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23 Jun

Books to make you think

Send us Fan Mail This week, Inside Geneva presents the newest instalment of our “Books to make you think” series. We talk to an author who had a ringside seat as the US development agency USAID was being destroyed. “The people who so recklessly tore down the agency [...] are still sitting in high government positions and have not been held accountable for their actions, so I intentionally named names in the book and explained exactly who was responsible and why,” says Nicholas Enrich, author of Into the Wood Chipper. “USAID was destroyed by people who really had no idea what they were doing, and because of the vindictive ego of Elon Musk,” continues Enrich. And we hear about a forensic analysis of the language used by US media to report the war in Gaza. “The New York Times referred to the killing of Israelis on October 7 as a ‘massacre’ 124 times, and a ‘slaughter’ 53 times. In the same time frame, they used similar language zero times to describe the killing of Palestinians, despite the fact that, in the first 100 days, the death toll was seven or eight times higher than on October 7. Zero, not once, did they describe anything Israel did to the Palestinians in that period as a massacre or a slaughter,” says Adam H. Johnson, author of How to Sell a Genocide. Did the mainstream media sanitise war crimes? “Do you think that it is possible Israel killed 20,000 children at least – that’s the official number that no one disputes – over two years and never once committed a massacre or a slaughter? Does that feel statistically likely to you? I think the answer is, on its face, ‘no’,” says Johnson. Join host Imogen Foulkes on Inside Geneva. Get in touch! Email us at insidegeneva@swissinfo.chTwitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinfo_enThank you for listening! If you like what we do, please leave a review or subscribe to our newsletter. For more stories on the international Geneva please visit www.swissinfo.ch/ Host: Imogen Foulkes Production assitant: Claire-Marie Germain Distribution: Sara Pasino Marketing: Xin Zhang
17/09/2024 · Video

‘Russia is ready for a new Tsar.’ Interview with Russian-Swiss Writer Mikhail Shishkin

Russian writer Mikhail Shishkin, who lives and works in Switzerland, is our guest in On the Record. He talks about how to defend Russian culture, how he witnessed Switzerland welcome dirty money with open arms and whether Russia and Ukraine will ever be able to reconcile. More on this story SWI swissinfo.ch Journalist: ⁠Elena Servettaz Video journalist & editor: ⁠Carlo Pisani
07/12/2023

Let’s Talk: Neue Köpfe – neues Glück in der Europafrage?

Findet das Schweizer Parlament in der neuen Legislatur den Kompromiss – und eine Lösung mit Europa? Darüber reden wir in "Let’s Talk" mit drei neu gewählten Mitgliedern des Nationalrats. Bei dieser Ausgabe von "Let’s Talk" sitzen folgende Persönlichkeiten am Tisch: Andrea Zryd von der SP, Katja Riem von der SVP und Reto Nause von der Mitte. Alle drei sind neue Mitglieder des Nationalrats, alle kommen sie aus dem Kanton Bern. Sie sind auch Teil des neu zusammengesetzten Parlaments, das jetzt mit der Arbeit beginnt. Diese Legislatur hält einige alte Brocken bereit: die Gesundheitskosten, die ungelöste Rentensanierung – und allen voran: das Verhältnis zu Europa. Vieles scheiterte bisher, weil die Politik den guteidgenössischen Kompromiss nicht mehr zustande brachte. Die Frage stellt sich: Kann die Schweiz überhaupt noch Kompromiss? https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/auslandschweizer
23/05/2025 · Video

«La Suisse doit négocier, mais pas se mettre à genoux devant Donald Trump»

Let's Talk - Swissinfo en français
21/01/2025 · Video

«La planète a des limites qu’il ne faudrait pas dépasser»

Let's Talk - Swissinfo en français
09/04/2025 · Video

«L’État social ne va pas être démantelé»

Let's Talk - Swissinfo en français
20/08/2025 · Video

«La numérisation doit servir les intérêts des citoyennes et des citoyens»

Let's Talk - Swissinfo en français
18/02/2025

Lost Cells is out now!

Send us Fan Mail Please sign up for the latest episode SWI swissinfo.ch's new podcast tells the story of the families affected by a private stem cell banking scandal with Switzerland at its heart. Subscribe for free to our new podcast ‘Lost Cells’ wherever you get your podcasts. Episode one is released on February 18, 2025. Listen to this new podcast in English // French // Spanish SWI swissinfo.ch is a public service media company based in Bern, Switzerland.
04/10/2022

Defending human rights in Russia

Send us Fan Mail Russia is diplomatically isolated. In this podcast episode, host Imogen Foulkes asks: what about Russian human rights defenders? “Right now, in Russia there are few means left to defend human rights, and to address human rights violations. It’s really hard,” says Violetta Fitsner, a Russian human rights defender. In Geneva, Russia has been expelled from the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). “Excluding Russia from various organisations: Council of Europe, Human Rights Council. Are you isolating them from all concepts like universal human rights?” asks analyst Daniel Warner. There are now moves at the HRC to appoint a UN special rapporteur on Russia. “We want to ensure that the Russian human rights community feels part of the universal human rights movement,” says Gerald Staberock, secretary general of the World Organisation Against Torture. Get in touch! Email us at insidegeneva@swissinfo.chTwitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinfo_enThank you for listening! If you like what we do, please leave a review or subscribe to our newsletter. For more stories on the international Geneva please visit www.swissinfo.ch/ Host: Imogen Foulkes Production assitant: Claire-Marie Germain Distribution: Sara Pasino Marketing: Xin Zhang
27/12/2022

Aid agencies reflect on 2022

Send us Fan Mail The year has seen huge humanitarian challenges: war in Ukraine, looming famine in Somalia, protracted crises in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Syria. This week on the Inside Geneva podcast, aid agencies reflect on the year. “One of the things we see is that wars are not ending, they’re lasting, they’re enduring,” says Jason Straziuso, spokesperson at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). “There is no health without peace, so the only solution is peace, in these countries,” says Tarik Jasarevic, spokesperson at the World Health Organization (WHO). “It just seems that we are in a situation of crises after crises,” says analyst Daniel Warner. How hard is it for aid workers to keep going? “It is frustrating to go back to a place and talk again about a place year after year and things are not getting better,” says Jasarevic. Is the work of humanitarian organisations even sustainable? “Humanitarians can’t substitute for the state. We can’t step in for the medical system, we can’t step in for the water system. We do in fact do that kind of work, but eventually the state has to take over because this is not a job in the long term for humanitarians,” says Straziuso. Get in touch! Email us at insidegeneva@swissinfo.chTwitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinfo_enThank you for listening! If you like what we do, please leave a review or subscribe to our newsletter. For more stories on the international Geneva please visit www.swissinfo.ch/ Host: Imogen Foulkes Production assitant: Claire-Marie Germain Distribution: Sara Pasino Marketing: Xin Zhang

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