Author: Alexander Hartmann

South Africa’s Dec. 29 filing with the UN’s International Court of Justice, charges that the present Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is violating the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and that the UN needs to order the immediate halt to Israel’s military operations. It says that Israel’s actions “are genocidal in character […]

Admiral Ami Ayalon, former commander of the Israeli Navy and former head of the domestic secret service, Shin Bet, has argued for the release of Palestinian Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, who has been serving five life sentences in Israeli prison since 2002. The Admiral’s comments were made in an interview with Haaretz’s Yossi Melman, dealing with the “day after” the […]

Some 100,000 tractors and other vehicles took to the streets of big cities in all 16 states of Germany on Monday, January 8 in a protest on an unprecedented scale and widely supported by the general population. This was the opening salvo of a “week of action” called to prepare the ground for the next roundtable with government officials in […]

Launched in late November by former Italian Agriculture minister Gianni Alemanno, the new party “Indipendenza” seems off to a good start  (cf. SAS 49/23). Economist Michele Geraci has been named foreign policy spokesman, a job which he accepted as an “independent”, and the first foreign policy event of the party, to be held Jan. 18 in Rome,  will be dedicated […]

As the soulless U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken jets around the world demanding submission from all nations to a non-existent Anglo-American fantasy of a “Rules-Based Order”, a brief review of the origin of this fraud is useful.  While it owes much to the conceits of those who built the British Empire in the 19th century, and the hegemony of […]

As part of the campaign to re-tool the capacities of the “military-industrial-financial complex” for productive manufacturing purposes, The LaRouche Organization in the United States has prepared draft legislation to be submitted to Congress. A vast mobilization has been launched to gather support for the measures from all constituencies over and above party lines. The legislation begins with the following Findings: […]

Should the IMF-approved radical free-market policies announced by Argentina’s Libertarian President Javier Milei remain in place, the Argentine people will experience an unprecedented level of hardship and death. Indeed, he has declared war on his fellow citizens, announcing savage “shock therapy,” and demanding Congressional passage of an “urgency and necessity” decree (DNU) and an “Omnibus” bill which together will allow […]

The International Peace Coalition (IPC), an organization born out of an initiative by the Schiller Institute, is holding a demonstration worldwide on Aug. 6, the anniversary of the bomb dropped on  Hiroshima. The demonstration is intended to focus public attention on the red thread linking that totally unnecessary extermination to the current threat of nuclear war stemming from the confrontation […]

As tens of billions of dollars of weapons and financial aid have flowed from the U.S. and NATO countries to Ukraine, a steady stream of propaganda from those same nations has asserted that the coming “counter-offensive” would lead to the defeat of Russia. “The Russian army is cracking” is a typical headline, next to one asserting that “Putin Is Weak” […]

The scenario has been discussed for a while among think tanks and specialists, but now the Russian government has put it on the table: a takeover of western Ukrainian territory by Poland. Sergei Naryshkin, the director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) briefed a meeting of the Russian Security Council July 21 on what the his Service knows about the […]