Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler Are we witnessing the corruption of central banks? Are we observing the money-creating powers of central banks being used to drive up prices in the stock market for the benefit of the mega-rich? These questions came to mind when we learned that the central bank of Switzerland, the Swiss […]
The US Embassy in Havana opened in 1953 and designed by U.S. firm Harrison & Abramovitz. But the U.S. Embassy didn’t close, exactly, and it didn’t lie vacant. On Jan. 7, 1961, U.S. chargé d’affaires Daniel Braddock handed the keys over to the Swiss embassy in Havana, and the Swiss held on to the building […]
(Berlin, DE) Swiss authorities are investigating an alleged plot by a radical Islamist affiliated with ISIL to kill German president Joachim Gauck, Berliner Morgenpost reports. 27-year-old Osama M. has been accused by Swiss authorities of preparing a terrorist attack using explosives and poisonous gases, with the German president said to have been his main target. […]
Immigration and integration of foreigners remain the biggest concern of Swiss voters, according to a survey conducted for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation six months ahead of national elections. The poll conducted last month found that 49 percent of voters rank immigration, integration and the issue of refugees seeking asylum in the country as the nation’s […]
Yesterday an Iranian general brazenly declared and I quote: ‘Israel’s destruction is non-negotiable’, but evidently giving Iran’s murderous regime a clear path to the bomb is negotiable to Obama and team. This is unconscionable. I agree with those who have said that Iran’s claim that its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes doesn’t square […]
A conference will be held this month in Geneva to examine respect for international humanitarian law in the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) assigned territories, Switzerland announced Thursday, according to the AFP news agency. Israel and the United States are not expected to attend the December 17 conference devoted to the Fourth Geneva Convention, which defines humanitarian […]
Photo: Alex Grimm/Getty Images Americans have always enjoyed the privilege of living abroad without losing citizenship. Think Hemingway and Fitzgerald decamping to write in Europe after World War I, or Gen. MacArthur spending decades in Asia around World War II. Expatriates remain Americans, and have generally been welcomed back to our shores with open arms. […]
In Europe, there is a flood of Muslim immigrants that are not integrating well into European society, and now many countries within Europe are rethinking the massive immigration and multiculturalism that is going on throughout the Europe and North America. Swiss voters this month voted in favor of new immigration curbs which requires the government […]
The Obama administration has been forced to admit that the nuclear deal to which Iran agreed last weekend in Geneva, Switzlerland has not actually been finalized. In the interim, Iran is continuing its enrichment of uranium, as well as continuing construction on the Arak nuclear plant it is meant to suspend. And the White House […]
The Obama administration feared an Israeli airstrike on Iran more than it feared Iran building a nuclear weapon, and that’s why it pushed for a deal to reduce sanctions against Iran, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton writes in The Weekly Standard. “Buying time for its own sake makes sense in some negotiating contexts, but the […]
