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Continuation of the coverage of the Schiller Institute conference: The first speaker on Panel I, following Helga Zepp-LaRouche, was supposed to be Naledi Pandor, the former Foreign Minister of South Africa, but for personal reasons, she had to postpone her participation until the next day. A report on her intervention is featured below. We supply a brief summary of the […]

Continuation of the coverage of the Schiller Institute conference: Scott Ritter, former UN weapons Inspector in Iraq, was in Washington on Dec. 7, where he organized an important event at the National Press Club titled “No Nuclear War”, but he made sure to prepare a video statement for the Schiller Institute conference, in which he warned that there is no […]

Economist Zhang Weiwei, professor of International Relations at Fudan University in China, began his presentation to the Schiller Institute polemically, positing that “Nothing more accurately captures the overall mood today than the Munich Security Conference report for the year 2024 entitled, Lose-Lose, suggesting that the post-Cold War optimism regarding security and development has dissipated, and much of the world is […]

Dr. Naledi Pandor, former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa, was an honored guest of the third panel of the Schiller Institute conference on Dec. 8. While we are now experiencing a “profound level of toxic politics dominated by aggressive self-interest and rejection of global cooperation”, she noted, there are promising signs of new […]

We warned in our last issue that the period leading up to the Jan. 20 inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States would be among the most dangerous in modern history. Events have more than confirmed that warning. The outgoing Biden Administration has been tasked with worsening every possible global hot spot to try and make sure […]

When Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration to be Donald Trump’s Attorney General, the relief was palpable throughout official Washington. Gaetz is the Republican Congressman from Florida, who had debunked those who used the false stories of a Russiagate to undermine then-President Trump, and who intended to use the position of Attorney General to pay back those from the […]

The Anglo-American circles who are planning to unleash chaos in the next 50 days can count on the assistance of EU institutions as signaled unmistakably by the European Commission and Parliament. On Dec. 1, in their first official act after taking office, the new High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Kaja Kallas and the new European Council President Antonio […]

When the vote of confidence against Chancellor Scholz comes to the floor of the Bundestag on Dec. 16, the Greens just might desert the government coalition and support war-hawk Friedrich Merz, the leader of the CDU, to replace Scholz. Hints in this direction were confirmed by the new co-chair of the Green Party, Franziska Brantner, who stated outright on Dec. […]

With automobile producers, particularly in Germany, sinking deeper into the worst crisis of the sector in nearly 70 years, new ideas are urgently needed to find a way out, preventing plant shutdowns with the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. Instead of that, the management of the leading car makers and of their suppliers resort to the usual measures: […]

Since the terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched its surprise offensive against the Syrian government on Nov. 27, occupying Aleppo and advancing toward Damascus, intense diplomatic efforts have been deployed, together with an apparently effective military counter-offensive by the Syrian army of President Assad, with crucial air support from Russia. Although the weakening of the Assad government is welcomed […]