The Basel Peace Office encourages you to honour Human Rights Day today (December 10). We report on two recent appeals and two recent awards on nuclear disarmament and human rights. Prague Youth Appeal to World LeadersOn November 29, young academics, policy analysts and activists from around the world released an appeal focusing on the rights …
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Herbst 2016 – Dezember 2017 - Ein politischer Bericht – Es war ein turbulentes Jahr. Wir sind umgezogen. Wir haben ein langjähriges Vorstandsmitglied nach langer schwerer Krankheit verloren. Ein Mitglied ist ausgetreten, weil er aus dem Sommerrundbrief zu entnehmen glaubte, dass wir nach rechts abgedriftet sind. Weltpolitisch sah das Jahr Erschütterungen in unerhörtem Ausmaß und außergewöhnliche …
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Chinese elite special operations units to assist Assad’s fight against jihadist insurgency China ready to deploy elite troops in Syria to fight with Assad’s army. by ALEX CHRISTOFOROUNovember 30, 2017, 12:594.9K Views According to multiple reports China is planning to send elite military units to Syria to advise and assist the Syrian Army in an attempt to …
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Failure to destroy and balkanize Syria by western powers has led to a new Middle East order The end of the Syrian war is the beginning of a new Middle Eastern order. by ALEX CHRISTOFOROUNovember 29, 2017, 13:115.2K Views Russia’s 2015 intervention in Syria, at the invitation of the legitimate government in Damascus, disrupted sinister western plans …
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The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister’s speech in South Korea is a clear illustration of Russia and China’s diplomatic methodology which contrasts diametrically with that of the US. November 27, 2017, 15:121.6K Views Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov has spoken at length about Russia’s peace plan for the Korean peninsula while at a meeting of the Valdai Discussion …
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Potsdam am 27. 11. 17 Deutschsein, deutsche Kultur nicht identifizierbar? Was eigentlich unterscheidet ‘das deutsche Volk’ von anderen Nationen? Kommt ‘der deutschen Nation’ ein Ausnahmestatus zu auf Grund der in seinem Namen begangenen Verbrechen der Vergangenheit? Gibt es eine spezifisch ‘deutsche Schuld’? Ja, gibt es ein ‘deutsches Volk’ überhaupt (noch) oder halten wir es mit Frau Özoguz 2? Würden wir in …
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By ERIC ZUESSE | 30.10.2017 | OPINIONA NATO supporter criticized Russia’s President Vladimir Putin for Russia’s Ukraine policy, on October 19th, at the Valdai Discussion Club’s annual meeting in Sochi, and Putin fired back with his most detailed statement to-date, describing the overthrow in February 2014 of Ukraine’s democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych, as having been a …
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n Myanmar, the US just tried to derail China’s peace plan, but actually ended up alienating India The US made a deeply controversial statement that may trigger the law of unintended consequences. US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson just came out with one of the most strongly worded statements about the so-called Rohingya crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine …
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FULL REPORT AND ANALYSIS The leaders of Russia, Iran and Turkey are now the primary divers in shaping a post-conflict peace settlement for Syria. FacebookTwitter Russian President Vladimir Putin has hosted President Hassan Rouhani of Iran and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey in the Sochi to discuss a peace process for Syria. The meeting is …
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The Trump – Putin call: summary and analysis By ALEXANDER MERCOURIS November 22, 2017, 07:06 Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin – blocked by the US bureaucracy from having a proper meeting with each other at the APEC summit in Vietnam – have instead had the detailed discussion they wanted with each other by telephone. That …
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