Author: Christine Schier

President Irfaan Ali celebrated World Environment Day June 5 by forcefully stating the basic principle of any actual human economic system or government: People come first. “We cannot address climate issues unless we address the fundamental needs and wants of human beings. We cannot even speak about climate change if we have people who are hungry, people who don’t have […]

AU Chairman Meets Putin, Calls for Lifting Sanctions. African Union Chairman Macky Sall, along with AU Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat, finally met with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, on June 3, despite Westrn attempts to prevent such a meeting. At the top of the agenda was the food crisis and how to ensure the delivery of […]

“There Can Be No Peace Without the Bankruptcy Reorganization of the Dying Trans-Atlantic Financial System” is the theme of the day two event. You can register and follow the proceedings at: https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/conference20220618_19 Panel 1: Strategic Situation (Saturday, 9:00 am EDT; 3:00 pm CET) 1. Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany); founder, Schiller Institute: Keynote Address. 2. Andrey Kortunov (Russia); Director General of the […]

The title above is the theme of the international online conference the Schiller Institute will hold on the afternoons and evenings of June 18-19. What is at stake is laid out in the invitation to the event, which we quote: “In this year of 2022, the 100th anniversary of Lyndon LaRouche’s birth, it is time to finally recognize the accuracy […]

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, made headlines on May 31, after saying that a “hurricane” is about to hit the world economy as a result of rising oil prices and tightening monetary policy. Speaking to a Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference, he admitted he had had to correct his previous estimates for the worse: “I said they’re storm […]

On June 3, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an interview to Rossiya 1 TV, in which he identified certain reasons for the current crises that our newsletter, as well as other opponents of EU policy, have long exposed. Concerning problems on the global food market, he pointed out that they began well before Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, including because […]

German Economics Minister Robert Habeck expects major social disputes in a few months’ time, as a result of the costs of the war against Ukraine. Speaking June 2 on the national television show Maybrit Illner, the former Green Party chairman said: “We will see a dramatic increase in heating costs… Whether the political measures will then be sufficient to sustain […]

Ralph Bosshard, a retired Swiss colonel, has experienced the neo-Nazi phenomenon firsthand in Ukraine. In 2014, Lt. Col. Bosshard served as a planning officer in the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine and, from 2014 to 2017, as a special military adviser to Switzerland’s permanent representative to the OSCE and the Swiss ambassador to Kiev. He spoke of his observations […]

In a public address in Athens, on June 1, former Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis sharply criticized U.S. policy in Ukraine and failure to seek a negotiated settlement, as well as the current Greek government’s slavish support for that policy. The former PM also took issue with that government’s neo-liberal economic policies in general, and its dangerous approach to the […]

Thirty years ago, on June 2, 1992, a rather young director general of the Italian Treasury Ministry named Mario Draghi started his career in the service of the British Empire by boarding Queen Elizabeth’s royal yacht Britannia, anchored off the Italian port of Civitavecchia (Rome), to give the main speech before a selected group of City of London bankers and […]