FRANCE “Oouff” Outdid “Ah, Merde”
TUCSON — It will take some time to see where France goes next. But that old saw — plus ça change, plus...
La Passion : amours infinies et infinies amours
Lors d’une répétition à la cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Genève, dans l’emblématique chapelle des Macchabées, Stéphane Pecorini, directeur artistique de ce spectacle musical...
Afghanistan’s looming catastrophe, and how we can stop it
The following article was first published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on April 15, 2022.
The escalating litany of atrocities...
“I’ll kill myself at 80,” said film innovator Peter Greenaway
He turned 80 on 5 April 2022.
Come March 2022, Greenaway released a trailer for his long-in-the-works biopic...
La France contre elle-même, enquête d’un journaliste franco-suisse sur la ligne de démarcation
Faisant régulièrement la navette entre Paris et Genève, Richard Werly était récemment l’invité de l’association Rayonnement français en Suisse, présidée par l’éditrice...
‘Your brain is hazardous to your wealth’ — warns investing whiz Patrick Geddes
Patrick’s only partly joking. Co-founder and former CEO of Aperio Group, a pioneer in custom index equity portfolios delivering tax optimization with...
The Daily Doormat
Political cartoon by Jeff Danziger, cartoonist, author and contributing editor to Global Insights. He is also a member of our media...
YOUTH WRITES – A student volunteer in Tanzania: Castrations, Spaying and...
This is part of Global Geneva Group's Youth Writes educational initiative helping young people to write about their volunteer and other...
Understanding Nagorno Karabakh
A recent speech by Russian politician and former President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has again provoked active debate on social networks....
Switzerland stumbles again in COVID’s ‘third wave’
Update 5 March 2021: Swiss government to offer free coronavirus tests for all (LINK). First published 3 March 2021.
SPECIAL YOUTH WRITES: Dealing with COVID – Ideas, experiences, studies, sports,...
The following has been compiled by Global Geneva Group's Youth Writes initiative with ideas and suggestions aimed mainly young people, but...
Navalny’s Gambit: Can the imprisoned opposition leader have a role in...
Editor's Note: Alexei Navalny, who returned to Russia from Germany in late January 2021 was jailed for three and a half...
Amanda Gorman: The vital power of youth and words
A Rock, a River, a Tree Hosts of species long departed Marked the mastodon, The dinosaur, who left dried tokens Of their...
FRANCE “Oouff” Outdid “Ah, Merde”
TUCSON — It will take some time to see where France goes next. But that old saw — plus ça change, plus...
Afghanistan’s looming catastrophe, and how we can stop it
The following article was first published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on April 15, 2022.
The escalating litany of atrocities...
The Daily Doormat
Political cartoon by Jeff Danziger, cartoonist, author and contributing editor to Global Insights. He is also a member of our media...
Ukraine and the Chinese Conundrum
Vladimir Putin (left). Xi Jinping (right). Photo credit: G20 Argentina / Flickr (CC BY 2.0) and COP PARIS / Wikimedia (CC0 1.0)
Afghanistan’s Taliban still holding western detainees
Peter Jouvenal (right with camera) while reporting during the Soviet-Afghan war. (Photo: Ed Gorman)
There is still no...
Russia’s war in Ukraine: Lessons from Afghanistan?
When the Soviet 40th Army invaded Afghanistan on 27 December 1979, the Kremlin was “responding” to a call for assistance by its...
Russia’s War in Ukraine – The Danger of Expansion
U.S. cartoonist and author Jeff Danziger (see his website) is a contributing editor of Global Insights Magazine. He is also a member of...
‘Your brain is hazardous to your wealth’ — warns investing whiz...
Patrick’s only partly joking. Co-founder and former CEO of Aperio Group, a pioneer in custom index equity portfolios delivering tax optimization with...
Frozen Afghan Funds: The need for urgent UN Security Council action
The following article is offered on an oped basis.
United Against Inhumanity (UAI)launched a campaign on 8th March to challenge...
To Be or Not to Be: Russia’s UN political appointees on...
William Dowell’s regular Tom’s Paine column.
How do you act when you are supposed to represent the world’s...
Appel de l’ONU pour des fonds destinés à 28 millions de...
Edition Française: Discuter avec les Talibans ou les boycotter ? La question taraude les dirigeants occidentaux. Mais la tragédie humanitaire des Afghanes et...
Dominique Ziegler rejoint Miss Marple à l’hôtel Beltram
Toutes illustrations Dominique Ziegler.
Après avoir brillamment écrit et mis en scène des pièces de théâtre évoquant des instants...
Coffee with a mission – from Switzerland, where else?
That’s coffee from St. Légier not Vevey. And grown by women coffee farmers in the developing world....
La Passion : amours infinies et infinies amours
Lors d’une répétition à la cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Genève, dans l’emblématique chapelle des Macchabées, Stéphane Pecorini, directeur artistique de ce spectacle musical...
La France contre elle-même, enquête d’un journaliste franco-suisse sur la ligne...
Faisant régulièrement la navette entre Paris et Genève, Richard Werly était récemment l’invité de l’association Rayonnement français en Suisse, présidée par l’éditrice...
Money Heist: jumpsuit populism
Money Heist is not about the money, of course. Its Spanish title, La casa de papel (the House of Paper), with its...
GDR Days: Be Rude – and They Will Leave You Alone
The 'Spy Who Came in from the Cold'. John LeCarre's 1963 Cold War novel about espionage in East Germany which director...
‘The mind is a wild monkey’
Zurich-based Nik Baertsch describes his music as like exploring a city and “a kind of acoustical coral reef”. But the preface to...