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The US has no credibility dealing with chemical weapons
By Stephen Zunes This is an updated and expanded version of the article “The US and Chemical Weapons: No Leg to Stand On,” originally posted in Foreign Policy in Focus on May 2, 2013. Had the United...
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Malala and Eartha Kitt: Words that matter
By Richard Falk There are two ways of responding to an invitation from an American president. I recall that when Amory Lovins, the guru of market-oriented environmentalism, was asked about what was his...
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Beholding 2014
By Richard Falk Written on December 31, 2013 2013 was not a happy year in the chronicles of human history, yet there were a few moves in the directions of peace and justice. What follows are some notes...
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60 years of nuclear pain – and not a word in the media
By David Krieger As the trustee of the United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the United States had an obligation to protect the health and welfare of the Marshallese Islanders....
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East-South China Seas, Islands – Solutions?
By Johan Galtung Nanjing University Conference A Chinese proverb: better than giving a starving person a fish is teaching her to fish. So, not only solutions but how to solve conflicts: in the East...
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Nonviolent Geopolitics: Law, Politics, and 21st Century Security*
By Richard Falk In this short essay, my attempt will be to articulate a conception of a world order premised on nonviolent geopolitics, as well as to consider some obstacles to its realization. By...
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TFF PressInfo – The West’s hypocrisy in Ukraine
By Jonathan Power April 29th 2014 When it comes to Ukraine the US and the EU are adopting a holier than thou attitude which, unfortunately, leads them not to worship at the alter of truth. Take the...
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TFF PressInfo: Sweden – no longer a force for good
Sweden’s elite more loyal with NATO, the US and EU than with its people By Jan Oberg May 2, 2014 • Over the last 25-30 years Sweden’s military, security and foreign policy elite has changed Sweden’s...
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TFF PressInfo: GCC Military Command or a More Open Society
By Farhang Jahanpour* Short e-mail PressInfo version here. Saudi Military exercises On 30th April 2014, Saudi Arabia staged its largest-ever military exercises codenamed “Abdullah’s Shield” after the...
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TFF PressInfo: If militarism continues, humankind is doomed
By Jan Oberg Both NATO and the EU has just announced that their members will now invest more in the military. It’s indicative of the lack of creativity in both organisations, it is self-defeating and...
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TFF PressInfo: Wow, Hillary Clinton as moral philosopher
By Jan Oberg, TFF director Jan Oberg Lund, Sweden July 31, 2014 Responsibility for wars and killing A number of Western/NATO politicians – Hillary Clinton foremost among them – and media people have...
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TFF PressInfo # 285: What submarine in Sweden?
By Jan Oberg Jan Oberg You have heard that Sweden is hunting a ”submarine” and that it is ”presumed to be Russian”. Here is an example, Financial Times of October 21 – which incidentally also announces...
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TFF PressInfo 291: Coping With the Loss of a Close Enemy
Perestroika as a Challenge to the West By Jan Oberg Jan Oberg Written April 1990 Published in Bulletin of Peace Proposals 3-1990, pp 287-298 and on TFF’s homepage at the same time 1. Four hypotheses...
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Is Russia on the warpath?
By Jonathan Power Just before former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday made his stunning criticism of the West that, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, it had engaged in “triumphalism”, I...
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TFF PressInfo # 310: Terrorism – small dot in a larger picture
By Jan Oberg Jan Oberg What is terrorism? Why do we talk much more about that than other types of deaths? Why is the word misused? What has nuclear weapons – that politicians and media hardly ever talk...
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By Jan Oberg, TFF director Lund, Sweden, April 24, 2015 Double standards A coalition led by Saudi-Arabia and supported by Western leaders has been bombing Yemen for about a month; it’s a clearcut...
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Apartheid and the Palestinian National Struggle
Richard Falk By Richard Falk Editor’s note This is a grand essay on the dimensions, history, structures of the Middle East/Palestine-Israeli-Western conflict over about 100 years. It is extraordinarily...
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Ukrainian crisis isn’t worth a new Cold War
By Jonathan Power Both the West and Russia have a responsibility to make sure they don’t throw the baby out with the bath water as their quarrel over Ukraine continues. So much has been achieved since...
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The GCC Summit: A Missed Opportunity
By Farhang Jahanpour While hailing the so-called “framework agreement” on the nuclear deal with Iran reached in Lausanne on 2 April 2015 as a great political achievement, President Barack Obama also...
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TFF PressInfo # 324 – The Friends of Nukes are losing
By Gunnar Westberg The 2015 Review conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) ended Friday May 22 in New York without a final document being accepted. Up till the very end it seemed that the...
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