Month: July 2022

What do Boris Johnson, Mario Draghi and Kaja Kallas have in common? The Prime Ministers of Britain, Italy and Estonia have been the most pro-war, pro-Nato government leaders (along with the EU Commission) in Europe – and all three of them have fallen or are falling. Boris Johnson has resigned as party leader and thus automatically from the PM office, […]

Will the Republicans break on Ukraine after the US midterm elections 2022? Defense One, in a panicky article posted on July 11, fears exactly that as a result of the expectation that Republicans aligned with Donald Trump will make big gains in November. “Nearly five months into the Russian invasion, support for U.S. military and financial assistance to Kyiv is […]

The official narrative that energy, food and commodity prices in general are rising, first of all because of China, and secondly because of Russia and its war in Ukraine has lost so much credibility and even established media are starting to break ranks with the propaganda. As this newsletter has documented in the past, hyperinflation of commodity prices started well […]

As the boomerang effect of the sanctions on Russia starts to be felt in Europe, adding to the hyperinflation of commodity prices in household bills, the mood of the European population is rapidly shifting from a gung-ho endorsement of the anti-Russia policy to a real revolt against the established elites. This is most visible in the mass strike which has […]

On July 10, Le Monde and 40 other main papers which are part of the International Consortium of investigative journalists (ICIJ), published “The Uber Files”, with revelations from 124,000 private e-mails and documents leaked by former lobbyist and Uber official Mark MacGann, to the British daily The Guardian. They document how public officials were corrupted by Uber managers to change […]

Does the name Eric Heymann sound familiar? This newsletter covered a 2020 paper he wrote, asserting that the European transition policy to a “zero carbon” economy would not be possible without “some sort of eco-dictatorship” (cf. SAS 3/21). The Deutsche Bank (DB) senior economist has now launched another provocation, discussing scenarios for dealing with the possibility that Nord Stream 1 […]

As Russian officials, including economist Sergey Glazyev, have pointed out in recent weeks, the western sanctions against Russia have produced limited immediate damage on the national economy, but they have also had an unintended boomerang effect. They have forced an acceleration of the transition from an economy based on raw materials for export revenues, to one giving priority to industrialization […]

Xinjiang is in the heart of Eurasia, the furthest point of the earth from the sea, and the pivot of Eurasian integration. It is the crossroads of the most important Silk Road routes and is also rich in natural resources. That explains why those who want to sabotage Eurasian integration are attempting to destabilize Xinjiang with specious accusations of genocide […]

Schiller Institute president Helga Zepp-LaRouche gave a widely acclaimed lecture at the 7-9 July Space Renaissance Art & Science Festival in Berlin. The organizer of the event was Space Renaissance International, an organization to promote the expansion of civilization into space, the building of a space age philosophy and culture, and a space humanist network. Helga Zepp-LaRouche spoke of the […]

The hopes of the United States and Europe to align developing countries behind their anti-Russia and anti-China policy were brutally dashed at the meeting of G20 foreign ministers in Bali, Indonesia July 7-8. The growing divide was openly admitted — apparently to his surprise — by Josep Borrell, the European Union’s foreign policy chief in a statement posted on the […]