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by Ernst Wolff*
(10 May 2021) Ukraine is increasingly becoming a highly explosive powder keg for the international community. A few weeks ago, President Volodymyr Selenskyj deliberately fueled the conflict, which has been simmering for several years, by announcing his intention to retake the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014 and the Donbass region dominated by pro-Russian separatists.
by Hans-Georg Maassen* and Johannes Eisleben**
(10 mai 2021) Edit. In the following, Hans-Georg Maassen and Johannes Eisleben deal with the disintegration of nation states and the incapacitation of their citizens. At the same time, they note the end of this development. In doing so, they name causes and describe possible perspectives.
From: Helmut Schmidt "A Last Visit: Encounters with the World Power China"
by Reinhild Felten, Germany
(date) Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015) was German Chancellor from 1974 to 1982 and co-editor of "DIE ZEIT" since 1983. He remains one of the best-known and most popular politicians and publicists in Germany. He has published numerous books.
In his book "One last visit: encounters with the world power China",* published in 2013, Helmut Schmidt conveys an unusually balanced, benevolent view of China, considering he is a German politician.
by Guy Mettan,* member of the initiative committee, Geneva
(3 May 2021) On February 25, 2020, the Federal Gazette published the text of the Swiss federal popular initiative entitled “Micro-tax on cashless Monetary Transactions", paving the way for the collection of signatures.
by Alfred de Zayas and Richard Falk*
(3 May 2021) The misuse of the word «genocide» is disdainful toward relatives of the victims of the Armenian massacres, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide – and as well a disservice to both history, law, and the prudent conduct of international relations.
We already knew that we were adrift in an ocean of fake news. It is far more dangerous to discover that we are also at risk of being immersed in the turbulent waters of “fake law”. We must push back with a sense of urgency. Such a development is not tolerable.
“The health of the population is the least of their concerns”
Interview with Werner Rügemer* by Reinhard Jellen**
(25 April 2021) It sometimes seems as if the health-care system and government offices have had to cut costs to such an extent that they do not have the capacity to cope with the Covid-19 crisis. Is this really the case? To find out, Telepolis talked to the privatization expert Werner Rügemer, who has studied this phenomenon for many years (see: Der Staat entmachtet sich selbst [The State disempowers itself] and has published several seminal works on the subject.