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by Ihtesham Ali*
(28 August 2026) A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.
by Niklaus Ramseyer,* Berne
(28 August 2026) Armed neutrality means consistently renouncing war as a primitive, backward instrument of foreign policy. It represents progress away from war and toward peace.
For 170 years, Switzerland has had no enemies – either in the region or worldwide, and certainly no military enemies. During that time, it has neither waged a war nor had to endure one. This stands in stark contrast to every other European state. We on the Swiss left must defend the peaceful character of our neutral country.
by Karin Leukefeld*
(28 August 2026) Sixty days ago, on 17 June, the presidents of Iran and the United States of America signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” (MoU), a declaration of intent intended to bring an end to the war of aggression against Iran that the US and Israel had launched on 28 February 2026. Today, the agreement is “in a coma”, as they say in Iran. Israel is blocking it at every level.
by Frank Bergman*
(21 August 2026) One of the world’s leading digital forensics experts is sounding the alarm after admitting that artificial intelligence (AI) has become so powerful that even seasoned specialists can no longer reliably tell what is real and what is fake.
by Ralph Bosshard*
(21 August 2026) It is in keeping with the tradition of security policy debate in Switzerland that members of the Federal Parliament deal with issues of national defence almost exclusively when decisions on armaments programmes are to be made. What is new, however, is that heads of departments outside this field now feel they must also intervene in the debate on weapons systems.1 One would hope that the focus would be on questions regarding the actual military threat, possible scenarios and courses of action for the Swiss Confederation as a whole.
by Thomas Scherr*
(21 August 2026) Opinions about “Russia” and “Putin” are shaped by the media and mass psychology. Everyone now “knows” what they are supposed to think.
In Germany, public sentiment is – once again – being whipped up to the point of war hysteria. Top-down. “Putin is on the verge of reaching Berlin”. It is not the level-headed voices, but the hysterical ones that are being echoed in the media. This is exactly what has happened before… It smells of war.