Month: May 2021

The aim of the “EU-US Future Forum” organized by the Atlantic Council is to develop a “new transatlantic agenda”. The featured speaker at its May 6 event titled “the Transatlantic Relationship and the Green Transition” was the chancellor candidate of the German Green Party, Annalena Baerbock. The Council summarized some highlights of her speech on Russia and China (https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/newatlanticist/annalena-baerbocks-message-to-america-shes-insync-with-biden/) as […]

ChinaPlus ‘World Today’ Radio Program interviewed Helga Zepp-LaRouche on April 29, following the release by the OSCE of a new report on prospects for cooperation between the 57 participating states and China, in which a principal author, Stefan Wolff, proposes that the OSCE consider China as a partner for cooperation. Zepp-LaRouche fully supported that approach, noting: “Right now, you have […]

Theodoros Katsanevas passed away on May 7 after losing his battle with the Coronavirus. A senior political leader and economist in Greece, Theodoros came into contact with the Schiller Institute in 2012 at the onset of the struggle against the brutal economic and financial policy forced on Greece by the EU during the financial crisis of the last decade. He […]

The War against Syria and the Collapse of the Western Colonialism Paradigm “Restore International Law: Respect Syria’s Perfect Sovereignty,” was the topic taken up at the May 8 Schiller Institute conference by Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban, the Political and Media Advisor to the Syrian Presidency. She noted that for the last ten years Syria has been “fighting a double-edge war,” one […]

For many years, Lyndon LaRouche identified Henry Kissinger as an example of what’s wrong with American foreign policy. While Kissinger’s ego caused him to treat his version of “realpolitik” as novel and creative, LaRouche insisted that he was, at his core, one who always operated within the realm of classical British imperial geopolitics, against the true national interests of the […]

Given the recent relentless money-pumping on the part of central banks like the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank, almost all commodity prices are soaring to historical highs. A rundown is given by Chris Becker in the Australian blog MacroBusiness, accompanied by graphs for each product. “Iron ore is cracking through an 11-year high, about to spike through $200 […]

Those who may doubt our newsletter’s characterization of the global “green transition” as a cover for geopolitical control over natural resources, should take a look at a recent paper by former UK Foreign Secretary William Hague, entitled The Great Convergence. Lord Hague, who is now a senior advisor to Citigroup, chairs the Royal United Services Institute, a key think-tank shaping […]

A lengthy, detailed expose of the powerful lobby groups that work closely with the German government on legislation targeting industry, energy, and agriculture was run in the April 25 issue of Welt am Sonntag, under the title “Goliaths for the Climate”. Far from the grassroots groups of concerned citizens of the past, these are institutions that receive huge funding from […]

The anti-Russia, anti-China foreign policy promoted by the Chancellor candidate of the Green party, Annalena Baerbock, was exposed in our last issue. Other observers have also noted the confrontational nature of her policy platform. In an assessment for the Cicero monthly, retired General Erich Vad, a former government adviser, noted that the German Green Party’s call for a “qualified majority” […]

Africa, as everyone knows, suffers from a tremendous, and growing, lack of food, healthcare and infrastructure, and it accounts for only 4% of the total emissions of greenhouse gases worldwide. And yet, the Western financial elite and climate lobbies demand the continent give up the scarce fossil fuel energy production it does have, and forgo technology and modern farming in […]