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In the aftermath of the provocation staged when the British naval vessel HMS Defender crossed into Russian territorial waters in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea on June 23, there has been a back-and-forth between those responsible for the incident –British and American officials –and leading Russians, which demonstrates the fragility of the progress made by the Biden-Putin […]

The videos from the June 26-27 Schiller Institute conference held under the banner “For the Common Good of All People, Not Rules Benefitting the Few”, are available for viewing (in the original English) at https://schillerinstitute.com/ blog/2021/06/25/conference-for-the-common-good-of-all-people-not-rules-benefiting-the-few/. They are also posted, or soon will be, with simultaneous translations in French, German and Spanish.

The final communique of the June 14 NATO summit in Brussels officially confirmed the end of the alliance’s military operation in Afghanistan, while claiming a highly dubious victory. That followed the announcement by U.S. President Biden in April of the gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops – after two decades of “counterinsurgency” warfare estimated to have cost about $2.6 trillion! As […]

A letter to the EU Commission signed by 170 international scientists, engineers and motor experts breaks through the apparent consensus in Germany on the “green transition” scheme pushed by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, at least concerning a key aspect of it: electro-mobility. For these experts, who belong to the newly founded IASTEC association (https://iastec.org/), the Commission’s estimation […]

It’s been quite a nosedive: just two months ago, Green Party candidate Annalena Baerbock was still hailed as the next German Chancellor. Now, most mainstream media report that her prospects for the election in late September are seriously jeopardized by the various plagiarism affairs which they prominently present. Although in most cases, the plagiarism charges involve copy-and-paste operations from the […]

After the recent suspension of the Swiss-EU association talks, followed by several spectacular defeats for the Green agenda in referendum (cf. SAS 22/21, 24/21), there are hints that the EU bureaucracy may “punish” Switzerland by non-preferential treatments on the energy front. That would mainly involve shutting Switzerland out of EU programs of cross-border grid security like TERRE, MARI or PICASSO, […]

Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, an Icelandic citizen and former WikiLeaks volunteer, has admitted to the Icelandic newspaper Stundin that he fabricated important parts of what became the main charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – after becoming an FBI informant! In its English language coverage, Stundin details several parts of Thordarson’s testimony that he now denies, admitting most notably that Assange […]

After the Stundin story broke, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden tweeted on June 27: this is the “end of the case against Assange”. Investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald posted Snowden’s tweet, adding that “It should be” (the end of the case). At the beginning of June, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer once again called on the U.K. government to release […]

After eight months of war in the federal state of Tigray, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced a unilateral ceasefire, following a routing of government forces from the Tigray capital of Mekelle. While Abiy claimed this was not a defeat, he admitted that his government could not win given the popular support for Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the […]

The numerous celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party have highlighted, and understandably so, the tremendous progress China has achieved over the decades in multiple areas. President Xi Jinping has personally stressed that the Chinese people will never again allow “outside forces” to oppress them, or stop their development. Certainly, one of the country’s […]