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The alternative to the Green Reset policy pushed by the World Economic Forum (Davos) was discussed on May 19 at an on line seminar of the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity (BüSo). This webinar was the first in a series of important policy forums, leading up to the German national elections to be held in September, aimed at defining a new, […]

A group of parliamentarians from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party introduced a motion into the Bundestag, which was debated last week, calling on the government to reject the “Great Reset” and to refuse to participate in any projects associated with it. That agenda as well as other schemes to achieve so-called “climate neutrality”, the motion states, are not only […]

On May 19, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping participated in a videoconference hookup to launch the beginning of construction of four new nuclear plants in China, based on Russian technology. These are two units each at the Tianwan nuclear power plant in the city of Lianyungang, and at the Xudapu nuclear plant in Huludao district in northeastern China. The two […]

A Summit on Financing African Economies was hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on May 18. This is undoubtedly a crucial topic, in particular after over one year of the devastating effects that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on developing countries – both directly and even more so indirectly through the economic repercussions from a lockeddown developed sector. […]

In celebration of his own 88th birthday, and of Beethoven’s 250th birthday, the leader of the Nation of Islam, Minister Louis Farrakhan, released on May 11 the video recording of his performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto in D Major, which he had done in 2002, but which, for various reasons, could not be released earlier. (https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=l-iE9uNKwU0). While there […]

On numerous occasions in recent weeks, Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp LaRouche has lamented the silence from official circles regarding the danger of present flash points blowing up into full scale war. In a dialogue on May 13, she described the situation as “so explosive” that if “we don’t change course,” we could end up “sleepwalking” into war, as in […]

Former Virginia State Senator Richard H. Black has often said that Joe Biden has never seen a war he didn’t like, pointing out that as U.S. Senator, Biden had voted for both Iraq wars as well as military interventions in Syria and Libya. Now, he is giving full support to Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians, despite the suffering […]

The current debate on inflation recalls the figure of Don Ferrante in Alessandro Manzoni’s famous I promessi sposi (The Betrothed) novel. Don Ferrante was an Aristotelian who, in the midst of the 17th century bubonic plague in Milan, concluded that, the disease being neither accident nor substance, it simply did not exist. Eventually, Don Ferrante died of the plague. Similarly, […]

There are a number of scenarios now circulating in Germany as to what the next federal government will look like if the Green Party effectively wins the chancellorship. In addition a possible coalition with the CDU-CSU, the option of a tripartite coalition with the SPD and the Left (Linke) is also being discussed, but given the pro-NATO views of chancellor […]

At a reception for foreign diplomats in Bejing on May 13 at the end of the holy month of Ramadan, the president of the Xinjiang Islamic Association, Abdureqip Tomurniyaz, who heads the school for Islamic studies in Xinjiang, accused anti-China forces in the U.S. and other Western nations of spreading rumors and lies. “They want to sabotage Xinjiang’s harmony and […]