by Wolfgang Effenberger,* Germany
(28 September 2022) Wolfgang Ischinger, former US ambassador and chairman of the foundation board of the Munich Security Conference, published on 10 August 2022 in “Foreign Affairs”, the internal newsletter of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the article entitled “Germany’s Ukrainian Problem – Europe’s Largest Country Needs Time to Adjust to a Dangerous New World.”1
by Georg Koch
(28 September 2022) On 15/16 September, the 22nd conference of the “Shanghai Cooperation Organisation” (SCO) took place in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It was held under the motto "Dialogue and Cooperation in an Interconnected World".
Willy Wimmer’s view of a serious event*
(28 September 2022) “The answer to this question so far depends on the Russian Federation’s assessment in light of the Western approach in Ukraine and the Russian assessment of the opportuneness of whether and when conclusions are to be drawn from the findings.
by Thierry Meyssan*
(28 September 2022) A US grouping, constituted around the thought of the philosopher Leo Strauss, controls from now on both the Secretariat of Defense and the Secretariat of State. After having organized many wars since those of Yugoslavia, they imagined the one in Ukraine. It is now manipulating the European Union and is preparing to deprive it of energy sources.
by Jeffrey D. Sachs,* USA
(21 September 2022) The world is on the edge of nuclear catastrophe in no small part because of the failure of Western political leaders to be forthright about the causes of the escalating global conflicts.
The relentless Western narrative that the West is noble while Russia and China are evil is simple-minded and extraordinarily dangerous. It is an attempt to manipulate public opinion, not to deal with very real and pressing diplomacy.
by Stefan Hofer,* Basel
(19 September 2022) After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the European socialist states, after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA),1 the power elites in the West triumphed that the capitalist market economy and the Western system of states controlling it, dominated by the USA, had finally prevailed in the system competition with the socialist world, thereby defeating socialism. The end of history had already been proclaimed.