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Switzerland

“A world record is growing here!”

(22 June 2022) (Edit.) The “Swiss Farmers’ Union” (Schweizer Bauernverband SBV) is drawing attention to itself in its anniversary year with a World Record Rösti* campaign. The children and young people involved are thus given a welcome connection to the realities of agriculture and a staple food, the potato. Unfortunately, it takes on a current urgency in the context of world events, the safeguarding of food sovereignty and one’s own provisions and preparedness.

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.