Month: December 2024

The dramatic turn of events in recent days in Syria is not an expression of dynamics internal to that besieged nation, but the result of external pressures, interventions and manipulations. These reflect a world in turmoil as a dying world order struggles to recover a hegemony that is gone forever. South-West Asia has been thrown into yet more uncertainty, as […]

Among the countless comments on what is happening in Syria with the rapid fall of the Assad government, and its repercussions, one assessment worth reflecting upon was given by former U.S. State Department official Chas Freeman in an interview on Dec. 8 with Pascal Lottaz, for his Japan-based blog Neutrality Studies. Freeman, a respected diplomat whose career included service as […]

The political crises in France and Germany have created a large vacuum of power in Europe, which is being exploited by the EU supranational government, the European Commission. In the postwar period, European governance was built on the Franco-German axis, first as an engine of stability, eventually as the backbone of the EU system. All major decisions in the EU […]

With Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s confidence vote less than a week away, what will actually transpire on Dec. 16 is uncertain, and opinion polls are unreliable. However, if the date for early elections remains Feb. 23, the party constellations in the newly elected parliament will not be the same, as the Left and the FDP (liberals) may be voted out. And […]

Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened her keynote speech to Panel I of the SI conference on Dec. 7, stating, “We are coming together in this international Internet conference, in order to send an urgent call out to the world, not only, that we may be weeks, days, or hours away from the potentially greatest catastrophe in human history — […]

Continuation of the coverage of the Schiller Institute conference: The first speaker on Panel I, following Helga Zepp-LaRouche, was supposed to be Naledi Pandor, the former Foreign Minister of South Africa, but for personal reasons, she had to postpone her participation until the next day. A report on her intervention is featured below. We supply a brief summary of the […]

Continuation of the coverage of the Schiller Institute conference: Scott Ritter, former UN weapons Inspector in Iraq, was in Washington on Dec. 7, where he organized an important event at the National Press Club titled “No Nuclear War”, but he made sure to prepare a video statement for the Schiller Institute conference, in which he warned that there is no […]

Economist Zhang Weiwei, professor of International Relations at Fudan University in China, began his presentation to the Schiller Institute polemically, positing that “Nothing more accurately captures the overall mood today than the Munich Security Conference report for the year 2024 entitled, Lose-Lose, suggesting that the post-Cold War optimism regarding security and development has dissipated, and much of the world is […]

Dr. Naledi Pandor, former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa, was an honored guest of the third panel of the Schiller Institute conference on Dec. 8. While we are now experiencing a “profound level of toxic politics dominated by aggressive self-interest and rejection of global cooperation”, she noted, there are promising signs of new […]

We warned in our last issue that the period leading up to the Jan. 20 inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States would be among the most dangerous in modern history. Events have more than confirmed that warning. The outgoing Biden Administration has been tasked with worsening every possible global hot spot to try and make sure […]