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Given the lack in Europe of a serious commitment to diplomatic efforts to resolve the war in Ukraine, which would necessarily involve talking to President Putin, the option of an initiative to be taken by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been mentioned repeatedly in Germany. Two moves in the past week have relaunched the discussion: a lengthy special in […]

An open letter from the “Editors and Publishers” of five major news publications worldwide — the New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and El País, calls on the U.S. government to end the unjust prosecution of Julian Assange. After recalling that their outlets had initially published Assange’s leaked documents in 2010, which then led to the attacks […]

The Trilateral Commission, founded in 1973 as a secretive organization of the would-be elites of the United States, Europe and Japan, held a meeting of its Asia Pacific Group on Nov. 19-20. For the first time ever, one news service was invited to attend all the sessions, namely Nikkei Asia. The publication’s editor-in-chief, Shigesaburo Okumura, reported Nov. 25, that “Many […]

In the mayoral and city council elections that took place in Taiwan, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was soundly defeated by the opposition party, Kuomintang (KMT). The DPP now controls only 5 out of the 21 local government offices, whereas the KMT won key mayoral races in Taipei, Taoyuan and Keelung. The DPP has aggressively promoted tensions between Beijing […]

On Nov. 22, the Schiller Institute sponsored its Third Seminar of Political and Social Leaders of the World on the theme: “Stop the Danger of World War Now”, held both online and in person in the Mexican Parliament. Speakers from the United States included Col. Richard H. Black (ret.), Scott Ritter and nuclear war expert Steven Starr. From Europe, peace […]

It is telling that the recent series of three, consecutive Schiller Institute international conferences mobilizing against nuclear war grew out of an initiative of former and current congressmen and women from the region of the world which the Anglo-American powers believed was destined to forever live as “the backyard” of the United States. Under enormous economic and military pressure from […]

For a long moment, on Nov. 15, the landing of a “Russian made” missile on the territory of NATO member Poland threatened to lead to an all-out direct war between Russia and NATO. Some officials, including an unhinged President Zelensky, immediately called on the western military alliance to invoke its collective security provisions. Fortunately, saner voices prevailed, including, to his […]

In the aftermath of the Nov. 8 midterm elections, which gave Republicans a slim majority in the House for the session beginning in January, a number of Republican congressmen are demanding that the Biden administration stop the money flow to Ukraine and that an audit be carried out to determine exactly where the already delivered aid went. Just one week […]

Independent LaRouche candidate Diane Sare just announced her intention to challenge the incumbent senator of New York State, Kirsten Gillibrand, in the Nov. 2024 general election. In the 2022 race, Sare ran against the state’s other senator, Charles Schumer, the head of the Democratic Party’s group in the Senate and a “useful idiot” of Wall Street and the war party. […]

The receiver in the bankruptcy of FTX, John Ray III, was once in charge of winding up the energy and commodities giant Enron. But his “first affidavit” in the new case states that he has “never seen such a complete failure of corporate controls” in 35 years in his profession. What has so far emerged is an incredible tangle of […]