Month: October 2023

Over the course of 18 weeks of private weekly meetings, the IPC, co-initiated by the Schiller Institute, has built up a high level of cooperation between representatives of international organizations of different political outlooks which shared the recognition that the drive for global war must be stopped in favor of security and development for all nations. The coalition’s first public […]

Reports in Western media have mainly presented the Israeli population as being solidly unifed behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israeli media, on the contrary, at least some of them, have given voice to the intense anger brewing at the government for having deliberately created the conditions for the renewed outbreak of war with Hamas. The following examples give the tenor. […]

The increase of central bank interest rates is creating an “imbalance” in the financial system that can unleash a global meltdown if not stopped. The problem is, that it can be stopped only if the speculative side of the system is shut down. Traditional measures, such as lowering rates again, would not work. It is like the driver who steps […]

In a study published Oct. 2, the Washington Post analyzed data from the past 40 years to address the dramatic decline in life expectancy in the United States, compared to other “peer” (developed) nations and even to some poorer nations. While not addressing the collapsing U.S. physical economy and related factors directly, the study does usefully refer to the failing healthcare […]

At the Russian Energy Week International Forum on Oct. 11, Vladimir Putin could hardly avoid ridiculizing the European Union’s energy policy – whether he wanted to or not. He reiterated that Moscow had proposed to immediately begin supplying Germany and other European countries with up to 27.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually, pumped through the undamaged pipeline of […]

Judging from the preliminary results of the national elections in Poland on Oct. 15, the current PiS government is set to be replaced by a coalition of the three opposition parties, which altogether received 53.1% of the votes. The new Prime Minister would be Donald Tusk, who served as Polish Prime Minister in 2007-2014 and President of the European Council […]

China’s Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, on Oct. 17-18, will give new impetus to the initiative which has become the largest infrastructure and development project ever undertaken in the world – in just ten years after it was launched. The forum has brought together participants from 130 countries around the world, and some 20 heads of state […]

A good deal of the discussion at the IMF/World Bank annual meeting, that took place Oct. 9-15 in Marrakech, Morocco, was devoted to the soaring indebtedness worldwide. These two leading institutions are pushing some new lending, but only for projects to “save the planet” and other boondoggles. China, which insists instead on funding actual development projects, remains a prime target […]

There have been two reactions internationally to the terrible escalation of events and loss of lives in Israel/Gaza. There are those trying to exploit it for geopolitical reasons and those calling for ceasefire, and for addressing the underlying causes. On the geopolitical side, Washington immediately sent into the Eastern Mediterranean a battle group led by the world’s largest aircraft carrier, […]

Chas Freeman is a senior U.S. diplomat, now retired, who during his 30-year career of service, was ambassador to Saudi Arabia. He was interviewed on the breaking situation in Southwest Asia by EIR’s Mike Billington on Oct. 9, of which he said the following: “We are seeing a disturbing tendency in our press to invent Iranian direction of this war, […]