Author: Christine Schier

The regime in Kyiv recognizes the growing international influence of Helga Zepp-LaRouche and of the Schiller Institute she founded, much more openly than those in the West do. Thus, the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), which comes under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, has had Zepp-LaRouche on its “hit list” of Western “information terrorists” since July 2022. […]

An explosion of fury followed the presentation on Dec. 11 of the draft communique to COP28 proposed by its president, Sultan Al Jaber, Industry Minister of the United Arab Emirates. It contained no mention of the phase-out or phase-down of fossil fuels, just called on countries to take actions to reduce emissions. Annalena Baerbock, who is EU negotiator on emissions […]

There was a new twist to this year’s UN Climate Conference in Dubai, unexpected to some: the push for nuclear energy, not only fission power but also fusion. At a session on Dec. 5, the Biden Administration’s special representative John Kerry announced “a U.S. international engagement plan for fusion energy”, which appears to focus on the collaboration of the U.S. […]

Internationally, the commitment to developing nuclear power is strong, and the nuclear energy industry is alive and well, as was seen at the World Nuclear Exhibition (WNE) that took place in Villepinte, on the outskirts of Paris, Nov.28 to 30. However, of the more than 700 exhibitors from 76 nations, only 29 were from Germany, where the government’s anti-nuclear policy […]

Following the end of the temporary truce in fighting, Israeli forces have pursued even more ruthlessly their campaign to destroy Gaza, expanding the targeting to cities and populations in the south. Residents in and around Khan Younis have been ordered to leave, but where should they go? Is “ethnic cleansing” to be the final solution for the Palestinians? How the […]

As many seasoned observers suspected, the “surprise attack” by Hamas on Israel was not entirely a “surprise.” On Dec. 1, the New York Times reported that Israeli intelligence and security forces had obtained a year earlier a forty-plus page document outlining a plan by Hamas for an attack on Israel. Then in July, Israeli intelligence operatives became aware of an […]

This year’s UN conference on climate change is not being totally scripted by the World Economic Forum and the IPCC. And it will likely turn out to be much worse, from their standpoint, than last year’s event in Egypt, as the voice of the Global South has become much stronger since then. The tone for the event, which runs from […]

During the Climate Change conference in Dubai, 22 countries from four continents launched the Declaration to Triple Nuclear Energy on Dec. 2. In addition to the U.S., which apparently proposed the initiative, the endorsers include 14 European countries. According to the press release issued by the United States Department of Energy, the Declaration “recognizes the key role of nuclear energy […]

The game-changing march into the era of “climate neutrality by 2045”, for which German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sought global support, has not been successful, to say the least. In addition to being un-implementable and unaffordable for industry and private households, the “renewables only” approach was delivered a blow by the German Constitutional Court, which ruled unconstitutional €60 billion of the […]

Seldom in the history of modern democracies have established parties fallen and new parties grown as rapidly as now. The situation can be compared to the years and months preceding the fatal year of 1933, when the crisis was met with two opposing solutions: Hitler in Germany and Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the U.S. Today, as then, the system has […]