Author: Christine Schier

The past days have brought one disastrous headline after another concerning pilot projects of the German economy’s “green transition”. A few days ago came the news of the insolvency of the site in Lubmin of the Hamburg-based HH2E company, which had been tasked by Economic Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) with becoming the pioneer of “green hydrogen” production in the country. […]

This year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit brought together leaders of the 21 member states bordering the Pacific on Nov. 16-17 in Peru, in one of President Biden’s last diplomatic interventions, together with the G20, before leaving office. Although he may have been hoping to make a gratifying final entrance, the smashing defeat of his Vice President in the Nov. 5 […]

The Nov. 14, 2024 inauguration of the Chancay Port project, a joint venture of Peru and China, has finally brought the Belt and Road Initiative to the Americas. Located just 80 km north of Lima on Peru’s Pacific coast, the mega-port is set to become the gateway for the rapidly growing Chinese and Asian trade and investment in Peru and […]

From day one, the 29th edition of the UN Climate Change Conference went very badly for the Western oligarchy that deploys the climate lobby. First of all, it’s being held, from Nov. 11-22, in oil-rich Azerbaijan, one of the top ten petrostates in the world, that depends on oil and gas for over 90% of its exports and whose national […]

At the COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, a group of Western countries (U.S., U.K., EU, France, Germany, with the Netherlands and Denmark) pledged $8.5 billion in aid to South Africa to compensate for NOT developing its abundant hydrocarbon resources. The much-touted initiative was called: “The Just Energy Transition (JET) from coal to cleaner energy sources in a fair and equitable […]

With the landslide victory of Donald Trump in the United States, the fall of the German government, and the rallying of a growing number of nations around the BRICS, we are at a moment in history fraught with great potential but also great danger. The old neo-liberal order is crumbling rapidly, which may prompt the “military-financial complex” to strike back, […]

While the pundits and pollsters were pouring out analyses up to the last minute asserting the presidential election was too close to call, Donald Trump ended up with a margin of victory which left many of them speechless. In addition to the electoral votes (312 against 226 for Kamala Harris), he won the popular vote by more than three million […]

Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club on Nov. 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin reviewed in depth the state of international relations today, emphasizing the role of the BRICS and the Global South in bringing about a world order that is polyphonic. His considerations should be taken into account by those in the West who continue to cling to the myth […]

The Belgian police raided the flat on Nov. 7 of former European Parliament Member Tatjana Ždanoka in Brussels, on a search order, issued by a Belgian judge, at the request of Latvia’s general prosecutor. As Ms. Ždanoka explained in an October interview she gave to EIR, the accusations raised against her are purely political, namely that she has been involved […]

In the early morning hours of Nov. 6, the news broke that Donald Trump had won the U.S. presidential election, while the late afternoon headlines announced the collapse of Germany’s three-party coalition government. The dismissal of Finance Minister Christian Lindner and the exit of his FDP from the coalition left Chancellor Olaf Scholz as head of a minority government of […]