Social issues

This must not be forgotten!

On 27 January 1944 – 79 years ago – the Red Army was able to break through the German siege of Leningrad with a million people starved to death

by Christian Müller,* 27 January 2023

(7 February 2023) (Edit.) With its complete submission to the Anglo-American forces on the other side of the Atlantic, Germany can but lose: its freedoms, its prosperity, its standing in the world.

Ukraine War

Those who fail to call for negotiations, fail to understand the danger that faces the planet!

by U.S. Peace Council, USA

(7 February 2023) At no time since the Cuban missile crisis has our world has been so close to disaster.

As the war in Ukraine approaches its first anniversary, it is being increasingly transformed by the Biden administration and the “collective west” into a war between NATO and Russia. The danger of turning into a nuclear confrontation is imminent.

 

World Climate Declaration1

There is no climate emergency

by Global Climate Intelligence Group

(25 January 2023) Climate “science” should be less political, while climate “policies” should be more scientific. In particular, scientists should emphasize that their modeling output is not the result of magic: computer models are human-made. What comes out is fully dependent on what theoreticians and programmers have put in: hypotheses, assumptions, relationships, parameterizations, stability constraints, etc. Unfortunately, in mainstream climate science most of this input is undeclared.

Primary school failure forces us to return to successful learning methods

In all of Germany’s federal states the performance of primary school pupils has declined

by Rainer Werner*

(16 January 2023) The study by the “Institute for Quality Development in Education” (IQB) on the performance of our primary school students in mathematics and German (2021) has revealed alarming results.

In all 16 federal states, performance has declined compared to the test results of 2011 (in spelling: 2016). What is particularly alarming is that the number of high-achieving pupils has declined just as much as the number of those who achieve the average standard.

War on Global Agriculture

The unsustainable ‘sustainable’ UN Agenda 2030

by F. William Engdahl*

9 January 2023) Over the past weeks a coordinated all-out assault on our agriculture—the ability to produce food for human existence—has begun. The recent G20 governmental meeting in Bali, the UN Agenda 2030 Cop27 meeting in Egypt, the Davos World Economic Forum and Bill Gates are all complicit.

Conference in Solothurn, 15 and 16 October 2022 – Part 6

Participatory Democracy in Venezuela

Working Families Build Their Communities

by Natalie Benelli,* PhD, European correspondent

(9 January 2023) Starting in 1999, Venezuela has implemented policies and legislation promoting the active participation of working people and their families in democratic decision-making.