Author: Christine Schier

While there can be no doubt that the main decision-makers behind the the package of economic and military measures taken last weekend against Russia were Anglo-American geopolitical circles, they also involved a shocking turnaround in Berlin and the announcement of a huge rearmament program. Helga Zepp-LaRouche called this policy shift “an earthquake” and an “absolute catastrophe”, because Chancellor Scholz turned […]

Many voices have emerged in NATO countries calling on their respective governments to take into account Russia’s legitimate demands for security guarantees, which have been cavalierly rejected up to now. * From the United States, Tulsi Gabbard, a former Congresswoman from Hawaii and former Democratic Party presidential candidate who served in Iraq, has come under severe fire for her outspoken […]

According to a report by the World Food Program earlier this year, more than 200 million people in the world today are in in danger of starvation, and their rank threatens to grow by another 100 million in this year alone. This dramatic estimate for 2022 was issued even before the ongoing military conflict in Europe. In Afghanistan, 23 million […]

On the evening of Feb. 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had begun the process of recognition of the self-proclaimed Donbas republics, after concluding that Kiev had demonstrated no intention of conceding autonomy as per the Minsk agreements. Indeed, Ukrainian Army operations in the Donbas had escalated in the previous days, forcing local authorities to evacuate the civilian […]

As indicated in the previous item above, the increasingly shrill and hysterical anti-Putin narrative coming from the trans-Atlantic world has less to do with Ukraine and the deployment of Russian troops, than with the collapse of the post-Cold War “unipolar order”, and the effort directed from the City of London and Wall Street (acting through the “Military-Industrial Complex”) to prevent […]

President Putin and his advisers clearly understood the West’s intention to use Ukraine as a tool to justify their destruction of the Russian economy. They were expecting more and harsher sanctions against Russia and Belarus, even if no invasion were to take place! According to many observers, Russia can survive new, harsher sanctions, but the effects will be felt much […]

Just two days prior to French President Macron’s phone call with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Feb. 16, officials of the Economic Ministries of the two countries signed an agreement to finance seven joint projects in third countries, six of which are in Africa. The projects, which are worth more than €1.5 billion, cover infrastructure, environmental protection and energy. […]

The EU-African Union summit in Brussels Feb. 17-18 ended with an attempt by Brussels to sell Africa a scheme to produce so-called “green hydrogen” for Europe in the framework of the “Global Gateway”, the European Union’s purported alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. At the final press conference, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen set the target of […]

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organization Director General, announced Feb. 18 on the sidelines of the EU-Africa summit that a first group of six African countries has been chosen to set up mRNA vaccine production: Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia. In 2021, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO set up the “global mRNA technology […]

The Schiller Institute Conference held an online conference Feb. 19 under the title “100 Seconds to Midnight on Doomsday Clock — We Need a New Security Architecture!”. The first panel discussed the mindless march to war between nuclear powers taking place over the artificially created crisis in Ukraine, while the second panel addressed the means to achieve a new paradigm […]