Month: March 2022

The Schiller Institute will hold an international online conference on April 9 in the late afternoon and evening (Central European time) focused on the urgency of establishing a world order of peace that takes into account the legitimate aspirations for security and development of all nations. The invitation to the conference notes that: “The present war in Europe, the succession […]

On March 18 Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden held a two-hour phone call, their first since November, long before the Russian military operation was launched in Ukraine. In the meantime, many of the consensus items agreed upon by the two Presidents in November have not been followed up in practice by Washington. The call this time […]

The Biden Administration’s decision to freeze Russian central bank reserves has been seen by many as an historical shift, marking the end of the dollar-based global monetary system. With that decision, the U.S. has defaulted on the obligation of a paper currency, and all countries in the world are drawing the lesson accordingly. They will diversify their reserves away from […]

The strength of the 1945-1965 Bretton Woods System, LaRouche wrote in 2000 in the above-mentioned essay, lay in the fact that the “U.S. dollar’s strength as a reserve currency, was based upon the assurance that the current obligations against the U.S. dollar would be matched by the combination of an export-surplus plus gold bullion at a standard, fixed price for […]

On the basis of Russia’s alleged threat to the Western world as a whole, NATO member countries have announced substantial increases in military expenditures. On the most spectacular end of the range, the extra defense spending in Germany will amount this year to twice the size of the annual national defense budget, a €100 billion increase, while the Italian government […]

As feared, the Council of the European Space Agency has formally suspended cooperation with Russia on the ExoMars mission, citing “the present impossibility of carrying out the ongoing cooperation with Roscosmos”. That makes it impossible to proceed with the launch from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan scheduled for late September. The central component of ExoMars is the European rover, Rosalind-Franklin, […]

Sitting inside the National Security Council of the United States is an inter-agency task force called the “Tiger Team”, which has been planning the current conflict in Ukraine since at least last November. This was revealed by Swiss security expert Jacques Baud, a retired Colonel in the Army, in an interview on the Swiss website Zeitgeschehen im Fokus.  Baud gives […]

The Tiger team, mentioned by Jacques Baud in the previous item, was created in November 2021 on the initiative of U.S. National Security Advsior Jake Sullivan. Its alleged purpose, according to an article on National Public Radio, was to  “focus on studying actions that can prevent an attack from Russia, as well as building a chain of responses that will […]

The world food supply, which was already at critical levels last year due to various “green deal” programs, is taking a huge blow from the war in Ukraine. The price of grains has exploded over the past weeks, as both Russia and Ukraine have partially suspended exports of wheat and fertilizers (cf. SAS 10, 11/22). UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres […]

The title above was given by Helga Zepp-LaRouche to an article she wrote March 12 for Neue Solidarität, and which is available in English here. In the confrontation between NATO and Russia over Ukraine, she notes, we are now “in uncharted waters”. Depending on how the West reacts, we may end up in “a complete collapse of the global economic […]