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The second panel of the LaRouche Legacy Foundation’s event took up the topic of Lyndon LaRouche’s vision of “Earth’s Next Fifty Years”. Moderator Megan Dobrodt, Secretary-Treasurer of the LaRouche Legacy Foundation Board of Directors, opened the panel with a 1995 video of the LaRouches’ close friend and collaborator, Norbert Brainin, the lead violinist of the legendary Amadeus Quartet. In the […]

Commentaries by university and financial economists are appearing on the approaching 50th anniversary of the August 15, 1971, “Nixon Shock”, the end of the post-War gold reserve Bretton Woods system which has produced half a century of industrial decline, speculative riot, gigantic debt bubbles and crashes, steadily worsening real wages and living conditions, collapsing public health capacities and now a […]

The current phase of the comatose state of the global financial system started in September 2019, when the repurchase (repo) market froze, forcing the Federal Reserve to intervene and replace interbank lending by providing hundreds of billions of overnight liquidity to the system itself. But rather than improving, things only worsened, and the Fed now seems to be losing control […]

How can a rise in employment match a rise in household debt? Two options: either the new jobs offer no income, or employment figures are fake. A closer look at the statistics published by the Labor Department on Aug. 6 shows that the latter hypothesis is true. According to official figures, U.S. employment in July rose by 943,000, with a […]

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres went far beyond the international body’s powers and tried to issue peremptory orders on economic policy to all of its member states after the climate report published on Aug. 9 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chanage (IPCC). “This is code red for humanity. This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil […]

Well-founded doubts that the German Greens and their ideology are not in line with the constitution of the German democracy were enhanced past week by several political developments. First, in what comes as a middle-sized political earthquake, the Federal Election Office ruled that the Greens’ Saarland state slate for the national election in September is not in accordance with election […]

Behind the ongoing conflict between the Ethiopian government and its regional state of Tigray and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), are the Western free market reforms, and pressure for Ethiopia to cut its ties to China. While Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is by no means cutting ties with China, he has nonetheless adopted the reform agenda which the […]

Recent developments in Afghanistan, with central government daily losing major cities and ground to the Taliban, that a successful resolution in Afghanistan, through LaRouche’s “peace through development” approach, is perhaps the last chance to achieve a similar peace across Southwest Asia in the near future. This subject was taken up by Schiller Institute West Asia expert Hussein Askary in the […]

Only a political solution is possible for Afghanistan, and such a political solution is possible only if a common interest is found, based on a national development program among all components of Afghan society. This was the conclusion of a five-hour webinar sponsored by the Schiller Institute on July 31, involving diplomats and experts from many nations, including Afghanistan, Russia, […]

Meetings held between U.S.Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and leading officials of China and Russia opened the prospect for an improvement of relations, after reaching new lows at the end of the Trump administration and the beginning of the Biden presidency. Sherman met with Chinese of ficials in Tianjin on July 25-6, followed by a meeting with her Russian […]