Voting as an act of submission: Why your cross keeps the system alive
Every four or five years, the same ritual. For decades, the same posters, the same promises, the same faces in new suits. You go...
Real Life Minority Report: Palantir knows what you're going to do. Before you know it.
In 2002, Steven Spielberg depicted a world where people are arrested before they can commit a crime. The audience...
Bilderberg 2026: No minutes. No elections. No shame – because they are talking about the future of warfare.
Imagine inviting the NATO Secretary General, the Chief of the US Army, an admiral from the United States Indo-Pacific Command, the CEO...
Facebook Community Standards: You're a bot. Shut up!
Facebook has a new favorite toy. It's called "Bot Review" — and it's as transparent as a corporation's democratic rhetoric...
Not available – two words with which democracies die.
It takes a second. A click. An error message. This channel cannot be displayed because it violates local laws in...
They disagreed – and lost everything…
There are books that arise from passion. From curiosity. From the desire to create something beautiful. And then there are...
Swisscom is watching you: Welcome to the flying surveillance state
Once upon a time, there was a country that liked to portray itself as a bastion of neutrality, discretion, and sound civic spirit. A ...
The enlightened and their defense mechanisms: A mirror that nobody wants to hold up.
There's nothing more reassuring than a theory that explains why you belong among the right ones. And there are...
While we're distracted: The WHO is rolling out digital health wallets across Asia.
The World Health Organization, together with the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Temasek Foundation from Singapore, has published a ...
Convenience is the enemy of thought.
Our brain is like a muscle: if it's not used, its strength diminishes. But that's exactly what happens in everyday life...
Brussels' long war against freedom of expression
There's a document you should read. It's 160 pages long, written by the staff of the U.S. House Judiciary...
The SNB invests in human rights violations
The Swiss National Bank, as is well known, invests in stocks. That is its right, part of its mandate, and properly documented. What is less proper...
The outrage of the season – or: How to build a digital identity from moral theater
On selective vulnerability, instrumentalized suffering, and the infrastructure of control that grows quietly and subtly while everyone else takes center stage...
Shopping with mandatory ID: The customer under general suspicion
In the past, you would go into a shop, choose a device, put money on the table, and then go back to...
Child protection that controls the entire internet
The pattern is quite familiar by now. It always starts with children. Children are the perfect political argument: Whoever disagrees...
Your words are your fingerprint: The hunt for anonymous voices has begun.
There was once a romantic vision of the internet: a digital marketplace where people could discuss things under pseudonyms. A place...
War as a smokescreen for world politics
2026 has once again shown the world that geopolitical crises now function almost like television series. New season, new explosions, new...
The biggest lie of war: "It's about freedom"
These days, there's a surprisingly popular question: "Whose side are you on?" Israel or Iran? Ukraine or Russia? ...
An hour of apocalypse, neatly portioned: From Tehran to Cologne – everything's burning, as long as it's all under control.
It's Wednesday, March 4, 2026, and somewhere between the Iran war, EU treaties, and fertility fairs, a radio program bravely attempts to...
The Young Gustav case: Cancel, frame, lie, and carry on with the program.
Anyone in Switzerland in 2026 who still believes that the media primarily exists to reflect reality probably also believes that...
Biometrics devours freedom: Child protection as the new Trojan horse
It always starts innocently enough. With a good cause. In this case: child protection. Who could possibly object to that? Nobody wants...
Oxford shows the future of surveillance
Oxford was once a symbol of the Enlightenment. A place where people reflected on freedom, knowledge, and self-determination. Today it is...
Wikipedia: Where facts are only allowed through the filter of power
Wikipedia is often referred to as "the free encyclopedia." Freely accessible, freely editable, free from bias. A digital campfire of enlightenment...
Rock Hard and the new purity test: When ideology is more important than music
It is a fascinating development of our time that those who portray themselves as defenders of diversity and tolerance are increasingly...
The wrong mindset: When confetti is more dangerous than reality
There was a time when Carnival was a release valve. A place where people could escape reality through...
The career of a harmless revolutionary: Moderate. Empty.
There are careers that only reality can write, because even a satirist would have too much respect for credibility to...
Nicolas Rimoldi: The system's greatest victory wears purple flags
Two demonstrations in St. Gallen against mandatory vaccination. Same concern, similar goal, and yet separate stages, separate microphones, separate camps...
Ursula von der Leyen and war as a business model
It's always reassuring to know that the EU has a vision. A vision for the future. A vision...
Most people have no idea what's going on here.
There are conversations that leave you feeling wiser. And there are conversations that make you realize how shockingly little the...
Not left versus right – but freedom versus totalitarianism
Let's start with an uncomfortable truth that annoys both sides equally: National Socialism wasn't left-wing. But Communism...





























