Out of the Breakdown of International Law Arises the Opportunity for a New Security and Development Architecture

With the Trump administration’s military operation to abduct and arrest Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, the breakdown of international law has entered into a new and dangerous phase. Whatever one may think of the legitimacy and policies of the Maduro presidency, such an action is in clear violation of the principle of national sovereignty as well as of […]

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Venezuela: Mission Accomplished?

On May 1, 2003, then-President George W. Bush declared “Mission Accomplished” in the U.S.-NATO invasion of Iraq, less than two months after the invasion had been launched. As things turned out, Bush’s boastful speech made him a subject of ridicule, as the war lasted another eight years, and U.S. troops remain in Iraq today. With a multitude of questions still […]

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Opportunistic EU Leaders Justify Aggression against Venezuela

The Brussels narrative, repeated by EU member countries, to justify their pro-war policy has been simple: “Russia is the aggressor and Ukraine is the victim”. But the same logic evidently does not apply to the case in which the U.S. is clearly the aggressor and Venezuela is the victim. Reactions from the various leaders have been particularly subdued, considering their […]

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The Legacy of 2025: A Liquidity Crisis

In the week from Dec. 26 to Jan. 2, the Federal Reserve injected $142 billion of emergency liquidity into the repo market, with $74 bn on Dec. 31 alone, the biggest such operation since the Covid pandemic. Mainstream financial media rushed to play down the event, insisting that it is normal at year-end for corporations to need liquidity, and thus […]

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Cancel the Planned Stationing of New U.S. Missiles in Germany!

The International Peace Coalition (IPC), co-founded by the Schiller Institute, is circulating an urgent appeal to the American people, as well as to President Trump and the U.S. Congress, calling for the reversal of the decision to install new and deadlier weapons systems in Germany as of 2026. It was under a decision endorsed by then-U.S. President Biden and German […]

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European Farmers Up in Arms over EU Policy

The recent weeks have seen farmers in many nations in Europe take to the streets with tractors in rallies from Great Britain to France, Greece and Poland, to oppose the worsening of living conditions in their nations. While particulars differ from place to place, the farmers’ “issues” all come under three common themes, as pointed out in a new EIR […]

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