Author: Christine Schier

The world is sitting on powder keg, as there are now two major conflicts which could erupt at any moment into a global war. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is scheduled to visit Washington this week to discuss a potential response to Iran’s missile attack of last week, itself in retaliation for previous attacks by Israel, and to attempt at […]

“Where Is Israel Heading, When the Only Horizon Its Leaders Offer Is War?” Such is the question posed by Haaretz, one of Israel’s leading dailies, in its Oct. 2 edition. The editorial notes further “Israel is taking giant steps towards a regional war, while the world keeps asking itself: What does it want? Where is it heading?”. As we have […]

The Schiller Institute sponsored on Oct. 2 an emergency online conference titled “Another Step Closer to Nuclear Armageddon — Germany Needs a New Security Architecture”, which focused on the role of Germany in the current strategic situation. In opening the event, Helga Zepp-LaRouche reviewed the “cascading events which are spinning out of control”, in particular the recent ghastly developments in […]

The announcement made by Russian President Putin in opening the Oct. 4 meeting of the permanent members of Russia’s Security Council surprised many observers in the West, who would have expected him to talk about the war in Ukraine, or the defense budget, or the escalating conflict in South-West Asia. But no. As reported on the Kremlin’s website, he said: […]

On Sept. 27, a devastating storm, Hurricane Helene, hit the Florida Gulf Coast as a Category 4 hurricane, and quickly moved north, dropping near-record amounts of rainfall. An emergency was declared in five states, with more than 3 million homes losing power. As the situation on the ground deteriorated, and aid was slow in arriving, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas […]

On Oct. 4, member states of the European Union approved imposing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EV), defeating the German opposition. France, Italy, Greece and Poland had announced they would vote in favor, and they had the numbers to neutralize a blocking minority. This vote led to a serious split between Germany and France, which usually coordinate their votes at […]

Speaking for the first time in public since his June 24, 2024 release from the HM Prison Belmarsh in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange testified Oct. 1 before the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg. At the plenary debate one day later, the full Parliamentary Assembly recognized […]

In his opening address to the historic 1955 Bandung Conference, Indonesian President Sukarno warned that nuclear “war would not only mean a threat to our independence, it may mean the end of civilization and even of human life. There is a force loose in the world whose potentiality for evil no man truly knows. Even in practice and rehearsal for […]

On October 1 and 3, the German first channel TV ARD broadcast a two-part fictionalized film on Alfred Herrhausen, the Deutsche Bank chairman who was assassinated on Nov. 30, 1989, in circumstances that remain unclarified to this day. Putting aside the fictional and entertainment aspects of the film, it touches on very important issues concerning the life, work and death […]

The mad drive to regional war is being ruthlessly pursued by Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel, with the full backing of Washington and other Western capitals. It could spin quickly out of control, perhaps just as dramatically as the proxy war waged by NATO against Russia in Ukraine threatens to escalate to the use of nuclear weapons. Although the Biden Administration has […]