Month: October 2022

The young leadership needed, in particular in the trans-Atlantic world, to bring about the new paradigm in international relations was addressed in an all-day conference held on Oct. 15 by the Schiller Institute both online and at an-person conference in Manhattan. The event, which brought together “next generation” leaders from all the continents, but mainly from the United States, and […]

It might be unfair to blame Liz Truss for everything, but the “British bond crisis”, as it will be called, unleashed by her draft budget, has opened dangerous cracks not only among British pension funds and banks, but also on the U.S. bond market and among Swiss banks, just to mention the most visible cases (cf. below). Ultimately, British Prime […]

Despite the backtracking by the British government, yields on the gilt remain high, compared to pre-crisis levels (cf. above). Meanwhile, the crisis hitting them has expanded to U.S. corporate and government bonds. Indeed, to answer the margin calls, UK funds have sold those bonds, so much so that Biden’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned of a dangerous liquidity crisis on […]

In a dramatic intervention that quickly went viral, two young associates of the LaRouche Organization ripped the facade off self-proclaimed “Progressive Anti-War Democrats”, exposing their hypocrisy in supporting NATO’s war against Russia in Ukraine. At an Oct. 12 town meeting in the Bronx, New York, Kynan Thistlthwaite and Jose Vega demanded that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) answer for her support for […]

There has been much hype in the media about the probability of Russia using nuclear weapons in Ukraine. One assumption is that rather than resorting to a strategic nuclear bomb, the Kremlin could opt for deployment of a small tactical weapon on the battlefield. Walter Rüegg, a former chief physicist of the Swiss Army, was asked to weigh in on […]

All protest activities in Germany – from those well-known such as the predominantly leftist Monday Rallies to new ones — have seen their ranks swell over the past three weeks. However, the most significant growth, both in participants and geographical spread, have been in Germany’s eastern regions, and there, the main drivers are entrepreneurs of small and medium-sized firms and […]

On Oct. 16, the opening day of the 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a much-awaited speech, reviewing the achievements accomplished over the past five years since the last party congress, and laying out the path forward for the next five years and beyond. Since 2017, the international environment has hardened dramatically, as […]

The Schiller Institute, as our readers know, is heading an international campaign to denounce the “blacklists” of so-called enemies of the Kiev regime published by both the Ukrainian website Myrotvorets and the Kiev-based Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), which include dozens of members and associates of the Schiller Institute (cf. SAS 31-41). Many persons on those lists have already received […]

A conference of current and former elected officials on the above theme will take place in the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico City on Oct. 27 and simultaneously via Zoom with international speakers, under the aegis of the international Schiller Institute. The invitation notes that the political and social leaders involved “urge Russia, Ukraine, the United States and NATO to […]

In just a few weeks, the global strategic situation has moved into the domain of massive infrastructural sabotage and other forms of irregular warfare, on top of the war pitting Russia against NATO. On Sept. 26, sophisticated sabotage ruptured the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, and then on Oct. 8, a truck blew up on the Crimean Bridge, causing […]