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China & Russia Declare New Era of Multipolarity

On the meeting in Beijing between China’s Xi and Russia’s Putin designed to deepen the integration of the two Eurasian superpowers

by Benjamin Norton*

(13 March 2022) Feb. 4, 2022 may very well be remembered in history textbooks as an important date in the shift of global politics.
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Washington and London try to preserve their domination over Europe

By Thierry Meyssan*

(25 February 2022) Edit. The author succeeds in showing, on the basis of the latest developments around Ukraine, that the alleged threat from Russia only serves to bind Washington and London's NATO allies more firmly under their high command.

“Süddeutsche Zeitung“ and “Tages-Anzeiger“ ditch Nils Melzer

Why is the Swiss UN Special Rapporteur being defamed like this?

(26 February 2022) ts. The UN Special Rapporteur Nils Melzer* announced that he is resigning from his post prematurely. Behind are downright reputation-damaging reports in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” and the Zurich “Tages-Anzeiger”. In the following we publish Nils Melzer's correction to the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. The latter refused to print his counter statement.

The Forgotten ones in the House of Light

In Damascus, Catholic nuns take care ofsenior citizens who have lost their families

by Karin Leukefeld,* Damascus

(27 February 2022) In the Beit Nour retirement home in the old city of Damascus, old men spend their remaining years. Almost all of them are alone. Their children have left Syria. Others do not want to or cannot take care of their fathers.

The gas war

by Prof. Eberhard Hamer,* Germany

(20 February 2022) The days of cheap energy are probably over for German households and companies. Green ideologues have succeeded in making conventional electricity suppliers such as coal and oil more expensive and more difficult to replace. But the replacement by wind and solar energy is not only uncertain, it is also more expensive – not least because of the taxes imposed by the state.

The West’s new financial weapons

Third World countries’ commitment to carbon-neutral investments

by Manlio Dinucci,* Italy

(20 February 2022) New weapons are being added to the West’s arsenal of economic and financial policies. To understand their nature and importance, it is necessary to start from the weapons used so far: the sanctions – including the most severe, the embargo – imposed mainly by the United States and the European Union on entire states, companies and individuals.