by Prof. Dr Eberhard Hamer*
(4 July 2022) “The biggest and most far-reaching economic scandal of our days is currently taking place through the manipulation of the monetary and currency systems. For the first time, monetary fraud has a global dimension, because it takes place on a worldwide scale, that can no longer be controlled, stopped or prevented by any national government, and because it is formally legal even under outdated national laws”.1
by John Ross*
(20 June 2022) “There is really no true solution to the problem of global food security without bringing back the agriculture production of Ukraine and the food and fertilizer production of Russia and Belarus into world markets despite the war.” These blunt words1 by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres accurately describe the present global food crisis.
by Ron Paul, USA*
(9 May 2022) “War is a racket, wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”
by Prof. Dr Eberhard Hamer*
(2 May 2022) Ukrainian President Selenski demanded of the Western allies that the sanctions imposed on Russia be tightened and “maintained for at least 15 years”. US sanctions against Iran have lasted longer, also against Venezuela and others.
by Alfred de Zayas,* Geneva
(25 April 2022) Edit. The author is both US and Swiss citizen. Here he comments on economic policy issues concerning the USA.
AdZ. Our governments have the wrong priorities — totally skewed budgetary priorities. Year after year our tax dollars are being squandered by Congress, which adopts military-first budgets instead of human-security budgets.
(14 April 2022) mb. The German Minister of Economics, Robert Habeck, travelled to Qatar aiming to the buy gas.