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Referendum of 13 June 2021

"The primary goal of agriculture is to provide sufficient and optimal food"

by Anne Challandes*

(21 May 2021) We, the Swiss farming families, do not want to have residues in the water either. Numerous measures are already in force and more are planned to ensure this.

The new regulations adopted by Parliament this spring set ambitious targets that make them the strictest regulation in Europe and a more appropriate response than the two initiatives that will be voted on in June.

Federal referendum of 13 June 2021

Thoughts on the two agricultural initiatives

by Esther and Felix Bürge

(21 May 2021) The pressure on our farmers has been increasing for some time. Environmental and animal welfare requirements are constantly being adjusted and raised. At the same time, however, production prices are being pushed down and farmers are receiving less and less pay for their valuable work of providing the population with healthy food.

Book review

"Under Swiss protection"

How Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz saved 50,000 lives

by Thomas Scherr

(25 May 2021) The example of Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz shows that one person can make a huge difference. Amid the atrocities and callousness of wartime Europe, this man risked his life to save thousands of Jews from certain death.

 

Julian Assange Affaire

J’accuse!

by Alfred de Zayas*

(12 May 2021) Worse than the Dreyfus Affair, UN Special Rapporteur Nils Melzer denounces the Assange Affair as an international scandal of judicial misconduct, and breakdown of the Rule of Law in the USA, UK, Sweden and Ecuador.

"Defender 21: sabre rattling in Europe

by Alexander Neu*

(10 May 2021) A spectre is haunting Europe – once again. And, once again, it is not communism, but the opposite – the iron fist of US capitalism/imperialism: the US-led manoeuvre Defender-Europe 21. To be fair, one has to concede that the US-dominated NATO is the real iron fist of Western imperialism.

 

The "censorship" is back

How a free society is giving up freedom

by Robert Seidel

(10 May 2021) The brief explosive confrontation between the Russian media group “Russia Today Deutschland” (RT DE) and German Foreign Minister Heiko Mass (SPD) in mid-March highlighted the alarming state of press freedom in the EU, especially in Germany. Behind this controversy lies the creeping introduction of a dictatorship of opinion.