Social issues

The battle for the human minds a new dimension

NATO is trying out entirely new, increasingly sophisticated strategies to inculcate desired perceptions into people’s minds

by Wolfgang Kaufmann

(19 July 2023) Classic psychological warfare serves the purpose of manipulating and weakening the military or civilian population of the enemy. Such “cognitive warfare” is also practised by NATO, although it is now no longer aimed solely at the enemy, because the battle for people’s minds is now to take place equally on their own territory. This emerges from various NATO documents – starting with the thesis paper “NATO’s Sixth Domain of Operations” from September 2020.*

Pedagogics

Good reading skills are crucial

Why smartphones & other digital devices are so damaging to children (not only because they are hooked on them themselves...)

by Michael Felten,* Germany

(19 July 2023) Primary school pupils’ reading levels are declining. Current benchmark studies show that the proportion of children who do not reach the minimum literacy standards is growing – one in four fourth graders cannot read properly.

WHO reform

Amendments to WHO’s “International Health Regulations”

An Annotated Guide

by David Bell,* Brownstone Institute, Texas USA

(4 July 2023) The Covid-skeptic world has been claiming the World Health Organization (WHO) plans to become some sort of global autocratic government, removing national sovereignty and replacing it with a totalitarian health state. The near-complete absence of interest by mainstream media would suggest, to the rational observer, that this is yet another ‘conspiracy theory’ from a disaffected fringe.

National referendum in Italy

“Sign up for peace, end the suffering”

by Georg Koch, member of the editorial board of "Swiss Standpoint"

Rather than causing ever greater suffering with further arms shipments to Ukraine, the money in Italy should go toward urgent improvements in the domestic health care system.

Why They Want to Cancel the Anniversary of the Victory Over Nazism

by Manlio Dinucci,* Italy

(30 May 2023) A major political-media operation is underway at an international level to cancel the Anniversary of the Victory over Nazism. President Putin’s speech at the May 9 Military Parade in Moscow, on the 78th Anniversary of the Victory, was presented in the West as a low-key speech without revealing its real content. In Latvia and other eastern countries, the police identified and even arrested those who paid tribute to those killed in the war against Nazism. In Ukraine, in the commemoration of the Anniversary of the Victory over Nazism, an absolute ban and threat of arrest or worse has been imposed.

Federal vote on 18 June 2023

Swiss Federal Office of Public Health in tow of WHO

Also for this reason: NO to the Covid-19 Act

by Sabine Vuilleumier-Koch, MD

(30 May 2023) Notwithstanding the social upheavals and the numerous scientific controversies surrounding the federal government’s measures to “combat Covid-19” over the past three years, in December 2022 the Swiss parliament extended the legal basis for certain measures until mid-2024. Thanks to a successful referendum, Swiss voters will now vote on this parliamentary decision on 18 June.