Author: Alexander Hartmann

The first half of August saw progress in the cause of peace through development and cooperation. This was the basis for the mid-August meeting between Presidents Putin and Trump in Anchorage and further developments, including a possible peace agreement for Ukraine. (On the latter,  Donald Trump forced reluctant EU leaders to accept his conditions in the meeting with President Zelenskyy […]

The beginning of Autumn this year could turn out to be a major political Spring, if the call by Helga Zepp-LaRouche and others for a Three Leaders Summit is successful. Indeed, on Sept. 3, China will celebrate the end of the war with Japan, that is, the end of WWII, with a big military parade to which all world leaders […]

When the time and place of the Trump-Putin summit was made public, the Schiller Institute took the opportunity offered by that geographical location to re-launch the great project of the Tunnel under the Bering Strait connect the U.S. state of Alaska with the Russian district of Chukotka. The Tunnel, more precisely two tunnels of ca. 80 km each, both connecting […]

The final approval of the long-conceived Bridge over the Strait of Messina (“Messina Bridge”) Project by the Italian government on Aug. 6, has produced a wave of happiness and enthusiasm among Italian patriots, and conniption fits among Transatlantic elites. The Messina Bridge is a major component of the North-South “Corridor 5” of the Trans-European network, aimed at getting Europe closer […]

Whereas British PM Keir Starmer kept a low profile at the White House meeting Aug. 18, the power of the British Establishment to derail the U.S.-Russia dialogue should not be underestimated. A key member of that establishment, former MI6 director Sir Richard Dearlove, described the perspective of a long-term peace as “very dangerous” in an article on his One Decision […]

Made irrelevant by the Anchorage meeting of the Presidents of the U.S. and of Russia, will the European “Coalition of the Willing” rethink their maximalist anti-Russian position which has been exposed as a dead-end street? At least verbally so far, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has publicly acknowledged that the pre-Anchorage position is untenable. In an August 16 interview on ZDF […]

  Speaking on the La7 television channel program “In Onda” on Aug. 13, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese said it is wrong to say that the international community, as a community of states, is in shocking paralysis over Netanyahu’s criminal action against Gaza. “We say this and see it because of the Eurocentric view we continue to have […]

While the mainstream newspapers and tv networks maintain a “deafening silence” on the affair, as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard told Fox TV, her office continues to publish explosive papers that prove the complicity of Obama’s intelligence team in the attempted coup called “Russiagate”. On Aug. 13, her office released declassified intelligence documents demonstrating the treasonous role […]

French intelligence, in cahoots with multinational companies, stands  accused of orchestrating an attempted coup in Mali, a member state of the Confederation of Sahel States, together with Burkina Faso and Niger. The attempt was foiled following the arrest of two Malian generals and 40 servicemen, as well as a French national earlier this month. “This did not come as a […]

President Trump’s approach to diplomacy has kept the world guessing as to what his next steps will be. And that has created a highly volatile and potentially dangerous situation. He has issued threats to Brazil, India, the EU and many others on trade tariffs, but the most alarming escalation has been against Russia. At the end of this week, on […]