Month: August 2023

The Schiller Institute will hold an international online conference on September 9, beginning 15.00 CET, on the theme: Let us Join Hands with the Global Majority To Create a New Chapter in World History! Please register for the conference here. Simultaneous translation in French, German and Spanish will be available on Zoom for those who register.

The proceedings of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, underscored that a worldwide tectonic shift is indeed underway, driven by the understanding that a new architecture of peace and development is now a prerequisite for survival. As announced, bringing Africa, as “the continent of the future”, fully into the new dynamic was a special focus of the five members […]

At a press conference held early on Aug. 24 in Johannesburg, Indian Prime Minister Modi, flanked by Cyril Ramaphosa, Xi Jinping, Lula da Silva, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, announced that the five member nations had agreed by consensus to welcome six new nations to become full-fledged members of the BRICS: Argentina, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Iran and the […]

While it is not a big surprise to hear that the mainstream media is involved in censoring and producing lies about significant strategic developments, the “reporting” on last week’s BRICS summit offers a prime example of using “narrative creation” to promote ignorance and fear. That summit accomplished major advances in ending colonialism, and provided an alternative based on peaceful, cooperative […]

Looking for the rationale of the messages given by the two major central banks in the world, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank, at the yearly central bankers meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming Aug. 25-27, is useless. Both the Fed’s Jerome Powell and the ECB’s Christine Lagarde warned that high interest rates are here to stay longer, regardless […]

Just recently, there have been almost daily warnings about the substantial contraction of the German real estate to be expected. The dominant aspect is that project developers are facing a dual threat: on the one hand, projects and expected profits never materialize due to bureaucratic delays and a never-ending list of environment-related regulations; on the other hand, pre-investments are, in […]

In the early morning hours of Aug. 24, Brazilian President Lula da Silva called his friend, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez, from Johannesburg to enthusiastically tell him that Argentina was one of six nations invited to become new members of the BRICS. To the beleaguered Argentine President, whose government has been subjected to relentless financial warfare, as well as threats and […]

Following the conclusion of the official BRICS Summit meetings in Johannesburg, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Chinese President Xi Jinping co-hosted Aug. 24 the China-Africa Leaders’ Dialogue, which was attended by the leaders of 12 African countries and regional organizations. The gathering, which had been initiated by Xi, was especially devoted to advancing development of the continent. China is […]

On Wednesday, Aug. 23, in the middle of the three-day BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, India succeeded in landing its Chandraayan-3 module on the surface of the Moon, near its South Pole. India is only the fourth nation to ever land on the Moon, and the very first to land at its South Pole — a whole new territory for […]

The BRICS summit in Johannesburg from Aug. 22-24 is set to be a strategic game-changer, although you would never know it from following mainstream Western media. With the representatives of over 50 countries attending, in addition to the leaders of the five members of the group (Vladimir Putin by video hook-up for security reasons), it will consolidate the fast-moving shift […]