Author: Christine Schier

After nearly three years of war in Ukraine, leading circles in the West and their media outlets are beginning to quietly admit that Ukraine’s armed forces, in spite of all the support supplied by NATO member countries, cannot win this war, and that it’s time for Kyiv to accept some territorial losses in the framework of negotiations with Russia. Have […]

It is useful to look at some physical-economic parameters of the new BRICS Plus, by considering the contributions of the 13 new Partner States of the BRICS, along with those of the 9 existing full members (cf. SAS 44/24). These are far better indicators of the group’s real economic potential than the often-cited 40% share of global GDP, which is […]

The Oct. 22-24 BRICS summit was “the most successful in its history”, exclaimed South African President Ramaphosa at the end of the three day event in Kazan, Russia. He was most appreciative of the efforts to strengthen financial and political independence among the member nations, that are now “driving global change”. China’s President Xi Jinping emphasized that it is “for […]

At the BRICS summit, an EIR correspondents had an exchange with a close advisor to President Putin, Anton Kobyakov, on Oct. 24: “Even if the BRICS is not anti-West, the West is currently anti-BRICS. If this does not change, we have the risk of nuclear war in the conflicts occurring in Ukraine and the Middle East, and a perpetuation of […]

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made a very forceful intervention at the BRICS summit, although he was unable to travel to Kazan in person for health reasons. Speaking per video-conference to the Expanded Plenary of the Summit on Oct. 23, he stated bluntly that the Bretton Woods system, meaning principally the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, […]

The past two weeks have shown a worsening of the “typical collapse function” model published by Lyndon LaRouche in 1994, representing the trajectory of the transatlantic economy. The gap between the upper curve (financial aggregates) and the lower curve (physical economy) has widened dangerously. Although data for the lower curve are substantially available, only the tip of the iceberg is […]

After the 2008 financial crisis, a debate developed in the United States on what to do to prevent a repeat of it. Two options were on the table: on the one side, the proposal, pushed by Lyndon LaRouche and others, to reintroduce the famous “Glass Steagall Act” that separated commercial banks from investment banks, so that a failure of the […]

During his visit to India last week for the German-Indian Government Consultations, Chancellor Scholz was accompanied by three top ministers – Robert Habeck (Economy), Boris Pistorius (Defense) and Annalena Baerbock (Foreign Affairs), as well as several representatives of the German military industrial complex. Arriving on the last day of the BRICS summit in Kazan, it was as if the German […]

The three parliament elections in Germany’s eastern states of Saxony and Thuringia (Sept.11) and Brandenburg (Sept. 22) have produced an unprecedented situation in which neither of the two traditional parties, the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD), are able to form a new majority government without a newcomer on the political scene, the BSW (the Wagenknecht party), which […]

On Oct. 24, Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the Outreach session of the BRICS in Kazan, Russia, during which he called for holding an international peace conference. The United Nations, he implied, could supervise such a conference, which should involve the various stakeholders in the conflict. Moreover, “We rely on the BRICS countries, which have become an influential and decisive […]