Author: Christine Schier

On. Nov. 4, thousands of protesters gathered outside the residence of Prime Minister Netanyahu in Jerusalem, demanding his resignation. They bitterly criticized him for his handling of the crisis, which has severely endangered the lives of the hostages, as well as for the blatant failure of security services to prevent the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas in the first place. […]

On Nov. 4, 1995, Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in Tel Aviv, while leaving a large peace rally in support of the Oslo Accords he had signed with Yasser Arafat two years earlier. The murderer was spurred by a climate of hatred toward Rabin, and the agreements, created by Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies among the extremist supporters […]

A groundbreaking conference was just held Nov. 6-8 in Kabul, Afghanistan, hosted by the Ibn Sina Research and Development Center. Titled: “Creating the Afghan Economic Miracle,” the conference has attracted scholars and guests from across Afghanistan and from other parts of the world. It’s stated aim is: “to present a comprehensive plan for the economic reconstruction of the entire country, […]

When the financial meltdown hit the world in 2007-2008, the centers of financial power, i.e., the City of London and Wall Street, responded by further hyperinflating their speculative financial bubble with quantitative easing and zero interest rates – instead of shutting down the whole casino. This only worsened the problem that had led to the 2008 crisis in the first […]

The data for the Eurozone in Q3 this year show a contraction of 0.1%, which is only an approximation of the real contraction because GDP figures include both productive and non productive activities. A better indication is provided by figures for the manufacturing sector. The Hamburg Commercial Bank Economics has released a survey of those figures for the EU and […]

With a popularity rating down to less than 20%, the three-party coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz now also has to deal with a campaign among Free Democratic Party (FDP) members to pull out of the coalition. The drive, which had been building for months, took off after the drastic losses of votes for the FDP in the Oct. 8 […]

In an interview with London’s The Economist, published Nov. 1, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny recognized that the war is now in a “stalemate”, and “there will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough”. Rather, the conflict may “drag on for years” and “wear down” the country, unless a “new level of technology” is provided from the West. The commander-in-chief goes on […]

On Oct. 26-27, a representative of the U.S. Schiller Institute participated, in Minsk, in an in-person conference organized by the Foreign Ministry of Belarus, titled “International High Level Conference: Eurasian Security, Reality and Prospects in a Transforming World.” Keynote addresses were delivered by the Foreign Ministers Sergei Aleinik of Belarus, Sergey Lavrov of Russia, and Peter Szijjarto of Hungary, while the […]

At this point, there is an acute danger that the “ethnic cleansing”, depopulation operation underway in Gaza will lead to a region-wide war in Southwest Asia, which would rapidly involve all major powers, in one way or another. The United States, under the pretext of supporting Israel’s unconditional right to self-defense, has deployed a huge military force in the Eastern […]

On Oct. 27, the United Nations General Assembly approved a non-binding resolution calling for a humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip. The resolution, presented by Jordan and other Arab nations, was approved by a large majority, with 120 countries voting for, 45 abstaining and 15 voting against. The vote is highly relevant politically, as it shows the international isolation of […]