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Chronicle of an announced crisis
by Robert Seidel
(30. January 2021) In his latest book, Paul Schreyer* attempts to put the Covid-19 crisis in a political context and thus make it more tangible. In doing so, he goes back a long way in the history of US military "biosecurity".
by Pascal Boniface, geopolitologist, Director of The French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs IRIS
Kishore Mahbubani is Singaporean. But unlike the vast majority of his compatriots, he is not of Chinese origin. He is Sindhi Hindu, a Hindu population originally from Pakistan. In 1947, his parents fled the persecutions that accompanied the partition between India and Pakistan to take refuge in Singapore, where he was born in 1948. He was a diplomat, notably at the United Nations. He is now a professor at the University. He is one of the most influential commentators on international life.
Ed. How much is a billion? A sum of money of "only" one billion — or a thousand million — is hardly imaginable. One can only guess at the in uence and power that individuals in our world can wield with the possession of several or even hundreds of billions of dollars.
As a comparison with the amounts of money described in the following two articles by Alan MacLeod and Chuck Collins, we have subsequently compared this year's financial requirements of the "United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees" (UNHCR) and the state revenues (2017) of Switzerland and its neighbouring countries.
A plea for our individual freedom
by Thomas Scherr
(30 January 2021) «Who is afraid of William Tell? Old-fashioned reflections on democracy».* This is the title of Oliver Zimmer's book published in November 2020. The author teaches modern European history in Oxford. He has been living in England for twenty years, but his roots lie on the shores of Lake Zurich. We recommend any democrat who has preserved his spirit of freedom to read his book.
The Swiss federal administration does not give up
(30 January 2021) ts. The best way to lose the trust of others is to try to pressure or rehearse the same bad ideas over and over again. Why is the Swiss federal government so eager to introduce e-voting in Switzerland?
“Covid has provided cover for a pandemic of propaganda.”
By John Pilger
(14 December 2020) Britain’s Armed Services Memorial is a silent, haunting place. Set in the rural beauty of Staffordshire, in an arboretum of some 30,000 trees and sweeping lawns, its Homeric figures celebrate determination and sacrifice.