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by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India
(26 April 2024) With the outbreak of Israel’s Gaza war six months ago, a narrative mushroomed in the morass of the low, soft marshy land of geopolitics that the United States is caught in a quagmire that would compel its retrenchment in Eurasia and severely weaken the Biden administration’s strategy in the Asia-Pacific.
by Dr med. Sabine Vuilleumier*
(26 April 2024) The message of the symposium was clear: the next unknown pathogen must be dealt with in a scientifically sound and humane way. This applies even following its emergence, when much is still unknown in terms of its spread potential, transmission routes, danger to humans and treatment options. To achieve this goal, a thorough analysis of the past “corona-era” is urgently needed. What was done well can be retained, what was excessive or even harmful must be handled differently in the interests of all.
by Thomas Scherr*
(26 April 2024) A new understanding of independence and neutrality is settling like mildew over the Swiss media world and spreading among the population. In the following, this mildew will be removed with a few facts and some logic.
by Pierre Levy,* Paris
(26 April 2024) (CH-S) All of France’s major parties now seem to agree that NATO’s and French President Emmanuel Macron’s course of war is heading in the right direction. Opposition parties have aligned their banners with mainstream opinion. There is now hardly any serious opposition to the war policy in the French parliament. European elections are coming up and there is no longer any major party in France clearly speaking out in favour of peace and against the thriving bellicosity.
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(19 April 2024) (Ed. CH-S) The public broadcasters ARD, ZDF and Deutschlandradio are in turmoil and criticism of the media giants, which are compulsorily financed by the public, is growing louder. Viewers and listeners are deserting them and turning to other media.
Is it so much different at Swiss Radio and Television SRF? Here, too, we only hear “filtered” and framed information and standardised opinions on the key issues of our time. “Nudging” is intended to coax us as media consumers towards the thinking desired by the media makers. In Germany, a group of employees of these media companies is now calling for a “new public service broadcasting”.
by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India
(19 April 2024) The salience of the phone call from the US President Joe Biden to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday [2 April] is their consensus that during the period since their summit meeting in Woodside, California, in November 2023, the US-China relationship “is beginning to stabilise”.