Month: April 2022

The Schiller Institute (SI) was honored to have Anatoly Antonov, the ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States, as a major speaker at its international video-conference of April 9 (cf. a report on the event here). In his speech, the ambassador thanked the SI for offering this opportunity, in the midst of the near-total breakdown in relations, to […]

The results of the first round of the French presidential elections, held on April 9, seem to be a remake of the 2017 script: Emmanuel Macron versus Marine Le Pen. While the actors are the same (which Solidarité et Progrès as well as 2/3 of the voters hoped to prevent), the context is very different. Macron’s result of 27,6 % is […]

According to a reconstruction by the Financial Times, two persons were key in Europe to force through the decision to freeze the Bank of Russia’s central bank reserves on the third day of the military intervention in Ukraine: Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Ursula von der Leyen’s chief of staff, Björn Seibert. Whereas the former was able to convince […]

The Schiller Institute conference of April 9 was an extraordinary demonstration of the cooperation of all nations and cultures required to address the current threat to civilization. Political and institutional leaders from four continents, including the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States, addressed the “perfect storm” facing mankind — the military and economic confrontation of nuclear powers, […]

Sam Pitroda, a former advisor to the Indian Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi and Manmohan Singh, called for replacing the current security order, which is based on command and control, with one of cooperation, and for replacing the motivation of power and profit with the needs of the people and the planet. It is not enough to promote human rights, we […]

There was a great deal of agreement among all speakers at the conference on the need to replace the current, unjust economic order, with its rapidly growing inequalities. EIR editor Dennis Small presented the Schiller Institute’s new “LaRouche Plan for a New International Economic Architecture,” and discussed the potential of how it could be implemented – since the trans-Atlantic powers […]

From France, Jacques Cheminade, President of the Solidarité et Progrès party, oopened the third panel of the conference, by presenting the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which brought an end to 150 years of wars and atrocities in Europe, as a necessary inspiration for securing a durable peace order on the planet today. The Westphalian peace was achieved by a change […]

The final panel of the Schiller Institute conference addressed on the urgent necessity of development for all nations on Earth. Dennis Speed, a leader of the LaRouche movement for many years, presented the work of the Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites founded by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche and former Surgeon General of the United States Joycelyn Elders, stressing […]

Due to the Easter holidays, the next issue of your Strategic Alert Service will be dated April 28, 2022.

A unique combination of international experts from different fields will come together to discuss the urgent need for a new security and development architecture on April 9, 2022, starting 3 pm CET, for a Schiller Institute online conference. The preliminary program of this extraordinary event is provided below, as a supplement to this issue of your Strategic Alert Newsletter. (See […]