Author: Christine Schier

For the past two months, mainstream Western media have reported day in, day out, that Russia has amassed 100,000 troops on the border with Ukraine, who are prepared to invade at any moment. But over the past week, those reports have been vigorously denied by the leaders of Ukraine themselves, including the President, the Defense Minister and the Foreign Minister, […]

No one could possibly have missed the mantra, faithfully recited by Western politicians and media alike, that the the 100,000 Russian troops at Ukraine’s border are about to invade the country. What does the Ukrainian Defense Minister have to say about it? “The situation on the ukranien-Russia border at this time is no different from what it was in the […]

Officials of the Biden Administration and of the British government have made crystal clear over the past week that their ultimate aim is to stop the industrialization of Russia and thus irreparably weaken the state. From the geopolitical standpoint, Ukraine is but a useful pawn in the game, to be dropped if and when need be. Seen from Washington: Two […]

On Jan. 20, Jeremy Grantham, founder of the asset management firm GMO, warned that a “superbubble”, comprised of stocks, housing and commodities, will soon pop, wiping out $35 trillion in assets. This would be the fourth superbubble collapse in the last one hundred years, he wrote, after the stock bubbles which imploded in 1929 and 2000, and the housing bubble […]

Important sections of European industry are breaking with the anti-Russian policy of the European Union. On Jan. 26, a delegation of the largest Italian corporations met Russian President Vladimir Putin in a videoconference, and on Jan. 27 it was made known that a similar meeting is being organized by German companies. The Jan. 26 meeting was organized by the Italy-Russia […]

Among the main losers of the escalation of tensions between NATO and Russia, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche has emphasized for months now, is Europe, and in particular Germany. Not just economically, due to the deteriorating trade relations, and not just on the vital question of energy, as Nord Stream 2 continues to be blocked, but also, if it should come to […]

The Central Committee of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (PSPU) issued an Open Letter on Jan. 19, ripping apart the fraud of those pushing for confrontation with Russia on the pretext of allowing the people of Ukraine to “write their own future,” under the title “Stop Supplying Weapons and Using Political Blackmail To Incite Ukraine To War With Russia!”. […]

On the occasion of the celebration of the 66th anniversary of the founding and relaunching of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) of Peru, the party held a national assembly in Lima on Jan. 22-23, during which it was announced that the party was officially adhering to the international Schiller Institute. The opening speech was delivered by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, […]

At the heart of the growing tensions between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine is the demand by President Putin that the U.S. and NATO sign legally binding treaties which guarantee Russia’s security. This is not a new issue, but goes back to talks in February 1990, when then U.S. Secretary of State Baker promised there would be no eastward […]

The leader of the German Social Democrats in the Bundestag Rolf Mützenich has called for “a European peace order including Russia, even if this seems illusory at the moment.” He said he hoped for a “pan-European peace order that, as a ‘pluralistic security community,’ excludes war between its members and ultimately overcomes the military alliances.” Mützenich is a close ally […]