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Sowing Seeds of Plunder: A Lose-Lose Situation in Ukraine

How big private equity funds buy up Ukraine

by Colin Todhunter*

(13 June 2023) “It’s a lose-lose situation for Ukrainians. While they are dying to defend their land, financial institutions are insidiously supporting the consolidation of farmland by oligarchs and Western financial interests.”

EU moves to the periphery of the world – by choice!

by Ivan Hoffman,* Czech Republic

(13 June 2023) (Edit. Globalbridge.ch) Well-known Czech publicist Ivan Hoffman – dissident under socialism, after 1989 working for “Radio Free Europe” for several years, then journalist, editor and presenter on Czech state radio – has written a short commentary on the current EU policy. Ivan Hoffman hits the mark with it, and his commentary should therefore also be read in German-speaking Europe. (cm)

US hopes to snatch victory from jaws of defeat in Ukraine

by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India

(6 June 2023) The G7 Leaders’ 2700-word statement on Ukraine,1 issued in Hiroshima after their summit meeting glossed over the burning question today – the so-called counter-offensive against the Russian forces.It is a deafening silence, since rumours are swirling about the disappearance of the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces. Significantly, President Vladimir Zelensky himself is making himself scarce from Kiev touring world capitals – Helsinki, Hague, Rome, Vatican, Berlin, Paris, London and Jeddah and Hiroshima. It does seem that something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

National referendum in Italy

“Sign up for peace, end the suffering”

by Georg Koch, member of the editorial board of "Swiss Standpoint"

Rather than causing ever greater suffering with further arms shipments to Ukraine, the money in Italy should go toward urgent improvements in the domestic health care system.

Financial market – a deceptive security

by Rüdiger Rauls,* Germany

(6 June 2023) Gold and American government bonds were considered the most secure investments by far for decades. Regarding US securities, capitalism itself has exposed this creed as a deception. American debt securities are turning more and more into a problem for banks and shadow banks.

Birth of a new financial world order

by Guy Mettan,* Geneva

(30 May 2023) The war in Ukraine triggered the shift of the world towards Asia and the Global South. Since February 2022, events have been accelerating, both politically and economically: an increase in trade agreements in national currencies, a peace plan between Saudi Arabia and Iran under the auspices of China, an increase in the number of BRICS membership applications, a project for a common currency between Argentina and Brazil, etc.