Arlacchi: “The Taliban Threat in Afghanistan Is Overblown”

Pino Arlacchi, who has a decades-long experience in Afghani stan first as director of the UN Narcotics office and eventually as Rapporteur on Afghanistan for the European Parliament, called for letting Afghanistan decide its destiny on its own or, at most, together with its neighbors. Central Asia is not an unstable region, and Afghanistan’s neighbors have been growing at respectable […]

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New EU Guidelines to Sabotage Real Infrastructure Investments

The new EU Commission guidelines for investments in the infrastructure sector pose uncertainties about what will be possible in the future. That applies not only to the necessary reconstruction of the infrastructure destroyed by the mid-July flash floods in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, but also to projects in general in Europe, On July 29, the EU Commission published its […]

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Beasley: We Must Feed Millions; Prince Charles: Let Them Starve

World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley made a strong intervention in the July 26–28 Rome World Food Systems Pre-Summit, focusing on ending hunger for millions. Prince Charles, in contrast, complained that people are eating too much and pushed the greening of food production, and serving “nature” apart from human beings. In a call for action, Beasley said: “While the […]

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Schiller Institute Conference: There Is No Climate Emergency

An online international conference will be sponsored on Saturday, July 24 by the Schiller Institute under the title: “There Is No ‘Climate Emergency’ –Apply the Science and Economics of Development to Stop Blackouts and Death.” The invitation follows: “The shift out of high-density electricity generation –coal and nuclear –into low-energy-dense, unreliable wind and solar, has reached the stage of pending […]

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The EU “Fit For 55” Plan Is a Flop

The 14th of July generally evokes the storming of the Bastille, but it may also be remembered in the future as the day the EU Commission launched the storming of European industry. Indeed, it was on July 14, 2021 that Brussels presented its insane plan to reduce CO2 emissions by 55% by 2030, called “Fit For 55”. Two measures stand […]

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A “Monumental Failure” of the Flood Warning Systems

Touring the flooded areas on July 18, German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered a torrent of climate hysteria, featuring the absurd statement: “The German language hardly knows any words for the devastation that has been caused here.” She might have tried the word Nachlässigkeit, German for “negligence.” Apparently, the government had meteorological warnings, beginning July 10, that heavy rains were likely […]

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The Key to Stability in Afghanistan Is the Belt and Road Initiative

At recent meetings and conferences held in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the stabilization of Afghanistan following the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops was high on the agenda. An important flank involves integrating the country into two major international connectivity projects: the China Pakistan Economic Corridor and the North South International Transportation Corridor from St.Petersburg, Russia, through Central Asia and Iran, […]

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