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No propaganda – no war

“Cognitive Warfare” against one’s own population

by Robert Seidel

(5 September 2023) If you want to gain an orientation in today’s world, you must learn to distinguish and assess information more accurately. The debate about “fake news” has shown that not all information can be taken at face value. However, not every item of “fake news” is actually a fake. Since the Ukraine war, it has obviously been a question of the prerogative of interpretation in the minds of one’s own population. The people in the individual states are to be mobilised for this war – which has now taken on a global proportion.

The new El Dorado for cocaine traffickers

Cocaine does not seem affected by inflation. Here's why.

by Celine Pina,* France

(5 September 2023) As with our European neighbours, cocaine is now available at bargain prices in our cities and countryside. Imported in bulk, it ceased to be a luxury product. But its disturbing power of corruption and destruction has not diminished.

The UN Charter must remain the heart and soul of any new peace architecture

Michael von der Schulenburg,* Germany

(5 September 2023) This article is a contribution to the German peace movement’s pamphlet on the occasion of this year’s “Anti-War Day on September 1”. On this day, 84 years ago, the German Reich marched into Poland and ignited the Second World War, bringing indescribable destruction, misery and suffering to Europe and the world.

Containment of China will only lead to US being isolated in the world

“Global Times” Interview with Kishore Mahbubani,* former UN Permanent Representative of Singapore and President of the UN Security Council

(5 September 2023) In his book, “The Asian 21st Century”, Kishore Mahbubani, a former diplomat who served as Singapore's permanent representative to the United Nations and president of the UN Security Council, pointed out the biggest thing happening in the world, yet no Western media would talk about it – the arrival of the Asian century.

The dark side of calling for responsibility

by Antoine-Frédéric Bernhard,* Switzerland

(29 August 2023) Get vaccinated? An act of "responsibility"! Just like lowering your thermostat to 19 degrees, no longer flying or lowering your meat consumption. This rhetoric of calling for responsibility, omnipresent today, has a dark side.

Africa’s new role on the multipolar world stage

Interview with South Africa’s Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor

(29 August 2023) Ahead of the second Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia Today conducted an exclusive interview with South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor* on 26 July 2023 about relations with Russia, the upcoming BRICS Summit, the global economy and other issues affecting the world today.