Month: January 2024

The disproportion between the actual security threat posed by the Houthis and the disruption in the world economy caused by the Red Sea crisis raises the question of whether we are witnessing another version of the “Nord Stream” tactics. As in the case of the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which was blown up with the complicity of […]

A leaflet written by Helga Zepp-LaRouche for distribution at the massive farmer protests in Germany begins by quoting the famous Rütli Oath from Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell, in which the people vow to fight against oppression and for their inalienable rights. She goes on to praise the farmers today for “opposing the arbitrariness and incompetence” of the current policy and […]

Over 5,000 tractors rolled into Berlin on Jan. 15, culminating an unprecedented “week of action” by German farmers (cf. SAS 2/24). The leadership of the National Farmers Association DBV seems to believe that a dialogue with the government will now replace the tractorcades and other forms of protest. Many of the farmers themselves do not agree, in particular those supporting […]

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak touts himself on being the staunchest supporter in the West of President Zelenskyy and his regime. Thus, when he was in Kiev on Jan. 12, he promised the Ukrainian President all he wanted, and then some. The two leaders signed a “historic” security cooperation agreement: “The totemic agreement is intended to be the first step […]

The election victory in Taiwan of the independence-minded presidential candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party, Lai Ching-te, threatens to add to the growing tensions with Beijing. However, Lai only received a little over 40% of the votes, with over 33% going to the KMT (Kuomintang) candidate and 26% to the Taiwan People’s Party candidate, neither of whom are interested in […]

Although the world is entering a period of maximum turbulence, no aspect of this reality has been a subject for debate in the presidential electoral arena in the U.S.. The first round of the election process, for the Republican Party, took place on Jan. 15 in Iowa, where the caucuses were won,  hands down, by Donald Trump with 51% of […]

The most important strategic battle this week is without a doubt the hearing set for Jan. 11-12 at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, on the complaint filed Dec. 29 by South Africa against Israel for genocide against the Palestinians. The South African government asks the court to issue an injunction against Israel to stop the warfare and to […]

South Africa’s Dec. 29 filing with the UN’s International Court of Justice, charges that the present Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is violating the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and that the UN needs to order the immediate halt to Israel’s military operations. It says that Israel’s actions “are genocidal in character […]

Admiral Ami Ayalon, former commander of the Israeli Navy and former head of the domestic secret service, Shin Bet, has argued for the release of Palestinian Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, who has been serving five life sentences in Israeli prison since 2002. The Admiral’s comments were made in an interview with Haaretz’s Yossi Melman, dealing with the “day after” the […]

Some 100,000 tractors and other vehicles took to the streets of big cities in all 16 states of Germany on Monday, January 8 in a protest on an unprecedented scale and widely supported by the general population. This was the opening salvo of a “week of action” called to prepare the ground for the next roundtable with government officials in […]