Author: Christine Schier

The African Union held an Extraordinary Humanitarian Summit May 25-28 in Equatorial Guinea to address the life-threatening crises in many parts of the continent. AU Chairman Macky Sall, who is also President of Senegal, pointed out that there are 113 million Africans in extreme need of assistance this year, including 48 million people displaced. AU Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat […]

The Schiller Institute is hosting an emergency webinar on May 26 at 17.00 CET on the theme: “US and European Military and Security Experts Warn: The Insanity of Politicians Threatens Nuclear War”. The featured speakers, in addition to the Institute’s chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche, are: *Colonel (ret) Richard H. Black, former Chief of the Army Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon […]

We are bombarded every day with terrible news: the Western dollar-based financial system is unraveling in a hyperinflationary collapse; the “likelihood” of war between nuclear powers is casually discussed in all the media; the pandemic continues to take lives, while new epidemics emerge; famine is killing thousands and threatening billions. Leaders in the transatlantic world conveniently try and claim that […]

The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a stalwart of British imperialism, proposes that a nuclear showdown between the United States and Russia — a “Cuban Missile Crisis on steroids” over Crimea — could make it “easier” to settle the Russia-Ukraine war. The proposal is laid out in an article by Malcolm Chalmers, Deputy Director General of the institute, in an […]

Joe Biden’s visit to South Korea and Japan began and ended by stoking the fires of military conflict and geopolitical divisions in the region. The U.S. President first met with South Korea’s new president, Yoon Suk Yeol, who had made it a point during his election campaign to build a closer relationship with the United States. At that meeting, the […]

The week before the U.S. Senate voted on the Biden administration’s proposal to spend an additional $40 billion on weapons and support for Ukraine, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell made a surprise visit to Kiev, arriving there on May14. After returning from his trip, which included a high profile photo op with President Volodymyr Zelensky, McConnell derided the idea that […]

A major shift in public opinion in European nations, spearheaded by a growing awareness of the danger of a new world war and by the Pope’s strong criticism of NATO, has prompted the Italian government, backed by France and Germany, to offer a peace initiative. On May 18, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi di Maio presented a four-point program to UN […]

Among the narratives most used by western war propaganda, in addition to “Kiev is winning the war”, is praise for “Europe’s extraordinary cohesion”. Reality demolishes both of them. The truth is that the EU has never been so disunited. Conflicts among member states on sanctions, EU enlargement and NATO have escalated, while the underlying economic, social and political situation is […]

The United States, as rotating chairman of the UN Security Council, convoked a special conference on food security on May 18. Given the dire and worsening hunger crisis in the world, it should have been devoted to launching a crash program to increase food production and ensure emergency distribution to the most endangered areas, which could be done fairly quickly […]

On the evening of May 19, the Foreign Minister of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) held a virtual conference to address the pressing needs of their nations as representative of the developing nations of the Global South. As currently constituted, the group of five represents 40% of the world’s population and 20% of global GDP. But the […]