Author: Christine Schier

Due to his advocacy of diplomacy on the Ukraine issue, his refusal to denounce the Russian President and his calls for restoring good relations with Russia, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has been locked out of mainstream media coverage for most of the past 16 months. Therefore, the interview with him which Berliner Zeitung published Oct. 20 was an exception. […]

The general elections in Switzerland on Oct. 22 delivered a clear win to the People’s Party (SPP) and a defeat to the Greens (GPS and GLP). The SPP, already the largest party, increased its score by 3% to 28.6%, gaining 9 seats in the lower house (National Council); the Green Party lost 3.8% sinking to 9.4%, and the Green Liberal […]

Left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht finally announced Oct. 23 the founding of a new association (the “Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht” or BSW) as a prelude to setting up a new party with a different name early next year. Nine other members of the federal parliament belonging to the Left Party have already joined her. All ten, however, will remain in the parliamentary […]

One day before U.S. President Joe Biden requested over $100 billion in new funding for wars abroad (cf. above), Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the equivalent of approximately $100 billion in new funding for Belt and Road Initiative development projects. The contrast in policy orientation could not be clearer. Xi Jinping was speaking at the Third Belt and Road Forum […]

The speech delivered by Vladimir Putin at the Third Belt and Road Forum built on the renewed impetus for development spurred by the expansion of the BRICS group, as he focused on Russia’s planned transportation and trade corridors, which are to crisscross the entirety of the Eurasian continent. These routes, he pointed out, reflect “the deep changes that are ongoing […]

In Argentina’s Oct. 22 general elections, presidential candidate Sergio Massa, of the ruling Unity for the Fatherland (UP) coalition, won a surprising 36.7% of the vote, beating out Libertarian extremist Javier Milei of the Freedom Advances (LLA) party, whose 30.1% remained unchanged from his score in the Aug. 14 primaries (cf. SAS 36/23). Coming in third with 24% of the […]

The war unleashed between Israel and the Palestinians, if allowed to continue, could quickly escalate out of control, involving the entire Arab world, Iran, and well beyond. Therefore, the priority must be to stop the bloodbath, neutralize the “crazies” on both sides, and protect the civilian population in Gaza that is now threatened with “ethnic cleansing”. However, most Western media, […]

Over the course of 18 weeks of private weekly meetings, the IPC, co-initiated by the Schiller Institute, has built up a high level of cooperation between representatives of international organizations of different political outlooks which shared the recognition that the drive for global war must be stopped in favor of security and development for all nations. The coalition’s first public […]

Reports in Western media have mainly presented the Israeli population as being solidly unifed behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israeli media, on the contrary, at least some of them, have given voice to the intense anger brewing at the government for having deliberately created the conditions for the renewed outbreak of war with Hamas. The following examples give the tenor. […]

The increase of central bank interest rates is creating an “imbalance” in the financial system that can unleash a global meltdown if not stopped. The problem is, that it can be stopped only if the speculative side of the system is shut down. Traditional measures, such as lowering rates again, would not work. It is like the driver who steps […]