Social issues

Reaching a Just and Lasting Peace in Ukraine

Statement by Participants of the “Science and Ethics of Happiness Study Group” under the auspices of the “UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network” (UN-SDSN)

(4 July 2022) (Editor CH-S.) The statement of the “Study Group on Science and Ethics” for peace negotiations in Ukraine as documented here clearly shows that possibilities for serious peace negotiations have always existed and still exist today. However, a prerequisite for this is the genuine will for peace, as can be seen from the proposal.

The US plan for a WHO health dictatorship is failing … for the moment

by Norbert Häring*

(28 June 2022) A bold proposal by the U.S. government to tighten the “International Health Regulations” (IHR) failed at the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva because it was resisted by African and other countries that did not want to submit so easily to a health dictatorship from Washington and Geneva. Negotiations will now continue until 2024, in parallel with the proposed “Global Treaty on Pandemics”.

On the deconstruction of a wonderful profession

by Carl Bossard,* Switzerland

(28 June 2022) Switzerland is short of thousands of teachers, and this just before the summer holidays. The authorities express surprise. But how could it come to this? A search for clues.

Taking the nuclear threat seriously

by Dr med. Sabine Vuilleumier-Koch, MD.

(20 June 2022) Western media and policy makers ignore or trivialise the threat of nuclear war spreading across the world. Nuclear weapons are a suppressed reality.

The WEF, where it’s all about money and power ...

by Christian Müller*

(11 June 2022) Sic transit gloria mundi: This is how the splendour of the world degenerates! The WEF, once a hopeful international platform where high-ranking politicians and influential business managers could meet and talk on neutral Swiss soil. The WEF, today a neo-liberal economic propaganda event that strives for globalisation under Western leadership, not least at Swiss expenses, and simply excluding disobedient countries. A geopolitical tragedy.

War in Ukraine: Conceiving the inconceivable?

Financing the production of weapons of mass destruction and the supply of heavy weapons must stop immediately!

by Marc Chesney*

(11 June 2022) (Edit.) Marc Chesney is professor of finance at the University of Zurich. He has long urged major banks and other financial corporations to stop giving money to companies that produce nuclear and other heavy weapons but to help promote the good of our planet through sustainable credits.