Author: Christine Schier

Russia has ambitious plans for the BRICS Plus in the course of its chairmanship of the group in 2024, as presented by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the April 16 meeting of the United Russia Party in Moscow. Efforts, he said, will be focused on three main areas: “politics and security, the economy and finance, and cultural and humanitarian contacts”. […]

The current danger of a war breaking out between Iran and Israel appears to be aimed at sabotaging, among other things, a major initiative to finally build a rail network linking the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean, that would involve Iran, Iraq, Syria, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, and other regional players. On April 22, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made an […]

“We are organizing this Oasis Conference to inject a perspective of hope and show a way out of an otherwise desperate, extremely dangerous, and indeed, catastrophic situation in Southwest Asia.” With this forward-looking challenge, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Chairwoman of the international Schiller Institute, began her keynote speech to the Institute’s April 13 online conference devoted to the Oasis Plan, “The LaRouche […]

After opening remarks by Helga Zepp-LaRouche (cf. above), two ambassadors from Palestine had the floor: H.E. Prof. Dr. Manuel Hassassian, Palestinian Ambassador to Denmark; and H.E. Mounir Anastas, Palestinian Ambassador to UNESCO. Professor Hassassian said that Palestine had been conquered many times in history, pointing to the Balfour Mandate that unleashed a century of aggression and ethnic cleansing in the forced creation […]

From the moment Israeli missiles destroyed the Iranian consulate in Syria on April 1, in flagrant violation of international law, the international community was speculating over the reprisals the Islamic Republic vowed to take. It was only 12 days later – after the United States and other Western countries had refused to condemn the bombing – that the counter-attack was […]

With a rerun of the 2020 election underway between the same two candidates, whom polls show are widely disliked, it is no surprise that the U.S. is facing intense political turmoil seven months before voters go to the polls. There are deepening splits within both parties, driven by the growing recognition that the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is […]

The gap between the higher curve (financial aggregates) and the lower one (physical economy) in Lyndon LaRouche’s “Typical Collapse Function” keeps growing, approaching the day of reckoning which, as the great American economist has forecast, will inevitably occur, either in the form of a chain-reaction collapse or of a hyperinflationary blowup. This is the dynamic underlying the global strategic crisis […]

The engagement of German industrial companies in China is undoubtedly well-intentioned, and so is the Chinese view of their implication, as reflected in a long article in the April 14 Global Times, on the arrival of Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the country. However, his visit in Chongqing on the first day, which began with a tour to a Bosch factory […]

The Biden Administration held its first “trilateral” summit with the leaders of Japan and the Philippines on April 13, as part of the effort to build a chain of containment around China in the region, which would be a step toward creating an Indo-Pacific NATO. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, always eager to bow to the will of the Americans, […]

Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), has published a new “analytic report” of a “large-scale Russian disinformation campaign” it alleges is ongoing in Germany. The summary of the April 8 “report” asserts that it has “established that the Schiller Institute, under the leadership of Helga Zepp-LaRouche, is a platform for promoting narratives consonant with Russian propaganda”. The reasons given for […]