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On June 3, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an interview to Rossiya 1 TV, in which he identified certain reasons for the current crises that our newsletter, as well as other opponents of EU policy, have long exposed. Concerning problems on the global food market, he pointed out that they began well before Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, including because […]

German Economics Minister Robert Habeck expects major social disputes in a few months’ time, as a result of the costs of the war against Ukraine. Speaking June 2 on the national television show Maybrit Illner, the former Green Party chairman said: “We will see a dramatic increase in heating costs… Whether the political measures will then be sufficient to sustain […]

Ralph Bosshard, a retired Swiss colonel, has experienced the neo-Nazi phenomenon firsthand in Ukraine. In 2014, Lt. Col. Bosshard served as a planning officer in the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine and, from 2014 to 2017, as a special military adviser to Switzerland’s permanent representative to the OSCE and the Swiss ambassador to Kiev. He spoke of his observations […]

In a public address in Athens, on June 1, former Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis sharply criticized U.S. policy in Ukraine and failure to seek a negotiated settlement, as well as the current Greek government’s slavish support for that policy. The former PM also took issue with that government’s neo-liberal economic policies in general, and its dangerous approach to the […]

Thirty years ago, on June 2, 1992, a rather young director general of the Italian Treasury Ministry named Mario Draghi started his career in the service of the British Empire by boarding Queen Elizabeth’s royal yacht Britannia, anchored off the Italian port of Civitavecchia (Rome), to give the main speech before a selected group of City of London bankers and […]

In a development that shocked the jaded political pros of New York state politics, Diane Sare, a long-time associate of Lyndon LaRouche, filed 45,000 petition signatures to be placed on the ballot to run against incumbent Senator Charles Schumer in the November general election. A challenge that most had considered impossible to overcome. Indeed, in the past, the state required […]

For days on end, we have been subjected to soap-opera style reports on Queen Elizabeth’s Jubilee celebrations and the Royal Family . So it’s useful to recall the true nature of the British Empire and its many servants. One aspect of that is provided by Schiller Institute analyst Stephan Ossenkopp in an op-ed titled “NATO remains an imperial anachronism”, published […]

The Schiller Institute online conference May 26 featured presentations and exchanges between Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche and four military and strategy specialists from France, Italy and the United States, all committed to preventing an escalation of the conflict between Russia and NATO, which is now playing out in Ukraine: * Gen. (ret) Leonardo Tricarico, former chief of staff of […]

All rules have been broken in the Ukrainian conflict, former Italian Air Force Chief Gen. Leonardo Tricarico said at the Schiller Institute webinar May 26, not only by the Russian side but also by NATO. The general’s allegiance to the Atlantic Alliance cannot be questioned: he was the deputy commander in the 1999 Operation Allied Force that bombed Serbia, which […]

A number of interesting points concerning military strategy were raised by Col. Black during the discussion period of the May 26 SI webinar, based on his personal experience from serving for over 30 years in uniform. One question concerned the reports of how the Russians are carrying out “urban combat” in Ukraine and systematically destroying civilian infrastructure, and implicitly opposing […]