Author: Christine Schier

In the run-up to the Nov. 8 Congressional elections, anxiety is spreading among Democrats. They are facing an increasingly restive public, angry over the failure of the Biden Administration to address the nation’s economic woes. Food, energy and housing prices have forced families to make major sacrifices, while concern grows that the President lacks the mental fitness to tackle the […]

The official narrative: the EU is no longer dependent on Russian gas, the ECB has aggressively moved to fight inflation and the Russian economy is collapsing under EU sanctions. The real picture: the EU still depends onRussian gas, inflation is out of control, and the Russian economy is performing better than expected while the EU economy is sinking. Energy. As […]

On the eve of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to China on Nov. 4, the mainstream media are full of attacks on continued economic cooperation with the Chinese, arguing that Germany must not repeat the “mistake” of over-dependence, as in the case of Russia. In 2021, China accounted for 9.5% of Germany’s total foreign trade, with exports amounting to about €103.7 […]

Unnoticed by the public, the German Bundestag passed a law on the evening of Oct. 20, that will severely curtail the freedom of speech and penalize the expressing of views that differ from official “narratives”. With next to no parliamentary debate and lumped together in an “omnibus bill” with a completely unrelated law, this amendment provides for punishing anyone who […]

Two components of the new government coalition in Italy have broken ranks with transatlantic “unity”. Both the Lega, by way of its Senate leader Massimiliano Romeo, and Forza Italia, via its founder and historical leader Silvio Berlusconi, have called for negotiations with Moscow on ending the war in Ukraine. Berlusconi had already briefed the FI parliamentary group in a closed […]

Following the attempted drone attacks on ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet (cf. above), Russia suspended its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative agreed upon last July, involving the export of agricultural products from Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that it was no longer able to guarantee the safety of civilian dry cargo ships […]

“They tried to bury me alive and here I am,” Lula da Silva told the giant crowd gathered in Sao Paulo Sunday night, after it was officially announced that he had defeated incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, 50.9% to 49.1% in the second round of Brazil’s presidential elections. The former two-term President (2003-2010) had been framed and jailed in 2018 on […]

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and chairwoman of the Schiller Institute, and Richard A. Black, representative of the Schiller Institute to the United Nations in New York, gave online presentations Oct. 25 to a major international conference organized by the National Committee for BRICS Research of Russia. The two-day event, titled “International Scientific-Practical Conference: Scientific-Technological and Innovative Cooperation of BRICS Countries,” heard […]

On Oct. 23, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu took the highly unusual step of calling his counterparts in the United Kingdom, France, Turkey and the United States, to discuss the rapidly deteriorating conflict in Ukraine. He warned in particular of Kiev’s possible involvement in a provocation with the use of a dirty bomb, which would then be blamed on Russia. […]

The arrogant belief of the American establishment that the United States is the leading example of “democracy” is being exposed by the candidacy of Diane Sare for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democratic Majority leader Charles Schumer. While State Department and Treasury officials travel the world lecturing about democratic values, the treatment of Sare, who is on the ballot […]