Month: August 2022

The primary aim of the visit of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan on Aug. 4 was to intentionally cross the “red line” clearly laid down by Beijing by supporting and encouraging separatist forces on the island, in violation of Washington’s commitment to the One China policy (cf. SAS 31, 32/22). But another major aim was to […]

Unwilling to admit that the sanctions imposed on Russia are causing more damage to Europe than to Russia, Western geopoliticians are busy promoting the narrative that cooperation with China can be replaced by cooperation with other partners in the world. A look at Germany, China’s leading partner in Europe, exposes this assertion as reckless adventurist talk which would have devastating […]

The official feasibility study for building a railway tunnel along the Rhine Valley between Bonn and Wiesbaden concluded that it cost less to build than had been thought in the past. The 118 km tunnel dedicated to freight would enable freight trains to avoid the narrow part of the Rhine Valley, where the infrastructure is in many places over 150 […]

The Swiss Popular Party (SVP) is organizing a popular referendum to reverse the violation of their country’s traditional neutrality in foreign policy, which was enacted by the Swiss Federal Council (the executive) by endorsing sanctions against Moscow (cf. SAS10, 17/22). A referendum is very common and frequent in Switzerland, as a form of direct democracy. The initiative was launched by […]

The assassination of Darya Dugina, daughter of the well-known Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, in a car-bomb in Moscow on Aug. 21 represents the crossing of a red line, i.e., the murder of a civilian personality on the outskirts of the Russian capital. On the attack as such, it has been reported that Darya’s father Aleksander was supposed to be in […]

Independent candidate for the U.S. Senate Diane Sare demonstrated once again on Aug. 19 that she has what it takes to bring down one of the most corrupt officials in the U.S. Senate, the incumbent Senator from New York State Chuck Schumer. The occasion was a podcast dialogue with former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter. Both of them are among […]

One year after the chaotic withdrawal of the United States and NATO troops from Afghanistan, the situation on the ground remains disastrous, with nearly half of the population facing acute hunger, according to the WFP, and roughly two-thirds in need of humanitarian healthcare this year. But the Biden Administration refuses to lift the sanctions and other measures taken, allegedly to […]

The office of the Prime Minister of the National Salvation government in Sana’a, Yemen, has appointed Fouad Al-Ghaffari as “Advisor of the Prime Minister’s Cabinet for BRICS Affairs.” Al-Ghaffari, a close friend of the international Schiller Institute and the LaRouche movement, is the founder of the ALBRICS Youth Parliament in Yemen. He has advocated for Yemen’s cooperation with the BRICS […]

September 8, 2022 marks the 100th birthday of American economist and thinker Lyndon LaRouche, who passed away in February 2019, and to whom the upcoming international Schiller Institute is devoted. Only now is the world coming to realize how advanced his economic ideas and forecasts have been over the past more than fifty years. From the August 15, 1971, decoupling […]

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, at 99 years old, has lived through many crises. But of the current strategic tensions, he had the following to say: “We are at the edge of war with Russia and China on issues which we partly created, without any concept of how this is going to end or what it’s supposed to […]