International

New worries for Brussels after the triumphant re-election of the Croatian president

by Pierre Lévy,* France

(2 February 2025) (CH-S) In the past months and in the months to come, government elections have been and will be held in several EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe. This concerns Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic.

Pierre Lévy is a French journalist who has been critically following and describing developments in the European Union for many years.

In this article, he analyses the political situation in the aftermath of the recent presidential election in Croatia.

The new world disorder from a Swiss perspective

by Jean-Pierre Saw

(2 February 2025) This January 2025, we all wake up with a dull feeling – something is wrong. There are more and more latent and open crises that herald major upheavals. As Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis notes in the “Tamedia” newspapers, “the world is not doing well” – a brief foray.

Why the USA unsuccessfully squandered billions in Afghanistan

by Urs P. Gasche*

(24 January 2025) The war lobby has been faking successes for presidents and congress so that the arms and aid organisations can profit for a long time.

 

After Iraq, Libya, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, the Pentagon attacks Yemen

by Thierry Meyssan,* France

(17 January 2025) (CH-S) Thierry Meyssan never ceases to amaze with his historically well-founded geopolitical analyses. The following article outlines the content of his lecture, “New alliances are turning the world order upside down”, which he gave on 5 January 2025 as part of a series of events organised by ‘Swiss Standpoint’.

On-site investigations in Syria

by Karin Leukefeld, Damascus*

(9 January 2025) (cm.) In Syria, almost everything is different from one day to the next. A new order? It’s more of a new situation. Everyone is doing what they can and as they please. Above all, however, many prices, especially for essential foodstuffs, have risen dramatically. For large sections of the population, survival is not easy – while clever companies, including foreign ones, are already present with completely new offers. Karin Leukefeld sent us a brief report on the atmosphere from Damascus.

America’s long war against Syria

by Professor Glenn Diesen,* Norway

(2 January 2025) Over the years, the US and NATO have developed a template for regime change under the guise of defending liberal democratic values. Initially, there are efforts to sow divisions within the targeted state and then provide political, economic and military support to opposition groups. If the opposition groups can topple the government, then the US and NATO celebrate it as a “democratic revolution” over an authoritarian government. If the government defeats the opposition groups, the US or NATO can intervene militarily under the justification of preventing the government from “killing its own people”. This model was also applied to Syria in what became a long war.