Month: August 2022

The upcoming international Schiller Institute is devoted to American economist and thinker Lyndon LaRouche, who was born 100 years ago on September 8, and passed away in February 2019. Only now is the world coming to realize how advanced LaRouche’s economic ideas and forecasts have been over the past more than fifty years. From the August 15, 1971, decoupling of […]

One after the other, Western “leaders” are telling their citizens that not only perpetual war to defend their “values,” but also fascist economic austerity, is the order of the day. So learn to live with it. “We must be clear: the coming months will be difficult; the coming winters will be difficult; the next five to ten winters will be […]

The speech that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was to pronounce on Aug. 26, at the annual meeting of current and former central bankers in Jackson Hole, was anxiously awaited, as he was going to reveal what the global financial system would die of. In the end, he delivered a shock to all those who hoped he would pooh-pooh inflation […]

In an unsigned editorial titled “Are Sanctions on Russia Working?”, The Economist worries that the answer to that question is no. However, what the mouthpiece of the City of London proposes to do about it, is a recipe for a permanent global war in all domains, including economic and financial, not only against Russia but also China. The editorial posted […]

The rotating Czech presidency of the EU has called for an emergency meeting on energy on Sept. 9. At the same time, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has finally discovered financial speculation on energy and called, on Aug. 29, for a reform of the energy market in Europe. One is tempted to say they are closing the stable […]

Last April, the Biden Administration established a “Disinformation Governance Board” within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), officially charged with exercising censorship under the noble-sounding pretext of protecting free speech. The person chosen to head the new agency was a certain Nina Jankowicz, who had worked closely with the Ukrainian government, is rabidly anti-Russian and anti-Donald Trump. The appointment of […]

In an interview given to EIR on Aug. 23, Colonel Richard Black, who is well known to our readers, was asked about the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) and its blacklist, which he is on, together with members and allies of the Schiller Institute. He addressed the issue by discussing the Biden Administration’s Disinformation Governance Board (cf. above), first […]

For weeks now, the mainstream media have served us the line that “Putin has lost the war, he’ll soon be ousted in a putsch”. That propaganda campaign was taken to new heights in a story published on Aug. 28 by the British daily The Sun, and taken up in other British media, which names outright three senior Russian politicians as […]

Africa is home to nearly one fifth of the world population, but accounts for less than 4% of the total electricity consumed. Nearly 650 million Africans, or well over half the total population, have no access to electricity. In terms of global carbon dioxide emissions, the entire continent accounts for 3% maximum, according to the UN. And yet, the Malthusian […]

The shift away from the West’s dying “unipolar world” was confirmed once again at the Conference on International Security that took place in Moscow Aug. 16-17. While belittled in many western media as a gathering of “autocratic states” against “democracies”, it brought together the Defense Ministers of some 35 countries, including BRICS members China, India, South Africa, as well as […]