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Following their meeting at the White House on Jan. 13, President Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida issued a joint statement, proclaiming undying devotion to the “rules-based international order”, which is being challenged by China and North Korea. Their statement refers to some of the agreements and commitments made by the Defense and Foreign Ministers of the countries two […]

During the European Semester 2019, 17 EU countries received recommendations on the “long-term sustainability of public finances”, and 15 were specifically urged to reform their pension systems. So far, only 6 of them have “explicitly” planned to do so, with the 9 others being late (Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands and Poland). Since the EU […]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted a two-day virtual “Voices of the Global South” summit Jan. 12-13, attended by 10 heads of state and government and 120 ministers and high-ranking officials from developing nations, to discuss the priorities that India intends to address during its presidency of the G20. The unmistakable message was that the old order is fading away and […]

To understand why the German government “seems to be completely in the grip of those war-mongers who are driving the escalation with Russia”, one must look back to “the period of the late 1970s, where in less than a year, from April 1977 to March 1978, there was a wave of assassinations in Europe”, and then also, to a similar […]

The international Schiller Institute and associates in many countries around the world have launched a campaign over the next six weeks to catalyze an international mass movement, extending across the so-called West and the Global South alike, around the demand that unconditional negotiations be undertaken immediately to resolve the Ukrainian-Russian conflict before we are all blown up in a nuclear […]

As a result of the European Central Bank’s credit squeeze, nine out of ten economists polled by the Financial Times on Jan. 6 forecast a sovereign debt crisis of Italy in the near future. This is the easiest forecast to make, given Italy’s €2.5 trillion debt, amounting to 155% of its GDP, combined with the impact of both the interest […]

Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, also a former U.S. Marine officer, is convinced that there will be no negotiated end to the Ukraine war, and that the Vatican’s offer of sponsoring negotiations cannot succeed at this point. He expressed that view in a Jan. 8 webcast with U.S. Senate candidate Diane Sare, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Col. (ret.) Richard Black and […]

Military experts have characterized the recent attacks by Ukraine against the Russia air bases near Saratov and Ryazan as provoking a “dangerous moment of insecurity” – up to the level of potential strategic nuclear confrontation. In an article posted on Jan.3 on the Swiss website GlobalBridge, entitled (in translation) “Playing with Atomic Fire”, Lt.Colonel (ret) Ralph Bosshard of the Swiss […]

If Russian leaders needed one good reason not to trust the promises made by their Western counterparts, it was given to them in December by former Chancellor Angela Merkel and former President François Hollande, who were the guarantors of the 2014-2015 Minsk accords (cf. SAS 50/22, 1/23). They have both admitted that they never intended to ensure implementation of those […]

Yet another rabid advocate of economic warfare against Moscow has discredited Brussels’ narrative on its “successful” sanctions regime. The bitter recognition came from Guy Verhofstadt, a member of the European Parliament since 2009, and former Prime Minister of Belgium from 1999 to 2008. He tweeted on Jan. 2: “9 packages of sanctions and the effect is less than 0. We […]