects of economic coercion. But the specific number he cites — and the way he attributes it — deserves a friendly academic clarification. The figure comes from a 2023 Lancet Global Health article estimating the mortality effects of unilateral U.S. and EU sanctions over the past half‑century. This is the first point where Mearsheimer’s shorthand diverges from the text: the study...

And how we make the necessary changes now to secure our future. “We witness the attempted abolition of the West’s relatively free media and open democratic debate about international affairs. War is peace, aggression is defence. The Internet and social media are no longer the open, decentralised public sphere they were twenty years ago. They […]

Li Xing Professor at Guangdong, China We are happy to announce that Professor Li Xing has accepted to become a TFF Associate upon our invitation to him in February 2026. Li Xing, born 1962, is a Danish national. Since the summer of 2024, has been appointed as Yunshan Leading Scholar, Distinguished Professor, Director of the […]

Iranians enjoying life 2016 © Jan Oberg An Iranian voice of true peace “The brutal truth is:We are not citizens in this story.We are not even collateral damage.We are the targets.” Elaheh Pooyandeh, TFF Associate Written on February 28, 2026, and published on March 9, 2026. I’m a night owl. I usually get to work […]

Farhang Jahanpour TFF Associate since 2006 and former board member, Oxford, with this homepage. March 9, 2026 In a recent statement, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted that he felt very happy that after 40 years of trying to get the United States involved in a major war with Iran, he had finally succeeded in […]

“Love In Iran” © Jan Oberg A voice of true peace and human rights in Iran Elaheh Pooyandeh Peace and conflict researcher and TFF Associate March 3, 2026 [This piece was written after the recent deadly protests in Iran in January and before the new invasion by Israel and the USA in February and March […]

Claus Kold TFF Associate February 2, 2026 Introduction This article was finalised on February 18, 2026. That was ten days before the US/Israeli attack o Iran. On March 2 – today – the Danish government announced that it had accepted the French proposal to discuss the extension of French nuclear forces to play a new, […]

Smilingly supporting gross violations of international law and the UN Charter again and again. It is the US, stupid! Jan Oberg March 2, 2026 Here is all that EU Presidents von der Leyen and Costa had to say on February 28, 2026: “The developments in Iran are greatly concerning. We remain in close contact with […]

Here is Trump’s disturbing 8-min speech with an analysis of all the classical psycho-political delusions, hubris, arrogance and the blindness of military power. It can only go wrong now… Jan Oberg, TFF director February 28, 2026 There were only two things that surprised me – and would have been fitting – namely that he had […]