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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.
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.
“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.
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.
(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.
by Dr. Hans Köchler, President I.P.O, Vienna, Austria
(22 August 2023) (8 August 2023 – RE/28961c-is) In a statement issued today, the President of the International Progress Organization (I.P.O.), Dr. Hans Köchler, called upon the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to desist from a policy of intimidation and interference concerning the political situation in the Republic of Niger. The threat of military intervention and the punitive sanctions imposed on Niger are in violation of the United Nations Charter and risk further destabilizing the already precarious security situation in the region.