Month: February 2023

The following press release was issued by the international Schiller Institute on Feb. 6. The recent double earthquake in southern Turkiye and northwestern Syria is a terrible disaster which is generating a wave of emotion and empathy from around the world. The situation will likely worsen due to forecast weather of extremely low temperatures throughout the region, resulting in the […]

It took less than one year, in September 2019, for the Federal Reserve to stop Quantitative Tightening and reverse to Quantitative Easing, because the whole house of cards was coming down. The Fed was forced to take over the overnight (repo) market. At that point, however, liquidity-generated hyperinflation could no longer be contained within the confines of financial asset values, […]

France and the United Kingdom have been hit with huge demonstrations and strikes since the New Year, to protest the heightened austerity measures taken as a result of the shift toward a war economy in all of Europe. Similar protests are breaking out in Denmark and Germany. A steadily growing movement in France, supported by two-thirds of the population according […]

The reality behind the frantic efforts of German Economy Minister Robert Habeck to find alternate suppliers for Russian gas, is that they have flopped. The prospective volumes of LNG that are supposed to come from the Gulf States, Ibero-America and the United States/Canada will not suffice to fill the gap created by the sanctions against Russia. Germany’s mainstream media, nonetheless, […]

A stream of Republican Congressmen took to television news and podcasts on Monday to lavish praise on the U.S. military for saving America, by shooting down a Chinese “spy satellite”. At the same time, they pounded on President Biden for not acting sooner to protect Americans from what one called “a hostile foreign intrusion”. The “spy ship”, which the Chinese […]

At a Jan. 30 joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Brasilia, Brazilian President Lula da Silva proposed that a group of nations come together to help Russia and Ukraine find a path towards peace. He said he had discussed the issue both with Scholz and with French President Emmanuel Macron, and intended to discuss it with others. […]

Whoever wrote the speech the Pope gave to the authorities, civil society and diplomatic representatives in Kinshasa on Jan. 31, delivered a little poetic jewel. Francis used the image of diamonds to both address the potential wealth of the country, and expose foreign looting of its resources. He also compared the many qualities of diamonds to those of human beings, […]

The Schiller Institute will hold an urgent conference on the theme “The Age of Reason or the Annihilation of Humanity?” Please register for the event here. The invitation was sent out in last week’s issue of the Alert. (Conference language is English, with simultaneous translation provided in French, German and Spanish for those who register.)

Who’s living in the real world here? In a Jan. 29 interview with Canada’s CBC News, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said that he had written a “wish list to Santa” Claus. That may sound cute… until you hear what he wished for: “fighter jets, aircraft and probably rockets… long-hand options to hit the Russians’ fuel depots, ammunition depots and […]

The Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), a group of former intelligence officers opposed to Washington’s “permanent war” policy, has issued an “Emergency Memorandum” to President Biden, which denounces the reckless incompetence behind what he is receiving as intelligence, and urging him to pursue a peace option. Among the signers known to our readers are Col. (ret.) Richard Black, Graham […]