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Economic Sanctions Kill

by Alfred de Zayas,* Geneva

(28 March 2022) AdZ. This article draws on the research of other scholars including Jeffrey Sachs and Mark Weisbrot and encourages further research by UN agencies including UNICEF, WHO, FAO to quantify the concrete harm done by economic sanctions, in particular the nexus between sanctions and famine, sanctions and scarcity of medicines (the ECWAS study on Syria is very revealing) and suggests that because of the tens of thousands of deaths caused by sanctions world-wide, they should be considered under article 7 of the Rome Statute as crimes against humanity.

"The policy of the USA has always been to prevent Germany and Russia from cooperating more closely"

Historical, political and economic contexts of the war in Ukraine

Interview with Jacques Baud*

(15 March 2022) Zeitgeschehen im Fokus: Mr Baud, you know the region where there is war now. What conclusions have you drawn from the last few days, and how could it have come to this?

Neutrality has nothing to do with heartlessness and lack of solidarity

(13 March 2022) Edit. Ambiguously and contrary to the country's good tradition, the Federal Council endorsed on February 28, 2022, the EU's far-reaching sanctions against Russia. Switzerland is neither a member of the EU nor of NATO, nor is it part of any alliance with Ukraine or Russia. The Federal Council was expected to find a diplomatically balanced and Swiss solution.

"Unfortunately, NATO is not better than Putin!"

by Jürgen Todenhöfer, Germany*

(13 March 2022) Putin is waging war against Ukraine in violation of international law. There is no excuse for this. Nor does NATO's systematic encirclement of Russia over many years justify the killing of innocent Ukrainian civilians. War is always sh ...

“We need a European security architecture …”

(13 March 2022)

First peace through compromise,
then humanitarian assistance,
then reconciliation
– We only have this one planet!

The media on the “warpath”

Swiss mass media: a transatlantic transmission belt?

by Thomas Scherr

(13 March 2022) Even though today we are holding one’s breath in suspense by military operations and the question of the aggressor seems to be determined, the responsibility of the media for the tensions towards Russia, which they have actively built-up in the past months and years, must be broached. They have hunted down politics and thus serve as a kind of transmission belt of transatlantic military strategies.