by Johann Aeschlimann | Jul 6, 2026 | Swiss, United Nations
In some areas, diplomacy is sidelined because the big powers are at loggerheads. Others fade away because no one is interested any longer. One of these cases is the situation of human rights and the extreme discrimination of women in Afghanistan – a «cooperating...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Apr 1, 2026 | America
Is the Caudillo limping? There is a current in the punditry – all the stronger, the further away from the empire the opining takes place – that President Trump is losing grip on his flock, but in our homegrown circle of Trumpists no fissures are apparent. Criticism of...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Jan 18, 2026 | Swiss
These words are not to be written within the jurisdiction of the Emmental-Oberaargau regional court in the Swiss canton of Bern: «If LBGTQI people will be disinterred after 200 years, all you can find from the skeletons are men and women, everything else is a mental...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Dec 12, 2025 | America, Swiss
Marc Jorns has a small manufacturing business in the Swiss town of Lotzwil (pop. 2800). Employing 75 co-workers, Jorns AG makes sheet-metal bending machines used in construction. 85 percent of the product is exported world-wide, almost a third to the United States....
by Johann Aeschlimann | Dec 6, 2025 | articles
I have played Santa for generations of kids and 6 December always is a sweet trip down memory lane. I remember the one-word-answer one little girl gave when asked about her favorite food: «Wuuuscht». This means «sausage» in Swiss German. Imagine a tot of today talking...
