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Great Britain wants to extradite Julian Assange

Fundamental failure of Western constitutional states. Civil society appalled by government action

by Robert Seidel

(30 December 2021) The inconceivable is about to become true. After more than 10 years of judicial scandals, cover-ups, disappearances, solitary confinement, international collusion among Western governments, the combined US power has succeeded to subject the courageous and committed investigative journalist Julian Assange to an unfair trial in the USA that will disregard all norms of the rule of law. What will be awaiting for him in the USA is known worldwide: not justice, but ill-disguised revenge. Revenge on what?

“Children’s Aid Afghanistan”

Annual Report Christmas 2021

by Annette and Reinhard Erös

(21 December 2021) Edit. We are pleased to publish the Annual Report 2021 of “Kinderhilfe Afghanistan” (German Aid for Afghan Children). For decades, Dr Reinhard and Annette Erös have been committed to helping the civilian population in Afghanistan. Through their independent and specific work for “Kinderhilfe Afghanistan”, help arrives where it is urgently needed.

Russia-China alliance at the tipping point

by M. K. Bhadrakumar*

(21 December 2021) The initiative by Beijing to propose a virtual meeting between President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday radically transforms the geopolitics of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s relentless eastward expansion and the Western military deployments on Russia’s borders.

When education reforms widen the education gap

by Carl Bossard*

(21 December 2021) Education always creates disparity. That’s the way. And at the same time, schools must ensure equal opportunities. That is the mandate. But to what extent is it made more difficult by the current wave of reforms?

Week after Biden-Putin meeting, crunch time is coming

by M. K. Bhadrakumar*

(21 December 2021) Russia is reiterating its ‘red lines’ seeking long-term legal guarantees against NATO’s further advancement to the east and the deployment of weapons on Russia’s western borders.
Syria

War by other means: water as a weapon

by Karin Leukefeld*

(17 December 2021) In addition to climate change, Turkey is the main threat to Syria’s supply of a vital resource. Ten years of war do the rest.