Author: Christine Schier

The video has gone viral, with well over 15 million views within just 48 hours. It shows the intervention of Jose Vega, a young activist of the LaRouche Organization, at an April 25 event in New York City titled “Building a Democratic Press”, where he exposed the hypocrisy of the world’s leading newspaper editors, four of whom were present on […]

The policy of African solutions for Africa problems, fully supported by China, has put an end to the bitter civil war between the Ethiopian central government and the ruling Prosperity Party on the one side, and the regional state of Tigray and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front on the other. As for the United States and the European Union, they […]

Conventional economic theory in the West “has not been able to provide any coherent explanation for the rapid rise of China”, asserted Professor Wen Yi, a macroeconomist and former senior researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, during Panel I of the Schiller Institute online conference on April 15 (cf. SAS 16, 17-23). He then proceeded to […]

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, during his visit to Kyiv April 20, assured President Zelenskyy that Ukraine would be welcomed into NATO at some point. But he may be promising more than he can deliver, given the growing opposition in the alliance’s member states to the west’s proxy war against Russia. On the same occasion, the Secretary General confirmed that […]

Is U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen regretting her decision to steal over 300 billion dollars of Russian assets at the onset of the war in Ukraine? As we reported earlier, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen deployed then Prime Minister of Italy Mario Draghi to practice his “wizardry” on Yellen at the time, and he did convince her to […]

The rapid emergence of new economic centers of power worldwide has not gone unnoticed by the President of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde. In remarks in New York to the Council of Foreign Relations on April 17, she acknowledged that the weaponization of the dollar and Washington’s use of sanctions have played no small part in moving countries away […]

It’s now official – Joe Biden has announced he will seek a second term as President in 2024. That despite his 80 years of age, his dismal approval ratings and the lack of enthusiasm among the party’s grass roots constituencies. Many of the latter hope for a return of the Democrats to the policies associated with former Presidents Franklin D. […]

The European Parliament passed a reform of the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) market on April 18, which will increase the price of CO₂. The vote ratifies an agreement reached late last year among negotiators for the member states and the Parliament. “Under the reform, factories will lose the free CO₂ allowances they currently receive until 2034. Likewise, shipping […]

The German government has outdone itself in the past week in terms of aggressive statements and actions aimed at both Russia and China. To begin with Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD), he stated April 21 that it was quite justified for Ukraine to launch attacks on Russian territory, such as the increasingly frequent combat drone deployments it has carried out! […]

The conflict in Sudan is throwing the country into a full scale civil war that seriously affects the security of countries throughout the region, including neighboring Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Chad, and Libya. In addition, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf states could find themselves dragged into the conflict. Since most, if not all of these […]