Month: January 2022

The leader of the German Social Democrats in the Bundestag Rolf Mützenich has called for “a European peace order including Russia, even if this seems illusory at the moment.” He said he hoped for a “pan-European peace order that, as a ‘pluralistic security community,’ excludes war between its members and ultimately overcomes the military alliances.” Mützenich is a close ally […]

Ray McGovern, who served for 27 years as a CIA analyst on Russia, was a co-founder in 2003 of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). At a webinar of the The LaRouche Organization held on Jan. 15, he gave his assessment of the state of U.S.-Russia and NATO-Russia relations following the recent spate of talks – an assessment which one […]

On Jan. 17, the Schiller Institute organized an emergency webinar on the unspeakably tragic situation in Afghanistan, where 23 million people are threatened with starvation, while the Western powers, beginning with the United States, continue to block effective aid and reconstruction. The event was opened by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who presented her initiative for saving lives, called “Operation Ibn Sina”. Other […]

It has now come out that what likely caused the near-meltdown of the financial system in September 2019, avoided only by the Fed “nationalization” of the repo market, was the blowout of a $2.7 billion credit derivative contract owned by insolvent tour operator Thomas Cook. The latter filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection on Sept. 16, triggering a general panic […]

In his first speech in the Bundestag as Germany’s Economy and Climate Minister, Robert Habeck of the Greens confirmed his ideologically-driven agenda. In view of rising energy prices, he said, Germany must become less dependent on raw material imports, and to achieve this, renewable energies from wind and sun would have to be expanded much faster than planned. He blamed […]

Following the attempt to launch to launch a regime change operation in Kazakstan earlier this month, much more information has emerged on how the international operation worked (cf. SAS 2/22). Once the popular protests, originally directed against soaring gasoline prices, turned violent, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev quickly called on the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to help quell the well-prepared […]

China kicked off its diplomatic activity for the new year, as is traditional, in Africa. This year, it began with the “Initiative of Peaceful Development in the Horn of Africa,” a region plagued by civil war, terrorism and a humanitarian catastrophe. The policy was presented by Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his four-day visit to Eritrea, […]

At an event in Damascus last week, Syria announced its participation in the Belt and Road Initiative through a memorandum of understanding signed by Syrian Planning and International Cooperation Authority Chair Fadi al-Khalil and the Chinese Ambassador to Syria, Feng Biao. The agreement follows Xi Jinping’s phone call with Syrian President Assad in November, and Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s trip […]

This week began with the first of a dense schedule of strategic discussions between high-level officials of the Russian government and Western powers. Unfortunately, but not so surprisingly, during and after the U.S.-Russia meetings in Geneva on Jan. 10–11, concerning NATO expansion in Eastern Europe and the Ukraine crisis, the personal diplomacy between Presidents Biden and Putin which seemed to […]

In 2019, the RAND Corporation, which is a major component of the U.S. military-industrial complex, published a report titled Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground, which offers a sort of updated gameplan on how to destabilize and weaken Russia. The website Moon of Alabama devoted an article to the report on Jan. 6 in the context of the riots ongoing […]