Month: July 2021

An online international conference will be sponsored on Saturday, July 24 by the Schiller Institute under the title: “There Is No ‘Climate Emergency’ –Apply the Science and Economics of Development to Stop Blackouts and Death.” The invitation follows: “The shift out of high-density electricity generation –coal and nuclear –into low-energy-dense, unreliable wind and solar, has reached the stage of pending […]

The 14th of July generally evokes the storming of the Bastille, but it may also be remembered in the future as the day the EU Commission launched the storming of European industry. Indeed, it was on July 14, 2021 that Brussels presented its insane plan to reduce CO2 emissions by 55% by 2030, called “Fit For 55”. Two measures stand […]

The catastrophic rainfalls that killed nearly 200 people in Western Germany and Belgium, and drowned entire villages in veritable flash floods, were immediately claimed to be due to “man-made climate change” by all sorts of voices that demand even more energetic measures to curb CO2 emissions. But the fact is that there have always been floods, droughts and other extreme […]

Touring the flooded areas on July 18, German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered a torrent of climate hysteria, featuring the absurd statement: “The German language hardly knows any words for the devastation that has been caused here.” She might have tried the word Nachlässigkeit, German for “negligence.” Apparently, the government had meteorological warnings, beginning July 10, that heavy rains were likely […]

At recent meetings and conferences held in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the stabilization of Afghanistan following the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops was high on the agenda. An important flank involves integrating the country into two major international connectivity projects: the China Pakistan Economic Corridor and the North South International Transportation Corridor from St.Petersburg, Russia, through Central Asia and Iran, […]

An urgent task in the future reconstruction of the Afghanistan economy is the elimination of opium plantations, which today provide 80% of the world’s heroin. Pino Arlacchi, the former UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) director from 1997 to 2002, told EIR by phone, that Afghanistan today, with the help of China, could eliminate its opium production by implementing […]

A number of Western companies, financial institutions, and political organizations have called for disinvestment from Africa’s fossil fuels as part of the drive to reach the goal of “net zero emissions” imposed by the climate change lobby. In response, the African Energy Chamber (AEC), which represents African firms engaged in developing the continent’s fossil fuels, issued a July 13 statement […]

On July 11, protests broke out in several Cuban cities, as citizens took to the streets to complain about energy blackouts, food and medicine shortages that have intensified in recent months as the COVID-19 pandemic worsened. This was not the “social explosion” that Western governments and globalist media claimed, but rather the product of a sophisticated social media campaign organized […]

The above is the title of an article written by Helga Zepp- LaRouche on July 10, following the withdrawal of most Western troops from Afghanistan. If anything positive is now to come out of the 20 years of war waged there by the United States and NATO, she cautions, then the West must urgently examine why and how that intervention […]

The many projects already planned for modern transportation lines in and through Afghanistan need to be implemented immediately, Helga Zepp-LaRouche urges in her article, to integrate it into a development perspective. Of course they pose “considerable engineering challenges” given the rugged geography of the country, “but the shared vision of overcoming poverty and underdevelopment combined with the expertise and cooperation […]