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“The U.S. Should Be a Force for Peace in the World”

Open letter to President Biden

by Eisenhower Media Network,* USA

(25 June 2023) In the United States, eminent former national security experts have written an open letter to President Biden and members of Congress, calling for every effort to be made to put an end to the war in Ukraine through diplomacy. Without endorsing the Russian invasion, they do not hesitate to denounce the actions of NATO and the arms dealers who have helped destabilise Europe. Will they be heard?
Book review

“Between worlds”

A book by Julie Zeh and Simon Urban

by Tankred Schaer, Germany

(13 June 2023) (Edit.) More and more citizens are noticing that the major media as well as a considerable part of the political representatives are reporting or taking a stand on important questions of life in a more or less homogeneous way. In the question of war and peace, of Corona and health care, of education and child rearing, of gender and diversity – to name just a few current topics.

Sowing Seeds of Plunder: A Lose-Lose Situation in Ukraine

How big private equity funds buy up Ukraine

by Colin Todhunter*

(13 June 2023) “It’s a lose-lose situation for Ukrainians. While they are dying to defend their land, financial institutions are insidiously supporting the consolidation of farmland by oligarchs and Western financial interests.”

EU moves to the periphery of the world – by choice!

by Ivan Hoffman,* Czech Republic

(13 June 2023) (Edit. Globalbridge.ch) Well-known Czech publicist Ivan Hoffman – dissident under socialism, after 1989 working for “Radio Free Europe” for several years, then journalist, editor and presenter on Czech state radio – has written a short commentary on the current EU policy. Ivan Hoffman hits the mark with it, and his commentary should therefore also be read in German-speaking Europe. (cm)

US hopes to snatch victory from jaws of defeat in Ukraine

by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India

(6 June 2023) The G7 Leaders’ 2700-word statement on Ukraine,1 issued in Hiroshima after their summit meeting glossed over the burning question today – the so-called counter-offensive against the Russian forces.It is a deafening silence, since rumours are swirling about the disappearance of the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces. Significantly, President Vladimir Zelensky himself is making himself scarce from Kiev touring world capitals – Helsinki, Hague, Rome, Vatican, Berlin, Paris, London and Jeddah and Hiroshima. It does seem that something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
National referendum in Italy

“Sign up for peace, end the suffering”

by Georg Koch, member of the editorial board of "Swiss Standpoint"

Rather than causing ever greater suffering with further arms shipments to Ukraine, the money in Italy should go toward urgent improvements in the domestic health care system.