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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Hawaii. (Photo: wallpaperflare.com)

    The Kingdom of Hawaii: Year 132 under U.S. occupation

    Originally published: Schweizer Standpunkt on June 6, 2025 by Pascal Lottaz (more by Schweizer Standpunkt) (Posted Jun 24, 2025)

    (6 June 2025) In a new publication, historian and legal scholar David Keanu Sai establishes (again) that the Kingdom of Hawaii never ceased to exist, as its 1898 annexation by the USA was void even under U.S. law.

  • View of the Namcha Barwa massif, which reaches an altitude of 7,782 meters.

    News from Qinghai and Xizang (Tibet)

    Originally published: Schweizer Standpunkt on November 22, 2024 by Guy Mettan (more by Schweizer Standpunkt) (Posted Dec 10, 2024)

    Next time you travel to Lhasa, be sure to visit the Museum of Modern Art. Climb the often narrow and steep stairs of the White and Red Potala Palace, light a candle made from yak butter in front of one of the thousands of painted Buddhas of the Jokhang. They are to Lhasa what Versailles and Notre Dame are to Paris.

  • Impact of The Ukrainian Conflict on The Political and Economic Situation in Europe

    The EU must change course on Ukraine, or risk breaking itself apart

    Originally published: Schweizer Standpunkt on October 18, 2024 by Michael von der Schulenburg and Ruth Firmenich (more by Schweizer Standpunkt) (Posted Nov 08, 2024)

    The EU seems convinced to not only continue, but to increase its effort to escalate the war in Ukraine. No one seems to be able to understand the consequences.

  • The European Union and Nuclear Disarmament - a Sensitive Question | Heinrich Böll Stiftung

    Eroding neutrality also undermines international Geneva. Yet Geneva remains silent…

    Originally published: Schweizer Standpunkt on August 9, 2024 by Guy Mettan (more by Schweizer Standpunkt) (Posted Aug 27, 2024)

    By adopting unilateral U.S.-European sanctions against Russia in February 2022, even though it had always claimed that it would only apply sanctions endorsed by the United Nations and enshrined in international law, the Swiss government has dealt a heavy blow to neutrality and international Geneva. But in Geneva, nobody flinched. And here are the reasons why.

  • Sevim Dagdelen. (Photo sevimdagdelen.de)

    The three great myths of NATO

    Originally published: Schweizer Standpunkt on May 24, 2024 by Sevim Dagdelen (more by Schweizer Standpunkt) (Posted Jun 05, 2024)

    The self-proclaimed defence alliance sees itself as the guardian of law and democracy. In reality, it is leaving a blood trail of devastation across the world.

  • Swiss soldiers in ceremonial guard. (Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

    Dangerous entanglement of the Swiss Armed Forces with NATO

    Originally published: Schweizer Standpunkt on July 28, 2023 by Jean-Paul Vuilleumier (more by Schweizer Standpunkt) (Posted Aug 18, 2023)

    Perpetual armed neutrality is one of the most important principles of Swiss foreign policy. The idea of neutrality is well anchored in our country, its people, and its history. To abolish it directly and openly is therefore not feasible. For several decades, however, efforts have been made to weaken and disintegrate the original concept of neutrality.

  • Background and elements of the war in Ukraine

    Background and elements of the war in Ukraine

    Originally published: Schweizer Standpunkt on May 30, 2023 by Swiss Standpoint (more by Schweizer Standpunkt) (Posted Jun 12, 2023)

    “This crisis shows us the weakness of our society”

  • Switzerland flag

    Switzerland is in danger

    Originally published: Schweizer Standpunkt on May 9, 2023 by Peter Hänseler (more by Schweizer Standpunkt) (Posted May 23, 2023)

    On Swiss neutrality.

  • Alfred de Zayas (Photo ma)

    European ‘strategic autonomy’ and the perception of reality

    Originally published: Schweizer Standpunkt on May 2, 2023 by Alfred de Zayas (more by Schweizer Standpunkt) (Posted May 15, 2023)

    French President Emmanuel Macron’s statement in China about developing “strategic autonomy” from the United States is empty posturing intended for the domestic French market.

  • Karl Krökel, master craftsman of the district and initiator of “Craftsmen for Peace”. (Pictures gk)

    Germany: “Craftsmen for peace”

    Originally published: Schweizer Standpunkt on April 18, 2023 by Marita Brune (more by Schweizer Standpunkt) (Posted May 02, 2023)

    Congress of craftsmen and entrepreneurs in Dessau-Rosslau.

  • Europa: Vorbereitungen zur Enteignung der Bank-Kunden haben begonnen

    Credit Suisse: Afterthoughts to the end of the party

    Originally published: Schweizer Standpunkt on April 13, 2023 by Marc Chesney (more by Schweizer Standpunkt) (Posted Apr 28, 2023)

    If you want to win back the trust of people, you have to protect them from the excesses of the financial world.

  • Helvetia is the female national personification of Switzerland, officially Confœderatio.

    How Swiss politicians dismantle Swiss neutrality

    Originally published: Schweizer Standpunkt on February 28, 2023 by Christian Müller (more by Schweizer Standpunkt) (Posted Mar 09, 2023)

    The Swiss Confederation—the “Confoederatio Helvetica”, hence the CH on the cars—has been historically neutral since the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

  • Switzerland Flag (Photo: Hippopx)

    “If Europe is incapable of working for peace, it will vanish from history!”

    Originally published: Schweizer Standpunkt on October 31, 2022 by Joel Toussaint (more by Schweizer Standpunkt) (Posted Nov 11, 2022)

    Georges Martin: Switzerland has always considered that there are two elements to its neutrality: the “right of neutrality” in case of war, as stipulated in the Hague Convention of 1907, and the “policy of neutrality”.

  • Alfred de Zayas (Photo ma)

    Double-Standards at the UN Human Rights Council

    Originally published: Schweizer Standpunkt on 11 June 2022 by Alfred de Zayas,* Geneva (more by Schweizer Standpunkt) (Posted Jun 25, 2022)

    It is no secret that the UN Human Rights Council essentially serves the interests of the Western developed countries and does not have a holistic approach to all human rights. Blackmail and bullying are common practices, and the US has proven that it has sufficient “soft power” to cajole weaker countries.

  • Putin's State of the Union - The Greanville Post

    Truths and lies about pledges made to Russia

    Originally published: Schweizer Standpunkt on February 17, 2022 by Guy Mettan (more by Schweizer Standpunkt) (Posted Feb 19, 2022)

    The information war surrounding tensions between NATO and Russia over Ukraine often leads to distortions of historical reality.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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