Social issues

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.

Ukrainian human rights activist: “Everyone is afraid”

Human rights activist Larissa Schessler in an interview with Ulrich Heyden*

(9 January 2023) In this interview, Larissa Schessler describes what has become of the opposition movements in Ukraine since 2014. Schessler is the chairperson of the “Union of Political Refugees and Political Prisoners” in Ukraine and an engineer by profession. She lived in the southern Ukrainian city of Nikolayev.

WWI Christmas Truce Inspires Call for Ukraine Ceasefire

(23 December 2022) Invoking the legacy of the 1914 Christmas Truce during WWI, nearly 1,000 leaders of faith communities are calling for peace and negotiations to bring the war to an end, “People’s Dispatch” reports.

Address of his Holiness Pope Francis to the delegation of “Leaders pour la paix”

The 2nd December, the Holy Father Francis received in audience the members of the non-governmental organization “Leaders pour la Paix”, to whom he addressed the following words of greeting: