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"Under Swiss protection"

How Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz saved 50,000 lives

by Thomas Scherr

(25 May 2021) The example of Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz shows that one person can make a huge difference. Amid the atrocities and callousness of wartime Europe, this man risked his life to save thousands of Jews from certain death.

 

Julian Assange Affaire

J’accuse!

by Alfred de Zayas*

(12 May 2021) Worse than the Dreyfus Affair, UN Special Rapporteur Nils Melzer denounces the Assange Affair as an international scandal of judicial misconduct, and breakdown of the Rule of Law in the USA, UK, Sweden and Ecuador.

"Defender 21: sabre rattling in Europe

by Alexander Neu*

(10 May 2021) A spectre is haunting Europe – once again. And, once again, it is not communism, but the opposite – the iron fist of US capitalism/imperialism: the US-led manoeuvre Defender-Europe 21. To be fair, one has to concede that the US-dominated NATO is the real iron fist of Western imperialism.

 

The "censorship" is back

How a free society is giving up freedom

by Robert Seidel

(10 May 2021) The brief explosive confrontation between the Russian media group “Russia Today Deutschland” (RT DE) and German Foreign Minister Heiko Mass (SPD) in mid-March highlighted the alarming state of press freedom in the EU, especially in Germany. Behind this controversy lies the creeping introduction of a dictatorship of opinion.

Ukraine, a powder keg

The US is pulling the strings in the background – with China and Europe as adversaries

by Ernst Wolff*

(10 May 2021) Ukraine is increasingly becoming a highly explosive powder keg for the international community. A few weeks ago, President Volodymyr Selenskyj deliberately fueled the conflict, which has been simmering for several years, by announcing his intention to retake the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014 and the Donbass region dominated by pro-Russian separatists.

The Rise and Fall of Postnationalism

by Hans-Georg Maassen* and Johannes Eisleben**

(10 mai 2021) Edit. In the following, Hans-Georg Maassen and Johannes Eisleben deal with the disintegration of nation states and the incapacitation of their citizens. At the same time, they note the end of this development. In doing so, they name causes and describe possible perspectives.