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Book review: “Diary from Gaza”

“We cannot say we didn’t know.”

A child psychologist’s account of her work in Gaza

by Georg Koch*

(3 July 2026) Katrin Blatz Brubakk is a German-Norwegian child psychologist who specialises in trauma. Since 2014, she has been deployed repeatedly by “Médecins Sans Frontières” to various locations. Gaza was her first mission directly in a war zone. Consequently, the rules had to be strictly adhered to:

“Never go outside the walls without being accompanied by a security guard.” – “Always wear the white vest of Médecins Sans Frontières.” – “Never stray more than 50 metres from the road.”

The EU’s budgetary coup

New Multiannual Financial Framework to expand Brussels’ powers

by Thomas Fazi*

(3 July 2026) (CH-S) Whilst in Switzerland it is ultimately the taxpayer who decides at the ballot box on projects funded by taxpayers’ money by local authorities, cantons and the federal government, developments in the European Union are moving in a different direction. More and more power is being concentrated in the hands of the European Commission. And with the “Multiannual Financial Framework” (MFF), which is currently being negotiated until the end of the year, even more power is set to shift to Brussels.
Assange Archive

Why physical archives matter in an age of disappearing truth

“Who controls the past controls the future.” – George Orwell

by “Julian Assange Archive e.V.”

(3 July 2026) (CH-S) In 2024, the fearless Australian investigative journalist Julian Assange was released from Belmarsh Prison in London. He had exposed US war crimes. Since 2010, the year of his unlawful arrest, people around the world had worked tirelessly to ensure that he was not forgotten. They stood outside embassies and courts, organised protests, wrote letters, held vigils and continued to speak out about his “case” even after it had all but disappeared from the public eye.

US biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine

Since 12 June 2026 it is official

by Dr Peter F. Mayer*

(26 June 2026) The bio-lab lie: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified what Anthony Fauci, Joe Biden and the US intelligence apparatus have been covering up: for decades, the US government has been funding more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

Jean Ziegler – the man who refused to turn a blind eye

by Sabiene Jahn*

(26 June 2026) Jean Ziegler has died. An unusual podcast obituary by Tahir Chaudhry** pays tribute to a great Swiss human rights activist and to an almost lost form of moral radicalism: the courage to call hunger, exploitation, and indifference by name.

“Europe’s last candle”

Switzerland as a counter-model to Brussels’ centralism … that could all come to an end with the EU framework agreement

by Michael Straumann*

(26 June 2026) The planned framework agreement with the European Union is a perennial topic of debate in Switzerland. Consequently, another power struggle broke out at the Federal Palace in Bern at the end of May. Parliamentarians are arguing over which committee – known in Switzerland as a “commission” – should be responsible for the EU treaty package.