Author: Christine Schier

Dear Reader, thanks to your response to our call for financial support, we are now closer to end the year with a balanced budget. There is still a big gap to be filled, but we are better off than a few weeks ago. Your help shows us that you appreciate our unique capability to think strategically and to understand “in […]

Following the release by the Trump administration on Dec. 4 of its National Security Strategy, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the international Schiller Institute, drafted an article calling for withdrawal from the NATO military alliance, as a first step toward a new world peace order freed from geopolitics. Her call, although directed more specifically to Germany, applies to all member countries. […]

Helga Zepp-LaRouche goes on in her article (cf. above) to note that while the American and Russian governments discuss ending the war in Ukraine through negotiations, the European “coalition of the willing”, consisting of Germany, France, Great Britain, Poland, the Baltic states, and the EU Commission, continues under the illusion that it could inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia, the […]

The National Security Strategy of the United States 2025 sent waves of panic through European capitals and Brussels, which are harshly, but not unjustly, criticized in it. There are many good objections one could raise on the paper, but the most important aspect, strategically, is that it represents a complete break with the post-war “unipolar world” order, which has brought […]

Justin Yifu Lin, a prominent Chinese economist who served as the World Bank’s first Chief Economist from a developing country and is currently member of China’s State Council, forecast a bursting of the AI bubble in a speech given at the Fudan Chief Economists Forum in Shanghai on Nov. 23. “In my view, during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), […]

In view of a coming global financial crisis that only the blind could fail to see, The LaRouche Organization (TLO) and the Schiller Institute have launched a campaign in the States to prevent bank bailouts and bail-ins in order to protect households and restore the government capacity for productive credit through a new banking regulation, modeled on the 1933 Glass-Steagall […]

Two votes in the German parliament on Dec. 5 showed just how difficult it is for Chancellor Merz’s government to scrape together majorities for crucial policy projects. His bill on the reinstatement of military service passed with 323 votes, with 272 against, while the bill on “pension stabilization” was only approved by 319 MPs — although Merz’s nominal majority in […]

During the visit of Russian President Putin to New Delhi, on Dec. 3-5, he and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the two Eurasian giants would significantly increase their economic cooperation by the year 2030, with agreements in many strategic areas, including nuclear energy, space technologies, Russian industrial investments, joint work on the International North South Transportation Corridor, the […]

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s recent statements about a Chinese intervention in Taiwan being a security issue for Japan provoked a very strong response from Beijing, prompting the Japanese Foreign Ministry to clarify that the country’s policy toward China has not changed, which implies that it still endorses the “one China policy”. This, however, is far from a retraction of […]

Thanks to the response of readers to our call for financial support, we have now come closer to ending the year with a balanced budget. There is still a sizeable gap to be filled, but we are better off than a few weeks ago. Your help shows that you appreciate our unique capability to think strategically and to understand “in […]