Month: November 2022

Two components of the new government coalition in Italy have broken ranks with transatlantic “unity”. Both the Lega, by way of its Senate leader Massimiliano Romeo, and Forza Italia, via its founder and historical leader Silvio Berlusconi, have called for negotiations with Moscow on ending the war in Ukraine. Berlusconi had already briefed the FI parliamentary group in a closed […]

Following the attempted drone attacks on ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet (cf. above), Russia suspended its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative agreed upon last July, involving the export of agricultural products from Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that it was no longer able to guarantee the safety of civilian dry cargo ships […]

“They tried to bury me alive and here I am,” Lula da Silva told the giant crowd gathered in Sao Paulo Sunday night, after it was officially announced that he had defeated incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, 50.9% to 49.1% in the second round of Brazil’s presidential elections. The former two-term President (2003-2010) had been framed and jailed in 2018 on […]

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and chairwoman of the Schiller Institute, and Richard A. Black, representative of the Schiller Institute to the United Nations in New York, gave online presentations Oct. 25 to a major international conference organized by the National Committee for BRICS Research of Russia. The two-day event, titled “International Scientific-Practical Conference: Scientific-Technological and Innovative Cooperation of BRICS Countries,” heard […]