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On June 21, 2021, the German Bundestag passed the government’s proposal for introducing into the country’s industrial supply chains strict ecological and social standards. The new law obliges all German companies and businesses to ensure that such standards (for instance concerning female and child labor) are respected in all the firms from which they import, or face fines and bans. […]

Toyota, the world’s number-one maker of motor vehicles and the first to produce batteries to provide vehicle mobility when it introduced the Prius hybrid 20 years ago, continues to oppose attempts to mandate fully-electric vehicles by 2030, 2035 or any other date. Company executives, from CEO Akio Toyoda on down, describe such mandates as impossible both with regard to the […]

The evidence presented in a new peer-reviewed study shows unequivocally that the “code red” for humanity pronounced by UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres after reading the latest report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is ludicrous grandstanding and panic mongering. The new paper, published in the journal Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA), finds evidence of systemic bias […]

Despite a massive amount of positive coverage in media and international think-tanks, the chancellor candidate of the Green Party, Annalena Baerbock, is still not all that popular, with just a few weeks left until the Sept. 26 election. As a result, a media mobilization is on to prevent the option of a coalition government without the Greens –formed by the […]

On August 24, the Lieutenant Governor of New York State, Kathy Hochul, will be sworn in as governor, replacing An drew Cuomo, who has served in that office since 2011. Cuomo was elected governor three times, by solid margins (60% or more in two of the elections), but has now been forced to resign due to charges of sexual harassment, […]

The dramatic developments surrounding the Taliban takeover of Kabul and the humiliating defeat and retreat of the U.S. led NATO forces in Afghanistan, have been presented in apocalyptic terms in Western media. Contrary to such hysteria, however, Helga Zepp-LaRouche noted on August 17 that this does not mean “the end of the world”. Rather, she said in her weekly Schiller […]

On July 31, the Schiller Institute held a video conference titled “Afghanistan: A Turning Point in History after the Failed Regime-Change Era,” which brought together experts and diplomats from Russia, China, Italy, South-West Asia and Afghanistan to discuss a national development program which would be beneficial for all components of Afghan society. The event can be viewed at https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2021/07/29/.

On August 10, the U.S. Senate passed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill after months of negotiations, which was hailed as a major bipartisan victory for President Biden. The congratulations, however, are likely to prove premature, for various reasons: The House of Representatives is on recess until Sept. 20, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would not pass the infrastructure […]

Unless changed, the timetable of the German government on nuclear power is to switch off three of the remaining six nuclear power plants by the end of 2021, and the other three by the end of next year. Germany’s neighbors are shaking their heads over this strategy, most notably France. In an interview on Aug. 2 with Die Welt, the […]

News media all over the world have presented recent flooding and wildfires as evidence that the climate “has gone mad”, even though it is known that such fires are often set by arsonists and that the floods are often due a lack of infrastructure. However, such disaster, together with the recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, are […]