Month: August 2021

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres went far beyond the international body’s powers and tried to issue peremptory orders on economic policy to all of its member states after the climate report published on Aug. 9 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chanage (IPCC). “This is code red for humanity. This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil […]

Well-founded doubts that the German Greens and their ideology are not in line with the constitution of the German democracy were enhanced past week by several political developments. First, in what comes as a middle-sized political earthquake, the Federal Election Office ruled that the Greens’ Saarland state slate for the national election in September is not in accordance with election […]

Behind the ongoing conflict between the Ethiopian government and its regional state of Tigray and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), are the Western free market reforms, and pressure for Ethiopia to cut its ties to China. While Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is by no means cutting ties with China, he has nonetheless adopted the reform agenda which the […]

Recent developments in Afghanistan, with central government daily losing major cities and ground to the Taliban, that a successful resolution in Afghanistan, through LaRouche’s “peace through development” approach, is perhaps the last chance to achieve a similar peace across Southwest Asia in the near future. This subject was taken up by Schiller Institute West Asia expert Hussein Askary in the […]

Only a political solution is possible for Afghanistan, and such a political solution is possible only if a common interest is found, based on a national development program among all components of Afghan society. This was the conclusion of a five-hour webinar sponsored by the Schiller Institute on July 31, involving diplomats and experts from many nations, including Afghanistan, Russia, […]

Meetings held between U.S.Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and leading officials of China and Russia opened the prospect for an improvement of relations, after reaching new lows at the end of the Trump administration and the beginning of the Biden presidency. Sherman met with Chinese of ficials in Tianjin on July 25-6, followed by a meeting with her Russian […]

“We are at a very precious moment of history in Afghanistan, and actually in terms of universal history”, said Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche at the July 29 webinar (see above). “There are long periods where states and people just continue a trend, they sort of muddle through, they find patterns. And then, there are what is called in German […]

Pino Arlacchi, who has a decades-long experience in Afghani stan first as director of the UN Narcotics office and eventually as Rapporteur on Afghanistan for the European Parliament, called for letting Afghanistan decide its destiny on its own or, at most, together with its neighbors. Central Asia is not an unstable region, and Afghanistan’s neighbors have been growing at respectable […]

The new EU Commission guidelines for investments in the infrastructure sector pose uncertainties about what will be possible in the future. That applies not only to the necessary reconstruction of the infrastructure destroyed by the mid-July flash floods in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, but also to projects in general in Europe, On July 29, the EU Commission published its […]

World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley made a strong intervention in the July 26–28 Rome World Food Systems Pre-Summit, focusing on ending hunger for millions. Prince Charles, in contrast, complained that people are eating too much and pushed the greening of food production, and serving “nature” apart from human beings. In a call for action, Beasley said: “While the […]