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World Press Freedom Day – Resolution

Release Julian Assange! No extradition to the USA!

Resolution of the IPPNW General Assembly in Hamburg on 30 April 2022

(15 May 2022) “As editor-in-chief of Wikileaks and through the publication of whistleblower information on serious war crimes, Julian Assange has the greatest peace policy significance. Already in 2019, Northern Ireland's Mairead Corrigan nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. This year, further nominations have been added.

A negotiated peace is the only way to end Russia's war on Ukraine

by Jeffrey D. Sachs,* USA

(2 May 2022) The two-pronged US strategy, to help Ukraine overcome the Russian invasion by imposing tough sanctions and by supplying Ukraine's military with sophisticated armaments, is likely to fall short.

What is needed is a peace deal, which may be within reach. Yet to reach a deal, the United States will have to compromise on NATO, something Washington has so far rejected.

The sanctions are tearing the global economy apart

by Prof. Dr Eberhard Hamer*

(2 May 2022) Ukrainian President Selenski demanded of the Western allies that the sanctions imposed on Russia be tightened and “maintained for at least 15 years”. US sanctions against Iran have lasted longer, also against Venezuela and others.

The death of Europe and the birth of a new order

Ukraine – a geopolitical conflict

by Augusto Zamora Rodríguez,* Nicaragua

(2 May 2022) Editor: “Putin’s imperial delusions”: in the West, experts, journalists and politicians are unanimous when it comes to the causes of the conflict in Ukraine. But a cross-sectional view quickly shows that analysts from the global South come to a different conclusion. When looking at the Ukrainian crisis, it can be refreshing for the mind to follow the eyes and thoughts of a person who has his home in Estelí, Nicaragua.

Cognitive warfare

The war propaganda changes its shape

by Thierry Meyssan*

(25 April 2022) If the Russian army has won the war against the “Banderites” [term for Ukrainian extremists, named after Stepan Banderea] in Ukraine, NATO has won the cognitive war against its own citizens in the West. The Atlantic Alliance has developed a new form of propaganda based on what it denounced a short time ago: Fake News, that is to say not false information, but biased information. How to protect yourself from it?

Disarmament For Development

by Alfred de Zayas,* Geneva

(25 April 2022) Edit. The author is both US and Swiss citizen. Here he comments on economic policy issues concerning the USA.

AdZ. Our governments have the wrong priorities — totally skewed budgetary priorities. Year after year our tax dollars are being squandered by Congress, which adopts military-first budgets instead of human-security budgets.