Anarchy means developing coexistence, not throwing things through shop windows.
Anarchy means chaos – that's the definition offered by those who thrive on chaos. In reality...
Thoughts on the rebellion: The illusion of freedom has been dispelled
Ah, rebellion. The eternal promise of freedom – only this time with a hashtag. Every click a punch, every meme a Molotov cocktail...
The Fact-Makers: How the State Outsources Its Muzzle
There is a profession that has emerged from nothing in the past ten years and has since determined what you...
Useless, pointless, human – and precisely for that reason dangerous
If you feel that it's worthwhile to remain human, even if it doesn't lead to any result, then you have...
The revolution takes place in the mind – and that's just the beginning.
The Old World doesn't die through elections. It doesn't die through petitions, not through colorful demonstrations, not through the next...
Brussels sends flowers to Lucerne – recipient: Nicolas Rimoldi
There are two types of politicians who do more harm to a good cause than any of its opponents: those who, out of stupidity...
«We Don't Need No Thought Control» – A song from 1979 that burns brighter than ever in 2026
London, Islington, autumn 1979. In the assembly hall of Islington Green School, 23 teenagers stand before a microphone. Jeans, school uniform, bored...
Advanced Warfare Preparation – Mental Warfare, Episode 1: NATO Recruits Filmmakers
Behind closed doors, in Los Angeles, Brussels and Paris, the world's largest military alliance meets with directors, screenwriters and ...
New field of consciousness, old architecture: The cult that doesn't consider itself one
As we recall, the previous article discussed a theory that reinterprets every contradiction as proof of its own correctness...
Potemkin's Revenge: How Europe has collectively forgotten how to look behind the facade – and is racing full speed into the abyss.
There is an 18th-century legend that fits our present day so precisely that one could almost believe...
DBD: Vote of No Confidence – GiddyMeThat
Someone in Ireland wrote a song. No million-dollar budget, no major label, no Spotify-curated playlist spot. Just one person, one...
Brussels 2025: Election winners are allowed to remain silent, citizens are allowed to obey — anything else is “harmful”
There are moments when a system so thoroughly unmasks itself that even its most loyal apologists would have to pause for a moment – if only...
Civil disobedience: Ageless Linux against the digital surveillance state
There is a law in California. Of course, California has laws. There have always been rules in California. This example represents...
Green dreams, empty tanks: Ireland shows Europe how to fight
As you read this, Ireland is at a standstill. Not metaphorically. Literally. Since April 7, 2026, tractors, trucks, and...
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...
The German Ghislaine: Nicole Junkermann and the network that nobody wants to see
Once upon a time, there was a pandemic. Or rather, there was supposed to be one. With fanfare, a drum roll, and the collective brain failure of...
House arrest out of conviction: The EU now calls the energy lockdown solidarity
There is a special art form in European politics that can only be truly appreciated if one approaches it with the ...
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...
Political puppets, trillions in debt, and the great collective amnesia: Democracy is working perfectly – for BlackRock.
There are moments when you look deep into humanity's eyes and understand why the dinosaurs simply stopped...
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 ...
Convicted without a verdict: How the EU without conscience invented the prison without a judge
About a Swiss colonel in a Brussels open-air prison, frozen accounts without trial, and a community of values that no longer respects its own values...
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...
A Culture of Death? On Power, Morality, and Decay
Raphael Bonelli talks to Peter Hahne about a new book. Title: "Why are you destroying us?" Subtitle: "How we are destroying our..."
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...
Memory is resistance
Something extraordinary is happening in this world. Not loud. Not spectacular. More like a barely audible creak in the framework of reality...
The moment when obedience ceased to seem noble.
What caused your facade to crumble? Was it that one article that sounded like it had been written by a...
You can say anything – as long as you don't say anything wrong.
It's actually quite touching how reliably the whole thing runs. You'd think there was a script somewhere that runs every week...
Shut it down? Nice try.
You have to treat yourself sometimes. The moment you write a few uncomfortable sentences online, someone, somewhere, feels compelled to...
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