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As the five-country BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) prepares its expansion into the BRICS Plus in the months ahead, with the addition of several new nations, a timely change will occur at the top of the New Development Bank (NDB). The current head, Marcos Troyjo of Brazil, who was named by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in 2020 to […]

While leaders of the “Global NATO” promise a continuation of the war in Ukraine “for as long as it takes” (Jens Stoltenberg on March 6) despite the bloodbath, and simultaneously attempt to expand in the Indo-Pacific area to counter China, the reality is that the Western world is quickly losing influence, as we have reported. That was once again underscored […]

The subject of the previous item was taken up by Helga Zepp-LaRouche in an overview article written March 4, under the title “World War Three or Peace? Support China’s Peace Plan”. The analysis begins: “No, not sleepwalking, but rather with eyes wide open, and without reason, backbone or conscience, the trans-Atlantic Establishment is pushing us to the cliff, beyond which […]

On March 3, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a one-day trip to Washington, for a closed-door session with President Biden, which lasted just over an hour. The latter greeted him with perfunctory talking points, thanking him for making “historic changes at home”, including increased defense spending, shipping weapons to Ukraine, and taking measures to break Germany’s dependence on Russian energy […]

Since the spectacular success of the anti-war rally in Berlin on Feb. 25, co-organized by leading leftist politician Sahra Wagenknecht and leading feminist publisher Alice Schwarzer, there has been much speculation about how this might develop into the creation of a new party. In addition to the 50,000 demonstrators, over 750,000 Germans have signed the manifesto that the two women […]

As many as 70 people are feared to have died in the horrendous train crash in Greece on Feb.28, mostly young students returning to their university in Thessaloniki. Make no mistake, the flip side of the same “war party” responsible for threatening the world with nuclear war, is the neo-liberal radical free market policies now hegemonic in the European Union […]

The meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives to the EU of member states (COREPER), which was supposed to vote on the EU ban on internal combustion vehicles by 2035, was postponed to an indefinite date, after the Italian representative announced that Rome would veto the decision. Poland and Bulgaria joined the Italian position. Since the German government had already […]

Under the title “Exploring New Heights”, CGTN Think Tank and the Schiller Institute sponsored an exciting panel discussion on March 1. Co-hosts were Helga Zepp-LaRouche, chair of the SI, and Guan Xin, a CGTN anchorwoman. The two guests in Europe with Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche were Uwe Behrens, transport economist; and Wolfram Adolphi, journalist and political scientist, while five guests joined Guan […]

A new report was issued last week by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), a rabid anti-China think tank that tracks the leading countries in various fields of high-technology considered critical for future economic growth and military power. Of the 44 areas of research studied, the ASPI found that China takes the lead in 37, including space research, energy R&D, […]

The 7.8- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes which struck Türkiye and Syria Feb. 6, killing as many as 6,000 Syrians and more than 40,000 in Türkiye, has once again focused attention on the murderous intention of the economic and financial sanctions that the United States, Great Britain, and the European Union have imposed on the Syrian nation since 2019. To punish the […]