News stories by Jan Oberg

Lund, Sweden, Jun 26 (IPS) - The UK, Europe and the rest of the world will be affected. But there has been no planning for this anywhere.

It's now all up in the air what this Brexit vote will be the starting point of. All we can safely predict is that we are in for interesting times!

Lund, Sweden, Mar 17 (IPS) - The EUropean Union – a criminal?

The EU that has peace as it's top goal and received Nobel's Peace Prize?

The EU with Schengen and Dublin?

LUND, Sweden, Aug 07 (IPS) - It's absolutely necessary to remember what happened 70 years ago in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, see the movies from then, listen to the survivors, the hibakusa. But it isn't enough for us to rid the world of these crimes-against-humanity weapons. And that we must.

The overall picture has turned much worse over the last few months. In particular, the Western demands to Iran made public prior to the Istanbul consultations on April 14, bodes ill for the next round of talks in Baghdad. Everyone has stated views, used rhetoric and taken concrete steps that bring us all closer to the abyss called ‘War on Iran’. While it is easy and dangerous to escalate a conflict, it is difficult ­without losing face­ to de-escalate and make peace, writes Jan Oberg, director and co-founder of the Transnational Foundation (TFF) in Lund, Sweden.

In the case of Libya surprisingly few have protested compared with, say, the war on Iraq. From right to left, human rights and peace movements as well as scores of intellectuals have -admittedly some of them more or less hesitantly- endorsed NATO countries’ intervention, mainly with reference to there being so little time and that a genocide on thousands of people were immanent. It’s hard to believe that they all love war, isn’t it?, writes Jan Oberg, director and co-founder of the Transnational Foundation (TFF) in Lund Sweden.