Washington Re-Militarizes Japan to Fight China

Following their meeting at the White House on Jan. 13, President Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida issued a joint statement, proclaiming undying devotion to the “rules-based international order”, which is being challenged by China and North Korea. Their statement refers to some of the agreements and commitments made by the Defense and Foreign Ministers of the countries two […]

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French Pension Reform: Macron Gives in to EU Demands

During the European Semester 2019, 17 EU countries received recommendations on the “long-term sustainability of public finances”, and 15 were specifically urged to reform their pension systems. So far, only 6 of them have “explicitly” planned to do so, with the 9 others being late (Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands and Poland). Since the EU […]

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Voices of the Global South Need to Be Heard

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted a two-day virtual “Voices of the Global South” summit Jan. 12-13, attended by 10 heads of state and government and 120 ministers and high-ranking officials from developing nations, to discuss the priorities that India intends to address during its presidency of the G20. The unmistakable message was that the old order is fading away and […]

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At Minutes to Midnight, Mobilize for Peace!

The international Schiller Institute and associates in many countries around the world have launched a campaign over the next six weeks to catalyze an international mass movement, extending across the so-called West and the Global South alike, around the demand that unconditional negotiations be undertaken immediately to resolve the Ukrainian-Russian conflict before we are all blown up in a nuclear […]

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Swiss Expert: Is Europe Helping Kiev Play with Nuclear Fire?

Military experts have characterized the recent attacks by Ukraine against the Russia air bases near Saratov and Ryazan as provoking a “dangerous moment of insecurity” – up to the level of potential strategic nuclear confrontation. In an article posted on Jan.3 on the Swiss website GlobalBridge, entitled (in translation) “Playing with Atomic Fire”, Lt.Colonel (ret) Ralph Bosshard of the Swiss […]

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The EU’s Intellectual Dishonesty over Ukraine

If Russian leaders needed one good reason not to trust the promises made by their Western counterparts, it was given to them in December by former Chancellor Angela Merkel and former President François Hollande, who were the guarantors of the 2014-2015 Minsk accords (cf. SAS 50/22, 1/23). They have both admitted that they never intended to ensure implementation of those […]

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