"On 15 December, the European Union took a step that few could have imagined: it sanctioned twelve individuals, including Swiss analyst and former intelligence officer Jacques Baud and French national Xavier Moreau, not for breaking the law, but for expressing views deemed politically inconvenient. Asset freezes, travel bans, and economic restrictions were imposed without any judicial process. While presented as an EU initiative, the fingerprints of NATO’s strategic communications and information-control apparatus are unmistakable, shaping both the targets and the justification."
21st Century Wire
NATO’s Red Pen on Ukraine: Jacques Baud and the Silencing of Dissent - 21st Century Wire
Deep Dive | How Europe and NATO turn dissent into a security threat to police the Ukraine debate.
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Free markets have to be regulated
"With a customary sense of perversion, Netanyahu has managed to mangle Israeli policy, his own political destiny and the interests of Jews in a terrible, terrifying mix. The broad stroke charge of antisemitism is the front name of this venture, and it conveniently presents itself whenever Israeli policy requires an alibi when pursuing particularly unsavoury policies: massacre, starvation and dispossession of Gazans; the continued destruction and intended eradication of a functional Palestinian entity; efforts to prevent criticism of its settler policies in other countries."
Using the Slain
Israel Exploits the Bondi Beach Shootings
Good article about the end of neutrality in Switzerland. It is in German but if you're interested just run it through a translator in your browser. "Die sicherheitspolitische Strategie der Schweiz 2026 bedeutet die unumkehrbare Integration in Militärbündnisse, die Militarisierung der Schweiz und die aktive Beteiligung an einem möglichen Grossen Krieg."
Christoph-Pfluger.ch
Das Ende der Neutralität
Die sicherheitspolitische Strategie der Schweiz 2026 bedeutet die unumkehrbare Integration in Militärbündnisse, die Militarisierung der Schweiz u...