Month: July 2021

In the shadow of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban have given both Russia and China assurances that they welcome their investments and will protect their interests in Afghanistan. Talks were held on July 8 in Moscow between Russia’s Special Presidential Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov and a Taliban delegation on future relations. The political spokesman of the latter, […]

At a moment when officials in Russia and the United States correctly assert that relations between them are at the “lowest level” in years, any change immediately attracts scrutiny and speculation. Such was the case following the phone call on July 9 between Presidents Putin and Biden, the first substantive follow-up to their June 16 summit in Geneva. Reports on […]

On July 9, the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution on cross-border humanitarian aid for Syria jointly prepared by Russia and the United States, together with Ireland and Norway, This is the first time Washington has de facto recognized the authority of the Syrian government, and the country’s territorial integrity. Russia’s Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia described […]

Former French Presidential candidate Jacques Cheminade and a delegation of his party, Solidarité & Progrès, took part per video in the CPC’s July 6 World Political Parties Summit, together with political party leaders from more than 160 countries, whose central theme was: “Working Towards People’s Well Being and the Responsibilities of Political Parties.” Cheminade was asked for comments by several […]

On April 29, the German Constitutional Court ruled that the German Climate Protection Law of 2019, mandating a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 relative to 1990 levels, and setting out pathways to achieve that goal per sector during that time period, does not go far enough. The law, argued the court, must be amended […]

In an online program of The LaRouche Organization on July 9, Jason Ross of the Schiller Institute science team took up the issue of why the denunciations of human progress as pol luting are not only scientifically wrong, but intentional frauds meant to change the way society develops – or rather, doesn’t develop. Here is an abridged version of one […]

On August 14, from 15:00 to 24:00 CET, the Schiller Institute and the Lyndon LaRouche Legacy Foundation will host an international online conference on the unique contributions of economist LaRouche to the science of physical economy. On this occasion of the 50th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s fateful announcement of the end of the Bretton Woods system, experts will come […]

In the aftermath of the provocation staged when the British naval vessel HMS Defender crossed into Russian territorial waters in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea on June 23, there has been a back-and-forth between those responsible for the incident –British and American officials –and leading Russians, which demonstrates the fragility of the progress made by the Biden-Putin […]

The videos from the June 26-27 Schiller Institute conference held under the banner “For the Common Good of All People, Not Rules Benefitting the Few”, are available for viewing (in the original English) at https://schillerinstitute.com/ blog/2021/06/25/conference-for-the-common-good-of-all-people-not-rules-benefiting-the-few/. They are also posted, or soon will be, with simultaneous translations in French, German and Spanish.

The final communique of the June 14 NATO summit in Brussels officially confirmed the end of the alliance’s military operation in Afghanistan, while claiming a highly dubious victory. That followed the announcement by U.S. President Biden in April of the gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops – after two decades of “counterinsurgency” warfare estimated to have cost about $2.6 trillion! As […]