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by Guy Mettan,* freelance journalist
(9 January 2023) While one hears a lot about the Baltic States and Poland in the Ukraine conflict, the countries in the South, on the other hand, are very discreet. A forum on peace and neutrality in Chisinau and various meetings organised on the occasion of the Bulgarian elections on 2 October allowed me to visit Moldova, Romania and Bulgaria earlier this month.
by Christian Kreiss,* Germany
(9 January 2023) A lot of recent political and economic measures clearly harm our middle class, the backbone of our prosperity. Leading business representatives say: “the substance of our industry is threatened”1 or: “we are simply getting poorer. I’ll draw you a picture for Germany and I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up 20 to 30 percent poorer.”2 The conservative “Handelsblatt” newspaper speaks of a threat of deindustrialisation of Germany.3
by F. William Engdahl*
9 January 2023) Over the past weeks a coordinated all-out assault on our agriculture—the ability to produce food for human existence—has begun. The recent G20 governmental meeting in Bali, the UN Agenda 2030 Cop27 meeting in Egypt, the Davos World Economic Forum and Bill Gates are all complicit.
by Natalie Benelli,* PhD, European correspondent
(9 January 2023) Starting in 1999, Venezuela has implemented policies and legislation promoting the active participation of working people and their families in democratic decision-making.
Human rights activist Larissa Schessler in an interview with Ulrich Heyden*
(9 January 2023) In this interview, Larissa Schessler describes what has become of the opposition movements in Ukraine since 2014. Schessler is the chairperson of the “Union of Political Refugees and Political Prisoners” in Ukraine and an engineer by profession. She lived in the southern Ukrainian city of Nikolayev.
(23 December 2022) Invoking the legacy of the 1914 Christmas Truce during WWI, nearly 1,000 leaders of faith communities are calling for peace and negotiations to bring the war to an end, “People’s Dispatch” reports.