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About Swiss Neutrality

How Swiss politicians dismantle Swiss neutrality

by Christian Müller*

(28 February 2023) The Swiss Confederation – the “Confoederatio Helvetica”, hence the CH on the cars – has been historically neutral since the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Together with the reputation of the Swiss businessman Henry Dunant, whose experiences after the Battle of Solferino in 1859 and whose ideas gave rise to the “International Red Cross”, Switzerland has gained an excellent reputation as an international mediator and as a representative of interests between hostile states. However, this does not bother the current political leadership in Bern to pursue a one-sided NATO-friendly policy.

The catastrophic earthquake forces all sides to rethink

by Karin Leukefeld,* Beirut

(21 February 2023) The UN Security Council addressed the situation in Syria on Monday afternoon (NY local time) [13 February]. A “private meeting” and “non-public consultations” focused on how to get more aid to earthquake-affected areas in northern Syria and Syria’s coastal region as quickly as possible.

Switzerland

“People know each other, trust each other, respect each other and help each other”

Interview with Victorinox CEO Carl Elsener

by Stefan Barmettler, Journalist “Handelszeitung”

(21 February 2023) Carl Elsener has been CEO of Victorinox since 2007 and is not thinking about retirement. He is a model entrepreneur. Now, Carl Elsener has been voted “Leader of the Year” by the Swiss “Handelszeitung” readership for the second time.

“We must do something new with this failure, find a life lesson”

Address of His Holiness Pope Francis to the Delegation from the “Instituto Europeo de Estudios Internacionales de Salamanca” (Spain) 26 January 2023

Your Eminence,
Dear brothers and sisters,

(21 February 2023) Thank you for coming; it is a pleasure for me to welcome you back to this house and to share with you the fruit of research on the current political and social situation. Rome has been a melting pot of cultures and peoples for millennia. Everyone has passed through here, and they have fused together, in a melting pot. Heir to this universal vocation, the See of Peter has always been attentive to the vicissitudes of all peoples, their efforts and their difficulties to achieve a better life, seeking to ensure that they attain the peace that the Lord promised his disciples (cf. Jn 14:26-27).
Letter to the editor

Let’s stand up for peace

(21 February 2023) Many media, politicians, anti-arms activists, anti-militarists, anti-violence activists, Greens, Reds and do-gooders of all colours, but above all an appalling number of women, are currently crying out loudly for more arms and tank deliveries to Ukraine.

Seymour Hersh's Trinity of Truth

Hersh’s reporting has exposed truths “which have
the potential of bringing down a presidency and destroying NATO”

by Scott Ritter,* USA

(21 February 2023) In the Christian faith, God comes in the form of three persons: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Together, these three beings form the Trinity.