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Serbia-Kosovo crisis

Emergence of an announced disaster

by Chiara Nalli,* Italy

(28 July 2023) (CH-S) The Italian journalist Chiara Nalli from “l’Antidiplomatico” decodes the conflict situation – often incomprehensible to us – in the north and south-east of Kosovo. It seems that the Serb and Albanian inhabitants do not get along. In this report from 31 May, the reader gets a deeper insight into the conflict situation. It is still unchanged after two months, the problems persisting. How is it that almost 25 years after NATO’s war against Serbia, which violated International Law, there is still no peace in Kosovo? The responsible protecting powers, the EU, NATO, but also the UN, why don’t they solve the conflict?
Book review

“The Human Rights Industry”

Alfred de Zayas: Reflections of a Veteran Human Rights Defender

Hans Köchler, President, International Progress Organization, www.i-p-o.org, Austria

(Vienna, July 2023) The «Human Rights Industry» by Alfred de Zayas is the most comprehensive and honest assessment and critique to date of the performance of institutions the international community has set up to monitor respect of those principles that underlie justice and the rule of law at the global level.
A trip to the Russian-Kazakh steppe

Where Europe and Asia begin

by Guy Mettan,* Geneva

(19 July 2023) I know you’re good at geography, but I dare you to tell me where Orenburg is. This city of 600,000 inhabitants is located at the foot of the Ural Mountains, in the middle of the Russian-Kazakh steppe, on the border of Europe and Asia. For us, in the middle of nowhere.

Headless EU does the bidding of NGOs and think tanks

Hungarian Minister of Justice speaks out frankly

by Dr Peter F. Mayer*

(19 July 2023) The EU is pursuing a policy of change: energy, food, climate, vaccination and war, including sanctions. These are parts of the “Great Reset” operated by the WEF and the financial capital that controls it, i.e., the billionaires from Rockefeller to Soros to Gates. The respective EU Commission meticulously implements the orders as received from such institutions, the billionaire foundations (NGO) and their think tanks. This is how the Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga analysed it on May 25 at a conference in Budapest, as reported by “Magyar Hírlap”.1
Cognitive Warfare

The battle for the human minds a new dimension

NATO is trying out entirely new, increasingly sophisticated strategies to inculcate desired perceptions into people’s minds

by Wolfgang Kaufmann

(19 July 2023) Classic psychological warfare serves the purpose of manipulating and weakening the military or civilian population of the enemy. Such “cognitive warfare” is also practised by NATO, although it is now no longer aimed solely at the enemy, because the battle for people’s minds is now to take place equally on their own territory. This emerges from various NATO documents – starting with the thesis paper “NATO’s Sixth Domain of Operations” from September 2020.*
Pedagogics

Good reading skills are crucial

Why smartphones & other digital devices are so damaging to children (not only because they are hooked on them themselves...)

by Michael Felten,* Germany

(19 July 2023) Primary school pupils’ reading levels are declining. Current benchmark studies show that the proportion of children who do not reach the minimum literacy standards is growing – one in four fourth graders cannot read properly.