Month: December 2024

As the old year draws to a close and the new year opens, the outgoing Biden Administration and its allies continue to use the little time left until Jan. 20, to wreak havoc internationally, with a view to ensuring that the Trump presidency has few, if any, chances of establishing an alternative policy, even if it intends to. Thus, the […]

Helga Zepp-LaRouche will be joined on her weekly webcast on January 1, at 18:30 CET, 12:30 EST by Ray McGovern, a former CIA officer in Europe and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), to discuss the new paradigm for peace and economic development. Click here to follow the webcast live, in German or English.

A truly horrifying picture of the situation in Gaza was presented on Dec. 29 at the event convened under the leadership of Doctors Against Genocide co-founder Dr. Nidal Jboor. It brought together physicians from Gaza and those who had worked there recently– including Dr. Mark Perlmutter and Dr. Mimi Syed — and political commentators and activists, including Norman Finkelstein, Green […]

What the world will look like after January 20th and the inauguration of Donald Trump as U.S. President is the subject of intense speculation throughout the world. Given his notorious unpredictability and his penchant for making provocative proposals, no one knows what policies a President Trump will actually implement. But the one point the he has made repeatedly is that […]

During the discussion following Panel I of the Schiller Institute international conference on Dec. 7 (cf. SAS 50/24), the panelists were asked which parties they think should take part in negotiations over a settlement in Ukraine. The first to answer was Dmitri Trenin, Academic Supervisor of the Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy at the Higher School of Economics […]

After just three months in power, the French government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier collapsed in early December, to be replaced a few weeks later by a new one, which may be just as short-lived. New Prime Minister François Bayrou, a pliable centrist, has been around for decades in French politics, and prominent members of his government are just as […]

As Germany prepares for early elections on Feb. 23, one thing is clear: none of the main political parties has a program that could provide a solution to the economic and political problems facing the country. As long as the main problem — Green ideology — is not addressed, their campaign promises are but empty words. The migration problem cannot […]

As Hungarian Prime Minister Orban’s six-month presidency of the European Union was drawing to a close on Dec. 31, he indicated that he would continue to press for good relations with Russia and for a negotiated settlement in Ukraine. At the same time, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico stepped up his own diplomacy to the same end. To the consternation […]

That question, applied metaphorically to international relations, was posed by Michele Geraci, Economics Professor in Shanghai and former Undersecretary of State in the Italian Ministry of Ecconomic Development, at the Schiller Institute conference of December 7-8, who also brought up Lyndon LaRouche’s concept of a world landbridge. “In the realm of international relations, the West takes a zero-sum game approach, […]

Whereas the abnormal growth of U.S. government debt is a real issue, not everybody expressing concern over it is in good faith. Wall Street and City of London interests are now threatening to destabilize Donald Trump if he fails to slash government spending immediately. From a reality standpoint, a national debt is a source of concern if its growth rate […]