Author: Christine Schier

Streamlining of production processes and resorting to part-time as opposed to full-time jobs are methods that have been massively used in German industry over the past years. In the automobile sector, for instance, total employment was 42,000 jobs less in 2023 than in 2018, when it was 822,000. But these were gradual shifts over several years. Today, deindustrialization has hit […]

In his discussion at the Ambrosetti Forum in Cernobbio, Italy, on Sept. 6, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán revealed that he continues to pursue his peace effort, but no longer publicly, as he had done initially with his surprise visits in July to Kyiv, Moscow, Beijing and Washington (cf. SAS 28-31/24). He had sent reports to his EU colleagues “within […]

The ninth annual Eastern Economic Forum, held over Sept. 3-6 in Vladivostok, Russia, welcomed over 7,000 guests from 75 countries, primarily high-level officials and business people. A total of 258 agreements were signed, amounting to 5.4 trillion rubles ($59.7 billion), with a special emphasis given to building a large new chemical complex in Komi Republic and a new timber processing complex […]

Under the theme, “Joining Hands to Advance Modernization and Build a Community with a Shared Future”, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) mapped out a new level of cooperation between the countries of Africa and China that together account for one-third of the world population. In his keynote address on Sept. 5, President Xi Jinping announced the commitment of the […]

The top American nuclear weapons expert, Dr. Ted Postol, sounds the alarm in an Aug. 29 article on Responsible Statecraft, in which he refers to the new Nuclear Guidance approved by the Biden Administration in March (cf. SAS 35/24). While that document remains highly secret, aspects of it were revealed by the New York Times on Aug. 20, in particular […]

Two developments in August confirm the warnings issued for weeks now by experts participating in the weekly meetings of the International Peace Coalition (IPC), that the defenders of the Unipolar Order have put the world on a path to World War III. One was the Aug. 6 incursion into Russia’s Kursk province by Ukrainian forces, with backing, planning and possibly […]

For weeks before the state elections that took place on Sept. 1 in the two eastern states of Saxony and Thuringia, desperate voices from the Establishment and in the media warned voters not to vote for the AfD (Alternative for Germany) or the BSW (Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht), insisting that the issue was not war or peace. But precisely these two […]

Traditional gatherings for peace were held in Germany on Sept. 1, and many more actions are planned until the large demonstrations on Oct. 3, the day of national unity. They take on a special importance this year, as the danger of a NATO war with Russia looms ever larger. A leaflet by Helga Zepp-LaRouche is being distributed at these events, […]

“We need to prepare for fairly hard times, if not very hard times, for the West”, warned France’s Chief of the Defense Staff, Gen. Thierry Burkhard, as the “rejection” of the Western model continues to gain strength. “We are resolutely entering a new era, with a West that is being challenged … and an extremely strong fragmentation of the international order,” […]

The New Development Bank (NDB) held its annual Board of Governors meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, Aug. 29-31. The main mission of the bank, founded in 2015 by the five member countries of the BRICS, is to mobilize financial resources for projects in emerging economies and developing countries. One of the main obstacles to doing so, as NDB President […]