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After countless foreign invasions and wars

Vietnam cultivates its neutrality – to its own advantage

by Felix Abt*

(08 August 2025) This week, Vietnam celebrates the 50th anniversary of its reunification and independence. Here are some thoughts that are important in the current geopolitical environment.

UN agencies warn of famine in Gaza

Permanent, safe and unhindered access for humanitarian aid!

Media release UNICEF*

(08 August 2025) Gaza faces the severe risk of famine as food consumption and nutrition indicators have reached their worst levels since the conflict began, according to data shared in the latest “Integrated Food Security Phase Classification” (IPC) Alert.**

Japan, eighty years ago

Atomic bombing of Nagasaki

by Marlen Simeon,* Switzerland

(18 July 2025) (CH-S) Eighty years ago, on 6 and 9 August 1945, American atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The horror grips everyone who contemplates the consequences of these acts – the suffering is incomprehensible. It is also incomprehensible that today, the use of atomic bombs is being considered again.

The “spirit of our time” – On the relevance today of the ideas of the great humanist Albert Schweitzer

by Prof. Dr. Rüdiger H. Jung*

(18 July 2025) “The ‘spirit of our time’ [...] keeps us in a frenzy of activity so that we do not come to our senses and ask ourselves what this restless devotion to goals and achievements actually has to do with the meaning of the world and the meaning of our lives.”

Israel's proxy war against BRICS

The struggle for supremacy in Eurasia

by Andreas Mylaeus*

(11 July 2025) Israel is not only seeking to establish Greater Israel but is also implementing the overall strategy of Anglo-Saxon world domination: the destruction of BRICS and the prevention of Eurasian integration.

Press Release

Forever-Occupation, genocide, and profit

Special Rapporteur’s report exposes corporate forces behind destruction of Palestine

«United Nations Human Rights», Office of the High Commissioner

(11 July 2025) Geneva (3 July 2025) – Israel’s genocide against Palestinians is being sustained by a system of exploitative occupation and profit, a UN expert warned today in a new report to the Human Rights Council that reveals how corporate profiteering and monetary gain has enabled and legitimised Israel’s illegal presence and actions.