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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made a very forceful intervention at the BRICS summit, although he was unable to travel to Kazan in person for health reasons. Speaking per video-conference to the Expanded Plenary of the Summit on Oct. 23, he stated bluntly that the Bretton Woods system, meaning principally the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, […]

The past two weeks have shown a worsening of the “typical collapse function” model published by Lyndon LaRouche in 1994, representing the trajectory of the transatlantic economy. The gap between the upper curve (financial aggregates) and the lower curve (physical economy) has widened dangerously. Although data for the lower curve are substantially available, only the tip of the iceberg is […]

After the 2008 financial crisis, a debate developed in the United States on what to do to prevent a repeat of it. Two options were on the table: on the one side, the proposal, pushed by Lyndon LaRouche and others, to reintroduce the famous “Glass Steagall Act” that separated commercial banks from investment banks, so that a failure of the […]

During his visit to India last week for the German-Indian Government Consultations, Chancellor Scholz was accompanied by three top ministers – Robert Habeck (Economy), Boris Pistorius (Defense) and Annalena Baerbock (Foreign Affairs), as well as several representatives of the German military industrial complex. Arriving on the last day of the BRICS summit in Kazan, it was as if the German […]

The three parliament elections in Germany’s eastern states of Saxony and Thuringia (Sept.11) and Brandenburg (Sept. 22) have produced an unprecedented situation in which neither of the two traditional parties, the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD), are able to form a new majority government without a newcomer on the political scene, the BSW (the Wagenknecht party), which […]

On Oct. 24, Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the Outreach session of the BRICS in Kazan, Russia, during which he called for holding an international peace conference. The United Nations, he implied, could supervise such a conference, which should involve the various stakeholders in the conflict. Moreover, “We rely on the BRICS countries, which have become an influential and decisive […]

The greatest threat to human rights today is the threat of a world war, as it endangers the existence of humanity as a whole, stated Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp LaRouche in addressing the eighth annual seminar of Chinese and European human rights experts held on Oct. 22 in Berlin. The event brought together some 60 scholars and officials from […]

A good part of the globe is awaiting with anxiety the presidential election that will take place in the United States on Nov. 5, after a campaign largely devoid on both sides of any substance, and certainly of any positive perspective for the future. Ultimately, whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump wins, the result will be unsatisfying, both for Americans […]

The campaigns of independent candidates Diane Sare for U.S. Senate, New York State, and Jose Vega for Congressman from the 15th district of New York City, are holding an indoor rally and concert on Oct. 26, at 8 pm CET (2 pm EDT) in Manhattan. A number of courageous former military, intelligence leaders and peace advocates from across the U.S. and internationally […]

This week, the BRICS annual meeting in Kazan, Russia, and the annual IMF conference in Washington will discuss, respectively, how to overcome the current, unjust and bankrupt world system (the former) and how to keep it alive at any cost (the latter). A third meeting, hosted by LaRouche independent candidates Jose Vega and Diane Sare in New York City on […]