Near-Unanimous UN Call to End Cuba Blockade
by Brett Wilkins,* USA
(6 December 2022) Thursday’s vote was 185-2. The only two “no” votes were those of the United States and Israel, with Ukraine and Brazil abstaining.
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U.N. General Assembly, 3 November 2022
From noodles to the car that rocks Tesla
Reporting from Vietnam
Guy Mettan,* freelance journalist
(6 December 2022) It is a story that begins with a noodle restaurant in Ukraine in 1993 and that continues today in Vietnam in the shape of the country’s largest conglomerate with a turnover of $5 billion by 2021. Meanwhile, its founder, Pham Nhat Vuong, (54), who had settled in Kharkov after completing his geology studies in Moscow, became Vietnam’s first billionaire with an estimated fortune of $8 billion and an enterprise that ranks among the 50 largest in Asia. A career that is in no way inferior to that of Bill Gates' and Steve Jobs' starting in a “garage”.
Book review
“Images of Education”
by Tankred Schaer
(29 November 2022) Jochen Krautz is an art educator at the University in Wuppertal and has become known by the educational political congresses he initiated. He is president of the Society for Education and Knowledge.
Switzerland
“Taking responsibility”
Are we up to the new challenges?
by Thomas Scherr
(29 November 2022) What will happen next? Inflation. Ukraine war. Energy crisis. Wave of refugees. Nuclear threat. Pension fund gap. Supply chain disruption. Economic war with China ... How much leeway is left? Will there be a secure future? Is the right personnel available for it? Will Switzerland fall victim to the “malice of time” after more than seven centuries?
Grain of sand
The Swiss Federal Council is right, except ...
by Suzette Sandoz,* Lausanne
(29 November 2022) The Swiss Federal Council does not allow Germany to hand over ammunition of Swiss origin to Ukraine because this would violate neutrality. This would be tantamount to favouring one of the two warring parties.
Conference in Solothurn, 15 and 16 October 2022 – Part 3
This is how Swiss media call for even more war
by Christian Müller,* Switzerland
Dear guests
It is a pleasure for me to be able to speak to you at the invitation of the organisers responsible here. However, what I am to talk to you about is anything but a pleasure. It is a really sad story!
A long – critical! – letter to the editor on a military topic to the“Badener Tagblatt” in 1964, on the basis of which Werner Geissberger, the regional editor of the“Badener Tagblatt” at the time, asked me to write more often and also on other topics for the „BT”, became the start of my profession as a journalist.