Month: February 2023

A two-faced Munich is one way to describe the events of last weekend in the Bavarian capital. On the one side, was the Munich Security Conference (MSC), marked by wild ravings for more war against Russia and by just as wild praise for NATO. On the other, was the impressive rally for peace that took place on Feb. 19 on […]

This year’s annual meeting of the Munich Security Conference (Feb. 17-19) totally abandoned its long-time claim of serving as a forum for dialogue with Russia, by simply not inviting any Russian officials, for the first time ever. This move also reflects the transition of the MSC chairmanship from Wolfgang Ischinger to Christoph Heusgen, an unbridled NATO utopian (cf. SAS 51/14). […]

In his speech at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 18, Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi, now the director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC, announced that Beijing would soon release a document setting out its position on resolving the Ukraine crisis through a political settlement, as well as a broader Global Security Initiative concept […]

The new document was made public on Feb. 21, the same day that U.S. President Biden gave an aggressive speech in Warsaw, Poland, and Russian President Putin delivered his annual Presidential address to the country’s Federation Assembly. Calling the current period “an era rife with challenges”, it states that the “Cold War mentality, unilateralism, bloc confrontation and hegemonism” must be […]

The rally and march that took place in Washington, D.C. against the war machine on Feb. 19 featured an array of speakers from across the political spectrum, including three former U.S. Congressmen. (Watch the livestream  here.) Estimated at some 3,000 attendees (in addition to tens of thousands watching the live stream), the size was less important than two factors which […]

Below is the statement issued by the Schiller Institute on Feb. 17, to be distributed worldwide, including at the various antiwar rallies and events in Europe, the United States and Latin America. The statement, titled “The Age of Reason or the Annihilation of Humanity?” should receive the widest possible circulation. The full text as well as a PDF version are […]

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi again criticized NATO policy on Ukraine on Feb. 18. In response to European People’s Party head Manfred Weber, who had canceled an EPP meeting scheduled for June in Naples, the outspoken politician said: “With the world on the verge of a nuclear war between Russia and the NATO countries, I am being criticized because […]

Following the explosive exposé by journalist Seymour Hersh of the Biden Administration’s responsibility for the blow-up of the German-Russian gas pipelines last September (cf. SAS 7/23), the Schiller Institute is holding a webinar on the subject on: February 23, 19:00 – 21:00. Among the speakers are Col. Ralph Bosshard (ret.), Switzerland; Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst, co-founder of VIPS (Veteran […]

Is it not paradoxical that the same leaders who can’t stop talking about “human rights” and “western values” refuse to lift the murderous sanctions on Syria, despite the horrendous consequences of the earthquakes that hit Turkey as well? And yet, the spokesman for the U.S. State Department, Ned Price, stated coldly on Feb. 6 that it would be “counterproductive” for […]

The United States Embassy in Moscow issued a new travel advisory on Feb. 13, warning American tourists and residents to leave Russia immediately. While this is not the first such warning over the past year, it included, this time, the Embassy’s assessment that “terrorist groups, both transnational and local” are planning attacks. Shortly thereafter, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov reported […]