Month: August 2021

While hysteria continues to be spread in the West over the “chaotic” withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover of the country, a rational discussion of what needs to be done was organized on Aug. 21 by the Schiller Institute under the title “Afghanistan, An Opportunity for a New Epoch for Mankind”. Three main themes were struck […]

The British government has made clear from the beginning that it was against President Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan. For Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, the agreement with the Taliban, first made by then-President Donald Trump in Feb. 2020 was a “rotten deal”. In his interview in the Aug. 8 Daily Mail, he revealed that the U.K. tried to convince […]

Opening the Schiller Institute round table on Afghanistan on Aug. 21, Helga Zepp-LaRouche insisted that the key to stabilizing the situation there is rapid economic development and thus the perspective of building a promising future free of war. “Afghanistan is among the ten poorest countries in the world already, it’s been hit by a terrible drought. One in three people […]

China’s international media organization CGTN produced a six minute video of excerpts from the keynote speech given by Helga Zepp-LaRouche to the July 31 Schiller Institute Conference on Afghanistan as a turning point in history. The CGTN video is titled: “Afghanistan: The Bright Future for the Coming Cooperation of the Great Powers.” It can be found on their Opinion pages […]

On June 21, 2021, the German Bundestag passed the government’s proposal for introducing into the country’s industrial supply chains strict ecological and social standards. The new law obliges all German companies and businesses to ensure that such standards (for instance concerning female and child labor) are respected in all the firms from which they import, or face fines and bans. […]

Toyota, the world’s number-one maker of motor vehicles and the first to produce batteries to provide vehicle mobility when it introduced the Prius hybrid 20 years ago, continues to oppose attempts to mandate fully-electric vehicles by 2030, 2035 or any other date. Company executives, from CEO Akio Toyoda on down, describe such mandates as impossible both with regard to the […]

The evidence presented in a new peer-reviewed study shows unequivocally that the “code red” for humanity pronounced by UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres after reading the latest report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is ludicrous grandstanding and panic mongering. The new paper, published in the journal Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA), finds evidence of systemic bias […]

Despite a massive amount of positive coverage in media and international think-tanks, the chancellor candidate of the Green Party, Annalena Baerbock, is still not all that popular, with just a few weeks left until the Sept. 26 election. As a result, a media mobilization is on to prevent the option of a coalition government without the Greens –formed by the […]

On August 24, the Lieutenant Governor of New York State, Kathy Hochul, will be sworn in as governor, replacing An drew Cuomo, who has served in that office since 2011. Cuomo was elected governor three times, by solid margins (60% or more in two of the elections), but has now been forced to resign due to charges of sexual harassment, […]

The dramatic developments surrounding the Taliban takeover of Kabul and the humiliating defeat and retreat of the U.S. led NATO forces in Afghanistan, have been presented in apocalyptic terms in Western media. Contrary to such hysteria, however, Helga Zepp-LaRouche noted on August 17 that this does not mean “the end of the world”. Rather, she said in her weekly Schiller […]