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Perhaps the most proper metaphor for what happened at the Munich Security Conference this year is the image of its director Christoph Heusgen breaking out in tears on the podium while concluding the event. Heusgen’s emotional breakdown is not just because, as he said, “Europe and the USA have no common basis anymore”, but because his decades-long work as a […]

When Benjamin Netanyahu returned from his offical visit to Washington two weeks ago, he had to go directly to court, where he has been on trial for charges of corruption and breach of trust, a process that will continue for at least the next month. But that’s not his only legal woe. Former Prime Minister and former Defense Force chief […]

Nature magazine has just released its latest Index of the contributions of various institutions to the world of physical sciences. Eight out of the top ten spots are held by Chinese scientific institutions, with the other two being the German Max Planck Society (No. 4) and the French National Center for Scientific Research (No. 10). The highest-ranked U.S. institution is […]

Seen from the trans-Atlantic region, the past few weeks have indeed been tumultuous, fraught with uncertainties and shocks, seemingly emanating from the White House. In such a situation,it is important not to lose sight of the underlying dynamic driving these developments, which is the collapse of the Western-dominated power structures and financial system, and the rise of the “Global Majority” […]

By now, the world is well aware of the preposterous proposal made by Donald Trump on Feb. 4, at a joint White House press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. There he stated that the United States will “take over the Gaza Strip”, and build it up to what he said can even be, “the Riviera of the Middle East”. […]

Think what you might about the Trump “revolution” disrupting Washington by what may seem to be random decisions, the outline of an overall plan is emerging. Institutions previously run by trusted operatives of the Permanent Bureaucracy, directed by what is sometimes called the “Deep State”, are the target of President Trump and his allies. In the first three weeks of […]

At the end of the informal meeting of EU leaders on Feb. 3, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the decision to lift debt rules for defense expenditures. “I am willing to explore”, she said, “and will use the full range of flexibilities we have in the new Stability and Growth Pact to allow for a significant increase in […]

The nationally televised debate on Feb. 9 between outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the SPD, and the front-runner to take his place, Friedrich Merz of the CDU, was characterized by the glaring absence of any reference to the political and economic changes ongoing worldwide. Scholz and Merz may disagree on one or another specific programmatic point — but they […]

A special guest on Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s weekly webcast of Jan. 29 was Dr. Werner Rügemer, a publicist, author, consultant and co-editor of the World Marxist Review. He is also one of Germany’s top experts on BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management firm, whose operations in Germany were chaired from 2016 to 2020, by the man expected to become the next […]

Among the countless threats thrown out by Donald Trump in the first days of his second presidential term was an ultimatum to the BRICS member countries: don’t back any other currency to replace the U.S. dollar or face 100% tariffs on their imports into the United States. Brazilian President Lula da Silva, who holds the chairmanship of the group this […]