Social issues

Why the wrong journalists have won the Nobel Peace Prize

by Thomas Röper*

(27 October 2021) The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to journalists from Russia and the Philippines, celebrated by the Western media as a sign against “evil regimes”, has exposed the Nobel Peace Prize as an instrument of Western propaganda.

Climate change

Over 40 years of wrong predictions…

What CO2 has to do with climate change

Interview with Ueli Gubler, Engineer HTL

(date) For some time now, the topic of “global warming” has had a massive influence on our direct life reality – be it in the form of incentive taxes, energy regulations and even our diet. The goal of all political measures is a massive reduction of CO2 emissions in order to prevent global warming.

Why dealing with Corona makes me despair

by Guy Mettan, freelance journalist, Geneva

(3 October 2021) In her editorial last Sunday [12 September], Ariane Dayer talks about a “Swiss secret” and asks why so many Swiss people hesitate to get vaccinated. An excellent question... to which she was careful not to answer. She contented herself with saying that we “should try to understand”.

Afghanistan: War shatters bodies and souls

Four decades of war shatters nations

The following is a statement from Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the end of a four-day trip to Afghanistan

(23 September 2021) Kabul (ICRC) – The scars of war last generations. Destroyed buildings can one day be rebuilt, but shattered limbs do not regrow. Children re-live trauma long after the bomb blasts subside. Family members killed leave a permanent void.

Sanctions hit the innocent

Millions of livelihoods affected worldwide

by Thomas Scherr

(20 September 2021) Time and again, governments of influential states “punish” other states. The “punishments” often consist of banning trade for certain things or restricting exports and imports. This may involve food, medicines, financial transactions or technical parts. But what do these measures, known as “sanctions,” mean for the population?

Germany

Permanent disaster and enormous damage – necessary consequences

Public statement on the coronavirus Policy

(23 August 2021) SARS-COV-2 is a new type of virus that should be taken seriously and can lead to severe illness and death in people with weakened immune systems and previous illnesses depending on working, social and living conditions.

However, the pandemic measures of the German federal government, some of which are scientifically controversial and some of which cannot be justified, cause enormous damage: to the health of the population, especially to children and young people, to the health system itself, to precarious dependent employees and sole self-employed people, to single parents, to isolated old people, to the economy.