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NATO countries – also the Nordic – quietly preparing to send troops into Ukraine!

By TFF & Jan Oberg & others,* Lund, Sweden

(3 May 2024) NATO is desperate to cover up its Himalayan mistakes of

a) expanding NATO instead of creating a common European security and peace system that would have permitted us all to live in prosperity and peace today; and

b) stupidly including Ukraine in that expansion – with only a small minority of Ukrainians wanting NATO membership for their country at the time. Ukrainian and NATO elites couldn’t care less about people’s opinion – as is also well known for, e.g. Sweden's membership process.

Where has investigative journalism gone?

Journalists during the coronavirus pandemic

by Sonja L. Bauer, head of the editorial team at “Berner Landbote”*

(3 May 2024) (CH-S) In the following presentation, journalist Sonja Laurèle Bauer analyses the role of the media, especially editors, during the coronavirus pandemic. She gave this slightly abridged presentation in Bern at the symposium “Corona – Fakes & Facts” on 6/7 April 2024. What demands can be placed on good journalism and what was lacking during the pandemic.

US diplomacy gains traction in Middle East

by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India

(26 April 2024) With the outbreak of Israel’s Gaza war six months ago, a narrative mushroomed in the morass of the low, soft marshy land of geopolitics that the United States is caught in a quagmire that would compel its retrenchment in Eurasia and severely weaken the Biden administration’s strategy in the Asia-Pacific.

Without dialogue no security

“Corona-era” – urgent need of clarification

by Dr med. Sabine Vuilleumier*

(26 April 2024) The message of the symposium was clear: the next unknown pathogen must be dealt with in a scientifically sound and humane way. This applies even following its emergence, when much is still unknown in terms of its spread potential, transmission routes, danger to humans and treatment options. To achieve this goal, a thorough analysis of the past “corona-era” is urgently needed. What was done well can be retained, what was excessive or even harmful must be handled differently in the interests of all.

Independence and neutrality

Switzerland in the EU mist

by Thomas Scherr*

(26 April 2024) A new understanding of independence and neutrality is settling like mildew over the Swiss media world and spreading among the population. In the following, this mildew will be removed with a few facts and some logic.

A gift for NATO’s 75th anniversary – Support from France’s opposition parties

by Pierre Levy,* Paris

(26 April 2024) (CH-S) All of France’s major parties now seem to agree that NATO’s and French President Emmanuel Macron’s course of war is heading in the right direction. Opposition parties have aligned their banners with mainstream opinion. There is now hardly any serious opposition to the war policy in the French parliament. European elections are coming up and there is no longer any major party in France clearly speaking out in favour of peace and against the thriving bellicosity.

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