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Book Review

Governing through Fake News

International Conflicts: 30 years of fake news exploited by western countries

by Gabriel Galice*

(23 September 2021) Jacques Baud, the author of this book, was a General Staff Colonel of the Swiss strategic Intelligence. His academic background includes studying political science and econometrics. Expert in chemical and nuclear weapons, he was on-site (Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo) and in Intelligence Rooms (for the U.N. in New York, for NATO in Brussels). The "Encyclopédie du Renseignement et des Services Secrets" is among his first publications.

Global Shipping Crisis Far Worse Than Imagined

by F. William Engdahl

(23 September 2021) Over the past decades world ocean trade has expanded almost exponentially as major manufacturing outsourcing from USA and European corporations has blossomed under the advent of economic globalization. The result has been that Asia, most especially China, has become the essential manufacturing source for everything from iPhones to antibiotics and everything in-between.

Dissolve this NATO!

by Willy Wimmer*

(20 September 2021) We have actually been warned since NATO’s war of aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999, which was contrary to international law and vulgar. If the United States wants to wage war for its own interests, then neither the NATO Treaty nor the Charter of the United Nations with its outlawing of war are of any interest.

Sanctions hit the innocent

Millions of livelihoods affected worldwide

by Thomas Scherr

(20 September 2021) Time and again, governments of influential states “punish” other states. The “punishments” often consist of banning trade for certain things or restricting exports and imports. This may involve food, medicines, financial transactions or technical parts. But what do these measures, known as “sanctions,” mean for the population?

Afghanistan – a second Vietnam?

by Robert Seidel

(20 September 2021) The images of the hasty withdrawal of the US Army from Kabul evoke memories of the withdrawal 46 years ago from the South Vietnamese capital Saigon. By comparing the two U.S. wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan, an attempt is made to draw possible consequences for a more peaceful international policy.

“Fishermen are part of the coast”

A trade forced to give up

by Marita Brune-Koch and Georg Koch

(6 September 2021) Freest is one of the last idyllic fishing villages on the German Baltic coast, near the island of Usedom. Fishing boats are rocking in the harbour. Nets, ropes and other fishing utensils complete the picture. Everything seems to be fine. But the idyll is deceptive. The fishermen can no longer make a living off fishing. The EU puts an end to them with its regulations.