Month: January 2023

Invitation to the online Schiller Institute Conference, February 4, 2023, from 10 am to 5 pm CET To register for the conference (and translation) and for more information, go to https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/conference_20230204 We are in an epochal change, but a very different one than that about which Chancellor Scholz of Germany has been talking. We are at the end of the […]

On Jan. 20, the Global NATO apparatus will be meeting at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, to discuss how to further their task of enforcing the “unipolar world order”. This will be the third meeting of the “Ukraine Defense Contact Group” since their first gathering in April, 2022, which opened the floodgates to a massive buildup of NATO arms and activity […]

The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting started on Jan. 16 in Davos and, as expected, “billionaires came to tell millionaires how the middle class feels”, as banker Jamie Dimon put it. Those billionaires, unsurprisingly, have become richer, while the rest of the world has become poorer. The proof that money does not bring wisdom is that, according to the […]

On Jan. 10, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Charles Michel and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg signed a joint EU-NATO declaration in Brussels, which represents a huge step toward subordinating the former to the global military alliance. It instructs all 27 EU member countries to ensure “the fullest possible involvement” with the Alliance’s initiatives. The […]

The former national security advisor of Chancellor Merkel from 2006 to 2013), General (ret.) Erich Vad, has been subject to a mainstream media boycott because of his harsh criticism of the West’s conduct in Ukraine. But the leading feminist-political magazine in Germany, EMMA, did publish a lengthy interview with him, on Jan. 12, under the title “What Are the War […]

Following their meeting at the White House on Jan. 13, President Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida issued a joint statement, proclaiming undying devotion to the “rules-based international order”, which is being challenged by China and North Korea. Their statement refers to some of the agreements and commitments made by the Defense and Foreign Ministers of the countries two […]

During the European Semester 2019, 17 EU countries received recommendations on the “long-term sustainability of public finances”, and 15 were specifically urged to reform their pension systems. So far, only 6 of them have “explicitly” planned to do so, with the 9 others being late (Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands and Poland). Since the EU […]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted a two-day virtual “Voices of the Global South” summit Jan. 12-13, attended by 10 heads of state and government and 120 ministers and high-ranking officials from developing nations, to discuss the priorities that India intends to address during its presidency of the G20. The unmistakable message was that the old order is fading away and […]

To understand why the German government “seems to be completely in the grip of those war-mongers who are driving the escalation with Russia”, one must look back to “the period of the late 1970s, where in less than a year, from April 1977 to March 1978, there was a wave of assassinations in Europe”, and then also, to a similar […]

The international Schiller Institute and associates in many countries around the world have launched a campaign over the next six weeks to catalyze an international mass movement, extending across the so-called West and the Global South alike, around the demand that unconditional negotiations be undertaken immediately to resolve the Ukrainian-Russian conflict before we are all blown up in a nuclear […]