Month: September 2025

The murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a public rally at Utah Valley College on Sept. 10 has dramatically escalated the partisan anger surging through sections of the United States population. Given Kirk’s high profile as a prominent supporter of President Trump, whose youth organization, Turning Point USA, has been credited by many with aiding Trump’s 2024 victory, it […]

The European Union and the United Kingdom boast about how their “Coalition of the Willing” is valiantly leading the battle for democracy and freedom in the world. But the simple fact of the matter is that popular support for most of the governments concerned and for their militarization drive is very weak. Thus, protests are growing throughout Europe, as citizens […]

Contrary to what the two leading establishment parties, the CDU and the SPD, claim, the September 14 municipal elections in North Rhine Westphalia (NRW) delivered a substantial vote of no-confidence to both of them and to the national government coalition they comprise. Of the 13 million people who were eligible to vote in Germany’s most populated state, only half exercised […]

In August, President Donald Trump launched a campaign to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro under the pretext of “fighting drugs”. There is no government in the region, left or right, which doubts that the designation of Maduro and his government as “a criminal enterprise” which threatens U.S. national security, is meant as a warning to all of them: play ball […]

Russia’s state-owned nuclear power engineering corporation, Rosatom, has just completed the two reactors that will become the “heart” of the most powerful icebreaker in the world, currently under construction. The Rossiya will be capable of breaking ice four meters thick, thus allowing year-round passage across the Arctic Northern Sea Route. Designated as Project 10510 of the Leader class of icebreakers, […]

The Schiller Institute released the following statement on September 5, 2025 for immediate circulation internationally. Individuals are encouraged to endorse and circulate the statement as widely as possible. At the summit of the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) in Tianjin—representing around 42 percent of the world’s population—a new world order has emerged, independent of the West, founded on the principles of […]

Among the major announcements coming out of Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit was the proposal by Chinese President Xi Jinping of the Global Governance Initiative, which was welcomed by the high-level representatives of the 26 other member, observer and partner states in Eurasia. “I look forward to working with all countries for a more just and equitable global governance system and […]

As the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) begins its annual session, there is no issue more urgent than the demand for action against Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the West Bank. With protests growing against the murderous policy of the Netanyahu regime — including in Israel — and opposition to further aid building even within the U.S. Congress, […]

Close relations between European leaders and leading banks and investment funds are not rare, but the case of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the BlackRock fund is a singularity. From 2016 to 2020, he served as top Manager of its German branch — a job that familiarized him with many details of corporations in which BlackRock was a prominent shareholder. […]

At least one Western head of state seems to have grasped some of the implications of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting of Aug. 31-Sept. 1, and it has him very worried. As if to underscore what we have written repeatedly about the unstoppable dynamic in the Global South and East, Finnish President Alexander Stubb recognized that the SCO summit […]