Month: June 2022

After the thunder, the rain: the European Union has advocated an energy embargo for the past three months. Now it has come – albeit not against Russia but against the EU. Gazprom has reduced gas flows through Nord Stream 1 to Germany by 60%, and flows to Italy by 50%. If you doubted the accuracy of Russian President Putin’s characterization […]

The results of the second round of the French legislative elections on June 19 are likely to provoke an earthquake in the country, leading either to total chaos and ungovernability, or to a positive change, provided the so-called newcomer winners can espouse a higher sense of the nation. As Jacques Cheminade,the president of Solidarité et Progrès, wrote in his first […]

In their joint mission to Kiev on June 16, did the leaders of France, Germany and Italy really do what the Die Welt wrote the next day: “Scholz, Macron and Draghi, who went to Kiev, non-publicly persuaded Zelensky to negotiate with Russia”? On the public side of the talks, as the German daily notes, the three advocated providing Ukraine the […]

It has apparently dawned on Emmanuel Macron, Mario Draghi and Olof Scholz that if the war is protracted as Washington and London want, they will be faced with a political and economic catastrophe. However, if they did attempt to persuade Kiev to negotiate a settlement, there is no sign that the Zelensky government is ready to face reality. Not accidentally, […]

On June 17, British Home Secretary Priti Patel signed the order for the extradition of Julian Assange, co-founder and publisher of Wikileaks, to the United States, where he faces 175 years in prison for disclosing information on war crimes committed by the U.S. and the United Kingdom. The signing follows the ignominious ruling by a UK court in April that […]

The Schiller Institute international conference June 18-19, titled, “There Can Be No Peace without the Bankruptcy Reorganization of the Dying Trans-Atlantic Financial System,” was focused on initiating actions worldwide to bring about a new economic and security architecture as soon as possible, given the present economic breakdown, world food crisis and acute war danger. The presentations were grouped into four […]

Speakers from Russia and China added to the picture presented in the first panel of the Schiller Institute conference. Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), noted that the “severe economic and military actions against Russia are not a reaction to the deployment in Ukraine, but have been building for years”, for example with the creation […]

The second panel dealt more directly with the world food crisis and the urgent need to build infrastructure throughout the world, emphatically including the United States. It opened with an excerpt from a speech by Lyndon LaRouche in September 1994, dealing with precisely that issue. Diane Sare, who is now running as a LaRouche Party independent candidate for U.S. Senate […]

The speakers on Panel III presented many aspects of science from the perspective of economic progress, and the necessity for creative breakthroughs to advance both. Moderator Stephan Ossenkopp, speaking from Berlin, began with an update on the latest insanity on energy policy in Europe, counterposing that mentality to the exciting prospects offered by China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Jason Ross, […]

The final panel of the Schiller Institute conference began with two musical examples of classical beauty — a video performance of the Kyrie from Wolfgang Mozart’s Requiem, by the Schiller Institute chorus from 2014; and a 1990s performance by the late operatic tenor George Shirley of the Spiritual Little Boy, arranged by Roland Hayes. The speakers who followed presented different […]