Month: June 2023

Military support will be provided to Ukraine “for as long as it takes”, is the mantra of the hard-core anti-Russian geopoliticians in Europe, but popular support for that view is rapidly eroding. A spectacular manifestation of that was the mass rally of a half million people against the current Polish government in Warsaw on June 4. In particular, the government’s […]

The Ludwig Börne Prize is a literary award presented once a year for “outstanding essays, reviews and reportages”, and named after the famous political journalist and revolutionary democrat from Frankfurt, Ludwig Börne (1786-1837). This year, it was awarded to Economy Minister and leading Green Party member Robert Habeck, who was chosen by Jürgen Kaube, author and co-publisher of the Frankfurter […]

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has withdrawn the platform from the voluntary code of conduct for technology firms, set up by the European Union to combat so-called “disinformation”. Independent columnist Rachel Marsden reported June 4 that “European Union officials are having a meltdown” because of his decision. Note that the code of conduct, revised by the EU last year, is “voluntary” […]

Many headlines over the past days have conveyed the same message as that of the Washington Post on June 2: “Unprecedented Canadian fires intensified by record heat, climate change”. In reality, the wildfires that have ravaged over three millions of hectares of forest this year in Canada are neither unprecedented nor the result of climate change. They are primarily the […]

The Afghanistan government has cracked down heavily on opium cultivation, reducing it by 80% this year. In Helmand province (which produces more than 60-70% of the total), poppy growing has dropped to less than 1000 Ha in 2023, a reduction surpassing any previous ban, including that of 2000-2001. “This is a major piece of information”, the former director of the […]

With the danger of a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia becoming more likely every day, it is urgent that the message of the June 10 Schiller Institute conference (cf. above) become a rallying cry for a growing segment of the citizens of the U.S. and Europe. The conference focused on U.S. President John Kennedy’s (JFK) speech of sixty […]

While the long-awaited Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russian forces has still not happened, President Zelenskyy told the Wall Street Journal (June 3), that Kyiv is ready now, although it will mean tremendous losses for Ukraine. “I don’t know how long it will take”, the Ukrainian President said, and “it can go a variety of ways, completely different”. Without the Patriot systems […]

In welcoming Finland to NATO during a visit to Helsinki on June 2, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave a speech which confirms what a growing number of world leaders believe: his arrogance is matched only by his delusions. The latest in a line of geopoliticians from the Brzezinski school, Blinken seems to believe that those he is addressing […]

The foreign ministers of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) met in Cape Town, South Africa, June 1-2, to prepare the agenda of the heads of state summit in Johannesburg in just under three months. The five ministers were joined on the second day by their counterparts from 15 nations of the Global South, for a […]

The potential importance of the New Development Bank (NDB), that is, the bank founded by the BRICS in 2014-2015, can hardly be overstated, at a time when the trans-Atlantic financial system and its institutions have proven themselves unable and unwilling to finance real development and to work for the general welfare. That reality is increasingly clear in the Global South. […]