by Robert Seidel
(18 August 2022) As part of the summer conference of “Swiss Standpoint” on 29 and 30 July 2022, Jacques Baud, iGst Colonel, and Gabriele Galice, president of the Geneva Institute for Peace Research GIPRI, spoke on the topic of “War in Ukraine: current situation and global implications”. Both represent well-founded positions that may well be outside the mainstream.
by Medea Benjamin*
(18 August 2022) President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is wildly popular among Mexicans at home and abroad. It’s not just because of his domestic policies: AMLO is also playing a key role in challenging US dominance in Latin America.
by Abayomi Azikiwe*
(18 August 2022) Ranil Wickremesinghe, 73, Prior To Taking Office on July 20, Declared a State of Emergency across the South Asian State.
Sri Lanka, an island-nation of 22 million people, has been the center of political and economic turmoil since the United National Party government defaulted on $51 billion in foreign debt during May.
by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India
(9 August 2022) If the metaphor of the “Great Game” can be applied to the Ukrainian crisis, with the expansion of the “North Atlantic Treaty Organisation” (NATO) at it core, it has begun causing reverberations across the entire Eurasian space. The great game lurking in the shade in the Caucasus and Central Asian regions in recent years is visibly accelerating.
by Manlio Dinucci*
(9 August 2022) At the Redzikowo base in Poland, work has begun on the installation of the “Aegis Ashore” system, at a cost of more than $180 million. It will be the second U.S. missile base in Europe, after that of Deveselu in Romania became operational in 2015.
by Gabriel Galice, President of the Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI)
(9 August 2022) Even and particularly in times of war, the GIPRI pursues its work of dispelling clichés with determination. In their masterful book “Unristricted warfare” [published in French and English],1 Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui explain that “non-military war operations” characterise the wars of the 21st century. Such types of operations are economic, technological and communicative.