The Vietnam War According to Lieutenant Dangerous
Who really remembers the Vietnam War? In realistic terms, not too many. Two thirds of today’s population in America were still waiting to be born when the war ended in 1975. Despite the...
Appel de l’ONU pour des fonds destinés à 28 millions de personnes en Afghanistan...
Edition Française: Discuter avec les Talibans ou les boycotter ? La question taraude les dirigeants occidentaux. Mais la tragédie humanitaire des Afghanes et des Afghans exige un certain pragmatisme. Selon l’AFP, la délégation...
Joan Baez, le talent et l’engagement
Sous un cèdre majestueux, alternant moments de gravité et de légèreté, Joan Baez a enchanté son auditoire composé de personnalités genevoises, diplomates, fonctionnaires onusiens, militants des droits humains et quelques journalistes, invités...
Will the integrity of the U.S. supreme court die with Ginsburg?
Both passions clearly surpassed any thoughts of self-interest or personal promotion. Her life story presents an especially sharp contrast to the narcissism of Donald Trump, who has made a toxic mixture of...
Nobel Peace Prize 2022: recognizing courageous human rights defenders
The Norwegian Nobel Committee honours some consistent efforts in favour of humanist values, anti-militarism and principles of law. This year’s Peace...
Anne Frank’s diary: Published 75 Years Ago – Remembering Buddy Elias, guardian of a...
Born on 12 June, 1929, in Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany, Anne lived most of her short life in Amsterdam, where her family had fled the Nazis when she was four-and-a-half years old. Her book, ‘Diary...
Preparing for the worst
"Essentially we are playing Russian roulette,” says Andrew Leigh. And the biggest threat is the political groundswell known as 'populism'. "We need to move quickly to take that bullet out of...
Ouagadougou Choo-Choo? Don’t Laugh
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport. Global Insights Magazine/Global Geneva Group are supporting Mort’s insightful and frank reporting from different parts...
Basel’s uneasy cross-border relationship with Nazi Germany 1933-1945
As a baby boomer of Swiss origin born in the United States, I was always fascinated by Switzerland’s survival role as a neutral country during World War II. My British-educated father, who...
Hamas Attack Shocks Israel and Invites Massive Retaliation
Fighting in Israel lasted throughout Sunday. Hundreds of Hamas Palestinian fighters surged across Israel’s borders on Saturday, using waves of motorized hang gliders and hundreds of motorcycles, pickup trucks, and automobiles to...
Publishing World’s Evil Empire? How Facebook and other social media subvert journalism
UPDATED: 9 August, 2020. Facebook is not alone. Google, Twitter, Amazon, Instagram and other social media outlets do virtually the same thing. If reliable content, coupled with an informed public and democracy,...
Nepal’s Covid Doctors
Politics are feeding the fire. For the second time in five months, Nepal’s government was dissolved on 22 May 2021, furthering bureaucratic paralysis. Nepal risks becoming an imploding catastrophe. It is already...
Oceanus to Oceans: The Sea Affects All Things
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness…. When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
American Kompromat: Russia’s attempt to undermine US democracy
There’s no question that the Kremlin played a critical role edging Donald Trump across the finish line in the 2106 election. Virtually all US intelligence agencies agree that after hackers working for...
Focus on Afghanistan: The West’s abandonment of Afghanistan: A story of arrogance, ineptitude, and...
Political cartoon by Jeff Danziger, contributing editor to Global Insights and a member of our media partner Cartooning for Peace. See additional articles on Afghanistan in Global...
Why ‘media’ is not journalism
Among the scariest aspects of the creeping coup d’etat in America is that so many among the fringe of voters who elected Donald Trump, who spout their worldviews with ironbound conviction, could not find...
The Daily Doormat
Political cartoon by Jeff Danziger, cartoonist, author and contributing editor to Global Insights. He is also a member of our media partner, Cartooning for Peace. TUCSON, Arizona --...
In South Sudan, the Hope and Pain of Nonviolence
Gunmen killed our children. We seek peaceful justice but cannot be sure it will happen. This article by Yeng Lambo, a USIP program coordinator, was first published...
Contesting statelessness in the Dominican Republic
Agent Provocateur is Global Insights’ oped section Large scale migration has historically occurred between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which together share the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola. Fuelled by political...
Goodbye – at last
From Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Kobe Bryant, Chuck Yeager, and Diego Maradona, the major figures who left us in 2020 were memorable personalities whose accomplishments helped define the last century. Think of...
Keeping it Family : How Africa’s Corrupt Leaders Stay in Power
UPDATED 2 November, 2020
Once again, another corrupt African politician - President John Magufuli of Tanzania - has abused his country and people by undermining democracy with allegedly fixing the 28 October 2020 presidential elections...
Sorry. Young Journalists & Writers workshop (Wednesday, 27 March 2019) at Ecogia, Versoix, is...
But please submit your stories and articles for the June, 2019 Global Geneva Youth Journalists & Writers Award. Closing date: 17 May, 2019. Send to editor@global-geneva.com
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27 March, 2019...
80 Is the New (…Um, I Forgot)
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport. Global Insights Magazine/Global Geneva Group are supporting Mort’s insightful and frank reporting from different parts of...
Crimes and punishments of radical artists in Putin’s Russia
“All political prisoners face a Golgotha, a crucifixion,” Krisevich said. “There are thousands of them.” The burning papers in his November 5 performance, Krisevich explained, represent the volumes of indictments fabricated by...
Space lessons for Covid-19 isolation – and more
NASA Flight Engineers Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir flank Expedition 62 Commander Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos for a playful portrait in the weightless environment of the International Space Station. (Photo: NASA)
Could better-funded journalism have prevented the pandemic?
What is so ironic is that had donor governments, foundations, corporations and private individuals with means bothered to support independent news organizations at a time when credible journalism is in crisis with...
‘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 his “Useless Guide for Everything” declares: “This book wants to...
Jungle Jabbah, Alieu Kosiah and the fight against war crimes impunity
This
month, the Swiss Federal Court at Bellinzona will hold the first ever trial of a
Liberian citizen for war crimes committed during the African country’s
horrendous civil wars. Victims will be represented by the...
Interested in ESG? Look at the facts, not opinions
... learn what to do about it ESG investing has taken quite a wild ride over...
The WHO and Mugabe: The follies of political payback
The astonishing decision last month by Tedros Adhanom, the recently appointed head of the World Health Organization (WHO), to name Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe as goodwill ambassador only underlines what’s wrong with the United Nations...
A Swiss initiative to redo the Internet: crypto scepticism abounds
You may have caught a whiff of last month’s explosive climb into cryptocurrencies' top 10 valuations by a mammoth Swiss-based project to replace the Internet we know today. One crypto analyst described...
The Geneva Film Festival & Censored Chinese History: The Story of Chi Xiaoning and...
Before the 1980s, documentary films in China were mostly propaganda made to serve the ideological purposes of the Communist Party. Views critical of the party were prohibited. Only one official voice could...
The Ethiopian-Tigray Conflict: View of a worsening situation from the other side of the...
Fleeing violence in Tigray, Ethiopia, more than 61,000 people have registered as refugees after crossing the border into Sudan since November 2020. Recently, I visited two refugee camps - Al Hashabat and...
Bard vs CoPilot: both AI bots bombed on my tests for news
Spoiler alert: You are still pretty much on your own It's nearly two years now since I wrote an article...
Switzerland and the pandemic: Does the economy matter more?
UPDATED 9 December, 2020: Unlike most Europeans and North Americans, East Asians take their masks seriously. From China, Taiwan and Thailand to Singapore, people have tended traditionally to wear face gear in...
Anne Frank’s diary: Published 75 Years Ago – Remembering Buddy Elias, guardian of a...
Published on 25 June, 1947, Anne Frank's diary ranks as one of the world's most read books. We are re-hilighting the following ARTICLE from Global Insights in 2019 about the young German-Jewish...
Peacekeeping: When all seemed lost …
Monrovia, Liberia, August 5, 2003: General Cobra sat behind a wooden desk, bare but for an elephant carved from rosewood, a porcelain figurine of a bucking bronco, and an abacus. He sported a scarlet...
Rex Tillerson and the ‘Art’ of the Oil Business
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A rock about the size of a fist sits on the...
2020 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature: Mia Couto
The Jan Michalski Foundation jury noted the “exceptional quality of the writing, which subtlely mixes orality and narrative, letters, tales, fables, dreams and beliefs, all in the heart of a historical reality,...
FIFDH 2023 : « L’humiliation est un non-dit permanent en géopolitique »
EDITION FRANCAISE: Irène Challand a pris ses fonctions de co-directrice et directrice des programmes du FIFDH en septembre dernier. Dotée d’une solide expérience dans le domaine du journalisme et du cinéma, elle...
Who’s behind the ivory trafficking in Africa?
Those interested in the real nature of ivory poaching (See Keith Somerville's piece on rhinos in the April/May edition of Global Geneva) and smuggling should treat with extreme caution the recent stories in the...
Reporting global issues: Supporting freelance journalism is key
African and Indian freelancers dominated the 2022 Rory Peck Awards, with all 12 finalists highlighting the bravery, technical skill, canny use of regional fixers, and the crucial sixth sense when it comes...
Biden faces new epidemic of gun violence in America
According to estimates by the Swiss-based Small Arms Survey in 2017, Americans own some 393 million firearms, or roughly 40 percent of the privately owned guns on the planet, The US Congress’ Committee on Oversight...
The Capital of Civilization: Brexit, populism and the 150th anniversary of the Siege of...
It may be no surprise if the 150th anniversary of the Prussian army’s descent on Paris with the largest siege force ever assembled draws few headlines. The seeds of woe it planted -- a...
Rural Rock: Queen, Oasis and the Ridge Farm Story
When some 30 police officers raided both Ridge Farm, one of England’s earliest rural rock recording studios, and the nearby Plough Pub, at 6.00 am in spring, 1982, they were hoping to...
Chappatte and the stifling of graphic satire – 2020 Geneva Foundation Laureate
UPDATED 21 September, 2020. As part of Global Geneva’s regular profiling of cartoonists collaborating with the Geneva-based Cartooning for Peace Foundation, we examine the position of Patrick Chappatte, a Lebanese-Swiss, who, amongst other papers...
Back to journalism: Making kids aware of fake news
We need to teach our kids to become discerning on the internet in order to detect what is false or propaganda. One way of doing this, writes Global Geneva editor Edward Girardet, is to...
Mort Report Booster Shot
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport. Global Insights Magazine/Global Geneva Group are supporting Mort's insightful and frank reporting from different parts...
Chappatte plonge ‘Au cœur de la vague du coronavirus’
EDITION FRANCAISE: La deuxième vague de Covid-19 frappe de plein fouet des millions de citoyens sur tous les continents. À l’incrédulité ressentie depuis mars dernier a succédé l’angoisse. Pour tenter de comprendre...
Livres coups de cœur: ‘Café Vivre’
L’éloge des cafés Café Vivre est le beau
titre choisi par la romancière et essayiste
française Chantal Thomas
pour introduire le recueil de ses Chroniques en passant, comme elle les nomme
joliment, paru aux...
