Month: June 2022

All rules have been broken in the Ukrainian conflict, former Italian Air Force Chief Gen. Leonardo Tricarico said at the Schiller Institute webinar May 26, not only by the Russian side but also by NATO. The general’s allegiance to the Atlantic Alliance cannot be questioned: he was the deputy commander in the 1999 Operation Allied Force that bombed Serbia, which […]

A number of interesting points concerning military strategy were raised by Col. Black during the discussion period of the May 26 SI webinar, based on his personal experience from serving for over 30 years in uniform. One question concerned the reports of how the Russians are carrying out “urban combat” in Ukraine and systematically destroying civilian infrastructure, and implicitly opposing […]

Four times in less than one week, Schiller Institute activities have been attacked as “promoters of Russian narratives” by Kiev’s Center for Countering Disinformation, which is run out of President Zelenskyy’s National Security and Defense Council but is closely linked to NATO. After launching a broadside against Col. Richard Black for an interview he gave to EIR’s Mike Billington (which […]

The Schiller Institutes in Denmark and Sweden held an online seminar on May 25, calling on the Danes to say NO to joining the EU Common Security and Defense Policy in the referendum to take place on June 1, and presenting the case for Sweden and Finland not to join NATO. Those arguments were presented respectively by Michelle Rasmussen, Vice […]

Eurozone data for May show that inflation keeps growing: it is now at 8.9% on an annual basis in Germany, the largest EU economy. As our readers know, the current runaway inflation began long before the war in Ukraine, due to central banks’ monetary policies. Thus, one would expect alarm bells to be going off at central bank headquarters, with […]

The global head of responsible investing at HSBC Asset Management, Stuart Kirk, has been fired from his position at the giant London-based global banking group. Why? He delivered a speech to a Financial Times Moral Money conference on May 19 in London, with the topic “Why investors need not worry about climate risk”. Columnist Terence Corcoran of the Canadian Financial […]

The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) held its Economic Forum on May 26 in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek under the banner of “Eurasian Economic Integration in the era of Global Changes”. It was followed the next day by a meeting of the heads of state and government of the five member union (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia plus Uzbekistan with […]

The African Union held an Extraordinary Humanitarian Summit May 25-28 in Equatorial Guinea to address the life-threatening crises in many parts of the continent. AU Chairman Macky Sall, who is also President of Senegal, pointed out that there are 113 million Africans in extreme need of assistance this year, including 48 million people displaced. AU Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat […]