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by Dr Peter F. Mayer*
(23 May 2025) More and more former colonies are throwing out their former colonial rulers. In doing so, they are ending more than a century of exploitation. Natural resources such as gold and uranium benefited only the colonialists, while the inhabitants were kept in poverty. That has changed, and the political West is not happy about it.
by Guy Mettan,* Geneva
(23 May 2025) (CH-S) What do we know about China? News, reports and articles about the country are mostly negative due to the one-sided reporting of our mainstream media. Guy Mettan’s travelogue offers a very different perspective. Read it for yourself.
(16 May 2025 Today we commemorate the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War 80 years ago. We remember the estimated 60 million people who died, including 27 million in the Soviet Union, and the immeasurable human suffering caused by this war.
by Roland Hureaux,* France
(16 May 2025) The extravagant punishment imposed by the Paris Court of Appeal on Marine Le Pen and forty other members of the “Rassemblement National” is an insult to democracy that has shocked people far beyond this political family and our borders.
by Mathias Müller, Switzerland
(16 May 2025) Politicians present themselves to citizens as a friend and helper. But this is often a perfidious deception, as the new coalition agreement in Germany shows.
by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India
(9 May 2025) (CH-S) In the Indian region of Kashmir, suspected extremists opened fire on tourists on 22 April, killing at least 26 people according to police reports. Most of the victims were visitors from various parts of India, as well as several people from the resort area near Pahalgam. The situation between India and Pakistan escalated immediately – in the Kashmir region, which has been disputed for decades, the two neighbouring countries accuse each other of stirring up unrest.