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Grain of sand

The Swiss Federal Council is right, except ...

by Suzette Sandoz,* Lausanne

(29 November 2022) The Swiss Federal Council does not allow Germany to hand over ammunition of Swiss origin to Ukraine because this would violate neutrality. This would be tantamount to favouring one of the two warring parties.

Conference in Solothurn, 15 and 16 October 2022 – Part 3

This is how Swiss media call for even more war

by Christian Müller,* Switzerland

Dear guests

It is a pleasure for me to be able to speak to you at the invitation of the organisers responsible here. However, what I am to talk to you about is anything but a pleasure. It is a really sad story!

A long – critical! – letter to the editor on a military topic to the“Badener Tagblatt” in 1964, on the basis of which Werner Geissberger, the regional editor of the“Badener Tagblatt” at the time, asked me to write more often and also on other topics for the „BT”, became the start of my profession as a journalist.

Russia’s Kherson withdrawal is tactical

by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India

(29 November 2022) General Mark Milley, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States assessed that it would take several weeks for Moscow to complete the evacuation of some 30,000 Russian troops deployed in Kherson city in southern Ukraine. But Russians have announced that the evacuation was successfully completed in 2 days — both soldiers and over 5000 pieces of heavy equipment.

A False Flag over Poland?

by Scott Ritter,* USA

(29 November 2022) Apparent conspiracy to drag NATO into the Ukraine conflict is a direct threat against every human being on the planet

Solothurn Conference of 15/16 October 2022 – Part 1

“What Media for Peace?”

Words of welcome at the opening of the conference

by Gabriel Galice*

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear friends,

I am pleased to open the proceedings of the conference “What Media for Peace?”.

This conference is an initiative of the Swiss Peace Movement, the Association Switzerland-Cuba, Alba Suiza and our Peace Research Institute GIPRI. We are all particularly indebted to the initiator and driving force behind this conference, Natalie Benelli: Thank you Natalie!

Solothurn Conference of 15/16 October 2022 – Part 2

The role of the media in armed conflicts

by Karin Leukefeld,* Germany/Syria

(17 November 2022) (cm) Not least the latest geopolitical situation shows in all clarity that the media have abandoned their original mandate of informing the interested population as independently and accurately as possible in favour of “information” that is one-sided in terms of power politics. Research on the ground of the events is often saved and replaced by reports of the dominant western news agencies AFP, AP, Reuters and DPA – or else they are abused additionally by means of so-called “parachute journalism” for one-sided information.