Author: karpodiem

The Schiller Institute issued on Dec. 31 a lengthy memorandum with the above title, which gives an overview over the last 30 years of the buildup of NATO forces against Russia. Today, it notes, Ukraine is being used by geopolitical forces in the West “as the flashpoint to trigger a strategic showdown with Russia,” which could well end up in […]

The year 2022 opens under the full impact of the hyperinflation of energy prices. As natural gas prices have increased sixfold on the future markets, authorities in many member states of the European Union have already allowed consumer price increases of over 50% for electricity. But growing energy costs have started to drive consumer prices up across the board, and […]

During their first few weeks in power in Berlin, the Greens have used every chance to confirm their allegiance to the financial elites behind the “green deal” and the Great Reset, and to the transatlantic “war party”. Nowhere is this more glaring than in connection with Russia, although China is not far behind, while their “climate” and energy agenda, if […]

Just prior to the Christmas holidays, Greek parliamentarian Panagiotis Kouroumplis stood up in Parliament and denounced the New Democracy-led government for murder. This came in reaction to an official report, which detailed the failure of the Greek health system to deal with the COVID 19 pandemic. It pointed in particular to the ICU beds in private hospitals whose incompetent operation […]

In an interview given to EIR and the Schiller Institute on Dec. 20, economist Justin Yifu Lin provides useful insight into the thinking behind Beijing’s development policy, which dovetails in many respects with the approach developed by Lyndon LaRouche. Justin Lin was Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the World Bank from 2008 to 2012, and is now the […]

On Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2021, at 7:20 a.m. EST, the James Webb Space Telescope was flawlessly launched from the ESA’s Kourou Space Center in French Guiana. NASA tweeted: “the beginning of a new, exciting decade of science climbed to the sky. Webb’s mission to #UnfoldTheUniverse will change our understanding of space as we know it.” The director general of […]

On Aug. 30, one day ahead of schedule, U.S. Central Command chief Gen. Frank McKenzie officially announced “the end of the military component of the evacuation,” and “the end of the nearly 20-year mission that began in Afghanistan shortly after Sept. 11, 2001.” The withdrawal also signifies, although the commander did not say so, the end of a failed system, […]

Since the beginning of the U.S. announcement to withdraw from Afghanistan, the British establishment has exploded in indignation against President Joe Biden’s decision, as we reported last week. Beyond the issue of Afghanistan as such, the hysteria in the United Kingdom is driven by the discredit ing of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “Global Britain” policy (cf. SAS 13/21). Announced last […]

Karel Vereycken, the vice-president of the French Solidarité et Progrès party, gave a three-minute live interview on Afghanistan last week to the “Asia Today” program on CGTN’s English-language channel. While supporting the delivery of humanitarian aid to the country, Vereycken urged the European Union to “break with the war party and NATO which fomented bloody wars in countries such as […]

As central bankers were apparently unable to come up with a solution to the threatening financial collapse during their annual convention at Jackson Hole (Aug. 26–28), the International Monetary Fund was quietly deployed to bail out the debt bomb of developing countries. As Donald Kohn, the Federal Reserve’s former Vice Chair for Financial Supervision, told the gathering, the global debt […]