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Manual work for a “dog mission”

by Max Hugelshofer, Swiss Mountain Aid

(20 June 2022) What do guide dogs in Switzerland, the USA, Australia or France have in common? Most likely they wear a harness that was handmade in Switzerland. Until recently in the Jura, now in a mountain village in Ticino.

How did Finland and Sweden get into Nato?

Accession is one big gift to militarism and future warfare

by Jan Oberg,* Sweden

(20 June 2022) (Edit.) As an internationally recognised peace researcher, Jan Oberg describes the political-historical background of Sweden's and Finland's accession to NATO. How did it come about that both countries gave up their successful neutrality or non-alignment in just a few weeks?

Creating new cold war conditions in Asia isn’t easy

by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India

(20 June 2022) Only three weeks remain for the summit meeting of the «North Atlantic Treaty Organisation» (NATO) in Madrid, which is expected to unveil a new Strategic Concept aimed at redefining “the security challenges facing the Alliance and outline the political and military tasks that NATO will carry out to address them.”

Naked Power and Julian Assange

by William J. Astore,* USA

(20 June 2022) The worst crime you can commit, in the eyes of the powerful, is to embarrass them and to reveal their crimes. That is what Julian Assange did, most notably about U.S. war crimes in Iraq, and that is why he is being hounded and punished.

Taking the nuclear threat seriously

by Dr med. Sabine Vuilleumier-Koch, MD.

(20 June 2022) Western media and policy makers ignore or trivialise the threat of nuclear war spreading across the world. Nuclear weapons are a suppressed reality.

The US sanctions against Russia will produce a global food disaster

by John Ross*

(20 June 2022) “There is really no true solution to the problem of global food security without bringing back the agriculture production of Ukraine and the food and fertilizer production of Russia and Belarus into world markets despite the war.” These blunt words1 by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres accurately describe the present global food crisis.