TFF PressInfo # 773: The agenda of the present is doom and gloom. But the future is about diversity, cooperation and peace!

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Jul 15, 2025

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From TFF Director Jan Oberg
Lund, Sweden - July 16, 2025

Dear friend,

Welcome to The Transnational homepage and TFF on Substack. We are encouraged by the many new subscribers and supporters we receive daily - appreciations, invitations, and more. As promised, here is PressInfo # 773 just a couple of days after because world developments compel us to publish and get a critical mass for peace…

In the field of international affairs, there is still far too much (also good) analysis and criticism and day-to-day geo-political commentarism. If we only commented on what, say, Trump said this morning - as so many do within hours - he sets the agenda, and there will be no energy left to think constructively. There will be no peace, for sure.

What about everybody else setting the agenda? Agendas on how to create the better future for humanity instead of continuing to focus on the end of the world and other doom and gloom?

In politics, media and research, there is far too much attention to the past and the present - and virtually no focus on the future we need to create beyond the kakistocrats who are destroying the West these very years. Spend max 25% of your attention on them and 75% on the alternatives to them, because they have no future.

TFF does diagnosis and prognosis and criticism, but we emphasise the possible treatment, good ideas about the future, constructive thinking in the tradition of both medicine and peace research. And we will move even more in that direction.

We refuse to let evil people and evil systems set the agenda by just responding to what they churn out 24/7 to keep us occupied. We don't make doomsday predictions because doomsday doesn’t have to happen, and they don’t motivate you to take action!

We urge you to liberate yourself from doom and gloom, because fear is what the cruel leaders/elites use to get their agenda through and scare you to submission. We must set our own agenda and deny theirs. That is the only way to peace.

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What’s new - and old - goodies this time?

I continue to point you in the direction of all the various categories of our growing Video Collections on Substack.

And here is the new bouquet of reports, analyses, and debate articles. You can browse them all in one go at The Transnational, TFF on Substack, and Jan Oberg’s blog. Below, you'll find links to each new post, with another bouquet to follow shortly.

Please reproduce and repost anything you like. Just do not change the texts, and remember to refer to TFF as the source. Thanks!

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