Month: May 2023

That the European Union has become virtually synonymous with NATO was corroborated last week by the highest level officials in Brussels. Foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, for example, stated on May 5, at the State of the Union 2023 conference in Florence, that he feels more like a “defense minister” than the EU’s top diplomat, because he’s so busy organizing […]

The industrial overview for March issued by the German Economy Ministry shows an alarming drop in industrial output, as well as of new orders. The automotive industry accounts for a particularly large share of the decline, with a 6.5% decrease in production compared to the previous month. The construction sector was down by 4.6%, the machine builders by 3.4%, and […]

The announcement last week that President Joe Biden will run for reelection in November 2024 was expected to improve his standing in the polls. Instead, the opposite happened: Biden’s support among Democrats fell by 5%, while support for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. jumped 5%, reaching 19%. When the 9% who favor Marianne Williamson is added to the latter, more than […]

Finally, the spectacle of King Charles III being officially crowned has come and gone. The golden coach, the royal scepter with the world’s largest clear-cut diamond, the pompous ceremony in Westminster cathedral, the fairy tale non-stop reporting in the media – all at the cost of an estimated 100 million pounds, for which British taxpayers will have to pay a […]

On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, May 3, Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche commented: “The ‘narrative’ of the MSM is that there are countries, where freedom of the press thrives, such as Norway, which appears again at the top of the relevant index; and that there are countries, where it is suppressed. In reality, in the MSM, honest […]

Russian-Austrian opera star Anna Netrebko celebrated the triumph of universal culture on May 5 and 7 in Wiesbaden, Germany, despite a massive mobilization of the pro-Ukraine lobby, that attempted up to the very last minute to prevent her performance. The star soprano had been hired for a concert performance of Verdi’s Nabucco for the 2023 Maifestspiele by Wiesbaden state theater […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s phone call with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on April 26, at the latter’s initiative, opened up a new window of opportunity for a negotiated solution to the crisis, and with it, a step away from the nuclear brink. The Chinese President committed to sending a special envoy to the region for in-depth discussions with all parties, […]

The issue of EIR’s Executive Intelligence Review dated May 5, 2023 features a lengthy expose by Gretchen Small and Carl Osgood of the obsession of Western geopolitical circles with carving Russia up into small, easily manipulable entities that pose no challenge to the modern-day extended “British empire”. A particularly dangerous example of that obsession was the conference hosted by the […]

On May 1st, the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced that it had struck a deal with JPMorgan Chase for the latter to take over the deposits and assets of the failing First Republic Bank. The FRB is the latest shoe to drop in the collection of victims of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policies. In the first quarter, it […]

Magdalena Martullo-Blocher, the daughter of SPP founder and herself a member of Parliament, reminded the news portal Watson (April 29) that the bank separation system proposed by the SPP and the left in 2009, after the state bailout of UBS would have prevented the Credit Suisse (CS) debacle. “The riskier part of a bank could have gone bankrupt separately”, she […]