The Swiss government and parliament are urging voters to reject a proposal during an upcoming referendum that would strengthen the country’s neutrality policy by constraining Bern’s ability to impose unilateral sanctions.

The motion is being pushed by pro-sovereignty politicians, who have criticized the government’s decision to largely adopt EU sanctions against Russia following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.

Under the current system that the Federal Council seeks to preserve, the seven-member ruling body decides on a case-by-case basis whether Switzerland should copy restrictions imposed by other Western nations.

The proposed amendment will be put to a nationwide vote on Sunday, September 27.

Jennifer Game considered herself a "true believer" in One Nation. Not anymore.

"They use people," she said.

"It's not a democratic party in the way that other parties are.

"They've got no checks and balances on them."

Ms Game was One Nation's party leader in South Australia, and policy adviser to Pauline Hanson for eight years.

But after having a front row seat to its operations, Ms Game said she would not vote for One Nation at the next election.

"It's not a party, in truth," she said.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Will Cain Show,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said that China could easily open the Strait of Hormuz, but refuses to, and the U.S. will “have to decide whether, having achieved all of our objectives, it’s time to come home and let China and Russia and North Korea and Europe and all of the other countries that refuse to help” deal with the situation.

Kennedy began by saying, “I think that the people running Iran are reptiles, and they’re part of a colony of reptiles, China, North Korea, Russia, and — as I said — Iran. The chief reptile, the quarterback, is President Xi in China. You can’t trust any of them. All four of them are the same.”

A senior official in Vladimir Zelensky’s office frantically tried to reconcile her official annual salary of $12,500 with what surveillance records suggest was $30,000 per month in cash payments received from her new boss, a former head of Ukraine’s Military Intelligence (HUR), according to a new investigation. 

Inside the bunker: How a Zelensky aide struggled to explain away corruption

The Ukrainian leader’s inner circle was frantically trying to cover up extravagant purchases made while the rest of the country suffered

The debate over artificial intelligence provides an opportunity to think about something more important than the latest arguments among American politicians and technology oligarchs because AI occupies a unique place in the history of humanity’s relationship with its inventions.

What if AI’s greatest threat is what it reveals about us?

AI is the first technology whose explosive development has exposed the crisis of values and cultural reference points in modern civilization

By Timofey Bordachev

The great housing debate is on again and as ill-informed as ever. But which politicians are telling the most lies? Michael Pascoe can’t decide because they are all on full Pinocchio-mode.

Whether it is Anthony Albanese’s rampant hypocrisy, Andrew Bragg’s wilful misinformation (I doubt he’s actually as stupid as he pretends), Pauline Hanson’s fantasy non-policy, Chris Minns’ laid-on-with-a-shovel mix of spin and lies, it’s very hard to decide who is the worst on housing, as they are all betraying the nation.

And they’re all good at creating a distraction from the fundamental problem, aided and abetted by the mainstream media.

Exhibit A: The current argy-bargy about access to superannuation for one housing-related reason or another. Gets attention. Grabs headlines. Never mind that it means stuff all.

I am neither Palestinian, Lebanese, nor Iranian; I do not speak Arabic, nor am I Muslim. 

I have lived my entire life in Europe and the United States, where I know that almost everyone  —  even those who claim to stand in “solidarity with Palestine” — begins any criticism of Israel or its government by “condemning” Hamas, Hezbollah, or the “mullahs’ regime.” 

I intend to explain why I never subscribe to such condemnations.

Remaining Silent

If we can’t curb the violence of our own governments, what sense does it make to condemn the violent reactions of the states or movements they attack? asks Jean Bricmont.

As the world heads towards overshooting 1.5°C, reaching net zero remains essential but will not be enough to bring temperatures back down. Governments must accelerate emissions cuts while investing in adaptation, carbon removal and research into the risks of geoengineering.

Nicholas Stern

Local elections are the new battleground for the Zionist lobby and its astroturfing groups. Who are they, and how are they funded? Wendy Bacon asks.

Several months ago, residents in the Randwick LGA in Sydney’s East began receiving leaflets from a grassroots group called Randwick Voices Matter, encouraging them to join a campaign to stop a Greens Councillor from becoming the local Mayor.

In NSW, most Councils elect their Mayor every two years. When no group or party has a majority, Councillors form alliances to share the Mayoralty across the four-year term.

Great Britain is going through a war scare. Or to be precise, its combined political and media establishment is subjecting its people to a relentless propaganda (in up-to-date NATO-speak “cognitive warfare”) campaign to create a sense of impending war against Russia. 

Britain’s elites want you ready to die for a war they keep imagining

As the warnings about Russia grow louder, the public is being told to fear more, question less and prepare for war

BY Tarik Cyril Amar

Albanese and Zelenskyy hold emotional meeting as Australia pledges more aid

Anthony Albanese was close to tears when he caught up with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the summit.

The Australian prime minister embraced Mr Zelenskyy and expressed admiration for his "extraordinary" leadership in the almost five years since Russia's full-scale invasion.

He also pledged $60 million in aid for Ukraine, bringing Australia's total contribution to the country to almost $1.9 billion.

He also said Australia had slapped new sanctions on Russia and confirmed it would join a program, led by the UK and Norway, to help develop Ukraine's navy. The two leaders also signed a decade-long security deal.

Germany’s Axel Springer media monolith is about to award its highest honor to Palantir founder Peter Thiel, in a ceremony illustrating the incestuous relationship between the mainstream media, the defense tech industry, and the US-Israeli order.

Wired for War: The empire’s propaganda wing honors Palantir

Politico’s parent company is bestowing its highest award on Peter Thiel, who serves the same globalist agenda

Thiel will receive the ‘2026 Axel Springer Award’ at a ceremony in Berlin on Thursday. According to Axel Springer CEO Mathias Dopfner, Thiel “is one of the rare entrepreneurs who does not merely found or finance companies but helps determine the direction of technological development.”

“He reminds us that progress requires courage and nonconformism,” Dopfner added.

As Pauline Hanson’s steamroller [aka Gina’s BULLDOZER] is about to crush the delicate balance of the Aussie psyche — in a downward spiral of yobo-ism, with a wad of pseudo-fascism, some economic trumpism and mountains of ignorance in scientific fields, one needs to take a deep sighing breath and look at the incoming damage from One Notion that would be facing this country — a fair country presently swimming the Australian crawl against a very confused international current of stinking messy situations.

A HISTORY OF THE FUTURE

Australia in a downgrading World

Like in Germany, where the AfD is making huge inroad in classic politics, the Aussie landscape is about to be shaken by One Notion… if it has not been already…