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Southern Lebanon – scorched land

by Karin Leukefeld,* 31 July 2024

(16 August 2024) Travelling to the south of Lebanon requires some preparation. Lebanon and Israel have been at war for decades and there is no official border. The dividing line between the territory that Israel claims for itself – which Lebanon does not recognise – is marked with blue barrels placed there by the UN. They mark the “Blue Line”, a ceasefire line controlled by UNIFIL, a UN Interim Force for Lebanon.

The report is based on the author’s research in southern Lebanon on 18 July 2024.
Hungary

Kiev turns off the oil tap and Brussels “plays for time”

The EU Commission’s high-handed behaviour

by “Hungary Today”

(16 August 2024) (CH-S) In the Swiss media landscape, you hardly ever hear about the problems that individual European Union (EU) states have with the Brussels headquarters. Not without reason, as dissonance with the EU is currently not opportune in the Swiss mainstream media landscape – while Swiss voters are being forced to swallow even closer ties with the EU.

For a “New Thinking 2.0”!

Almost eight decades after Hiroshima, nuclear weapons are becoming socially acceptable again

by Leo Ensel*

(16 August 2024) Since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, 79 years ago, humanity as a whole has been killable. The “New Thinking” that followed from this realisation and was co-developed by Mikhail Gorbachev therefore placed the survival of humanity at the centre of political action. Today, a renaissance, a “New Thinking 2.0”, is more necessary than ever!

No, cows are no climate killers

Anyone who advocates giving up meat to save the planet is making a mistake in their reasoning

by Klaus Alfs*

(16 August 2024) “Nobody seems to be interested anymore in the fact that it is modern, conventional agriculture and not organic farming that secures harvests and reliably feeds billions of people.” In his column, Klaus Alfs explains why the accusation that cows are climate killers is based on an error in reasoning.

Eroding neutrality also undermines international Geneva. Yet Geneva remains silent …

by Guy Mettan,* Geneva

(9 August 2024) By adopting unilateral U.S.-European sanctions against Russia in February 2022, even though it had always claimed that it would only apply sanctions endorsed by the United Nations and enshrined in international law, the Swiss government has dealt a heavy blow to neutrality and international Geneva. But in Geneva, nobody flinched. And here are the reasons why.

“To hell with the rest of the world“

Long-term strategy and unipolar claim of the USA

by Wolfgang Bittner* Germany

(9 August 2024) According to its power elites, the United States of America is “the land of the free and the home of the brave”, as the national anthem proclaims. And “God’s Own Country” is called to rule the world. To assert this unipolar claim, it has developed a long-term strategy since the 19th century, which includes maintaining an excessively well-equipped army and establishing around 1,000 military bases around the world.