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For a “New Thinking 2.0”!

Almost eight decades after Hiroshima, nuclear weapons are becoming socially acceptable again

by Leo Ensel*

(16 August 2024) Since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, 79 years ago, humanity as a whole has been killable. The “New Thinking” that followed from this realisation and was co-developed by Mikhail Gorbachev therefore placed the survival of humanity at the centre of political action. Today, a renaissance, a “New Thinking 2.0”, is more necessary than ever!

No, cows are no climate killers

Anyone who advocates giving up meat to save the planet is making a mistake in their reasoning

by Klaus Alfs*

(16 August 2024) “Nobody seems to be interested anymore in the fact that it is modern, conventional agriculture and not organic farming that secures harvests and reliably feeds billions of people.” In his column, Klaus Alfs explains why the accusation that cows are climate killers is based on an error in reasoning.

Eroding neutrality also undermines international Geneva. Yet Geneva remains silent …

by Guy Mettan,* Geneva

(9 August 2024) By adopting unilateral U.S.-European sanctions against Russia in February 2022, even though it had always claimed that it would only apply sanctions endorsed by the United Nations and enshrined in international law, the Swiss government has dealt a heavy blow to neutrality and international Geneva. But in Geneva, nobody flinched. And here are the reasons why.

“To hell with the rest of the world“

Long-term strategy and unipolar claim of the USA

by Wolfgang Bittner* Germany

(9 August 2024) According to its power elites, the United States of America is “the land of the free and the home of the brave”, as the national anthem proclaims. And “God’s Own Country” is called to rule the world. To assert this unipolar claim, it has developed a long-term strategy since the 19th century, which includes maintaining an excessively well-equipped army and establishing around 1,000 military bases around the world.
Venezuela elections

While US politicians call fraud, American election observers endorse results

by Alan MacLeod,*

(9 August 2024) Much to the chagrin of the U.S. government, socialist candidate Nicolas Maduro won a third successive term in office on Sunday [28 July], convincingly beating his U.S.-backed opponents, Edmundo Gonzalez and Maria Corina Machado, by seven points.

Halt the armament spiral!

No to the renewed stationing of far-reaching US weapons systems in Germany

(9 August 2024) The international Catholic peace movement, “pax christi”, is alarmed and concerned by the planned stationing of US cruise missiles, hypersonic missiles and other missile systems in Germany from 2026.